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Lester Bangs

Corporations are social organ...

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

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Lester Bangs

All the proliferating falsifi...

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.

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Lester Bangs

Sexual chaos reigns currently...

Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.

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Lester Bangs

Music, you know, true music n...

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

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Lester Bangs

The real question is what to ...

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

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Lester Bangs

No I don't think it was a myt...

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.

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Lester Bangs

The thing is that, they all h...

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.

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Lester Bangs

When kids can't afford to see...

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.

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Lester Bangs

The ultimate sin of any perfo...

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

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Lester Bangs

And doing so you can recreate...

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.

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Lester Bangs

I mean Iggy and The Stooges f...

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

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Lester Bangs

That's one reason why it's pr...

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.

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Lester Bangs

Basically no, I mean I think ...

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

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Lester Bangs

I mean the interesting thing ...

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

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Lester Bangs

Most of them are pretty down ...

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

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Lester Bangs

As far as a truly radical con...

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

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Lester Bangs

I mean it's easier to be in a...

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

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Lester Bangs

The great thing about The Cla...

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

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Lester Bangs

Here we are in the 70's when ...

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.

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Lester Bangs

I'm really schizophrenic abou...

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

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