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Creem magazine’s wild misfit days of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll

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Iggy Pop paid a visit to the mag’s Detroit headquarters, publisher/founder Barry Kramer sneaked up behind the proto-punk and dumped a trashcan full of garbage on his head.

Then Kramer inexplicably exclaimed, “Hey, motherf - - ker! Did you forget your manners?”Joan Jett once showed up, outraged and intending to kick the ass of critic Rick Johnson who decimated the Runaways’ first album (she assumes that he slipped out a back door).

A pre-fame Patti Smith frequently hung out there on a more peaceful campaign: selling the staff on running her poems. They did, in September 1971, and she responded a couple of issues later with a letter that read in part, “When I’m real famous, I’ll always remember the people who stuck their neck out when I was a.

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