Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, 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.

Details

Subjects

Music

Type

Book

Place of publication

New York City

Publisher

Anchor Books

Year

2003

Number of pages

410 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9780375713675

Open stacks or available on request

Open stacks

Illustrations

No

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

780 Ban

Volumes

1

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