“The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.”

— Lester Bangs

"James Taylor Marked for Death" (1971), p. 69
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)

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