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Masked Marauders on NBC

Posted by s woods on April 6, 2013

“Our next story has to do with what may be the last great mystery of the music business…”

Brian Williams interviews Greil Marcus and Langdon Winner

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Bangs Audio

Posted by s woods on March 2, 2013

Lester Bangs interviewed by Sue Matthews, May 1980.

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For the Love of Movie Critics

Posted by s woods on March 2, 2013

Watching this now. It’s amazing.

Posted in Movie Critics, YouTubes | 3 Comments »

Lillian Roxon x 2

Posted by s woods on February 7, 2013

Two great Roxon-related finds on YouTube (neither of which I’ve yet seen, the first of which I absolutely intend to watch).

Mother of Rock: The Life and Times of Lillian Roxon
(Uploaded by TV Ontario, in its entirety, though apparently not viewable outside of Canada.)

 

Mother of Rock: USA Premiere – Producer’s comments + Q&A

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Creem Magazine Review (YouTube)

Posted by s woods on January 30, 2013

Less a review, than a tribute, but not bad (there’s no info I can see about who made the thing). There are a couple minor factual quibbles, and it’s a little odd that he quotes stuff from Christgau and Marsh that have no connection to Creem. But a couple lines in it made me laugh (“these were some dead honest, music-lovin’ motherfuckers”), and I learned something new (something I probably should have known but didn’t): the Creem Profiles section was actually a pisstake on Dewar’s scotch.

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Kevin Avery on Park City Television

Posted by s woods on January 28, 2013

Kevin Avery, author of Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson, discusses Nelson’s life and work on Park City Television’s “Mountain Views.”

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Chuck Eddy Interview on YouTube

Posted by s woods on September 5, 2011

Rock Book Show: Interview With Music Critic Chuck Eddy

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Preview of Nu-Creem

Posted by s woods on August 11, 2011

What in god’s name has happened to “America’s Only…”??


Posted in Creem, YouTubes | 3 Comments »

Rob Sheffield Interviews

Posted by s woods on July 3, 2011

Rob Sheffield talking about Talking to Girls About Duran Duran (which I still have to read).

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McLuhan on 45

Posted by s woods on July 3, 2011

Jon Savage in an April 2009 record roundup from his blog:

Published the same month (March 1967) that The Velvet Underground and Nico was released, Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium Is The Message [sic] became an instant bestseller and has become a key text. Columbia Records quickly rushed out an LP of McLuhan and his colleagues Fiore and Jerome Agel reading selections from the book, which is a very high sixties product with people talking at and over each other, added found noises and distortion — which should be reissued (for more, see Johnny Trunk’s eloquent article in Mojo May 2009). The whole point was simultaneity. There was also a promo 45, which culled selected five and ten second spots for DJ’s with locked grooves (just like the Velvet Underground flexi in Aspen’s POP issue, “Loop”) with visionary/critical slogans: “everything we do is music.”

You can listen to The Medium is the Massage album in its entirety on YouTube. It was produced by John (not the critic) Simon, a producer best (and most deservedly) known for his work with the Band. (Apparently, McLuhan himself was said to dislike the recording, though I’ve never seen documentation of such. He comes across pretty stiff and professorial-like, truth be told, though the surrounding collage is kind of fascinating. Sonically, it brings to mind a few other artifacts from the period, i.e., We’re Only In It For the Money, Firesign Theatre’s Don’t Crush That Dwarf, et al.)

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Female Critics

Posted by s woods on December 7, 2009

Via The Daily Swarman interesting video collage of various female critics (incl. Maura Johnston, Paige Maguire, Ellen Carpenter, Callie Enlow, Rachel Maddux, and Margaret Moser).

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Robert Christgau vs. Albert Goldman vs. John Lennon vs. James Wolcott vs. ’60s rock critics vs. etc.

Posted by s woods on November 17, 2009

In this corner, Dean Christgau:

In this corner, James Wolcott:

And the winner is?

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Richard Meltzer in Horror House on Highway 5

Posted by s woods on August 31, 2009

Who knew? The guy acted in his spare time. Someone was excellent enough to upload a clip to YouTube.

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More Bangs on YouTube

Posted by s woods on July 29, 2009

Lester Bangs, Killed by Technology

Lester Bangs on musical miscegenation

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YouTube: Lillian Roxon, 1973

Posted by s woods on July 28, 2009

Beyond fantastic that this exists. Thank you world.

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Ben Fong Torres Does “SF Live,” Part II

Posted by A.C. Rhodes on July 22, 2009

In the second half of the interview with “SF Live,” Fong Torres discusses his connection to Dick Clark, memorable interviews and imitations of Robert Zimmerman.

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Ben Fong Torres Does “SF Live,” Part I

Posted by A.C. Rhodes on July 22, 2009

Just when they pull him out, he gets posted in again. Ben Fong Torres, whose previous YouTube links have been mysteriously removed from YouTube, magically reappears in this interview with Christina Marie Flores on “SF Live” from February of ’09, in two parts.
Here, he provides a convenient explanation for new readers and viewers as to the derivation of his name hyphenation and his start in music journalism. If only morning TV banter like this could become a music critic’s version of The View.

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Lester Talks Over Clapton

Posted by A.C. Rhodes on May 7, 2009


Truth be told, when it comes to Lester Bangs – and I don’t think I’m alone here – I just can’t get enough. That’s why weathering through footage of Eric Clapton is worth it in this clip. That and the fact that he looks more like Richard Thompson (who would have been preferable) and is more tolerable when he’s high, which it looks like he is here. Ironically, this is the subject Lester hits on during his time on-screen. There has to be more video out there; footage that wouldn’t be taken down by WEA.

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Mark Kemp On “Words On Words”

Posted by A.C. Rhodes on May 7, 2009




Just in time for these balmy, anodyne days of spring is this recently available interview with music journalist Mark Kemp discussing his book, “Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South.” Host, John Seigenthaler, a civil rights activist, journalist and founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt, had Mark as a guest on the Nashville public TV show “A Word On Words” in September of 2004.

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The Critic Wore Nikes

Posted by s woods on February 8, 2009

This is terrific: two parts of a television interview Pauline Kael gave to Brian Linehan, sometime in the mid-80s, I think.

Posted in Interviews, Kael, Movie Critics, YouTubes | 4 Comments »

 
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