The Incredible String Band

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CREEM was founded in the winter of 1969 by Barry Kramer, a Wayne State University student and entrepreneur who ran a hip Detroit record store called Full Circle, as well as Mixed Media, the city's first head shop and alternative book store. Kramer — who briefly hosted a WABX radio show — was also trying his hand at concert promotion and later managed Mitch Ryder's post-Detroit Wheels band, Detroit, among several other groups. Legend has it that when a local radical "underground" newspaper rejected a review Kramer had written of the Incredible String Band, he decided to start his own publication. Tony Reay, a British deportee who worked as a clerk in Kramer's record store, became the first editor, naming the magazine — which was originally his
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