Nick Tosches
Nick Tosches is the author of the novels Cut Numbers, Trinities, and, most recently and notably, In the Hand of Dante, as well as of nonfiction works such as Hellfire, Dino, The Devil and Sonny Liston, Where Dead Voices Gather, The Last Opium Den, and King of the Jews. Thirty years of his writing is represented by The Nick Tosches Reader. His poetry has been widely published; his collection of poetry Chaldea is a bestseller in Hell, and his latest volume of poetry, Never Trust a Loving God, has been all but banned there. He lives in New York and is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair magazine.
Pork, women’s legs, and bundles of money tied up with string–these are a few of his favorite things.
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Band, The, Seatrain: The Band at Central Park
Live Review by Nick Tosches, New Haven Rock Press, Fall 1970
ON THE night of June 29, The Band played to the biggest crowd in the four-year history of the now-traditional Central Park Summer Beer Festival ...
Memoir by Nick Tosches, The Nick Tosches Reader, 1995
LESTER BANGS, with whom I had drunk but whose writing I had never read, had died not long after Hellfire came out, in the spring ...
Interview by Nick Tosches, Creem, June 1979
DEBORAH HARRY, formerly of Hawthorne, New Jersey, sits there. Deborah Harry, who arrived at the Seventies from the Sixties in a Camaro, eats tuna salad ...
Discography by Nick Tosches, Fusion, March 1971
"The Chatanooga Choo-Choo careens headlong into the hub of an exploding galaxy. The cadavers of 19 raped and strangled astronauts float de-pants'd, froggish in the ...
Carly Simon: Free, White, & Pushing 40
Interview by Nick Tosches, Creem, January 1984
"Maybe It Was My Big Mouth" ...
Miles Davis: The Hat Makes the Man
Book Excerpt by Nick Tosches, The Nick Tosches Reader, 2000
THE WORD ITSELF is deadening: art, a devalued dollar of a word, no longer backed by meaning, as drained of worth as the politician's viability, ...
Dionne Warwick: "...The Holy Ghost, Of Course."
Overview by Nick Tosches, Fusion, January 1972
ONCE THERE was a little pickaninny girl from East Orange, N.J. She used to play organ and sing in the choir at the church of ...
Doors, The: James Douglas Morrison, 1943-1971
Essay by Nick Tosches, Foreword to David Dalton's 'Mr. Mojo Risin'', 1991
JERSEY CITY, June 1968. 'Hello, I Love You'. I remember not only where I was but also whom I was with when it came through ...
Doors, The: The Doors: An American Prayer
Review by Nick Tosches, Rolling Stone, January 1979
WHAT JIM MORRISON wanted more than anything – more than fame, more than wealth, more than the women's wet submission that fame brought with it ...
Interview by Nick Tosches, Creem, August 1973
Valerie's torrid flesh sings with the lyrics of passion and singes with the heat of burning desire ...
Holy Modal Rounders, The: The Holy Modal Rounders: Good Taste Is Timeless
Review by Nick Tosches, Rolling Stone, June 1971
PETER STAMPFEL, who, with Steve Weber, was, and remains, half of the driving force behind the Rounders, later paid off a debt he owed me ...
Waylon Jennings: Maybe They Don't Even Know I'm There
Interview by Nick Tosches, Zoo World, August 1974
LOOKING MORE like an Exxon station grease monkey on his lunch break than the Pontifex Maximus of Nashville's Telecaster outlaws, Waylon Jennings sits there washing ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: How The Devil's Music Possessed Jerry Lee Lewis
Retrospective by Nick Tosches, History of Rock, The, 1981
THERE HAVE been only two figures of mythic dimension in the history of rock'n'roll. First and foremost was Elvis Presley, the guileless star-god who rendered ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: Killer: The Mercury Years
Review by Nick Tosches, Spin, March 1990
I'M SITTING there in Dennis Quaid's house, this white thing on La Sombra, last spring, a few months before that stiff Great Balls of Fire ...
Special Feature by Nick Tosches, Penthouse, March 1982
IT WAS 3 O'CLOCK in the morning and the master bedroom of Graceland was still. Elvis Presley lay in his blue cotton pajamas dreaming. ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: The Gospel According to Jerry Lee
Interview by Nick Tosches, Country Music, October 1979
DRESSED LIKE A side-street gambler from the days when chrome was chrome, Jerry Lee Lewis sits in the dressing-room of the Palomino Club, holding loosely ...
Charles Manson, Ed Sanders: Charles Manson: Stalking Manson – The Sanders Saga
Essay by Nick Tosches, Fusion, December 1971
Ed Sanders spent the summer of the Tate-LaBianca murders yodeling the ditties that were to come to comprise Sanders Truckstop into an overhead mike at ...
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The: The Wit And Wisdom Of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Interview by Nick Tosches, Creem, January 1975
JUST WHAT THE hell is "good time music" supposed to mean? Is it John Sebastian lilting those fruity dry-hump ditties like 'You Didn't Have To ...
Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin'
Review by Nick Tosches, Fusion, October 1971
ALL OF Butterfield's albums are beauts that never obsolesce. The complete Catholicism of his/their approach to musical communication has already resulted in more than your ...
Review by Nick Tosches, Rolling Stone, January 1973
A REAL COCKTEASER, this album. That great cover: Lou and those burned-out eyes staring out in grim black and white beneath a haze of gold ...
Rolling Stones, The: The Sea's Endless, Awful Rhythm & Me Without Even a Dirty Picture
Book Excerpt by Nick Tosches, Stranded, Ed. Greil Marcus, December 1979
CALL ME Gilligan. As I confront in earnest the problems of divine retribution, way-out sex, and the value of the Folk Mass, so I confront ...
Review by Nick Tosches, Creem, June 1978
CHARLES OLSON was invited to give a reading at Berkeley in 1965. It was a time – a springtime – when rose incense bore a ...
Patti Smith: A Baby Wolf With Neon Bones
Interview by Nick Tosches, Penthouse, April 1976
PATRICIA LEE SMITH hit the linen on December 30, 1946, in Chicago, and was raised, the eldest of four children, in Deptford Township, New Jersey. ...
Patti Smith: Straight, No Chaser
Interview by Nick Tosches, Creem, September 1978
WE ARE SITTING in the Tropical, the darkest bar in New York. Outside on Eighth Avenue it's late afternoon. In here it's midnight on the ...
Spirit: 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Review by Nick Tosches, Rolling Stone, March 1971
ANY ILLUSIONS that might still be clung to along the order of Spirit's being an Epic house organ anthropomorphization-of-eclecticism shuck, complete with baldpated, cerebral – ...
Interview by Nick Tosches, Oui, January 1973
THREE OF Oui's finest encountered Muddy Waters in his hotel room one recent afternoon, and an interview took place. Here it is: ...
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Country Music: There's Glitter in Them Thar Hills
Comment by Nick Tosches, Zoo World, January 1974
THE CONCERT hall darkens. The band's rhinestone-studded, sequined. custom-tailored Harvey Krantz suits glimmer in the dim like so many jars of snared fireflies. Morphemes of ...
Essay by Nick Tosches, Spin, August 1990
NOW THAT the 1980s, whatever the fuck they were, are, like the great Liberace himself, dead and gone, can't we get this whole dumb business ...
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