Main Lines, Blood Feasts(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably
the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in
hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac
and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he
discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly
Catholic band to Anne Murray’s smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines,
Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has
compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor
Dung, the first, now classic collection of Bangs’s work. Here are
excerpts from an autobiographical piece Bangs wrote as a teenager,
travel essays, and, of course, the music pieces, essays, and
criticism covering everything from titans like Miles Davis, Lou
Reed, and the Rolling Stones to esoteric musicians like Brian Eno
and Captain Beefheart. Singularly entertaining, this book is an
absolute must for anyone interested in the history of rock.

　　John Morthland, co-executor of the Bangs literary estate, was
a colleague of Bangs from 1969 until the author’s death. He was
editor of Creem in 1974-75. He is a writer at large for Texas
Monthly.