CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine by Robert Matheu, Brian J. Bowe
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Book Reviews of CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine
Book Review: A Juxtapoz Full of Noise
Summary: 5 Stars
Somehow I first discovered CREEM at the Happy Apple in Dearborn. By then it was a slick mag with the Jackson 5 on the cover. I ended up buying the color Mr. Dreemwhip cover and was hooked from there on. That may have been the defining moment in my life. When they went full color later it might have been an affront to Circus and Hit Parader, and even some readers but the writing was still on top. This book attempts to capture the spirit without getting too nostalgic. The photos enclosed here are great. The covers sans article leads and typish coverage was a great idea. For the price (today's) of any issue from '69-'71 you get a great overview of the mag + times. Being an overview a lot of cherished stuff might get tossed, I miss a lot of the reviews but whattaya gonna do? Bangs stuff has been lovingly cared for elsewhere, though the Lou Reed dust-up needs a little revelation. Hopefully this is not the end. The MC5 movie is still floating in the ether, Patti is still sitting on some tapes, Baby Kramer is pissed about this tome, Ben Edmonds has yet to write the history of Dee-troit rock promised so many years ago, and me? I'm waiting to hook up with the elf who had all those great early Iggy + Aerosmith shots at the Beatles-fest all those years ago. ("I usedta work for CREEM. You'll know when they go up for sale...."). C'mon dude, I'm still interested.Book Review: The CREEM of the Crop
Summary: 5 Stars
Forget Rolling Stone. That rag hasn't been relevant since long before Creem ceased publication. Here is America's Only Rock and Roll Magazine in it's glory. Creem embodied rock and roll a helluva lot more than some of the corporate rock that they covered back when I read it in the late 1970s. The great thing about the magazine was, even if you sometimes didn't care for the bands they did stories on, the writing was fun and stood on it's own merit. Complaints about the band's represented here are misguided. The magazine itself was the star! Youth culture will never again be as innocent, or as powerful as it was during Creem's glory years. If you weren't there to experience it firsthand, this anthology will give you a pretty good indication of what you missed out on.Book Review: Hard Rock at it's finest!
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember as a kid reading Circus, Hit Parader & Creem. I loved the photos in Creem, I think they were more candid. I think at ten & eleven I didn't really get their humor & sarcasm, but loved the magazine anyway. It was such a raw view of the music scene. No B.S. like what Rolling Stone was printing. There is just enough of Kiss, Alice Cooper and the Stones to make the book worthwhile. There were so many gr8 issues of Creem that I imagine it was hard to compile the best into one book. I do wish they would have had a little less of Iggy or MC5 and maybe put one article of Peter Frampton or Deep Purple in. All in all, gr8 book- Boy Howdy!!Book Review: Boy Howdy!
Summary: 5 Stars
All I gotta say is: Grace Slick sure has nice t-ts. I read Creem for the crazy writers like Lester Bangs etc. who were at the hub of punk with the CBGB's crowd of the mid to late '70's. I remember coping Patti Smith's Horses in '75 because of Creem. I think I have (the final issue?) with the original Velvet Underground on the cover stashed away in a closet somewhere. I remember Tom Petty being on one of the final issues as well. Always loved the captions under pictures, especially the hair bands etc. Creem & Mad Magazine are two personal faves from by youth.Book Review: CREEM GOT ME THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL, sort of
Summary: 5 Stars
Every month I used to trek on over to the
big news store uptown to get this magazine
as soon as it came in. How many study halls
I smuggled this magazine into, I much prefered
reading about Rock n Roll over what I was "supposed
to be" studying.:)It's a good overview of CREEM
MAGAZINE in general.I loved the New York Dolls
article, David looked awful cute back then!! I
agree with the others, "the journey" ended much too
soon. :(