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― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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― m coleman, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
From "Lester Bangs - Last Interview" by a then-17-year old Jim DeRogatis:
Do you think there's a danger of rock 'n' roll becoming extinct?Yeah, sure. Definitely. What would there be to take its place? Video games.
What would there be to take its place? Video games.
― NYCNative, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
now if only JDR had taken this^ to heart...
― gravity tractor VS asteroid B612 (m coleman), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously,"video games = death of rock" was a popular music-biz meme ca.1982
― gravity tractor VS asteroid B612 (m coleman), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Now that the music-playing game genre has been declared dead, I wonder how many adherents moved on to actual guitar playing.
― bendy, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Have to say I never cared for either his writing style or, all too often, his musical tastes.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
A couple of posts on Facebook alerted me to the fact that it's the 30th anniversary of his death. I'm guessing there are one or two older posters here who can say they met him. I interviewed Chuck and Marcus in '86; I'd like to think that if I'd started a little later or he'd lived a little longer, I would have tried to interview Bangs (and succeeded, I imagine--he seemed extremely accessible). I didn't start reading Creem till '80 or thereabouts, so I'd read very little by him before the first book came out--really only some Rolling Stone reviews in an early-'70s collection, and some RS reviews later in the decade, when Paul Nelson was publishing him regularly. I tried to write like him early on, and of course it was egregiously wrong. Blaming him for the misdeeds of people like me makes no sense.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 April 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't read it yet, but a New Yorker contributor on Bangs's influence on her:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/08/how-lester-bangs-taught-me-to-read.html
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
that is a really, really fantastic article. i don't think i've ever actually seen anyone else -- apart from marcus in his intro to the bangs collection -- actually pin down what i love(d) about bangs's writing so much (haven't read him in a while): even at his silliest, he was a genuinely thoughtful, reflective writer. likening him to DFW is really inspired: i don't know why i didn't think of that before.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 25 August 2012 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't think this was great, but I am glad it got made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDBcmNDyOc
Early on, I found the cutting of the interviews way too fast; I had doubts about the voice-over excerpts all the way through. (I don't know if it was just the way they were read, or whether it wasn't going to work regardless.) Bangs's friends back home are a very likeable group.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 December 2013 04:02 (ten years ago) link
Thought young Lester looked like Jake Gyllenhaal.
http://sandiegotroubadour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Lester-Bangs-YEARBOOK.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 December 2013 05:51 (ten years ago) link
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/lester_bangs_posthumous_ballot
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Thursday, 1 January 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Wonder if Mark Shipper wrote that ballot -- he did the "From the Cloud of Lester Bangs" notes in PR&CD.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link