Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

Bangs, Lester

ISBN 10: 0375713670 / ISBN 13: 9780375713675

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2003

A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price! Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BOS-K-03g-01527

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Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray’s smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, the first, now classic collection of Bangs’s work. Here are excerpts from an autobiographical piece Bangs wrote as a teenager, travel essays, and, of course, the music pieces, essays, and criticism covering everything from titans like Miles Davis, Lou Reed, and the Rolling Stones to esoteric musicians like Brian Eno and Captain Beefheart. Singularly entertaining, this book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the history of rock.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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.

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Titel: Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A ...
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good