  Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 3640 Registered: 02-2004 |
I just finished part one of the Creem magazine story in this weeks Metro Times (by Bill Holdship). I loved that magazine, loved it madly, read it religiously, loved it. The snotty attitude Creem had in spades was my model for most of my adult life. I started reading it early in its life, I first bought it at the head shop on Lahser Road off Grand River (does anybody remember the name?). I am looking forward to part 2 next week. Boy Howdy! | ||
Sarge Member Username: Sarge Post Number: 832 Registered: 10-2003 |
I loved the mag as well, ORF. When I was a kid I actually had a customer on my paper route who worked for Creem. I always got Creem schwag as a tip and wouldn't have had it any other way! Boy Howdy Indeed! | ||
Thoswolfe Member Username: Thoswolfe Post Number: 4 Registered: 11-2007 |
Old Redfordette- I remember that head shop on Lahser . That's where I also bought Creem magazine and Fifth Estate. It was called "The Other Place". Reason for that name, I have no idea. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 3645 Registered: 02-2004 |
Ha. I used to buy cherry flavored rolling papers there. I didn't smoke pot then, but I hoped to give the impression that I did. | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 4660 Registered: 10-2003 |
I barely remember that place..tried to go into that head shop when I was about 8 years old, but the pompous hippy bastard kicked me out... There's a bit of a scrap going on about the name "Creem" going on, as a former contributor bought the rights to the name and has published a book about the mag...apparently, he is talking about reviving the magazine, but we've heard that before. http://www.observer.com/2007/n ew-creem-retrospective-outrage s-magazines-alums | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 290 Registered: 11-2007 |
The Fifth Estate was my main reading back in the day. I wonder if there is any shops in the Metro area that carries old stuff like that? I've stopped in a few comic book stores, but have found nothing even close. It sure would be fun to open up a copy and go back in time again. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1445 Registered: 12-2003 |
It would be nice to read an accurate account of Creem's early days by someone who was actually there -- say, Dave Marsh. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1789 Registered: 03-2006 |
i was supposed to write for the revamped creem. they had one internet issue | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 4661 Registered: 10-2003 |
was that the 2003 revamp? Or a prior one? | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1790 Registered: 03-2006 |
this was 2005 | ||
Talleman1 Member Username: Talleman1 Post Number: 24 Registered: 06-2005 |
I have the very first Creem with the Led Zepplin review, love the hippy shop map, only the plum pit remains. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 3648 Registered: 02-2004 |
I have copies. | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 1831 Registered: 01-2006 |
I have, at least, three of them. Covers: Quallude Epidemic, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix. At the time, I preferred Rolling Stone. But then, that's before Rolling Stone turned into warthog dung. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 931 Registered: 07-2007 |
I think there is room for Creem. Sell it to online MP3 kids. I always would go into stores and read it as a kid. | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 173 Registered: 11-2006 |
I have the Creem with Rockpile on the cover! | ||
Citylover Member Username: Citylover Post Number: 2848 Registered: 07-2004 |
I remember the 1st creem.It was much like (format) the metro times. I was about twelve at the time.Discount records and middle earth in Ann Arbor had it. Here is something from Rolling Stone about the downfall of hi fidelity. http://www.rollingstone.com/ne ws/story/17777619/the_death_of _high_fidelity/print | ||
9936sussex Member Username: 9936sussex Post Number: 75 Registered: 10-2007 |
Would John King have any old copies? They often have a lot of old magazines down there. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 3321 Registered: 11-2005 |
I have a whole box full. Not the real early ones though. Probably from like 75-80. | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 174 Registered: 11-2006 |
BOY-HOWDY!! | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 245 Registered: 11-2006 |
Remember Extra CREEM? It was an 8-10 page insert in the regular magazine made especially for us lucky folks in SE Michigan. It started around ’75 and lasted a few years. It had concert listings, bar and store reviews and other pertinent info. I remember one hilarious article called “The Rastafarians of Birmingham” or something like that. It was a photo essay with Lester Bangs and some of the other writers playing Rastas in the streets of B-Ham. Funny stuff. They also had a pretty good 2-3 part series on the history of Michigan rock. | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 246 Registered: 11-2006 |
Remember Extra CREEM? It was an 8-10 page insert in the regular magazine especially for us lucky folks in SE Michigan. It started around ’75 and lasted a few years. It had concert listings, bar and store reviews and other pertinent info. I remember one hilarious article called “The Rastafarians of Birmingham” or something like that. It was a photo essay with Lester Bangs and some of the other writers playing Rastas in the streets of B-Ham. Funny stuff. They also had a pretty good 2-3 part series on the history of Michigan rock. | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 1833 Registered: 01-2006 |
Citylover, I saw that RS piece in the magazine. We're a bit off-topic, here, but I found the article to be very interesting. A friend burned a copy of The White Stripes' "Icky Thump" for me, and while observing that I wasn't at all excited by much of the music, I also found myself wondering why the sound quality was so mediocre. The RS piece shed light on a possible explanation which I had not, at all, considered. Or, maybe Jack White thinks that a shitty sound is a Good Thing. I have had occasion to believe that Iggy subscribes to that preference. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 3652 Registered: 02-2004 |
I would really like to hear Dave Marsh's version of the Creem story. I have no real opinion of the MT story, except it got me thinking of Creem and the snarky sarcastic music loving writing that I loved so dearly when I was a little oldredfordette. Remember when Flo and Eddie posed nude? And Martin Mull, with a very large baguette? When Lester Bangs played the typewriter on stage with J. Geils? | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 1835 Registered: 01-2006 |
Flo & Eddie nude. Gosh, Oldette, thanks for calling up that image. I owe you one, dammit. | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 3 Registered: 01-2008 |
I love Sue Whithall because she worked for Creem....and if she ever saw the Incredible Mohawk Brothers naked....she would have named them Creem Dream number 53. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 947 Registered: 07-2007 |
boy howdy,  | ||
Eastsidedame Member Username: Eastsidedame Post Number: 188 Registered: 12-2006 |
Ah, yeah, I've kept a bunch of them through the years. This is the earliest one I have, from April 1973. I studied Creem like a textbook. And real proud it was homegrown, too.  | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 220 Registered: 08-2007 |
back in my days i mowed the lawn of a record store in garden city, the owner a former creem magazine photographer, was always full of stories and told me alot about rock&roll. he had them boy howdy beer cans sitting on a shelf. but i never got into the rock mags so all the stuff was new to me. | ||
Ladyinabag Member Username: Ladyinabag Post Number: 345 Registered: 03-2007 |
I 1968, I lived on Euclid, right on the alley, across the street from the Algiers Motel (what was my problem?), I shopped at Mixed Media for a lot of my records. He was more expensive than the rest of the record shops. I mostly shopped at Harmony House in Hazel Park when I could get out there. | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 576 Registered: 08-2007 |
Lady, man o man, you have lived in some interesting places ... across from the Algiers ... jeeze. What was that like? |
