Friday's Lester Bangs Excerpt

[King Crimson]

I'd like to do more from "John Coltrane Lives"--since it is hilarious but i whacked off the tip of my finger with a kitchen knife (badge of shame for a kitchen vet like me).....so, i'm not typing much.


title is: James Taylor Marked for Death.

All right punk, this is it. Choose ya out. We're gonna settle this right here. You can talk about your MC5 and yer Stooges and even yer Grand Funk Railroad and Led Zep, yep, alla them badasses've carved out a hunka turf in this town, but I tell you there was once a gang that was so bitchin' *bad* that they woulda cut them down like snotnosed crybabies and in less than three mintues too. I mean their shortest rumble was probably one clocked in at 1:54 and that's pretty swift, kid. Oh they didn't *look* so bad, in fact their appearance was a stealthy move' cuz they mostly photographed like a bunch of motherson polite mod clerks on their lunch hour, but they not only kicked ass with unparalled style when the time came, they even had the class to pick one of the most righteous handles of all time: the Troggs.


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later he goes on to talk about them living in caves.

beautiful absurdity.