UNDER RADAR HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC Lester Bangs comes a live : MUST SEE HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC at the public Theater if you are a writer or love great wrting

Lester Bangs was a writer's writer ... and he lived in his words.Who he was, was embedded and sometimes spilled on the onion skin paper he typed on .. and anyone who actually took the time read it could not resist the power as outrageous as he sometimes was. Suggestion find some Bang's writing and READ IT ALOUD .. do that and you wil understand the ethos of punk rock He also was my friend,  Lester loved rock n roll .. and was very passionate on what he thought was actually rock n roll ... GO! 

HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC is a must see at the PUBLIC THEATER  as part of the annual Under the Radar festival... I was skeptical when I first heard about it ...but after meeting the writer .and director and learned they were responsible for the EXONERATED a brilliant political play done in documentary theater style. I became quietly excited. They told me that 75 % of the play ar Lester's own words.... GO! ... oh the set is so close to what Lester's pad looked like ... Billy Altman, the legendary rock critic and former roommate and lifelong friend of Lester's did a short talkback with the audience today .. nice ..

dates and tickets info  ...five more shows

https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/UTR-2018/HOW-TO-BE-A-ROCK-CRITIC/

• Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
• HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC
• Gonzo journalist, America’s greatest rock critic and inventor of the word “punk,” legendary music writer Lester Bangs was an American icon. Outsized, manic chaotic, and impossibly creative, Bangs traveled with some of the most mythologized musical figures of the 20th century: The Clash, Bob Marley, Lou Reed­—peeling away the veneer between star and audience and exposing the greats as flawed human beings. As the ragged, rebel ethos of the 70s gave way to the corporate pop of the 80s, Bangs lost the myth he’d built a life around and died of a drug overdose in 1982.
• This solo play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen (award-winning writers of The Exonerated and Aftermath) adapts Bangs' writing to chart the life, work, and death of one of the 20th century’s most ground-breaking, risk taking, pioneering voices.
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