The Legend of Creem - America's Only Rock & Roll Magazine

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Chris Jericho

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Boy Howdy! “Creem: America’s Only Rock & Roll Magazine” is an amazing documentary that provides a magical look into the mythical world of the music rag that launched in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan (about a year after “Rolling Stone”), and inspired countless musicians (including Metallica’s Kirk Hammet and the Chili Peppers Chad Smith) to start bands. Creem epitomized the sex, drugs and rock & roll culture of the music industry in the 70s, helped propel KISS to rock star status, counted Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed as fans, and unleashed a wild and disruptive newsroom into the homes of obsessed teens every month! Legendary journalist Jaan Uhelszki, director Scott Crawford, and JJ Kramer (son of Creem founder Barry Kramer) pull back the curtain and take us between the pages of “Creem!”

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0:13.5	Boy howdy welcome to talk is Jericho. It's the pot of thunder and rock and roll
0:16.8	It's serious rock and roll today. We're talking about the famous or maybe should I say infamous a rock and roll magazine cream?
0:23.2	I've got JJ Kramer the current owner and son of cream founder Barry Kramer legendary journalist Jan
0:29.6	Ewhalski and director Scott Crawford the three that produce the new documentary cream America's only rock and roll magazine
0:37.1	Jan was a journalist for the magazine from its early days. She toured with Led Zeppelin
0:41.7	Has a great story about the interview she did with Jimmy Page
0:44.1	She's also the only journalist to ever perform with kiss in makeup on stage. You hear about that
0:48.8	Jan also talks about the crazy culture of the magazine
0:51.6	How it was so different from Rolling Stone which launched a year before cream did and why all the rock stars
0:56.5	Would just show up and hang out at the cream offices
0:58.8	She'll talk some about working with the legendary journalist Lester bangs
1:02.3	He was played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and almost famous you remember that and JJ Scott and Jan still the toy
1:07.7	Tell the story of boy howdy the cream mascot and slogan always love that cream is the epitome of the sex drugs and rock and roll culture of the 70s
1:16.1	And inspired so many musicians to pick up instruments and start bands including Chad Smith and Kirk Hammett
1:21.1	They're both in the in the documentary
1:23.5	You're gonna want to check out the documentary after this speech in Ted Nugent and Alice Cooper and so many great great legendary guys
1:29.5	It's out now go to cream movie.com to get your virtual tickets and go to my official YouTube channel tomorrow night at 9 p.m
1:36.0	Eastern this Thursday at nine as they said on sctv for episode four of the winter pagans
1:41.0	This one's called high school parties and it's exactly what you think it is Dave Spivak and ribo join me again on youtube and Facebook
1:47.8	And you'll hear the story of the one party that Dave threw at his house
1:51.1	We also found a letter that I wrote to Dave after I moved from Winnipeg to Calgary in 1990
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