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At the corner of Laurel and Second Annual Fund Raising Fair Upperline streets is a big purple on August 27 and 28 from 10 a.m. and gold building that used to be a to midnight Saturday and noon to firehouse and now houses the 10 p.m. on Sunday. Some 250 gifts Uptown Youth Cultural and donated by the New Orleans Development Center, founded by businesscommunitywill be raffled Aaron Neville. at the fair, which also features The center was started "to help rides, games, food booths, children find their own meanings refreshments, and a celebrity and build their own futures!' Every dunking tank. Live entertainment day you can see kids of all ages will be provided day and night on playing basketball, ping pong, or both days. Look for appearances other games or hanging out by Irma Thomas, The Radiators, listening to music and talking. In Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The addition to providing a clean, safe Backbeats, and, of course, The place for children to meet, the Neville Brothers, among others. center also offers programs in arts For additional information contact and crafts, study workshops, Bill Johnston or Pamela dance, weight lifting, and physical Gibbons at 486-8990. fitness. -rico The center will sponsor its MAKING NOISE WITH BIG BANG "We're finally getting to the way local groups and his combination the music ought to sound; with a of speed and restraint works well little more emphasis on the here. Tracey Williams (whose tip rhythm, we've been able to peel toeing litheness graced the cover away that rock edge and still keep of July's Wavelength) shares the a good level of intensity;' states major vocal duty with deBolt and Keith deBolt, bassist/vocalist/ struts in an undeniable air of stage writer and co-head-honcho of Big presence and sexuality. Her Bang. With the recent addition of costume change for the video George Terzis on congas, the Bang taping of "Look At Me" had the has refined its glossy reggae/ funk camera crew almost tripping over sound down to a highly accessible cables and staring into the combination of earthy rhythms, monitors. In this, the age of video, high tech moods and socially a group's look takes on a new conscious messages. importance. "We're really checking Proof of this accessibility was out the MTY thing;• says deBolt. apparent at Tipitina's July 17 "We want to do whatever we can to Artists Benefit. As the jerky pop be a commercial success!' strains of "More To Come" opened While this somewhat com the set, the first couple on the promising aesthetic may produce dance floor was a sprightly, graying music that sounds a little too middle-age couple and not far flacid and homogenized for some, behind were some teens who could as in the case of "Silver and Gold;' have been carded at the door. Both it can also inspire a soothing island one-hour sets of originals contained flavored tune like "At The Top" enough funk, harmonies, catchy that flows with the ease of a sail hooks and stylistic unity to catch boat. The Bang don't turn its back the ear of any A&R man worth on straight ahead funk, either. his salt. "Pull Up To My Bumper" is all Big Bang is a band that looks as modern soul with a lyrical triple good as it sounds. Their obsession pun on three favorite American with surface even goes to the point leisure pastimes: dancing, driving, of having a wardrobe/ makeup and sex. "BDIUB" is an upbeat stylist named Elizabeth Perrin, rocker that shares a phonetic who carefully applies rouge and fascination with the Police's "Doo liner backstage before a show. "We Doo Doo Doo" song and has been try to make it into all one thing;• receiving noticeable airplay on deBolt explains. "The way the WPRG in Baton Rouge and WTUL performers are dressed, the way the via a demo cassette. "Instruments:' stage is dressed, the way the songs like much of Big Bang's repertoire, DRIVING BLUES flow together" ... "the total sounds as if it could be an "I was double parked downtown that, cuz!" And he starts pull in' out 'ambiance'" adds Elizabeth. updated version of an espionage on Baronne and I'm bookin' it to these color photos of him onstage Thre Wallin and Jeff Tappendorf TV series' theme song from the beat the meter maid when I see in some big production. Turns out on back-to-back synthesizers Sixties. this cabbie across the street he works with Fats and cabs contribute to the tonal ambiance With their newly expanded playin' a guitar. I get out my sometimes for extra scratch. Yeah, of the Bang's sound, while Terzis seven-piece lineup, the Big Bang camera and step over to snap a few Fats Domino! Guy named Jimmy and drummer Guy Duplan tier is ready to make some noise and the guy's just smilin' and Molliere, wish he could figure out accent the dominant upbeat with around town , and if recent turnouts really jammin: so I look at the a way to drive and play at the double crash cymbals. Tommy are any indication, they're finding guitar and it's this beautiful blond same time. Now that'd be a scam Malone's formidable Clapton/ a receptive audience. Gibson with inlays and fancy keys for the World's Fair, 'specially if he Allman style guitar chops have -rico and stuff. I said, 'Hey man, you played R&B .. :· landed him work with a number of ain't no beginner with a axe like -rico 4 WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 Ernie Bushmiller's comic strip heating up the cool with the likes characters achieved a surely of Marcel Dugas, the Golden unintended measure of immortality Eagles, the Dirty Dozen Brass several years ago when three New Band, Beausoleil, and the New Orleanian musicians Sweet, Orleans Sax Quartet also Cunningham, and Poimboeuf appearing. What prompted this decided to systematically translate expansion into indigenous the images in the strip into sound, Creole stuff? Music From Nancy. This year According to organizer Bob Nancy is hitting the big time, New Wisdom, there are two major Music wise, with an invitation to trends in American music today: perform as part of New Music Music that develops through America '83, the annual Festival tradition and music that ignores to be held this year in Washington, tradition, as does the avant garde. D.C. They won't be the only home New Music '83 seemed like the folks there, either. perfect spot to let the two hang When the Festival originated together in an avant garde setting. five years ago at the Kitchen in 'fradition performers will be New York, it was devised as a spliced in with avant garde forum and focus for the kind of musicians like Jerry Hunt on Stevie Wonder just happened to four, six , eight beats, until the experimental music and composers evenings in October. be in town for the NAACP piece enters another more delicate of the sort best typified for the The Festival, which will take convention when Ahmad Jamal groove. The Blue Room is an public by Glass and Anderson. place at the Smithsonian and opened at the Blue Room in July, appropriate venue for this type of Music From Nancy fits comfortably various sites in D.C., will run and the jovial meeting of the two performance; its dampened into that music as phenomena and October 7 through 16. Wouldn't keyboard masters had Stevie acoustics don't require fancy p.a:s environment genre. But this year you love to be there? flashing that classic smile. and the music is revealed in lush, some Louisiana stuff will be -Virginia Levie Jamal's sophisticated style rich detail. uses the refreshing power of As Messrs. Jamal and Wonder dynamic contrast to its fullest. At later discussed the outstanding one moment the spare ensemble of qualities of a certain custom piano piano, drums, bass, and congas is and the latest in polyphonic bristling in the beboppish fire of an synthesizer technology, the uptempo composition that glows company indulged in a spirited in Iraj Lashkary's incredible game of name-that-tune which percussive energy and suddenly Stevie proceeded to dominate, everything stops dead and you hang especially in the Motown songs. there with Jamal's raised hand for
GREAT TIME TO BE CAJUN The inter-generational fox trot etoufee, enough beer to break the wasn't on the scheduled list of spillway, and the auctioning of the dance contests at this year's Cajun Festival Queen Crown Thirteenth Annual South where the auctioneer knew Lafourche Cajun Festival, but this everyone by his or her first name. young and old couple decided to Crummy weather tried to put a LOUIS IN GOLD step under the big tent and work damper on this year's Oyster Competing with the Gold half-ounce sizes, and has up a sweat anyway. Who could Festival in Galiano, but July 17 Krugerrand is the United States Satchmo's face on one side and resist those down-the-bayou managed to work itself into the American Arts Gold Medallion, the words "Ambassador of Jazz" on Cajun sounds of favorite son Yin annals of Cajun history neverthe- featuring the faces of prominent the other. Prices run about $400 Bruce, or Night Life and The less as Cut Off native Bobby Hebert people of the arts. One current plus for the one ounce size, and Rhythm Kings? led his Michigan Panthers to a medallion, of which 420,000 were are available from local coin and Other featured highlights of the USFL championship and copped made, features New Orleans' own gold dealers. Fest were shrimp boullettes (the the Most Valuable Player award. Louis Armstrong. For numismatists, -Margaret Williams delectable and culinarily superior -rico the coin comes in one ounce and Cajun answer to fish sticks), WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 5 "44 Blues," followed by a number of other "race" hits. Sykes' recording success brought him far and wide. Thts Washington recalls the first time he met Sykes in the Thirties. "I met Sykes over in Biloxi. He'd been playing in those sawmill camps all along the Gulf. He was a good little blues player. Fact, he was one of the best:' Sykes' travels took him to Chicago in the Forties where he continued to record for the prestigious Victor, Imperial, and Decca labels having hits with the memorable "Honeydripper," which became his calling card, "Sweet Home Chicago," and "Drivin' Wheel:' During most of the Forties and Fifties, Sykes travelled with a big band and continued to record for a number of smaller labels. When the wave of blues acce~ tance occurred in Europe, Sykes ROOSEVELT was among the first to visit their SYKES DIES shores, making his first trip in 1961. The New Orleans music world festival appearances and repertoire that spanned some 60 Somewhat amused by this new was indeed saddened to hear of occasional trips abroad, Sykes was years. More often than not, he'd found audience, Sykes began the tragic passing of one of the content to spend his days watching joke and quip between numbers. featuring his more risque material truly great blues pianists, Roosevelt television game shows, attending "Have some fun, get drunk and be such as "Ice Cream Freezer," Sykes. "Rosie," as most of his to his church duties and making the somebody else for a change:• Or, "Jailbait," and "Dirty Mutha For friends referred to him, was in odd date at the Maple Leaf Bar. "Back in a flash with some more Ya." poor health for the past two years Seeing Sykes at the Maple Leaf trash:' Often he'd end a set with a After moving to New Orleans, and finally succumbed to a heart was always a memorable experi hilarious version of "Gulf Coast Sykes found little trouble finding attack the day he was to be released ence. He usually arrived early and Boogie," where he'd take a musical work as he became a regular in from Charity hospital where he propped himself up at the end of trip down Chef Menteur Highway: French Quarter clubs such as the was under observation. His last the bar with a beefy cigar hanging "Gentilly Woods, Schwegmann Glass Slipper and the Court of Tho public appearance was at the 1983 from the left side of his mouth, Brothers, TG&Y, K&B, Kentucky Sisters (Sykes refused to play New Orleans Jazz and Heritage joking and laughing with anyone Fried Chicken-finger lickin' Sundays because of his religious Festival. who cared to listen. "See these good!" convictions). During the Seventies, A most amiable character (well, shoes?" he'd question, beaming Ltfe oegan for Sykes in the sleepy Sykes continued to record for a he did want S25 in exchange for an down at his two-tone wing tips. river town of Helena, Arkansas, number of small jazz and blues interview or a photo), Sykes "Got these in Berlin. This suit where he was born January 31,1906. labels such as Delmark, Blind Pig moved to New Orleans in 1970, cost me S250 too. Got that on Raised by a grandfather, Sykes was and Prestige. This steady flow of where he became a deacon in the Canal Street." already proficient on the piano by fine material was supplemented Baptist church after a celebrated Then he'd down his drink and the age of 12, learning from Lee with reissues of his earlier work on blues career. "No I don't find it amble (Sykes was confined to a Green and Little Brother Mont European labels. contrary," he once allowed. "I wheelchair the last couple of years) gomery. Sykes had moved to St. Roosevelt Sykes is survived by looked through the whole Bible and park his considerable girth Louis in the early '20s, then a his wife, a number of children and and nowhere does it say what behind the oft-times out-of-tune thriving blues town, where he one of the richest catalogs of music I have to play:• upright piano. Then he'd proceed would become a musical fixture American folk music attributed to Sykes did spend most of his later to roll back the years treating the for many years. He began his one person. He will be sorely years in what one might call semi audience to a lesson in bluesology, recording career with Okeh missed. retirement. Other than his jazz playing numbers from his vast Records in 1929, with the popular -Almost Slim A FAMRY AFFAIR While his daddy, Ellis, was at I'm trying to apply here what I've the 88's in the wired-for-sound learned there ... the engineers Rogers Memorial Chapel at can handle the technical things Newcomb College, Delfeayo that may come up, I see that the Marsalis was turning knobs and sound makes sense:• pushing buttons with engineer Delfeayo, like his brothers Peter Schulman in Pace Sound's Wynton and Branford (who comfortable mobile unit outside couldn't attend the session because on Broadway Street. The occasion of an engagement in Denver), is an was a "live sounding" jazz session accomplished horn player and a for Ellis' upcoming release, recent graduate of the New Syndrome, with sidemen Kent Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Jordan, James Black, and Bill He plans to pursue a musical Huntington in support. career in either performing or "I just use my ears and common production. Either way, he's got a sense:· offers Delfeayo when asked good head start for someone who about his production strategy, "I've just turned eighteen on July 28. got a small studio at home and - rico 6 WAVELENGTH/ AUGUST 1983 dulcimer is tuned in modes instead of instruments originating here in of keys. Hellman will be teaching America. German, Irish and his multi-modal method, a tuning Scottish settlers in the Appa technique he developed. It allows lachians constructed the original the dulcimer, when played in a dulcimers out of hollowed-out chordal structure, to play at least wood with strings stretched over five different modes in one tuning. it. The simplicity and versatility "Beginners are encouraged to of the instrument has attracted a participate;' said Beverly Bishop, large following across the country, organizer of the workshop. There and has been utilized by such will be a class designed primarily contemporary artists as Joni for beginners. The instrument is Mitchell, Kenny Rogers, the late simple enough to master, so that John Lennon and Dan Fogleburg. you can expect fairly rapid Richard Blackmon recorded progress. Selfsongs in 1982 at Unicorn The fee is $30 for the entire Sound studios in New Orleans, two-day workshop, or varying fees utilizing both types of dulcimers, for the individual classes. And as well as the autoharp, Casio bring your own dulcimer. If you keyboard and harpsichord, among don't happen to have one of the other instruments. It is a tape of Appalachian-born instruments, hauntingly beautiful melodies, they can be purchased through Ms. all written by Blackman, Bishop. Dulcimers are not illustrating the potential of the expensive, ranging from $35 to dulcimer as a back-up to vocals. $200. Blackman likes the simplicity of The mountain dulcimer is not the instrument. "It enables me to to be confused with the hammer focus on vocals;' he said. Blackmon dulcimer, which is a multi-stringed also constructs both types of instrument, tuned in keys, and dulcimers. The song "Moon THE MOUNTAIN DULCIMER played by striking the strings with Dance;' from Selfsongs, he The mountain dulcimer is August 22 and 23 at the Penny two small , hammer-like explained as "the result of an coming to the flatlands of Post Coffee Shop. Hellman will be instruments. The origins of the exploration into the subtleties of Louisiana. bringing his California-style of hammer dulcimer can be traced the mountain dulcimer:' One of the country's renowned playing to New Orleans (he holds to ancient Egypt and is the fore Selfsongs is just one example of dulcimer musicians, Neil Hellman, the dulcimer like a guitar rather runner of the piano. The mountain the potentialities of the mountain is staging a two-day workshop than flat as in the traditional dulcimer, on the other hand, is dulcimer. To learn more, the on that unique instrument on manner). The four-stringed considered to be one of a few set workship beckons. - Betsy Cook
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Many of the best videos on MTV- Stray Cats, Red Rockers, Journey, were shot here in New Orleans by New Orleans crews under the direction of native New Orleanians.
n July 18, MTV, the 24-hour cable and then we go shoot? Record companies "We do all our own storyboards," Oley music channel, premiered the don't have staff writers or copywriters like Sassone explains. "We'll break it down, we'll OStray Cats' latest video, "Sexy and advertising agencies do-they hire a pro listen to the song, we'll time out all the Seventeen?' Like much of the fare offered duction company to do the whole thing. scenes. Most of the stuff we've done we've by MTV, the video features rebellious "When we did the Red Rockers' 'China' intercut story line with band and back school boys, young girls in various stages video [shot by the Sassones on location in and forth. You break it down into seconds. of undress, authority figures (in this case, New Orleans], we did the whole thing on It's like the pieces to a puzzle-making your typical stem schoolmistress), dance speculation, without any money from the these things is just like making a mosaic. routines and fast cars. What made the debut record company-just their consent. They You get all these little pieces and then of "Sexy and Seventeen" unique was that said, 'You have three weeks to turn out the you put them together and then at the end, the piece was shot a scant ten days before video-let's see what you can do with it? you see what your final picture is. its initial release in New Orleans by a New They delayed the release of the album "As a filmmaker, from my point of view, Orleans crew under the direction of Michael to see what the film was going to look like. it's good because I get to write all the stuff, Pillot and John Diaz, two native New After the film was done, they revitalized shoot it, direct it and it's like making our Orleanians now based in New York. the whole publicity campaign for the band. own movies. With commercials, you've got Meanwhile, on the other side of town, They pulled the original album cover off six or eight people from an ad agency Oley Sassone, his wife Renee and his brother and sent Annie Leibovitz down to do stills breathing down your neck telling you how Joseph were doing the final editing on of the band. to shoot something. Commercials are money Charlie Daniels' first music video, shot the "They got a piece that was worth $50,000 -really big, big money. I don't think MTV week before in Nashville. It also includes and we only got paid $20,000 for it. The will ever compete with the money that you dazzling young girls and speeding cars, good thing about 'China' is that we did it can,get from television commercials. and like the work of Pillot and Diaz, the totally on our own with our own people, "But when you get right down to it, MTV video was shot by a native crew of our own crew, our own equipment and our is there to sell music, to sell the songs. Orleanians. own talent. Nobody from the outside came With all your thought processes and all As he sits before a bank of Sony video in to do anything?' your feelings and emotions, the bottom monitors, Oley Sassone gives a brief sum 415 Records, the Red Rockers' label, was line is that you're selling songs and selling mation of the video-making process: "The quite pleased with the Sassones' piece albums. You can't lose sight of that?' life of a song or a single is not very long. (which is now often seen on MTV) and John Diaz concurs: "There's no doubt The record company wants to do something immediately commissioned a second that right now, MTV is the force in record that's right there with the release of an video, for which the Sassones transported sales. I have to say I was completely wrong album or single. It's like shoot it, knock their entire crew to Brackettville, Texas, -I never thought they really would be. it out and do it all in two weeks. and shot a three-minute, modernistic version Everything indicates that they really move "What a record company does when they of a Clint Eastwood movie, complete with records. They have statistics from Houston call us to do a piece is say 'Here's the song, IJ -you guessed it-young girls in lingerie on areas of the city where there is MTV here's the band, listen to it, come up with a and, in lieu of throaty automobiles, galloping and where .there isn't and where there is, script, give us a treatment, give us a budget horses. record sales are a lot higher-especially WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 9 in new product. That's where MTV really tions of Pillot and Diaz with the low-cost does it. If you notice on the charts, for the production opportunities afforded by New first time in ten years, the charts are being Orleans. dominated by new acts. It's refreshing. "New Orleans is really built for music "Touring is not working anymore-it's videos for a number of different reasons, just too much money. The last tour I did the first one being costs. It's a 'right-to-work we sold out three-quarters of the tour and state' and you can do things fairly cheaply. the tour lost well over a million dollars. The people here are real into doing it-they It just costs too much money to put every enjoy working on films. It's not like Los body out there traveling for that amount Angeles or New York. It's an independent of time. Duran Duran has never really done attitude. a major tour and they're a huge band. Men "When you come down here, the city At Work, same thing. really opens its arms. We were just doing "Basically, I started with the Warehouse, a video in Los Angeles and we went out here in New Orleans. I was one of the to Union Station and they wanted to charge owners and went into production/manage us $10,000 for two hours on location. In ment of bands in 1975 and in 1978, I got New Orleans, everything's free. sick of the touring. I had done a lot of "People realize that we really do generate t:ue•day B; rock'n'roll films and thought that music capital for the city-a lot more than just wedne•day 10 translated pretty well into film. So I went the money we spend shooting these things. into the production end of the advertising I've done well over a million dollars' worth RICHARD PRYOR business, producing commercials. I did of commercials in New Orleans the last •aenger t:heet:re quite a number of commercials. I've had couple of years and we plan to bring a lot up to $2 million to do a 30-second com of videos down. It really has worked up to mercial before and our largest budget for this point. It's very easy to get groups to a music video has been quite a bit less come down to New Orleans:' than that. As a matter of fact, I've never Michael Pillot is particularly enthusiastic done a commercial for as cheaply as I've about the future of both Cinerock and music done our most expensive video. videos: "We've been together nine months "I was really looking to get back into the and it's been really exciting. The Stray music business and even before MTV hit Cats video is our seventh video. We're very friday 18 all the major markets [the channel reaches choosey on three levels-who the artist is, over 12 million American homes], I started what their music is about and also, what JACKSON BROWNE gearing up my own production company, the budget is to produce the piece. Ob L.a.u. A••embly Cent:er finding directors to work with and finally, viously, if we're going to put our name Michael and I got together and started on it, we want our work to be above the Cinerock [with producer Jim Golden and rest. You need the right amount of money producer/ director Phillip Landeck]. It's to do that. So far, we've been very lucky really the culmination of my work in the and we've been able to get good budgets. music business and my work in advertising. Most videos are done relatively inexpen I was in both industries as a production sively and it shows:' person, an organizer:' Cinerock's completed works include Michael Pillot's musical career com two videos for the Canadian band Strange menced at De La Salle High School, where Advance, Neal Schon and Jan Hammer's he booked Ernie K-Doe and Benny Spellman "No More Lies" video (with New Orleanian for school dances. In 1965, while attending Stacey Stewart as the winsome young girl college at LSU, Pillot booked the Lovin' torn between two lovers), three Journey EDDY GRANT Spoonful (for a paltry $900) on the same bill videos shot last Mardi Gras and the Stray Opening: The Baokbeat:• with the Supremes, and for Christmas, he Cats' "Sexy and Seventeen," shot at loca orpheum t:heat:re asked his parents for a subscription to Bill tions including Thpelo's Tavern, the Christian board magazine. His graduation gift was Brothers School in City Park (Diaz's alma an excursion to Woodstock and the most mater) and Grit's Bar. famous music festival of all time. "The profile of MTV and videos in gen After college, Pillot began his music eral within the advertising community is business career in earnest, eventually rising now monstrous," Diaz reports. "The adver to the upper corporate echelon of Columbia tising community is so aware of the force Records-negotiating contracts with Miles that MTV has become. Within the 12 to 34 Davis, touring with Bob Dylan and helping youth market, it's the largest demographic to break Elvis Costello in the U.S. In 1978, ever for television. It's on the lips of every Pillot left Columbia to head Albert advertiser there is. When a commercial Grossman's Bearsville Records and in director does one, he's under the spotlight 1982, Pillot found a job as the director of every advertising agency in the world. GEORGE BENSON of marketing for Pink Floyd's movie, The They all know he's doing one and they all audubon zoo pavilion Wall. want to see whether he's going to fall on "I finished that project in September of his face or not:' 1982," Pillot says, "and that's about the Fair warning, then: the next time you're time my phone rang and there was a New cruising through City Park and an awe Orleans accent on the other end of the line. somely-sultry young blonde in black lace The voice said, 'Michael Pillot? You know panties and a quart of mascara runs from who this is?' I said, 'No, but I know you're behind one of the palm trees across from from New Orleans- keep talking!" the Peristyle and hops into a waiting Ferrari, The New Orleans accent belonged to fear not. In a couple of weeks, you'll be John Diaz and shortly thereafter, Cinerock able to see the entire sequence repeated was born. The idea was to combine the four or five times a day on MTV. With a New York music and advertising connec- beat, of course. • 10 WAVELENGTH/ AUGUST 1983 eptember 1964. New Orleans was begging for respite from the three S months of sweltering mid-90 degree temperatures. People anxiously watched the escalation of the Vietnam War; Linda Bird Johnson visited the Crescent City to dedicate a number of buildings as repre sentative of her father, who was running e eat es for his first regular term; also visiting was Barry Goldwater, who held a rally at Tulane Stadium even though he was hopelessly behind in the polls. For diversion, the still Saintless city could view a pre-season NFL football game between the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts or buy five Krystal hamburgers on special for a mere two-bits. 1s~ ew r eans However, in mid-September all such matters of importance were stricken from the For twenty-four hours, the home of the blues was gripped in Beatlemania, minds of most Orleanians. For 24 hours and from louisiana to England and back, rock'n'roll came full circle. the normally staid Crescent City was gripped in Beatlemania when the "famous mop-topped English rock 'n' roll group," as the local newspapers referred to them, made their first and only appearance in New Orleans. The man most reponsible for the Beatles' appearance here was New Orleans' Bob Astor, a long-time veteran of the enter tainment business. Still very much involved in booking and promoting, Astor recalls the oft-times bizarre circumstances that brought the Liverpool group to the Crescen\ 0 City. "I was working in New York at the time for GAC (General Artists Corporation) in charge of their one-nighter department. We decided we would bring over this new British group, the Beatles. They'd been over in February (1964) to do the Sullivan show and a couple of dates around Washington (Carnegie Hall as well). I had four guys working under me and we were to book the entire tour into all the major markets. "It was our job to feel out the promoters and see what price we could get. We decided to start at $7,500, which was a lot at that time-hell, in the old days we could put fo urteen acts together for that price. We got a few bites, so then we went around with $10,000. Most promoters said "Wow, that's a lot of money," but the guys under me were getting a lot of interest. I said let's go around at $15,000, and then at $20,000. Finally, Maple Leaf Gardens (in Toronto, Canada) bought a show for $25,000 and sold every ticket within a couple of days, for a show that was four months away. Then we knew we had our price?' T he Beatles' second American tour was organized by GAC's Norman Weiss. Philip Norman, in his book Shout, stated that Weiss was among the first to realize the American moneymaking potential of the group, and effectively "spread Beatlemania like jam over the United States?' In all , the Beatles' tour covered 23 North American cities with the group's private Lockheed Electra logging a total of 22,441 air miles. "The only date I handled personally was IJ the New Orleans show," continued Astor, "because the office just didn't know any contacts here. I got in touch with Herb WAVELENGTH/ AUGUST 1983 11 /////////////~ Hollandale who was a deejay at the time at else to put the Beatles, because they were WWL and who later called horses at the used to staying at nice places. Herb put / RECORD RON IS / Fair Grounds. So Herb said, 'How much?' 'em out in New Orleans East at the Congress /ROLLING IN RECORDS/ "I said, 'For you a favor-$20,000? Inn. It wasn't too bad a place, but I think / / "He just about dropped dead but then the boys were a little upset because they he asked me, 'How much deposit?' were so far out-of-the-way. / Due to tremendous response we / '"Ten thousand dollars. Wire me $10,000: "It was my responsibility to book the / will continue the $1.00 sale for / "Well I'm gonna tell you something I've other acts on the show so I booked my / the month of August. / never told anyone else in my life. Herb was friends-good solid acts. The Chiffons, l wondering where the hell he was gonna get believe, The Bill Black Combo and $10,000; you see he played the horses. So I "Frogman" Henry (Frogman opened for the said, 'Herb, why don't you listen to me. entire tour) who was my guy. I had to come There's no definite commitment; I'll hold back to New Orleans because "Frogman" the date open as long as I can. If you can't was doing a record session so I went out to ~ take it, I'll sell it to someone else or find see the Beatles too?' someone else: I mean my mama could have The Beatles left for New Orleans from promoted the Beatles then. (Charles 0. Cleveland, immediately after concluding Finley eventually forked out $150,000 for a their Tuesday evening concert. Once last minute Kansas City date.) airborne, the Beatles' pilot learned that he "So I said, 'Go out and sell some tickets was to land at New Orleans International and in a few days you'll have $10,000, but Airport instead of the original destination, wire me two or three thousand as a binder Lakefront Airport, where over 100 anxious so I can legally hold the date? teens, 30 members of the levee board police, "'But isn't that illegal?' he said. and representatives of the governor and "Well I told him to be quiet and not say mayor (Mayor Vic Schiro officially declared anything. In the meantime he borrowed September 16 "Beatles Day" in New Orleans) $1,000 and wired it to me. I told the people waited, despite the late hour. at GAC he was out of town for a few days, To add to the confusion the helicopter THE OLD ... THE NEW ... THE UNUSUAL he was a friend of mine and he'd be good that was to lift the group from their plane THE BEST SELECTION IN TOWN for it. to their motel blew an engine trying to 1129 Decatur St. 524-9444 "You see Herb is a good guy, but he just leave the Lakefront. As a result, a fleet of Open daily 11-7 We buy-sell-trade didn't do the job. He got 'em for the least limousines was hastily ordered but sent to expensive date that we sold. But everytime the wrong airport! I tried to get him on the phone to see how Meantime the Beatles arrived quietly at things were going and how the ticket sales the New Orleans International Airport in were going, his secretary would tell me he Kenner, where they had to wait for their was out of town. Herb just didn't promote transportation to drive back across town. it properly?' At approximately 2:45a.m. the limousines According to Astor, the rumor that the left with the group, escorted by the Kenner Beatles concert at New Orleans' City Park police. Remember this was 1964, before Stadium lost money is not true. Astor says the l-10 was built. The motorcade, complete the show broke even, but was the least with flashing lights and sirens, "secretly" successful date on the tour for GAC and drove down Airline Highway to David Drive, . the Beatles (the group also got a percentage to Veterans Highway, to Pontchartrain of the gate). Although many then-teens Boulevard, to Robert E. Lee, to Elysian and pre-teens recall the airwaves filled with Fields, to Leon C. Simon, to Downman Beatlemania, the only trace of print Road, to Morrison Road, to Paris Road, to advertisement was a lone two-by-three inch the Chef Highway where the Congress Inn ad (which announced where one could was located. (Sadly it's now an abandoned still purchase tickets) in the movie section ruin.) of the States-Item, on the Saturday before Once arriving at the motel, the limousine the Wednesday, September 16, concert. containing the group became disoriented As the concert date approached, New and collided with a Kenner police car while Orleans prepared for a double dose of trying to avoid the legions of fans who Beatlemania that was already gripping the awaited their arrival. The police were forced rest of the country. If it wasn't enough to lock arms to push back the group's that every second song on the radio was by hysterical fans. The Beatles took the cue the Beatles, you could go down on Canal and entered the motel's lobby, where they Street to see the group's first film offering, were then led through a laundry room and Hard Days Night, or buy any imaginable across a courtyard to their room, number piece of Beatie paraphernalia (including 100, which was boarded up to block the "London boots" for a mere $9.99). view of the public. Any event of such magnitude inevitably After the group was settled in, they has its share of snags. The first occurred ordered sandwiches from the office, but when Seymour Weiss, the owner of the because the Congress Inn's kitchen was prestigious Roosevelt Hotel, where the closed they had to send down the highway Beatles were to stay, asked Astor to arrange to Martin Brothers for some po-boys. Among other accommodations for the group and the teens who waited for the group were their entourage. "I got a letter from Seymour Karen De Herity, 16, who burst into tears asking that we move the Beatles," reveals crying "I wanted to touch them"; Crosby Astor. "He was afraid of little girls trying to Clay, 15, who was named by Mayor Schiro hide in the halls and stairways to see the as the junior hostess, and who played Beatles Beatles. He was worried that someone would records at all three phonograph speeds; get hurt and there would be a lawsuit. I and three Memphis girls who skipped school called Herb and asked him to find someplace to make the trek to New Orleans by train. 12 WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 When dawn broke Wednesday morning, there were already groups of teens lining up at City Park Stadium for the 8 p.m. show. By noon, police reported well over 100 teens were waiting for the gates to open and almost that many stood vigil at the Congress Inn waiting to catch a glimpse of one of the Beatles. None of the excitement phased the group, however, as they slept You don't want to undisturbed most of the day, not stirring miss Lafayette's until their 3:45p.m. breakfast of eggs, ham Festivals Acadiens, and orange juice. They spent the rest of eight celebrations the day in their room until their 7 p.m. rolled into one to showcase and savor the press conference. Acadian culture. The press conference began after Mayor Sample the delectable Vic Schiro presented the group with the Cajun cuisine, tap your key to the city, honorary citizenship and a foot to Acadian music, proclamation noting the group's visit, after walk back through the which the usual barrage of questions were centuries into the Cajun mystique. answered: Come join the fun in "What do you like best about being the heart of French wealthy?" Louisiana, where we Ringo: "Money." have the recipe for "What do you think about New Orleans joyful living! girls?" For more information contact the Lafayette John: "We haven't seen any yet:' Convention and "What do you think about topless bathing Visitors Commission, suits?" P. 0 . Box 52066, Dept. Ringo: "We wear them all the time:' WL, Lafayette, LA After the 30-minute exchange of wisdom 70505 (318) 232-3808. is was off to City Park, where an eager Allons a Festivals Acadiens throng of 13,
14 WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 funky soul songs & ballads:' Live at Humpfree's is a Stax-type charmer that features Honeycutt's big, thick Bonnie Raitt/ Aretha Franklin-influenced voice above new keyboard man David Egan's expertly blended piano and organ work. Egan left the Nashville song-selling scene six months ago to take over keyboards and contribute two songs to the album. Why a live album? '"Cause we couldn't afford to take time off from our circuit to go into a studio," said Egan, "and we wanted something out now, so we could quit milking the two earlier albums:' Principal songwriter Buddy Flett, a blues musicologist, has developed a commercial style that evokes Bob Seger, Taj Mahal, Wet Willie, and, especially, Van Morrison in his Wild Nights and Tupelo Honey period. A Train is, ultimately, a folk music band. It may be romping, stomping, easy to like music, but it is folk in that it is relatively simple, straightforward, unadorned American dance music. At the core of this soulful unit are the Flett brothers, R&B fanatics who grew up in Shreveport. Children of Shreveport's middle class generally grow up enamored of black dance music, listening to black radio stations. Buddy Flett grew up hearing local bands on black-operated KOKA and with KEEL, too. Those were the days when John Fred and the Playboys (a touchstone At Work A-Train for A Train) did radio commercials for With Shreveport department stores, when you didn't have to search the foreign import This was no time to stop their successful travelling to go into a bins for records by Eddie Giles and his Jive studio, so A Train just hesitated long enough to record their third Five. As a teen Buddy was also impressed album by Ruben Bell and the Bell tones, Abraham live-at Humpfree's. and the Cassanovas, blue-eyed soulers Danny and Jerry, and the Uniques. When a Texas n animated, annotated map of A Humpfree's was recorded. writer recently called A Train "spiritual Train's Louisiana-Texas circuit, the These are beady times for the sextet. heirs to the Boogie Kings," he made Buddy A Better Bars of the Deep South, Always popular on the regional bar circuit, and the band awfully happy. would have to include special inscriptions their Live at Humpfree's LP bas culled Bassist/ vocalist Bruce Flett left frat band in Louisiana, particularly at Lafayette's Grant good reviews from regional publications Magenta in 1976 to form a country rock Street, for concentrations of dancers. and record companies are showing interest. unit with his brother (The Flett Brothers) The map would also have to be a culinary Things are going so well that some of the but within a year they had a new name, A guide (with, for instance, a teardrop band members are jumping into that great Train, and were moving toward the blues. indicating the closing of Tipitina's food mark of success-home buying! Drawing a For a time they were joined on their blues service)anditwouldnotepeopleandplaces crowd estiated by a stage manager at eight sets by black vocalist/ guitarist Raymond important to afficinados of rhythm & blues to ten thousand at the 1983 New Orleans Blakes, who had been discovered by like the very hip Fort Worth and Austin Jazz and Heritage Festival was especially members of the Caddo Wizzard band audiences. It would include a likeness of gratifying to a group who loves New Orleans playing at a country barbecue not far from Delbert McClinton, who frequently sits in and whose latest songs have a lot of South Leadbelly's Texas-line stomping ground. with the band at Fort Worth's Blossom's. Louisiana in them. Blakes' Albert Collins-style guitar and Nick's in Dallas, a large, upscale room with "We're getting a kind of New Orleansy, vocal licks were a regular part of A Train's lots of neon, would show waiters hoisting more funky sound: we're on our third show before they developed into a full-tilt petite singer Micki Honeycutt on their drummer (former New Orleans resident dance band. shoulders. (A Train claims the attendance Paul Griffith) and he probably has a lot to Today A Train is looking forward to record at Nick's, a club that books folks do with that, just because he can play great broadening their circuit and pushing the like Ray Charles and B.B. King.) Fitzgerald's soul and funk. Every time a member new LP toward regional hit status. A March in Houston, formerly a Polish dance ball, changes, the sound changes a bit. You go gig at Nashville's The Cannery won them would be noted for its sophisticated lighting with their strengths; you don't tell Reggie good notices. They are talking about a Fall and for looking, in the words of departed Jackson to bunt," said guitarist/ songwriter tour of the Northeast. And, of course, the keyboardist Chris McCaa, like the kind of Buddy Flett, who wrote seven songs on the band's real estate interests. Buddy Flett, place where the Little Rascals would have new album. however, doesn't seem to understand the put on a show. Trinity's in Baton Rouge Also responsible for the coherence of tax-break house-buying business. He would be marked by a representation of their rock 'n' soul sound is Micki Honeycutt, exclaimed, laughing, that he's not looking R&B impressario "Chief' Whelan. who joined them two years ago. Buddy for a house: "That's a buncha bull! You At the center of the map would be again: ''All of a sudden we had a vocalist know, that's a twenty-five year note, and I Shreveport's crowded Humpfree's, longtime who could sing as well as anyone in the may be broke several times over that amount home for the band and the place where world. So we said, 'F- this stuff. Let's gear of time. I still live in a slum and I'm proud their third self-produced LP, Live at everything toward her: And she's best at of it:' • WAVELENGTH/ AUGUST 1983 15 finish up a master's degree program and work at the Jazz Archives. Once here he hooked up with Clark Vreeland (whom he had played with in Lafayette), Tim Youngblood, Steve Cunningham, Reggie Scanlon and Becky Kury to form Ritz Hotel, "a very influential band here in the Seventies," he says. Bruce became "sort of a nexus" between the Tulane and UNO music scenes, which included John and David Malone and Ed Volker and produced the Radiators, the Rhapsodizers, and the Mechanics, among others. An active historian as well as musician, Bruce is currently working on a doctoral dissertation on critical controversies in the jazz world of the 1940s. And not only does he play the jazzy bop of the Pfister Sisters, he plays the hardcore frenzy of X-Factor. Raeburn has a peculiar technique on the drums, choking up high on the drumsticks and using lots of arm action with very little wrist. "I subscribe to a credo that goes back to Baby Dodds, if not before, that says the function of a drummer is to kick a band. I'm not large physically, so I have to put everything into it from my shoulder to my fingers. Technique is great, but if you don't have kicking ability, you don't have much:' Bruce figured prominently in the recent "New and Not Just Music" performance series at the CAC, playing for three bands there, Ballistics, Stick People, and The Front. Stick People makes music that is both smooth and punchy. Bruce provides a tom tom-heavy bottom for the People, while bassist Carolyn Odell and guitarist Marc Hoffman weave their vocal harmonies into a hook-oriented melodic line. Ballistics is Spencer Livingston's vehicle for the unique brand of rock propaganda he chooses to espouse, and it is here that Bruce's "kickability" shows. "The Pope is a Man" is a loping blues satire that rides on Raeburn's tom slugging and Livingston's irreverent lyrics and vocal delivery. Ballistics often draws upon the syncopations of reggae, and Raeburn's rim shots and crash provide ce Raeburn an accurate foundation for their stylings. The more punkish "Strung Out'' is a manic Amusic historian working on his doctoral dissertation while employed high energy free-rap (with Bruce flailing at at the Tulane Jau Archives, Raeburn insures that his contribution top speed) that degenerates in a plasmic slur of the junkie's lament with Livingston is not entirely academic by playing drums in six area bands. eventually lying onstage in a wasted heap. Bruce Raeburn is highly articulate; not ruce Raeburn works days at the urged me to play, but I turned my nose up surprising, given his academic background. Tulane Jazz Archives where his at it. I was interested in other things, at the One of his funniest stories is about the duties include everything from time ... baseball cards:• time he auditioned for Professor Longhair Bengineering and transcription It wasn't long before Bruce was exposed several years ago: "There was this party sound preservation to giving tours and moving to the joys of percussion in the Bahamas: over at Ed's house, more or less to audition bookshelves. He is also playing drums in "After my mother died I lived with other Reggie Scanlon for Fess' band, and he had six, that's right, six, New Orleans bands. people and one of them, Don Seiler, ran a this deplorable set of drums, with towels "That's going to have to be pared down," couple of clubs in Nassau, so there were all over the heads and brushes and he observes, "I try not to spread myself too constantly musicians around. Over his back everything. He had me sit in with Fess and thin ... but each group does get a different patio they'd lift weights and smoke reefer I hadn't really studied his material, but treatment:' and get out conga drums· and play like Reggie had, and that was my most Raeburn has lived around music most of crazy:' embarassing moment as a drummer! Fess his life. His father, Boyd Raeburn, was an In the summer of 1966, Bruce moved to just rode my ass incessantly! He'd say 'Watch internationally known band leader who did Lafayette and began banging on a drum kit my left foot, watch my left foot!' At one three albums for Columbia in the Fifties, his stepbrother had gotten for a birthday point he just had me clap. 'Don't play drums, but as a Iitle kid, Bruce was typically resistant present, which led to his playing with several JUSt clap!' That was my one opportunity to to long practice sessions: "We had a piano teen bands in that city. play with Professor Longhair," he laughs, in the house and a soprano sax that Dad He moved to New Orleans in 1971 to "and of course, Reggie got the job!" • 16 WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 omewhere west of Opelousas and could be in North America," he recalls. "It south of Mamou, a dirt road cuts had the sound of music that had been here S away from the blacktop. It is marked for awhile. It really makes a difference when by a row of pine trees running through the music has had two hundred years to filter fields, past a few houses to an unpainted into a society?' wooden building. The building, balanced Later, as a disc jockey at WMMR-FM in on cinderblocks, has no windows; just a Philadelphia, Spitzer, playing too much door, a tiny porch, and a few steps leading Cajun and zydeco and not enough Slade up from the ground. You could mistake it and David Bowie, was switched to the all for a tool shed if you didn't notice a hand night shift. Unhappy with the new arrange lettered sign, "Cowboy Club, music & beer?' ment, he left the station, heading south. The Cowboy Club is Morris Ardoin's zydeco When he reached Louisiana, Spitzer dance hall. found zydeco on the wane. It had been Zydeco is a homegrown tradition, seldom fading ever since radio and TV first seen in America, deeply rooted in the bayous blanketed the airwaves of south Louisiana and prairies of southwest Louisiana. In a with slick sounds that threatened to smother nation of constant change, Morris Ardoin's the more roughhewn homegrown music. ramshakle dance hall is a rare shrine to Also, oil money had a pernicious effect. continuity. To be sure, prosperity had long since been Zydeco is a musical form that started to overdue. for the sharecroppers of the evolve two centuries ago, slowly emerging Louisiana prairies, but prosperity had an out of the mix of Afro-Caribbean rhythms unfortunate side-effect: it caused old ways eco and French-European melodies west of the to become linked in the consciousness with Atchafalaya basin. It was created by the old, impoverished times. For the young, an "black French" forebearers of the same aluminum and formica mobile home on a people who now crowd the Cowboy Club suburban grid of streets outside Houston on weekend nights, to dance to songs like or Lake Charles, with a few square feet of The fragile heritage of "La Pistache aThnte Nana," and "Ma Coure shag carpet and a color TV, was more Louisiana's zydeco music has Casse?' Zydeco might first have been played enticing than a Creole farmstead , a front in a similar wooden shanty in this same porch and an accordion. been carefully nurtured and pine grove. Recently, however, perhaps because of recorded by the tireless efforts Nick Spitzer, director of the Louisiana the oil slump, perhaps for other reasons, Folklife Program, stumbled upon Morris there has been ~ return to the backwoods of Dr. Spitzer. Ardoin's dance hall in 1974. It was called dance hall. Club Morris at the time, and a sign on a "When I first came to Louisiana, there post at the turnoff from the blacktop road were very few young people in these black proclaimed it the home of the Ardoin French dance halls. Now they're all back Brothers band. Spitzer had met the Ardoins there," Spitzer says. "You're seeing more three years before at the Mariposa Folk of a mixture, to be sure: zydeco-soul and Festival in Toronto. "They said I should zydeco blues, but the essential thing is the visit them if I ever came to Louisiana," he old and young people are getting together recalls. Spitzer was fresh from the Northeast, at the dance halls again. Even if the kids go visiting friends in Louisiana, just passing to USL or live in Lake Charles and work in through, but he was so taken with the state the oil fields, they're coming back home that he decided to stay. for the zydeco?' Spitzer had first heard zydeco as an Spitzer deserves a share of the credit for IJ anthropology student at the University of the revival of zydeco as one-man staff of Pennsylvania. "It astounded me that this the Louisiana Folklife Program since its
WAVELENGTH/ AUGUST 1983 17 inception in 1978. Before that, he produced Zodico: Louisiana Creole Music a compilation album for Rounder Records, and La-La: Louisiana Black French Music for the Maison de Soullabel.He wrote his PhD dissertation on Louisiana Creole culture, and is currently completing a three year film project with Steve Duplantier called Zydeco: Creole Music and Culture in Rural Louisiana that opened June 17. Spitzer makes a careful distinction between preserving culture, as in a museum, ".JU .JU MUSIC" and helping it stay vital in its natural setting. He is convinced a folklife program, at its "SYNCHRO best, does the latter. "I think these records SYSTEM" I've made, along with a lot of local records that are on the jukeboxes, make a real APPEARING ON THE difference in terms of making people feel good about their music," Spitzer says. In keeping with his theory about the function of folklore, Spitzer has planned BOAT for the "Premier du Monde" of the zydeco film to be not on PBS or in New Orleans, but at the Liberty Theater in downtown Eunice, Louisiana. Premiere du Monde means both world premiere and people's PRESIDENT premiere in black French, says Spitzer, who TUESDAY AUG.1B has picked up the dialect during nearly a 1 decade of fieldwork in Southwest Louisiana. AT9PM The premiere was a combination dance· A NEW ORLEANS BTI!AMBOAT B.D. PRODUCTION movie in honor of the people featured in the film-the Ardoin Brothers, John Delafose and the Eunice Playboys, the Carriere Brothers, Delton Broussard, and others-many of whom have not received much recognition before. A reissue album of early Amade Ardoin recordings hangs on the wall in Morris Ardoin's home, above a table crowded with family photgraphs and a portrait of Jesus. "Amade is perceived as kind of a mythologic ancestor of the Ardoin family," Spitzer says. "He was the first man to go on record with the music. He was a tremen dously powerful musician!' Amade was the first cousin of Bois Sec Ardoin, who is Morris' father and the main living carrier of the Ardoin family musical tradition. He recorded in the 1930s for Columbia Records and a decade later was admitted to the Pineville Mental Hospital, never to be heard from again. The older generation still remembers Amade playing the dance halls, and the younger generation knows him now, thanks to the album. FOR THE SANDWICH Recently, radio has helped the zydeco DEUGHTOFYOURUFE tradition. Spitzer points to the increase in black French radio programming as the DRINKING most visible indication of a revival of zydeco, and also zydeco's best hope for the future. DANCING "Five or six years ago, zydeco music was E A T I N G considered too balck to play on French radio stations for the most part, and too French THE FINEST IN SOUND to be played on the soul programs, but now HAPPY HOUR • 4-8 PM there are three or four stations that program OPEN 7 DAYS zydeco regularly," Spitzer says. "That means 888-9898 there's been enough of a resurgence in terms of dance halls, records, and bands to 3213 KINGMAN ST. make the audience big enough to support METAIRIE, LA. these programs!' NEXT TO CLEARVIEW So zydeco has gained momentum as it prepares to enter the Twenty-first Century. Indications are, generations from now it will still be played in wooden dance halls at the end of Louisiana country roads. • 18 WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 CARIBBEAN
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hen the Gladiators appeared in the power to write it. I spreading the New Orleans on June 29, it gave New righteousness in the music, because the WOrleanians the chance to see and reggae music, I see it as righteousness. All hear one of the pioneer vocal groups from reggae artists don't see it as righteousness, Jamaica. Over their fifteen-year recording that's why some men sing anything. You career the sound has changed little, although have to sing something that have meaning, the members have expanded from a vocal something that can open your eyes unto duo to a trio, and now to an entire band. certain things. I mean something that can Most important, though, the Gladiators make you stop and think. If you listen to represent the original roots reggae-Rasta Gladiators, don't just listen to the music, music from Kingston, Jamaica. Albert listen to the words. You should be interested Griffiths, songwriter and lead vocalist, along in the words, because reggae music, I see, with bassist/ singer Clinton Fearon, were is righteousness, and if a man go up there the original Gladiators. In 1976 they were and not put it to the world that way, then joined by guitarist/ singer Galimore him not really going out with nothing. Sutherland. Griffiths is a personable man Because this work is Godly work. whose smile belies the seriousness with With so much commercial reggae coming which he takes his music. During a free out of Jamaica, how does somebody like moment of a hectic sound check, he spoke you survive, still making roots music? with Wavelength. Well, you can't keep a good man down Almost every song you've written is a for long, so what really happening now, roots song rather than love lyrics. righteousness must stand. No bad can Well, you see, I help spread the message overcome good. I mean, you will have a of Jab. Anything I write, it' Jab who give I fight, because people always tend to fight WAVELENGTH/ AUGUST 1983 19 against righteousness. But no one can ever stop you to be heard, because it God who doing it. We is not one of the singers who will go commercial, so we decided to stay and work hard until we get that recognition. What we are trying to do is not trying to ~ I force down my belief on your head, but trying to show you my kind of thinking. I believe in letting your works spread, and • when people see that it is the right thing, they will accept. The message we are sending is a loving vibration. I'm not trying to sing anything discriminating anyone or trying to show one that I think I'm the only righteous man. I am trying to put a message to the people where they can listen, and 504-895-2342 find out that what I'm saying is right because tJ~ it don't just go for one individual, it go for the whole universe. Now subscriptions are available by The strong sense of conviction (as well calling our number. If you've got a as authenticity) of a true Rastaman singing VISA or MASTERCARD, you can reggae music is a powerful experience, and order Wavelength quick and easy! one that cannot be duplicated by any American band playing reggae. But when Regular rates are $10/ year ($8 off one gets the opportunity to see a band like the newsstand price). Our fabulous Pressure, the opening act at the Gladiators T-shirts and fascinating back show (and from Austin, Texas), the wide issues are also available! range of possibilities for the reggae beat can be more readily appreciated. With a repertoire ranging from original reggae to Call and say ska to rock 'n' reggae, Pressure dropped on Tipitina's fresh from a seven-week U.S. tour, "Charge it!" and they were tighter and meaner than I'd ever seen them. These guys know the Jamaican riddims, but aren't afraid to show their roots ... rock 'n' roll, funk, even jazz. Everyone in the band knows what to do, so it's hard to single anyone out, but I have to say the Basher (the drummer) , more than .len lh~ ~~~"'Eeo~~""':~, ~~~.~,~~.~~~ any other American reggae drummer I've - 0 No. 5 ... Ernie K-Doe. New Orleans Songwriters, Shelley Pope, Walter Lastie seen, has assimilated the reggae style into ,_ 0 No. 7 ... Neville Brothers, Walter Washington, Dave Bartholomew, Ron Cuccia, his own funk orientation, and has come up ~~ - Roy Brown, New Leviathan with something totally his own, yet definitely ~' ~ 0 No. 11 ... Radiators, Uptights, Raffeys, Rockabyes. Lois Dejean and the Youth "' Inspirational Choir. Alvin Batiste. Nathan Abshire, King Floyd still reggae. This is a band to catch if you <.,. -.,...,. 0 No. 12 ... George Finola, Danny Barker, Frankie Ford, Lenny Zenith, Irving Mclean. _ .!,:~~ _ Dr. John's "Morgus" love the reggae beat, and especially if you ~ 0 No. 13 ... Rock in' Dopsie. Bobby Marchan. Dr. John, songs about the South. don't think that Americans can play reggae. · how and what musicians eat. Red Tyler. how to care for old records . · _ -. = 0 No. 14 ... Mr. Google Eyes. Henry Butler. Chief Pete of the Black Eagles. Watch for their return to New Orleans this : - the AFO story, New Orleans Band Guide fall. Or better yet, listen to their new E.P. , : t 0 No. 16 ... AI Johnson. Bourre, Marching Bands at Carnival. the state of rock in : 1 New Orleans. Jokonnu festivals, Blue Vipers, Wynton Marsalis just released. It contains a great version of : 0 No. 17 ... New Orleans Guitarists. Percy Stovall. Doug Bourgeois. Rap records. Bob Marley's "Stir It Up," along with five = A-Train. "One Mo' Time" original tunes, most of which they performed :: j 0 No. 18 ... Baton Rouge bluesmen, Earl King, Bob Tannen. Luther Kent. Rockabilly, =. ~ Roulette. Lazy Lester at Tip's. The EP is available only through = 0 No. 20 .. . Texas bands. Bo Diddley, the Aubry Twins, Mason Ruffner. Mathilda Jones. = Red Beans and Rice Revue -:::::; the mail. Write to: Recycled Records, 3405 ;:: 0 No. 21 ... Li'l Queenie. Wardell Ouezerque. Goldband Records, New Orleans Guadalupe, Austin, Texas 78705. = •[\ string bands. second lining =: 0 No. 22 .. . Lee Dorsey, Cousin Joe. Earl Palmer. the Tipitina's story, Sexdog, - the Valiants. Zebra • • • ~ 0 No. 23 ... Zachary Richard, Floyd Soileau. Boogie Bill Webb. Festivals Acadiens, Storyville Stompers. Music at the World's Fair Surprisingly, this summe r's music scene 0 No. 24 ... George Schmidt. Slim's Y Ki Ki, Ellis Marsalis. the Models. Allegra in New Orleans shows signs of life. Many 0 No. 25 ... NOCCA. Germaine Bazzle. Kush. Valerian Smith, WTUL. Swamp Pop 0 No. 26 ... Chuck Carbo and the Spiders. Christmas records, Harold Potier. Zebra national acts have passed through town. 0 No. 27 ... 1983 Louisiana Band Guide, Big Bang, the reissue issue. John Fred, Exuma is back on his feet and rehearsing Carla Baker 0 No. 28 ... When Satchmo Was King Zulu. Backbeats. Professor Longhair, Junkanoo. with his new band, a combinatio n of • _ Normals Reunion, Jimmy Heath members from his previous bands. Look G=- 0 No. 30 .. . The Louisiana Hayride. Windjammer. Mike Pellera . Margie Joseph, "'c The Copas Brothers. Jazz Fest Preview for Exuma to start playing again this fall. ~~~j~~~- 0 No. 31 .. . Olympia Brass Band Centennial, Robert Parker. Lonnie Brooks. On the radio, WWOZ has expanded its Jack Dupree. Jazz Fest Picks Caribbean music to three hours on Saturday ~ ...... nights. Beginning at 8:30, WWOZ broad I have marked the issues I'd l1ke to have. Please send me ___ magazines at $4.00 each ($5.00 lor each copy mailed outside the U.S.) casts Afro-Caribbean music, ranging from I have enclosed $___ U.S. funds only. the latest recordings from West and South Africa, to old and new calypsos, to classic ~------ reggae of the past fifteen years. By 10 p.m., ·~ ------ it's strictly rockers ... and stays that way ~ ------ until11:30. T he Caribbean part is repeated ·~·------~ ------WAVELfiiCTH, P.O. Box t5667, New Orleans. La 70175 on Tuesday afternoon at 12:30 - Gene Scaramuzzo
20 WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 ZEKESPEAK
The Heads Omit Talk The new Talking Heads album is a fine party record, but we've come to expect more from the Heads than that.
ou can call Speaking in Tongues (Sire lyrics to be found on the LP. The tune that 23883-1), the new release from Talking concludes the album, "This Must Be The YHeads, a qualified success or a qualified Place:' is an airy, island kind of song and failure. It's hard to tell what it is-some cuts offers sweet relief from the disco tedium work, some don't. The Heads' two previous that precedes it. studio albums, Fear of Music and Remain What was the chemical combination of In Light, were, for me, singular events and elements that made the two previous studio masterful albums; they were both complete albums such killers? Well, the major pro experiences, with no lost tracks. I can't duction change is Brian Eno's absence deny my expectations were high in ap from the control room. Another major proaching the new album. Each Heads' change is the song writing: almost all the release has been a brilliant leap from the selections on Light are credited to Byrne one before it. and Eno; on Tongues, Byrne takes the The movement from Remain in Light credit for the lyrics, the music is written to Speaking in Tongues is not that of a collectively by the core band members. leap. Rather, it seems that the Heads are It was something of a minor-league scan digging in. The buoyant grooves launched dal, when, in the wake of Light's release, on Light have been focused and tamed. Tina Weymouth, the Heads' bassist, casti The polyrhythms of Light, which made gated Byrne in an interview. Weymouth's for great grooving on the dance floor, have contention was that the band members been whittled down to the straight pulse were pawns in Byrne's and Eno's studio of disco. game. She desired more input from the There are flashes of the brilliance of band members on the next release. Between August 7 Remain in Light. "Burning Down The Light and Tongues, Weymouth and Heads' House:' with its bubbling drums, percussive drummer Chris Franz formed a studio band, 8 pm-CANCUN PARTY synthesizer, and floating guitar, wouldn't the Tom Tom club, and released an album At TUPELO'S in search have been out of place on Light. And, that caused something of a spash in the of Carmen Miranda even though "I Get Wild/ Wild Gravity" discos. features a straight bass drum pulse mixed Is Speaking in Tongues the result of up front (primary disco move), its atmo· compromise, the band members' desiring August 13 spheric feel and yearning minor-key melody more input and more of a stacatto disco TUPELO'S TAVERN recalls some of the bittersweet grooves on direction? Not entirely. David Byrne doesn't Light. seem to be at the top of his form here. August 19 A majority of the remaining cuts has The lyrics are not up to the inspiration BATON ROUGE little inspiration to offer other than a good I've come to expect from him. And maybe groove. The most successful of these, that's the nut right there. Even given the "Making Flippy Floppy:' is a wonderful disco proclivities of the new album, there's August 26 groove, but the lyrics give no light. One of not much light being shed in the lyrics. JIMMY'S the lines is very telling in this respect: "We Speaking in Tongues is a good party JUNGLE PARTY continue/ But we have nothing left to offer:' album, an album you can groove to in a Two cuts on side two, "Moon Rocks" and room full of grooving party people. Maybe "Pull Up The Roots:' weigh down the album that was precisely the Heads' intention. considerably with too much repetition of But after the party's over, it doesn't talk what we've heard on side one. to me-which is a shame, because, over There are two tracks that strike me as the last five years, the Heads' records have very different from anything the Heads had a lot to say to me. 'It~: have recorded before. "Swamp:' which is Maybe I'm expecting too much, but I'll • also featured on the soundtrack of The call this one a holding motion. Save it for the Watch for upcoming King ofComedy, lopes along with a bluesy party. I'll be waiting for the light. • E.P. Give Us A Home feel , and contains the most provocative - Zeke Fishhead
WAVELENGTH/ AUGUST 1983 21 REVIEWS
John Mooney TELEPHONE KING Blind Pig 1383 "the puess" Nice to see John Mooney back on record. This is a self-produced affair, the Roomful of Blues hom section helping to make this a splendid original music effort. From the first bars of the album it's evident that the influences of Mooney's newly adopted hometown (New Orleans of course!) have rubbed off on him, particularly on the Longhairish "Wibble Whim She When She Walk" (sic) and the title selection which brings to mind Roosevelt Sykes. There are echoes of other blues influences, but they are all overpowered by Mooney's enthusiastic vocals and playing. Those who possess Mooney's other Blind Pig effort will note his guitar takes a back seat this time around to the punchier rhythm section. Even trade, I feel. Pianist BobCooperdeservesspecial mention for his rolling underpins. Definitely an album for having a good time. Hope it garners a deserving artist the local attention he truly deserves. -Almost Slim See "THE PRESS" live at: Various CLASSIC COUNTRY DUETS 8/ 3-)immy's Old Timey 126 8/6-Showboat Old Timey maintains its tradition of excellent anthology releases with a sampling of stirring 8/ 13 Tupelo's country duets. Close harmony singing goes back w/ Lenny Zenith's Pop Combo to the very beginning of the identifiable country music style. This album presents seventeen classic 8/17 Tupelo's duets which for the most part have been long unavailable. Side A concentrates on the 1930s while the B side brings us up to the late 40's and For more information: SO's. Styles range from the smooth sounds of the Delmore Brothers (the best-known duo here) 865-8628 and Johnny and Jack to the piercing nasal couplings by the Girls of the Golden West and the Dezurik Sisters. Familiar items include the Delmore's "Wabash Cannon Ball," the Dezuriks' "Birmingham Jail" and Johnny and Jack's "I Wonder Where You Are Tonight." Other artists include: the Blue r~~~..,.~~ ~~-:~·. :~~f···.. : f, ·:~. '~i~· ., Sky Boys, the Bailes Brothers, the Buchanan •; ~~c:l tbtm ', ;\ \ I Brothers (check out "When You See Those ~ . _....,.• -__ . ·: J · J ~l .... • •• ... • . . fJ . . ' ... .. Flying Saucers"), the Webster Brothers and the ' . (.- '-· . . ~ ~I . ' l . '-If ·'-.-), Armstrong Twins. ~ ..- /~ , •'-yl;p_ This album's excellent packaging only heightens your listening enjoyment. If you're ~ ' Regular Features interested in early country music this one's for ' Sundays-John Rankin you. Let's hope for a second and third volume. Mondays-James Carroll -Almost Slim Bookerm Tuesdavs-Mvstecy Guests Good luck to 'Leigh "Lu' Queenie" Harris and Lonnie Brooks h er new arrival HOTSHOT Alligator 4731 Wednesdays-Mason Ruffner and the Blues Rockers I have to admit I'm a wee bit disappointed Thursdays-Bourre Cajun Band with this effort, especially after Lonnie's excellent previous lp, Tum On The Night. But I guess Special August Attractions with a new band in tow this time out, it's perhaps just like starting over. Oh, don't get me wrong, Fri. 5-Tangents this is still a worthy album, what with Lonnie's Sat. 6-Beausoleil searing guitar runs and emotion-laced vocals; Fri. 12-Anson Funderburgh it's just that some of the material tends to lack Sat. 13- Gatemouth Brown diversity, especially in direct comparison to his Fri. 19-Rockin' Dopsie & Twisters two previous Alligator samplings. Sat.20-JamesBookerRhythm Lonnie's style can best be described as blues & Blues Review with a touch of funk, powered by his rock· Fri. 26-Radiators tinged guitar. The "touch" on Hot Shot, though, Sat. 27-Gino Thibodeaux & is a lot less light than usual, as rockophiles the Lake Charles Ramblers might even be lured into this one with Chuck 2 for 1-hiballs and draught ns of "Back Trail" and " I Want cover to showtime Berry-like strai Shows 10 P.M. weeknights All My Money Back:' Some of the lp's other 10:30 weekends tunes, especially "Don't Thke Advantage of Me" and "Brand New Mojo Hand," would ordinarily be considered outstanding, but their tempos 8316 Oak Street are directly borrowed from other works by Brooks. 866-9359 The real treat here is the re-work of his 22 WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 Louisiana 'SO's smash "Family Rules" (See WL 30 for more details), which compares favorably with the original. Can' t give this one a wholehearted recommendation but Lonnie's fans (that includes me too) will have to have this anyway. -Almost Slim
James "Blood" Ulmer BLACK ROCK Columbia 38285 James "Blood" Ulmer may well be the next guitar link in the chain of oppression and escape that runs back through Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Charlie Christian, and Robert Johnson. If Ulmer does nothing else, he will have demonstrated anew the infinite malleability of the blues. With mostly just his guitar to do the talking, from the lonesome midnight trail of the rhythm and blues journeyman circuit, James "Blood" Ulmer conjures plenty of dread and fancy to justify his name. A fantastic new wave of influences caught up with "Blood" on his dark highway: Delta blues, free jazz, country/ funk, organ-sax gin mill trios, space fusion, and be-bop all rub shoulders in the git-down that is Ulmer's forte. Speed, accuracy, and deadly aim characteristically interweave with his passion and top-notch ensemble play (including horns and electric bass) to open out the compositions NEW RELEASE in angular, jagged beauty. Available at Leisure Landing in N.O.and B.R. - Wllllam D. White Mushroom Records and Raccoon Records in Lafayette APPEARING Aug. 26-Grant Street Dance Hall Lolo~""' Howard Elson Aug. 27-Chiefs Southside Boooo Roo&< EARLY ROCKERS Aug. 28-Tipitina's New Orleans Proteus Publishing Company $9.95 SOOTO RECORDS 205 E. Kings Highway • Shreveport, lA 11104 Thought I'd mention this one in passing as (318) 865-5682 there might be some local interest what with the chapters on Fats and Little Richard. Each one of the volume's thirteen chapters is devoted to the likes of Bill Haley, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, etc. Sadly, though, the author sheds no new light on any of his At WERLEIN'S subjects; in fact I'd wager he probably has never even talked to any of the artists. On the plus side though there are plenty of KORG POLY-61 stunning photos, interspersed unfortunately with pages of ephemera generally riddled with inaccuracies, but this probably won't hinder the sales figures. For photo fans and masochists only. -Almost Slim
Slim Harpo THE BEST OF ••• THE ORIGINAL KING BEE TUESDAYS Rhino 106 LADIES NIGHT OUR BIGGEST SELLING At long last, Baton Rouge's Slim Harpo has 8:00 - 12:00 PM Two Free his greatest hits gathered on one collection and SYNTHESIZER available again stateside. Rhino's intention was WEDNESDAYS PRICED UNDER $1500 to round up all the hits and the tunes that were DRAPI' BEER NIGHT influential to rock groups like the Rolling Stones, 25¢ a Glass $2.00 Pitchers AND COMPARES FAVORABLY and except for the odd exception, the results TO BRANDS SELLING FOR are quite pleasing. Starting with his earliest THURSDAYS TWICE AS MUCH. COME 1957 tracks we get a double dose of rocking 50¢ OLD STYLE LONGNECKS swamp blues with ''I'm a King Bee" and "Got IN FOR A FREE TRIAL Love If You Want It," before progressing all the 9PM- 12AM AND BE AMAZED! way to his last 1970 session "Rock Me Baby," and "The Music's Hot:' In between we are treated FRIDAYS ALSO to Slim's big hits: "Raining In My Heart," the FREE OYSTERS WE HAVE 7 GREAT STORES infectious "Baby Scratch My Back," and the & 25¢ DRAPI' BEER FULL of PEAVEY AMPS, P.A.'s, minor-keyed spin-off "Te Ni Tee Ni Nu:' All of the other tracks are excellent, with 5PM- 8 PM GUITARS AND BASSES. Slim's nasal vocals, buzzing guitar and simple LOW PRICES; but effective harp. In fact, I even enjoyed "The Sandwich Shop EASY TERMS! Hippy Song:' Most of the songs from the long out-of-print Excello 8010 (The Best of Slim Burgers, Fries, Oyster Boats 605 C1nat St. . . 524-7511 Po· Boys and Snacks Llkeslde ...... 831-2621 Harpo) are duplicated, but this package is Olkwood ...... 362 ·3131 The f'llll In fattened up to include fourteen of Slim Harpo's ALL NEW PATIO Like F«est .. 246-6830 best sides (but what about "Blues Hangover"?). Biloxi, Edgewller 388-4070 NOW OPEN Bllon Rouge .. . 926-6800 Essential Listening, especially if you don't own J~ekson , MS ...353-3517 anything by the original King Bee. PRONE 899-9228 -Almost Slim WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 23 CONCERTS Wednesday, 3 Saturday,Sunday,27,28 Rick Springfield, Quarter Flash, Uptown Youth Cultural and Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum. Development Center, Wisner Biloxi; tickets at 601·388-8222. Center, Laurel at Upperline; the Center's second annual youth fair, 10 Saturday, 6 a.m. until midnight, until10 p.m. Sun· Air Supply, Mississippi Gulf Coast day. We're all for these things-up Coliseum, Biloxi; tickets at town youth needs all the help it can 601 ·388·8222. get. Sunday, 7 Saturday, 27 Melissa Manchester, Saenger Louisiana Jazz Federation Theatre; tickets from TicketMaster or Benefit for Jazz Awareness through the Seanger's box office, Month, Snug Harbor, 626 Fren· 524·0876. chmen, from 6 until 10. Jazz Aware· ness Month isn't until October but why Tuesday, Wednesday, 9, not get in on the ground floor? The $5 10 tariff for this event includes member· Richard Pryor, Rumor has it this ship in the La. Jazz Federation. and guy is pretty funny but occasionally performance by local women in jazz, gets a little off-color. Saenger Theatre. among them Lady BJ, Patrice Fisher, Tickets from TicketMaster, a mere Germaine Bazzle, Stephanie Sieberth $25.25, or from the Saenger's box of· and Angelle Trosclair. lice; information at 587-3072. Stevie Nicks and Joe Walsh, Thursday, 11 Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum, part of a tour billed as La Belle et La Bete. Tom Jones, Mississippi Gulf Coast information at 895-0601. Coliseum, Biloxi; ticket information at 601·388·8222. Sunday, 28 The Youth Inspirational Choir, Friday, Saturday, 12, 13 Longue Vue Gardens. 6 p.m.. Ashford and Simpson, or the Ar· 488-5488; what a pleasant way to thur and Katharine Murray of soul; spend Sunday ... Lois Dejean's choir is Saenger Theatre, tickets from either about the most sophisticated-sounding TicketMaster or from the Saenger's and hardest-working in the city, full of box office. gifted voices and snazzy effects, and Saturday, Sunday, 13,14 to hear them like this at the end of a pretty late summer's day ought to be Kool City Jam, Noon until 5 at the memorable, to say the least. Old Driving Range (sounds like a Sons of the Pioneers tune), City Park; this Stevie Nicks and Joe Walsh, is a promotional warm-up for the more again this time at L.S.U. Assembly extended Kool Jazz Fest in the fall; Center; information again from participants include Peaches and 895·0601. Herb, the S.O.S. Band, Evelyn "Champagne" King, and much Wednesday, 31 local talent. George Benson, Audubon Park Zoo Pavilion. What has happened to the Tuesday, 16 man who was once jazz's most more· King Sunny Ade, Riverboat Presi· than-merely-promising guitar virtuoso dent, 8 p.m. The latest manifestation is probably not a fit subject for a family of the unholy Occidental fascination magazine like this. Tickets from Ticket· with things African, which culminated Master. in the spurious Orientalism of 19th Century painters like Delacroix (who actually went down there) and Gerome FESTIVALS and that gang (who didn't), as well as people like Gide and Wilde, and later Friday-Sunday, 5-7 Paul and Jane Bowles who liked Africa 5th Annual Mandeville Jayceft for other reasons, and adventurers-of· Seafood Festival, Lakefront, leisure like Mrs. Kingsley; nothing Mandeville. Information at 845·7232. spurious about the King, though; tickets at the Dock or from Ticket· Saturday 6 Master. Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet, 2 Friday, 19 p.m. Grand Isle. Jackson Browne, L.S.U. Assembly Friday through Sunday, Center; tickets from TicketMaster. 12-14, South Lafourche Saturday, 20 Seafood Festival, Galliano; infor· mation at 632·4633. Irma Thomas, Audubon Park Zoo Pavilion; 1-4:30, free with Zoo Wednesday-Sunday, admission. 17-21 Sunday,21 Delcambre Shrimp Festival and The Manhattan Transfer, Fair, off Highway 1, Delcambre; in· Audubon Park Zoo Pavilion; 8 p.m. $22 formation at 318-685-2653. tickets include champagne and a pic· Sunday, 21 nic supper and all in all, it must be bet ter than listening to the seals. Summer Music Festival, Houma Air Base, from 10 a.m. Tuesday, 23 Eddy Grant, with The Backbeats opening; Orpheum Theatre. Tickets FILMS from TicketMaster-but the real ques· tion remains: when will Entremont let Loyola's Film Buffs Institute, the Backbeats open for the Sym 895·3196. Tues.2: Kwalidan (Sump· phony? I bet they'd be murder on tuous Japanese treatment of several Mendelssohn. ghost stories by that famous local lit·
LENGTH/ AUGUST 1983 terateur Lafcad10 Hearn whose prose th1nk we do. 1n romantic love. the was touched by the Purple brush. but swallowed whiStle scene and Chaplin who d1d h1s best writ1ng 1n New 1n the Sanitation Department are pret Orleans and Japan. directed by ty wonderful too) Masaki Kobayashi) Wed.3 Illusion Prytania, 5339 Prytan1a. 895-4513 Travels By Streetcar (Bunuel Mex Through Thurs.25 Betrayal (directed ICan program p1cture from the 1950s. by Dav1d Jones. wntten by Harold wh1ch l1ke "Sub1da al C1elo ... has an P1nter. reputedly w1th great perfor uncharactenst1c sweetness-among mances by Ben Kingsley and Jeremy the events are black market carrylngs Iron). Fanny and Alexander, on. flirtations and a M1racle Play) (Bergman announced this was his last Wed 10 Sword of Doom (unseen by lilm-11 1sn't alas-but 11 is a lengthy us, a samura1 program-picture and supposedly charmmg comedy directed by K1hachi Okamoto) about Children. ghosts. an ev11 Thurs 11 El Angel Exterminador clergyman. the theatre. an unhappy (Bunuel's wh1mS1cal allegoncal treat marriage. a happy family. diSillUSIOn ment of the strange ways 1n wh1ch Pro ment. mag1c and any number of other VIdence diSpenses w1th us-an alter Bergman1an preoccupations. for dinner party of guests occultly and tunately set at the turn of the century com1cally marooned 1n the drawing when some of Bergman's best films room of a large mans1on. until just as take place) perversely and unexpectedly, they are Saenger Summer Film Series, set free. no w1ser- a marvelous mov1e) Saenger Performing Arts Center F1lms at 7.30 only. 1n vanous rooms 1n 524-0876. Each evenmg of vintage Bobet Hall $1 50 s1ngle admiSSIOn. entertamment beg1ns w1th the thunder Pitt Cinema, 6201 Elys1an F1elds Ing of the Mighty Wurlltzer the biggest Ave. 288-1611 Wed .. Thurs. 3.4 organ around. believe me Each Mon King Kong and Bride of the day Aug.8 Casablanca (ineffable Monster (a m1xture: " Kong" IS one H1gh Fort1es concoct1on. w1th of the great romances qf the screen Bergman. Bogart. Lorre. Greenstreet. w1th process work ;md spec1aJ ef Ra1ns. Ve1dt. Dantme. Daho. Kmsky tects still unsurpassed. "Bnde," and every other b1t player around) directed by the demented Edward Aug 15 The Maltese Falcon (John Woods. IS a grade-Z th1ng w1th Lugos1. Huston·s debut film from the Dash1ell an octopus 1n a tank. Tor "Lobo" Hammel novel, w1th Bogart. Mary Johnson and the atom1c bomb Astor. Lorre. Greenstreet. Gladys beneath. or beyond. hystena) Fn . Sat George. et alia. and mnumerable now 5.6 City Lights and The Gold cliches of the hardboiled sort) Aug.22 Rush, (both by Chaplin and both Citizen Kane (the most famous exqu1S1te-"C1ty Lights" has perhaps Amencan sound f1lm. Orson Welles· the most hornly1ng endmg of any I 1Im. 1941 study of a deservedly lonely and for those of us who still believe. or unloved newspaper tycoon) PLAYS
Players Dinner Theatre, 1221 Reservat1ons Airline H1ghway. 835-9057 Through Saenger Theatre , 524-0876. Sun 21 Annie , a mus1cal devoted to Wed.11 through Sat.28: Sophlsti· Harold Gray's frizzy-headed-empty cated Ladles, a compendium of eyed little creation: Fri.26 through Sun. songs and dances devoted to and Sept 4 The Voice of the Turtle, comprised of the music of the remar John Ven Druten·s little comedy about kable Edward Kennedy " Duke" Elling romance blossommg in crowded war ton who once stated, "Nothing ever time New York and a soldier on leave got me into trouble except my good and a young career girl. Our Pres1dent taste." Ticket information from the starred 1n the mov1e along w1th Eve Saenger's box office. Arden (as Olive. the lllrty bitch) who Toulouse Theatre, 615 Toulouse. wroe some sensational hats and dur 522-7852 Tuesdays. Oh, Play That Ing one out-take was asked by Mr Thing! a Jazz revue w1th the Soc1ety Reagan. "Getting la1d much lately?" Jazz Band. Wednesdays through Sun lor wh1ch she rightly slapped him days: One Mo' Time Both plays are the outtake st1ll exists. InCidentally at 8 30. Tickets at the theatre
Arthur Roger Gallery, 3005 Maga Kinko's Copies, 1140 S Carrollton Zine, 895-5287. Through August. an in Through Sat20 A SIX by e1ght loot car ~tallati on of constructions by Welling toon by Star lrv1ne. "The Tw1ns F1ght ton Duke Reiter, and the first part of as the World Goes By ... 1n the front that name sounds backwards. w1ndow Arts Line, 522-ARTS A da1ly recor Longue Vue Gardens, 7 Bamboo ding of cultural events Road. 488-5488 Tuesdays through Galerie Simonne Stern, 2727 Pry Sundays a selection of creamware. tanla. 895-3824 Through August pla1n and laney. old and new Vanous group shows by Galer1e Louisiana State Museum, Jackson art1sts Square. 522-9830 Through Tues.30 A Gallery For Fine Photography, "Landscape. Cityscape ... a setect1on 5432 Magaz1ne. 891-1002. Through of what were known 1n more genteel August. photographs of Amencan In t1mes as ·v1ews · Contmumg "Stitches dians of long ago by Edward CurtiS In T1me LOUISiana's Clothing and probably the best documentary of 1803-1982." 1n wh1ch we were qu1te them we have. along w1th Catlin's partial to the memento-man jewelry even earlier pa1nt1ngs made of the dear-departed's ha1r. and Historic New Orleans Collection, " LOUISiana Exploration and 533 Royal Street. 523-4662. Through Settlement" December 2 I Remember New New Orleans Museum Of Art, Ci Orleans The Mov1es. a nostalgic ty Park. 488-2631 Through Sun 14 survey of the theatres and events and Constructivism and the Geometnc people that flounshed. oh. not so very Trad1t10n Selections from the McCrory Mason Ruffner at Parkview Tavern, August 12. long ago CorporatiOn ColleCtion. and The
WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 Geometric Impulse: Works from the and the House B·and, along w1th the Lillian H. Florsheim Collection, in· legendary examples of ad1posa glori· eluding works by Suprematists like osa that act as go-go dancers. Malevitch and El Lissitzky, and artists 1801 Club, 1801 Stumpf Blvd, like Leger, Severini, Sol LeWitt, 367-9670. Wednesdays through Satur· Delaunay, Gabo, Donald Judd, Vasa· days: Janet Lynn and Ya Ya, from rely, Pevsner and Kandinsky, mem· 9:30. bers of artistic movements like Op, Fad' s, 1100 S. Clearview Parkway, Futurism, Minimalism, Orphism, and 734·0590. The erstwhile Hired Hand. de Stijl. An accompanying exhibit of now DJ's spin platters that range the photographs on the second floor con· last three decades. tains geometricist-influenced Fairmont Court, Fairmont Hotel. photographs by Moholy-Nagy, Rod· 529· 7111 . Sundays and Mondays, Tuts chenko, Weston, Margaret Bourke· Washington at the piano from 9 until White. Anton Bruehl and others. 1 a.m. Optima Studio, 2025 Magazine, The Famous Door, 339 Bourbon, 522·9625. Through September: 522·7626. Everyone from Thackeray Selected works by Gallery artists. to Durante has passed through these Sandra Zahn Oreck Gallery, 529 gilded portals; Tuesdays through Sun· Wilkinson Row, 529·7676. Through days, the much underrated Thomas August: selected works by Gallery Jefferson and his Creole Jazz Band; artists. Mondays, Tuesdays and weekend Preabytere, Jackson Square at St. nights, Mike Cascio's Just Us Band Ann, 568·6968. Through Mon.,Aug.31 : 544 Club, 544 Bourbon, 523·8611 The Pottery of George Orr. Wednesdays through Saturdays, Gary Tulane Art Department, Brown and Feelings. Newcomb Art Building, 865-5327. Pete Fountain's, New Orleans Mon.22through Fri.26: Undergraduate Hilton, 561·0500. Tues., Wed., Fn, exhibitions. Sat.: M r. Fountain and his em· UNO Fine Arts Gallery, Lakefront bouchure at 10 p.m. One show only; Campus, 286·6493. Through August: $15 cover. unstructured student shows. Gazebo Cafe and Bar, 1018 Decatur, 522·0862. Mondays through Fridays, ragtime piano music m the LIVE MUSIC afternoons; Saturdays and Sundays, the John Royen Jazz Band; alfresco Blue Room, In the Fairmont Hotel, Jimmy's, 8200 Willow, 866·9549 529·7111 . Dinner, dancing, smoked Wed.3, The Press. Thurs.4: Taken and glass, candleabras on the table, reser· The Moderns. Fri.5: The Radiators. vat ions and cover charges that match. Sat.6: Danny Reed's Pajama Party, Through Tues.2: organist Jimmy featu ring a rare appearance by New Smith; Wed.3 through Tues.9: Joe Orleans' least popular band, The Front Pass; Wed.9 through Tues.16: the in· (don't miss it if you can). Thurs.11' effable Eddie Harris; Wed.17 through Nothin' Personal. Fri.12: Pseudo Tues.30: Jon Hendricks and Co. Dukes (thought they were the guys on Wed.31 through Tues., Sept.13: the horses during Carnival parades) rather excessively poignant Carmen Sat.13: The Backbeats. Tues.16: The McRae. White Animals from Nasvhille (n.b. Bobby's Place, 520 East St. Ber· th1s is not The Winter Fam1ly). nard Highway, Chalmette, 271·0137. Thurs.18: The Limit. Fri.19: The Unchanging: Fridays, Bobby Cure (of Sheiks. Sat.20: the Radiators, and the Cure Cleaners dynasty) and the more songs about buildings and beef Summertime Blues; Gong Show. Sat· melts. Thurs.25: The Sheiks. Fri.26: urdays, Allen's Tribute to Elvis. Lenny (One Broken Heart For Sale) Bonaparte's Retreat, 1007 Zenith's Pop Combo, soon releas1ng Decatur, 561·9473. Piano bar by Ralph an EP (epic production). Cox, daily save for the Sabbath, 9 p.m. Larry's VIlla, 4612 Quincy St. Bounty, 1926 West End Park, Metairie, 455·1223. Tuesdays through 282·9144. The darkest and (seeming Sundays: Breeze, featuring Babs ly) most sedate of West End clubs. (Chester A. Riley's kid? !). Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays: The Levee Lounge, 738 Toulouse, Harvey Jesus and Frye. 523·9492. Fridays through Sundays: Cafe Sblaa, 1011 Decatur, Bryan Price on guitar and harmonica. 561·8354. Pianistic accompaniment to Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak, such things as fried dill pickles, clams 866·9359. Comfortable, mildly intellec· and Amaretto cheesecake. Harry tual, eclectic range of performers and Mayronne Jr., a true prodigy (the night a covey of regulars. Sundays: John Nino Rota died, who else in town did Rank1n . Mondays: James Booker a medley of his music or could have? Tuesdays: Li 'l Queenie assisted 1n· Harry did.) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays strumentally by Bruce MacDonald and and Fridays, from 8. Steve Vaughan John Magnie, or Adventures in The takes over Mondays, Thursdays and Skin Trade, to be graced by Alison Saturdays. Young once L.Q. gives birth to Omen Cajun Country, 327 Bourbon. The IV. Wednesdays: Mason Ruffner and Copas Brothers, Mondays through his Blues Rockers. Thursdays: Bourre. Wednesdays. Fri.5: Tangents. Sat.6: Beausoleil Caronna's Bar, 2032 Magazine, Fri. 12: Anson Funderburgh and the 523·9326. Mondays and Tuesdays, the Rockets. Fri. 19: Rockin' Dopsie and J. Monque'd Blues Band; the Cajun Twisters. Fri.26: The Wednesdays, The Algatoric Percus· Radiators. Sat.27: Gino Thibodeaux sion Ensemble (sounds like a group and the Lake Charles Ramblers-and out of a William S. Burroughs ex· if you lived there, you'd do some travaganza, save then they'd probably rambling too. as some of our friends be Algolagnic); Thursdays, The Har· from DeQuincey tell us. monica Hinds Blues Band; Fridays, Menefee's, 1101 North Rampart, Aug.5 and 12: Sam Mclain and 566·0464. Luxurious piano bar. James Brownsville; Fridays, Aug.19 and 26: Booker, from 5 until 8, Mondays the J. Monque'd Blues Band. through Fridays . Wednesdays through Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow, Sundays, at a later time, John Heinz 865·9190. Call for listings. Munster's Dance Hall and Bar, Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets, Maple Leaf, August 12. Dorothy's Medallion, 3232 Orleans 627 Lyons. 899·9109. Wednesdays, Avenue. Fridays through Sundays: The Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensem· Walter Washington, Johnny Adams ble and a great many nimble-footed
WAVELENGTH/ AUGUST 1983 septuagenarians. ty Jazz Band. Sat.27: Louisiana Jazz Nevada Club, 1409 Romaine, Gret Federation Party, see Concerts Lis na, 368-1000. Country and western, tings for details. eve ry night; call the club for Tlpltlna's, 501 Napoleon, 899-91 14. information. A little bit of everything, with, in the im Old Absinthe Bar, 400 Bourbon, mortal phrase of our Editor, "Room To 524-7761. The Bryan Lee Blues Band, Dance." Mon.1: Mason Ruffner and Wednesdays through Sundays from the Blues Rockers. Tues.2: Streetwise. 9:30 and rollin' till dawn; occasional Wed.3: Priscilla (Lane? Alden?). surprise appearances. Thurs.4: Incomparable bluesman A.C. Park view Tavern, 910 N. Carroll Reed featuring Philip Guy. Fri.5: ton, 482-2680. Fri.5: Bourre, named Pressure. Sat.6: Deacon John and the for the Cajun national pastime. Fri. 12: New Orleans Blues Revue with Earl Mason Ruffner and his Blues Rockers King, J.D. Hill, Walter Washington and talkin' plenty of Texas trash. Fri.19: J.Monque'd. Mon.8: Spencer Bohren. The Jive. Fri.26: The Pranksters. Tues.9: Max Relax and the Caballeros Phyllis Chalet, 1641 Pauger, (with a handle like that, you might think 944-9358. Entertainment weekend Tim Lyman was still booking the bands nights. here). Wed.10: Eric Johnson and the Polde's, Kenilworth Mall, 246-6770. Avenue. Thurs.11: Anson Funderburgh Chanteuse Luz Marie and Steve Burt and the Rockets. Fri.12: Zydeco clas chell, in what is now described as a sicist Marcel Dugas. Sat.t3: Exuma. " Bossa Nova" and piano bar-and Mon.15: Mason Ruffner and his Ruff remember about blaming it on the Tuff Bluesrockers. Tu es.16: The Bossa Nova, with its magic spell? Generics. Wed.17: Design. Thurs.18: Well , presumably you can still get The Radiators. Fri.,Sat., 19,20: The away with it. Neville Brothers. Sun.21: Steve Morse Pontchartraln Hotel, Bayou Bar, and Allan Holdsworth , for which latter 2031 St.Charles Ave., 524-0851 . Night being tributed by Eddie Van Halen, see ly: Bruce Versen, from 5 to 8, or what the Last Page. Mon.22: Spencer was known in happier days as that Bohren- am I " bohren" you? pause in the day's occupation known Tues.23: Waka Waka. Wed.24: Ras as the cocktail hour. Cloud and the Sons of Selassie II. Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter, Thurs.25: Big Bang. Fri.26: Marcia 523-8939. Along with Galatoire's and Ball , recently elected the Darktown K-Paul's, one of the three places in Strutter's Ball by most of the popula town that consistently draws a long tion of Red River Parish. Sat.27: Those and deserved line outside; the only Radiators. Sun.28: A-Train featu ring amenities are the musical ones. Sun powerhouse vocaliste Miki Honeycutt. days: Harold Dejan and the Olympia Mon.29: Mason Ruffner and the Blues Brass Band. Mondays and Thursdays: Rockers. Tues.30: The Fleshtones. Kid Thomas Valentine. Tuesdays and Wed.31 ; Woodenhead, featuring Fridays: Kid Sheik Colar. Wednesdays luscious Angelle Trosclair. and Saturdays: The Humphrey Bro Tupelo's, 8301 Oak, 866-3658. Most thers. ly New Music. Mon.1: Violent Fem Riverboat President, Canal Street mes, from Milwaukee (is this a stage Docks, 524-SAIL. Fri.12: Yellow name for Laverne and Shirley?). man-with· some real roots reggae Wed.3: The Wad shooting theirs. (this guy is what I believe is called Thurs.-Sat., 4,5,6: Alan Haynes and pognathously ugly-good, though). the Stepchildren featuring geetar pro Sat.13: The Neville Brothers. Tues.16: digy Li 'l Junior One Hand, plus Johnny The always sunny King Sunny Ade and Jay and the Hitmen. Tues.9: If Then his African Beats. Saturday: Ivy. Why with their Ontology Recapitulates Wed .31 : Kaja GooGoo. Tautology revue. Wed.10: Ballistics. Riehle's 3-D, 3501 Chateau Boule Thurs. 11 : Johnny Jay and the Hitmen. Deacon John, Tipitina's, August 6. vard, 466-3333. Fri.5: Stars on 45 Fri.12: Men In Black, one of our ex (aren't these guys Japanese or did I patriate groups, with the Sluts and The hallucinate that?). Sun.7: Don Mclean, Wad (sounds like an evening at the old who was (as I'm sure you all know) a Center Theatre on Canal Street to me). LA. CLUBS lonely teenage broncin' buck with a Sat.13: Lenny (when there's a shine pink carnation and a pick-up truck on his shoes, there's a melody in his Antler's, 555 Jefferson, Lafayette, Pam's Place, Old Town, Slidell. remember that great story about the hair) Zenith and Pop Combo. Wed.17: 318-234-8877. Pappa Joe's, 12375 Florida Blvd., maniac in Australia who had a portrait The Press. Thurs.18: D-Day from The Big Apple, Highway 1, Larose, Baton Rouge, 1-273-2376. of Don Mclean tattooed on his body Austin. Fri.19: The Killer Bees, " reg 693-8688. Seats 2000! Fri.5: Street Party Town, Mi litary Road, Slidell , and his wife was getting ready to leave gae from Shreveport"-which is wise. Sat.6: The Sheiks and 1-649-3867. him, etc.? No? Fri.12: The Guess Who, maybe like a Papal Count from Streetwise. Ruby's Rendez-Vous, Highway and these eyes, these ears ... Fri.19: Livonia. Sat.20: Woodenhead. Booker's, 1040 Texas Ave., 190 in Mandeville, 1-626·9933. Helen Reddy. Wed.24: Keeper. Fri.26: Big Bang. Shreveport. 318-425-2292. Rusty Nail, 540 E. King 's Highway, Rose Tattoo, 4401 Tchoupitoulas, Sat.27: The Backbeats. Wed.31 : Circle In The Square, Shreve Sh reveport. 895-9681 . Thursdays and Saturdays: Walk-don't run! It's the fantabulous Square, Shreveport. 318-222-2216. Scarlett O 's, 1025 Broad, Lake J.D. Hill and the Jammers. Ventures, one of the greatest instru Clancy' s Landing and Brick Charles, 318-436-8742. Seaport Cafe and Bar, 424 Bour mental groups of the early '60s, or Street Tavern, Shreve Square, Slick's Music Hall, Highway 31 , St. bon, 568-0891 . Tuesdays through Devonian period of Rock 'n' Roll. Shreveport, 318-227-961 1. Martinville, 318-394-3867. Saturdays: Sally Townes. Tyler's, 5234 Magazine, 891-4989. Desperado Saloon, Highway 90, Steak and Lobster Inn's Fireside 711 Club, 711 Bourbon, 525-8379. Modern jazz, good raw oysters. Sun Raceland, 1-537-364 7. Pub, 820 E. King 's Highway, Shreve Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays: Nora days and Wednesdays: Mike Pellera Enoch's-A Cafe, 5202 Desiand port, 318-868-5306. Wixted. Wednesdays through Satur and his Trio. Mondays: Ellis Marsalis. Street, Monroe, 318-343-9950. Steamboat Annie's, Shreve days: one man Symphonia Randy Tuesdays: chanteuse Leslie Smith. Gibson Street Lounge, Covington, Square, Shreveport, 318-424-8297. Hebert. Thursdays: Germaine Bazzle. Fridays 1-892-7057. Tenth Floor, Shreve Square, Showboat, 3712 Hessmer, and Saturdays: The James Rivers Grant Street Dance -Hall, 113 Shreveport, 318-425-7539. 455-2123. Call the club for listings. Movement. Grant Street, Lafayette, 318-332-9569. Toby's, 1303 Grimme! Drive, Snug Harbor, 626 Frenchmen, Germaine Wells Lounge, 833 Harry's Club, 517 Parkway, Breaux Shreveport, 318-222-9903. 949-0696. Mostly jazz, mostly modern. Bienville, 523-9633. Fridays and Satur Bridge, 318-332-9569. Trinity's, Perkins Road, Baton Thursdays: pianist David Wynne, from days, Mike Pellera, Jim Singleton and Humphree•s,- Shreve Square, Rouge, 1-388-9884. 24-hour concert 9. Sundays, those Pfister Sisters,, Jeff Boudreaux, from 11 p.m. Shreveport, 318-227-9611. line. aereating into the aether, from 9 p.m. Weasey's, 1610 Belle Chasse Iron Horse, 403 Phillip, Thibodaux, Fri.5: Jasmine. Sat.6: The Marcel Highway, 361-7902. Country and 1-447-9991 . Richardson Trio. Fri.12: Tony Dagradi Western. Mondays, Wednesdays, Jefferson Street Cafe, 209 Jeffer Wavelength's listings are a free, and his band of renowned-all four of Fridays and Saturdays: The Firewater son, Lafayette, 318-234-9647. monthly public service. They are com them. Sat.13: AI Belletto and his band Band. Open mike Thursdays; Sundays, Mulate•s, Breaux Bridge Highway, piled by Ma rgaret Williams and Jon of renowned-all four of them. Fri. 19: jam session open to all. Breaux Bridge, 318-332-4648. Newlin; if you have information for us, Atlantis. Sat.20: Drew/McGinley Winnie's, 2304 London Ave., The 0 1' Corner Bar, 221 Poydras, by all means tell us. Call895-2342 for Quartet. Fri.26: Andrew Hall's Socie· 945-9124. Breaux Bridge, 318-332-9512. information.
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The Pfister Sisters, New Orleans' songbirds of swing, will be taking a leave of absence from the Crescent City in August to warble their way through the Rocky Mountains. Dates include three days at the Telluride Jazz Festival, and clubs in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. The girls (Holly Bendtsen, Susan Malone, Yvette Voelker with pianist Amasa Miller) will leave August II. They'll return August 28 for a date at the Snug Harbor. Maybe you, like us, have seen those curi ous commercials with the young man about to be incarcerated bemoaning the fact that he'll miss his Last Chance for Pontchartrain Beach-ever. The Contemporary Arts Cen ter, plans for Saturday, September 24, a sort of extravaganza of carny-artistic carryings on as an advance-memorial sort of gesture: already planned along with the usual "thril ling rides" of happy (hmmm) memory, are beach sculptures, honestly described as The Pfister Sisters go west in August. ephemeral (though no less a personage than the great Surrealist Max Ernst did sand tic Inn was the setting for a gig by the Pur Orleans piano knocker Archibald, Sep sculptures and reliefs during the 1940s when ple Gang with rockabilly legend AI Ferrier tember 14; Eddie Bo, nicknamed The sojourning here, and out at the Beach sitting in; oQe of the P .G.'s members is none Maharajah, and the creator "Dinky Doo" too-we've seen the pictures), a Krewe of other than Wavelength's own-we guess and "Check Mr. Popeye" and "Just Clones Tableaux (no doubt captained by we'll claim him-Rico... The Batteries, Friends," among much else, September 20; Denise "Big Zephyr" Vallon), the ineffable heard recently at Jimmy's opening for the Earl Turbinton, September 23. Also, Kathy B. onstage with her musclemen, ala Backbeats, are hot stuff. September 1 is the feast of St. Fiacre, who Mae West in her Las Vegas act, we'd guess, Airto Moriera, for 8 years down beat's gave his name to the hemorroid-and a New Leviathan regatta, something by percussionist of the year, lost his watch hence is the patron of hemorroid-sufferers sculptor Emery Clark called The Lakemess while rehearsing at the Blue Room; local and also cab drivers, September 19 the feast Monster, described not so whimsically as "a jeweler Coleman Adler donated a new gold of St. Januarius whose blood, preserved in lake cleanup project."You can call the Omega to replace the missing ticker ...Steve Naples, gives omens of future occurences, C.A.C. for info on what obviously will be Morse of the Dregs and Allan Holdsworth and September 30, the feast of St. Jerome, the big event this summer sur Ia p/age at coming to Tip's this month solely because who translated the Bible into Latin and lov 523-1216; the times are 11 a.m. until 12 they enjoy playing together. Should be a ed animals, and is the patron of librarians. midnight. fret--worker's delight; Holdsworth has gain While The Raffeys finish up a new demo II Blues, a magazine about-now, what ed many plaudits but we feel obliged to tape on Oak Street and come, Norma-Des did you think?-based in Milano, has an en repeat Eddie Van Halen's: "Holdsworth is mond-like, out of a year's retirement, Stray cyclopedia of blues which describes our last the best in my book." Cats used Christian Brothers School in Ci Cover Boy, Lee Allen in, we guess, such The EP by Lenny Zenith and Pop Com ty Park (really the erstwhile mansion of glowing terms as '' Importante personaggio bo should be in the racks of wax this health faddist/ tabloid king Bernard McFad R&B, molto legato a! blues ... Discreto can- month ... New bands to watch for: The Cle den), Grits Bar and Tupelo's Tavern as tante, ottino saxofonista." ...The Rogues ment Brothers Trio with David and Cran backdrops for their new video ...Journey 's gave a farewell performance on August 13 ston on guitars and Diana Nadis on flute video, filmed on the New Orleans docks, is at the Showboat.. .Audubon Zoo now has and vocal; Alison and the Dads with perky currently seen on M-TV, and the Red a 55 x 55 foot outdoor stage that opens on Alison Young, former Nightriders vocalist, Rockers have just completed their second August 20 with Irma Thomas; Hibernia fronting. Both bands took their first bows video that ought to turn up soon. Bank lent funds for the bulk of the construc July 28 at Jimmy's ...The Nevilles rumored Lee Dorsey, not content with workin' in tion ... Drummer Ricky Sebastien has split to be on the threshold-if not closer-to an a coal mine, played The Bottom Line in the Lafayette for the Big Apple; the Hub-City MCA contract. dirtiest city of 'em all, New York, August AU-Stars, Sebastien's band, plan to ask Red Totally Cold played what was widely 12 and 13 ... August 18 also saw the unveil Stick City drummer Herman Jackson to mistaken for an auld-lang-syne gig at Jim ing, at the Chamber of Commerce, of a pro step in ... also from way down south(west): my's on July 23, showing off 3 new songs motional poster that is also a piece of local the incomparable Huey Meaux plans on us and one cover; one of New O's first new musical history-entitled "Southern Stars," ing a batch of Louisiana sidemen on an up wave-now-pop bands many years ago (we the picture includes 80 local musical figures coming Doug Kershaw LP-among those all know what the T.C. evolved into), of note. appearing are Tommy Shreve, formerly of named in honor of Olivia Newton-John, the Bluesiana-man John Mooney journeys to Red Beans and Rice Revue, V.J. Boulet, Totally Cold are as healthy as any other Jamaica this month to record an album with George Belote, Rod Miller and Warren local band right now, and they're taking one Jimmy Mackery of the Nighthawks, for Storm, a name to conjure with, this last. day, according to leader Kevin Radecker, at release this fall. .. Taken, a new local band Gary Reynolds of the Miller Rock Net a time. If it clicks, they'll keep on doing that describes itself as "short-hair music," work (which signed Zebra and financed it ... Phase II has added Sam Donovan as its has been gigging around select Uptown their tour) is looking for good local bands. new guitar player. venues; the band includes keyboardist/lead Zebra will be doing a national Miller ad, as Birthdays this ninth month are: Alvin vocalist Rebecca Nice, drummer George will the Producers. Send tapes to: Reynolds Alcorn, September 7, and modernist Joe McQueen, and guitarists Corbett Kemp, Management, 9415 West Forest Home Ave Newman on the same day; one of the men Jacques Grundy and Charlie Wyman ...Bas nue, Hales Corners, Wisconsin 53130. And who started it all, Roy Brown, September Clas, sans a drummer are continuing as a if you need a good demo tape to send, 10; the ineffable Jimmie Davis, one of our trio called The Fortunetellers. The group Stonee's studio is giving away studio time worst governors but surely deserving of las will play lots of original music and make to a new band each month (see their classi ting fame as the composer of "You Are My predictions from the stage. So roll over, fied for details) ... Natchitoches' fabled Rus- Sunshine," September 11; legendary New Nostradamus, and tell Jean Dixon the news!
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