Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor DungBy: Lester Bangs Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Until his death aged thirty three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle eye for distinguishing the pre packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, erotically charged style, his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating take downs reveal an iconoclast