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• Also produced: the Dictators (the first “ punk rock” record), the Clash, Pavlov’s Dog (first Goth record), Dream Syndicate (of the L.A. Paisley Underground scene)

• One of the original rock music critics for Crawdaddy! magazine (1967, along with Paul Williams, Jon Landau, Richard Meltzer, et al)

• accepted by many to be the originator of the term " heavy metal music"

• hailed (or blamed) by The Village Voice for creating “the Triumph of the Will guitar sound”

• pioneered the “mega-tour” stadium format of the 1980s, including the Black & Blue Tour ( Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult)

• pioneered & presently working at legitimate delivery of music online

• graduate of Stony Brook University, 1966

• Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the History of Ideas

• New School Fellow in Sociology and Anthropology

• played by Christopher Walken in the often requested Saturday Night Live More CowbellThe cowbell is a percussion instrument. In areas where cattle, sheep and goats are free to roam, bells may be used to identify those belonging to a particular herd and help trace their whereabouts when the herdsman needs to gather them in. They are common parody skit of the making of “The Reaper”. However the name of Iron Maiden's lead singer is used instead, apparently in error. {This skit is available on DVD -- and by Internet search}

External Links

• BÖC reviews by Robert Christgau in The Village Voice
• Sandy Pearlman's web-site