Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll | 
pickOft-imitated but never quite equalled, Lester Bangs is one of those writers (like Hunter S Thompson) whose influence on modern journalism is inescapable, mostly (and ironically) for the worse. I say ironically because I consider each to be two of the best writers of the second half of the 20th century, a feeling only reinforced by decades of bad impersonations in alternative weeklies and online magazines all across the country.
#RockInMay #cocaine
as a teenager, I had a fascination with classic rock musicians like Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin and eventually that entire era of music history.
These books on my shelf immediately came to mind after seeing today's prompt: music critic Lester Bangs and Keith Richards (for the most obvious reasons 😂)
Happy Birthday, Lester. 💗
