Some of us are cursed w/ both literacy & a liking for loud, fast, simple, lyrically obnoxious music, two predilections that can be hard to reconcile. From 35 yrs. ago (35 years!!! Where's it all gone? What the hell?) Metal Mike Saunders (recent photo here) reviews the rock press of the day. And says: "literacy is irrelevant." The article is no big thing, but Just Another Blog's™ editor used to hang w/ the Angry Samoans, of which (whom?) Metal Mike is still the lead vocalist.It comes to us from Crawdaddy, a now on-line mag that used to be paper & ink, whose archives (& other archives: Metal Mike's list is from something called The Rag) have been made available through Wolfgang's Vault. If you wallow in the good old days, or aren't old enough to have been there, but for some reason wish you had, you can hear live performances (Hey, maybe you were there!!) from about 1965 on, most of them probably recorded straight from the house sound board, in their Concert Vault.
I used to read Creem when I drove a cab in Chicago in the 70s, as it fit neatly into the steering wheel as I sat at the cab stand.
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