Lester Bangs Killed by Technology

Hear rock critic Lester Bangs ca. 1980 slowly consumed by the "sterile" technology he rails against. Recorded using only the finest Dobly systems.

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• Lester
• Bangs
• Killed
• by
• Technology

[GBStuff]

every little piece of Lester we can get is much appreciated

[1zappa]

He probably would been even more angry about how kids today would buy just one song off of itunes instead of buying the whole album/cd, etc. I can just picture him going off on a tirade about how where music has taken us from going thru the album selection at a music store to just picking and choosing what songs you want to buy. Lester, we need you more than ever before!!!

[pavendar3313]

@1zappa Except that people bought singles all the time then.

So...yeah, probably not.

[gamesDAMNED]

This is a very true statement, and I've learned it on my own journeys with turntables and LPs. The best Black Sabbath I ever heard was this 1976 NEMS Paranoid LP, with a Pressed in Holland sticker, and played on a cheap-ass Sanyo DD turntable. It had quartz lock, but everything else about it was cheap. The music was astonishing. It had this dark, heavy, swampy sound, but gritty textures, and guitars that just howled. It was a revelation, and I'm probably still on that journey, that trip.

[jimneb]

how come Im the only guy who listens to robert johnson on good equipment and am happy that all the pops and scratches and unevenness have been preserved so lifelike........if bob had to die at 23 isn't it nice his work didnt?

here is a partial list for lester...all available at yard sales and hippie record stores when the prices hven't been run up by 'collectors', Magic Sam Earl Hooker John Lee Hooker Sun House Bukka White albert King BB King Freddie King Mississippie Fred Macdowell

[jimneb]

lester, you self indulgent wuss, why not do what I do and save your vinyl for your turntable (and you can get a turntable,,,it;s called choice) you want to play like a suburban bitrch artist pretending self importance go buy an old guitar and an aold amp, but then you could't be self righteous...you have to choose for all tthose abba fans out there...u must have been a rock critic cuu you are not a music lover

[chrisjackson1]

@1zappa Personally, I think he would have been more pissed about the bands/record companies putting out shitty albums, because they can rely solely on the strength of a single.

[FuttBucker667]

@julioscissors What a retarded comment. (And that's not an opinion, that's fact). Calling Lester a pseudo-intellectual? What a random thing to say. He never played the intellectual. In fact he was quite the opposite. He spoke from his gut, pure and simple. And that's what he felt Rock 'n' Roll should be about, not money or fame. He like rock to be stupid and real and stripped of pretense and he would attack the artists he thought were fake. (And did a pretty good job at it).

[PutItAway101]

This sounds like a manfesto for Jack Black

[prunepurple]

you put this video with lester talking about cheap equipment on good records and put images from St Pepper, Yes or Supertramp????

[michael918273645]

He would have loved The White Stripes.

[daddyrollingstone]

@julioscissors Spoken like a true Nickelback fan.