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By Dave McElfresh
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You'll
want to grab a copy of Jim DeRogatis' Let It Blurt: The Life and Times
of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic. Along with Psychotic
Reactions and Carburetor Dung, the Greil Marcus-edited posthumous
collection of Bangs' writing, Let It Blurt should be required
reading for any aspiring rock critic. But more than that, DeRogatis, a
frequent Dallas Observer contributor, delivers a page-turning look
at a heroically self-destructive genius, a man who lived for rock and roll
and died for drugs and alcohol. (His motto, after all, was "live
fast, be bad, get messy, die young.") Eighteen years after his death,
some still say that Bangs is the only music journalist that matters. With Let
It Blurt, DeRogatis proves them right. |