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led to barefoot spade in Conpeu drinking it Old Crow boasts history People within a
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their pints, what a great metaphor, like if it few hundred thousand square miles of each
only weir true! That ' s almost as great as the other once had a rave up over it I hose people
Mr. Peabody fake histones or the Bullwmkl * are all dead and gone , if they had a bad word
Show: the alcoholic history of alcoholics about it you' d never know in a million years.
superimposing other people ' s alcohol on other AO you know is once upon a time they had a
people's history. real good word about it If you can think of a
If you light a stick match, blow it out and reason not to try it then mister you ' re a
stick it into water nght away you can sniff it better man than I. I say drink the stuff nght
and w ha ? do you think it will smet! like ’ now or. if the stores arc all closed at this laic
smell like ham ! !Can you bdive that? You11 hour, lint thing tomorrow.
probably believe it right off the bat if you ' re If you think your comrades on the )ob will
on Old Crow , whereas if it was anything else Jeer you if you hit the scene with a pint of
it would take two sniffings. Can you Old Crow then fust smile back and. when you
hallucinate on it? Well. it all depends upon gel the chance, otter them a swig If they
how you define things, what would you say reject you and laugh take a swig yourself and
about thinking that Sayre Ross and Nelson show them how, even laugh back at them
Rockefeller were one and the same ”* And it Watch the envy on their faces as they see you
would have to be some stuff to make you enjoy. You may get fired when the boss or his
forget that Fra Parker was also in Them. flunkies see the fun you're having on office
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wouldn t it? time but it ll be worth it. You ll dare but you
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There was a party last spring On top of an won’ t care Remember the name: Old Crow
entire whole budding on Manhattan Island.
The Beckman Towers, 49 floors or something
It was a press party for It ' s A Beautiful Day.
they gave out flowers , they gave out boo/c
out on order Columbia mustVe told cm to moiL
They gave out so much booze and they gave it
refill every glass under the sun. gel cm drunk
so they 11 like the product But nobody knew CONTINUED f ROM PAGE 12.
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to expect that , booze was used as a surprise,
people were barfing, people were throwing BROMBERG ’ S BOOGERS
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glasses over the side, everybody loved It s A Dear CRUM:
Beautiful Day, they couldn t help it even if I just wanted to tell you guys that I
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they never heard it Booze is what did it and thought Dave Marsh s review of David
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in yean gone by folks would ' ve brought their Bromberg was the most dumbest, snot- nosed,
own. Nowadays they neither bring their own uncupportivc pretense for criticism I have ever
nor expect it. Specially not for free. seen on a printed page. Lester Bangs Stones
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Sometime * you gotta pay a buck a drink. And review had a real lot of good words in it and if
mote than half the time they have one or he had ears he should hive eaten it as toon as
fewer brands of bourbon aboard Old he got done writing it instead of publicly like
Granddad, fim Ream , if it ' s ever Old Crow he s gonna have to do now. and. uh. well, that
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whod believe it? Jack Daniels sometimes Bromberg thing made me lose every shred of
makes the scene, every mother drinks it but respect I ever had for Dave, until I read the
not one time in NYC wu it Old Crow. There s John and Yoko review-. That was one of the
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no reason for this , if you complain b > mail best things I ' ve ever read about the revolution
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and sign your name in ink they might and almost made up for it, so I m almost
reconsider It ' s up to you. The name of every gonna forgive him. But he ' s still got snot in
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record company is in the New York telephone his moustache ( if he s capable of growing one
yet ).
book. Either look them up one by one or use BoA Somebody
the yellow pages That way you11 get both Steven Hrown
the address and the phone number. You can Lowell. Maw You ' ve undoubtedly caught glimpses of the
write directly to the companies by mail or (Marsh " The entire point is: / m not. Why do magnificent CREEM t-shirt - the one with
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phone directly over the wires and ask for the \ov think they call mr the Tecange Dwarp old friend Boy llowdy and the familiar
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publicity departments or the promo And if I m c snot. David Rromherg ’ t a hoofer CRLEM logo on the bodies of famous
departments or whatever department it is in the note of Lord.”) personvges or behind the wheel of a snazzy
Make believe you had a dream last nttc. HOW ABOUT European sportscar. Now you too can be
Paul Williams was there dressed in red velvet " MY LOVES AND HATES " counted among the Hite. All it takes is three
neckcrs and the ability to spell your name
and his usual hair telling a large crowd to take RICHARD PINKSTON IV7 and address correctly on the coupon bHow.
acid But someone must have told him Dear CREEM * A CRFFM t-shirt won ' t clear up acne, but it
similarly. It could have been six months ^ o, Something mightee strange is happening to just might help your social complexion eon-
it could have been four years ago. but you. You ic beginning to take on the saderabty. Get yours w hile they last.
somewhere along the line there was an Owsley diaractcmticv of 16 Magazine. Will next ^
who said drop acid to Paulte himself And month 's issue bring " CRF .EM Super Enclose check or money order and send to:
Owsley himself looks up at Hoffman So Eanlabukms Drcem of the Month - Dave CRE .EM Reader Service
people respect precedents, and with Old Crow Marsh or possibly. What I Do After Dark - P.O. Box 202
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no one known who invented it So the only l.cstcr Bangs ’ ' * ’ Walled Lake. Ml. 48068
people you can ask about it are the men of Mtghtec strange indeed... Send me CRL ' kM t dnrtt * SJ.00 /Add
the Old South. They were some Jim Dandies, Ruthic Rainbow tSS pontage
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they knew their oats and they did not dnnk Bmghamton. N.Y.
mint | uleps. They drank Old Crow, they did /It s an intersting idea - td.) name
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Mod used to do a parody * on Old Crow ads,
they called it Old Craw and the only other The opinions of the editors art not necessarily address
booze ads they made much of was Canadian those of the rest of the staff , or anyone else
Club both ads boast a lot Canadian Chib either. I cttY state up
boasts geography. People the world over dnnk Michigan residents add 4 % Sales Tea.
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