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January 1973

CREEM

CREEM

The Christgau Consumer Guide

THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

Robert Christgau

Eric Anderson, Crazy Horse, The Doobie Brothers, more

Mail

MAIL

Dear CREEM: That review of Sparks really SUCKED!

ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

Miles Davis broke both of his legs in an auto accident when he rammed his car into a pillar on the West Side Highway, in New York.

THE BEAT GOES ON

Nick Tosches

A Lesbian dwarf named Charley. A roller-skating chimpanzee named Jiggs. A Central American boa constrictor named Lola. An oversized aluminum garbage can filled with ice, cans of pre-mixed drinks and fifths of wine. A seven-finger switchblade knife.

Seems Like A Freeze-Out

Dave Marsh

It seems to be December, and here we are with a full issue about the Rolling Stones, talking about such seemingly dated minutae as their summer tour and Exile on Main Street.

Features

“Can’t Get No Satisfaction”

Robert Christgau

In the years after Altamont, however, l almost stopped listening to the Stones, and whenever I did listen the contradictions welled up in me.

Letter From Britain

Elected: A Letter for the Pig

Simon Frith

It’s poll time and Melody Maker readers have been appreciating Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

DUST MY PUMICE

R. Meltzer

Noted Rock Crit Ties the Knot

Features

I ONLY GET MY ROCKS OFF WHEN I’M DREAMING

Lester Bangs

So you say you missed the Stones, too? Cheer-up we’re a majority!

AROUND AND AROUND WITH THE STONES AND AMANDA JONES

JAG-ARR OF THE JUNGLE!!!

Patti Smith

Look back, it was 1965. Pa was shouting from the tv room, “jesus christ! jesus christ!” I flew up those stairs pumping in 3-D. Bad black widows . . . water mocassins . . . red snake long as a fire hose, see our house was built on a long swamp, on easter a boy died, he sank in the quick mud and the next morning he floated up like ivory soap, mama made me go to the wake, the afternoon was hell hot.

Creemedia

MOVIES

Heat, Hammersmith Is Out

SHORT TAKES

FLASHES

Mick Jagger will play Billy the Kid in the movie of the porno play, The Beard.

Creemedia

BOOKS

Woody Woodpecker Shoots The Works, The Pit, Honor Thy Father, more

Records

Low Yo-Yo Stuff: Getting Closer to the Captain

Lester Bangs

Even though his music has always been solidly rooted in the blues, Beefheart has remained a sort of cult figure: to his followers, a supreme genius, to many others inaccessible both musically and verbally.

Juke Box Jury

Greg Shaw

I keep waiting for it to end, but the rock renaissance just keeps on growing and growing.

ROCK-A-RAMA

Rewire Yourself

Media Energies: The Japanese

Richard Robinson

If anybody won the second world war it was the Japanese.

SPECIAL ROLLING STONES COLOR SECTION

Rolling Stones Discography

Sex Lives of the Rolling Stones: A Competition

There ain’t any particular rules, except that entries will be graded on neatness, accuracy and what kind of pencil you use.