9780375713675 - Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader von Bangs, Lester (5 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Book shows sizeable shelf & handling wear, including edge wear and creasing on the cover. Spine is cracked & creasing, binding intact but split near the center. Pages are well worn. Interiors remain intact with unmarked text/pictures.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Anchor Books Original, August 2003, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. "Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was arguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray's smoldering sexuality. In MAINLINES, BLOOD FEASTS, AND BAD TASTE fellow rock critic John Morthland has compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, the first, now classic collection of Bangs's work. Here are excerpts from an autobiographical piece Bangs wrote as a teenager, travel essays, and, of course, the music pieces, essays, and criticism covering everything from titans like Miles Davis, Lou Reed, and the Rolling Stones to esoteric musicians like Brian Eno and Captain Beefheart. Singularly entertaining, this book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the history of rock." [publisher copy] "For fans of one of the most vocal and irreverent critical voices in rock and roll, this newly issued Bangs reader will be a boon. Serving as a companion to the 1987 collection Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, this volume is a selection of 54 pieces, some of which have been recently uncovered. In his introduction, Morthland, a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, offers a paean to Bangs, who died in 1982 of a drug overdose, describing him as the 'best-known bull-in-a-china-shop . . . who was always dangerously loaded, who could be so insulting and malicious as well as self-destructive . . . who had an expansive lust for life and a sense of humor and (sometimes even, and for no apparent reason) cheerfulness to match it.' Within these pages, the acerbic Bangs takes on Dylan ("Dylan merely used Civil Rights and the rest of the Movement to advance himself in the first place") and encourages the Stones in a 1973 Creem article ("I challenge those lazy, sniveling, winded mothermissers to PRODUCE"). There's plenty here to entertain music fans and inspire today's critics of rock and roll."--Publishers Weekly. Fine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 432 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.