No I don’t think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it’s going to get worse and worse. Lester Bangs Read Quote
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. Lester Bangs Read Quote
The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. Lester Bangs Read Quote
The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don’t find most of the groups that are coming out now really do. Lester Bangs Read Quote
When kids can’t afford to see it anymore maybe we’ll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. Lester Bangs Read Quote
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. Lester Bangs Read Quote
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he’s playing Jazz whether I like it or not. Lester Bangs Read Quote
Here we are in the 70’s when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it’s just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. Lester Bangs Read Quote
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that’s like basically good. Lester Bangs Read Quote
That’s one reason why it’s pretty worthless, I can’t totally buy it, if you think about it, it’s things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place. Lester Bangs Read Quote
