Julian Cope presents Head Heritage
Head To Head
Log In
Register
Unsung Forum »
Tony Palmer's All You Need Is Love (Lester Bangs)
Log In to post a reply
9 messages
Topic View: Flat | Threaded
Monolith Cocktail
149 posts

Re: Tony Palmer's All You Need Is Love (Lester Bangs)
Jul 30, 2010, 15:28
Again I must agree with Ian on many of his points.

For all Lester's failings he did write some amazing material. His writing on garage rock is essential laugh out loud reading, who else would start of an article by arguing the merits of a Count Five bargain bin LP being too dear, further pontificating for forty pages about the history of music. He could make a sentence last for half a page, easy reading it certainly isn't.

Never frightened to voice opinion, how many critics do that now? I think he stands as a leading advocate of writers from a golden era, including Grail Marcus and of course Hunter S Thompson.
I naively try to at least sail close to them in my own writing, failing obviously.

Dom Valvona
In reply to:
Re: Tony Palmer's All You Need Is Love (Lester Bangs) (IanB)
Topic Outline:
Unsung Forum Index