Articles, interviews and reviews from Lester Bangs: Rock's.
Lester Bangs was the great gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock writing- its Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, and Jack Kerouac all rolled into one. Out of tune with the peace 'n' love ethos of the '60's and the Me Generation navel-gazing of the '70's, he agitated.
Lester Bangs wrote for Creem, the Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. John Morthland, co-executor of the Bangs literary estate, was a colleague of Bangs from 1969 until the author's death. He was editor of Creem in 1974-75. He is a writer at large for Texas Monthly.
Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer and Nick Tosches formed the core group that was frequently augmented by James Walcott and other talented layabouts. What this bunch of clowns boiled down to was a rockcrit Boystown with their own clubhouse, the Bells of Hell in the West Village (no smelly girls allowed), where in leather jackets and promotional t-shirts they smoked, drank, swore, snorted speed.
Lester Bangs, 1948-1982. At around 8:15 Friday, April 30, Lester Bangs mounted the stairs to his place at 542 Sixth Avenue, a little north of 14th Street. Just over the flu, he'd gone home for some sleep after almost drowsing off at his friend John Morthland's that afternoon, but later he'd called several other friends--from the street, he hadn't had his own phone since 1980. His downstairs.
Astral Weeks Lester Bangs. Album Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. Astral Weeks Lyrics. Van Morrison's Astral Weeks was released ten years, almost to the day, before this was written. It.
Expanding on an article he'd written for Musician magazine, Lester Bangs decided to expand and expound on the curious subject that is art-rock legend Brian Eno. Including not just an overview of Eno's life and recording career, Bangs did extensive interviews with Eno also, accompanying him to shows and recording sessions. This work was meant to be a chapter in a book mirroring AB Spellman's.
I have given this question about when will there be a Lester Bangs of video games a lot of thought. The game journalism world has got itself all worked up over this and I would like to propose a.