The top rockers have a mythic aura about them, the "superstar," and that's a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it's the very virus that's fucking up rock, a subspecies of the virus I spoke of earlier that infests our culture from popstars to politics.


"Of Pop and Pies and Fun" (November/December 1970), p. 37 - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)

Lester Bangs Quotes

The top rockers have a mythic aura about them, the superstar, and that's a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it's the very virus that's...

The top rockers have a mythic aura about them, the superstar, and that's a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it's the very virus that's...

The top rockers have a mythic aura about them, the superstar, and that's a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it's the very virus that's...

The top rockers have a mythic aura about them, the superstar, and that's a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it's the very virus that's...