When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

Bangs is mentioned ("Hangin' out with Lester Bangs you all") in the Ramones song "It's Not My Place (In the 9 to 5 World)" on the album Pleasant Dreams. Next year he traveled to Austin Texas and met a punk rock group named The Delinquents. (ISBN 0-679-72045-6)
Main Lines Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader collected writings John Morthland ed.

He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was known for his leading influence in rock music criticism. Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 13 1948 – April 30 1982) was an American music journalist author and musician.