Artist History Lester Bangs recorded an album with the Austin, Texas base Punk group "The Delinquents" in 1980, entitled "Jook Savages on the Brazos". It was quoted that, "Lester's album with the Delinquents was the predecessor of so-called alternative-country bands such as Wilco and Son Volt". ...................................................................................................................................... Lester Bangs wrote about his recording with The Delinquents.One solution:you write songs and sing and maybe play an instrument too. Okay, so do what I've started doing: I just went down to Austin, Texas, where I hooked up with a group called the Delinquents(I hope this doesn't come off like hype, because it's not meant to ), and we wrote music for and rehearsed up 10 of my songs and one cover in three months flat, then recorded a whole album in 16 hours including mixing. Everybody who's heard the album thinks it's good and nobody believes we did it in 16 hours, and I may well never see any of the Delinquents again, but I tell you this: the last time I tried to get something like this together, with a band called Birdland in New York City, me and the lead guitarist/co-songwriter went through bassist after drummer after bassist after drummer-well, let's see, we started rehearsing and writing in September 1977, finally got this thing on stage in June of 1978, it broke up in August, we finally got it onstage with another bassist and drummer in December of that year, that broke up in April 1979...see what I mean? ............................................................................................................ Lester Bangs died in 1982 and his legend still lives on in music, movies, and books. He started as a rock critic for Rolling Stone magazine and was fired for writing many a negative article, including a slant on the rock group, Canned Heat. He moved on to Detroit where he wrote for Creem magazine and then on to New York to do freelance work for various publications. ..........Lester lives on in the biographical book "Let it Blurt, the Life and Times of Lester Bangs" by Jim DeRogatis who was influenced so much by Bangs that he became a writer for Rolling Stone and was fired as well. DeRogatis is now a pop rock critic for the Chicago Sun Times. ..........Lester is portrayed in the Cameron Crowe movie, "Almost Famous" that features many a Bangism. Whether you hate or love Lester Bangs, he must be remember as one who brought the musician down to earth and his writings for the most part are pure poetry.

Group Members Lester Bangs: Lead Vocals, Harmonica(Legless Bird) Guitar (Movie Star)Andy Fuertsch: Lead GuitarRebecca Bickham: Rhytm Guitar, Background VocalsMindy Curley: KeyboardsBrian Curley: BassHalsey Taylor: Drums

Albums Jook Savages on the Brazos

Press Reviews --M U S I C I A N _ M A G A Z I N E - 1982, The Delinquents follow in the footsteps of such nearly forgotten groups as the 13th Floor Elevators, the Seeds and the Shadows of Knight. This is real blood and guts stuff. The notes may not all be in place, but who cares? The feeling-the attitude-is there. Jook Savages is the kind of minimal masterpiece that should sit just fine with fans of the Stooges' Raw Power, Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and the Velvets' "Sister Ray" (a song Lester seems to be quoting, at least tangentially, during a brief instrumental break of guitar noise at the end of "I Just Want To Be A Movie Star") ...................................................................................................................................... ---B O S T O N _ R O C K - 1980 by Michael Hafitz,... The Delinquents first album is good, in a B-52's sort of way but with a keener eye towards the past. You know, the 52 rules of trash ethic: aliens, junk food, new dances, beaches, surfboars, summer sun, boy/girl fun, enough, ENOUGH! "You Just Sit There," my favorite number, sounds like Bobby Fuller meets the Cramps. Disposable fun for everyone. But not for me.............Lester leaps in, grabs the band by its crotch forcing them to strip their calculated stance. Prescribes liquor and drugs. Transmogrification complete. Bang's beefy lyrics, the white underbelly of Americana split open, oozing images of Hollywood (Babylon), "Nuclear War" (fear) and vigilantes ("Just one more drink and then we begin/Stomp and shout baby let's kill him again"). A cast of characters unfit even for a sweaty sideshow.........."Day of the Dead," dawn of the Flesheaters, compatriots traveling on Hell's backroads. Two writers taking the stage, picking the scab, refusing complaisance. Alongside the Flesheaters' A Minute to Pray..., Jooks is a formidable companion. They are not fun. They are frightening.

Location Austin, Texas - USA

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