Turns out the beachville beefcake has an extensive collection of rare and out of print material that he's generously allowing th' Four Or Five Guys™ to get their claws on! Oboy! Karl granted us this interview as he had his cuticles pushed back poolside yesterday:
FT3: Gee, Karl, it sure is swell that you're sharing your legacy of literature with us! What ya brung?
KM: It's the entire collection, Fraq [typo - Ed.]. Unparalleled in the world of the arts an' books an' suchlike. There's a couple rare collectors' issues of EC's Vault Of Horror©, an' this rare collectible copy of Creem Magazine, an' that ain't all! I also brung this here collectibly rare eggsample of th' San Francisco Oracle!
FT3: Uh - that's it? Four dumb magazines?
KM: You want 'em or not, ya lousy ingrate?
FT3: Well, okay, but I is disappoint.
KM: Why, you cheap bum ... for two cents I'd - I'd -
FT3: Yeah? You an' whose army, reindeer-nose?
[Interview breaks up at this point - FX smashing crockery, stage punches etc. - Ed.]
Should you be desirous of perusing these swell publications, simply leave a comment, fercrissakes. Th' Four Or Five Guys© come here for the comments, not that garbage in the post.
ReplyDeletebig fan of fine literature
ReplyDeleteYour exemplary behavior will reap its rewards, Cochise.
DeleteI am simply leaving a comment, which is easy because I'm simple.
ReplyDeleteYour signature simplicity belies your inner complexity.
DeleteDo you think that if I pistol-whipped a Quaker family
ReplyDeleteI could finally shake off this goodie-goodie image?
It would have to be a damn big pistol.
DeleteWhat era Creem magazine are you offering, Mr T3?
ReplyDeleteMarch '72. The only one I could find.
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ReplyDeleteCreem was the greatest rock read ever. Unlike Rolling Stone, it didn't have a collegiate stick up its ass and wasn't groveling at the feet of its publisher. And it was FUNNY, something utterly alien to the self-serious staffers at RS.
The thing both this and the Oracle have in common is the length of the articles - who reads (or writes) pieces this long any more? They're both great reads. If you could upload more scans of either, you'd be doing a very small group of people a very large favor.
(Stealth Link in this comment).
I subscribed to both Creem and Rolling Stone in the 70's, and one of them became a fashion, Hollywood and politics rag instead of a music magazine, so that's the way it goes, of course. Jann Weiner is the main reason the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a laughable shadow of what it ought to be. Imagine if Lester Bangs was its head docent.
DeleteIt's not only Yawn Wenner (who once had some editorial savvy, back in the mag's newsprint days), it was his slash-yer-throat-dull staff - "writers" like Ben Fong-Torres and the rest of the asslicking pencil-neck nerds who neutered rock writing into P.R. releases.
DeleteCreem was like the MAD Magazine of music!
DeleteGreat, underrated, Karl Malden flick - Baby Doll.
ReplyDeleteA fine actor. No equivalent in today's "movie business".
DeleteI am intrigued and grateful for your endeavours
ReplyDeleteWit' dat chapeau an' dose cheaters, you is a shoe-in for th' 4/5 Guys, Nick! Hang around, pal! Dere's tomatoes!
DeleteTwo days ago, I started getting ads for CREEM "Boy Howdy" shirts on my FB feed. And now an actual issue pops up. I read Rolling Stone when it was folded newsprint rag, roughly '70 to '74, but grew increasingly disenchanted, as they didn't cover bands like Bowie, Alice Cooper, Mott the Hoople..and when they did notice them, they were looking down their snooty noses. CREEM...well, it was the sort of magazine that appreciated trash culture...and the annual Lou Reed vs. Lester Bang in a steel cage interview was a hoot. R. Meltzer, too...from what I remember.
ReplyDeleteIf any youse bums gots more CREEM, spoon it into the comments! I is desirous of perusing' those scented pages again!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of "a hoot..." Greil Marcus on McCartney's Wild Life, "This is a far better lp than Ram...."
ReplyDeletethanks for the CREEM... I notice that the LPB Preamp allows you to turn the amp way up to 20 .. eat that Nigel Tufnel
ReplyDeleteI love those old hifi ads.
DeleteHere are all of the Rock Scene mags (it's 2 gigs so it takes awhile) http://www.mediafire.com/file/f01r86o3xjb0w4a/rock_scene_circulation_zero.pdf/file
ReplyDeleteOutstanding work, Babinga! Thank you!
DeleteColor me impressed. I don't think I saw any Creem magazines in their all black and white days. Must have just been breaking out of Detroit in 1972? Not all of the letters column originates from Michigan, anyway. More long form writing than I remember from a couple years later, for sure. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI nominate Boy Howdy to be added to the sidebar of notable degenerates -> (I've had "Boy Howdy merch" on my wish list for years but no one ever gets me any).
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