Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste A Lester Bangs Reader
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader by Lester Bangs is a comprehensive collection published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on August 12, 2003. This 432-page volume presents a selection of Bangs’s influential writings, showcasing his unique style and perspective on rock and roll. The book includes a variety of pieces, from autobiographical reflections to travel essays, alongside critical essays on notable musicians and bands.
Readers will find a diverse array of content that captures Bangs’s distinctive voice and insights into music history and criticism. The collection features discussions on prominent artists such as Miles Davis, Lou Reed, and the Rolling Stones, as well as lesser-known figures like Brian Eno and Captain Beefheart. This edition serves as a companion to Bangs’s earlier work, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, and offers a rich exploration of his contributions to music criticism and literary collections.
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Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably 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, 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.
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