Posted on 09/17/2017 7:26:03 PM PDT by Rebelbase
From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons and produced star-making covers that were such coveted real estate they inspired a song.
But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on Rolling Stone, and a botched story three years ago about an unproven gang rape at the University of Virginia badly bruised the magazine’s journalistic reputation.
And so, after a half-century reign that propelled him into the realm of the rock stars and celebrities who graced his covers, Mr. Wenner is putting his company’s controlling stake in Rolling Stone up for sale, relinquishing his hold on a publication he has led since its founding.
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RS loved Bruce Springsteen and hated Led Zepplin.
That did it for me. They sent free copies to my millenial daughter. They went straight into the recycling tub.
They’re dead Jim.
Trump should buy it and give it to Jared/Ivanka to run.
Win/win/win, get them away from the White House and let them air out their liberal selves while still offending the crap out of the MSM and Democrats.
That is a long time for a magazine. I can’t find CarToons, Monster Mania, Creepy, and lots of others that were around when I was a kid.
Where are Cream, Crawdaddy, and Tiger Beat? Could they do their own version of “Meet The Press”?
>>Any ideas of who will buy it?
Jann Wener’s Rock And Roll Hall of Fame?
SeeBS-Viacom-Simon&Shuster?
>>Rolling Stone defined cool,
1970s cool == fern bar music
1970s not cool == AC/DC, the Police etc etc.
0 stars:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/high-voltage-19761216
Those concerned with the future of hard rock may take solace in knowing that with the release of the first U.S. album by these Australian gross-out champions, the genre has unquestionably hit its all-time low. Things can only get better (at least I hope so). A band whose live act features a lead guitarist (Angus Young) leering menacingly while dressed in schoolboy beanie and knickers, AC/DC has nothing to say musically (two guitars, bass and drums all goose-stepping together in mindless three-chord formations). Lyrically, their universe begins and ends with the words “I,” “me” and “mine.” Lead singer Bon Scott spits out his vocals with a truly annoying aggression which, I suppose, is the only way to do it when all you seem to care about is being a star so that you can get laid every night. And that, friends, comprises the sum total of themes discussed on this record. Stupidity bothers me. Calculated stupidity offends me.
0 stars
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/outlandos-damour-19790614
The lack of emotional commitment becomes truly offensive in the minstrel-show Natty Dread accent that Sting puts on for the reggae numbers. The Clash’s great “(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais” works as white reggae because it’s all about Joe Strummer’s painful awareness that he can never claim this music as his own. Sting simply co-opts the style without acknowledging that such questions exist. The Police’s reggae is an infuriating and condescending parlor trick—a kind of slumming that isn’t even heartfelt.
As entertainment, Outlandos d’Amour isn’t monotonous—it’s far too jumpy and brittle for that—but its mechanically minded emptiness masquerading as feeling makes you feel cheated, and more than a little empty yourself. You’re worn out by all the supercilious, calculated pretense. The Police leave your nervous system all hyped up with no place to go.
https://news.avclub.com/1977-s-rolling-stone-the-10th-anniversary-was-an-unmiti-1798247121
The Boomer generation needs to die off. Worst, most selfish generation ever.
Post 25...that’s tellin’ em...lol
Do ya feel any better NOW??
Sounds like someone has been reading MY stuff!
Even NatGeo has swung left into port...
To my knowledge, I’ve never, ever read anything by Hunter Thompson. Is it worth my time to look up some of his stuff?
Hey! That’s me you’re talking about!
Don’t be a bigot and stereotype a generation.
the only thing i ever really read by him was F&L in LV and that was some of the funniest stuff i'd ever read at the time, and the Ralph Stedman art is priceless, don't know about anything else F&L is prolly online someplace
I’ll bid $.05 for it. I think that’s still $.049 to much...
Like MTV, it was better when it was just about the music. Left wing propaganda always does poor box office.
Most likely it will be a complete online mag.
Some boomers, not all.
"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent And Depraved" [Archival in PDF], Scanlan's, June 1970
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