[Creem, Nov. 1975]
Archive for March 28th, 2008
Old Letters #13
Posted by s woods on March 28, 2008
Because we’ve been on something of a Mendels(s)ohnian kick today, here’s a chestnut from Rolling Stone, June ’71.
“Ned?” Say what? Weirdest letter in Rolling Stone ever?
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Old Letters #12
Posted by s woods on March 28, 2008
[Creem, Dec. 1971]
Unless there are two Diana Ross fans named “Randy Taraborelli” I think we can safely assume this is the same guy.
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Old Letters #11
Posted by s woods on March 28, 2008
[Rolling Stone, May 1980]
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Interview with a Parenthetically-Challenged Rock Critic
Posted by s woods on March 28, 2008
A nice weekend companion piece to the DiMartino finale:
Soundcheck: An interview with “formerly famous” music critic John Mendels(s)ohn
At Dane101.com (thanks to Barbara for the heads up.)
My real name is with one ‘s.’ But when I was around 30, I thought it would be cute to add a second ‘s’ to make it like the classical composer. When I moved to England, I had to go back to the original one ‘s’ because my passport has one ‘s’ and my wife was spelling it with one ‘s.’ So I made the second ‘s’ optional. Hence the parentheses. On a scale of ‘not funny at all’ to my favorite Andy Kaufman moment or Monty Python sketch, it’s a little funny. It makes my byline slightly unusual.
(See also, Mendels[s]ohn’s 2001 rockcritics.com interview with Steven Ward.)
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