Lester Bangs
Lester Bangs
Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangswas an American music journalist, critic, author, and musician. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was known for his leading influence in rock music criticism; Jim DeRogatis has called him "American's greatest rock critic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 December 1948
CountryUnited States of America
rocks world glimpse
(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.
rocks arise should
Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.
understanding may reign
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.
always-believe left
I've always believed the New Left is rank.
book arbitrary falsification
All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
grateful way cages
John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.
hate playing-jazz stanley
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
popular-music particular
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
artist fake roles
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.
business men organization
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
guarantees agree one-thing
I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.
accept almost america american-critic best book demands reader record writer
What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.
american-critic anymore country myth obviously
No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
american-critic general mean people reflects running society
Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.