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                                    June 11, 2010
                                
I knew of Creem magazine when I was     
teenager, but paid little attention     
to it                                   
                                        
I thought the name was dumb, and I      
wasn't reading much music journalism    
in those days.                          
                                        
And because of all this, I             
missed out on Lester Bangs                2004 (written for wikipeida):
back when he was at his peak.    
                                          Bangs (along with underground comic
                                          book artist Dori Seda) was the
                                          inspiration for the story Dori
                                          Bangs, written by SF author Bruce
                                          Sterling in 1989. Sterling
                                          speculated on what Bangs' life
                                          might have been like if he had
                                          lived longer.

                          
   Bangs is an example of          
   someone willing to really       
   let it rip-- to cut loose       
   from contraints of taste        
   and perhaps fact and            
   rationality-- and to really     
   *get somewhere* with it.        
                                   
       He was punk before punk,   
       (and gonzo concurrent with
       Hunter S himself).

       People like this arguably
       provide an unfortunate example.
       Music journalism might be                    POWER_OF_PUNK
       better off with a little less
       "creativity" used as an excuse
       for egocentric, no-nothing          CHALKBOARD_TRACES
       nonsense.




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