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Back With A Bangs:

Lester Bangs is back from the dead with a companion piece to the cult 1987 collection of his writings, Psychotic Reactions And Carburettor Dung. And this new collection is just as good.

MLBFABT eschews the tack that editor Griel Marcus took in PRACD, ie telling Lester's tragically truncated life story through pieces that explained his life and drug-fueled outlook. Here editor John Morthland simply includes new pieces that he thought should not have been missed out from PRACD - heretic pieces on Bob Dylan... more info

More Bangs for your bucks:

Its a rock n roll tragedy that it's taken this long for more Lester Bangs to be collected under a book cover. John Morthland's offering doesnt quite match up to Marcus' "Psychotic Reactions" in that it doesnt tell a(his) story;it's "The Best Of Lester That Wasn't In Psychotic Reactions..." instead. Which is not a bad thing at all;you get Lester's first review of the MC5's "Kick Out The Jams" album, scathing dissections of Bob Dylan and the Beatles' sociological signficance in the wake of their breakup,and... more info

Living / Loving Life a Little Too Hard:

Once at an allergist appointment to treat my asthma I had to use a nebulizer, a machine to help my medication get deep into my lungs. There were two end results: I started breathing better and was high on oxygen and I got more medication into me than normal and got high on that. Basically, I was high as a kite for an hour or two and then it wore off. But for that brief period of time, I was happy and did everything at warp speed and was lovin' life.

Lester Bangs, for those of you not familiar with him,... more info

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