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WAVELENGTH/AUGUST 1983 3 AUGUST 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.