Dear CREEM:

There’s a thing that needs straightening out. John Mendelsohn credits Bonzo Dog Band with the line used for the title of his column, “We Are Normal And We Want Our Freedom”. That line comes awfully close to one from Love’s Forever Changes album, “We’re all normal and we want our freedom,” which I believe preceded any Bonzo Dog albums. Whoever ripped off whatever from whomever, I think the incident goes to show the lack of attention being paid to what I think is a much underrated group, especially by people in Detroit.

I mean, I went to the Eastown on Christmas weekend to see Love, and I could not dig the kids who tried to boo them off the stage in order to hasten Alice Cooper’s appearance much as I like Alice Cooper too.

Thanks for the review of the Love albums.

Free John Sinclair!

Doug Van Tol

Aurora, Illinois

Dear CREEM:

Ah, what a frying pan the soul is slapped in when once you get your words in print! If I got burned by every poison-BIC hatenote from yokels in the toolies, I’d probly be a walking hamburger by now.