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Wavelength (September 1986)
Connie Atkinson University of New Orleans
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Tuesdays He's a television producer admired by local and national cri Harry Connick, Jr. tics, trusted by New Orleans' skep Wednesdays tical musicians and liked by their J. Monque'd union. His work has won awards Thursdays and reached national and now in ternational audiences. He's been de Laissez-Faire Cajun Band scrbed as a credit to cable televi sion, to his city and to the musi ~ This Month ~ cians who's work he's preserved in Fri 5 Regatta his Music City series. (Reggae-Progressive Jazz) This week, he is in London to Sat 6 Charmaine Neville &: Real celebrate the upcoming September 9 Feelings premier of New Orleans Now, a Sun 7 Benefit Dance for Save special version of four of the origin the Lake - Music by al Music City hours that played in Gabour with Monk Boudreaux, Damn Yankees one of the stars of New Orleans Now. Tues 9 Regatta America on the Arts and Entertain Fri 12 TBA ment (A&E) cable network and Sat 13 Beausoleil have been bought to run in a prime government, praise of critics from Sun 14 The Quarter Tones time slot on London's Channel 4. New Orleans to New York and, .lOCK Tues 16 Song Dogs From there, he'll travel to best of all, buyers for the show who GRUNDY'S Fri 19 Midnight Creepers with Copenhagen would spread the word for New Noble 'Thinman" Watts where officials with NIElM LOOK Sat 20 Regatta Danish television have expressed an Orleans music. It would help people SAN FRANCISCo-Walk into the Fri 26 The Radiators interest in the shows. realize that "even though we don't Illusions Room at the Marriott Sat 27 TBA The Music City programs, which have the music industry, we still Hotel in San Francisco's Fisher Tues 30 Song Dogs are now considered by just about have the music," Gabour told the man's Wharf and you might recog every kind of critic to be perfect Times-Picayune's 7V Focus. nize the bartender behind the 8316 Oak Street video venues for New Orleans The customers looking to buy the groovy blue-tinted shades. It's none 866-9359 musicians, were not planned to gar show, A&E, were not going to be other than Jock Grundy, the former ner awards, nor did they im paying enough to provide the kind guitarist with that once top of the mediately achieve reknown. They of recutting that Gabour had in New Orleans pop scene band, the were planned as part of the locally mind. So in December 1983, he Look. I saw the Look in 1982, generated programming required by was "banging on doors at the Brit braving an intimidatingly artsy Cox's franchise agreement with the ish network." The British, although Warehouse crowd when they op city, and according to Gabour, were they professed to like the series, ened for Talking Heads. part of a group of programs consid were a long, hard sell and finally Grundy fled New Orleans a few ered by the cable company to be Gabour typed a video letter using a years ago and moved to San Fran write-offs. character generator over some Mus cisco hoping to coerce his American But Gabour, despite the fact that ic City footage to grab their atten he was producer or executive pro tion. ducer on seven other Cox cable It worked, and Channel 4 bought series, had a special interest in this four one-hour specials delivered to project. "I had always been into the station in August 1985. It is this music and played music and I was set of shows that will make its Brit surprised that nobody had taken up ish debut this September. The same an ongoing music show,'' he re shows already ran on A&E in Jan called. uary when they brought in more Gabour began with four months than their share of national enthu of negotiation with union and local siasm for the city and its music. musicians to work out equitable The series' new British run and contracts. "Ninety percent of local the prospect of a Danish run are musicians performing on television] good news for New Orleans. It will didn't get paid. People would say mean money in the pocket for New 'we're doing you a favor with the Orleans musicians, and the city's exposure. Here, sign away your tot publicity crew couldn't buy Express idol into forming the Karl al rights. "' Gabour's style of personal promo Malden Experience. True story? Gabour made sure that musicians tion. Gabour hopes to sell nine " Well, mainly I came out here got the compensation the budget more hours of the shows to British because the Look did as much as could carry and provided for proper television. we could in New Orleans and I was residuals to be paid in the event of According to David Weinstein, inspired by the way the Red Rock subsequent runs of the show. president of the Musician's Mutual ers drove out here in a station wag Enter Henry Waguespack, the Protective Union Local 174-496, on and signed with 415 at Howie man who brought New Orleans the Music City generated more money Klein's doorstep," said Grundy Time Saver and, after a little urging for the musicians of New Orleans in from behind the bar where he from Gabour ("l·just kept dropping the short time that the project has poured me an Anchor Steam draft to my knees"), he helped to make been in operation than all the other and passed me a great big basket of the Music City series possible. television stations combined had in popcorn. With just enough money to get ten years. And Jim Gabour shows Last year, in the employee by and an untried crew, Gabour no signs of stopping. cafeteria at the Marriott, Grundy waded into the series and waded out Yeah, he must be livin' right. met Matthew Dahlbert- lyricist, with four national Awards for Cable business-minded romantic and wai Excellence, citations from local -Kate Cohen ter. Together they formed Gray 4w...... ,..... Sky, a studio-oriented band whose first, and already irrepressible, re lease is available on the band's own Blue Frame Productions label. "We decided to shoot at the col lege radio market. We invested our money in this studio project to get the plastic out there and in the hands of the radio stations and rec ord companies rather than starting off at the bottom of the clubs and MUSIC CLUB/DELl working our way up. With the rec ord out, we should be able to get 325 Howard Ave. the good gigs to start with," said Btwn. Tchoup~Olllas & St Peters Grundy as he fixed a whiskey sour 524-1275 for a large, pale tourist. The 12" record , In the Field of Monday Nights Honor, is a college radio natural. Magic Mellow The jagged guitars, brutally straightforward bass and emotional Thursday1o-2 ly intense vocals of the title cut de Reggae & Soca scribe the plight of a family broken Friday 11-3 up by the infamous 1906 San Fran Joe T. Johnson (with Josephine) and Michael Harmeyer: after hours. Shephard Band cisco earthquake. "Walk In the Sun" is a mellow, yet desperate LynneHorty Saturday 11-3 counterbalance. The entire effort is Street mall during Carnival. Cometas immaculately produced. STREET NlUSIC: Another city ordinance reads: An immeqiate add at KSUF, this "It shall be unlawful to operate TO BE OR NOT $1.00 Happy Hour w/Reggae Musk record is also being played at the TOBE? or play a radio, television, phono various other college radio stations graph, musical instrument, louds Monday-Friday Spm-8pm in California and copies have been Recently, there haven't been too peaker or similar device that is Dclldous Food Scrvtd sent to WTU L. many street players on the street, as plainly audible to any person other As I down the last of my Anchor a result of several factors: the heat, than the operator between 8 p.m. Open 11am Mon-Fri, Open 9 pm Sat. Steam, I can't help but think that the summer, lack-of-tourists, and and 10 a.m. in parks, playgrounds, Closed Sundays or recreation areas unless a permit for Jock Grundy, today's Gray Sky the enforcement of some con "Come Sail With Us" may (ead to tomorrow's blue skies. troversial laws. For example, one of has been issued." Ow! l thing I ate too much pop the city ordinances says that if a This amounts to a French Quarter com. performer attracts a crowd that ob curfew on street players and boom structs the sidewalks, then the per boxes. But "musical instrument" is -St. George Bryan former has to stop his act. legally vague - does it include The problem is not that the spoons or singing voices? This crowds block the sidewalks - could effectively ban even thumb pedestrians can walk in the middle pianos or acoustic guitars for 13 'AMUCK IN of the Royal Street mall and other hours a day throughout the city. In AMERICA' areas during the day - but the addition , there is a special 8 p.m. CRASHES crowds block shops that need high music curfew on Bourbon Street. BENEFIT volume trades in t-shirts and So, at night, if you're not helping Considering it was the first time trinkets. to s6ll booze, you can't seJI music. the private, non-profit organization Captain Richard Hunter and Or even play it for fun. Another REGULARS established in 1973 to aid survivors many officers of the Vieux Carre problem is the phrase "unless a of New Orleans-area police and police precinct say they like the has been issued," since no Mon. Thurs. Sat/8pm permit Teddy Riley J~ Band firefighters killed in the line of duty music. They try to be fair and will one has a permit. Yet. Tues. Wed, Frtl8pm held a public fundraiser, the let someone play on if no one is On August 7, a study by Sieman, Club Burke }aD Band Tragedy Fund, Inc., got more than complaining. They're well aware of Larson and Purdy (a zoning-law Fri/5-8pm its share of media attention. the curfew-breaking young woman firm) on street music in New MIMlGuate Suo/2pm Wanda RoUJall a: Dcnid Laolle The Sunday evening affair, who plays classical violin, for ex Orleans concluded with recom 7pm MIMi Guote featuring New Orleans musicians ample, but she sounds so damn mendations that electric amplifica 9pm Leolle Smith a: Friendo Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas and good that no one minds. Still, the tion be banned; that permits be Clarence "Frogman" Henry, was police are obligated to respond to issued; that licensing be carried out SPECIAL EVENTS featured on MTV in mid-August as complaints. It's not easy or fun, by a lottery. Fri. Sept. 5 !0:30pm vj Alan Hunter presented his sum Hunter adds, to be cursed and spit Attorney Mary Howell holds that C.J. Chenler and Bayou Rhythm mer series "Amuck in America" on by tourists who become hostile permits are unconstitutional - the Sat. Sept. 6 10:30pm from New Orleans. at seeing a worthy performer "has government can't demand a permit A-Train Hunter and his entire "Amuck in sled by the cops." for newspaper vendors, soap-box Thurs. Sept. lllmidnigbt Ray Bonne'rille America" crew crashed the gala Some shopowners maintain that orators or other acts of freedom of Fri. Sept.l21lam affair held at Blaine Kern's Den in the musicians hurt their businesses speech. And in 1976 she suc Leolle Smith and Friendo Algiers videoing performers, guests by distracting tourists. Rather than cessfully defended Bowman v. City Sat. Sept.l3/10:30pm and even the security guard at the looking at window displays, the of New Orleans, the first case in Zachary Richard perform Thurs. Sept. 18/IOpm door. During Toussaint's argument goes, the would-be buyer which the courts determined that Muaic Sbowcaoe ance, Hunter and crew took the looks at the performer. music is a freedom of expression. Fri. Sept. 19/10:30pm stage enticing the audience to On the other hand, the musicians However, since the judge died be Pr..nwe Second Line for the MTV cameras. claim they help attract tourists in fore he signed the order, the ruling Sat. Sept. 20/midnigbt And it was all seen nationally on the first place. Trumpeter Joe T. was never reported. Leolle Smith and Friend• MTV four days later. Johnson points out that ''Any time While some street musicians aim Thurs. Sept. 25/midnigbt Ray Bonne'rille will take to be the fastest or sweetest of Proceeds from the fundraiser people stop [to listen], they'll Fri. Sat, Sept. 26. 27/10:30pm go toward continuing the Tragedy note of their surroundings." And hom-players, the goal of Chris Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnoon Fund's efforts to offer immediate those surroundings include shop Mason ("Barcelona Red") is to be and ongoing financial aid to sur windows. Some merchants agree, the loudest alto player. He has re vivors. and signed a petition this year con corded a 45 of his oft-repeated spe 1104 DECATUR STREET demning the city's attempt to legal cialty, ''Amazing Grace,'' and he 525·8199 -Gina Guccione ly ban street music on the Royal sells them to patrons, along with a CONTINU.D SEPIIM8ER • Wavelengtl1 5 ~::::::.li·~'" · ~Si!'"~J IN APPRECIATION FOR THE INSPIRATION cassette of Christmas songs he re ing Prima and Smith before return corded with trumpeter Chet Baker. ing to the West Bank in 1969. Mason is fiercely independent, and Since that time, Sino had led his has filed his own case with the own group, Lou Sino and the Ben ACLU to defend his right to play in gals, at French Quarter clubs, in the non-residential 100 block of cluding the Maison Bourbon, where Bourbon after hours. He's been he and his band were regulars. there for eight years. He is survived by his wife, Patri Trumpeter John Ray Johnson cia; five children; a grandson, three likes to play ballads, so he prefers brothers; and two sisters. to play at night. People have to crowd around the gentle Tom Sand -Gina Guccione ers to hear his hammer dulcimer. Mr. Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow His style is meditatively "new age" and fascinating, but he's never even 1911-1986 heard of George Winston. Altoist PORK CHOP Jay Vincent has not been on the STElM MISS KATIE WEBSTER streets these past couple of weeks; When a front page story in The 'The Swamp Boogie Queen" rumor has it that in response to his Times-Picayune/The States-Item told ROCKIN DOPSIE & THE ETTA JAMES double boom-box "back-up band," the sad story of Pork Chop's death 2YDECO lWlSTERS THE JOE LOUIS WALKER his equipment was confiscated as and his family's inability to finance JOHNNYADAMS/~ GROUP "evidence" for tnal. a proper funeral last month, the KING/IRMA THOMAS ANSON & THE ROCKETS Several guitarists sing credible telephone at the home of Isaac THE GOLDEN EAGLES, FEATURING SAM MYERS covers from the James Taylor/ Mason rang off of the hook. Jackson MARDI GRAS INDIAN THE PALADINS Browne repertoires, and His wife was offered condolence~ TRIBE JIMMY McCRACKUN/ JOE UGGINS & THE LOWELL FULSON HONEYDRIPPERS REBIRTH MARCHING JAll. HANK BALLARD & BAND THE MIDNIGHTERS BEAUSOUEL CAJUN BAND BOHTOHWEST
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A familiar fare: Isaac "Pork Chop" Mason performing with the French o~-~~E~o Market Jazz Band. l'ot Jony • • occasionally jam together. Woody from fan~ and friends throughout 0 0 Wiley plays classical "favorites" the city who had read the tragic on crystal glasses filled with water. account of the popular tap dancer. • 0 • 0 • 0 • And, of course, the afternoon brass The problem: her Pork Chop is bands of kids and veterans alike alive and well at 70 years old and including the ReBirth, All-Star and still performing internationall} at ALL YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES! Young Tuxedo bands- dommatc every chance he gets. I the air-space for blocks. Some arc Then what Pork. Chop was it exciting and promising, but others whose death grabbed page one arc maddeningly repetitive and headlines twice tn the same week? FREE MEMBERSHIP loud. Fifty-eight-year-old Oltvcr An • GREAT SELECTION- ENTERTAINMENT, It's a mixed bag of quality. atti derson. brother of New Orleans' tudes and legal connicts. Are per ongmal Pork Chop. The fir-.t Pork. FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY mits a reasonable compromise? The Chop, according to local saxophon problem is that the existing laws ist Chuck Credo. who has worked • LOADS OF NEW SELECTIONS themselves may be unjust. And yet. with all three men, was George An EVERY MONTH if street musicians don't pay heed to derson. who was shot by his com the existing laws, the increasing mon law wife years ago and died • WEEKLY SPECIALS! regulation may infringe upon their on the steps of the famous Door already limited "freedoms." Credo, leader of the Basin Street . Six, claims Isaac Mason, the little OPEN 7 DAYS -Mark Kaufman man who has toured throughout the 1 0-9 Mon-Sat Noon-6 Sun world with Credo and his band. i-. TRUNlPET the real Pork Chop. According to PLAYER LOU Credo, Mason was the best man at SINO DIES Oliver's wedding. He said Oliver Lou Sino, the trumpet player Anderson is better known to locals from Algiers who was best known as "Kidney Stew." for his 12-year stint with Louis Pri And to prove the point, WWIW's ma and Keely Smith, died June 30 Dan Valentine 3129 Gentilly Blvd. 3627 S. held an outdoor pro Carrollton Ave. at the age of 55. 282-3322 motion featuring Isaac Mason. 482-6431 Sino, born Louis Scioneaux, spent the Sixties in Las Vegas back- -Gina Guccione 6 ...... ~ THE 1AIAVELENGTH INTERVIEVW R.E.M • Ill II 1111111111111111 II lllll Ulllllllllffi [ffi 11 ffilDIIlillllllllllll lIll[ I should admit that I was beginning to lose faith in R.E.M. Their whole act had seemed to stagnate in a formula of Southern mysticism and humility with which they could be hugely successful (last year's Fables ofthe Reconstruction was Top 30) while retaining the ambience of a cult band. The group's members still insisted that they were outside of the music business, doing their own thing and all the critical and commercial success they attained came as a complete surprise to them. Michael Stipe's lyrics and album covers were still dark and moody, conjuring up Palominos work. Mike [Mills] and Bill [Berry] put together their images of trains, fields, small towns and more trains. But where little cover band, Com Cob Web, that plays all the Seventies were they going? The meaning of the songs was still purposely greatest hits." ambigious, and as the pace of the songs slowed down with each Buck recently recorded an EP with the Fleshtones' Keith Streng, album, it seemed that R. E. M. had found a comfortable miasmic The Full Time Men. "Sounds like a porn film but it cost us about niche. I was ready to move on. $250 to make. It was fun. I'd like to do another one," said Buck, But then something strange happened. R.E.M. made a whose latest project has been to improve his status as world's straightforward rock 'n' roll album, Lifes Rich Pageant. worst banjo player. "I know three or four chords so I get the chord "That was just the way we felt this year," said guitarist Peter book out, find the page that has the chords I need. I literally had Buck in a recent telephone interview. "Every record is a product the book on my lap when I played it in 'Wendell Gee'." of the feelings of the band, what we want to do, a reaction maybe R .E.M. open their tour this month at the new Grand Ole Opry to what we hear on the radio. This year, we wanted to be more in Nashville. Camper Van Beethoven may open for the band at direct lyrically. There are a few things we wanted to say. the Saenger, September 12. Buck's current faves are Camper Van Musically, we wanted to make more of a - I hate to say the and a fellow named Mason Ruffner. word "rock 'n' roll" because then you think of long haired guys The last time R.E.M. played here in New Orleans, Buck and .,..... Ill!· ; with shirts open to their waists, stomping their feet, miming Mike Mills hit the French Quarter: "Mike and I were bar-hopping, ,__.,., the guitarist- but we wanted to make a rock 'n' roll album. It listening to just horrible bands with people laughing at them. ....,_.-::{ had to be more punchy and straight forward. That's one of the There was one place I knew where they usually play blues on the reasons we picked Don [Gehman] because he's really good at comer-I don't know what it's called [Old Absinthe House1- and it was there that we ,_._.. ...:., recording that kind of stuff." saw Mason Ruffner. He was sitting there playing for all of these fat'guys with their hands halfway up their Buck has been facetiously telling everyone that he loved girlfriends' dresses. And their girlfriends were suspiciously Gehman's production on the Barbara Streisand album, Emotion. young, all painted up. And they were yelling "Melancholy Baby" After an apprenticeship with the Bee Gees, Gehman produced the and "In the Mood"-stuff like that. He was kind of sneering at LIFES RICH PAGEANT them and Mills goes "Hey, play 'Crosscut Saw'. Mason lit up and played it for us. We stayed and watched for an hour and a .. half. Great show! I just bought his album." \ -# a- .. -.- .·· . -~r: ,.~ \ . 'We wanted to make Through sheer persistence, R.E.M. has attracted a large I ~ following in New Orleans, one of the first cities the band ever \.,. ,_ a rock 'n' roll album' ·played in. "We started coming there right after we first started, and played the Beat Exchange, Tupelo's three or four times and, -Peter Buck .,.· oh any number of·places," said .Buck. "I'm not too sure if we t-..- ...... R. E. M . connect on a real Southern level at all. Maybe we're seen as an alternative to a lot of the stuff that plays in the same size places .!'.t Ill~ '•lH) •• we play. Instead of some haircut band you could see us and feel Blasters, Peter Case (formerly ofthe Plimsouls) and most notably, like you're doing a good deed." John Cougar Mellancamp's Scarecrow. Lifes Rich Pageant is Ifenjoying a good, straightforward rock concert is a good deed, loose and live sounding yet very clean and readymade for radio. I'm sure R.E.M. has been responsible for a fair share of good "He gave us a tremendous sound. The drums sound great, the samaritans. I have faith that Lifes Rich Pageant will convert many guitars are great and Michael's voice sounds great," said Buck, more. and, indeed, this is the first album in which mumblin' Michael - St. George Bryan Stipe's vocals are audible and understandable. Helpful when a band has got something to say: "There are songs that are of a piece on this record," said Buck, wary of overstating the themes that run through someofthecuts. '"The Flowers ofGuatamala' , 'Begin the Begin', 'Cuyahoga', a little bit of 'These Days' are more outwardly aware of the world. These songs look at the world in 1986, and 1986 has been pretty screwed-up as far as where we're sending money, soldiers and guns." With references to the early colonist Miles Standish and the RAY FRARSER.·s Indian communities of the Cuyahoga River, Stipe's lyrics convey the promise of the new frontier of the past with the political and DRUM CENTER economic immoralities of today. Optimistically, he adds "We are young despite the years, we are concerned-we are hope, despite the times" in "These Days." ~ These days, R.E.M. has been working consistently. "We've SALES... SERVICE ... INSTRUCTION just spent a month and a half doing interviews, rehearsing every day and playing a couple of times for fun in Athens," said the ALL MAJOR BRANDS e COMPETITIVE PRICES vanguai-a of the
TheRh~soflbdaclCnu Now a confirmed New Orleanian, this Dominican Republic native has worldwide connections. IVAN BODLEY are is the musician whose cre short-lived band, however. He was dentials are as extensive as immediately asked to tour by vir- · those of 38-year-old Domin tuouso guitarist John McLaughlin, Rican Republic native Rafael Cruz. The whose band included some great Latin talent and expertise of this Latin per players. After that came more and cussionist are surpassed only by his more opportunities for the quickly ris humility and nonchalant attitude to ing Dominican percussionist who de wards his career and-past associations scribes the scene as " crazy." with world renowned artists. Now an affirmed New Orleanian, Raffy (to his Also during this time, Rafael had friends) lives on Gev. Nicholls Street earned the regard and friendship of in the French Quarter, amid a myriad Raymond Silver, the president of of percussion instruments from Electric Ladyland Studios in New Brazil, Africa, and elsewhere dang York. Cruz can now occasionally be ling from the wall or carefully strewn spotted sporting a spiffy purple satin . about in the corner of his loft apart jacket adorned with his name and the ment. studio logo. It was a Christmas pre Born and raised in Santo Domingo, sent from Silver to Cruz and other as a young man Cruz chose the art of musicians that were working regu percussion to study. Three years of larly at the studio in and around 1977. intensive application to his craft at a Another slew of album credits Dominican school of the arts as well emerged from this association includ as many subsequent affiliations with ing Tommy Bolin's last album very talented musicians, both for Teaser, featuring Jeff Porcaro of mally and informally, led to his pre Toto, Jan Hammer of Miami Vice sent precisions and percussive prow soundtrack fame and other things that ess. are better than that, David Sanborn, Nineteen-sixty-nine found Cruz in Phil Collins, and others. He also Puerto Rico and later New Yorlc City toured with Bolin on the last tour be Nearly two years ago, Cruz moved Composers' Recording Studio and playing and aspiring until an associa fore he died. to New Orleans to establish residence Sea-Saint Studio. tion with Nemperor Records and Touring is essential to any artist. and "to play, man. That's what I do." Still Cruz keeps in touch with old friends from f>Jlerto Rico brought Enter Cruz, the eager percussionist. He gradually met, befriended, and acquaintances a11d contacts as is illus about the formatioon of his first band Rafael has toured with Herbie Mann, eventually played with many musi trated by his appearance with old with a major label contract, in 1975. the Crusaders, Stanley Turrentine for cians here in the Crescent City. He friends Flora Purim and Airto Moreira The band, named Raices, which two years, Don Cherry, and even Mac can be seen locally on stage with King when they played New Orleans. Also means "roots" in Spanish, began to Rebennack (Dr. John) for a bit. Nino and the Slave Girls featuring A. Joe Sample new him into London re open for major recording artists as a Touring is also a great opportunity to J. Loria; the girls Faith, Chastity, and cently to play on a live album. seven-piece latin jazz and percussive see the world and get paid for it. On Obedience; Mark Bingham; Ivan For the future, Cruz hopes to play outfit. Their first of such gigs was a tour Cruz played in many great coun Bodley; and other surprise guests, or much more locally with the Rafael scheduled opening spot in front of the tries, states, and cities, but none im with the Rafael Cruz Quintet which Cruz Quintet, and is presently legendary Miles Davis in Central pressed him quite as much as New has featured Michael Pellera, Harry negotiating financial backing from a Park. Cruz recalls that Davis heard Orleans, "I wanna live in that city one Connick, Jr., Scott Kevin Goudeau, major record label to record an album the band and said,' No man, you don't of these days before I die," he vowed Steve Mazakowski, Amodee Cas in New Orleans. When asked what need to open for me, I'll open for as he played Rosy's Club with tonell, Rick Marguitsa, John Croar more he would have the public know you.' And he played before us." But Dr.John, Herbie Mann, David San kin, Steve Ruth, Ivan Bodley, Mark about him, he simply replies, "that Raices soon fell prey to misdirection born, and the Brecker Brothers, and Sanders, and others in groups of only I'm a nice person too, man. If people and the band split in 1976. as he played the Blue Room at the five at a time; hence the name Quintet. come to see the band, they'll enjoy Cruz did not go unnoticed from the Fairmont Hotel with Astrud Gilberto. He has also been recording locally at it." Indeed. e
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12 Wavelengll1 • SEPIEMBER Martinique, and it has that strong ca seen any indication that this is hap dence influence. Li~en to 'Hot Mix' pening? (on Arrow's Deadly lp). 'Hot Mix' is "No, not really. You see, Shorty really my hits in almost chronological has this strong idea with that change, order, and 'Monique' is the first one which is very innovative, but I don't in that medley. -:. think it's commercial. It's not com Do you feel you have to avoid mercial at all. And this is the whole meaningful lyrics in order to stay thing, because even in the soca busi within your successful formula? Are ness there are a lot of these guys who you restricted in any way? record just for recording sake, or to "The message in my music is sim be able to tell their grandchildren that Arrow: Always having a good time. ple. It's 'come on enjoy yourself and they made a record that particular have a good time.' l like to see people year. And half of this stuff that is Smith happy, hence, I try not to make people recorded shouldn't even be recorded. thought they wanted to ban us from radio station in Montserrat that used sad. So you will find that also in trying "And the Trinidad record market Trinidad forever, and not just from to play a lot of cadence. And when l to be commercial that I will use lighter has declined a thousand percent over the competttton. came on the calypso scene, coming subjects. Even if I take a serious sub the last five years. In 1979, if you ""Things just went very different. from a small country, and where ject . . . for instance, a couple of had a hit in Trinidad you could've Calypso began to shift a bit down to Trinidad is the land ofcalypso, people years ago I had a popular song called sold 60 to 70 thousand pieces. This the smaller islands. You had Swallow look to Trinidad as the authority on 'Man Must Live' where I dealt with year in Trinidad, the major hits, the (Antigua) coming in on the scene, you calypso . . . they felt that coming 'Don't care (worry) how people sup monsters, none ofthem crossed seven had Beckett (St. Vincent?). you had from a small country it's 50 times as press you and oppress you, don't care thousand. Gabby (Barbados). Until then. really, difficult for people to listen to you, what tragedy you might go through "We're talking about Sparrow put even West Indian people thought that much less to be recognized. ... don't give up ... live on.' And ting his album on sale where you get to be a calypsonian you must be born "So when I assessed the whole that along with a song 'Bills, Bills a case of beer free if you buy a Spar and bred in Trinidad." Trinidad calypso scene, I realized that Everyday.' A serious problem, but we row album, and Sparrow never even One of the reasons chat we're here I had to be very different to be heard dealt with it with such uptempo that got to five thousand! The market has in Guadeloupe right now is because because the competition is very even though people were getting the gone dead." of a statement you made a few years strong. l started playing around with message, it wasn't making them sad. Arrow also talked at length about back chat your style ofsoca is a com fusing the cadence beat into the So even if I do something serious, the carnival celebration on the island bination of a lot of different styles. music, and it has advanced from the either through the melody or through of Montserrat. Check this column in but leaning heavily on cadence from cadence to salsa, but the root cadence the lyrics I'll maybe dilute it a bit to a future issue to read what Arrow had Haiti and the French Antilles. is always there. In Trinidad, some make it a happy song." to say. Also, those curious about the Definitely. cadence was my times they refer to my music as ca Many people were saying in '85 zouk phenomenon that is sweeping strongest influence. I'm only half an dence. that the Jamoo album by Shorty (one francophone Africa and the Caribbean hour from Guadeloupe in Montserrat. "My first major success commer of the innovators of soca music back should pick up the current issue (Vol. so we hear a lot of French music . . . cially was a song named 'Monique,' in the late 1970s) was going to push V, No. 4) of the Reggae and African cadence music. We had a French which was a song about a girl from soca in a new direction. Have you Beat magazine. e
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...... _ ••..,...... 13 CK Lillian Axe On ·the Road The "not really metal but supercharged rock 'n' rollers" are knocking on serious doors.
GINA GUCCIONE ith two trips to New York to fore its current members became the J: · their credit, Lillian Axe is real Lillian Axe. J. In those years since . planning to return to the Big forming, well, Axe: "You have to work your ass off." AppleW again this month to play the actually reforming into its current club circuit. lineup, band members have worked The hard rock band was just there schedules much like roughnecks on Scott Calivo in June performing at the Sundance, an offshore drilling rig: three weeks label, "they screwed us." The Texas King was added to the Persia line-up Right Track Inn and Stage Park, and on and a week off. As Vines assesses, label welcomed the band into its in New York, when their drummer being featured on a local radio show "You have to work your ass off." But, studio in January, then tried to sell walked out in the middle of a tour. called "Metal Shop." finally, they feel they've reached the them the tape three months later. When King returned to New Orleans, Considered to be the largest re breaking point. "It's the closest we've Jim Dandy also tried to lure he joined Lillian Axe. gional act without a record contract, ever been" to signing the coveted guitarist Stevie Blaize into his own The "not really metal just super the unsigned Lillian Axe has members record contract, says manager Jerry band after the two did some dates to charged rock 'n' roll(ers)" generally Johnny Vines, bassist Michael Maxx, Ramos. gether. But Stevie, who has per play a mix of covers and originals lead guitarist Stevie Blaze and drum Now, they are building sources and formed with bassist Michael Maxx unless, of course, they're opening a mer Danny King hoping that they promoting their music regionally. since they formed Oz in 1980 as high concert for a major act. won't hold that distinction for long. Having another local heavy metal schoolers, wasn't ready to give up a The audience, band members say, As with any serious band, they've band make it big should help: Lillian band he knows is destined for success determine the mix . At Stan's Hard been knocking on record company Axe hopes to depend on some of for one that is, obviously, on its way Rock Cafe, for instance, they'll play doors. Hopefully, they'll hit the one Zebra's music business connections out. a couple of covers from bands like that opens. to smooth the way. They've also "I wasn't going to go with that band AC/DC, Ratt, Aerosmith, Judas The suburban New Orleans band is made friends with other rockers like when I've got this band," he says. Priest and Black Sabbath, and origi planning its third birthday on Hallo Ron Keel of Keel and Jim Dandy, But Stevie did perform on Jim nals for the remainder of the show. ween. If it seems like Lillian Axe has formerly of Black Oak Arkansas. Dandy's Ready as Hell album. Lillian Axe gets airplay in some been together much longer than that Jim Dandy, they thought, may have Drummer Danny King found his markets, they say. But not their home it is because they have. But the guys been their break onto vinyl but after way into the band via local rock band town. in the band don't count the years be- recording for Jim Dandy's Hacienda- Persia. The only non-New Orleanian, "If you do jazz Qr blues or a New SALE 599 ALBUM OR CASSEm
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he phenomenon of the comedy surrealistic Italian Plaza. Not long club has been one that by ago, enterpreneur/producer Allain passed New Orleans until re Delavillebret met with Lou Tortorich, cently.T Reasons that comedy dido 't the current owner of a cafe that's been take off in the land of the natural com in the family since 1902. The two edian were many . . . too much con struck a deal to open a comedy club flicting inexpensive entertainment, a in the upstairs room. Delavillebret weak club scene, and the lack of had seen the Comedy Cabaret sophistication laid on any audience Players, a troupe of a dozen or so that has as its address some streets local comics who often appear at the other than Los Angeles or New York. Glitter club in Slidell and tour on As the comedy listings began to weekends. He hired the troupe co grow in other regional music managers Mike Pamon and Ken Fer magazines, and Wavelength·.~ had guson to manage the new enterprise. only an occasional listing or two, we They, in tum, emphasized using began to worry. Always on the cutting local talent, which is one of the strong tour. and starting in mid-August they liners. Pamon, originally from New edge of a trend, was this one entertain points of the club. Every Wednesday began headlining on Friday and Satur York. opened the show with a few ment angle we weren't going to night is for these regional stand-ups. day nights as well. So Ernst's is the jokes about Schweggmann 's and comer? Then summer came, with and the club is often crowded. Some only club owned, operated by. and other supermarkets, but quickly what we call around here the Times have already been featured on a Cox featuring locals- "we're keeping the moved on the material appealing to Picayune 's Little Depression, and lo Cable Video, spliced from several money at home," Tortorich brags. the tourists in the audience as well. and behold, comedy clubs are spring shows, which was televised at 10 They also seem to be the cheapest (He privately noted that local come ing up like Latter and Blum for sale p.m. on Tuesday, Friday and Satur comedy club in town: $6 cover on dians seldom specialize in humor with signs. day. weekends, only $1 .50 for a beer, and limited appeal when they hit the road. The Ernst Cafe is a cozy brick "It's unfair," says Pamon, "to as no drink minimum. Similarly, they keep the shows pretty building in the still little-known sume that 'local' means 'amateur." ' I caught an early Saturday night clean for potential television appear warehouse district, just behind the Indeed, three-fourths of the troupe show that featured out-of-town head- ances.) While each club claims to be
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16 • ..,...... IIPriM8a days and a house band that does some pressed economy. People stressed out humorous impersonations of rock over precarious employment have an stars. But call ahead to check on when even greater need to laugh, and es their monthly "big names" are appear cape. Although its cover charge and ing, or you 'II be listening to some drink prices may not be within the slick cover tunes with a bunch of out budget of the unemployed, the two of-town folks drinking their evenings month-old club is doing well: on a through a conference. Wednesday night. the place was pack Out in Metairie, the Punchline ed, candle-lit and sprawling upstairs dominates the verbal entertainment from Augie's Delago, overlooking scene. It's one of a chain that started the sunset on the lakefront. Sunday in Atlanta and includes eight other is open mike night, but like the Punch comedy clubs, soon to expand to a line, most of the acts are of national fleet of twenty. As a result, they can stature, including the hot act for Au book top-quality. national headliners gust: Dennis Blair, who toured with who can bop from one Punchline to Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield the next. They have some local-gone and appeared in Easy Money. Even national professionals, too, but em lesser-known comics, like the locally phasize that most work out of New recruited Eric Lambert, have a York or L.A. polished act that matches the "big Manager Jim Smith notes that there show" atmosphere of the large room. was a void ten years ago: places filled Lambert opened up the show and in the gap between old-time vaudeville troduced an incisive Mark Sweetmean and the contemporary club atmos from Detroit, followed by L.A.'s Van pheres. Comedy has "grown up" in Gunter, fresh from a tour warming up the last five years or so, due to the for Kool and the Gang. the premiere showcase, the Cafe's ing crowd on that particular night. exposure ofHBO, Playboy, and local All these credentials may be impres strength is its intimacy: almost every Still, with two new acts in every cable TV stations. Shows like the sive, but more importantly, local or seat is within that "front row" reach weekend, the shows must vary in ev Comedy Workshop and Starsearch national comics earn their promising of the stand-up. Indeed, at the slow erything except high professional promote young comedians, and notoreity with well-crafted shows. stan of his show. the boisterous Hous quality, and the downtown location people want to go out and catch these Frankly, every act is going to be dif tonian Jewrry Pizzitola walked over makes it an ideal place to go. sort of shows live. And "Snickers," ferent, according to the comedian and a few empty chairs to hustle the atten Nearby, in the C.B.D., lies Geor the Punchline's local talent agency, the mood of the audience, but every tion of some people talking in a gie Porgie •s. a cabaret club in the mid can hire top quality comics for low act is also going to be funny. New comer. L.A.'s Jann Karam was dle of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. It prices. Orleans has always been "sophisti funny, too - she's already appeared lists itself as a comedy club, and to be Comedy Showcase manager Patty cated enough" for comedy - now on the Comedy Tonight program - fair, they have a variety of funny acts, Murphy agrees with Smith that the they have several places to enjoy it, but it was a smiling rather than laugh- including a Broadway brunch on Sun- local success is partly due to the de- live. Go out there and giggle! e
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SEPIIMIIIR • Wavelellfllla '17 to an audience of fans who may not have been persistent enough to track down the French im ports. One can only hope for more, perhaps newer recordings from Gatemouth in the future. Back to School Boo~e Alligator Records, Box 60234, Chicago, 11/i· nois 60660. Don't worry, Jimmy Swaggart, there's no way you'll find these discs at Wai-Mart. ~ent Orange Thts is the Voice(45) .lAMES LIEN Enigma Records From where else but California could the surt· our favorite record store is that Dash Rip Rock are one of those bands that skate-mod-punk-hardcore-rock 'n' roll of Agent just keep getting better and better. Of the two, As you Orange have evolved? Thts is the Voice, their closing, moving away. the older "DMZ" most accurately reflects their third LP, is a fairly accurate representation of the walk in the door, they are live sound. Fueled by Hoaky Hickel's bass runs unique blending of styles and blazmg energy that Ytaking down the sign overhead. You and Bill Davis' blistering guitar leads. Dash Rip has gamed them a reputation as a l1ve band stroll across the carpet, and two men Rock tear into this song w1th all the guts and drawing comparisons to the early Who and Hils· are rolling it up behind you as you chops of months of extended touring. "Oper ker Do among others . Their songwntmg and ator," written and sung by drummer Fred LeB· vocal presentation have matured , but in spite of go. When you are finished browsing lane, is in more of a pop vein than typical Dash the increase in technical sk1ll. the energy IS still through one of the bins, the men pack material, but shows the diversity found m the m the forefront here . A real gUitar band w1th a up the records in a box and carry them group's repertoire (they have been know to b1g , hard. crunching sound. Agent Orange take off. They follow you through the cover "Purple Haze" in their live sets). These risks with a crunch like a skate punk w1ping out two songs serve their purpose well: they prov1de in an empty swimming pool. or a cliff d1ver store, dismantling it as you shop. a sample of what the group sounds like, and hittmg the rocks a foot below the water. What records do you buy? Here are leave the listener anxious to hear more in the Enigma Records, P.0 Box 2428. 1750 East Holly some suggestions. When you hand future. Ave., El Segundo, California 90245. your money to the cashier, he puts it The rest of the record is equally solid. The un Fleshtones, late of I.R .S. Records, are 1n good in the register, closes the drawer, shape turning in two Sixties-style rockers. Only plugs the machine, and carries it off briefly on "Inner Groove" does singer and Love under his arm, leaving you in an Delegate Peter Zaremba indulge in his penchant Jandek empty, dusty warehouse with nothing for trite pseudo-hippie love god isms. Other, Telegraph Melts but a pile of mail-order record newer bands include the country-influenced Corwood Records Vinyliners and Arms Akimbo, who mix acoustic I'm warnmg you, when the sun dies, it's go· catalogues, and the stack of albums and electric instruments in the grand R.E.M/ ing to sound like th1s - music so outs1de. so you bought: Replacements/Let's Active style, featuring some twisted, so deep, it's scary. Other madmen kill their loved ones, talk to trees, dress up as Napo· leon, or get locked away; Jandek put out albums. Is 11 a band . a poet. a cult, or a new Tangerine Dream therapy prOJect for a psychoanalytiC research Underwater Sunlight lab? The ccwer 1s a blurry. out-of-locus pnoto Relativity EMC8113 apparently showing a young white male brush· Okay, here's a tip : remember those National ing his teeth over a small garden in somebody's Geographic Sounds of the Humpback Whale rec backyard . The song titles are insane "Telegraph ords? Here's the secret: play them at thirty Melts," "Go To Bed, " " You Pamted Your three, and they're whales; play them at forty-five Teeth .·· The music is indescnbable, unmention and they mysteriously sound like cats or dogs able, delicious, hideous, and sweet. ThiS 1s New whining; if that isn't enough, at seventy-eight Age music for after the sun d1es . J1m Morn son revolutions per minute I'll be damned if those making love to Grace Slick on top of a cracked whales don't sound like little chirping birds. electric gUitar that was plugged directly tnto the Well, maybe I'm crazy, but maybe I'm not; the tape recorder used to make th1s record . Jandek fact is that these guys seem to manage a new are a musical Frankenstein. They play mus1c m album every month or two, and they all suffer foreign keys, they play notes that do not ex1st from the same dilemma - like the whale rec This is why all the best gemuses are madmen. ords, they're practically impossible to really lis Perhaps this 1s why every lime I play th1s album. ten to . It's nice mood music to relax or read to, my brain hurts. Put on th1 s record . Your ha1r will but it's all background. You have to put the crackle and stand on end It will end your party. actual entertainment of the record in yourself. You will scream You'll see God "Song of the Whale" clocks in in true Tangerine Corwood Records. P 0 Box 15375, Hous· Dream fashion at just under twenty minutes; ton, Texas 77020 side two consists of four meandering, atmo spheric instrumental pieces that leave almost no impression on the senses whatsoever. Notably absent from the foreground in the mix is the now My Dad Is Dead trademark stoned-boogie-groove repetition of .. . And He's Not Gomg To Take It Anymore older Tangerine Dream work such as the sound catchy melodic hooks and above-average lyrics. St. Valentine Records track to "Risky Business." In its place is some Both sides of the album close with songs by the My Dad Is Dead is Mark Edwards playing pleasantly unlistenable mellower-than fantastic Drivin' N' Cryin', a band whose live gUitar, bass, drums, and singing His dad d1ed Shadowfax new-age style music that's nice to appearances are steadily forg1ng a reputation for when he was 62 . He looked like he was 95. Marlt read a book or go to sleep to. And as you do, just them as a "must-see" show. Theirs will be the looks just like h1s dad d1d when he was 25. This keep in mind that these guys were doing this first single-artist album to be released on 688 has him worried, so m the meantime he does stuff way back when computers were the size of Records , and together with th1s compilation, will lots of stuff like play guitar, bass, drums. and telephone booths, not telephone books, and the mark a strong beginning for this new, young sing on his own records. His songwnting skills words "New Age" were just a gleam in some independent label from Atlanta. show his diverse talents, mastering guitar pop proto-Windham Hill ad-man's eye. 688 Records, P.O. Box 54343, Atlanta, GA and thrashlike assaults, but mostly he just flails Relativity Records, 1830 W. 208, Torence, 30308. away in an abrasive melodic mode much like California 90501 . early Joy Division. His lyrics are every bit as depressing as the name of his band; sometimes his neuroses take on almost comical epic pro Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown portions ("See a doctor who tells me I'm well/ Assorted Artists Pressure Cooker What does he know anyway?") Comparisons to 688 Presents Alligator Records Joy Division's lan Curtis are obvious . The vo1ce 688 Records Never mind that every note on this record is is usually mumbling, buried in the m1x back It is rare that a new record label will form and twelve years old . Culled from Gatemouth's five behind the drums, almost as 1f the singer is in a make its debut with a full roster of truly incred· LP's from the mid-1970s for the French label different room from the rest of the band . The ible talent. For only being a few months old, Black and Blue, these nine tracks (two in music champions a strong mixture of dis· Atlanta-based 688 Records already has at its strumentals) show Gatemouth Brown as the tal sonance and melody, with lyrics depicting a fingers an awesome stable of artists. Included ent he is. The music ranges from the mellow poor pathetic protagomst struggling to stay on the bill are none other than New Orleans' own blues of " My Time's Expensive" to the big band afloat in the cruel world . He's the little guy, and Dash Rip Rock, who were signed to the label feel of "Just Lippin'," and all of it is absolutely he means every word he can get out. You can early on in its history last January. The label top notch. The only complaint is that there isn't almost hear his shoulders sag. One can, also. plans to release Dash's album in October, but enough; adding up the lengths of the songs, one sadly, predict that, like Curtis, he will (a) be dead our guess is that it won't be out until around finds that there was probably room for one more in five years, and (b) never have a hit record Christmas. The two songs that represent the song on each side. The domestic release of this while he's alive to reap the financial rewards. band' here ("DMZ" and "Operator") are de "best of" sampler represents a smart move by Let's hope that when it finally does happen, finitely a step up in quality from their "Pops" Alligator record s, bringing Brown's music back somebody will be left in his family to collect the cassette and earlier 7" vinyl outings. They show across the Atlantic from Europe, to expose h1m check . •
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his album represents one of the earliest attempts the Europeans made at opening up the vaults Tto unlock many classic New Orleans performances. Compiled by Gilles Petard, who would later bring us those great Pathe Marconi reissues, the 16 track LP presents a hodge-podge of Allen Toussaint productions recorded between 1965 and 1969. Understandably Lee Dorsey gets the lion's share of attention with four of his big Amy Records hits being found- "Ride Your Pony," "Work ing In A Coalmine" - with Florida trucker Betty Harris right behind with lace Johnson's ''I'm Grown." Two three of her big singles. songs Toussaint recorded for Bell in Far more interesting, howc;:ver, are the late sixties "I've Got That Feel in' the obscure singles gathered from the Now" and "We the People," finish up Sansu and Tou-Sea labels. Case in the album, which still sound contem point is "Omar Khayyam," by the porary today. Rubaiyats, which in all likelihood is Although this album is no longer a multi-tracked recording of Allen available, most of the individual Toussaint's singing and playing. tracks can be tracked down via the Other interesting tracks include Aaron various Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris Neville's "Where Is My Baby," Ray reissues, and the recent Sehorn's Soul Algere's " In My Comer," and Wal- Farm Vol. 2, on Charly. e
vided by Timothea, who duets with Washington on " It Was Fun While It Lasted." Washington takes on the Tyrone Davis hit " Can I Change Your Mind" on his own terms. R.E.M-. Davis' almost off-handed , interrogative style is in concert ,Jd~ discarded by Washington. It's done uptempo, with busy horns and a bit of stretching out. The other difference is that , where Davis sounded w/spocial guest I#&/~ merely lightly engaged with the object of his passion, Washington stays right on top of FETCHIN BONES Walter WaWngton ~iJ things. Wolf Tracks Wolf Tracks is a clean-cut blues album of Rounder no-nonsense songs and little self-indulgence. Is Walter " Wolfman " Washington meets a Washington at the peak of his form? Just scratch Friday, September 12 national audience w1th a handful of originals, a a little beneath the slickness . 8:00 PM at the complement of friends and 16 tons of tape echo. -Vincent Fumar all under the auspices of Scott Billington and the Rounder label. 45's SAENGER THEATRE Is Washington an average blues artist? Not on the evidence of a set at Dorothy's Medallion or The Human Rayz Snug Harbor. Nor on Wolf Tracks. which is a Chemical Kids blw Hit the Cat tickets on sale at all case of slickness with honor. Ray Records Long -time Johnny Adams accompanist Simple guitar and keyboard leads add up to Ticketmaster Locations and Washington gets to showcase his own vocal simple dance music with biting sarcastic lyrics chops on Wolf Tracks, and those chops are concerned with the environment and killing cats. the Saenger Box Office. considerable. "''m Tiptoeing Through" is an CALL 888-8181 updated bit of urban blues, done at medium tempo and with just enough introductory polish Louie Ludwil! and the Dream Kin2S to charge by phone. to keep undecided new listeners hanging on for Living in the Real World blw She's Getting 'Mar '• more. "Thinking for Yourself" suggests some ried thing inspired by James Booker's version of "Hi Rabadash Records Heel Sneakers," while "Are You the Lady?" Muted horns and mid-tempo New Orleans -· offers a glimpse of Washington singing in a R&B rhythms and lyrics by the born loser. This baritone . guy is depressed. Besides Washington on guitar, Elijah Rodgers is heard on rhythm guitar, David Torkanowsky is on keyboards, Harold J. Scott on bass, Van Eloise Burrell ,._ Odom on drums, George "Geeje" Jackson Jr. Cream Always Rises blw (Shoulda Been a Sin .. on congas and Bill Samuel plays the tenor and ger) In a R&B Band Produced By · alto horns with the Windfall Horns, which he Scintilla Records arranged . Slow laid back contemporary urban R&B. De "Sweet Cakes" is an instrumental tip of the spite the fact that Art Neville has " been playing hat to the Wes Montgomery school. It's bright this for all of my friends" only her voice and WHITEOAK and breezy, and would-serve well as a TV theme James Fenner's work on the congas, bongos, PRODUCTIONS " ' if TV soundtracks were to use something be and other percussion stand out. e sides synthesizers. And a saucy cameo is pro- -Bryan Wayson
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DOOR PRIZE! FOR INFO, CAll STEVE @ 605 Canal St. 524-7511 ust W"e pack our bags and 01.ove to Cleveland or Atlanta W"ith the rest of" the herd and leave this Banana Republic under God to the pal01.etto bugs and 01.irleton vines or shall W"e open a bottle of" Dixie~ light a IIigh -Tohn the Conqueror candle~ and drea01. of" the Saints in the SuperboW"I? Ain~t nuthin~ but a party! TERIES OF NEW ORLEANS REVEALED
It's Our Party I-Iave "W'e forgot "W"hy "W'e're here i n the first place? VVhat "W'e do best? VVhat "W'e live to do? \il,~ Germaine Wells (tar right) hosts Liberace at Arnaud's. by Bunny Matthews . '
- r; 7 he onty thing that is done with any de of sin") and William Makepeace Thackeray; the leans so what follows is a general overview of some gree of consistent excellence in New quadroon balls, where young ladies of color were of the grand festivities, as well as recipes, advice Orleans is the Party. It is our collective romanced by young men of pinkish complexion; and arcane observations. obsession. Sure - we talk about the Mardi Gras, imported, by way of Ancient Rome, faltering economy, public education from Mobile; Mayor Maestri presenting President and high crime rates but do we really Franklin D. Roosevelt with a platter of raw oysters. care? Nuh uh - we wanna PAAAR New Orleans needed entertainment for its parties so The Birthday Party RRTITYY! it invented jazz. New Orleans needed refreshments The history of New Orleans is a history of parties: for its parties so it invented the cocktail. After these While not unknown in other parts of the world, General Andrew Jackson and a bunch of pirates two momentous innovations, all progress ceased in the Birthday Party is a virtual daily occurrence in celebrating their guerilla-style victory at the Battle New Orleans. We got drunk and listened to music. some sections of New Orleans, particularly office of New Orleans; the feting of celebrated authors It was the only worthwhile enterprise left. buildings. Orleanians do not really like to work (the such as Mark Twain (who raved over the local pom Space does not allow a thorough investigation of only reason they do work is to pay for parties) so pano, calling it "delicious as the less criminal forms all the various types of parties popular in New Or- the occasion of someone's birthday is ample justifi- IIPIIM8D. w.,...... 21 The Com~ct !me • Mak~ Music Fun Agm
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Remember1 Music was fun. The Beach Boys, El~ The Beatles, all the gryat music, all the fun, and the ~Y of Includes: Includes: Missionary Man DIGGING YOUR SCENE • seeing anybody that was somebody-live When Tomorrow Comes L.:.W:.:.::ICc:..:..:KE=D..;..;;WA;.;.;..YS.::...______. in concert. The dynamic sounds of the Eurythmics The fab new British group is climbing Daryl Hall shows his own oats on CD M15ic was exciting, thrilling, and come alive on CD the charts faster than a laser. with great music and great sound fun. Your record player sounded horrible JOAN ARMATRADING JANET JACKSON UB40 as dMl the records you played on it 8ut it SLEIGHT OF HAND CONTROL Rat In The Kitchen diln't matter, you never had heard your favorite record on areal high fidelity system. But now you have one. But even your new recorm are scratched and hanf to &ten to. And they're apain to put on Brand new, Joan self produced this Micheal's little sister has her own new New and all orginal from this British anyway, so you jl!t_ ~t there and album and you'll love it abum reggae group ocwionally switch to M'IV on your remote control 'IV. THEN & NOW ... What ff it wasn't apain to put on WHITNEY HOUSTON THE BEST OF THE MONKEES records, little 4. 7inch records that could play for 74 minutes uninterrupted. What if you could scan the music or jump from any song to any song in a or LOVE OF ALL " THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW," second two, all by remote control1 • HOW WILL I KNOW "ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, ANYWHERE .. a SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU .. KICKS"' AND 11 GREAT What if there wasn't ascratcll oo the a YOU GIVE GOOD LOVE MONKEES CLASSICS When the going_ gets tough you can't For weeks the No. 1 selling Compact 60's music never sounded better than recml, no ticks, no JXlll, no sudace no& beat CD or this hit abum ' Disc in the USA on CD, the record of the 80's and mn lingapints cilftlt matter. What if the sound quality of thi reard was so fantastic it Qliured all the First in New Orleans with Compact Discs $3.00 OFF life and enth&sm ol alive coocat? Any Compact Disc And what if you coa1d play thi same COUPON reard in your car, or tHe it with you Expires September 30 1986 anywhm, and still get all thi gNat Kenner Metairie Uptown soaDd? The Esplanade Mall 3213 17th Street 7323 Freret Street 1401 W. Esplanade behind Lakeside between Broadway and Carrollton Music woukl be fun again. Tht 464-1411 464-1411 464-1411 C.,.ct Die maka masiclaaagain. Open to 9:30 every night 10 to 8:30 Mon-Thr 6 Fri & Sat 10 to 7 Mon-Thr 6 Fri & Sat "''"At?L K lONG LISRARY
cation for shutting down the office for the remainder ~ 'NlVERsnv f)r- ,,,,_.. / DC?l r , ":. _. of the day and sending out for a chocolate doberge cake from Joe Gambino's Bakery. It does not neces The King Cake Party sarily have to be the birthday of a fellow employee Party Music -the birthday of a fellow employee's second cousin This ritual commences 12 nights after Christmas or perhaps the mailman will suffice. Of course, after and continues until Mardi Gras. The idea is to enjoy many years' employment at the same office build one's self without the misfortune of finding the plas ing, one grows disgusted at the very idea of eating tic (or, in rare cases, ceramic) King Cake baby in another piece of chocolate doberge cake, which is one's piece of cake (which means that one must a good excuse for staying horne and not going to throw the next King Cake Party). Swallowing the work, thereby saving precious energy for more im baby can be rough on the intestines and is not advis portant parties. able.
The Seafood Party This one is simple. Fill a pirogue with ice and oysters on the halfshell. Boil three or four tons of crawfish (don't forget to add com-on-the-cob and new potatoes). Spread newspaper over card tables and ice down a dozen kegs of beer. Play Fats The Surprise Party Domino records as loud as the neighborhood will allow. Often combined with the Birthday Party, the Sur prise Party is most enjoyable when the recipient absolutely detests parties and would not attend one, even if invited by engraved invitation. By surprising Nobody wants to fool with records at a party The Hurricane Party such persons, they have no choice but to endure the because people get wild and knock the turntable agony of entrapment by boisterous well-wishers. over and destroy the $350 cartridge. What you Yes, here we sit below sea level, between two have to do is plan ahead and make a party large bodies of water, waiting for the Big One to cassette tape. For those who are too imbecilic hit. The electricity's out and the neighbor's poodle to figure out which songs would sound good at is flying across the horizon at 150 miles per hour. The Celebrity Party a party. I have compiled the following random What do we do? We party! See Mr. Armbruster's list of selections, chosen from my personal column in this issue for further details. Celebrities love parties in New Orleans, mainly record collection. because they don't live here and think that it's a "Party" - Maceo & the Macks charming place. "Love Party" - Marvin Gaye Orleanians love pelebrities because they think that "(Ain't Nothin' But A) House Party"-J. Geils a mere brush with the Famous will make life in this Band dull, sweltering burg tolerable. Germaine Wells, "Party Down"- Gap Band the late proprietress of Arnaud's hosted a mad soiree "Party Weekend" -Joe "King" Carrasco & the for Liberace, a man with aesthetic sensibilities to Crowns match her own. Led Zeppelin sought drag queens "It's My Party"- Lesley Gore The Cocktail Party for their local celebrations and the Rolling Stones "Party Doll" - Buddy Knox chartered the S. S. President and loaded it with roulette "Party Time" - The Heptones As I said, the cocktail was invented in New Or wheels and gaming tables. The invited Orleanians "Hoodoo Party" - Tabby Thomas leans. The Cocktail Party, however, was invented were shocked to discover that Mick Jagger is a "Punky Reggae Party" - Bob Marley & the by cartoonists employed by The New Yorker. The midget, barely 5-feet tall. Bruce Springsteen rented Wailers Cocktail Party infers polite chit-chat and gossip over Storyville for his party and hired his favorite local "Having A Party" - Sam Cooke Manhattans and Martinis. No such event has ever performers to serenade him. Bruce, too, turned out "Third Party" - Johnny Copeland taken place in New Orleans. to be a midget. "Party Girl"- Elvis Costello & the Attractions "The Funeral Party" - The Cure "How To Relax Your Colored Friends At Parties" - Lenny Bruce The Pajama Party "Party In The Street" - Any Trouble The Bachelor Party "Party In My Pants" - Barnes & Barnes Do you wear pajamas? Do you know anyone who "Dance, Party, Etc."- The Bar-Kays wears pajamas? The only adult who I've seen in The most common entertainment at the Bachelor "What A Party" - Fats Domino pajamas in recent years was Hugh Hefner. What Party is two or more ~male prostitutes mimicking "War Party" - Eddy Grant might be more appropriate for New Orleans would the sex act in front of the assembled, usually ineb "Block Party" - Greg Hawkes be the Funky Underwear Party. riated males present. Movies featuring women and "Party In The Woods Tonight;,-Jonathan dogs, horses, anteaters and other creatures are also Richman popular. Likewise in vogue is the humiliation ofthe "Party Of Parties" - Rhyze groom. The best place to accomplish this is at the "The Principles Of Party Organisation"-The Party Food Downs Lounge in Metairie, where the groom is tied Red Crayola to a chair on stage and then given a massage by the "Having A Party" - Third World Too much food, combined with too much alcohol, mammary glands of the resident exotic dancers. "(You'll Always Find Me In The) Kitchen At will only make your guests sick. Go easy on the Parties" - Jona Lewie vittles and buy more alcohol. If you insist upon "All Tomorrow's Parties" - Velvet serving food, go for the two big New Orleans favor Underground ites - (A) Philadelphia cream cheese doused with The Orgy "TV Party" - Black Flag Pickapeppa Sauce from Jamaica and (B) hogshead "Reggae Party" - The Morwells cheese (don:t even attempt to imagine the ingre While I have never been to an Orgy (and doubt "Dead Man's Party"- Oingo Boingo dients). that such parties actually take place in these modem "House Party" - Amos Milburn times), a friend of mine claims that he went to one "Party's Over'' - Penetration in Houston. He said it was a rather bad experience "The Party's Over"- Talk, Talk because, after enjoying the favors of the best looking Party Drinks woman at the party and thanking her for her hospi tality, he sought out the (male) friend he had arrived Anything with a reasonable amount of alcohol with and found him in bed with another man and will do although the proper host or hostess will serve no good explanation. 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Allied Music, New Orleans Bud's Guitar and Drum, Lafayette Not the day he buried his mother-in-law, a lady Ronnie Theriot says he loved dearly ...
I told my wife Lois: 'Look. Your mother was good to me. I loved her when she was alive and now Ronnie Theriot with his pals at Whitey's: (L-R) Gerald Buckmann, Cliff Bodenheimer, Norman I've buried her. I can't Glindmeyer, Theriot (with unbent cap), Jack King, George "Pickles" Lotz, Jim Blevins. do anything else for her and tonight the Saints have an ·The Greatest Saints Fan? exhibition.' Horrible I1:'s our Ca1:holic heri1:age 1:ha1: 1:eaches us 1:o suffer, weather, too. Had a and Ronnie Therio1: power failure at the does i1: so -well. stadium that night" by Ronnie Virgets
worship of a team with an aggregate regular-season in the employ of Uncle Sam for 31 years now, the Not even the Sunday afternoon record of 83-187-5. This means going through sacks first decade at Commodity Credit, the rest with the and sacks of bad oysters to find a few precious Corps of Engineers. when sons Ronnie Jr. and Robert victory pearls. At 49, he plays a little less softball and a little had their ring ceremonies over at This is no team for the ficklehearted. more golf than he used to. He's a Saturday-afternoon This IS what, on this Saturday afternoon at regular at Whitey's and is more than a little proud Brother Martin High ... Whitey's Famous Seafood Restaurant on Downman that he was king of the Krewe of Crawfish that Road, Ronnie Theriot is saying over a pitcher of parades inside the bar two Saturdays before Mardi draft and a plate of white beans to his pal, "Coffee" Gras. "The only interior parade in town, unless you Grinder. wanna count Bacchus in the Dome," he boasts. "My "I usta go to all the Saints games," Coffee is queen was Mary Hebert, whose husband owns the "My wife really got mad at me on this saying, "But after years and years, man,l give up." place. She's queen every year. We call her Queen "Man, it's people like you always come up to me Eternal." one. But I said 'Look, I've spent at work on Monday mornmgs atter they get beat About 20 years ago, Ronnie and his wife, Lois, and wanna tell me what's wrong with the Saints," moved to the home on Pleasure Street that they still thousands to help them get these Ronnie says with brown eyes flashing. "Guys who live in. About the same time, the Saints brought rings. I care about the rings. But the don't even go to the games! They the ones that piss their particular version of the National Football me off. I say you pay your money, then we' II talk League to town, and things were never the same on rings'// be on their fingers Monday about the Saints." Pleasure Street. After a pitcher of draft, Ronnie has a lot to talk "I didn't start with season tickets," Ronnie re night for me to look at. There won't about the Saints. About tonight's season-opening members. "I usra go to the Lee Circle ticket office be a me to look at on exhibition from Denver. "Me and my wife gonna on paydays and try to buy for the next two or three Saints' game for sit in front of the TV with our little beer ... I can't games, depending on the paycheck." Monday."' wait." It seems as though this is a popular brew in Soon he was buying season tickets for Lois, his parts of New Orleans: Our "Little" beer. sons and daughter Dawn. Over the years, the boys Or about the Hotard bus he and a bunch of the gave up on the Saints. Dawn called it dusk last Not for nothing has Ronnie Thenot missed a gang from Whitey's are chartering for a road game season. Saints home game, not even il lousy exhibition. with Houston in a couple of weeks. "They probably got tired of being frustrated," That's a streak going on 20 years now, going on "We've been to Houston about six times over the suggests "Coffee" Grinder, reaching for the pitcher. 200 games. That's more Saint games than John years, and we try to get a hotel near the Galleria, "You ever notice how it is on the streets the Monday Mecom ever saw and more than Tom Benson will because the girls like to shop there. Man, when we after the Saints get beat? People driving like they ever live to see. Never missed one, Ronnie Theriot. got off the bus one time the bell captain said we was crazy or something." Says he probably never will. had more ice chests than luggage. Once we were "Years ago, I usta take this losing stuff home We're talking quinessential Saint fan here, boys giving a hallway party the night before the game with me," Ronnie confesses. "But no more. Now I A and girls. Games surrounded by terrible heat or ter and the cops showed up and said they'd hafta arrest don't always even stay till the end of the game if • rible cold. AI Hirt and Gumbo Ya-Ya. Cokeheaded us if the noise didn't stop. We told 'em they might they're getting massacred. Now I figure: I've paid :I players, muddleheaded coaches and bagheaded as well arrest us now because this was just the party my dues. I can leave early." ! fans. Cheerful halftime balloon ascensions crashing before the game." Sometimes the dues were in hard coin: A 62-7 "'z into the top of Tulane Stadium and disgruntled paper Please don't misunderstand. Mr. Theriot is no thrashing by Atlanta, a 1-15 season, a loss to Tampa 0 planes crashing onto the floor of the Dome. The scofflaw, no regular defier of the police. He's been Bay that gave that expansion team its first-ever vic- u
SEP'IIM8IIl ••., ...... 25 tory after 26 straight losses. Dempsey kicked his NFL record 63-yard f.eld goal one another be New Orleanians, and 'they can't im But sometimes there were paybacks, on and off with no time remaining to beat the Lions, 17-16. aging a higher calling . . . the field. Parking on Miro across Broadway and "I remember saying when they lined up, 'Lookit "See, on the Saints' out-of-town games, our little walking to his regular seats near the hedges at the this fake shit'. And when he kicked it, the ball group rotates whose house we gonna go to to watch north end of Tulane Stadium. 'They only had those wasn't between the uprights. But he kicked it so the game on TV," Ronnie Theriot says as he waves little bathrooms, hold about eight people. We usta hard it sliced, like a golf ball, and went right Jack King, resident chef at Whitey's Famous Sea walk to the ground level and urinate in the bushes. through. food Restaurant, to the table. "We have things like But nobody could see us." "Well, when it was over, nobody wanted to leave. roast and peas, seafood, our little beer and yell like Detecting AI Dodd's superstition of touching the We all sat in the stands, at least an hour, and had we were nuts. goal posts as he ran on the field to start each.game. a giant party for the whole city. White people buying "Well, one day we're all watching the Saints on Personal favorites like George Rogers ("He may drinks for black people and black people buying TV and I think they were getting beat as usual. But have been on that dope, I don't know." But he ran drinks for white people. It was like everyone had we're all sitting in front of a mountain of boiled hard every game.") and Hank Stram ("He tried to gone crazy." shrimp, the women are waiting on us like we were give the Saints some discipline. I remember how And in that frieze is perhaps the essence of the kings, the air--conditioner's blowing in November, he made them line up in numerical order for the essential Saint fan. Perhaps it is inarticulable; cer and somebody says: national anthem.") tainly it isn't about wins and losses. It likely has '"I wonder what they're doing in Minnesota right But highest of all was the glorious afternoon Tom something to do with New Orleans people helping now?"'
It:'s scarier t:han .Judaism, ThaNoOno more raucous t:han Bapt:ist, 0 more st:at:ues t:han Buddism That We Do it:'s voodoo, and it:'s st:ill around. by Eric D. Bookhardt
The days are long past when it was fairly com of America, celebrated in publications worldwide. ally, he prefers to remain anonymous, but the crisp, monplace, under the light of a full moon, for large Today, one hundred years after her reign, the almost hi-tech manner in which he articulates the and varied masses of people to chant strange hypno legend remains. Yet the vista as one enters the city phenomena of santerla would doubtless shock those tic chants and prance about in various stages of via the Interstate - gleaming granite shafts, those who dismiss the occult as merely the illusion of the undress on the commands of an ebony priestess, monolithic totems of corporate capitalism glistening ignorant. darkly illumined by the flickering glow of a cauldron in the vaporous mists of the business district - Further evidence of the pervasiveness of the oc fire. Into the steaming vat had been placed mysteri proclaim a wholly different sense of place. One cult may be found at the retail level. Occult shops ous objects, herbs, and perhaps a snake or even a wonders, to what extent does the world of Marie filled with jars of herbs, mysterious substances with live, bound chicken, while former slaves, ordinary Laveau still live? Does an unseen hand still shape names like "dragon's blood," statues of saints and other entities, candles of various shapes and sorts, incense and essential oils, objects ranging from the ordinary to the arcane offer the initiate a wide variety of wares. Almost every New Orleanian, is aware of voodoo, witchcraft and occult spiritualist beliefs, to some extent, yet few can specifically define them or their origins. That voodoo and related phenomena are central to New Orleans's identity has been made evident in films and books about this place. Hol lywood knows that voodoo adds a dash of drama under the Spanish moss. But what is it?
Voodoo originated on the West Coast of Africa, among the Dahomey tribal people. who worshipped spirit deities that correspond to the forces of the natural world. When the French brought slaves to the new world colonies of Haiti, Martinique and Louisiana, an effort was made to convert these Af ricans to Catholicism. While they had some obvious Traditional New Orleans voodoo altar. success, many of the slaves adopted the trappings of Catholicism while retaining the fundamental faith Irk D. llookhcuclt of Dahomey spirit worship. These spirits were called black and white people, as well as society folk and local destiny? Do zombies wander the corridors of upon in times of need, and their influences was sometimes an occasional debutante, chanted and the Shell building? amplified by the use of associated herbs, candles, danced in rhapsodic abandon. These ceremonies While no longer a highly visible local presence, rituals and meditation. were usually held along Bayou St. John, which must the influence of voodoo, santeria and witchcraft has Since the Catholics had their own spirits invoked have been a more exciting neighborhood in those long been more felt than seen in New Orleans, and for such purposes, called "saints," as well as their days. currently seems to be increasing. Historically more own rituals, prayer meditations and food obser Presiding over it all was Marie Laveau, the most prevalent in the black community, the belief in these vances, the slaves naturally assumed that this was powerful woman of 19th Century New Orleans. She occult forces has not been limited to any one group. the white man's version of the same thing. This was a loved, feared and celebrated fixture of city And one never knows who among us is actually combination of African and European religious be life, and through her influence a great many people involved in these secret societies. For instance, one liefs in the original French colonies became known were saved, cured or acquitted, as well as the reverse junior executive for the West Bank branch of a as "voodoo" - the practice of Marie Laveau and of these. It was largely through her influence that national medical corporation, is in his private life Poppa Doc Duvalier (in Haiti). New Orleans became known as the voodoo capitol training for priesthood in a local santerla cult. Natur- Voodoo is somewhat more elaborate, due to the 26 Wavel•..... • • .....,.._ influence of French Catholicism, that the folk magic represented by Pan, the goat, lord of the flocks, the or "hoodoo" of the rural areas of the South. herds and the hunt. The goddess was often sym Botanicas and Occult Shops Voodoo is essentially about power- harnessing bolized by a crescent moon. Voodoo and occult spiritualist beliefs are a the unseen spirits and occult (literally meaning "hid These tribes that worshipped nature in the form built-in part of traditional New Orleans customs. den") forces to the service of the human will. While of the bountiful goddess of the fields, the seas and For instance, the practice of scrubbing down the enlightened voodoo adepts have adopted a belief in the sky, and of the animal god Pan, were eventually front stoop with red brick dust, common until fairly the golden rule- that what you put out comes back conquered by the warrior tribes. While these too recently, might sound less efficient than Formula to you with interest - voodoo is like technology usually practiced magic, this was said to be sorcery 409. But actually, the red brick dust scrub-down in its ethical neutrality. It may be used for white or for the purpose of conquest rather than creation. So was for protection against evil spirits entering the black magic, for cretive or merely foolishly destruc witchcraft had to go underground. However, some home, a factor not covered in most spray detergent tive efforts. Its main appeal is a means for the indi conquering tribes such as the Celts of Britain, and product warranties. vidual to gam some control over his or her own the ancient Greeks, incorporated much of the Old Most occult shops provide the herbs, candles and destiny. usually in prosaic affairs such as health, Religion into their own legends,thus preserving other paraphernalia for invoking spirits or spells not money, sex, court cases. lotteries and the like. what we know of it today. It is because of the ordinarily found at the Winn-Dixie. (Although often
The history ofsanterfa is similar to that of voodoo, only involving Spanish Catholicism and its influence on slaves from the Yoruba tribes of the Nigerian coast of Africa. Today santerfa flourishes in the Caribbean region including the Caribbean coastal nations of Latin America. where it is a major force in all areas of life. Although the encounter with Catholicism came about in a manner similar to voodoo, there are sig nificant differences deriving from both the Spanish and Yoruba influences. Historians of santerfa main tain that the Yoruba faith in spirit deities was highly evolved and strikingly similar to the pantheon of the Olympian deities of ancient Greece. (Both the Greeks and the Yorubas practiced "nature" reli gions. the basis of all witchcraft.) The Yoruba gods, known as "onshas." have distinctly human-seeming per.\onahties, each identified with a particular Catholic saint, but actually linked with some force of nature. Thus Saint Barbara is actually the orisha Chango. god of fire. thunder and lightning, whose human form is said to be as a huge black man with striking features and an infectious smile. Santeria appears somewhat more humanistic than voodoo, and its gods, like the Greeks, are sometimes capri prominent element of a bountiful "Mother Nature" available at Schweggmann's.) Since the tools of the cious and capable of a good time. In Brazil, santerfa goddess in the Old Religion that witchcraft and trade are closely related, as are the actual techniques is known as "macumba." witches are often associated with women. It was a of voodoo, witchcraft and santerfa, most occult Our West Bank source assures us that santeda is kind of original feminism. shops have similarities of inventory regardless of formally structured in a manner similar to the Cath Today, persons who are witches may be of the their actual orientation. Here are a few of the better olic church, with hierarchies of priests for various enlightened variety, but they might also be of the known ones: purposes. The faithful are called "santeros" and dur variety devoted to sorcery - black magic for pur ing a ceremony it is not unusual for spirit possession poses of conquest. Our language does not differen Divine Ucbt at 3318 Magazine St. This place is to take place as a particular orisha enters the body tiate, and the matter was further confused by a very described by its proprietor as a general spiritualist of a devotee. While a santero does not necessarily old smear campaign directed against the animal god supply shop, not affiliated with any one branch of often visit a Catholic church (unless to borrow holy Pan, which attempted to link him with the legend the occult, "although some clients practice voodoo water), accounts of the lives of Jesus, Mary and the of satan, the underworld fallen angel derived from or santeria - mostly light stuff aimed at getting saints are regarded as great sources of information the Hebrew Talmud. lbere is no tradition of evil spirits out of the house." Consultations and on the orishas. satanism in original witchcraft. tarot readings are also offered and appear to be in Most santerfa cults are involved with white magic In the countryside of French Louisiana, voodoo, strong demand. only. although this may include negative force if it European witchcraft and American Indian magic is an act of protection and reflects intentions of have been synthesized into a local craft, sometimes F& FBocmica, 80 l N. Broad. A "Botanica" is what "divine justice." practiced by the traditional Cajun trateur or herb shops such as these are designated in Spanish, a doctor. A new book describing Louisiana folk reference to the wide stock or herbs they carry. F&F magic, by a practicing adept, entitled Charms Spells is the Schweggmann's of occult supply stores, with and Formulas is now available. Written by Ray Mal a huge selection of herbs, candles, oil, and a vast brough, it was published by Llewellyn Publications, array of saint statuary. Obviously catering to the from whom it may be ordered if your bookstore does santeria sects, it also offers a large stock ofoccult not stock it. books and consultants in the rear. What we usually call witchcraft refers to the old Here in New Orleans, voodoo has long been pre-Christian nature religions of Europe (although preeminent among both blacks and whites, although The Helping Hmd, 1732 Tulane Ave. A colorful, during the last two centuries ancient Egyptian lore European and Egyptian witchcraft has long been an established place near Charity Hospital, the Helping has exerted influences both in Europe and America). underground presence, and santerfa appears to be Hand is closely associated with the beliefs of the The historians of witchcraft trace the cult back to gaining ground. While traditionally tainted by per black community. An advisor is available. the prehistoric epoch that preceeded the bronze age. ceived associations with ignorance and paranoia, According to the legends of the wicca (witchcraft) the study of the occult may be gaining new credibil The Witcbcralt Shop, 521 St. Philip St. Founded some faith, in those early days there were tribes that sought ity due to a new awareness concerning the effects years ago and long associated with the legendary to tame the forces of nature, just as they had learned of meditation, as well as the ever-increasing knowl local witch, Mary Oneida Toups, the Shop is to tame animals and raise crops. Their magic was edge of the physics and chemistry of humanity. In affiliated with the Religious Order of Witchcraft of said to be concerned with the subtle art of bending any event, it is an interesting counterpoint to present Louisiana. As to where they are oriented among the these forces of nature, perceived as energy fields day attitudes. And anything that could alleviate the many forms of witchcraft, the proprietor declined surrounding all life, and shaping them to serve the boredom of the money-obsessed 1986 America of comment. The atmosphere of dark theatricality is human will. This original witchcraft worshipped the yuppies, of business as a kind of religion, and of colorful and appropriate to the French Quarter various manifestations of a goddess - the totality religion as a kind of mass market business - can't location. They manufacture their own oils and tarot of all of nature, and a god - the "homed one" be all bad. readings are available.
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Free, pic Roberts nicking encouraged. aa 43 a~·z;,' !11 , Paul 'Mr. Wonderful' Orndorff, Big John Thursday, 4-Saturday, 6 Studd , et. alia. Information at 286-7222. Friday, 5 & Saturday, 6 Oueyd1n Duck flatlv1l, In Festival Park at Guey Sunday, 7 Symphony Pops Concert, dan, 8 a.m . until 10 p.m. C61ebrat1on of America at Saints v. Falcons, La . the Orpheum Theatre . Friday-Sunday, 7 Superdome , noon ; 5· 522-2600 Blyou Blue Food flatlvll, at St. Louis Church on Saturday, 6 Hwy 316. (504) 876-3449 TuBsday, 9 Willi Anlmlll, Jimmy's AT&T/March Music Club. of Dlmu Friday, 12-Sunday,14 C.brty Golf Cllaalc, Or Monday, 8 Har~hln Rlllrold F1lr, at mond Country Club, Des The story told Sonia! Playground , Hara trehan . Ill Smlha, McAlister Auditorium, Tulane, han 865·5143 Old Country Buur, in Saturday, 13 by those who A-HI, Saenger, 8 p.m., 524-0876 . Jeanerette. from 10 a.m. to Tulane Ttxu Chrbtlln midnight on Saturday and t v. University, L.a. 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FRENCH QUARTER ~~ Artist Cafe, 608 lberville, 523-9358. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Japanese koto music; heavy MONDAYS metal Mondays; Saturdays, captain Tam's All Domestic Beer $1. S pm - 'til Good Revue-a tribute to the old All Good Lun TUESDAYS cheonette with the unforgettably rococo knotty Draft Beer Night pine panelling on Prytania? SO¢ Glass/$2.50 Pitcher Blylrd's Jazz Ally, 701 ~ Starts at 8 pm True Believers. part of the "Austin, Tx." night at Tipitina's, Thursday 18. Bourbon, 524-9200. Jazz Unlimited every night, from WEDNESDAYS 8. Ladies Night Blue Room, in the Fairmont 1st Drink Free, Y2 Price Hotel, 529-7111 . Dancing, lllnday, 18 Friday, 19-Sunday, 21 and Mixed dining, chic and eclat 8 pm-D•inb12 am Alllllllgllt, with such particlpants as Dnw and Saturday & Sunday, 27 & 28 Through Tues.2: Irma Thomas; Wed.3 through h II HIMtn, tilt True Bllllvlrl, T.. Comllllln 7111 AnnUli Ll. Rennlllunct flltlvll, Lafreniere Tues.9: Charlie Byrd; Wed . tO through Tues.16: THURSDAYS ... Tlpitina's, 891-TIPS. Park , Metairie; singer, dancers, mimes, jugglers, the ageless Tito Puente; Wed .17 through Busch Night, 75¢ Busch tumblers, minstrels , damsels, the whole bail of Tues.30: ladykiller Bobby Blue Bland. Longnecks, 9 pm - 'til FrldiY, 19 moyen-age wax; 834-5727. Brew Houu, Jackson Brewery, Decatur St ., ...,. KlllghC, Saenger, 8 p.m., 524-0876. 525-9843. Alternating Saturdays and Sundays FRIDAYS from 3 to 8:30, Andy and the Pacemakers and I Free Oysters, 6 pm - 9 pm, SO¢ lllldly, 22 Saturday, 20-Sunday, 21 Deja Vu. Draft, 6 pm - 8 pm Festivals Acldllns, Lafayette; how many festivals Chlrlty's Corner, In the Chateau LeMoyne Hotel, lllldyllluta, whose materialization here may be begin quite so auspiciously, with the ceremonial 301 Dauphine, 581-1303 . Fridays, 7 to 11, the ~ATURDAYS m11er of the delayed effects of the Chenobyl ac cutting of a twenty-five foot length of boudin? Nile Kaps. Import Beer Specials cident, UNO Arena, 286-7222. Among the various aspects of the festival are the Clarion Hotll, 1500 Canal, 522-4500. Brassy SUNDAYS Wld1111day, 24 & Saturday, 27 Bayou Food Festival , the Festival du Musique Janice Medlock on the Terrace Court from 6 $ oody Marys. 11 am - S pm Acadienne, the L.a . Native Crafts Festival, the L.a . Tuesdays through Thursdays and from 7 until 11 I I TIMlin, thrill again to the machinations of Film/Video Festival, the RSVP Senior Fair and on weekends: nothing Sundays and Mondays. Cafe Open Daily from 11 a.m. Mmco, Azucena and her gypsy hordes and the Crafts Show, and (though this related event takes Coalmo'a, 1201 Burgundy, 561-9018. Sundays .tlainous Count di Luna in the most immediately place later on Sept. 27) the Deep South Writers at 9: Ray Bonneville. Lunch & Dinner Specials IIJP8IIng, and most often Indifferently perform Conference hosted by USL; Information at (318) Creole OIIHII, Poydras Street Wharf, 524-0814. I Domestic & Imported Beers. Ill, Ill the Verdi potboilers: Theatre for the Perfor 232-3808 or (318) 232-3737 Cruises nightly, 8 to 10 p.m., with Andrew Hall's Drink Specials, Tempting Bar nng Arts. Ticket information at 529-2278. Society Jaz.z Band . Snacks & Sandwiches llnlm Pillet, 534 Frenchmen, 943-6860. Fri.t2 NOW OPEN IN THE REAR! Wld~~;day, 24 Tuesday, 23-Saturday, 27 and Sat.27: The Radiators. Rest of dates not More Table Seating with liD ... IIIII; Falftlr, Tipitina's, 891-TIPS. fled River Plrtall Flit, Coushatta LA; Information scheduled at presstime. at (318) 932-4984. fllrmont Court, in the Fairmont Hotel, 529-7111 . Covered Patio, Darts, Games. llllrday & Sunday, 27 & 28 Every night save Sundays, Sam Adams at 9 p.m. Pool Tables and Still One Helluva Jukebox Fll ..... Fatlvlllt tilt Zoo, a good place one Thursday, 25-Sunday, 28 Famous Door, 339 Bourbon, 522-7626. Music ...- to be reminded that Moses turned Loultllnl Supr Cine fll1tnl, New Iberia LA; in every day: Thomas Jefferson and His Creole Jazz 4801 Magazine • 899-9228 Ann's rod into a serpent and that ravens fed Eli- formation at (318) 369-9323. Band from 7 p.m. till! a.m., except on Wednes-
IIPI'IM8IR ...... 29 days when the Famous Door Five occupies the Hot Sauce. Sundays from 2:15 to 6:30: louisiana premises until 4 a.m. Hot Sauce. Sundays from 7:15: BT Connection. Ftelnp, 2600 Chartres. 945·2222. Mondays, Praii'VItlon Hill, 726 St. Peter, 523·8939. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 7:30-10:30 Sun .: Harold Oejan and the Olympia Brass Band. p.m.: Kenny Butler. Tuesdays and Fridays, Mon. and Thurs: Kid Thomas Valentine. Tues. 7:30·10:30 p.m.: Kenny Ard . and Fri.: Kid Sheik Colar. Wed . and Sat · The 544 Club, 544 Bourbon , 523·8611. Gary Brawn Humphrey Brothers. and Feelings, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday Royal Sonata Hillel, 300 Bourbon, 586·0300. In from 9 until 3, and Fridays and Saturdays from the Mystick Den, Tuesday-Saturday, Bobby 10 until 4. Southern Cooking, Mondays and Lonero, from 10 p.m. Tuesdays from 9 to 3, and Fridays, Saturdays Ryan 's 500 Club, 441 Bourbon, 566·1507. From and Sundays from 3:1 5 to 9:15. 9 nightly, the Celtic Folk Singers. Fortin Mouat, 624 Bourbon. Brazilian music Clfl Sblu, 1011 Decatur . Pianists from 8:30 to nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. 11 :30. Mondays and Wednesdays: Amasa Pete FountJin 'a, In the Hilton. 523·4374. Pete Miller. Tuesday and Sundays: Cynthia Chen. Fountain and his band nightly at 10, one show Thursday-Saturday: Fred McDowell . only, reservations.· Stlpol1 Calland Blr, Thurs.-Fri.. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. ltGiulolat, In the Hotel Merldlen, 614 Canal, and Saturdays from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m .. Sally 525·6000. The Creole Rice Jazz Trio, 11 a.m. to Townes. Sat.·Sun .• 3·6 p.m. Sally Townes wilh 3 p.m. on Sundays. the Cats Meow. Sundays from 8 lo midnight- Big Selected uems and Gazebo, 1018 Decatur, 522·0862. Alfresco per· Time. Mon. -Wed .• 9-1. Diana Castro. formances according to the weather. Mondays, 711 Club, 711 Bourbon , 525-8379. Tues. ·Sat. . Sale noon-4, Amasa Miller, followed by John Magnie from 9:30, Randy Hebert, In the Showbar. Demonstrator from 5:30 to 9:30. Tuesdays-Thursdays: Amasa Wed.-Sat. , 9 p.m.-2 a.m.• AI Broussard In the Miller, noon to 4 p.m.• John Magnle, 4 to 8 p.m.• Main Bar. ~: ... 119. and Nora Wixted from 8 until midnight and taking Snug Hlrbor, 626 Frenchmen. 949-0696. ••• •• 0 •• • •••• •• • ~35 It Indoors. Frldays : the same save for Nora WIXted Tues.2: late Night Jam with no cover. ~ ...... , 5. being joined by her group 2 Much Fun. Satur Wednesdays: latin Jazz with Santiago. Thurs.4: E'l-61<. 1lC . · · · · · · · ...... · · · · · · · · . . 12 . : Pfister Sisters who want to tell the .. ····· ...... 23~. days the Phil DeGruy and Friends . Fri .5: Astral Project. P\.-80 l C ...... world that they are-collectively-the Helga that Sat.6: Caliente. Sun .7: Sharon Henderson and -78 lc ... 0..... ········ 0...... 0.. 0.. ············· '>1:.9.~ posed for all those Andrew Wyeth paintings (and Eugene Ross. Mon.8: Walter Washington. P\...... ·····. Andy was just keeping the stuff under wraps and Tues.9: The Radiators. Thurs.11 : flullst Karla • P\.-~0 lC .. · · · · · · · ·...... · · · · · under rocks not to hurt their careers), and all of and violinist Michael Ward. Fri .1 2: Rick lC .. · · · · · · · ...... Peterson "••. Pl-""LU •,,,, •• this prompted the stupefying remark from Betsy Sebastien and Friends. Sat.13: Wess Anderson. . ____ _...... , ····· Wyeth In the New York Times when she Rick Sebastien and Rick Margltza. Sun .14: late ·==·. Mill'"-~- 0 •• 0 ••••• 0 • ...... • • • •• ' •• 0 •••• 421lC. · · · · · · · ·...... · · · · · · · · discovered her husband had been making time Night Jazz Jam . Mon.15: Walter Washington. ::: 44HC. · · · · · · · ...... and egg-tempera with all three gals, "Maybe I'm Tues.16: late Night Jazz Jam. Thurs.18: tba...... •••••• 0 strange, but If my husband was Herman Melville Fri.19: Rick Elmore Quartet. Sat.20: Clyde Kerr ... and he wrote Moby Dick, I would not be jealous of Quartet. Sun.21 : Amasa Miller and Reggie ·=·· ...,., ... 0 •••••• 0 •• :::: M69 lC .. · · · · · · · · ...... 336. his association with men . I would not be jealous if Houston. Mon .22: Walter Washington . Tues.23 Moby Dick was the result. " What the Times late Night Jazz Jam. Thurs.25: tba. Fri .26: tba. 1: ~ lC w/ Power sup~~---·.·.·.·.·.·. ·.·. ·.·.·.·.·. ·.·.·.·. ·...... ·. ·.·.. 109. didn't print was the rest of the sentence: " But Sat.27: the New Orleans Jazz Couriers . Sun.28: stepping out on me with three torch slngers late Night Jazz Jam. • • • ..... 5., lC . · · · · · · · · .... 'slsters' my foot!-ls more than any woman S.Unda If lrazl, 721 Bourbon , 523·3700 ·=·=·· ~· ~, ought to have to stand . and when that bum comes Thurs.4: Caliente. Fri.5: Grupo de Fuego. Sat.6 •••••• ___...... • • 0 •• his head!" ; ···•······:· aoss ~··01 .de, ...... ·······...... ~n home, he's getting his easel upside Ruben Gonzalez. Thurs.11: Caliente. Fri .12 The :·:·.·· octave V1 • . • . • • . • . . • • • . • • • . • . . •.., • Nora Wixted and 2 Much Fun , 8:30 to 12:30. Clouds (from Miami; tent.). Sat.13: Rafael Cruz. :·.·:·.·:.:: l '""""" """'erdJNe...... 63. Sundays are much the same save for the noctur Thurs.18: Los Cometas. Fri.19: Jasmine and the Ut 1.1'-' v~ /{)elaV ...... 156. nal stralns. Sounds of Brazil . Sat.20 : Santiago. Thurs.25 :::::::. Olg"a' samplet ...... Hlon Hllll, Poydras at the river. In le Cafe Banda Fiebre . Fri .26: Ritmo Caribeno. Sal .27 :::::::: , OletdfiVe. · · · · · · · · · · · ..... · · · · · · · · · · · · · 84. 8romellad: the Hilton Opera Singers, Saturdays Grupo de Fuego. ~~~~~t ~~eo Olg"al OeiOV · ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·...... · ·. ·.· . ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·.90. from 7 to 9 p.m .; Placida Adams' Jazz Band , Storyvlla, 1104 Decatur. 525·8199. Mondays. Sundays from 9:30 In the morning until 2:30 In Thursdays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.: Teddy • • • • • ChOfUS ...... ·. ·. ·. ·. ·...... 2895. the afternoon. In Kabby's: Vic Tooker and the Riley; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 Ramblers Review, Friday and Saturday ::::::::: P\OV sus ...... t l ac~ MixetfRecoldet ...... 40% off Riverboat p.m.: Chris Burke . Fridays from 5·8: Mlm• :·:·:·:·:· nights from 8 p.m. to midnight or Sunday from Guste. Sundays: Wanda Rouzan and David lastle •••••••••• lascam 388 Eigh ' ...... · · · · · · · · · ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. . . . 396. 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. In the English Bar: the Gusta at 7 p.m. • Leslie Smith ·:·::::::: ~andS at 2 p.m .• Mimi :·:·.······ lama Otum '" ,~td Cabine's · · · · · · · · ·...... 899. Alan White Duo Tuesdays through Saturdays , 4 to and Friends at 9 p.m. Other events: Frl.5: CJ ·:·:·:·:·:· hO S 300 Ke,.,_.- · . · · · · · · · · · · · · · 699 7 p.m. and 9 to 11 p.m. Chevier and Bayou Rhythm. Sat.6: A· Train. :·:·:·:·:·: vama R 7 Revert:> UmL ...... q9 Hyatt Hillel, 561-1234. Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 Thurs.11 : Ray Bonneville. Frl.12: leslie Smith ·:·:·:·:·:· vamahO ~\ooo 019"a' Del~ · · · · · · ·. ·...... 6 · p.m., Chuck Credo and the Basin Streel Six In and Friends. Sat .1 3: Zachary Richard . Thurs .18: the Courtyard Restaurant. Fridays, 4·8 p.m. in music showcase. Frl.19: Pressure. Sat.20 the Mint Julep Lounge, Bobby Cure and the leslie Smith and Friends. Sun .21 : Mason Ruff· Summertime Blues. ner. Thurs.25: Ray Bonneville. Fri.26: luther Llndl'llltk Hllll, 541 Bourbon, 524-7611 . Mon Guitar Jr. Johnson. days: Tarry Lee. 4 to 9 p.m.;"Mike Bunls, 9 p.m. Tropical Iaiii, 738 Toulouse. 523·9492 Music to 2 a.m. Tuesdays: Bob Sloane, 4 to 9 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays; jazz on Frl .6 and Sat7 :-•i Mike Bunls, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Wednesdays: Terry Windsor Clllft 8111 1111111, 300 Gravier. ~~j:±7'otum Se' ...... ·...... 1399. 1:~l~:i~:~~:~.~--~~:~:~~:~ll_1.~.~.!::1_:::_; lam
Midnight Creepers with Noble " Thin Man" Watts at the Maple Leaf, Friday 19. ------~------...J lilldigln'a, 800 s carrollton , 866-9455. John Sake, annual group show lundralser, runmng Rankin every other Saturday, which I guess through Oct.26. means fortnightly; the rest of August negotiable Carol Roblnaon G1lllry, 4537 Magazine, by phone. 895-6130. Fr1.6 through Thurs .25: Visual Music , M1pll Lilt, 8316 Dak, 866·9359. Sundays: visual art by musicians. From Sat.27: marble and traditional bluegrass music; Mondays: live alabaster sculptures by Beatrice Hill. classical music; Wednesdays : J Monque'O Dupllntllr Gallery, 818 Baronne, 524-1071 . From Blues Band. Thursdays: the Lalssez·Faire cajun Fri.26, Illustrations of the Unnatural World by Band . Craig Berthold , In conjunction with the CAC 's Art
~·WilY 31 Professional Products Top Brands Pro Prices for Art's Sake. hoped for: lanky, witty Jack Buchanan, a mere Ellzlblth Allunder Gdery, 520 St. Philip, hairdresser masquerading as everyone always •Synthesizers• •Guitars• 523·2423. Through Sat.13: bronze and metal was in those days, as nobility; with Zasu Pitts, Bolalld • Akal • cuto oYadoa • llotma • T•k•wlae sculptures by Larry and Cliff Beard. Claud Allister. Tues.30: Mon Oncle d'Amerique , Slpla • Tokal • Stla&er Glllrte Slmonne Sttrn, From Sat.27: a SECCA Alain Resnals' funny, rarefied demonstration that show Including work by Howard Finster. Art human behavior Is no more exalted or Intelligently •Drums• •PA's• Werger, Steven carroll Foster, Karen Leonard motivated than that of Norwegian white rats In a ...... CB'700 Aacllo Ceatroa • Cleaa Power Liles, caroline Jennings, etc. maze; somewhat grtm, with beautiful shots of Glsperi Gllllry, 831 St. Peter St., 524·9373. A flora and fauna and a marvelous scene In which group show of gallery artists. Gerard Depardleu cooks a salmls of woodcock for Historic New Ortuns Colec:tlon, 533 Royal, a business rival. Films are shown usually at 7 and 523·4662. Through Sept.26: Items from the col· 9 p.m. In Bobet Hall on the Loyola campus. Ad· lection of General and Mrs. Williams, the mission Is either by season subscription or $1 .50 BM-~088 founders of the HNOC, Including maps and manu· at the door. scripts, theatre and opera programs, sheet Prytlnll, 5339 Prytanla, 895·4513. Through Sr~ • Tbun 8 pm daUJ' pm music, paintings and drawings and items relative Thurs.4: Three Men and a Cradle, Coline Ser· to the career of Louis Moreau Gottschalk .. reau •s farce about three bachelors and a found· •828 VETERANS Ll Mllux Glllrtls, 508 Pelican Ave.. Algiers ling baby girt. Frt .5 through Thurs.18: Lelt8r To TilE MUSIC STORE Metall'le, lA Pernt, 361-1735. Group show of gallery artists in· Brezhnev, a comedy (which like My Beautiful eluding Dennis Perrin, Tony Green, Mary Lee Eg· Laundrene) about the lack of choice available m gart, Glen Weber, Jack Miller and Charles Mrs. Thatcher's rotten England, In which a Liver· Pfltzer. pool girt falls madly In love with a Russian matelot M1rlo VII Gllllfy, 3908 Magazine, 895·8731 . and vice-versa. From Frt .19: Mona Usa, a film by Through Tues.23: erotica by callery artists. Neil Jordan (who also directed the mostly unfor· Nlw Oftuns Museum of Art, City Park, lunate revisionist horror film, The Company of 488·2631. Through Sun.14: Photography In In· WM85) with Bob Hoskins, cathy Tyson and dia in the 19th Century; Hanbatake: A Garden of Michael caine, about a gangland underling's Japanese Flowers , Edo-pertod art with floral Obsession with a young black prostitute. designs or motifs. From Sat.6: 3500 Years of the Tullne, In McAlister Auditorium. Frt.5: To Ltve Glassmakers, Egyptian to contemporary glass and Die In L.A. , William Frledkln's stupelylngly work, much of It from the Museum's holdings; brutal, alrtess·abtracted film about the breakup of Sept 6 RADIATORS The Diamond Jubilee History Exhibition II: The a counterfeiting rtng by federal agents and the Sept 13 BOBBY CORE & SUMMERTIME BLUES Professional Directors, the second and con· endless duplicities Involved; hopped up to say the eluding part of the museum's autobiographical least; 8 p.m. Sat.6: Back To The Future , minor, Sept 20 IVY exhibition. Children's art classes begin on but seamlessly done, entertainment about time Sept 27 TOP CATS (on the Bayou Jean Lafitte) Sept .13; are held on Saturdays, graduated by travel back to the grim fifties In which Michael J age; call the museum for registration details. Free Fox has to fiddle with destiny by bringing his admission to the Museum on Thursdays through parents together; cute, but not excessively so; 8 the year; Group tours for the deaf the fourth Sun· p.m. Sun .7: The Wizard Of Oz. the unimate ~ NEW ORLEANS STEAMBOAT COMPANY )) day of every month. Depression fantasy; 7:30 p.m. Frt.12: Witness, Ntwcomb Art Glllry, Newcomb campus, Peter Weir's sluggish and overrated 'thriller' 586-8777 865·5238. From Sun .21: The Art of Art about a cop hiding out to protect a little Amish boy Therapists, members of the La. Art Therapy who witnessed a murder, among the pec~iiar Docked behind Jackson Brewery Association . Amish , none of whom seem agreeable to such Tickets can be purchased prior to boarding Tldtn-~. 4119 Magazine, 897·5300 . Group shenanigans; a pretty scene where Harrison Ford exhibitions of gallery roster artists throughout the and Kelly McGillis dance together to Sam Cooke summer. From Sat.27: Martin Delbano-maquet· singing 'Wonderful World' and McGillis has tes and working drawings of large-scale cast Iron moments when she looks as lusciOus as a girt 10 a sculptures. Chardin painting; 8 p.m. Sat.20: Out Of Afnca. Tullne Unlvlnlty, Newcomb Gallery. Sun. 7 highbrow tearjerker based on lsak Oinesen's self· through Frt.26: a show of glass sculpture by aggrandizing semi-autobiographical memoir, Gene Koss . wrecked less by Meryl Streep's dialect great· lady • turn (the Greer Garson of the 80s) than by Robert Redford who simply kills the picture dead when· CINENlA ever he's onscreen ; 8 p.m. Sun.21: A Funny on1c Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum , an Loyoll Film Buff's lnstltutl, 895·3196. Sat.2: almost flawless musical In a highly flawed and Westfront 1918, G.W. Pabst's famous, unrelen· fragmented treatment by Richard Lester-still tingly grim (madness, nerve gas, home front Mostel. Keaton , Jack Gilford. Phil Slivers, adultery and food shortages, men burled alive in Michael Hoerdern are all so funny that the the trenches, etc.) story of four German soldiers slivered-splintered style Is almost painless; 7 30 tudios In the last days of the war, all of whom end badly; p.m. Wed.24: Frances , more notable for what a refreshing contrast to the isn't there, this bigscale treatment of the incor· sapplness of contempora· • . rigible and crazy Frances Farmer Is notable neous W.W.I films from . . • _ mostly for Jessica Lange·s endless willingness 24 Track this country; Pabst was a .• ,.. (like the film's subject) to let herself be brutalized master of the cumulative · in ever newer and more repellent ways; Sam Recording detail . With Gustav Dies I, · .,. · Shepard and Kim Stanley seem dispensable; Claus Clausen, Fritz 7:30p.m. Kampers, Hans Joachim Moebls . Sun .3: Citizen Kane , Orson Welles' famous film about a weanhy and deservedly unloved newspaper tycoon, still the most astonishing debut In the history of film; t:C·l{.J g·)'- Digital with Welles, Ruth Warrick, Dorothy Commlngore, Comtcly ShowCISI, 193()-C West End Park, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, Er 283·3322 . Performances Tues.·Thurs. and Sun. Mastering skine Sanford, George Coulouris, Agnes Moore· at 8:30, Fridays and Saturdays, 8:30 and 11 head, Paul Stewart, Fortunlo Bonanova. Mon.8: Tues.2·Sun .7: John Connell; Malone & Noot· City Lights, Chaplin's 1931 film, the tramp and chez . Tues.9·Sun.14: Dave Wilson; John Wing. the blind flower girt, with many perfect gags In Its Tues .16·Sun .21 : Mikel( framework of delicate Edwardian sentimentality Toomey; Ted Holum; Tues. ·ft\ and perhaps the most horrifying, harrowing end· 23·Sun.28: Greg Glelna; Digital lng of any movie. Mon.15: Duck Soup, the Marx Jeff Jena; Tues.30·0ct.5: Brothers' 1933 film, their best, Is sublime Lowell Sanders; Sheila Reverberation nonsense about war, politics, espionage, Kay . Ernst Comtdy Club, . romance, pretense; with Margaret Oumont, Louis 600 S. Peters, 525·8544 . . ~ calhern, Raquel Torres, Edgar Kennedy as the can for lineup. Georgie Pargll's, In the Hyatt corner popcorn man. Wed .17: Mourir a Madrid, Regency, Plaza Level, 566·0000; call for lineup. Frederic Rossi!' s elegant documentary about the Punchlnl COI!IIdy Club, 4704 Veterans Blvd .. Spanish Civil War, which contains much footage 454·7973. Tues.2·Sun .7: Tim Wilson; O'Brien Affordable to bring tears to the eyes for those who remember and Valdez. Tues.9-Sun .14: Jeanie McBride, this dress rehearsal for World War II, especially Dennis Wolfberg . Tues.16·Sun .21: Doug Ferrari; Rates the Imprisonment of the great philosopher Una· Tim O'Rourke. Tues 23·Sun.28: Tim Stone; Rick muno by the Falange. Mon.22: Monte Carlo. 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...... , ...... 33 1 ASFAGE probably not run into any members of the Newhouse A. Ferguson, better known as "Charlie." His job family on the dancefloor at Tipitina's, although they is to listen to complaints and smoke his pipe. He could certainly afford the cover charge. If they were likes his pipe but he doesn't like complaints. Often, ~ in a frivolous mood, the Newhouses could well af it seems as ifCharlie is much more concerned about iven that this month's issue of Wavelength ford to cover everyone's cover charge because our complaints than about news-perhaps because he's generally concerns itself with the mysterious daily newspaper (not to mention its stylish Vogue an attorney (long ago, his ambition was to become inner workings of New Orleans, we felt it sisters) is one of the nation's most profitable publi Mayor of New Orleans). So the way The Times Gmight be appropriate to conclude with a brief cations. Ironically, The Times-Picayune's pub Picayune works is that as long as it makes money, analysis of the city's most mysterious work-The lisher, Ashton Phelps, Jr., is the cousin of the Newhouses and Ashton are happy, and that Times-Picayune/The States-Item - and its Wavelength's publisher, Nauman S. Scott. as long as no former nuns from Westwego complain rather mysterious approach to the coverage of our Ashton, however, believes that publishing is the that D.H. Holmes' full-page brassiere ads are too local music scene. art of cost cutting (killing Dixie magazine, for risque, Charlie is happy. First, a little background info: "The Picayune" example), while our man Nauman clings to the The editors of the various sections of the paper is owned by the Newhouse family, whose other philosophy that a publisher's position should be on are kings (and queens) of sorts. They can pretty "products" include the eight different editions of the deck of a boat, out in the Gulf, searching for much run their sections as they see fit as long as Vogue (American, British, French, Italian, Brazi the elusive wahoo. they make money for the Newhouses and Ashton lian, German, Australian and Mexican). You will The editor of The Times-Picayune is Charles and irate readers' complaints do not reach the desk of Charlie and interrupt his pipe-smoking. Bruce Eggler is the editor of Lagniappe, the weekly supplement which is supposed to deal with "arts and entertainment" in New Orleans. Now while Charlie is perfectly content smoking his pipe, Bruce is never very happy. It is rumored that he occasionally smiles while listening to opera records although this is an unconfirmed report. Bruce is mainly in a bad mood. The Times-Picayune has no full-time writer covering contemporary music, despite the fact that New Orleans is "The Birthplace of Jazz," "The Home of the Blues," etc. etc. In the interest of making greater profits, freelance music writers are MUSIC 10%oFF ALL REGULAR PRICE ALBUMS, TAPES & COMPACT DISCS (SALE ITEMS EXCLUDED) 1f '11; ONLY
RENTALS PER DAY PER MOVIE/PER DAY utilized. Freelancers require no benefits, vacations NOT VALID FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS or health insurance and they are paid an average fee of $50 per .story. Cheap, huh? Even cheaper is using wire-service stories to pad ONLY out a section. Wire-service stories arrive edited and ~ ready to be run. Editors like 'em because there are no petulant writers to deal with, no Lester Bangs VCR $ Juniors who think they're the next Rimbaud. oo Bruce Egler loves · wire-service stories. So on the recent weekend when the New Orleans Music RENTALS-----.JI PER DAY and Entertainment Association (NOME) pre 4 sented The Crosstown Jam (three nights of New Orleans music at seven clubs), Bruce chose as the cover story for Lagniappe a wire-service feature * WITH VALID TULANE OR LOYOLA I.D. (written in April of 1986) on "The Austin Sound". "There are four major music cities in America," the story informed us, "Austin is one of them." Let's see-the other three must be Des Moines, Bangor and Butte. In the same issue of Lagniappe, there were two local music stories by freelancers - a telephone interview with Emerson, Lake and Powell, and another telephone interview with INXS. Can the New Orleans music scene grow and prosper without coverage from the city's only daily newspaper? Of course! And if Woodstock were re-staged in New Orleans East, would the paper send a reporter? Maybe. First, they would check the wire-service. Why waste money?! e 34 • .,...... SIPIIM8ER DR. JOHN
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