Rolling Stone magazine issue # 93 October 14, 1971

Vintage issue # 93 of Rolling Stone magazine dated October 14, 1971 and featuring a classic cover photo of Ike & Tina Turner in happier days :)

Besides the excellent feature length article on the Turners, there is a chronicle of Sly Stone's career as it was bottoming out. The year before, in 1970, he had cancelled 26 of his 80 concerts, and was late for 8 of the shows he did play. His new manager, David Kapralik talked with Rolling Stone in an effort to salvage his clients reputation and career. Fascinatin' stuff. There is also an essay entitled Les Cockettes De San Francisco - Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma ! From what I could tell it is about a gay theatrical troupe called the Cockettes. And filling out the issue is an article called Jojouka / Up The Mountain which explores the region, the music and the Islamic traditions of Jajouka in Morocco.

There are good reads on John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Stones, the 14th annual Monterey Jazz Festival, raids made on album bootleggers and what they turned up, rocker Steve Paul, Traffic, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Nashville and the country music scene, Don Nix, and a dissertation on the small venue concert scene by Jon Landau.

The columns Perspectives and Random Notes are fascinating time capsules which provide glimpses of the events and perspectives of the time. The column Acoustics covered stereo equipment and musical instruments that were coming to market. Visuals analyzed television, Hollywood, Broadway and Madison Avenue.

Album reviews are of Surf's Up by the Beach Boys, N.R.P.S. by New Riders of the Purple Sage, From the Inside by Poco, 20 Granite Creek by Moby Grape, A Space In Time by Ten Years After, Sometimes I Fell Like Smiling by The Butterfield Blues Band, Charity Ball by Fanny, Message From the Country by The Move, Labelle by Labelle, Wet Willie by Wet Willie and many, many more.

Book reviews are of Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac, Max's Kansas City Stories by Tony Weinberger and Tightrope Minor by Tom Topor.

The film reviews are of The Hellstrom Chronicle and Punishment Park.