HOW DARE YOU TALK TO US? HISTORY'S GREATEST METAL OPINIONS UNVEILED!
STEVE TYLER OR ALBERT SCHWEITZER? (March, 1977) I am writing in reference to the article on Aerosmith in your December issue. Having met Aerosmith some two years ago in the small city of Dayton, Ohio, I can see what fame and money have done to this band.
HOW DARE YOU TALK TO US? HISTORY'S GREATEST METAL OPINIONS UNVEILED!
Do you remember what Santayana said? That those who don’t remember history are condemned to repeat it? Furthermore, did you realize that he was talking about our famous letters section, only he forgot to mention that, and was therefore condemned to repeat saying that dumb thing about history?
We thought so. We also thought that was one darned clever introduction to this section featuring our readers opinions about metal over the course of a decade! Naturally, these letters didn’t appear in the magnificent METAL, ’cause that superfine mag isn’t a geezer of a publication. Our “sister” mag, CREEM, is quite the geezer, as you probably know—and that’s where these letters were originally published.
Therefore, we’ve taken the opportunity to raid the CREEM files—plus punch out a few of their geezer employees, just for the hell of it—and are reprinting these letters exactly as they appeared in days of yore. We’ve even included the “clever” answers their geezer editors printed, just for historical accuracy...and also to publically embarrass those geezers who, as you know, all live in rest homes in Florida nowadays.