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A Consumer Guide to the Plastic People of the Universe

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In A Consumer Guide to the Plastic People of the Universe (2021), Joe Yanosik reviews and grades every known PPU record on the planet (including side projects and mutations, not to mention books and DVDs), all the while — through a series of “historical interludes” — telling the band’s remarkable story, from their post-Beatles/Velvets-obsessed roots in Prague to their critical (if somewhat unwitting) role in bringing down a repressive Soviet-backed regime. I mean, the MC5 were cool and all, but… Continue reading “A Consumer Guide to the Plastic People of the Universe” →

A Box Full of Rocks

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“You’ve seen him depicted in the Academy Award winning film Almost Famous. Maybe you’ve read him in Rolling Stone or Creem magazine. Now, see where it all began — El Cajon, California. A Box Full of Rocks: The El Cajon Years of Lester Bangs is a new documentary by Grossmont College instructor Raul Sandelin. The film chronicles the childhood years of famed music journalist Lester Bangs as he grows up in El Cajon. A Box Full of Rocks will be released in Summer 2013…”

More info on the film (and on Bangs, generally) here.

Lillian Roxon x 2

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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

Creem Magazine Review (YouTube)

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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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