'CRAWDADDY' ROCK MAG OCT. 1973 ~ ALLMAN BROS, ROGER McGUINN, SPEEDY KEEN ~ LOOK!

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'CRAWDADDY' ROCK MAG OCT. 1973 ~ ALLMAN BROS, ROGER McGUINN, SPEEDY KEEN
CRAWDADDY ~ OCTOER 1973
COVER: THE ALLMAN BROTHERS
90 PAGES ~ A GREAT CLASSIC COPY
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Over the next few weeks on EBay I am offering up some of my rare original rock magazines from the late 60s and early 70s.
These are from my personal collection and I’ve had them many years, safely stored away and protected. I tried to give nice high-resolution photos of the covers and some key pages.
Overall, they are in great, gently read, condition. I tried to list any faults, defects or damage in the write-up below.
Please look at all of the pictures as they are part of the description and can show minor details in the printing and condition that are difficult to put into words.
Please keep an eye on my Ebay page as I have MANY more vintage Rock magazines being listed soon.
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This week we are offering up this great copy of Crawdaddy from 1973.
VINTAGE 1973 'CRAWDADDY' ROCK MUSIC MAGAZINE
OCTOBER 1973 ISSUE
COVER: THE ALLMAN BROTHERS 'WATKINS GLEN'
FEATURE ARTICLES:
The Allman Brothers: At Watkins Glen
Roger McGuinn: Older than Tomorrow
Firesign Theater: Proctor & Bergman
Speedy Keen: Not Pete Townshend
The World's Most Beautiful Guitars
Mel Brooks Goes West "Blazing Saddles/Black Bart"
Smaller articles & stories featuring: Brian Wilson, Everly Brothers, Tom Pynchon, Marlon Brando and more.
SIGNIFICANT ADS:
Great color multi-page Ad for Pioneer showing vintage receivers
Grand Funk color ad for 'We're an American Band'
Stevie wonder's Innervisions Album
Grace Slick & Paul Kantner Baron Von Tollbooth
Color ad for vintage TDK cassettes
BB King: Gibson Strings
ZZ TOP Tres Hombres
Bob Dylan: Writings & Drawings Book
Egdar Winter & Univox Portable Keyboards
Sly Stone: Fresh
American Graffiti Album
Spooky Tooth
RECORD REVIEWS include: New York Dolls, Sly Stone - Fresh, Van Morrison - Hard Nose the Highway, Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, Kevin Ayers - Bananamour, Carole King - Fantasy, Leadbelly - Leadbelly Live, Sons of Champlin, John Fahey, Smokey Robinson - Smokey, and more!
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Overall a great magazine, but there are some faults and defects that should be noted.
FAULTS:
The main, and only, fault is that the Back Cover is MISSING!
The articles, ads and photos are all complete and intact, but the rear cover is missing. Otherwise, tight, bright and clean.
The front cover and the fold-out Pioneer receiver ad is here, but LOOSE from the magazine.
Despite that, this is a great issue, at their 1973 peak, and is packed with many great articles and photos. A long issue at 90 pages.
Despite no back cover, ALL of the other articles are complete and intact.
The main content of this cool old issue of Crawdaddy is still there and it's a very nice issue for your collection, despite its missing rear cover.
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Early, pre-1974 issues of Crawdaddy and other early Rock magazines don't come on the market that often. This one is a great example and a great issue to own. Collectors are starting to realize how important these old magazines are for filling in the details of early Rock history as time moves on. The values of these magazines has skyrocketed over the past 5 years as they are becoming tougher to find in decent condition.
Add this classic 1973 copy of Crawdaddy to your collection today!
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THE HISTORY OF 'CRAWDADDY' MAGAZINE
Crawdaddy was one of the first Rock music magazines, launched in 1966 by Paul Williams, a freshman at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. The first issue was released in February 1966.
A 17 year old Williams started writing, selling and distributing mimeographed copies of his 'magazine' containing his views, thoughts, and criticisms of rock and roll music and musicians on Swathmore's Campus.
He quickly moved to New York City, the heart of East Coast Rock, set up an 'office' on Canal street in the Village and hooked up with an experienced Editor, Peter Knobler, who had previously edited a rock and counterculture magazine called 'Zygote'.
Together, they found some hip writers, freelance photographers and started Crawdaddy! magazine.
The magazine was named after the legendary Crawdaddy Club in England at which the Rolling Stones played their first gig.
From the earliest issues, Crawdaddy! was very sophisticated, almost scholarly, and focused on the cultural importance and influence of popular rock music.
The first few issues were published as Crawdaddy!, with an exclamation point, to show their intensity and commitment.
They didn't want to publish another magazine full of 'Popstars' and Pin Up pictures; they wanted to seriously write about the deeper aspects and meaning of Rock music and it's impact on youth and culture.
Their staff was filled with dedicated people who knew their stuff, understood rock music, and lived for the music. Their niche was writing intelligent, honest, well-thought articles about the Music and Musicians.
According to The New York Times, Crawdaddy was "the first magazine to take rock and roll seriously."
It's important to realize that Crawdaddy! was writing seriously about Rock music before either Rolling Stone or Creem got started. They led the way.
Early writers at Crawdaddy had a hard time writing about sixties Rock and Roll. Rock appreciation and criticism was a new thing and writers had to find new ways, new viewpoints and new words to accurately describe the music. How do you describe and write knowledgeably about artists like the Velvet Underground or Captain Beefheart??
Some of Crawdaddy's early writers went on to write for Creem, Circus and Rolling Stone, but Crawdaddy's writers set the attitude, tone and style that would be copied by these later magazines.
By late 1968, Williams developed other musical and literary interests and the magazine briefly suspended publication.
The magazine came back strong in 1970, as Crawdaddy, without the ! punctuation, as a monthly Rock magazine, first as a folded newsprint paper, like Rolling Stone, then as a standard-sized magazine.
Editor Pete Knobler took over being in charge, but the serious attitude and dedication to quality writing and artwork continued. They took Rock Music seriously and created a great magazine.
Those classic issues, from 1970 to 1974 are the best and most collectible of the Vintage Crawdaddy magazines. This 1973 issue featuring the Allman Brothers is a great example.
Regular columns in Crawdaddy included Interviews, reviews, histories and backgrounds of songs & artists, Lyric analysis, songwriting, tales from the road, rare LPs and Crate-digging, and some short fictional stories.
Crawdaddy was best known for it's well-written, researched, insightful profiles of bands and musicians, but also started to branch out to other topics such as Film, Politics, comedians and other topics important to 1970s pop and underground culture.
Crawdaddy often had articles and interviews with musicians written by other musicians, who knew what the perks and problems of the music industry were and wrote from an 'insider' perspective.
There was nothing like it at the time. At least not until 'Rolling Stone' got more well-known and started to dominate the Rock Magazine world.
Crawdaddy always seemed to know who and what were cool and trending. They were the first magazine to write about Bruce Springsteen, back in 1972, before his first album came out.
They also did a large, in-depth article about the life and bizarre death of country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons, before anyone else realized how cool and important his contributions were.
Under Pete Knobler's direction, in the late 70s, Crawdaddy branched out from Music to cover more cultural influences such as politics, movies, food, sex, drugs, sports, and pretty much everything else. That was their mistake, they spread out too far,
In 1979 the magazine changed its title from 'Crawdaddy' to 'Feature'.  It was never the same and died a slow death.
In 1993, Paul Williams tried to bring Crawdaddy back, but it only lasted for 28 poorly received issues before financial pressures forced him to stop.
In 2006 Williams sold Crawdaddy and all of it's prior content to Wolfgang's Vault, who uses some highlights from Crawdaddy's Golden Years on their On-Line site.
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Early issues of Crawdaddy have become a true legend among rock mag collectors. Those early issues up thru the mid 70s, in clean, complete condition, have become very scarce and very valuable.
These magazines had a massive impact on the music lovers who read them back then. These magazines were the primary way we learned about our favorite Rock stars back in the day.
Remember, this was way before the internet, blogs, MTV, cellphones or Facebook. You could only learn so much about a group from their recorded music, the radio DJs, and what you could read on their album jacket's liner notes. True fans wanted more, and these magazines were a primary source for that.
They were indespensible to the true music fan and we looked forward to every new issue. We read every word and soaked it all up. To get the real story, we depended on these classic Rock magazines to tell us all about the bands, artists and their music. The music took on a whole new perspective, based on the information these magazines provided us.
They are still very cool to look through, to remember, to see pictures and articles from some of our favorite band's glory days.
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These old Rock magazines were bound cheaply, usually stapled, and loose pages happen over time. These magazines were typically passed around between friends and and some mild corner bends and dings were inevitable.
As mentioned, this one is missing the rear cover.
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Add this great vintage 1973 issue of Crawdaddy, featuring a great, long, informative article on the rebirth of the Allman Brothers to your collection. It's a great issue and sure to remain
collectable
over time.
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