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!¡ Lester Bangs Archive

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Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
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Selected Lester Bangs Media

^{What’s on this page?}

^{This page contains a selected bibliography of Lester Bangs media on the internet (primarily YouTube). Categories include...}

Selected Media Channels and Playlists

^{For an illustrated catalogue of official and unofficial Lester Bangs releases, visit Discography. To stream the full-length documentary, Box Full Of Rocks: The El Cajon Years of Lester Bangs, visit Videography.}

^{SELECTED MEDIA CHANNELS AND PLAYLISTS}

^{Lester Bangs Playlist YouTube Channel}
^{https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRZxMUq_A9eXBNhcPJnoD_SkezxuYnaCZ}

^{Lester Bangs and The Delinquents YouTube Channel}
^{https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqov9WDDOZzCYxJIKjzgGsg}

^{Captain Beefheart/Lester Bangs Music Channel}
^{http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAF07AE01884246D6}

^INTERVIEWS

^{Lester Bangs interview (Jim DeRogatis)}
^{https://youtu.be/yOSch7bGuok}
^{duration: 00:05:32}
^{Presented April 23, 2014 before the screening of Almost Famous, at Chicago's Music Box Theatre}

^{Lester Bangs Interview (Sue Matthews)}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH8MztYDAEQ}
^{duration: 01:28:51 min}
^{Sue Matthews interviews Lester Bangs, May 13, 1980. Full interview}^.

^{Lester Bangs on The Beatles}
^{https://youtu.be/sHndiDyV1Ow}
^{Published on Mar 2, 2015}
^{duration: 00:00:58}
^{source:JPMcFly1985Two #FeelTheBern}^(YouTube)

^{Village Voice music writer Lester Bangs opines about Beatlemania, nostalgia, and John Lennon; originally film in 1981, and sourced from a 1982 show, FM-TV.}

^{Lester Bangs on Jethro Tull}
^{https://youtu.be/-2k_JdPG2-Y}
^{Published on Feb 27, 2014}
^{duration: 00:00:54}
^{source: QuizzVid (YouTube)}
^{Lester Bangs's commentary on Jethro Tull, excerpted from the 1974 UK Rock music series, All You Need Is Love (dir. Tony Palmer).}

^{Lester Bangs on Music and Celebrities}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqo6scHOwc&list=PLGXuvxI9C6nD9pRQtv-czuUof3FKH4NUX}
^{duration: 00:02:01}
^{Topics: Rock, same old music; Brian Ferry; Emerson, Lake and Palmer; waiting for the Renaissance.}

^{Lester Bangs on Technology in Music}
^{duration: 1:43 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKvnAO3kHAs}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-ERSONvQZE}
^{Late night radio program featuring Lester Bangs commenting on musical miscegenation}
^{duration: 1:03 min.}

^{Lester Bangs versus Bryan Ferry}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycneOGo6fPc}
^{duration: 3:20 min}
^{Short segment from a 70s British documentary called 'All You Need is Love' featuring rock critic Lester Bangs's critical commentary.}

^{Robert Christgau Interview (Rock 'n' Roll Animal)}
^{Part 1}

^{http://youtu.be/OTCZq_n-5qA}
^{duration: 00:09:41}
^{Part 2}
^{http://youtu.be/qmDs3BQqYFA}
^{duration: 00:09:10}
^{Part 3}
^{http://youtu.be/SuS4FYEx4GA}
^{duration: 00:04:59}
^{Part 4}
^{http://youtu.be/QYJ35B_P9qQ}
^{duration: 00:07:41}
^{Documentary portrait of esteemed music journalist Robert Christgau directed by Paul Lovelace in 1999. Features musicians Jon Langford, Arto Lindsay and Modest Mouse and writers Georgia Christgau, Anthony DeCurtis, Carola Dibbell, Nelson George, Richard Goldstein, Joe Levy, Ann Powers, John Rockwell, Eric Weisbard and Ellen Willis.}

^{Photographer Bob Gruen Interview (RAWTalk)}
^{RAWTalk. “An Interview with Bob Gruen: John and Yoko's Person Photographer.” RAWTalk #40 18 Jun 2013.}
^{https://youtu.be/yKuSbBke5uw}
^{duration: 00:56:04}
^{A filmed radio interview with New York photographer Bob Gruen, who chronicled the heyday of Rock and Roll, captured Lester Bangs during his New York years, and became John Lennon and Yoko Ono's personal photographer.}

^{MISCELLANEOUS MULTIMEDIA}

^{lectures, trailers, dramatizations, etc.}

^{Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me [documentary film trailer]}
^{https://youtu.be/OFAGUbJPXOI}
^{duration: 00:02:23}
^{source: Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing, 2012}
^{Trailer for a feature-length documentary about legendary Memphis band Big Star. Contains video segment of a 1970s interview with Lester Bangs, in which Bangs equates Memphis rock band Big Star with The Beatles.}

^{CREEM Magazine in Birmingham: Pop Cultural Mayhem, Rock Stars and Lester Bangs}
^{https://youtu.be/wisdE2P9doU}
^{duration: 01:16:58}
^{source: Baldwin Public Library, 2014}
^{Leslie Pielack, Director of the Birmingham Historical Museum, leads a lecture and discussion about rock music and CREEM Magazine}

^{Lester Bangs - Libri Rock 'n Roll - Recensione}
^{https://youtu.be/cntislqQ6n0}
^{duration: 00:02:55}
^{source: YouTube}
^{JacknRoll's 2014 tongue-in-cheek Italian language book review of Lester Bangs's Impubblicabile! (the Italian translation by A. Mioni, of Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste and Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung).}

^{Lester Bangs: Lou Reed v. Lester Bangs}
^{http://vimeo.com/21707444}
^{duration: 00:11:46}
^{source: Vimeo (French language only), Public Alea, 2011}
^{A pastiche of a 1974 conversation between Lou Reed and Lester Bangs; a teaser for an unreleased French film dramatizing the life of Lester Bangs.}

^{How to be a Rock Critic}
^{https://youtu.be/XXQ5F56lM9k}
^{duration: 00:01:06}
^{source: Center Theatre Group}
^{Actor Erik Jensen's excerpt as Lester Bangs in How to be a Rock Critic, a co-production with South Coast Repertory staged at the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in June 2015.}

^{Lester Bangs Obituary (dramatic recreation)}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-ak6sUbDDs}
^{duration: 00:04:02}
^{A tribute montage to Lester Bangs using archival film clips and a reporting style narration.}

^{Ricky Shore Vlog #143}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixRbGTj_Q90}
^{duration: 00:03:26}
^{Ricky Shore comments on Lester Bangs, Velvet Underground, and Pauline Kael.}

^{Rock and Roll and Lester Bangs}
^{http://vimeo.com/55585784}
^{duration: 00:01:26}
^{source: Vimeo, Tom Law, 2013}
^{A collaborative short animation by Jason Reicher and Tom Law, created for CalArts Rock and Roll and Movies class.}

^{A Tribute to Lester Bangs}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOA8LSqoYpY}
^{duration: 00:04:40}
^{A collection of quotes and video footage of Lester Bangs; songs includes I Wanna Be Your Dog by The Stooges.}

^{Who Coined the Term, Grunge?}
^{https://youtu.be/RvpnewxHflY}
^{duration: 00:01:08}
^{source: Ongoing History of New Music, 2015}
^{Hosted by Alan Cross, this video factoid looks at the questionable origins of the term, grunge, and its possibly erroneously attribution to Lester Bangs.}

^MUSIC

^{SOLO BANGS}

^{Let It Blurt 7-inch single A-side (1977)}
^{3:38 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk5CPhHpl2M}

^{Live (Let It Blurt 7-inch single B-Side, 1977)}
^{3:49 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-dDC-pN5Ro}

^{Sister Ray 7 flexi disc EP (1990)}
^3:05
^{https://youtu.be/bqYJFiZR9rI}

^{LESTER BANGS AND THE DELINQUENTS}

^{Accidents Of God}
^{4:08 min.}
^{https://youtu.be/HBoOWuTO_Uc}

^{Fade Away}
^{2:28 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Gf-GQ3Xjg}

^{I Just Want To Be a Movie Star}
^{4:57 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGZ4DkIEh0}

^{I'm In Love With My Walls}
^{2:49 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MoMqFSV_ks}

^{Life Is Not Worthy Living (But Suicide Is a Waste of Time)}
^{2:52 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Gf-GQ3Xjg}

^{Nuclear War}
^{2:20 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf7YuXlNMIY}

^{BIRDLAND WITH LESTER BANGS}

^{Accidents Of God}
^{3:05 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBoOWuTO_Uc&list=PLB745FF40C7DC791A}

^{Fade Away}
^{2:15 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuS2R--4K4Y&list=PLB745FF40C7DC791A}

^{God Sends Grace (rehearsal tape; Lester Bangs/ Mickey Leigh)}
^{duration: 2:43 min.}
^{http://youtu.be/wQexTL0GXWc}

^{I Fought the Law}
^{2:05 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPEaSLX1Ae8&list=PLB745FF40C7DC791A}

^{I'm In Love With My Walls}
^{2:20 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6soAslbfBc&list=PLB745FF40C7DC791A}

^{Kill Him Again}
^{2:50 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN7y7ZwwQ3U&list=PLB745FF40C7DC791A}

^{The Killer}
^{3:50 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T23HujISuPc&list=PLB745FF40C7DC791A}

^{Let All Come Down (Lester Bangs/ Mickey Leigh)}
^{duration: 2:43 min.}
^{http://youtu.be/PvGkWYEIj-U}

^{Let All Come Down (alt)}
^{2:40 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BcZSWYbnRM&list=PLB745FF40C7DC791A}

^{Loneliness (Mickey Leigh's New Yorkestra; written by Mickey Leigh and Lester Bangs)}
^{duration: 4:06 min.}
^{http://youtu.be/dtzpsMrfu_U}

^{Textbook Case}
^{3:15 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3RyhCHJVjc&list=PLB745FF40C7DC791A}

^{There's a Man In There}
^{3:40 min.}
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgNyPLAcGAc&list=PLB745FF40C7DC791A}

^{Time Has Come Today [OfficialMickeyLeigh lost demo]}
^{duration: 00:02:25}
^{https://youtu.be/_O5dnHnHtlI}

^{THE CREEM OFFICE SESSIONS WITH PETER LAUGHNER}

Last Updated: 05/01/2019

!¡ Lester Bangs Archive

Contact

Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours

Housing

Contact

Selected Lester Bangs Media

SELECTED MEDIA CHANNELS AND PLAYLISTS

INTERVIEWS

MISCELLANEOUS MULTIMEDIA

lectures, trailers, dramatizations, etc.

MUSIC

SOLO BANGS

LESTER BANGS AND THE DELINQUENTS

BIRDLAND WITH LESTER BANGS

THE CREEM OFFICE SESSIONS WITH PETER LAUGHNER

Contact

^{SELECTED MEDIA CHANNELS AND PLAYLISTS}

^INTERVIEWS

^{MISCELLANEOUS MULTIMEDIA}

^{lectures, trailers, dramatizations, etc.}

^MUSIC

^{SOLO BANGS}

^{LESTER BANGS AND THE DELINQUENTS}

^{BIRDLAND WITH LESTER BANGS}

^{THE CREEM OFFICE SESSIONS WITH PETER LAUGHNER}