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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 38, Number 17. July 16, 1973

An admirer of Brian King

An admirer of Brian King

Dear Sir,

For a number of years now I have read the record reviews in the pages of "Salient". It has been a sort of masochism on my part. I like rock music but I don't kid myself that it has anything to do with genuine music. So I find the pseudo-intellectual nonsense which parades itself in the rock reviews quite amusing. I just can't believe that anyone could write seriously week after week the pretentious drivel that drips from the pens of your reviewers.

David McLennan I can understand. He obviously sees his job as one way to help records sell.

But Brian King—there's a man to admire. Anyone who can chum out sustained nonsense week after week deserves some kind of literary prize. Do you think that you could lend him a bit of space to explain what this pearl from last week's "Salient" means? "That album . . . which fully explored the facilities of the recording studio without obscuring the identity of the songs." Is this some kind of toilet humour which Miss Bartlett would find offensive?

Your kin in sorrow,

Pitt R. Rim

SWOOSH!