Re: (TV) Lester Bangs

[eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>]

i've got a cassette w/ "let it blurt" (the single) & it
really blows away anything on the 2 recs (which i do
love)...i do believe it's quine on the single, which may
account for its "charm"....
& man, did bangs cop hell's vocal approach or what???

Brian Young wrote:
> 
> Chelsea, I have both Lester Bangs albums as well as a flexi of him singing
> Sister Ray (I think)for a Bangs tribute issue of Throat Culture.  I really
> like both Bangs albums, and I think that the low opinion of these albums in
> the rock world at the time they were released must've been at least partly
> due to Lester's obnoxious personality.  The Throat Culture thing is a
> collection of unreleased Bangs writing people's memories of Lester.  I would
> highly recommend Jim DeRogatis' book Let it Blurt if you haven't read it.
> BTW, Lester's single Let it Blurt is the one musical thing I don't have by
> him. I sure wish more of his unreleased writing would surface. I still miss
> him.
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