Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of Rock criticism.
He is the author of Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America\'s Greatest Rock Critic (Broadway Books, 2000), among other books..
Together with Greg Kot, Rock Critic at the Chicago Tribune and author of Wilco: Learning How to Die, he is the host of Sound Opinions, "the world\'s only Rock and roll talkshow," which is now broadcast on Public Radio.
About the Author: Jim De Rogatis is the pop music Critic at the Chicago Sun-Times.
It includes a never-before-published piece by Bangs, the hilarious "How to Be a Rock Critic," in which he reveals the secrets of his dubious, freeloading trade.
Let It Blurt is a scrupulously researched account of Lester Bangs\'s fascinating (if often tawdry and unappetizing) Life story, as well as a window on Rock criticism and Rock culture in their most turbulent and creative years.
He was treated as a peer by such brash visionaries as Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Captain Beefheart, The Clash, Debbie Harry, and other luminaries.
Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, in the course of which he charted and defined the aesthetics of heavy metal and punk.
He lived the Rock \'n\' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice.
No writer on Rock \'n\' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly.
Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of Rock criticism
