slag on rolling stone ...

[Jim Hofmann - RAMD-D <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>]

So - since everyone else is ...

the last rolling stone I bought was the one with the issue on health clubs
becoming the single bars of the 80's ... it was then I realized the true
irrelevancy of this rag to music.  Incidentally, the offending cover story
became the quasi-subject of the movie "perfect" starring disco-John and
lunatic-victim Jamie ...

Rolling Stone is a good metaphor of the institutionaliztion and acceptance
into the mainstream of rock music (which one could argue was initially
totally oposed to this...)

Ah well, I suggest looking to the independent press like Jet Lag out of
St Louis and Flipside out of Orange County as well as the Penthouse
rag - SPiN (with a terrifying story on Nina Hagen this month) ...

For a real treat, find a library that archives Rolling Stone and read
he old issues where the Grateful Dead's latest bust was the usual cover ...

Tim left a copy he had found on the bus of Rolling Stone's year in review
(which undoubtably Greg Searles would LOVE) wherein RS states, "1985 was
a good year for rock" and then went into the reasons - Don Johnson, Sly
Stallone ... hmmmm.  At best, this is a slightly more sophisticated
and less ecletic National Enquirer ... I guess next year their reason
for a good year in rock will be Mark "Coors" Harmon and Ally Sheedy ...
duh!

hofmann