PRIME TIME
THE DEVIL AND DAVE DiMARTINO: Anyone fortunate enough to be watching CBS Morning News, at 8:40 a.m. last July 18th was treated to the spectacle of our beloved CREEM editor Dave “checks-go-out-next-week” DiMartino engaging in civilized discourse with the Hulk Hogan of Evangelical cathodeChristians, Jimmy Swaggart.
PRIME TIME
CATCHING HELL
by Richard C. Walls
THE DEVIL AND DAVE DiMARTINO: Anyone fortunate enough to be watching CBS Morning News, at 8:40 a.m. last July 18th was treated to the spectacle of our beloved CREEM editor Dave “checks-go-out-nextweek” DiMartino engaging in civilized discourse with the Hulk Hogan of Evangelical cathodeChristians, Jimmy Swaggart. The Premise behind this encounter was that Wal-Mart, a Southern-based chain of convenience stores, had removed all rock magazines from their shelves shortly after Swaggart had given a particularly fiery sermon on the evils of said mags (and we’re talking everything from Right On to Rolling Stone, from Hit Parader to CREEM, magazines with a variety of editorial approaches and not always overlapping audiences... but then, making distinctions is the devil’s work, n’est-pas?). This gave somebody at CBS Morning News the idea that it’d be kinda neat to get a rock mag editor and The Swag together in the same studio to hash out this issue—in fact, why not give them four whole minutes (tops!) of precious network time to get to the bottom of this censorship/religion/ politics/decline-of-the-West stuff.