State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College Digital Commons at Buffalo State Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine Buffalo State Archives: History of the College 3-1-1974 The Shakin' Street Gazette, Volume 8 The Shakin' Street Gazette Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/shakinstreet Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation The Shakin' Street Gazette, "The Shakin' Street Gazette, Volume 8" (1974). Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine. 8. https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/shakinstreet/8 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Buffalo State Archives: History of the College at Digital Commons at Buffalo State. It has been accepted for inclusion in Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons at Buffalo State. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Where all the kid;, wanna do is arock'n'arole ..... Volume one, number eight fully those areas that we could only So be patient. With this and maybe touch in the limited space of 8 pages. the next issue, we are wrdpping up our On the corner Thank you ( sniff. .. ) ! catching-up process and since the Yeah, there's been troubles. Shakin' St. will now continue as 8 majority of our time was spent First there was the usual process of pages in Strait for the remainder of this preparing to fight for our lives in the working my way into the staff roster. semester. With the beginning of the new recent Pub Board meeting, we · know Then presenting a magazine-like concept school · year, Shakin' St. will be an you 11 understand and continue to come to an editor who was - thank God - independent bi-weekly publication. This up to talk and write those beautiful sympathetic. And then there were space is good for . us and you because we've got letters (to: 35 Knox Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. ha,sles - 6 pages to 10 to 8 to 10 to 9, about five more issues under the wing of 14216). et:::., etc. Then, in December, an editorial Strait to refine our styles, experiment, Future issues may well contain: election, a shake-up in line-up, and · and most importantly, to plan. We've reviews of Humble Pie's Thunderbox by Shakin' St. was out on its ass. ·· acknowledged your suppor! and in Humble Pie's Steve Marriott. Features on A new semester: somehow working retu!'n, we plan to make Shakin' St. the the new wave of "spaced-out" soul; the our way back into Strait on an on-again, best rock 'n' roll magazine that you'll evolution of heavy-metal; the evolution off-again basis. A constant fight to prove ever see in or out of this city. of what we term "cloud-rock;" a study of there was an audience for a popular music Wait: . before you jump up. The British R&B centering around Coliseum; a journal that was entertaining and magazine will be a rock 'n' roll magazine, feature to bring you up-to-date on the informative at the same time. yes, but we refer to an attitude . Yes, we'll state of Teenage Music; a special on Todd We finally realized that this was gonna , continue to give you the best coverage of Rundgren including his newest 2-record have to stop. The delicate position of rock 'n' roll, the kind of music that's set; a report on concert promotion in Shakin' St. was eating its way into the experiencing a degrading death because of Buffalo and the dirt that goes with it; a staff causing a lot of quitting, arguing and the vinyl shortage and increasingly tight continued series on radio in Buffalo above all, speculating about the playlists. But rock 'n' roll is essentially an including a story on the only rock 'n' roll ·possibility of Shakin' St. as a separate attitude, a lifestyle that glazes all the station in Buffalo (yes, we .do have one!): entity. Aside from the political hassles up various types of pop mu_sic. And since a feature on Genesis (you've requested it, on the Union's infamous Third Floor, it rock 'n' roll has aiways been teenage you get it - to borrow an asshole phrase became kind of obvious that for the type music, we'll continue to keep tabs on any from an asshole source); a fiction special of magazine Shakin' St. was, it was going t~end in teenage music because it is there, on Rock Concert vs. Midnight Special vs. to take a lot more than 8 pages to cover we feel, that any real substantial In Concert; and yes, even our own the whole spectrum of contemporary influence and mania will surface. tokenistic feature on German rock and music. For this issue: well, since I'm my own sci-fi bands. And today (Tuesday) was the day: · worst critic, I realize that you've 'been Rather than close with any dramatics, Publications Board voted on the pelted with a lot of record reviews lately. let me be the first to spread the story acceptance of Shakin' St. as a separate Shakin' St. No. 6 & 7 were completely about a Rock 'n' Roll writing symposium publication, partly funded by the activity reviews because with the long semester to take place in. April at UB. It's still tax that you're plunking down every break, we were swamped with new tentative, but since Shakin' St. will be year. releases. And since one of our functions is making a full-fledged effort to cultivate a And we won! to keep you up-to-date with new releases, pop' music writing scene in Buffalo (how Not because I had friends · up here it took priority over any special features else do you expect a good Buffalo music (now that's funny) or because of political we had planned. It would be ideal if we scene?), this meeting of national writers maneuvering or because the Shakin' St. could cover every single album released and local writers ·will get full coverage in staff are such mesmerizing speakers. It from each 2 week period that we publish, Shakin' St. and we'll keep you posted was because of you. You came in droves, but it takes an awful lot of catching up. here and in my own "Caged Onstage" the meeting room was completely More important, I think they readasbeing column in the Record. Now if l could just packed! Packed with students who more than reviews of the 2 oz. of plastic get the Buffalo New Times Concert figured they knew a good thing when the music was stamped on. Thecontinuity Column guy to stop using my name ... they saw it and showed to the Pub Board and side-comments were the same and the Go down rockin' voters that they wanted Shakin' St. as a subjects touched on in the reviews were -Gary Sperrazza, Ed. /' separate entity so that we may explore so much more than the silly records. / 31ST STREH SHAKIN' ST. GAZETTE 30THSTREET the minds of the young. The animal is cool stalker, but his birds no longer fly, tagged a fag, making him a box-office James Joyce was a mudslinger, Jesus frea:k attraction (hot on the heels of Christ was a forgiver. Me I'm just a rock America's budding interest in Bowie and and roll singer." Mccafferty belts out the doubts of their own sexuality). The vocal,with maniac intent, and guitarists animal puts together a touring band of Pete Agnew and Manuel Charlton tease high-schoolers, dubbed the Tots. and thrust us with melodic voltage while From Transformer to Berlin, back to being hampered - by the supeMtar drummer Darrel Sweet pounds away the streets. This time, the downfall of the attitude. They dedicate themselves to a savagely, with blinding-speed intensity. drug scene. With support by people like -formula of group-penned, heavy metal, "Tum On Your Receiver~' is a bit Jack Brtice, Aynsley Dunbar and Stevie retro-active - rockers, interspersed with more melodic than most of the tunes Winwood, the animal traces his mistress renditions of other artists' material, penned by Nazareth, but it's still an A-1 through confused sexual relation; the Deep Purple anxiously awaiting critical performed in the same rock vein. On rocker, with a sound that could be best adoption of speed, the loss of a family reaction to their new LP, Burn? Deep Loud N Proud, strangely enough, their described as Slade meets the Beatles, as and inevitable suicide. Purple not caring too much now that~ Mccafferty delivers a vocal sounding like Probably disgusted by the lack of voracious, electric appetites settle· upon they're loaded? Deep Purple at the Aud the material of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan Paul Mccartney with razorblades tickling recognition and/or praise of Berlin, the March 5 at 8 PM with Savoy Brown and~ his throat . ''Teenage Nervous animal tosses aside any conceptual and Lowell George of Little Feat fame. Lou Reed Tucky Buzzard. This Concerts East; Breakdown" is a tune Nazareth borrowed framework he had planned to present live As side one begins, and the group production costs $6. 50, $6.00 or $5.50 from Lowell George of Little Feat fame, ROCK 'N' ROLL ANIMAL and puts together what could be the best breaks into "Go Down Fighting," it and tickets are available at all Sattler's· another talented, underrated band of a Lou Reed rock 'n' roll band in the land in terms of occurs to the listener that much of what record stores.