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Bock iooue• are available by writinc to Back luu.. . P.O. 801t IS667. New Orleano. LA. 701 7S. Becauoe or a limited oupply. back iuueo are ovoilable for S4 eo September 1984/ Wavelength 3 SEPTEMBER NEWS Normally Acoustic David Normal, formerly of the Normals and known to family and loved ones as David Brewton, played a recent comeback gig at -you guessed it-The Penny Post. No slamdancers were to be seen, however, amidst the flut tering candles, incense, and scattered pillows. David played an acoustic set (no electric guitars are allowed on the premises) of some of his favorite '60s songs as well as many of the Normals greats, such as "Around the Downtown" and "Philosophy." Joining him for a bit of harmonizing was ex-Normal Chris Luckett and friends Vance DeGeneres, Kevin Radecker, and Rick Polizzi. Mr. Normal has recently returned to music after a somewhat extended Sabbatical to contemplate religious mysteries and explore a normal kind of life. As for the future, the Normals are not getting back together but David is releasing a 45 in September and a new band is on the drawing board. -Allison Brandin Europe Goes Red Rockers join the circus. To War and the one before that was done summed up what we thought about Even though 1984 has been a Schizophrenic in about two days. So it was quite the world at the moment. You banner year for the European R&B Rockers an· experience for us." wouldn't believe how much grief album manufacturers, next year The Big Sound: ''A lot of it has CBS gave us about it. I think they looks to be even better. The year From a lonely motel room in to do with microphone placement. just couldn't spell it. They didn't 1985 could see a "war" between Arizona, Red Rockers bassist/ We used about three mikes on the think it was good. the big independents: Ace, Charly, spokesman Darren Hill called in snare, in different positions. Then "We did an unusual album Demon-Edsel, Flyright and Pathe mid-August to report that the it's all in the mix after that. These cover shoot and CBS didn't like Marconi. band's third album, Schizophrenic guys really know what they're that, either. We did a double-sided Ace Records prexy Ted Carroll Circus, would be in the nation's doing when it comes to drums. We album cover. We set up a circus recently visited these shores and record stores by the time you read used a really big room at the scene-an 1800's-type circus-on a left with a parcel of sides from the this. The Rockers spent most of Record Plant, too. That has a lot beach on Staten Island. We did American Ace label Starday, August touring the Southwest with to do with the drum sound. It's a one shot where we were in these Dixie, Crazy Cajun, Teardrop and the Go-Go's and preceding their really hard room-all wood." really weird-looking antique circus Modern, that are destined for own year-long worldwide tour On re-recording "Eve of costumes. reissue early next year. He also (which will include the band's first Destruction," Barry McGuire's Then on the other side. began negotiations for material on European and Japanese appear 1965 Number One hit: "Well, we it's the same shot-only we're the Jin, Swallow and Instant labels ances), the Red Rockers plan a were just sitting around the studio standing there in regular clothes. that could well be available in 1985 series of American dates with -and we needed to do another song. One shot is upside-down so that as well. Ireland's U2. Except for the part Originally, it was just going to be a when you flip the album, you can't Charly on the other hand is about Barry McGuire probably B-side for a single. We recorded tell which side is the front and which finishing up its excellent Sun being a burned-out acidhead, this tons of songs-Beatles songs, is the back. CBS is doing it but we records reissue program and hopes is the bulk of what Comrade Hill Dylan songs. 'Eve of Destruction' had a battle with them over it." to have a three-lp, Sun Blues Box had to say: just came out the best so we spent a The future: "We're really in the shops sometime early next On the new album: "I think it's lot of time working on it. When we looking forward to this year. I year. They are also packaging up as much of a change from the last got done, it turned out better than think this is going to be the year. I Eddie Shuler's Goldband sides (22 album as the last one was from the anything else on the album. We did feel really confident about this albums' worth!) and are in the first one. We got a really big sound kind of a Byrds arrangement of it. album." process of compiling many of the on this one, a lot bigger than on It was real interesting because Shawn Paddock, the new classic Atlantic and Vee Jay sides the other ones. For producers, we [vocalist] John [Griffith] had never guitarist: "He was a friend of ours into 16-track Ips. So start looking used Rick Chertoff (Cyndi Lauper, even heard the song before. from Algiers. We all grew up in the for those great Jimmy Hughes and Scandal) and Bill Whitman (Dylan, "We were afraid of actually same neighborhood. He was Wilson Pickett to appear soon. Springsteen, Pink Floyd). Between doing it because we didn't know playing guitar long before we even Meanwhile, Flyright is the two of them, we got a really what people thought of it back thought about playing so when we continuing to unearth classic South good sound, a really tough sound. then- if it was a real serious record got rid of James [Singletary], Louisiana material from J.D. "We recorded it in New York at to people or if they kind of laughed Shawn was the logical choice for Miller's vaults, with hopes that the the Record Plant. It was the first it off. The words are still pretty the replacement." original Excello sides will soon be time we actually got to spend a lot relevant today and we changed a Message to New Orleans: "I available for repackaging. of time in the studio and to be a lot of the verses- re-wrote new don't know. It's been so long since It looks like 1985 will be great little creative with it. We were in words for it." we've been back there, I wonder if for the record collector but hard there for about three months. The The album title: "It's taken people remember us." on the bank account. last album was done in two weeks from a line in one ot our songs-it - Bunny Matthews · - Almost SUm 4 Wavelength I September 1984 25-Foot Long Boudlnll Second to Mardi Gras as a major celebration in the state is Festivals Acadiens, a compre hensive carnifest happening in Lafayette during the weekend of September 15-16. Good Rockin' Dopsie and the Cajun Twisters will help kick off this year's festivities at the Downtown Reawakening Street Dance and Fais Do Do on Friday September 14 from 4:30 til 8 p.m. More than 75,000 are ex pected in the Hub City to celebrate important aspects of Cajun culture. Below is a brief description of each event; for more information, call Beverly Corbell at 232-3737: Girard Park is the setting for over eight hours of Cajun music on both Saturday and Sunday. The music segment of the festival, dedicated this year to young musicians who have helped further Cajun music as an expression of Cajun culture, will celebrate its Festivals Acadiens: 75,000 Cajuns and would-be Cajuns. tenth anniversary with such bands as Rockin' Dopsie and the "This is not the complete line-up; 25-foot link of boudin! Saturday and Sunday at the Twisters, Beausoleil, Hadley we're still working on some key The highlight of this year's Lafayette Municipal Auditorium, Castille and the Cajun Brass, people, a group from Quebec for Native Crafts Festival, held as the Bayou Food Fest will offer the Wayne Toups and the Crowley one." usual at the Lafayette Natural mouth-watering cuisine of over 30 Aces, File, Bourre, Belton The Jaycees Acadiana Fair and History Museum, should be the local restaurants, caterers and area Richard, and Dewey Balfa and the Trade Show will open the festival exhibit, "Travailler C'est Trop chefs. A $5 admission charge Balfa Brotherhood. And according proper on September 13 with Our: The Tools of Cajun Music.'' includes $3 in food tickets to music chairman Barry Ancelet, nothing less that the· cutting of a From 11:00 til6 p.m. on -Les White CHESS MASTERS ON SPECIAL SALE 99 $3 EACH LP Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley The Super Super Blues Band Chess Sisters of Soul, Vol. I 1017 Pleasant Street at Magazine Street 897·5015 September 1984/ Wavelength 5 GOLDEN MOMENTS ALMOST SLIM Take Off Your Shoes "Everybody get on your feet, You make me nervous when you're in your seat." THE FUTURECOPY PLACE f course everyone from Copies • Reductions • Enlargements Dryades Street to Canal Passport Photos • Binding • And much more! 0 Boulevard remembers Robert Parker singing that phrase in the summer of 1966 in his "Barefootin'." Previous to the hit, Parker was best known as a journeyman saxophonist who was in retrospect perhaps best known for his work with Professor Longhair. Parker's record on the NOLA label brought bright lights Robert Parker. HOT to the local record industry during the mid-Sixties, as it went to become a real collector's item. number two in the national R&B Robert doesn't perform too much PRICES charts and 31 in the pop charts. these days, preferring to save Parker followed with a small hit himself for special occasions like ''Tip-Toe,'' and a fine Otis the Jazz Fest and other selective Redding-influenced LP (of course engagements. entftled Barefootin') which has -Almost Slim RHYTHMA TIC GENE SCARAMUZZO rhythmic JUJU music), the Bush mbaqanga sound is not rhythmically complex; in fact, the League drummer does little more than keep the beat. The bass player is he casual listener to African the one who really jumps, layering pop might not be aware that on one of the melody lines as well T records are being made in as syncopation while the guitar South Africa. South African player does pretty much the same musicians are subject to so many thing in a higher register. The recording and performing res jerkiness of the music is prettied up trictions under apartheid rule that a bit by full chords on the organ any recording efforts by them can and by the vocalists' rich be viewed as an expression or harmonies. resistance against the government, On Techno-Bush, in addition to yet recording is going on. A few of the mbaquanga cuts, the band goes these records are making it to the through other rhythms and styles States. Although the handful that as well, from a high energy medley have reached New Orleans record called "The Seven Riffs of Africa" Guitars, AOrn~ stores haven't made much of a to a multiple influenced, infectious splash, a recent release should do tune called "Getting Fat in LOCATI more than any other to introduce Africa." Those who are familiar the South African sound in this with Masakela's two earlier country. The album is Techno attempts at African roots music Bush by South African with a Ghanaian band called trumpet flugelhorn player Hugh Hedzolleh Soundz have been Masakela. Recorded in Gabonone, eagerly awaiting more, and this Botswana, this is Masakela's first new album, with the exception of a roots record, featuring South couple of throw away cuts, lives up African musicians playing South to expectations. Masakela African music. Predominant on persuaded the record label, Jive, to the album is a style called set up a mobile recording studio on mbaqanga, a jerky, bass heavy the outskirts of Gabarone, Bunny Matthews sound that begs for the state-of allowing one of the first high ....-.. the art production techniques it is quality recordings of mbaqanga to interviews given on this recording. The be made, and hopefully also acting --.. New mbaqanga style was created as a catalyst for further recordings Orleans Chefs around the 1940s when South by the local musicians. The band African musicians began to on Techno-Bush was drawn from EVERY MONTH IN combine their zulu rhythms with the cream of the crop of South the jazz music that was becoming African musicians, including some so popular. Mbaqanga can be members of the Soul Brothers, a played with a rock group lineup: South African band able to sell guitar, bass, organ and trap 250?000 copies of its re'tords. The drums. Unlike the other African one musician on the album not The most complete music that we've heard in New from South Africa is Gaspar guide to New Orleans Orleans (Sonny Okosun's Lawal, the excellent percussionist entertainment funk/highlife/ ozziddi sound and from Nigeria who plays various King Sunny Ade's smooth, hand drums on the album. 6 Wavelength I September 1984 The details of Masakela's career really that it makes no difference show him leaving South Africa . . . nobody really gives a shit shortly after the Sharpville about South Africa so long as massacre in 1961. Pursuing a jazz they're making money out of it.'' career, he moved further and Due to the restricted rights of further away from home, but blacks in South Africa, recording Vegas type resort located in sessions must be arranged at times lost his ties to the homeland. He when there are no conflicts with spoke out against apartheid at curfews, work schedules, etc. every opportunity during the Obviously, this isn't conducive to Sixties and Seventies, although he stimulating a booming recording seems to have mellowed a bit now, industry, and consequently there at least verbally. In an article are few records being made in recently in New Musical Express, South Africa that are available Masakela expressed his feelings on here in the U.S., especially New the U.N.'s cultural boycott of Orleans. South Africa. "Why should the Presently in many record stores pressure be on artists alone, just around town is an interesting anthology entitled Rhythms of ...... ,.,_....., Resistance, a soundtrack album Midnight released by Shanachie. Quite a few to 4 A.M. bands are featured on this disc, representing many different South Luther Kent African musical styles. Those who want to hear more mbaqanga and Trick Bag sounds can listen to the tracks on Friday. Saturday and Sunday this album by the Mahotella Midnight to 4 A.M. Queens and Abafana Baseqhudeni. Another easily available album featuring all James Rivers mbaqanga is an Earthworks release Movement called Zulu Jive Wednesday Umbaqanga, another compilation and Thursday featuring several different groups. 4 A.M. to 7 A.M. Recording quality is excellent on this one, and it would make a good Invitation aI follow-up for anyone whose interest in mbaqanga is raised by Jam Session the Masakela album. Music From (Progressive Jazz with Soweto is a raw, but interesting Blues Overtones) compilation that shows up Friday. Saturday and Sunday occasionally around town, also. Recorded in 1982, this one is a South African warriors, drca 1895. mixture of kicking instrumentals • and rich acappella vocal songs, TRADITIONAL because of their high visibility? I "Jane" and "Indoda" by the New say a stand should be made, but by Lucky Boys stand out especially. JAZZ everybody. From the boycott point The Caribbean Show Every night at 8 P.M. Spiritual singing of view, you hope it will have an recommendations for this month Saturday and Sunday effect, but how the hell can it have are hard to find but well worth the afternoon at 1 P.M. an effect when Sun City [a Los search. A soca/highlife cut by Vegas type resort in Jewel Ackah and the Spiritual FOOD Bophuthatswana] can buy Train Express called "Epitipiti" is Varied menu plus a good finger food anybody? I really can't decide for really a great dance tune in an selection. A great place for late people. In the end it has to be Afro-Caribbean style. And a night or early morning breakfast. South Africans who win this disco-ish highlife cut by Orchestra Try our house special. battle. South Africa would have to Jazira will have you singing along Bouillabaisse! attack the world like Hitler did for to the English lyrics of their hit the world to do anything about called "Sakabo." Both records are DANCING apartheid. It bores me to even available through mail order One of the very few dance floors in think about it, because I know African record shops. 0 the French Quarter. (IIIIiiliii NEW tiiiiiiiiiil FROM CXIIIIIIIIIl BANDY IN THE FRENCH QUARTER 1104 DECATUR STREET 525-8199 September 1114/W•Yelength 7 FLIP CITY CAROL GNIADY interior. The building used to be Keen the Aquarious Spa but has been renovated and updated with track Teen lighting, a great sound system, pool tables that are always free of Scene charge, video games, two dance floors, a balcony . . . and a bar. inding the pulse of the New The "bar" serves non-alcoholic Orleans music scene gets mock drinks like like Hurricanes, F more and more difficult with Triple By-Pass, Margueritas, and each passing new band. Fresh, new Orange Anti-Freeze that are a blood is in demand but rarely diabetic's delight ... all extremely survives the perpetual circulation sweet. and the leaches. The club owners Here again at Chaze's is an complain that they don't make avenue for live musiC. Chaze's has money. Local musicians don't featured a couple of local bands already ... they'd just played host make money period. Radio and Typical teens: 'It's our own little world.' record companies can't take very to Eclipse the weekend prior to my many risks with the money they do Leppard] those are the only bands At one time ' Rando's' operated visit and were gearing up for Force have, and they're hog-tied to safe they're permitted to see live ... If I as a real bar, and the club still of Habit for the upcoming bets. The marketplace continues to were fifteen or sixteen, I don't reflects the earlier business Sunday, and the kids flock to the dwindle and fewer people are know how much I'd care about an operation; the U-shaped bar and concerts. During the summer, spending their hard-earned artist I couldn't see until I 'grew stools are still there along with the Chaze's is open every night of the paychecks on entertainment. With up'." dance floor and live d.j's and week until 11 pm and there are out even daring to claim to be able Ms. Berg went on to reflect on mirror ball. Rando's is not in the weekly contests such as male and to put the brakes on a vicious the New York and Los Angeles best of shape inside, but the kids female swim suit competitions, cycle, take into consideration, if coffee houses and live music clubs certainly don't mind and take a dance contests, pool tournaments you will, a viable and valuable of the Sixties (the Gaslight, the great deal of pride in having their ~also featured at Rando's), blue untapped resource with the health Bitter End, the Troubadour) that own place. The shopping center jeans contests and various "radical iest of corpusles, The Teenagers. did not serve liquor, and that houses Rando's seems to events." For all practical purposes Teenagers are perhaps the subsequently did not place an age belong to the kids, too. The Chaze's seems to be following in the footsteps of the real bars. minority the music business has limit on its patrons-so anyone ~heatre, the pizza restaura~t, the neglected in its search for profits. could see a live band. For one 1ce cream parlor . . . the k1ds are However, as the Quiet Riot However, in the months .to come, I reason or another (perhaps the the ones who support them. anthem blared over the sound predict the New Orleans teenage selling out of those clubs to attract Literally, it's their own little system and everyone sang in society will come of age ... with the supposedly more lucrative world. unison "We're not gonna take it . . their own choices of music and nightclub crowd?) this era Best of all, local bands have anymore," it was evident that it's entertainment that will change the vanished. In a candid telephone already successfully performed to still a teen community that's taking course of our rapidly declining conversation, Karin Berg confided the delight of the owners and shape. industry. Teenagers are once again that she believes 'what we have patrons. Perigoni is planning to And encompassing the entire strutting their identity with the re succeeded in doing is to deny social continue this practice of giving area ... a trip to the West Bank's emergence of the Teen Club. activity to adolescents and what she dubbed "their own Oasis teen club; "The Oasis" is Karin Berg, director, East Coast particularly in the area of music, a private concerts.'' She went into located on Belle Chasse Highway A & R for Warner Brothers, culture which belongs to them, the vivid description of the local heavy and is a development that's a real suggested back in December of only thing they can call their own. metal band Deus Vult and gusher for the kids. It was created 1982 in an article called "The Live We underestimate the quality of concluded that "kids want to see a "because the kids have no where to Music Antedote" published in taste of teenagers in music and if show.'' The Chalmette cable go," as club manager Chip Musician magazine that "Until the we don't pay attention to the · company, Group W, filmed the Moorehead said. Housed in a center of gravity shifts again to live quality of our music it's going to concert for their small market retired restaurant, The Oasis seems performances, we can't develop a decline.'' She seemed genuinely cable channel. In turn, the band to be the largest of the three clubs new audience for American pleased with the news that New presented the club with a plaque of mentioned, and it's been packed popular music. The excitement of Orleans has its own teen clubs on appreciation to hang over the bar. every weekend since it opened on music and, more importantly, the the rise and indicated that they are The eighteen-year old proprietor August 2. Outside, the parking lot excitement of discovering that even more important now with the of Kenner's premier teen night is policed by the real thing . . . music, is in first seeing and hearing proposed raising of the drinking spot Chaze's Place, Charlie who love the club because it keeps it live.'' Throughout her article, age. Gandolfi, Jr., fresh from the cap the kids off the street. which ran in conjunction with one Presently, there are three teen and-gown routine at Brother Inside, The Oasis offers a lot of called "The Failure of Corporate clubs, that I know of, two of them Martin li.igh, "I'm one of them." space for dancing, a live d.j., a Rock," she stressed the have opened within a month of spot Chaze's Palace, admits "I'm small game room, some junk food importance of the younger each other-June 1 and August 1. one of them." Charlie Gandolfi, ... and a nice low-lights area with audience, the kids, and pointed to The most established teen club, Jr., fresh from the cap-and-gown tables and chairs where the kids society's lack of developing that Rando's, opened in Chalmette last routine at Brother Martin High can relax, eat, or just talk. Chip ever-present and potent element. October in a small shopping center was featured as a "businessman's mentioned that the club offers the Kids today "seem to concentrate on Judge Perez. It's run by what bynamo" in an article by James kids "a place where they can have on the musically predictable bands the patrons (the kids) call "the but the brains first settled on an adult-ish evening ... if that come out of the arena circuit Rando family." The owners are emotion. anything the club is training them and show little inclination to Anne Perigoni and Pete Rando Chaze's Palace on Veterans to act like adults and accept adult explore the possibilities offered by who know practically all their Highway has been open since June responsibilities.'' ''Responsib some of the more progresssive customers on a first-name basis. 1 and has been building ilities" include making money. musicians and recording artists in The principles in charge exude momentum ever since. Gandolfi "Kids are finding ways they can the U.S. . . . the audience for wholesomeness . . . an owner's gained a good reputation as a party make money to come here . . . newer forms of music is much mother, "Mia" to everyone, sits organizer while still in high school doing odd jobs," et cetera. older, while the younger audience, at the door collecting money and by throwing parties that invited Morehead informed me that i.e., teenagers, hirgely seem to be directing traffic. It didn't take and catered to entire high schools! ''there are kids coming down here musically conservative." Why? much to get the kids into the club. What he did was make it his from Empire ... because there just "The only place for those under Anne and Pete spread the publicity business to continue with the fun is no where for them to go." drinking age to go to hear music is while on the job . . . Anne is a and games after he'd graduated . . . The Oasis is just getting started, the stadium or arena. Small computer science teacher at an and build more experience and but Moorehead indicated that wonder their favorite bands are area middle school and Pete is a capitol for his future in whatever there would be school dances Kiss, Journey, Foreigner, Styx, school bus driver. Talk about ·venture he'll consider after college. coming up ... perhaps with bnads. etc. ['84 update: Quiet Riot, Def having rapport with the clients! The Teen Club . . . the next Chaze's Palace has a fresh, new frontier? 0 8 Wavelength I September 1984 able roar that greeted an inspired version of Floyd's "Money." The band, which also featured Chris Slade on drums, Mickey Feat on bass, Greg Dechart on keyboards and Jodi Linscott on percus sion, sounded impressive all night, and particularly so on an extended version of " Blue Light" that featured an exciting drum/ percussion battle between Slade and Linscott. An enjoyable, if unevent ful, evening from an artist who, obvi ously knowing his limitations, has wise ly decided to concentrate on his ~ry Personal Favorites evident strengths as a guitarist. Texas guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn picks his five favorite albums: 1. Blues Power, Albert King; 2. Change My Ways, Howl Hottest Videos in' Wolf; 3. The Boss Album, Jimmy New videos added to WTBS' Smith and George Benson; 4. In tile Wee "Night Tracks": Small Hours, Wes Montgomery; 5. A Ma11 a11d His Blues, Buddy Guy. "Dancing in the Dark" Bruce Spnngsteen (Columbia) "Go Insane" Lindsey Buckingham Critic's Choice (Elektra-Asylum) lain Blair on David Gilmour "Dynamite" Jermaine Jackson (Arista) Beyond Pink Floyd "When You Close Your Eyes" Night Best known for his work with the reclu Ranger (MCA) sive supergroup, Pink Floyd guitarist "I Can Dream About You" Dan Dave Gilmour has stepped into the lime Hartman (MCA) light with his first solo tour. And given "Let's Go Crazy" Prince & The that band's almost obsessive attention to Revolution (Warner Bros.) sound and experimentation with the " If This Is It" Huey Lewis & The News cutting edge of recording techniques and (Chrysalis) electronics, it was no surprise to find " Missing You" John Waite (EMI) Gilmour's post-Floyd efforts to be much along the same lines - high on high " Sexy Girl" Glenn Frey (MCA) tech, and low on personality. With a "Sunglasses At Night" Corey Hart stage set that emphasized dramatic (EMI) lighting, and backed by a band of stellar "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" BiJiy musicians, Gilmour served up a variety Joel (Columbia) On Tour ••• of songs and instrumentals that centered "What's Love Cot to Do with It" Tina After returning from some dates in Germany in mid-August, Greg Kihn and his band on his impressionistic yet forceful guitar Turner (Capitol) have been traveling to various cities in the USA to support his ninth album, Kilmta work, while showcasing state-of-the ''I'm Free" Kenny Loggins (Columbia) ~wus. Videos for his songs "Reunited" and "Worst That Could Happen" are getting art aural effects. healthy "Cruel Summer" Bananarama airplay on MTV, laying the groundwork for live shows. Much of the material, from his first (Polygram) solo album and the recent " About Face" LP, consisted of fairly predictable "We're Not Gonna Take It" Twisted sponsible for the Jefferson Floyd Sister (Atlantic) Starship's type grooves, slow and earnest. And In the Studio •.. "No Way Out" clip) are preparing tracks in keeping with his heritage, Gilmour "Round & Round" Ratt (Atlantic) Frank Sinatra is at the Village Recorders for three separate video projects for the maintained a low profile for most of the "The More You Live, the More You in West Hollywood, CA recording tracks Stick Band, Babatunde and Addie. The evening, only occasionally venturing out Love" A Flock of Seagulls (Arista) for a forthcoming album which is being producers involved are Mark Springer for a guitar solo or extended jam/spar "Back Where I Started" produced by Quincy Jones. Elliott and Wayne Wallace, along Box of Frogs with en ring match with second guitarist Mick (Epic) Scheiner is engineering, with assistance gineers Karl Derfler and Rick Sanchez. from Oiff Jones. Two jazz greats are also Ralphs. Consequently, the leap into the "Sound of the Rain" Rank & File at the studio. George Benson is in with audience by sax-wielding Raphael Ra (Slash) producer Russ Titleman and Jean-Luc venscroft probably elicited the biggest "Mind My Have Still I" What Is This cheer Ponty is cutting tracks for his new rec Topol of the evening next to the predict- (MCA) ord. Gary Ladinsky is engineering the the Charts Benson project and Peter Kelsey the Ponty record. Jay Willis is assistant en gineer for both. Ace producer Mike No. Albums Singles Chapman is also at the Village recording 1 Born in the USA "When Doves Cry" Holly Knight. Manhattan Transfer have Bruce Sprlngstnn Prince their own self-produced project under (Columbia) (Warner Bros.) way. Work is also being done on a 2 Heartbeat City " Ghostbusters" Marvin Gaye live album. It is being pro The Cal'$ Ra~ Parter Jr. (Eiektra) (Ansta) duced by Harvey Fuqua and engineered bv Steve Hirsch . . . Herbie Hancock 3 No Breaks " State of Shock" John Waite Jacksons was at Manhattan's Evergreen recording (EMI) (Epic) recently, working on his new CBS proj ect. Material stalwart Bill Laswell was in 4 Signs of L~e " Stuck on You " Billy Squier lionel Richie the producer's chair and Rob Stevens (Capitol) (Motown) engineered. Stevens also worked with 5 Warrior "Sad Songs" Lottie Golden and Richard Scher on a Scandal Elton John special remix of Nina Hagen's single (Columbia) (Geffen) "Zarah" ... Tom Scott is the composer 6 Purple Ra10 "What's Love Got and producer of some music for the Prince to Do with It" Showtime production of "Cat on a Hot (Warner Bros.) Tina Turner Tin Roof." Scott is recording the sound (Capitol) track at Hollywood's Rusk Sound. The 7 Sports " I Can Dream studio also hosted dj Russ Parr who was Huey Lewis a. About You " mixing a scratch rap single for Uncle Jam The News Dan Hartman (Chrysalis) (MCA) and Polygram artists Darwin, who were recording with engineer Gabe Veltri. 8 Nuclear Furniture " Panama" Studio owner Ganapati Jeftemn Stamlp Van Halen is engineering (RCA) (Warner Bros.) an EP for local favorites Zeron and Jan Rooney- yes, Mickey's wife-is doing 9 Lights Out " Infatuation" Peter Waft Rod Stewart some recording with engineer Chuck (EMI) (Warner Bros.) Britz ... The Plant Studios in San Fran Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined 17 mg. "tar", cisco 10 The All Nighter "II ThiS Is It" has Survivor recording their forth Glenn Frey Huey Lewis 1.3 mg. nicotine coming a. That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous LP for Scotti Brothers Records. (MCA) The News to Your Health. av. per cigarene Ron Nevison is producing and engineer (Chrysalis) by FTC method. ing with assistant Kevin Eddy. Mean Courtesy of The Gavin Report, a national rad1o while Nth Degree Video (the people re- mUSIC trade jOUrnal. DINETTE SET BUNNY MATTHEWS BOHTOHWEST a restaurant that still exists (the P.O. BOX 8406 SANTA CRUZ CA. 95060 Grape). I was the chef for a couple {408) 425-5885 Frankly of years and then I sold it to my partners and started writing for D Indulgent magazine and Texas Monthly, then the Times-Picayune. I continue to n the five years since his arrival write for different people, cook from Texas, Frank Bailey has and study the su~ject. I really I established (with partner Liz enjoy it. If I'm not cooking, I'm Page) two successful restaurants eating and if I'm not eating, I'm (Indulgence and the Creole Bis thinking about what I'm going to tro, also formerly known as cook or eat. I love to travel and Indulgence), masterminded a what do I do then? I eat. catering business (Indulgence Cat Do you like writing abou't it? erers) and written a weekly food I like hav(ng written about it column in the Times-Picayune's I don't know anybody who really Dixie magazine that is perhaps the likes to write. The physical act of most widely-read culinary feature writing sends me up a wall. It's just in Louisiana. The main thing he a hard thing to do because you've misses when he's away from New got to sign your name to it and you Orleans, says Bailey, is our strong want it to be right. I continue to do coffee. Over several cups of same it so there must be something that A Great Name in one August morning, Bailey dis pushes me but I don't feel partic cussed food, culture and blood. ularly driven. Once I finish an arti New Orleans Did you start cooking when you cle, I'm glad I did it and I hope Seafood were a boy? that it will stand on its merits as No, I was in college and something that's informative or is now ... Maple suddenly realized that I liked food beneficial to somebody besides me . that was a whole lot better than Your column always makes me on... Street. what I could afford to buy. I want to cook whatever you've realized that I could afford to go written about . .. to the grocery store and buy the Well, that's the thrust-if it raw materials and put them doesn't do that, then it isn't suc together the way I really wanted cessful. I'm writing for a very large them to be. group of people who have varying I had cooked a little bit but not levels of expertise or interest in much. I wasn't that interested in food. If I can get a percentage of cooking-! was just real interested those people to the kitchen to do in eating-and eating in things, then I've succeeded. That's HOME OF THE dormitories and fraternity houses what I want to do. I want to create ONE LB. MAINE just didn't quite do what I wanted interest in food. I want people to 95 it to. So I got Julia Child and The enjoy food and to get the things Shrimp and Joy of Cooking and started out of food that I do. Cooking's a LOBSTER playing with it. Then I decided I 7 Oyster very pleasant thing to do in the really liked cooking because I kitchen, a real evocative thing. The ALL YOU CARE TO EAT 'til Sept. 15 Specials at really liked eating. smells, the feels and the textures of Lunch Only At the time, I enjoyed drinking food are real comforting, I think. -7 days wine and that was real weird. Once food gets past fuel to keep 95 People would a week! drink Swizzle and the organism going, then it SHRIMP 6 that was about it. Swizzle was a becomes part of culture. Those pop wine-I guess it was the first aspects of it fascinate me. I like to Raw Oysters Starting Oct. 1st pop wine. It was a fizzy, grapey, try to tie all that sort of thing in 15¢ purple thing-it was disgusting. and make food appealing to people When I cooked dinner, I would get reading about it, eating it and a bottle of what I thought was nice UPTOWN OPEN DAILY METAIRIE cooking it. wine-just good dry dinner wine. Do you get much feedback from 7605 Maple 2708 N. Hullen I started cooking and studying your readers? Free Off-Street Parking Next to the Landmark the subject, reading everything I Yeah, I do. I get a lot of people could get my hands on and AL FARRELL AT THE KEYBOARD NIGHTLY EXCEPT MONDAY. who come in the restaurant who traveling and talking my way into say, "I read your article and that kitchens-asking how they did this looked good. How do you do that? and that. I traveled through Is this one of the dishes that you Mexico, Europe, the United put in the newspaper?" They States, Canada-all over. I worked always accuse me of keeping For Listings with a chef one winter in New secrets and I always deny it. Mexico at a ski resort. I'd ski in the Cooking, the way I do it, is basic day and work with him at night. ally real straight-forward. I write that really He was a European-trained, very about straight-forward things. I accomplished chef. I learned some try not to get into real esoteric tell you classic techniques from him, took things because that's going to turn what I knew and made a more dis people off. If I were writing in ciplined talent out of it. I Gourmet magazine, I'd slant it something continued to work in kitchens and differently and maybe do some continued to study material and things that I don't do in a Sunday continued to travel and tried to rotogravure situation. But for the learn as much as I could about as most part, the types of food that I many different types of cooking as like to eat and that I like to cook was possible, tried to forge my are pretty straight-forward The most complete guide own ideas of what cooking ought to New Orleans taking the best, freshest ingred to be. ient entertainment s you can and cooking them I ended up in the restaurant simply, saucing them-if you're business 12 years ago in Dallas, at going to-with something that's 10 Wavelength I September 1984 CUSTOM MEN'S AND LADIES FINE HANDCRAFTED HATS, SWEATERS, JEWELRY, WEAVINGS, AND Frank Bailey: 'If I'm not cooking, I'm eating and if I'm not eating, I'm thinking about what I'm going to ACCESORIES FROM PERU cook or eat.' AND BOLIVIA complimentary. Serve it in the me. I found that things that people proper condition and get going. brought from Central Lafourche When you were a kid in Texas, were different from what they DIRECTLY BEHIND THE CABILDO MUSEUM was your mother a good cook? brought in South Terrebonne and OFF PIRATES ALLEY We ate well. I didn't know until it's not 35 miles apart. The I got away from home how well we seasonings were different, the In the Heart of the French Quarter. in fact ate when I was growing up. types of things they put together We had a maid who was a good were different. cook, my mother was a good cook. You read in national magazines At the time, it was unusual in that about Creole-Cajun cooking we drank wine with meals on they just lump it all together. special occasions-we weren't so Not only is there not a Creole European that we had wine Cajun but there are different everyday. I found that other ideas and different variations of A FlOCKOF SEAGULLS people in Texas didn't drink wine Creole and Cajun. The things you at meals-you had a bourbon-and eat in Mamou or Ville Platte will w I special guest branch-water or two before dinner be much different from the things and that was it. You drank iced tea you eat in Galliano or Houma. Tuesday or water with the meal. How many other states have I began to see that there were such diversity? Oct. 16 more ways to go at food than just Not many have as vivid a culture playing the hand that was dealt but because America grew the way 7:30pm you. And I'm still finding that out it did, there's more diversity than all the time. you think. In Texas, you just think UNO Lakefront Arena I have a real good relationship it's Tex-Mex food and barbecue intimate theatre setting with Nicholls State University and but it doesn't work that way. limited admission I went down there this summer to There's one little town in central do lectures on cuisine and culture, Texas that's Alsatian. All the specifically Louisiana food and people who are there came from culture and how they effect each Alsace 150 years ago. There's a produced by other. It was a summer profes couple of different German settle WHITEOAK sional improvement program for ments, all in the central Texas teachers from Lafourche and area. The Latin influence is tre Terrebonne parishes. There were mendous. Barbecue in east Texas is about 100 people in each class and much different from barbecue in there were three classes: one in central Texas. Central Lafourche, one in South Are there some unknown Terrebonne and one at Nicholls Louisiana dishes out there? State in Thibodaux. Everybody Sure. There's lots of them. brought a dish to the last class. I Tasso is a big deal now. The reason gave a little lecture and then we all that lasso's big is because Paul ate this food and visited. Prudhomme started using it and In the course of a week, I ate 300 uses the lasso as it's made around home-cooked Cajun dishes. That's Opelousas, where he grew up. where t hese folks are from, that's Tasso is different in different what they are and that was part of places. Down in South the thrust of the lectures. I thought Terrebonne, they used to make a that was unique to be able to taste lasso poisson- a dried-fish lasso. 300 home-cooked dishes from an You get things like that which isolated culture in a short time. people either don't know about or The differences were amazing to have forgotten. September 1984/ Wavelength 11 Boudin is rice dressing with trout Meuniere as prepared by pork but there's also a boudin Galatoire's, Arnaud's or rouge that's closer to the French Antoine's? Those are comfortable, boudin. It's only made in homes neat old places with great for the most part because it's made ambience. You can't just build one with blood. To make things with of those. It has to develop. blood for retail sales, you have to People are looking for more have tremendous supervision from food experiences and I think the the U.S. Department of Agri marketplace will have to provide culture. Most people can't afford them with that, as well as the old to have a USDA inspector to deal experiences. with it and to do all the things that Do you eat po-boys? they require. There are If I'm going to get one, I'll temperature variations-you have generally go down to Parasol's to bring it up and then bring it because it's close but I don't eat down. Blood's volatile. So you sandwiches very often. I'm never don't see much boudin rouge. in a hurry when I eat. I'd rather What.'s so great about eating not eat than eat in a hurry because blood? I want something more out of the Well, blood's got flavor and it's eating experience than just food. also a natural thickener. Blood What's the origin of the name sausage is part of a lot of Indulgence? It doesn't have cultures-the French, the Italian, anything to do with Catholicism, the German, the Spanish-even in does it? England, in blood pudding. Blood No, I was having lunch with my is the classic thickener for certain lawyer-one of those Galatoire's stews, like rabbit and hare pre lunches where you eat for a couple parations. of hours. We were talking about Would you like to do a cookbook setting up the corporation to do now? the catering and he was taking Yes, I certainly would. I have, in down the information. As lunch effect, over the last several years, came to an end and we were written most of a cookbook-cer finishing with a demitasse, he said, tainly the recipe portions-and I'd "Okay, this is great-we've got like to put those into book form so everything we need except a name. everybody doesn't have to keep What are you going to call it?'' I saving all those Dixies, although looked around Galatoire's and the they like to. It's nice because they people were attractive and we were can have my recipes on one side of feeling no pain and it had been a the page and they can flip over and very lovely experience and I just see Vic and Nat'ly. said, "Call the son of a bitch Do you go out to eat a lot? Indulgence." I don't have time really. FREE BUTION! Restaurant people are supportive Offe r Good Mon.-Fri. of each other-we go to each DINETTE'S BEST BETS whe n you s upply photo or other's places as much as we can A random sampling of diners art. No purchase but it's really hard. I've got was asked to recall the best thing n ecessary. Sundays off-that's it. they'd had to eat during the last It seems like we're having quite a month: USED & VINTAGE renaissance of restaurants in New Marty Schwartz, architect: "The ons Orleans. paella I had in Barcelona-it had ~OLLE'CTABLES Records, Butt Sure. Absolutely-and good sausage, chicken, beef and shrimp Posters, etc ... quality. There's a lot of good ones and, as a friend pointed out, m a ny prarnatlana l ltarn• a nd and that means that the next ones jambalaya is a sort of poor man's callactabla • of a ll typa•. that come in will be good, too, paella. By the way, in the Spanish ROCK,. .JAZZ, R&B, they now have NEW WAVE because they'll be afraid not to be McDonald's, Pollo." "Buttons made to order'' good because they won't succeed. Mc Location's very important but Margaret Orr, TV personality: 3924 MAGAZINE STREET people in New Orleans will drive a ''The best thing I tasted during the Mon.-Sat. evenings 'til 10 891-931 9 little further to get something last month was Eggs Bayou City, that's good. which Marc Farchil of the It also seems that the new Sheraton cooked one morning on restaurants are much more The Breakfast Edition and I later adventurous than the traditional cooked at home. It's a crawfish Dial New Orleans places. patty with a poached egg and Well, we're thinking more about crawfish sauce. I also love the what we're doing. You can't just cereal I have every day-shredded Direct say, "People expect to have trout wheat, granola and fresh fruit." Meuniere so let's go fry some Bruce Gold, magician: "Aside trout." We don't do that. If from the dinner my girlfriend somebody wants trout Meuniere, cooked for me, I was very im you can get some great trout pressed with the chicken Rene, the Meuniere in places that have been blackened redfish, the stuffed doing it for a long time. There's no mushrooms and the coconut reason to open another place like shrimp appetizer at Copeland's." 504/895-2342 that. Diana Dees, public relations You can't open a new place to woman: "Redfish en brochette at and charge to your compete with the places that have Bouligny." Visa or Mastercharge been h ere for a h undred years. Carlos Boll, philosopher: Why would somebody go to a "Ceviche and Camarones a Ia Only $12 for one year brand new restaurant for trout Plancha at Las Man.anitas in Meuniere when they can go get Cuernavaca, Mexico!' 0 12 Wavelength I September 1984 ZEKESPEAK ZEKE FISHHEAD The Makers ~ of Cajun Music Musiciens cadiens et creoles Text by BARRY JEAN ANCELET Photographs by ELEMORE MORGAN, JR. Foreword by RALPH RINZLER The first book of its kind, The Makers of Cajun Music presents James Brown brings it up. lively and authoritative portraits of the most popular Cajun and Creole musicians today. Included are ballad singers and old-time fiddlers, masters of zydeco and members of modern dance bands Important the performers who, in their own words, tell of the soul of the Cajun heartland-its music. treat. Sylvian spearheaded his lllustrated with almost one hundred full-color Imports group Japan through photographs, The the most Makers of Cajun Music presents with spirit i boys and girls! You refreshing synth-funk to come the vitality and range out of contemporary Cajun music. wonder what I been up to?· of Britain in the early Eighties. H"How come no speakee, "Pulling Punches" . and "Red Bilingual edition Zekee?" Well, I was with a Guitar" harken back to the funk 98 full-color photographs of Cajun greats medicine show for a while, of his former group. but I'm The $14.95 paperback cured of that now. But let's not remainder of the album displays a $24.9 5 hardcover quibble about the past, it's more subtle, jazzy touch, utilizing disappearing fast. And before the acoustic guitar, trumpet, eyen entire culture totally disposes of double-bass on one cut. itself, let's see what moments of Finally, there's some live albums shallacked pleasure we can cling to. of interest lapping up on these The most satisfying LP I've shores via England. Just out over Free shipping on prepaid orders. come across in some time is here is Such A Night (Spindrift Cidade Coracao (Brazilian EMI 107) by our own physician-rarely sox 78x 9 AusTIN, TEXAs 78713 University of Texas Press 31C 064 422 929) by the brilliant in-residence, Dr. John. This LP, Brazilian multi-instrumentalist recorded live in London, catches Egberto Gismonti. Those familiar doc solo and doc backed by the with his more meditative and irrepressible Brit group, Diz and austere American recordings on the Doormen. Don't be dismayed the ECM label will be blown out by the familiarity of the song titles: by the verve and festiveness of this the good doctor has souped up the LP. l . . . h arrangements, de-ranged the One se ectlon seques m to t e lyrics, and generally rejuvenated next (one side is "Day" the other is the songs with his special humor "Night"), each cut offering a and energy. "Junco Partner" and different mood and character, "Tipitina" are standout tracks. from the floozy "Dancin' Meanwhile, Live At The Grand Piazzolla" to the wistful "Ruth" Opera House Belfast (Mercury (shades of Nino Rota!). In MERL 36) features Van Morrison addition, Egberta is trying his with the big group who helped him hand at electronic keyboards and on last year's Inarticulate Speech he's putting out some remarkable LP. While I would have loved to sounds. Hard to get this one off hear this spectacular group cut my turntable. loose on some of Van's earlier Polydor's been releasing volume material, what they do to his recent after volume in the neverending stuff is amazing, adding a vibrancy story of James Brown. My favorite and luster missing from the is Ain't That A Groove (821 231 original versions. This is a monster IY1), which covers the years 1966 ensemble, from the soaring voices to '69. And what a groove it is! of the female chorus' handling of You got your "Don't Be a the melodic chores in portions of Dropout" (echoes of late Fifties the old standard "It's All In The N'Awlins 45's!). You got your big Game," to Pee Wee Ellis' riveting band grooves: "Bring It Up" and solo on "Haunts," to the excellent the title track. And you also got work of the rhythm section some hard-to-find humongous throughout (how does bassist funk-ups like "Licking Stick" and David Hayes slip and slide around "I Can't Stand Myself," the latter the bottom and yet remain so which features an all-white band. ON?) As always, I'm deeply in awe This is low-lead stuff. This is the of Van's passion. Check out the high octane. Bernie Odum's bass picture of the Belfast Opera House line in "Get It Together" is s o on the album's cover. Now, funky, it defies you to get it couldn't you get down in a together. building like that? The long-awaited solo album by I just noticed: almost all of the David Sylvian, Brilliant Trees above records are imports. Does (Virgin LTD-V2290), IS a real that tell you anything? September 1984/ Wavelength 13 FRONT ROW FASHION In terms of sheer fanaticism, what's the difference between teenage Islamic suicide squads and the little girls in Spandex who line up to see the Models? Well, not much ... except the clothes. ALLISON BRANDIN ventured into the streets of New Orleans to find out what music fans are wearing and why. Her ultimate conclusion: 'These people are cooler by a mile than any jerk who pays hundreds for a stale copy of the street look.' lillian axe DICKIE ELLIS, AGE 16, JUNIOR AT JOHN CURTIS HIGH. KEITH LEE , AGE 15, SOPHOMORE AT EAST JEFFERSON. A.J. CARUSO, AGE 16, JUNIOR AT JOHN CURTIS HIGH. What we love about the band ... it's the power and the high screams and the guitars. It's nothing that you'd get in Culture Club, it's nothing that you'd want to go to sleep to. No dancing, just head banging. Steve the guitarist is our favorite, He's great, a great guy, and a great guitar teacher. [About the makeup the band wears:] They may look like girls on stage but not when they're just walking around, like new wave groups. We go see them as often as possible. We may be underage, but we find a way. We all want to be heavy metal guitarists .. . they call us heavy metal punks. Our favorite songs are "Rebirth, " "Try to Stop Me Now," and "Axe Attack." We've seen 'em in Biloxi, and when they opened for Zebra and Night Ranger. Steve is the greatest guitarist in the world; watch out Eddie Van Hafen! [On Satanic worship:) All the heavy metal bands go through it, we used to curse 'em out about it but now we know it's just a blow-over thing . . . just a stage device. They just do it for attention. If they really seriously believed in it they wouldn't make such a big deal out of it. Keith: Dickie took about 145 pictures of the band, AJ took about three rolls of 24 and I only took one roll. It's hard enough to pay for all this stuff I'm wearing. A lot ofgirls come, and they're like only 13 or 14 but they look 18 or 19. They wear a lot of great looki n' stuff. · The first time we ever saw Steve play guitar we just said-Wow! Favorite other bands: Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Van Halen. 14 Wavelength I September 1984 the cold JILL MOLLINEROI AGE 17 1 FRESHMAN ATLSU. I love the Cold because they project excitement and (giggles) I have fun. They're the only local band that I ever have fun at, that I can actually dance at. Barbara's one of my favorites, she's the most interesting because she does more. The guys like her 'cause she's sexually appetizing. I don't notice Chris too much; he's hiding behind the drums, Burt's I kinda fun to watch because he hops around. Vance walks around kinda pigeon-toed, Kevin I I looks like he's really concentrating . . . and Barbara ... she's just wild, she's just a wild woman. Chris is back there just giving it all he's got, beating the skins. My favorite song is a new one called "Talk To Me." I don't know the words or who wrote it yet but it's really good. I've been coming since I was 13 or 14-I'm almost 18 now so for about three years I guess. Well, they broke up but throughout the breakup 1 was still listening to their tapes and stuff. They play around once a month so that's how often I see them. They're just a clean-cut bunch of musicians just out to have fun ... the parents can rest assured that when their kids go see the SUZANNE MARIE CHAILLOT I AGE 27 I Cold they 'II be safe and have a great time. HOME FURNISHINGS CONSULT ANT Actually, I think Barbara, Vance and Kevin , are my favorites. Barbara's visually captivating LAURA ASHLEY SHOP, CANAL PLACE and Vance and Kevin keep the jokes going JOHN CHAILLOT, AGE 22, between songs; they are both very witty. I hope WORKS AT in a way they never make it big because then THE WORLD'S FAIR . they would leave New Orleans. Favorite other bands: Squeeze, Talking [Spoken in a lovely Cajun accent:] Heads, Tom Tom Club, Billy Idol ("my boy"). I love Cajun music, 1 can't live without it, I guess because I'm pure-D Cajun. My favorite member of the band, well it's hard to say. I like everyone but I guess I like the accordion the best, I just love Bruce to death. Everyone dances, you can't not dance when you come to the Maple Leaf. We either do a fast two-step or a slow waltz or you can just jump around like you're crazy. Oh, and the Cajun jitter-bug. My favorite song is the "Bosco Stomp. " Bourre is definitely keeping the Cajun heritage alive. We didn't speak French growing up in Crowley, but we could pick it up just hanging around the household. They did speak it, and you'd understand if they were talking about you. We were all taught to speak English in a Cajun sort of way. I learned to dance when I was about two or three years old. My papaloe {grand father] used to pay us a nickel if we'd dance with him. He'd put us up on his feet and hold us up and we'd just dance and dance and dance. He taught us all how to dance. I'm really pleased to see that Cajun music has taken on such a following. Me and my brother used to go to the country to go dancing, because all ·the other bars were playing Chicago and Blood Sweat and Tears, and everyone said "Cajun music yuk yuk, " but now they all think it's the hippest thing on earth. Her brother John Chaillot, age 22, works at the World's Fair, International Bazaar, in La Belle France. I love Bourre because they're an instrument that's keeping the culture and tradition alive. My favorite song is the "Crowley Two-Step" 'cause naturally I'm partial to Crowley. It was great growing up with a great dancer like my sister. On New Orleans: Gumbo is my favorite food-the way my grandma makes it, not the way they serve it here. September 1814/ W•welength 15 radiators HOLDEN MILLER, 1984 OFFICIAL SUPPLY COORDINATOR FOR SOLID WASTE AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. BONNIE O'DONOGHUE, ARTIST. Bonnie: My husband (Coleman) and I got married last week in Washington D. C.,and the Radsjust happened to be in town: They rocked the place, on a Monday night the place was jumpin '. A lot of Tulanians were there, the club had a deal where people with a Louisiana license or Tulane ID could get in for free. The club was Adams. /like the Rods because they play good music. How's that fora basic answer? Holden: I used to love the Radiators back when I was young and stuff, and they made me want to gyrate, so I went and started gyrating like a fiend right there in front. I was the head gyrater, cheerleader. But then all these other people came and they looked just like me and stuff and I was freaked out, they were gyrating and looking like me and I didn't like it, so I just quit going, I boycotted the Rods for about three years. I'm kinda still in the midst of my boycott but tonight I came down here [Dream Palace] 'cause I wanted to hear 'em because someone played a bootleg tape of them for me last week and they sounded GREAT. My favorite song is "Automatic." Of course my favorite singer is Ed Volker. Current other favorite singer is Etta James. Bonnie: I enjoy the music, I know I can always dance. My favorite guy is Ed but I really like all of them together. I come at least once a month, sometimes twice. My favorite place to see them is Luigi's. They play there on Wednesdays. nevi lie brothers HUBIE VIGREUX, NEWS PHOTO GRAPHER/ CAMERAMAN CHANNEL 6. /love the Nevilles because they are a history of New Orleans rhythm and blues. In one night you can have it all. My favorite tune is the "Iko/ lko"-"Brother John" medley. It's hard 10 pick my favorite performer ... Aaron is one of the best singers ever in history, but I like Cyril. I am just geared to percussion. I try to see them at least once a month. Being a Neville Brothers fan is a state of mind. The thing about the Nevilles is that they just keep going. The family talent is incredible, Aaron is great, but I think Ivan's more talented than Aaron and Charlie, even though Charlie's something else, but like Ivan embarrasses Aaron, and Jason is something else. Hopefully it will go on and on and on. On the Rads: I think the Radiators are the future. I used to like Little Feat, so naturally I would like the Radiators. I think Eddie Volker is a genius, I could never take enough drugs to be on the same level as Eddie, and Eddie doesn't ALLISON BAANDIN take a lot of drugs. Hobby: Shooting videos of people like the Rads, Nevilles, etc. Other favorite bands: Police, Chris Kenner, Allen Toussaint, Radiators. 1984 models MAUREEN BACON , AGE 17, SEN IOR AT MT. CARMEL HIGH. I've been a model Models fan since 1981. I loved to stand in the front and watch. I guess the reason ! like them is because their music is great, but I especially like the way they look. They haven't made it top 40-wise but I like them much better than anything on the radio. They're way ahead of what's on the radio. If I heard them I'd start to listen. My favorite song is "Fire Patrol." Of course my favorite Model is Johnny. The first time I saw them something snapped and I knew they were really good. Their music has changed since I first saw them, it used to be rea/loud and fast. They still do a lot of their old stuff but they do it in a more professional way. They definitely deserve more than Jimmy's. Even though I dare Johnny, I was a fan long before I really knew him. Other favorites: David Bowie, Sex Pistols, Lords of the New Church, Dead Kennedys. shepherd band SAMUEL, DRIVES A FORK LIFT ZAK IY A , DESIGNS CLOTHES BABY NILAJA Zakiya: We listen to all kinds of music but I can't speak for staunch Rastas, because we're The music from the people of Jamaica ... I not staunch Rastas. They may listen to just can relate to their situation. I feel sort of like reggae, it's a very personal choice. they do; this isn't my home, I'm just an Sam: Being a Rasia is very much an individual immigrant. I'm an African born in America. I thing. It has the potential to be a whole lifestyle, do consider myself an American but only but it's personal, even the divinity of Haile because I was born here. I don't feel! speak for Selassie is also very much an individual choice, Americans or the American way of life. I don't to some people he's the son of god or jah, to eat like Americans, I'm a vegetarian. I do some he's jah, I can't speak for all Rastas natural things for my body . . . I do go to because as you see there is a variation. McDonald's because they have a salad bar now. The history of the Rasta movement ties in to On the colors used so often, red, green and the music in that reggae specifically-not ska or gold: It's taken from the Ethiopian flag. bluebeat but reggae-is due specifically to the The language is a vehicle expression of the change in tempo and some of the messages that positive. reggae is about ... a message ~f brotherhood, a Zakiya: Steel Pulse is my favorite group. I message of love, not just temporal love ~ut love Bob Marley, of course. My favorite song spiritual love, a return or a forward to Afrtca, the Shepherd Band does is an original-one the and freedom from oppression; not just for keyboard player wrote but I don't know about Africans but for all folks. the name. We dance most of the time when we The Shepherd Band is really only one of the go hear reggae. It's called skanking-your body few reggae bands locally, but unfortunately they does whatever it feels. are not playing until September. We used to There's not too many places to hear reggae hear them at Tip's or the Players Club. but we do go to I and I Restaurant. It means you My lifestyle is my whole being. Reggae's the do for me and I do for you, I guess the Golden only music that really speaks messages about Rule. freedom from oppression, about our African Sam: We look forward to seeing them every heritage. The dreadlocks mean to me f reedom, time. We don't have a favorite ... they are free to be myself, my most natural self. I feel really tight m usicians; the drummer, t he bass closer to nature. player . .. they are a very good show. September 1984/ Wavelength 17 STEVE TAYLOR NEW ORLEANS' DEFINITIVE STORE FOR RECORDS, TAPES & VIDEO PLEASANT AT MAGAZINE I NEW ORLEANS I 504·897 · 5015 From Russia, ith A Beat (EDITOR'S NOTE: Reporter J im Motavalli jazz collectors as wei . I would say it's hard, because you can't really recently returned from a trip to the Soviet Union It seems like traditionar:Jezz iS""l..ore popular buy many hard rock records in the ordinary sponsored by Promoting Enduring Peace and here than the modern souifds.of Jolin Coltrane stores. We get them by exchanging records. A other United States peace groups.) and Eric Dolphy. friend of mine might buy a record, or his father It depends on the age. Many eople f my might bring it from abroad, and I can tape it. BY JIM MOTA VALLI age-I'm 28-prefer the mainst m ic, Tell me which are your favorites. The first one, of course, is the Beatles. n American and a Russian were drinking Younger people prefer the fusion mode jazz. I love the saxophone players yself: Do you know the Beatles song "Back in the in a bar in the Soviet city of Kazan. The S.S.R. ,? drink was vodka, the subject, jazz. Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Sonny Fol1\me. A p(a~ers Sure, that's from the White Album, 1968. It's The Russian, who avidly reads downbeat (the Do you ever get to see any of these _it. I a lso l~ke the ~oiling Stones. I American jazz magazine) and translates it for here in Kazan? gr '!1. I like would lso smg my pra1ses to J1m Morrison and his colleagues in the Kazan Jazz Society, knows No, never. I think Kazan is considered to be a Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black the music only from records; he has never heard provincial town. They go to Moscow, the Doors, Sabbath o course, Golden Earring. the real stuff played live. The American told the Leningrad, Riga, but not to Kazan. ~re which derive Russian about the New York jazz clubs he fre I really hope you do get a chance to hear some there. many Russian groups of these musicians live. Jazz is an improvised the~~ sound .[rom the American and British quents, places where the greats improvise bafl(ls? nightly. music. I'm not as {amiliar with Russian groups. I've "Ah, Jim," said the Russian, looking into his I would very much like to hear the music live. here to read and heard some on tapes and in concert. I would say vodka glass, "you are a happy man." We have a chance downbeat they'v~taken a lot from Western rock, and very American was me; the Russian was we read about the live performances with great The often they don't put their own viewpoint into Leonar Latypov, an English professor at Kazan interest here in Kazan. ~he music. They'te simply taking it and playing State University. Like many of the young Soviet What about Russian jazz? Do you think there translating it into Russian. But there men and women I met on my recent two-week are many groups here that are up to the stand 1t, maybe progressive groups, like Time trip, Leonar is a passionate student of American ards of the American ensembles? are some have extremely good lyrics. culture, following the trends against some form We do have many talented jazz musicians in Machine-they to obtain, this country. It depends on the style. There is the Some of the bands are called "underground. , idable obstacles: records are difficult . .. and American concerts are almost non-existent. big, band led by Oleg Luodstrem; the fusion Their music is not officially sanctioned We have about '30 underground groups in I soon learned that the Soviets carefully group Arsettal, which plays ill., the style of separate the American government, which they Weather R port;"'ano a mano pia er you could Moscow. Some of them play-can I say regard as the cynical product of capitalism in compare to Chick Corea, t:eon\d Chizhik. It's it?-:-shitty music, ot so good. People go to decay, from the American people, who are very difficult to name them all. the1r concerts not because they like their music much admired for their vital and active culture. Do you get a chance to hear BY ALMOST SLIM 'm sure that many of you readers were just as Rosetta Howard, who lived further downtown, I remember I learned to read from a McGuffey's shocked as I was at the news of Tuts Washing near the intersection of Josephine and Oara reader-it was a real good book for learnin'. I only I ton's death on August 5, 1984. Sure he was 77 Streets. "I don't need to tell you things was dif played hooky one day, but I got caught by one years old, but it often seemed like a livelier septua ferent in those days. You could buy a sack of of the teachers. 'Essedor'-1 hated to hear that genarian didn't exist; the man had only been to groceries for a dollar and a big bag a' crackers for 'where have you been?' Well, she gave me a whip a doctor once in his entire life. But now, nearly a nickel. There wasn't all this killin' and stealin' pin' and then she told my pa. Then he tore my a month later, we can reflect on just how much you got today. A man could walk the streets any ass up too. I never played hooky again." the city's music has lost. time o' day. I used to play in the alley behind the Tuts only completed the sixth grade, although As most people know by now, Tuts was felled Leidenheimer's Bakery where they baked the he contends, "My education was just as good as by a fatal heart attack during a set at the World's French bread loaves. The bakers would give us anyone who graduated from a public high school. Fair. But rather than dwell on his death, it is much kids donuts and bread all the time and I'd run I quit school to go to work. I started shinin' shoes more appropriate that we remember his life and back and give 'em to my aunt." for the rich white folks in front of the Crescent his music. Although he didn't enjoy the commer Like any child growing up in New Orleans, Tuts Billiard Hall, where Kolb's Restaurant is now on cial success that many of his contemporaries and was exposed to a great deal of music. "There was St. Charles Avenue [on the lake side of the 100 imitators did, his influence on shaping the "New plenty of it around," says Tuts. "There was block]. I was makin' seven dollars a week. Man, Orleans sound" was substantial. always bands out in the street, 'cause nearly I thought I was rich." Myself, I treasure the time and friendship I everybody got waked by a band then. On week Even though Tuts had barely reached his teens, shared with the man. Listening to him spin yarns ends, sometimes there'd be two or three bands out he began playing in bands whose members were about "the old days" until even my ears were on the comer tryin' to 'buck' each other to see far older than himself, and also began "hangin' numb... tracling risque stories ...trying to convince which one was best. All us kids would run behind out in joints. "I never had any problems playin' him to record an album ...walking up and down the bands, they call it second linin' today. I liked with bands, I played with all of our best dixieland Canal Street for hours ...watching him show me to hear the 'Tm Roof Blues.' [sings] 'Don't you bands in the Twenties-Kid Punch, Kid Rene, how to do a dance that was once popular in the get too funky 'cause your water's on.' That was plenty of 'em." back rooms of the Rampart Street honky tonks ... kicks." Tuts also joined the large number of "barrel listening to his infectious laugh. It wasn't too long before Tuts became interested house'' pianists that circulated throughout the city. And of course there was his playing. Supremely in making his own music. "The ftrst thing I "Right away I knew I didn't just want to be a confident, Tuts displayed endless virtuosity and learned to play was the harmonica and the drums. blues player, there was agang of them around. If style that belied his advanced years and humble Every quarter I'd get, I'd run to the comer and you wanted to get a good job that paid some appearance. Others could copy his piano runs, but buy a harmonica-Hohner Marine Band harmon money, you had to play more than the blues, you only Tuts could embellish them with a mark all ica. I got to where I played one pretty good, but had to be able to play anything the people wanted. his own. my aunt made me quit playin' 'em 'cause she said "See in them days the [red light] district was still Tuts will be remembered as a great musician, they would make my lips too big.'' open. Now I'm not just talkin' about the white a gentleman and a friend. district on Basin Street, but the colored district, in behind Rampart Street [Perdido Street]. We sidore "Tuts" Washington, Jr. was born in ut it was an upright piano sitting in his aunt's used to have a joint in back of the precinct that New Orleans, January 24, 1907, the son of front room that eventually drew most of we called the 'Fuck Around.' I run up on a gang I Juanita Howard and Isidore Washington, Sr. BTuts' attention. "I was 10 years old when I of blues players there in the Twenties. 'Black' Tuts had an older sister who died before his birth, first started playing the piano. No one taught me Merineaux, Fats Pichon, Little Brother Mont and an "outside" brother fathered by Isidore Sr. to play, not even how to play a C chord. That's gomery, Burnell Santiago, Kid Stormy Weather, "I'm a creole," affinned Tuts, "so there will never why I believe it was a gift from God. I always Hezekiah-they was all blues players. Some nights be a shadow of a doubt in your mind. I come up could play anything I heard. When I was a kid, there'd be three or four of us in there and we'd on the comer of Eighth and Franklin [now Simon I was a good whistler. Every time I heard a song 'buck' each other to see which one was best. Some Bolivar Street]. Most of my peoples is dark, but that I liked, I'd whistle it all the way home, then nights they'd raid the joint and I'd have to run my pa's grandpa was an Indian, and I got his I'd sit down and 'fmd it' on the piano. I got to out the back door 'cause I wasn't old enough to color." the point where good piano players would. come be in there. I'd come at all hours of the night and Tragedy struck Tuts' life early, when his mother and ask me to show them things to play. my aunt would be so mad. She'd say, 'Tuts, where died under mysterious circumstances when he was "I started out playin' the blues, 'cause that was you been?' and she'd beat the hell out of me." just six. "The doctor said she drank some coffee what the people liked to hear. I'd sneak around Tuts' reputation as a good player spread, and that was poisoned," explains Tuts. "I don't know although the joints and listen to 'em play the blues his aunt wasn't too happy about the late if someone would have poisoned her purposely," and boogie woogie. They had a gang of blues players hours he was keeping, she eventually consented to he says but adds quickly, "People were a lot more then; see, every joint had a piano in it 'cause this let her nephew take proper lessons from a "pro superstitious in those days, that could have had was before they even had radios fessor." Everybody that passed the house and something to do with it." and jukeboxes. People wanted to hear something while they were heard me play would say, 'That boy is good, he Even though Tuts spent a relatively short period drinkin'-that's ought to be takin' lessons.' Finally, when I was of life with his mother, there was apparently much why they had all these piano players out 18, my pa sent me to a teacher. I only went one love in the family, and he still speaks fondly of here. Not every joint could afford to get a band, ·day, the teacher told my pa, 'I can't teach this boy her, although he does admit, ''She was real strict. so you had a lot of these guys out here hustlin' nuthin'. He already plays better than a tenth grade My rna's the one that started calling me 'Tuts.' for change and a few drinks. I didn't play in the joints pianist.' So I just carried on the way I had been, I don't why but she just did." Photographs of when I was real young, but I used to. go 'round sneakin' in the joints and tryin' to learn what I Juanita show a dark-skinned, well-dressed, hand the comer to the Gallo Theatre [on Oaibome could by ear.'' some woman with a glint of no nonsense in her Ave.]. I played there when the movies would be showing. Fish fries, too. People would As Tuts grew to be an adult, he spent most eyes. of give fash fries to raise money and hire me to play his Tuts' father, a house painter, begrudgingly had time developing his style and soaking up the to entertain to put his son in the care of his wife's sister, the people. Made a couple a' dollars nightlife that New Orleans had to offer during the and got all I could to eat and drink, that's all I 1930's. "A piano player had it made in them days. was lookin' for then. Just a good time. Women would fight over a piano player. See, the This story is an excerpt from I Hear You As a child, Tuts was sent to a private "colored" district was open, women were turnin' tricks and Knockin': The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm school in Uptown New Orleans on Franklin they had plenty money. They wanted their men and Blues, which is to be published this fall by Avenue run by a group of Lutheran teachers. "It to look good. I had women buy me gold belt Swallow Publications. cost my paten cents a week to send me to school. buckles, rings, silk shirts, new suits and all kinds 20 Wavelength I September 1984 'Things was happenin' in them days.' of shit. Man, they'd be puttin' money in your tain John Handy, "Son" Johnson, Isaiah Smiley" that was recorded in 1948 for Deluxe pocket and flghtin' with each other to do it. Morgan, Kid Oayton, Papa French, Kid Rena, Records. "We had the best trio around New "I was mostly playin' by myself in the colored and Louis Demain, who allied bands at the time Orleans," conflrms Tuts. "Nobody could beat joints. Now a lot of them Italians had speakeasy and, according to Tuts, played "for whites and Smiley singin' blues or standards. We played all joints. They hired nothin' but colored bands. The coloreds.'' • around town, The Gypsy Tea Room, the El colored joints didn't hire too many bands becaQse During the 1930's Tuts could most often be Morocco, the Dew Drop, all 'round town. they could only afford a piano player. Bourbon found in one of the tiny clubs that lined South "We started bummin' around the J&M Studio. Street, too. They hired nothin' but colored bands Rampart Street or occasionally with a dixieland I remember they had an old German-made upright in those days. group, led by the likes of Kid Sheik, Alton Pumel piano that I liked to play. I wrote a lot of those "Now I bummed around plenty in my day, or Thomas Jefferson. While on Rampart Street, numbers for Smiley then that I never got credit that's when I was drinkin' liquor. Mostly I Tuts imparted much to a number of up-and for. I wrote 'The Dirty, Dirty People Done The bummed on Rampart Street, 'cause Rampart was coming pianists. "I taught a lot of these fellows," Poor Boy Wrong,' and I gave Smiley the words nothin' but joints. I'd get me a half pint of gin, assures Tuts. "When I was playin' at the Kotton to 'Tee-Nah-Nah.' That was one of those prison sit up in a joint and maybe play some piano and Oub, Fess [Roy Byrd a.k.a. Professor Longhair] songs they used to sing up in Angola. 'Tee-Nab then walk down the street to the next joint. Do used to come in and watch me at the piano. He'd Nab' went everywhere; every time I turned around that all day long. Things was happenin' in them rub smut on his lip so it would look like a mus I heard it on the box. We travelled all over on that days. There was gamblin' and prostitution, but it tache and he could look older and fool the owners. record. Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma-Melvin seemed like a person had a chance to make some I tried to show him some of these strides that I . Cade was bookin' us-we went to so many places money then.'' play, but he couldn't make it. He had to make a I had to write my aunt just to let her know where flSt and roll his left hand to cover what I could I was. In fact I did so much travelling then that The man who came to influence Tuts' piano cover." I'm not too crazy about travelling now. style the most was Joseph Louis "Red" Cayou. "I stayed with Smiley 'till around 'Sl. Smiley Cayou was two years 1\rts' senior and was inspired jilst got too big headed and ornery. He got to the by Jelly Roll Morton, who visited his house. point where you couldn't tell him nuthin.' We had Cayou played with a jazz trio at the Big 2S, but ot long after, Tuts began his most memor able musical association, one with Overton had words a bunch of times so I left the trio and mostly played solo piano in the honky tonks and then Dave Bartholomew ran behind him and got gaming houses. "Red Cayou was the best thing N Lemons, of course better known as Smiley Lewis. "I had been knowin' Lewis from when I him to make all those records for the Imperial we had around here," declares Tuts flatly. "He Recording Company.'' had long hands and bowed legs. Red could walk played with Thomas Jefferson back in the Thir ties. I was playin' on Rampart Street, and Lewis into any joint in town and run anybody offa the uriously, even though he lived through the piano. Piano players were scared to play when Red would always stop by to see me on his way home from workin' in the Quarter with Noon Johnson most active recording period in New Orleans walked in the door. He fmgered the hell out of Cand scores of inferior musicians were the piano. Played so fast you couldn't even see and "Papoose" [Walter Nelson]. He use' to say, 'Man, I wish I could play with someone that's as recorded, Tuts was never inclined to make record his hands. That sumbitch was electric! That's ings of his own. "I never did have to make no where I got my left hand. He used to tell me, 'You good as you, Tuts.' He use' to sing a few tunes with me, 'cause I always did like his voice. records," points out Tuts. "I always been havin' son of a bitch, I'm gonna run you offa that piano. a name around New Orleans for my playin' abili He played in the tonks, but he played 'round those "I took a job with Kid Ernest at the Boogie Woogie Club in Bunkie, Louisiana. It was during· ty. Now a lot of these boys that get a record out, whorehouses over on Basin Street before they they need one to get a name. that the war and things had slowed up around New But these boys closed them down. Red left here around '2S and get a record out, they need one to get a name. But moved to Oakland, California. He never did come Orleans, so I took the job. The man that owned the club wanted a vocalist, so I talked Kid and his they need a bass guitar and a drum to fill out their back. I got to visit him once out there, but he died sound. I never did need that. They got a name offa in a car wreck in 1947." brother into hiring Lewis. We played around Bunkie and Marksville, Louisiana, for the best that rock 'n' roll, that teenaged music. They got them loud guitars part of two years. When I came home I had $800 on there and that high hollerin' efore Tuts reached his twenties, he began in my pocket." and screamin'. But you can't call that music that's just a bunch of damn noise. leaving town to play piano in New Orleans 1\rts was present on Smiley's fli'St recording, Bdance bands. Tuts recalls playing with Cap- "Turn On Your Volume" bfw "Here Comes After Tuts split with Smiley, he joined Papa Continued on page 28 September 1984 I Wavelength 21 CONCERTS OUT OF Monday, September 3 Pete Fountain and I rma Thoma•, at TOWN ' Audubon Zoo, 3 p.m. The former perform· Sept.1 ing no doubt in honor of the bald eaglets; Southweat Mlaalaalppl Blue• Information at 861·2537. l"eatlval, McComb, MS. From noon; Lynn White, Johnny Adams, Walter Washington, Saturday, September 8 Big Moody and the Mississippi Farm Boys. Juke In The Bo• (isn't that a chain of Information from Percy Bryant at 601-684- drive-in restaurants in Houston?), a benefit 2100. for KLSU , noon until 10 p.m. 1n LSU BR's Sept.2·9 outdoor Baseball Stadium; among those participating are Woodenhead (center field). San Franclaco Inter-Dada 84 Pressure (short stop), Bluesomatics and the Featlval, with performances, parades, art, Place matchstick close to tip Night Timers (might get to second base). films, video, fashion, the whole ball of wax. of jaws so that you wi II be The Producers (out in left field), and out on Information from Tristan Tzara or Sophie able to move the tongue. the mound-as usuai-Li'l Queenie, bless Taueber-Arp at 415-863-6500. her heart; information at 388-5911 . Saturday, September 15 SYMPHONY Matchstick 3rd Annual Uptown Youth Center Se pt.3 Fall Fair and Mualc l"eatlval, 11 a.m. Lafreniere Park, Downs Boulevard, Jeffer to 11 p.m. At the Center, 4877 Laurel Street. son. Light classics and popular mus1c con and continuing on Sunday, Sept.16 at the ducted by Andrew Massey; 6 p .m. same hours. Rides, space-walks, food, cold F·Exam ining structures of frog'~ . drinks, prizes, and The Uptights, the Olym Sept.9 pia Brass Band, Earl King, the Clean 13 (the Amphitheatre, World's Fair. Entremont at Youth Center's band). the Aubry Twins, the piano, Shlomo Mintz, violinist and cellist Frankie Ford, Bobby Cure and the Summer Leonard Rose perform the Beethoven Tri time Blues. Lenny Zenith, Tommy Ridgely, ple Concerto. At 8. Tickets available the Top cats., Mark Bingham, the Louisiana through the Amphitheatre's box office. Purchase and the Neville Brothers who have made the Center a pet project. Sept.11-13 Wednesday, September Orpheum Theatre, 8 p.m. Andrew Massey 18 conducts, violinist Joseph Swensen is Peter Hanaen, of Tulane's Music Depart soloist; works by Weber, Mozart and ment, in recital on the harpsichord; Rogers Beethoven. Ticket information at 525-0500. Memorial Chapel, noon; free. Information at 865-5268. Sept.14 Thursday, September 20 Audubon Zoo. 6:30 p.m. Andrew Massey consucts, tickets available through the Sheila E., afloat and adrift on the River AudUbon Zoo. 861 -2537. boat President; tentative like everything in life. Sept.18, 18 Orpheum Theatre, 8 p.m. Andrew Massey Friday, September 21 conducts, violinist Joseph Swensen is The Louisiana Amphibian is celebrated at the RAYNE Chicago, UNO Lakefront Arena; if they soloist; works by Dvorak, Bartok and can get Hacksaw Duggan on that stage Beethoven. Ticket information at 525-0500. FROG FESTIVAL September 14 through 16. then one supposes they can fit the 47 members of this big horn band on it. Friday, September 21 CONCERT . . . . New Ori-n• City Ballet, Theatre for ...... the Performing Arts; three ballets-Scotch . .. . Symphony to music by Mendelssohn and Brown Bag Conoerta, 11 :30 a.m. to 1 choreography by the late-grate George p.m. Duncan Plaza: Mon.10: the Aubry Balanchine, plus Concerto Barocco and Twins. Tues.11 : the Original Crescent City With Timbrel and Dance Praise His Name Jazz Band. Wed.12: Ellyna Tatum's Second .. . . . which is set to hymns and spiritual hollers, Liners. Thurs.13: Shepherd Reggae Band. .. . the latter provided by the estimable Barbara Fri.14: The Bandido Latin Band (not to be . Short. Tickets from either Ticketmaster or confused with the group of Guatemalan NOCB; 587-3200 or 888-8181 . Same pro teenagers I'm getting ready to produce call gram repeated Sunday, September 23. ed Los Guapos, but I'm keeping them under wraps-they're literally living under a tar Saturday, September 22 paulin in a garage down on Forstall Street New Ori-n• Rh~hm and Blu.. -until the world can stand that much beau l"eatlval, at the C.A.C. and continued on ty onstage at once-Menudo, look out!) Sunday, September 23; call the Center for Mon.17: the vivacious Raymond Myles and details, 523·1216. his Singers. Tues.18: Woodenhead. Wed.19: the Gospel Express. Thurs.20: the Sunday, September 23 Original Dixieland Jau Band-get out the Le Cannlble, by La rry Sleberth. planchettes and ouija boards, this must be Longue Vue House. 7 Bamboo Road, 3 p.m. a seance-fiction piece. Fri.21: Beausoleil. 488-5488. At diverse locales: Mon.24: Alex Coulonge Trio (1515 Poydras); Rachel Van Voorhees Wednesday, September 26 (New Orleans Public Library); Tues.25: Wynton Ma,...lla, •-Hopn, Kent Bruce Daigrepont and Bourre (Energy Jordan, the New Orlean• Phllhar· Center). Wed.26: the Jau Ramblers at Hale monic Symphony Orchestra; LWE Am· Boggs Mall and poet Pictove and comedy phitheatre, 8 p .m. team Chakula and Chink at the N.O.P.L. Thurs.27: Allegra (Board of Trade Center Friday, September 28 Plaza on Magazine St.). Fri.28: The Un Allen Toua.. lnt , Dr. John, Dave Bar· touchables (Lafayette Square-note to the tholomew, Saenger Theatre, 8 p.m. Giv Arts Council: they've been performing there ing the elderly phrase " Under the Stars at for years, why wait so long to promote them the Saenger" a new meaning. publicly?); Louisiana Video with Stevenson Palfi at the Chamber of Commerce. Sunday, September 30 French Market Concert•. 3 to 5 p.m. laland Night, with b uma and Chef Sat.t : Ted Riley's Royal Brass Band. Sun.2: Palmer, Jimmy's-thank heavens it isn't Chester Zardis, a miracle of belle epoque Last Island Night! (Ask students of local drumming. Mon.3: Andrew Hall's Society meteorological history about that mess). Brass Band. Sat.8: Milton Batiste's Olym " All you can eat and all you can dance" pia Serenaders. Sun.9: the Louisiana Folk ELVIS COSTELLO, Aaron Neville's not simultaneously one hopes. loric Puppet Theatre; followed by Scott Number One fan, Elton John, on what is announced as the Hill's French Market Jazz Band. Sat.15: performs at the Louisiana World Exposition Amphitheatre last tour ever, period, bar none, for the pride Tommy Yetta's New Orleans Jazz Band. on September 3. of Middlesex; LSU Assembly Center, Baton Sun.16: Wes Mix's West End Jau Band. Rouge. Sat.2.2 and Sun.23: R&B. precisely whom 22 Wavelength I September 1984 COMPILED BY JON NEWLIN & DIANA ROSENBERG will have to wait T.B.A. Sat.29: Herman Benale, Church Point 70525; 318-684-2739. jamboree embracing everything from crafts kilometers. and run 10 kilometers: pre Sherman's Young Tuxedo Jazz Band. to culinary delights, from literature to string register at Phidippides. L8feyette Natural History Museum, Sept.14-16 bands and hot music; the emphasis MTV VIdeo Awards, live from Little Old 637 Girard PI<. Dr., 318-261-8350. Travail/er Louisiana Gumbo lleatlval of musically is, according to savant Barry New York and co-hosted by Bette Midler C'est Trop Our: The Tools of Gajun Music, Chackbay, now I have a weakness for Ancelet, on "hot bands." At Girard Park: in and Dan Aykroyd. Sept.14 on MTV, natch. an exhibition of fiddles, accordions, and Chackbay for several reasons: for one, one formation at 318-232-3737. Outside of the Name That Cameii-Audubon Zoo is other Southwest-Louisiana-made Instru of my most adorablest babies came from Jazz and Heritage Festival, Louisiana's cosponsoring, with Kentwood Spnng Water, ments, along with music every th1rd Sun there (check the George Dureau photos for most popular and publicized mus1c festival. a Name The camel contest for the 4-month day at 2 p.m. Sept.16: a CaJun music details) and second, when you drive near old, 200 lb. Bactrian camel recently ac workshop. by, you can inhale the smell of fields full of Sept.21-23 quired from the Dallas Zoo (you thought all WWNO, 286-7000. Jazz Alive: Sat.1: Thad shallots (they have the nerve to talk about a.ttle of New Orleena ll"tlval, where they had were elephants there); contest Jones and Eddie Nuccilli's Plural Circle "mountain air" !) which gives the place a it happened; information from Stanley beg1ns Sept.15 and entry blanks w111 be at from Montreux and Detroit. Sat.8: Mel great cachet, and third, there is a wonder Morel, 1120 Perrine Dr., Arabi 70032; the zoo and at grocery stores around town. Torme (whom James Agee once remarked ful Boy Bar in Chackbay called Mike's, filled 271-8574. Also Zoo school year volunteer program looked like something out of a jar), Buddy with cutenesses from 8 to 80, many of them registration deadline is Sept.4 and orienta- R1ch and Stan Getz from New York, 1982. wearing T-shirts proclaiming "Bike To Sept.22 and 23 . tion day is Sept.8 from 9 a .m. until noon. Sat.15: Bug Alley, Clark Terry and the Boss Mike's" which many of them do; obvious Cajun Food Festival, Houma, US Hwy. Call the Zoo at 865-8197 for more informa Brass from Monterey, 1981 . Sat.22: Paul ly, an indispensable fete; information from 90 West: information from Addis Giroir, tion. Aubley, Richie Cole, Tania Maria, Flora Elaine Dugas, Rt.3, Box 625-A, Thibodaux Rt.1 , Box 392, Houma 70360. Quote of tha Month, in case none of the Purim, from Mon~tery , 1981. Sat.29: Lou 70301; 633-9654 or 447-7277. Louisiana Sugar Cane lleatlval, New above has made you think, this ought to-in Tabackin and two highly prized examples Reyne llrog lleatlval, Gossen Memorial Iberia. Information from Robert Miranda, fact it better: " What is the use of studying of vocal floridity, Billy Eckstine and Sarah Park, Rayne; information from Hilda Haure, P.O. Box 675, New Iberia 70560; 318-364- philosophy if all that it does IS enable you (ho-ho-ho ro-co-co) Vaughan, from Monter P.O. Box 383, Rayne 70578; 318-334-2332; 1343 or 369-9323. to talk with some plausibility about some ey, 1981. information also from the following: Theo abstruse questions of logic, etc., and 1f it critus-0 to be a frog, my lads, and live Sept.27-30 does not improve your thinking about the aloof from care; Edna St. V1ncent Millay-! Sugar Cane lleatlval, City Park, New 1mportant questions of everyday life.. .l know FESTIVALS had forgotten how the frogs must sound lbena. Information from Eve P. Oubre, 2175 that 1t's difficult to think we// about 'certain S.pt.1-3 After a year of silence, else I think I should Lorerazille Rd., New Iberia 70560; 318-365- ty,' 'probability.' 'perception,' etc. But 1t IS, L8. Shrimp and Petroleum lleatlval, not so have ventured forth alone At dusk 2019. 1f possible, still more difficult to think, or try Morgan City, information-what we really upon this unfrequented road: Emily Dickin to think, really honestly about your life and want to know is the connection between son-The long sigh of the Frog Upon a other people's lives. And the trouble is that shcimp and petroleum-from Benny Villa, Summer's Day Enacts intoxication Upon FOOTBALL thinking about these things is not thrilling. P 0. Box 103, Morgan City 70380; the Revery... ; Hilaire Belloc-No animal will The Saints: Sun.2, Atlanta. Sun.9: Tam but often downright nasty. And when It's 385-0703. more repay A treatment kind and fair; At pa Bay. Sun.16, San Francisco (away). nasty then 1t's most important." from a let least so lonely people say Who keep a frog Sun.23: St. Louis. Sun.30: Houston (away). ter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to h1s great, S.pt.3 (and by the way, They are extremely rare). Information at 733-6147. good friend Norman Malcolm. ltlrowu• Rlloea, m Jim Bowie Park, VInton O.Jun lleatlval, Vinton. Informa The Tulane Green Wave: Sat.1, Missis Houma; kayaks, sculls and Spanish tion from Rev. Clarence LeBlanc, 1502 In sippi State. Sat.15, Florida (Away). Sat.22, galleons not allowed. Information from dustrial St., Vinton 70668; 318-589-7358 or Kentucky. Sat.29, Mississippi (Away). Infor UVEMUSIC Anne Harmon, P.O. Box 2792, Houma 589-3304. mation at 865-5502. Amphitheatre, at the World's Fair, 70361 : 868-2732. 566-2166. Always at 8 p.m. unless stated layou Blue flood lleatlval, Houma. In S.pt.15 otherwise. Sat.1 : Ted Nugent (decency formation from Anthony Cardiere, Rt.5, Box Delu Blues lleatlval, Freedom Village RANDOM prevents me from commenting). Sun.2: 316-B, Houma 70360; 872-9698. outside of Greenville, MS; tickets at the gate Robert Schuller at 11 a.m., free. S\Jn.2: The ($8 last year); information at 601-232-5993. DIVERSIONS Stray Cats. Mon.3: Elvis Costello & the At S.pt.e Bud Ught Crawflahman Sprint Trl· tractions and Nick Lowe and his Cowboy c.Jun Dey lleatlval, Church Point. Infor S.pt.15-16 athlon-Sept.9. In St. Tammany Pansh: Outfit (strange-! mean is thiS like Simon mation from Theresa Cary, 930 East lleatlvala Acadlena, the annual Cajun swim 1.5 kilometers in open water, b1ke 25 Smith and his Dancing Bear?). Fri.7: Ron- SOUL REVIVAL EJROUWDER On Rounder Records ss.99 S9.99 On Sale at ,: nn~ I September 1984/ Wavelength 23 nie Millsaps, having' daydreams about night Dreem Pelece, 534 Frenchmen. Sat.1 : things-gad, what a title! Sat.8 at 2: Ray The Radiators {"La culture," Simone Weil " Boom Boom" Mancini vs. Kenny Bogner told Ed Volker once before starving herself (I really think the corner of Piety and Royal to death, " est un instrument mania par les would be a more appropriate location for professeurs pour fabriquer des professeurs this sort of event, or even better, my living qui, a leur tout, tabriqueront des pro room). Sun.9: the New Orleans Philhar· fesseurs," and ain't it the truth). Fri.7: monic with Entremont, Leonard Rose and Allison and the Distractions. Sat.8: J.D. and Shlomo (not Hurwitz) Mintz. Thurs.13: Mel the Jammers. Fri. and Sat., 14 and 15: The Tillis, George "Goober" Lindsey, the latter Radiators. Fri.21 : J.D. and the Jammers. of whom is Don Lee Keith's favorite d/seur, Sat.22: Marcia Ball. Fri.28: Johnny J and the for obvious reasons. Fri.14: Red Skelton Hitmen. Sat.29: Li 'l Queenie-who inspired who contains within himself multitudes, Corneille's moan of " amour, sur ma vertu among them The Fox, Clem Kadiddlehop· prends un peu moins d'empire! " per, Freddie the Freeloader, San Fernan· 1801 Club, 1801 Stumpf Blvd., 367-9670. do Red, Gertrude and Heathcliff the Sea Wednesdays through Saturdays: Janet Gulls, and innumerable others. Sat, 15 and Lynn and Ya Ya. Sun.16: cute Tammy Wynette, cute Eddie Ernst Cefe, 600 S. Peters, 525·8544. Rabbit and T.G. Sheppard. Sun.16: Mexico Saturdays and Sundays: Ronnie Bonck and National Day-TBA, burning o f Alvaro the Corvettes from 11 until 3 a .m. Obregon in effigy canceled. Mon.17 and F'eda, 1100 S. Clearview Pkwy., 734-0590. Tues.18: Nikolais Dance Theatre. Wed.19 Live music Mondays, but you can do the and Thurs.20: George Benson, probably the cotton-eyed-joe almost any time here. most gifted jazz guitarist around who gave F'elrmont Court, in the Fairmont Hotel, it all up just for a handful of silver, just for 529-7111 . Tuesdays to Saturdays, Judy a riband to stick in his cloak. Fri.21 : Gor Duggan occupies the piano bench from 9 don Lightfoot sings every song ever writ· to 1. Sundays and Mondays: Pat Mitchell ten. Sat.22: Spanish Festival. Sun.23: The at the same hours, and again during the Sweet Adelines Mass Sing-time TBA as week from 5 to 7. is the details on whether it will be a requiem F'et Ceta, 505 Gretna Blvd., Gretna, or high nuptial mass. Wed.26: the Sym· 362·0598. Wednesdays and Sundays: Nifty phony with Wynton Marsalis, Moses Hogan Fiftys. Thursdays-Saturdays: Jimmy Simon and Kent Jordan. Thurs.27: Neil Young and and Groove. The International Harvesters courtesy of 544 Club, 544 Bourbon, 523·8611 . Edith McCormick. Fri.28: Loretta (then as Wednesdays through Saturdays, Gary a woman you're rated X) Lynn. Sun.30: the Brown and Feelings. CMS from 9 to 9 Charlie Daniels Band and craggy voiced Fridays through Sundays and from 9 to 3 Delbert McClinton. other evenings. Andrew Jeeger•a, 7605 Maple St., Pete F'ounteln'a, In the Hilton, 523·4374. 861·0683. Nightly save Mondays, and from Pete Fountain and his band, at 10 nightly; 8 until midnight save Sundays (6·1 0), AI Far· one show only and reservations probably rell, formerly of The Counts, at the pianner. a good idea. Okay, okay, it used to be Hillary's. Qezebo Cefe end Ber, 1018 Decatur, Augle'a Delego, West End Park. Sat.1 : 522·0862. Alfresco; ragtime piano each Silk·n·Steel. Sun.2: Silk·n·Steel and Chain afternoon and again as night is falling. Gang. Mon.3: Silk·n·Steel. Wed.5: Born Houllhen'a. 315 Bourbon, 523·7412. Live You don't want to miss Lafayette's Festivals Losers {there's a penalogical bent to the music of a jazz nature outside on weekdays Acadiens, eight celebrations rolled into one to names of the bands here). Fri.7 to Sun.9: from 9 until 2, saving Fridays. showcase and savor the Acadian culture. Penny Lane. Tues.11 : Total Control. Wed.12 Hen'• Den, 4311 S.Ciaiborne, 821-1048. Sample the delectable Cajun cuisine, tap and Thurs.13: South. Fri. 14 to Sun.16: The This used to be the Beaconette but now has your foot to Acadian music, walk back Cruisers. Tues.18: Cuisine. Wed.19 and the name of that ladies' shop on Caron· through the centuries into the Cajun mystique. Thurs.20: Tricks. Fri.21 through Sun.23: the delet. Hmmm. Reggae music Saturdays. Come join the fun in the heart of French Generics. Upstage: Sat.1 and Sun.2: Rare Ike's Piece, 1701 N. Broad, 944-9337. Louisiana, where we have the recipe for joyful Blend. Fri.7 to Sun.9: Rare Blend. Fri.14 to living! Sundays: the Wagon Train Band. Sun.16 and Fri.21 to Sun.23: Murmurs. Jed's Look Out, Federal Fibre Mills, For more information contact the Lafayette Fri.28 to Sun.30: Rainstreet. n and Visitors Commission, P. World's Fair. Tues.4: The All Male Revue Conventio 0 . Beeu Oeste, 7011 Read Blvd., 242·9710. Box 52066, Lafayette, LA 70505 {strippers-look out, indeed!). Thurs.6: The at 8. 1318) 232-3808. Sunday through Thurs.: Larry Janca Radiators, who will- deo gratias-be per· Fridays and Saturdays: Take Five at 10. forming in the luscious altogether. Allons aFestivals Acadiens ont Hotel, September 15 - 16, 1984 Blue Room, in the Fairm 529·7111 . Wed.12 through Thurs.18: Allen Jimmy's, 8200 Willow, 866·9549. Sat.1: Toussaint, the hermit of Clematis ventures Woodenhead and the Hands. Tues.4: forth into what is laughingly known as Polite Touch. Wed.5: For Real {why not For True?). Society. Wed.19 through Tues.25: Rose· Thurs.6: The Mistreaters and The Gothics mary Clooney, whose first great hit had {thought that was a breed of novel, or even lyrics by, of all people, William Saroyan; she more ignominous, just paperbacks). Fri.7 remains a fine and quite uncategorizable Lenny Zenith's Boys Town, courtesy of singer. Wed.26 through Oct.9: Judy Collins, Father Flanagan. Sat.8: The Cold. Tues.11· whose uncle Albert plays around town OC· Channel {as opposed to blood type) 0 , Lem· casionally too. Reservations. mings, Gothics {more big noise from Straw· Bronco's, 1409 Romain, Gretna, berry Hill and Fonthill Albbey and even Nor· 368·1000. Mondays and Wednesdays thanger Abbey), Socials. Fri.14: Outside Saturdays, Mississippi South. Children (interesting use of this idiom). Cejun Country, 327 Bourbon, 523·8630. Sat.15: Uncle Stan and Auntie Vera {who Thursday through Sunday, the Gela Kaye sound like refugees from a William Steig Band at 8. Mondays through Wednesdays: cartoon) and Multiple Pieces. Thurs.20: Exit Mike Casico. 209. Fri.21 : Force of Habit. Sat.22: True Cerrollton Stetlon, 8140 Willow. Live Faith. Fri.28: The Radiators-je prefere music Saturdays. l'aimable au suprenant et au merveilleux, The Ceveln the Winery, Fulton at Julia, just like Fenelon that old poop. World's Fair, 569-5071 . Sundays, Mondays, Lendmerk Hotel, 541 Bourbon, Tuesdays: that big drink of water-that is 524· 7615. Every night but Sunday and Mon· the theme of the festival after all-John day, too: the Bobby Ellis Quartet at 10. Rankin. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays: Le Moulin Rouge, 501 Bourbon, Sixties and contemporary live music. 524-4299. Mondays and Saturdays: A Night Columna Hotel, 3811 St. Charles, in Old New Orleans, with Becky Allen as the 899·9308. Wednesdays: Andrew Hall's Casket Girls. In The Stage Door Lounge, Society Jazz Band from 8 (horn charts by Becky and Ricky and lest you be deceived Nell Nolan). that this sounds like a coffeehouse folk duo, Dorothy's Medelllon, 3232 Orleans. let me quickly disabuse you of that notion Snake-dancing, examples of adlposa dolo because it's Becky Allen and Ricky Graham rosa in motion for Bolero-eyed girl wat· and the closest either of them ever gets to chers, and Fridays and Saturdays, Johnny a cuppa mocha java is maybe Ella Mae Adams and Walter Washington with the Morse The Cow Cow Boogie Girl sing1ng House Band. Forty Cups Of Coffee; Freddie Palmisano 24 Wavelength I September 1984 has hiS eye on the door and his hands on consistently draws a long and deserved line first nRn~e. theptano. They're on the graveyard shift (St. outside; the only amenities are the musical LOUIS I and II but not Lafayette) at 12:30 ones. Sundays: Harold De tan and the Olym a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Thursday pia Brass Band. Mondays and Thursdays: even1ngs, Sandy Hanson materializes in the Kid Thomas Valentine. Tuesdays and same venue at the same hour. Fridays: Kid Sheik Colar. Wednesdays and Lucky Pierre's, 735 Bourbon. 524·7865. Saturdays: The Humphrey Brothers. Professor B1g Stuff, Tuesday, Friday and Prlvat-ra, 6207 Franklin Ave., 282.()501 . Saturday from 1 a.m. 'til (what? at that Call for dates nour?). Tom Jerik McDermott on piano, call R.S.V.P., 1700 Louisiana Ave., 891·RSVP. for schedule Saturdays: Lady BJ and George French. •hopny Hall. John Greland from 3 until Tuesdays. Lady 8J and Ellis Marsalis. 8. Mondays through Thursdays, Mahogany Thursdays and Fridays: First Class Hall Jazz Band. Fridays and Saturdays: The Reunion Hell, at the World's Fair, Pf1ster Sisters with the Mister Pfisters (on 569·51 08. Call for dates. an abba·dabba honeymoon, one has no Ryan's 500 Club, 441 Bourbon, doubt)·sparking Kipling's wisecrack: 525-7269. Nightly: Celtic Folk Singers. Sun· Never pra1se a sister to a sister in the hope days at 3: Ceili Tynan Irish Stepdancers. of your compliments reaching the proper Seaport Cafe and Bar, 424 Bourbon, ears." 568-0981 . Wednesdays through Saturdays laple Leaf Bar, 8301 Oak, 866·9359. from 9 to 1 a.m., Sundays 2 to 6, Sally Tuesdays Li'l Queenie and the Skin Twins; Townes. Call for Sunday night and Monday Wednesdays: Mason Ruffner and the Blues listings. Rockers. Thursdays: Bruce Daigrepont and 711 Club, 711 Bourbon, 525·8379. Bourre Sundays: the Wabash Company Tuesdays through Saturdays, Randy (sans cannonballs). Sat.1: The Killer Bees. Hebert; Thursdays through Mondays, AI Fn.7: Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets. Broussard. and the Catherine Wheels and the Bengal Sheila's Pub, Fulton Street Mall, at the Lights and the Roman Candles. Sat.8: The World's Fair, 569·5025. Mondays: The Rad1ators. F ri.14: Lenny Zenith and Pop Sheiks. Tuesdays: The Newsboys. Running from your shRdow Combo-as Oscar Wilde said of Bernard Wednesdays: The Nevilles. Shaw, "he has not an enemy in the world Club Sliver Dollar, 1254 N. Claiborne, Love it or leRve it and none of his friends like him." Sa\.15: 822-5226. Call for listings. Rockin' Dopsie and the Cajun Twisters. Slidell Hotel Bar, Slidell, 643·7020. Sat.1 : Fn.21: Marcia Ball. Sat.22: Beausoleil. Automatic. Sun.2: TBA (Tennessee Bally Fri.28: Exuma. Sat.29: The Radiators Authority?). Wed.5, Fri.7 to Sun.9: Trace. 'Don't talk about yourself; it will be done Mon.10: Ladies Only! A Delight Show. when you leave." -Addison Mizner, and Wed.12: TBA. Fri.14 and Sat.15: The Top that man was responsible for the Florida Gats. Sun.16: Trace. Wed.19, Fri.21 , Sat.22: Boom! The Sheiks. Sun.23, Wed.26: Trace. Fn.28 and Sat.29: Scruples. Sun.30: Trace. Munster's Dance Hell end Bar, 627 Snug Harbor, 626 Frenchmen, 949·0696. ~NAMI Lyons. 899·9109. Sat.4: Desiree. Sa\.11 : Sat.1 James Black at the skins LABEL Southern Exposure. Call for the balance of and pelts. Sun.2· The New dates Orleans Jazz Couriers direct from NOCCA. Mon.3 New Storyvllle Club, 1100 Decatur St., : Walter Wash· ington w1th Johnny Adams 525-8199. Mon. Teddy Riley and the Jazz (author of some 636 lauricella ave. new orleans 70121 of The Federalist Papers). Thurs.6: Ferd Masters. Tues: Placide Adams. Original Dix· Snooks Eaglin. Fri.7: The 1eland Hall Jazz Band. Wed.: Chris Burke Chuck Easterling Quintet. Sat.8: Contortions and h1s New Orleans Music from 8·12; the and commotions from the Sounds of Brazil. Sun.9: Leigh Har· James Rivers Movement (most recently ris and Amasa Miller ni trop haul heard on the soundtrack of the Clint East ni trop bas as Mr. Ronsard used to put wood sexploitation pic, Tightass and the it. Mon.10 : The Vanilla Wafers (w1thout their girl backup~ best th1ng about it, too) from 12 'til. Thurs.: . the Creme Sandwiches) The Camellia Jazz Band from 8-12; James . Thurs.13: 1roning Board Sam. Fri.14: Mississippi Home RIVers from 12. Fri.: Placide Adams until Movies. Sa\.15: Lady BJ. Sun.16: Refugees m1dmght, followed by Luther Kent. Satur· including Ramsey McLean, Roger day Gospel Express with Lady BJ from 1·5, Lewis, Herlin Riley, some of the the Camellia Jazz Band from 8-12, and Dirty Dozen and a few Marielitos that wander over from Luther Kent and Trick Bag 84 into the small Mandeville Street. Mon.17: John Mooney's hours. Sundays: the Gospel Express from Bluesiana Band. Thurs.20: t to 5, then Chris Burke from 8 to 12 and Snooks Eaglin. Fri.21 : Lady BJ with Ellis Marsalis. Sat.22: Luther Kent and Trick Bag 84 from midnight The Diane Lyle-Marcel unlit.. Richardson Quartet. Sun.23: Carl LeBlanc's Nature. Mon.24· Nemo'a, 2001 Lake Shore Dr., Mandeville, Renegades. Thurs.27: Ironing Board Sam, 626·8273 Heavy Metal Gust like that the Professor Marvel of local R&B. Fri.28: build1ng across from MOMA on West 53rd Ramsey McLean's Survivors featuring 1n N.Y.) call for info. Charmaine Neville. Sat.29: Lady agam Nexus, 6200 Elysian Fields, 288-3440 BJ accompanied by Ellis Marsalis at the Fridays: Germaine Bazzle, 6·9. Saturdays: clavier. Sun.30: Raphael Cruz. LaVerne Butler and David Torkanowsky, Sugar House Hotel, 315 Julia St. , 10·2. Sundays: Charlotte Butler at 8. 525·1993. Fridays and Saturdays, 9·1 a.m.: Old Absinthe House, 400 Bourbon. Jeff Boudreaux, Jim Singleton and James Wednesdays through Sundays, Bryan Lee Drew. and the Jumpstreet Five. Mondays and Toulouse Lautrec. 514 Toulouse, Tuesdays, and also Saturday and Sunday 529·1278. Tuesdays through Saturdays, afternoons: Mason Ruffner and the Blues when he is not bringing beams of sunshine Rockers. Come see and hear one of the hottest to shut-ins and convalescents coast to Old Opera House, 601 Bourbon, coast, the home of the Frankie (Oooh· 522-3265. Sundays-Fridays from 4:45·8:30, keyboards on the market today- Whee, Oooh-Whee, Baby) Ford Show. Call Kathy Lucas and the Loose Band. Mondays· for information. Wednesdays, Chocolate M1lk. Thursdays Tyler's, 5234 Magazine THE ROLANDJUN0·106SYNTHESIZER Sundays, E. L.S. , 891 ·4989. Modern jazz, good raw oysters. Sundays: AT ALL WERLEIN'S STORES Penny Poat, 5110 Danneel. Sundays, the Harry Connick Band. Mondays: Ellis always open mike. Check the board as you Marsalis and Steve Masakowksi. Tuesdays: NOW, if qualified, YOU CAN BUY YOUR ROLAND WITH MONTHLY go 1n. Leslie Smith and Co. Wednesdays: The Red LOW WERLE IN PAYMENTS, CUSTOM·TAILORED TO YOUR BUDGET! Pet•'• Pub, Hotel Inter-Continental, Tyler Combo. Thursdays: Germaine Bazzle. 525·5566. Every day except Sunday, A.J. Fridays and Saturdays: The James R1vers IN GREATER NEW ORLEANS: Loria from 4. Movement. e 605 Canal Street. Downtown ...... 524·7511 Pontchertraln Hotel, Bayou Bar, 2031 The Veranda, in the Intercontinental • Lakeside, Metaone. LA ...... 831·2621 StCharles Ave., 524-0581 . Bruce Versen Hotel, 525·5566. Mondays through Fridays, • Oakwood, Gretna. LA ...... 362·3131 from 5 until 9, during the week, save Satur LeRoy Jones from 7 to 10. ePtaza. Lake Forest. East N.O...... 246·6830 days and Sundays. Michael Neal takes over Weaaey•a, 1610 Belle Chasse Hwy., ALSO IN W_~. --~ ~EIN.S • Baton Rouge, o ~ ~ post-cocktail and post-prandial keyboard 361·7902. Tuesdays-Saturdays: Firewater. LA, 77 44 Fla. Blvd.... 926-6800 ·_"--::-· eBitoxi. MS. 3212 W. Beach ...... 388·4070 duties and plays as late as 1 a.m. on until1 a.m. during the week and as late as . e Jackson. MS, 517 E . Capitol .... 353·3517 ,'• . Saturdays. 2:30 a.m. on the weekends, when the Le Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter, Blanc Brothers follow with a )am sess1on .;-·· ··· MAJOR CREDIT CARDS 523·8939. Along with Galatoire's and K· going on until 7 a.m .. Sunday and Monday: ' ACCEPTED Paul's, one of the three places in town that the Luzianne Band. September 1984/ Wavelength 25 TUESDAYS: LADIES NIGHT 8:00-12:00 PM Two Free WEDNESDAY: DRAF"l' BEER NIGHT 25' A GLASS $2.00 PITCHERS THURSDAY: so< OLD STYLE LONGNECKS 9 PM- 12 AM FRIDAYS: FREE OYSTERS & 25' DRAFT BEER 5 PM-8 PM SANDWICH SHOP =:=BoalB· ALL NEW PATIO NOW OPEN 4801 MAGAZINE 899-9228 'Biloxi Pot,' GEORGE FEBRES' bisque clay homage to Gulf Coast potter/eccentric George Ohr, is included in a group show of Galerie Jules laforgue artists September 29 through October 17 at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. ART Loulal•n• Sute Mu.. um , on Jackson A8ron·H•atln.. O.llery, 3814 Maga· Square and elsewhere. Through Nov. 18: A zine, 891 ·4665. Through Sept.22: Design In Century of Vision, a show of Louisiana New Orleans including furniture and pro· photographs taken between the two fairs, ducts intended for "home use" (sounds including works by Pops Whitesell, Frances recondite, Sam!) created by area ar· Johnston, Mugnier, et alia up to the present. chitects. From Sept.29: Gail Morgan and Through November: The Sun King, an Sarah Jumel. historical extravaganza from /a belle France Ac•demr O•llery, 5256 Magazine, saluting the man who revoked the Edict of 899-8111. Through September: teachers Nantes and inspired Saint Simon's Mem· Darryl Brown, Auseklis Ozols, Dell Weller, oirs, including documents, paintings, ob David Noll, Evelyn Menge. The Academy's jects, and decorative arts, furniture, classes begin under the tutelage of these sculpture, etc. from /e grand Siec/e, and in· visual pedagogues on Sept.1 0. eluding two sumptuous Poussins (hung Arthur Rotter, 3005 Magazine, 895-5287. poorly), a wonderful Philippe de Cham· -1 Through Sept.20: sculptures and drawings paigne portrait of the Abbess of Port-Royal, by Wellington Reiter. From Sept.29: new some works by Bourdon and Vouet, a work by Oliver Jackson. curious enormous pencil map on brown Bienville O.llery, 1800 Hastings Place, paper of Paris at the time, a portrait of the I 523·5889. Call the gallery for information. weaselly·looking Comte de Pontchartrain, rI eont.mporerr Arta Center, 900 Camp, Louis' cheque for his wife's gambling debts, I 523·1216. A variety of events on the fun a Jesuit map of the Mississippi with funny .I agenda here: Sept.1 1: first organizational little bison drawn on the margins wherever meeting for the '85 Clones pageant. they were spotted, and much more. At the Sept. 15: Open casting call city-wide. Old Mint: Life on the Mississippi, a samp Sept.19 through 29: A Vision of A World ling of the museum's work dealing with that Beyond Vision. Sept.29 through Oct.28: the big bit of water to your left, and not drawn Art for Art's Sake exhibition, which by itinerant Jesuits, either. always-yes again-brings to mind D.H. M•rlo VIII• O.llery, 3908 Magazine, House and Gardens Lawrence's remark, "I always say, art for 895·8731. Call for information. my sake." Newoomb ~Art O.llery, Tulane, O.lerle Slmonne Stem, 518 Julia, 865·5327. Through Sept.13: American P ERFORMING ARTS SERIES 529-1118. Sept.17: Nina Dunbar. Sept.29 Drawings IV, contemporary works. Sept. 16 through Oct. 10: sculpture and drawings by through Oct. 1 1: Modernism/A Decade of Peter Lobello. Progress 1930.1940, a study of Louisiana A Qderr Por Pine...... ,.,, 5432 architecture. Magazine, 891 ·1002. Through Sept.7: An· New Orl-na Muaeum Of Art, City LARRY nie Leibowitz's portraits, ranging in subject Park, 488-2631 . Through Nov. 1 8: Circles of from Rodney Dangerfield to Paloma the World: Traditional Art of the Plains In· Picasso to Carl Lewis. Through Nov. 1 1: Old dians; through Sept.9: Turning Point: The SEIBERTH New Orleans 1884·1935, photos and Harlem Renaissance from Traditional to souvenirs from the Cotton Centennial Ex· Ethnic Expressions-this may be in· Le Cannible position, etc. Sept.15 through Nov.7: The teresting to see as the Harlem Renaissance Red Couch by Kevin Clark. (a bright spot in the history of a middle-class SEPTEMBER 23 O.aperl Polk Art O.llery, 831 St. Peter 19th Century Jewish neighborhood gone St., 524·9373. Call for Information. wrong) was largely, except for the -3 PM Hlatorlc New Orl.. na Colleotlon, somewhat overrated (artistically) 517·525 Tchoupitoulas St. Through Nov. 18: photographs of James Van Der Zee and the The Waters of America: 19th Century Pain· white Carl Van Vechten (who had his own Gardens & Concert tings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Water· reasons for hanging out there), a literary falls, a mammoth exhibition of some of the and musical phenomenon, and also, largely, Admic;c;ion - $2.00 finest American art of the period ranging a creation of newspaper columnists and from the vistas of Asher B. Durand and the thrill-seeking socialites; the Metropolitan FREE to all genre scenes of George Caleb Bingham Museum of Art ran afoul of just this almost through the realistic approach of Eakins 20 years ago when they mounted their Longue Vue Membe rc; and the fantasias of Frederic Edwin Church, Harlem On My Mind-a better title, you and the ineffable (and well-represented must admit-and took it from all sides at here) Albert Bierstadt whose recollected· once; Contemporary Louisiana Art. 7 Bamboo Road in-tranquility scenes of Far West natural Poaaelt·.. ker O.llery, 631 Toulouse, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124 wonders were done by and large in his 524·7242. Call for information. studio in Brooklyn; the local paintings in this T•hlr O.llery, 823 Chartres, 525·3095. 488-5488 show are both perfectly delightful and still, Through September, Recent yes, even now, perfectly recognizable as Acquisitions-Original Prints by American to locale. Masters, of which a recent Illustration was one of those wonderful 'scandalous' Gad and Leopold homosexual thrill murder of mus prints of sailors and doxies that drove Bobby Franks) is the last of the "unseen" the Navy wild in the Thirties. Hitchcocks; done all in one set in ten nlden·Poley, 4119 Magazine, 897-5300. minute takes, and all seeming to be From Sept.29: The Rites of Passage by Mar through the miracle of the Movieola--to be lin Delabano. one continuous take; with Farley Granger and John Dall as the college-killers, James Stewart as the proto-Nietzschean professor CINEMA whose teaching spurs them on to crime, Hellenic Arts Society, a series of films Constance Collier, etc. Hitchcock appears from Greek tragedies. Fri.14: Phaedra, through the window in profile on a neon Jules Dassin's ludicrous 1962 version of sign; the film sparked the famous-to this famous semi-incestuous tragedy me-comment from Jean Renoir, " They're ("Euripides ... Racine ... Dassin ... whither supposed to be homosexuals and they Western culture? And a double whither?" never even kiss one another! " wondered Dwight Macdonald when the film Tu.. ne, 865-5714. Wed.5 at 8, Hands That appeared) has. as its eternal none-too Picked Cotton-The Story of Black Politics isosceles triangle, Melina Mercouri. Raf in Today's Rural South. Call Tulane for Vallone as Theseus (here a shipping place of screening and to see whether magnate in the Niarchos-Onassis vein) and they'll be giving out complimentary bottles Anthony Perkins(!!) as Hippolytus. When of Corn Husker's Lotion at the door. we were all suffering high school adolescents (it was hard growing up in a town without a Porky's or Jacqueline Bisset THEATRE around let me tell you), we thought it was Contempon~ry Arts Center, 900 Gamp, great when Mercouri put on her sleeping 523-1216. Sept.15: General New Orleans mask and overdosed because she laid her Area acting auditions, which sounds like a stepson and when Perkins listened to Bach three-parish casting call and again brings and crashed his Aston Martin over a cliff. to mind that current Clint Eastwood peek As Joseph de Maistre, a minor French wit, lure, in which so many local performers are put it, "Those were the good old days-1 croaked: to wit, or half-wit, Stuart Baker was so unhappy then!" By admission; Bergen tries to put the moves on Clint and shown in the Executive Board Room Suite ends up hanging from a beam in Blaine 2900 of the ITM Building. Kern's float den (or "that old warehouse" Loyol•'• Pllm Buffa Institute, as they keep referring to it) and Margie 895-3196. Schedule not yet in our hot little O'Dair babysits Clint's kids and ends up hands, but sure to be worth fussing over; snuffed in a Maytag, or was it a Speed call Loyola for information. Copies of same Queen? should be available by now on Bobet Hall's Le Petit The•tre, 616 St. Peter, third floor. 522-2081. Split Ends, a musical comedy by New ort ..na MUHUm of Art, City Park, Buddy Sheffield, performed Tuesday SALES ... SERVICE ... INSTRUCTION 488·2631. Films about Plains Indians: through Saturday at 8; late night comedy Sun.9: Gatlin and the Indians, about the 18th workshop, Cheap Theatrix, performs twice ALL MAJOR BRANDS e COMPETITIVE PRICES Century gentleman painter and writer who nightly the same nights beginning at 10:30. found out more about Indians than any The•tre M•rlgny, 616 Frenchmen, e COMPLETE TEACHING FACILITIES other white man had up to that point. 944-2653. From Thurs.20: Last Summer At Sun.23: The Great Plains Experience- The Blue Fish Cove, a one-act drama by Jame 2013 WILLIAMS BLVD. Lakota: One Nation on the Plains; The Chambers (not a chamber drama by Jane American: Chief Crazy Horse. At 3; free with OneAct). Museum admission. Mln~~e•pelll'a Dinner The•tre, 7901 S. Prrt•nl•, 5339 Prytania, 895-4513. Claiborne, 888·7000. Through Sept.13: Any Through Sept.6: Backstage At The Kirov Wednesday, about a kept woman who directed by Derek Hart, deals documentary wakes up to the fact that life is indeed for fashion with the two-centuries-old ballet the living. From Fri.14: The Cactus Flower, NEW school in Leningrad and incorporates much which is about a dentist who wakes up to of the second act of Swan Lake. Fri.7 and same. versions Sat.8: A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Pl•rera Dinner The•tre, 1221 Airline Kubrick's overblown (to put it kindly) rhap Highway, 835-9057. Th rough Sun.16: Fid· of sody on the novel of futuristic thuggery and dleron the Roof. Fri.21 through Oct.14: The aversion therapy by Anthony Burgess (who Mikado, which of course treats of zany do· great deserves to be more widely read, but not ings in old Nippon, involving a wandering canonization in this manner), with Malcolm minstrel, an overly genteel lord high execu McDowell, Patrick Magee, Miriam Karlin as tioner. three little maids from school, a rap hits the cat lady, David Prowse as Magee's cious spinster, various foolish dignitaries RE-RECORDED muscleman. and Blade Runner, Ridley and the emperor of the title. Scott's unrelentingly pictorial private-dick AoH Dinner The•tre, 201 Robert St., and PER· of-the-21st-century film, with startlingly Gretna, 367-5400. Through Sun .23: Move overdesigned sets and tedious nee Over, Mrs. Markham, with a title like that FORMED Raymond Chandler narration by Harrison either a farce or a session of group therapy. Ford: the future is presented as a discor From Fri.28: I Doll Do! a musical version by the dia concours of crime, choked streets, of Jan de Hartog's play The Four-Poster ORIGINAL sushi bars and hovercraft. Fri.28 through which traces fourteen or fifteen decades in Oct.4: Rope, this 1948 film (based very the life of your usual Darby and Joan by artistsH tightly on a play by Patrick Hamilton which what transpires in their old brass mare's is in turn based very loosely on the Loeb nest. CIXIIIIIIII NEW iiiiiiiiiiJJ FROM tXIXXIIIIIIt NDY September 1984 I Wavelength 27 CoCelestin'sntinued/rom Dixieland page21. ------Band, replacing his talented a li'l ole fat boy. I bad a job down at the Qub he got mixed up in that dope." cousin, Jeanette Kimball, on piano. "Papa Celes Desire with Smiley and he come around beggin' Throughout the latter half of the Seventies, Tuts tin had the most popular band in New Orleans. me to play 'The Honeydripper.' But Fats can't played with his old friend Thomas Jefferson at the His band was even a member of the white union, play nothin' but that 6/8 time. He got lucky and Maison Bourbon and occasionally played house and no other black band did that until the unions came along with that 'Blueberry Hill' in these parties for New Orleans' more well-to-dos. In merged in the Seventies. We mostly played on teenaged times. He needed that band behind him 1979, he participated in Piano Players Rarely Ever Bourbon Street at the Paddock Lounge. Once we to sound good. Play Together, a documentary ftlm produced by went over to Texas and I was supposed to go to "I used to go over to James Booker's bouse Stevenson Palfi, which also featured Professor Germany to play for Eisenhower. But Jeanette when be was a boy. His grandmother was a per Longhair and Allen Toussaint. "It was to show asked for her job back, and I let her have it sonal friend of mine. We used to drink together. three generations of piano players," explains Tuts. because it was hers to start out with. I got a job He was like Fess, be would sneak in the joints and "By me being the oldest, the other ones learned playin' with Andrew Anderson playin' down in listen to me play. He was a pretty good little piano from me. I'm the one that sold that picture. Now Grand Isle, Louisiana at a resort." player, I have to give him that, he was one of the I told you about Fess, I knew about Allen when Despite his aversion to recording, Tuts was often only guys that was good enough to play on Bour he lived back in Gert Town and learned offa sought out by other New Orleans pianists for bon Street. But that dope brought him down. I Ernest Penn. Allen got his name from writin' "tips," and served as an inspiration for most of saw him when he come out of the penitentiary with music for other people." the city's reknowned pianists. "A lot of these a patch over his eye. be saw me on Bourbon Street In 1980, Tuts began a two-year engagement at Johnny-come-lately piano players came to hear and he gave me a big hug. I said, 'Where you been, the Bayou Room, an elegant lounge inside the me. I remember Fats Domino when he was just James?' He said, 'Over the bill, Pops.' It's too bad Pontchartrain Hotel on St. Charles Avenue. At the time, this observer wrote: "He plays the piano three nights a week, from Thursday to Saturday, for the cocktail crowd in the Pontchartrain Hotel's Bayou Bar. Tile major ity of his audience consists of affluent New Orlea nians, with a smattering of conventioneers sport ing plastic lapel cards, waiting to dine in the St. THE MACIC Charles Avenue hotel's elegant dining room. "The Steinway baby grand is scarred from the endless splash of drinks and burning cigarettes. Tuts Washington sits behind its keyboard letting the standards flow, and the requests pour in all BUTTON night long. 'How High The Moon,' 'Canadian Sunset,' 'Sentimental Journey,' 'Hello Dolly.' Tuts is never at a loss for crowd pleasers in the Bayou Bar. Wear yours to JED'S and "Occasionally he will tap his Storyville roots and launch into a blistering boogie woogie that will recall the pioneers of boogie woogie piano from let the Magic begin! the 1920's, Jimmy 'Papa' Yancey and Pinetop Smith. The years roll away as Tuts' hands fly over the piano keys, seemingly faster than a man of 74 ~ years of age should be able to play. "Just about this time, conversation at the bar and the crowded tables ceases. Attention focuses on the little man with the odd tuft of hair (a coif ALL·YOU·CAN·EAT which in Storyville times would have identified him LUNCH & DINNER as a house pianist). He fmishes with a flourish of stride and polite applause. He reaches for his BUFFET polished ivory cigarette holder and calmly lights another Kool. Finally a smile creases his face and when you wear MUSIC & VIDEO he proclaims as always, 'Thank you, music lovers!' "Couples return to their conversations as Tuts the button . .• •. returns to his steady stream of standards. CONTORTIONISTS Everybody drinks up, some leave a tip at the >" piano, but all leave with a smile. That's the ear mark of a successful player's evening. A good ~~ J GET YOUR piano player brings it all together.'' 2 FOR 1 BUTIONS AT: In March of 1983, at the age of 76, Tuts fmally NOON • 8:00 DAILY made his frrst solo recordings, which resulted in } F & M PATIO BAR. the New Orleans Piano Professor album that was TULANE issued on the Rounder label. Tuts finally consented to recording after Rounder complied with the ) UNIVERSITY stringent specifications laid down by the New BOOKSTORE Orleans Musicians Union. During the two days of recording, Tuts surprisingly reacted like a studio veteran, putting down more than twenty com # pleted piano solos and one vocal, the risque "Papa Yellow's Blues." NO NO "I'm glad I fmally made one," says Tuts. "I'm proud of it. Everybody that heard it said they liked MINIMUM COVER it, white folks and colored. I even sold some in my neighborhood and the people said that they enjoyed it. See, I mixed it up, I'm versatile, I F E 0 E R A didn't just put the blues on there, I mixed in some of them standard numbers. "I believe my playin' is better than it was twenty or thirty years ago. I'm not as fast, but I'm still fast enough. I know more now, 'cause I keep stud JED'S LOOKOUT yin'. I goes down to Werlein's and buy books to THE BRIGHTEST SPOT AT THE FAIR study it. A good piano player's got to keep study ing and improving. 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In New Orleans, we are Sonnet For Syndicate's choice of cover T experiencing the bleakest Steam calliope material reflected the group's musical period since the Beatles Hollywood roots: they played single-handedly destroyed the I don't want to drive over any more "Ghostbusters." future bridges. Exeunt fantods. While Crescent City's recording industry the moon like a coughdrop evanesces I'll Remember that Wolf Brand in 1964. fall to my knees and get a look at the floor Chili commercial with the crusty Elsewhere in the world, of heaven, your panties. Oh I've read before voice asking, "How long has it however, New Orleans (and/or the uncrowned heads of Carrollton. They all been since you've had a bowl of New Orleans music, food and went right to sleep. What a relief! I still Wolf Brand Chili?" The retort, of culture) seems to be the hottest get cards ofthanks. Oh darling, are you sure course, was "Well, that's too you're not impressed? What if I got some dope? thing since Nutra-Sweet or tasseled I know lots of hip types! What ifI hired long." Our next question: how loafers (two very "In" items, the Natchez? Audubon Park? Woody Herman? long have the Sheiks been according to Playboy's annual What ifyou woke up one morning and heard together? That's right-14 years! "Back To Campus Guide"). the Liebestod on the steam calliope, These St. Louis pupils of Chuck For example, there's the Ritz backwards, in Latin? Would you love me then? Berry celebrated their rock 'n' roll Cafe in Santa Monica, California, -Everette Maddox birthday on August 11 at Jimmy's where surfers and starlets dine on with handsome Dino Kruse, who's Appalachicola Oysters, Cajun Scott spent the last part of August Bartholomew, Allen Toussaint and sold Stratocasters to Jeff Beck and Blackfish, Snapper with Louisiana in Dallas recording Jackson's Sam Dr. John) will stage a benefit Joe Walsh, as the opening Pecan Sauce, Andouille Sausage Myers (a former Elmore James concert for the Byrd family on attraction. "If you sit at home for and Dirty Rice, Freshwater accompanist) with " Brother" September 28 at the Saenger. this one," read the invitation to Crawfish and numerous other Anson Funderburgh on the Proceeds from this concert will be the gala, "you could end up like culinary items inspired by the slightly-dented gold Stratocaster. used to retire the mortgage and Miss America!!'' Bayou State. New Orleans Bread Yet another Englishman of good tickets are available at all Ticket Roll over, Joan ColOns: local Pudding with Bourbon Sauce is taste, ex-Squeeze keyboardist master outlets. And please-no writer Jerry Ellis has scripted a TV even on the menu and if health Jools Holland, has released what is jokes about this being the 87th pilot set at Joey K's Restaurant on conscious Californians, previously essentially a homage to Louisiana Professor Longhair benefit. Any Magazine Street. Entitled "Torn's devoted to sprouts and tofu, are music, entitled Jools Holland man who could play piano like Coffee Dog," Ellis says it's about now eating day-old French bread Meets Rock-A-Boogie Billy. Seen Henry Roeland Byrd deserves our "having fun. Reaching up your marinated in alcohol, the End of by MTV's viewers this summer eternal gratitude. sleeve and finding more than an the World is surely near. · during his stint as a guest V J, Lenny Zenith, the original elbow. The script idea jumped into Further Evidence: Guess who Holland delivers at lease two gender-bender (long before Boy my lap one morning about a entertained the Olympians after tributes to Professor Longhair on George or Annie Lennox), has re month ago while I was in Joey K's the Olympics? That's right-the the album: " Black Beauty," which named Pop Combo, now calling paying my respects to the coffee Neville Brothers, direct from mixes Fess-style piano with ska the ensemble Boys Town, which bean pickers high in the Andes. I Valence Street (and sharing the bill horn charts; and "Tipitina Tree," \\'e must admit is pretty funny. If was on my fourth cup of caffeine with James Brown, direct from his which-sorry, Jules-makes us only they can secure a slot opening when Tom, the cashier, set a recent recording sessions in Africa, cringe. First of all, Professor for Girlschool . . . Boys Town's ceramic dog on the counter. and Jack Mack and the Heart Longhair's "Tipitina" was more latest recruit is Ray Ganucheau. Customers gathered around the Attack, direct from the operating or less nonsensical. Holland's The Tribe, whose logo you've no pretty little clay-baked mutt and room). version, rooted in-gasp! doubt seen stencilled about our were within a hair of talking to it Meanwhile, on the opposite country-westernisms, is about a town, is New Orleans' only and trying to get it to do tricks. In coast, Village Voice writer Jeff tree in Ohio. Apparently, Gothic-punk band (Bela Lugosi the pilot, I bring New Orleans' Nesin was positively blown-away Englishfolk, cursed with the worst meets Black Flag, we imagine). A famous Bead Lady into the scene by the Nevilles' live Neville-ization climate and food on the planet, full report on the tribal ones was and well, let's just say that the disc on the Black Top label. In a think that Ohio is exotic. planned for this month's issue but 'magic bead' that Tom buys for lengthy analysis, Nesin concluded: If Ohio's exotic, imagine what somebody delivered the story and the dog does, indeed, have a little "The record shimmies through 40 the limeys must think about art to the wrong address and now of that old Frosty the Snowman years of American music without a Terpsichore Street, where Fess we're afraid that one of our elderly magic." single moldy-fig moment, bought a house for his wife (Mrs. neighbors might've received the Whether or not the nation's rearranging at will and investing Alice Byrd) and family shortly dispatch by mistake and that's why televiewing homes will one future both old and new tunes with before his death in 1980. To that ambulance was parked down season be exposed to life as it's interpretive dimensions that, after President Reagan's rhetorical the steet the other day. lived on the Street of Dreams a month's careful listening, query " Are You Better Off Now An unknown fan joined Steve remains to be seen and/ or sold. continue to astonish." Than You Were Four Years Wynn of the Dream Syndicate Explains Ellis: "It stands about as And then over in Merrie Olde Ago?," Mrs. Byrd would have to onstage for an impromptu duet much of a chance getting off the England, Elvis Costello has say, "No." The lady can't meet during the band's August recital at launchpad- here in New negotiated with Black Top head her mortgage payments so a group Jimmy's and actually knew all the Orleans-as a Cadillac turned Hammond Scott to release Nevi/le of musical friends and students of words to the song! 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