Just before we left, Lester took us down into the basement of his house, to look through his stack of discarded promo albums, and told me to take anything I wanted. I selected three different Move LP’s, among other castoffs, but when I showed him the recent Dana Gillespie album, he waved his hand and made a face — I left that one there. Then Lester gave me a copy of Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power album as a parting gift — he said he’d had Columbia send him 25 of them when it came out, as he wanted to spread around his belief in the set. We said good-bye to Lester, standing there by his dusty red and black ’67 Camaro with open paperback books littering the dashboard, and headed home to Cincinnati…–Richard Reigel in Rock’s Back Pages
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