Creem, Crawdaddy, Circus & Trouser Press - the golden age of Rock mags

Here's a coffee table book that can be had cheap. It's by no means comprehensive but is fun to flip through.

https://www.amazon.com/CREEM-Americas-Only-Rock-Magazine/dp/0061374563

 

This is the one i remember the most. Thankfully i still have my copy!

 

I have Hit Parader with the Left Banke but aside from that just latter day reviews or retrospectives.

 

I had a subscription to Rolling Stone 1969-71 and looked forward to every issue. In fact, I still have them all these years later, including their issue devoted to the Woodstock festival. I have a few from 1967 as well. Rolling Stone actually meant something back then.

 

Has anyone mentioned Greg Shaw's, Who Put The Bomp! magazine? I would add it to the big four. Though it was hard to find on the east coast, I bought it whenever I could find a copy.

Too bad Crawdaddy didn't last longer, I loved that magazine! I vaguely remember this cartoon in Crawdaddy about Keith titled 'Keef Riffhard'... To my 14 year old mind, it seemed like it was the funniest thing ever. I wish I could remember more about it than just the title.

Trouser Press was probably my favorite though. All the old Trouser Press record reviews are online for the most though at.
TrouserPress.com

 

So you're the guy who wrote "Funny Records With No Writing On Them", eh? Wow, well done! I re-read that article recently while going through one of my regular perusals of my old rock mags, and remember it as my first in-depth introduction to the bootleg scene and its mechanizations.

 

Could not find the Keef cartoon but did find this in both versions of Crawdaddy. The mag and newspaper style:

 

The Circus offshoot:

 

Crawdaddy had some great writers. William Burroughs had a regular column at one time and I found a review by Jim Carroll. Here's part of a revciew for some power pop albums with a pic of Forum faves:

 

gotta love the eclectic coverage of this mag:

 

Preferred musician oriented pubs like
Musician
Music Sound Output
Guitar Player
Keyboards
Modern Drummer
Frets
Modern Recording

 

Ben Fong-Torres, Baron Wolman, Hunter S. Thompson etc. Some great stuff.

 

Tiger Beat!!!

 

Wish I'd taken his advice and bought a case of Larry Lurex singles.

 

i had a ton of Creems back in the 80's. the captions under the pics were always funny as hell

 

1.Evergreen during the 1960s...THE Hippie rock rag

2.Buddy Magazine...a local Dallas TX music rag named after our patron saint of RocknRoll the great Buddy Holly

3.Not Fade Away...a local 70s Texas rag dedicated to all things 13th Floor Elevators

2.Creem during the late 60s & 70s

2.Rolling Stone...when it was still cutting edge good

3 & 4 Circus and Hit Parader for a little flavor periodically

 

RockScenester.com

 

As Paul McCartney once sang, "That was me." Thanks for remembering!

 

Before my time, but Samuel Delaney wrote some record reviews for Crawdaddy in the 60’s.

 

strangely I do not miss them although I bought many of them...

 

O' Man! LOL...