Ron Asheton of the Stooges, dead

[King Crimson]

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[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Throw some Dirt on him...that's No Fun.

[smackaholic]

n'yuk, n'yuk, n'yuk.

wgara?

[Smackie Chan]

Glad I got to see The Stooges about a year ago.

[King Crimson]

if anything in rock is better than Loose and TV Eye back to back in the killer, dirty riff genre....i don't know what it is.

btw, reading that well-intended but bloated POS yahoo review/obit reminds why i stopped reading rock music prose in the early 90's.

"like surly mix of George Clinton, Early Jane's with some RHCP moxie and jazzy inflections, _______band x______not only promises but satisfies".

sin,

any SPIN review from about 1992.


it's too bad too, since while my mom subbed to RS (even back when it was in newsprint!) while i was growing up i cut my teeth there but....Bangs, Greil Marcus, Christgau in the Voice was a good ride back then.

[Smackie Chan]

if anything in rock is better than Loose and TV Eye back to back in the killer, dirty riff genre....i don't know what it is.

Yup. I'd include the opening track that directly precedes them, Down on the Street, as well. Fuckin' killer way to begin an album. It loses momentum with Dirt and never really regains it, but still a great album.

[Jay in Phoenix]

if anything in rock is better than Loose and TV Eye back to back in the killer, dirty riff genre....i don't know what it is.

btw, reading that well-intended but bloated POS yahoo review/obit reminds why i stopped reading rock music prose in the early 90's.

"like surly mix of George Clinton, Early Jane's with some RHCP moxie and jazzy inflections, _______band x______not only promises but satisfies".

sin,

any SPIN review from about 1992.


it's too bad too, since while my mom subbed to RS (even back when it was in newsprint!) while i was growing up i cut my teeth there but....Bangs, Greil Marcus, Christgau in the Voice was a good ride back then.

KC, I agree with your views on both 'Rolling Stone' and 'SPIN'. I used to be a R.S. junkie, and still read it on occasion. Depends on the cover stories and reviews. I never really cared for Spin. Do you remember 'Creem' magazine? That was probably my all-time favorite rock 'zine. During its' day, it was funny as all hell, and covered the music scene in a way the other rags didn't. Great mix of humor, news and excellent reviews.

Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh, Richard Riegel, Robert Christgau, Nick Tosches, Greil Marcus, Cameron Crowe, and Robot A. Hull among many others all contributed to a great counter-cultural blending of styles. Always a good read.

Boy Howdy, R.I.P.

[Smackie Chan]

I used to be a R.S. junkie, and still read it on occasion. Depends on the cover stories and reviews. I never really cared for Spin. Do you remember 'Creem' magazine? That was probably my all-time favorite rock 'zine. During its' day, it was funny as all hell, and covered the music scene in a way the other rags didn't. Great mix of humor, news and excellent reviews.

Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh, Richard Riegel, Robert Christgau, Nick Tosches, Greil Marcus, Cameron Crowe, and Robot A. Hull among many others all contributed to a great counter-cultural blending of styles. Always a good read.

Boy Howdy, R.I.P.

Because we had, uh, better things to spend our limited funds on as teenagers, my buds and I used to routinely steal - I mean, permanently borrow - every edition of Creem, Circus, and occasionally RS from the local liquor store. For some reason, I found the writing to hold my interest more keenly than what my teachers assigned.

[King Crimson]

if anything in rock is better than Loose and TV Eye back to back in the killer, dirty riff genre....i don't know what it is.

Yup. I'd include the opening track that directly precedes them, Down on the Street, as well. Fuckin' killer way to begin an album. It loses momentum with Dirt and never really regains it, but still a great album.

Down on the Street is a great opener.....i think it works the other way. the tightness of the opening tracks turns into the "sonic Dionysian disintegration"*** of Funhouse and LA Blues. Dirt confuses me. i used to love it but now it kind doesn't work for me.

1970 is a great Bo Diddley stomp at core and answer to 1969 from the eponymous Stooges first LP. "I feel alright" vs. "another year, nothing to do". the crude Ornette-type free jazz sax on Funhouse is legendary non-sense blowing and honking.


**there's yer record review style splash of talky talk.

[King Crimson]

Jay: I left out Marsh, that was a misstep. he's great. i used to buy Creem but i was kinda too young to "get it". I knew i liked Black Sabbath and Heaven and Hell and whatnot. I worked in a record store in Jr High and high school and read a lot stuff....everything, really. and i never really liked Spin that much, either. it was real derivative and "trend conscious". RS sort of bummed me out when they started taking MTV bands seriously in the 80's...