Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

A bunch of old people talking about how cool they used to be because they knew Ted Nugent.

DaOConnman

Love the magazine, but this Doc was mundane. Full of talking heads saying I remember. The graphics were not used with much imagination. Ken Burns it's not.

Allan Arkush

My mom flew to LA from San Antonio today and asked her if I was secretly named after Lester Bangs.  Was obviously way too young for Creem, over the years I read an article or contemporary review here and there and especially collections of writing published for the…

Lester

If you're of a certain age and inclination, Creem Magazine was a sort of tribal literary meeting place. My "first date" was in a record store in Minneapolis in 1972, and it was love at first glance. First, they were writing about bands from the Midwest with as much passion…

Jim Morrow

Another documentary that will be of interest to you only if you are familiar with the subject. Which I am. Read this magazine through the 70's and early 80's - bought it as soon as it came out. So this was really great to watch. My only complaint would be that it felt way…

Brent Starkey

I loved when Dave Marsh said he invented the term “punk rock”, haha.  In this doc someone said Detroit was the most important city for music in the 60s and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it... MAGAZINES BY FANS WITH PASSION RULE. Celebrity culture sucks and…

maxwell demon

During its heyday, Creem magazine was like Rolling Stone’s cooler, edgier, funnier, druggier cousin. It was irreverent, un-PC, and more rooted in the counterculture. At its best, Creem’s hyperbolic journalism rose to the level of art, like the music it covered. This…

Moronic Inferno

As interesting as a documentary about a magazine gets

Paul Petroskey

Impressive line-up of witnesses, but frantic and superficial.

Bill Chambers