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11-15-1973

The Shakin' Street Gazette, Volume 3

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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Buffalo State Archives: History of the College at Digital Commons at Buffalo State. It has been accepted for inclusion in Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons at Buffalo State. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Teenage Music in the 70's : Part 3! ! ! "Won't you let me walk you home from and See" is an excellent example of their doing? Self-parody of the "good little : school more aggressive rockin' stance. With its boy" in · you?) That's the Wackers. : Won't you let me meet you af the pool parodic Stones-riff intro and Jagger-like They're my little secret. '. Maybe Friday, I can vocals, it shows the Wackers for what *Note: Just got word that the Wackers : Get tickets for the dance they are: a tight competent group who disbanded, although there is still a fourth ; And 1'11 take you shows their r!lspect for their roots by not and final album to - be releaseq, called : getting bogged down in the "seriousness" Wack and Roll. Won't you tell your dad get off my back and "rock is art" crap that's destroyed An incredibly hard album to find is ·' Tell him what we said 'bout "Paint It half the Western world. No. 1 Record (Ardent Rec.) by a group ; Black" When the· Wackers do acoustic called Big Star. The is led by : Rock 'n' roll is here to stay material, they don't get taken in by their former-Boxtop-s Alex Chilton and while : Come inside, well, it's OK own sincerity, thus becoming wimp. half the album doesn't quite make it, the . And I '11 shake you" Remember when you were having a half that does shows the band to be quite : -Big Star laugh-riot with your friends in the school suppressed masters of pop/rock and : East/Memphis (BMI) library, and the librarian would threaten Teenage music. No matter how I fight, : to kick you out if you didn't shut up and the album always ends up on my : The most effective style ( of the four why don't you act like good boys blah turn'table, and the vibrant rockers "Feel," . mentioned last ish. Were you there?) in blah blah, so you'd all comicly fold your "Don't Lie to Me" and beautiful ballads : the new Teenage music has been to poke hands on the table and force your smiles "Thirteen," "El Goodo" blast forth. ' fun at the 60's and its music. Yeah, you down . . . only to burst into gales of These are rock 'n' roll ·ballads, "not : sure were stupid then. At the time, you laughter again, because of the sheer whimperings from some M~rin county ; thought you were really 'cool,' but now, ridiculousness of the situation? Well, sickbed/' as one reviewer put it. you think, Wow·did I really wear that/ do when the. Wackers start doing ballads, Lastly, there's the bunch that handle , that/ listen to that? But you're 'hip' now, acousticnumbers, etc., it's done in a mild the softer 60's feel, and are probably the , right? And 10 years from now, you'll form of self-parody that recalls that hardest to digest at first listen. None of think you were an idiot again. Ah, human memory (and when you're trying to these people will come out and hit you at nature. It's the 'l.isten to that' aspect that suppress that laughter in the library with first so take your time with them. David ; the Wackers, the first and still the best a perfectly straight face, even though it Beaver, late from a group · called T.M. band, preoccupy themselves with, almost hurts to do so, , what are you Edgewood, has a fine album called on a'60's and 70's level. Combinations on TMI (Steve Cropper's The Wackers are American ex-patriates · label). With most oftheold·band backing now residing in•Montreal,Canada, where him up, like~thony Beechum," • they'll play a high school dance one night "I'm Gonna Show You" and "The Wizard and headline a c;oncert the next. They're of Menlo Park" are graced by Beaver's pop at its best: four brats weaned on the Moog, organ and pianowork and create a Beatles, Stones and the 60's, rockin' as if· full, rich album of lush sounds ·and rock was just discovered and singing with intriguing melodic rock. Blue a teenage enthusiasm that they never lost. (RSC/Atlantic) are a group whose Thei~ music, at its best, just makes you material is not ballsy or overly original, . happy to be alive, and ain't that what but the album has an overall pop feel rock 'n' roll's all about? found again only in Curt Boetcher's Hot Wacks (Elecktra) catches them at There's An Innocent Face (produced by their strongest (cut before the departure At the loading dock: is this how the Gary :Usher, veteran of ·60's CaliforJ}ia of fifth Wacker, Michael Stull) and made Wackers will go to work now that they've pop, and produced the first .two Wacke.rs No. 1 of my Top 10 list of 1972. "Wait · disbanded? . albums). -In Boetcher's album, the I

STRAIT,.._ 1 S NOVEMBER 1973 21 ', excellent production and arranging with parents laughed at yor for liking the subtle California pop teasers ·make it , Stones, Beach Boys, etc. y OU best example of this style. · remember the feeling, trying to convince There's one problem with all of the them the joys of your music, and they'd groups discussed: teenagers don't listen to only answer with "How can you listen to it. The reason why is most clearly that crap?". You know the feeling. You evident, it lies in its availability. Most of look down on this new Teenage music, SPACE RITUAL- (UA) frills thansmitted through oscillators ancl th.ese bands are on smaller independent , and there's no excuse for you. If you As you all know, the prime force, the synthesizers. As there is a sense of 'labels (as was most of the authentic 50's dislike it, fine, but don't get in its way, 'essence' if you'll permit, of good rock morbidity and an attempt at escapism in ·, rock 'n' roll ... ) and those on large because it'll shoot you down as easy as has always been Energy. Rock Energy is their themes (lyrics); there. is this same 'major' labels are virtually ignored by the Townshend used to destroy his guitar. created through two different methods. morbidity evident in the. seemingly company and t~e record-buying audience. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the Kidz, we're One is Energy through enthusiasm: an redundant sound they throw at us. Since all the bands are singles oriented just observers. excitement and freshness created Even the packaging for Space Ritual , and singles ·regularly, ifs natural · A very small incident ironically sums humanly through ·youthful, joyfully has a cold, inhuman quality about it. A to think that teenagers (a singles-buying up this whole business: an, 11 year old girl unrestrained vocals and fresh pop six part cover that folds out to the size of · audience) would pick up on them, l;mt went to see Wings in concert and upon , things like , six album jackets ( one up on Blue Cheer's · the Kidz ·have got to hear them first, and noticing the older couple seated next to Why do you think I acted like this during Wackers, Big Star, early Hollies, Blue Ash, ) is covered with mid;60's the 1973 "rock" radio programmer will her exchanging insulting comments about the 6 O's? If you had ulcers and early Stories, Stealer'·s Wheel, etc. The acid-rockfreakism photography, cosmic I/Ot put them on the playlist. Stalemate. McCartney while he was performing, hemorroids and lumbago of the earlobes, second method is Energy , through fantasy drawings and a nude (a Those who are interested, after asked· the couple why they were saying you'd act like this too. But that's OK cuz electricity: raw electric rock · power space . goddess indeed) with Andromeda sampling . a few of the bands discussed that McCartney has become so lame now. when, I'm at the Aud with the Mothers which, in its throbbing pulse and Strain computer printout type for related . here, can keep track of the new Teenage She wanted to know what McCartney had and Taj Mahal Nov. 21, I'll be so nice and relentless, continuous drive forces you to phrases over the pictures. ' music via this magazine and the excellent been in the older days. She didn't know! maybe I'll tell you why I like deptal floss react, groups like the Stooges, Black so much more kinestheticly. Icing on the Space Ritual, recorded live in England, ' Greg · Shaw, whose writing is printed By god, the start of a new generation. so much. .. Sabbath, Dust, Groundhogs, early Grand cake are Stacia, whose extraordinary is a musical representation of a story so When she asked me that, I could've Funk, , etc. The electricity costumes and seductive dancing serve to ambiguous that it forces.the listener to do kissed her . that seeps into your system can be cement those urges the music stimulates all the work in interpreting it. As a -Gary Sperrazza' absorbed and channeled, which and Bob ,Calvert, a poet and narrato,r · double album of heavy attacking rock supercedes you initial reaction to it. The whose worthiness in the band is and formless experimentation (a minor faet that voltage enters. your system is questionable. , part), it implies a conflict between their The End I much more important than whether you Hawkwind is space muzak, oscillated two styles. But it is the h_eavy metal belch, tap your feet or sit frozen, heartbeats; an energy level that seeps into aspect that dominates and it's "Ethan had a problem - he struggled with mesmerized by the sound itself. your body as well as into your ears. At Hawkwind's mastery of it, that makes guitar Embracing this- electrical umbilical first, they were regarded as a poor man's them so special. Trying to outdo the family tree cord are Hawkwind, innovatively , but Hawkwind has surpassed Space Ritual is helped along by For him that wasn't easy, 'cause father neanderthal, obscurely familiar and any physical impact Pink Flhippie') of being elitist in their conservatism; even Hawkwind's dramatic openings can We need someone to carry on the name · band, they've attracted a wide following their free-form playing was highly blast off of (some of the material is from regular:ly in CREEM and on ,his own Don't get ·discouraged, just practice when • in England tlirough their concerts (many structured. ' Pink Floyd programs their PHONOGRAPH RECORD magazine. older albums). you're told · of them free) and two singles, "Silver electricity so as to almost expect a certain "Lord of Light" comes acros~ as the Although ·none of the music's And you can soon take over his fame Machine" (No. 3 in, England; not on any reaction from their audience; but they most melodic of their heavier material. A .- members are virtuoso musicians, they album) and "Urban Guerilla" (a new know when to stop whereas Hawkwio.d fine bass line and solid drumming set the . don't have to be. Y'see, Teenage music is We hate to force it on you, it's for the .. release; not on any album). The first doesn't. Pink Floyd is far from being an groundwork for a plea by Brock, keeping based on a feeliag: a feeling you can't get family name three albums, Hawkwind, In -Search of approximated risk which is one way of an attempt at consistent vocalization from any other forms of music. It's And someday you will thank us from the Space and Do Re Mi Fa So L~ Ti Do, talking about Hawkwind. rather than the spontaneous tokenistic young, enthusiastic, fresh, vibrant, it stage while not always following a storyline as These ~olar beings are pulsating, raw, grunts that usually ac·company makes you feel . . . well, it just makes I think you'd better hurry 'cause dad is often as they'd have us believe, were blood-red energy. Hawkwind are the Hawkwind's music. "Space is Deep" is a , you feel. Periocf:-In a way, it's hoped that lookirrn grey conceptual in their initial inspiration, ultimate heavy metal urgists with cosmic space chant creating images of surviving this music doesn't get the popularity it His energy is starting to fade away dealing with space themes, cosmic battles Earthlings reflecting on their planet, long deserves. Why? Because this jaded writer · since dead. "Orgone Accumulator" is a knows what money can do to rock 'n; roll and int~rgalactic voyages. Don't give up, it all depends on you return to the· Earth in the form of a . music, through its- musicians. And he The line-up of Ha0kwind fluctuates as We need someone to carry on the name · cosmic;: boogie, a plutonian Canned Heat, would simply rather have thousandaires often as Marvel Comip's Avengers, but the Don't get discouraged, we know that you "Afright, you guys have been as½:ing for basic five are: Dav.e Brock -(guitar), possibly Disneyland's Pluto. striving for millions than millionaires can play it. Here's your goddam co,w•ip' album.,, (bass), (a truly "Brainstorm," taken from DoReMi, is our · striving for . notl)ing. Figure it out for And father's days are numbered, go yourself. Dec. 8, UUAB presents Lou H·· :'! ri's Berlin inhuman drummer), (sax) and personal favorite, possibly creating a new practice rill'ht away." Show in the Century Theatr,c. Ii they wuz energy level i1t _its own right. As for dissenting claims on the music Del Dettmar (synthesizer). Playing a -David Beaver smart, they'd.stage it in those abandoned · sets up a slicing, guitar riff as the band if it sounds old and imitati~e, it sound~ ·crucially important role in the _Brookfield 'Music, ·. train depots downtown behind the Aud. plays their bodies out, giving the song th_e that way to us old farts, the Kidz haven't presentation is DikMik, whose audio Inc. (BMI) Now there'd be a show. full treatment it deserves. The flip ·of the heard the old stuff. Remember how your generator creates a range of sounds from subsonic to ultrJsonic frequencies; it is Hawkwind laying down the basic tracks "" single, "7 X 7" is given DikMik who 11:elps one to feel the music to "." a , desperate feel as Brock casts his STRAIT, IS NOVEMBER 1973 22 ) STRA\ r, IS NOVEMBER 1973 23 \ ,,. Who asked him? Long Players

"I love it! It's so strong! It knocked side two is, appropriately enough, the me out when I first heard it and it's Kinks "Where Have All the Good Times still growing on me! It's basically Gone." Here Ronson imitates the ·Davies got three qualities - a strong, heavy Brothers combined guitar_ sound and beat, a constant beat and lots of Bowie rreats the vocais much like Ray's tffings about stars and planets in it - foppish intonation. Bowie even printed 1 stuff that Americans like!" the words to it on the inner sleeve as if to -Mick Box of Uriah Heep talking emphasize the conc;ept of the albU:m. about a cut op Heep's new With. this set of · illusionary album, Swee·t Freedom neo-punkers, is Bowie really showing his I admiration or is this an act of · self-indulgent egotistic parody? At , this spring tourj and Eno (late of Roxy _point, any deviation from what he has Music) funneled their respective group's done wouldn't hurt his career any and Hmmmm . . . How would you like to this album is, certainly a deviation. The sound and acted as a coating while still spend New Year's Eve with this little · shining in their own right; if there is _a new saluting th_e old. What more could we number? ... No, not her, you ninny. We ask for to paint an accurate picture of the purpose in Ha\\\kwind's syntjlesizer speak of the young lad at top right. The current trend in ? effects other than to accent the chaotic Billion Dollar Babies Holiday Tour wiII be feel that Hawkwind preoccupies PINUPS . -Andy Cutler in :Buffalo Dec. 31, making it a very themselves with, it's generally lost. DAVID BOWIE (RCA) special Alice Cooper New Years Eve Party Here it is, the ultimate in punkoid . and for around $6, you 're all invited, nice Here's Hawkwind, passing the time trying Hawkwind's saga is what you want it gonna get there. at night so we won't burn wimpasilic adulation, Bowie's Top 12 for guy , that Alice is. The back-off band is to figure out our review, while waiting for up.,, to be. The more you get involved with them, the more you believe - it becomes the years 1964-67. All are classics of the Z.Z. Topp and the whole thing is brought the next bus · to the Sun: "But we 're 1 elaborate. If they are as dumb as they English punk I scene and Bowie redoes to you by Festival East. More next ish. look, their stupidity is probably them ingeniously if not slightl\/mockingly. attacking view of Earth onto the morning Kidz show served only to instinctive. If they're doing this on Now that he's a "star" he wants his audience, who, at this point, must be so cement this image. ·Maybe it was a label purpose, if it all does make sense in some public to see exactly what these songs intoxicated by the unreality of the whole change to Columbia, maybe he's been elevated fashion, they're definitely have done t.o and for him. Space Ritual that it passes unnoticed. The saving this stuff for now, maybe he's poking fun at us. Seemingly paradoxical The Spiders are intact except for the many other tunes are a furthering of the getting laid regularly, whatever it was that is , the fact that Hawkwind make Pink absence of drummer Woody Woodmansy, 'basic electric theme set down previously. inspired him to produce such a Floyd sound like the Defranco Family . ably replaced by Aynsley Dunbar of Surprisingly, Space Ritual is recorded magnificent album as Comic Book and most heavy metal bands like Black Mayall and Zappa fame. Pianist Mike well; Hawkwind, during the mixing, Heroes ; if the same young audience that Sabbath sound like classical composers. Garson, whose celestial . tinklings greatly miked the drums and bass upfront to add. has followed him to now picks up on · As for Space Ritual, it's doomed to helped Alladdin Sane, plays a more the physical impact lacking in home Springfield's newest, we're gonna have become a, lost masterpiece. But if they're important role here and Mick Ronson seclusion, that is, versusa ·concert setting. kidz dancing ih the streets again 1 consistent with their philosophy, they lurches out with more pseudo-Beck licks. That's why Hawkwind, i some of thei~ Needless to say, Rick Springfield has won't care if no one buys it, right? "I Wish You Would' ' and "Shapes qf incredibly long passages, can s~stain written all 11 tunes on Heroes and has Hawkwind have adhered to a simple · Things," the ·Yard birds opuses, are given Rick_Springfield ' interest because of drive, you really feel , tied them together around . a comic the music. · formula : rather than help the audience to new light by Bowie, the former with COMIC BOOK HEROES strong punk guitar overlaid with soaring RICK SPRINGFIELD (Colunbia) book-like theme exposing fantasies, Lemmy deserves special mention as he Above: American vs. British reaction to accept an image, they create their owh synthesizer and the latter by Bowie's Jesus, what a surprise this is!! creating images and satisfying with a great is the best power bassist around; he brings Space Ritual: "But can you dance to it?" and dare you to accept it. It's worked in British-y phrasing. "See Emily ~lay" by Just when I begin to feel depressed collection of pop tunes, at times, Hawkwind back to · the ground which We guess so, as evidence' by the 'love and England (as has David Bowie) but in , Pink Floyd sounds like it could have been about the whole state of popular music resembling the pop approaeh of Andy defies their basic policy of asce.nsion. peace' generation (below) spreading their ~erica, the general audience is not from Bowie's Man Who Sold The World depicted mainly by the current rancid Bown. Del Newman helped with his great Lemmy's bass-chording is so rich and full · movement on a 'brother' (bottom, left tuned into experimentation; look at the period and explodes into an interpolation condition of radio, the prime breaker of orchestral arranging (he did that fine job that it, at times, functions as a rhythm center) at a Nov. 1973 Hawkwind charts. What amazes us is how rock of "Also Sprach Zarathustra." The Who's new talent, along comes 'this breath of on .Pete Frampton's Wind of Change) and guitar when Dave Brock goes through concert. Energy via pop, which is formula-based is "I Can't Explain" bursts open with a fresh air from ,Australia who has the Rick has a set four-piece band of his own cosmic-menstruation. Drummer Simon not accepted and rock Energy ~ia strong sax intro but then plods on energy, power and talent to shake most with himself (guitars), Mike Moran King must have a stand-in . . . or th~ electricity isn't accepted either. American I sounding l~ke the original with somebody of the pop music world right off its feet (keyboards), Dave Wintour (bass) and drums play themselves; to sustain such kids don't like formulas and they don't dragging their fiJ'lger on the turntable. and this is just his second album! Terry Cox (drums). energy and tightness throughout this like experimentation. What's left? Groups Also included are near-forgotten gems Having previously thought of Mr. After a short piece introducing the double album is indeed astounding. like Hawkwind, the definitive heavy like the Mojo's "Everything's Alright" Springfield as just another in a long line album concept, Side one opens with a. Dettmar andpikMik, while e'nhancing the metal masters of the 70's left out (Aynsley Bunbar is ai;i ex-Mojo), Them's of David . Cassid,y pube-hear~hrob, piano-dominated honkytonk rocker. special effeci·s and giving Hawkwind a because of no exposure. ' s;ace Ritual' "Here Comes the Night" and the Mersey's cash-ins, his first Capitol album and single "Weep No More" serves as an excellent distinctive style, fall short of their isn't for everybody, obviously, but it's along with his current stint on a Saturday vehicle for Springfield's light but potential at Hmes in light of other's hoped that those who crave this kind of "Sorrow" (released as ,a single). Closing Energy blast will find it themselves : we've accomplishments on the synthesizer. For 1 example, M. Frog (alias Jean Yves Labat, done all we can. • who accompanied Todd Rundgren cm his -Michael Sajecki/Gary Sperrazza STRAIT, 15 NOVEMBER 1973 1 25 . {

STRAIT ,1 1 5 N OVEMBE~ 1973 24 comes. He becomes self-conscious•, not artificial tries at rock and, roll. The wanting to strike out, yet not content to remaining 20% is brilliant, as brilliant as it was great. The people all started to play the standard slide/runs typifying only ·Elton can be but this brilliance is so wake up. They started ,talkin', singin', rriost pop song solos. That strength will limited it hardly seems practical to buy laughin' and playing ring around the rosey surely come as he .gains more experience the album. Such is the case of his latest around Snuffy the insomniac, who wuz and his material is so good that the wait release, Yellow Brick Road, a two-record still asleep, won't be long._I wonder if he realizes how . set which could have been a killer of a I sat down, exhausted but many new fans he's going to get with this single album and his best to boot, had it triumphant. And yo~ kn~w . wh'at? The album? Live American appearances (and not been beefed up with unnecessary Dead are great on 45. All these years I , I'm corivinced his live show must be filler cuts. Some gems sparkle through the thought it was Garcia and Weir and Lesh great) would help immensely. gloom but they are pushed into the and the rest of them guys . .I was wrong. ,It What separates Comic Boo~ Heroes background by the overabundance of was' Alvin and the Chipmunks in disguise. , from the mainstream of ·6ther albums is waste. ' Remember that whole trip? Wasn't it Nov. 28 Festival East presents the Pointer its vinylization' (well, it ain't crystal, . 'Jamaican Jerk-Off' is one of the kinda funny , the way_ the Chipmunks Sisters and Martin Mull (Martin Mull???) honey) of all the good things about pop worst;musically competent but Elton's disappeared after their , Christmas song at Kleinhans. Tickets are $6, $5, $4 at all music. It has power, drive,,infectious pompous treatment of the lyrics demean , and their caFtoon show? Why did Alvin ' Festival ticket outlets. OK, everybody? harmonies', striking choruses and a and insult reggae as a musical form. wear his wristwateh on his left paw when • freshness that makes ·this album breathe 'Funeral for a Friend/ Love Lies w~ all know that Alvin was left-handed? · Bleeding', an 11 minute, two-parter is . emotion;l voice to give this· ~umber the with vitality. It's the type of aibum you ·The Huh? · perhaps the best cut. The first part is a . degree ofinvolvemert needed_to carryJ t · like on first listen. , Well, my theory is tha,t the Chipmunks Walter Carlos-inspired synthesizer through with committment. An intense All evidence shows Comic Book · WAKE OF THE FLOOD got pissed off at Dave Seville, their excursion,• the second part is a lamen of a "Why Are You Waiting" and an airy Heroes to be an album directed toward a GRATEFUL DEAD (G.D. Record~) manager, dumped· him, and decided to lost fove. The title cut is a curious blend "Believe In Me" lead to Side one'.s closer, younger audience, the Kidz. He is to be It wuz a great party,.you know what r form a rock I and roll band. Rather than · of Elton, Gilbert O'Sullivan and the commended for his purpose, if this is it. mean. Warm pepsi, ·potato salad, ice having to beco~e ~stablished, they a pure knockout called "Misty Water . Carpenters, a country boy's refusal to be Let's hope he doesn't start complaining in ·cream, cream chicken. The vibes wuz decided to abduct a real good rock band Woman." Del Newman's violin-stabs swept under the glittery carpet of the Big interviews that he "doesn't get enough good, and everybody wanted' to hear the and slip into their places. Smart little contrast well with the delicate piano City. At first, 'Your Sister Can't Twist' respect" and he "wants to appeal to an Dead. I didn't want to do it man. I knew critters, eh? But they couldn't find no "People say I'm.the life ,of the party cuz I opening, Springfield's voice ' comes in seems to be in · the synthetic vein of older audience." There's no need for this what was coming. Jerry Garcia and his good rock bands cause there wasn't any . te)l a joke or two.!' When. Genesis is in softly and rises 'with the music to a 'Crocodile Rock' but on closer listen kind of crap from a talent like astral cowboys, non-existent ,pf,lrcussion, to be found in ·Hanna Barbera studios. town,' the city changes its tune. Find out thunderous peak, followed by a . highly proves to be a time trip back to the days Springfield. He'll never have to slow-tempo tunes, blah, blah, blah. But '.J'hen th.ey saw the Dead, all umpteen of why Dec. 1 when 'Buff State's SUB infectious ch'orus that you'll find yourself of weekend garage bands belting out compromise: let the oldsters come to people started to chant, we want the um walkin' arm in arm down tne street; presents Gene.sis with no dilutions. humming in no time. ''' and the like. Here Elton has him. In this magazine, he has all the Dead. Diimn, some people never learn. needless to sc1y they got ' the · Dead, Wouldn't it be nice if a popstar took a .great Farfisa organ solo, accompanied respect he could want. So I got it on, you know what I mean. dumped um in Lake ,Erie and tbok their blues away," they got Pogo the alligator all the best points of 'the Yes/Genesis by a surf-type 'ooo-eee-000-000' chorus. school of 'rock,' cleaning and simplifying -Gary Sperrazza! It started to play qs I put on my ear places. to play saxophone and make them sound 1 "Social Disease" ranks up there with them to a point where it would appeal to muffs and ran into the closet for cover. It The' only prolDlem . wuz, that th(?Y . like Ike and Tina Turqer jammin with a "Alcohol" for best boozer·song a younger, less fanatical audience?_It may was bad, real bad. They started to keel sounded like Chipmunks when they sang. roller derby team. , ' awards. Leroy Gomez adds a gutsy sax be possible that S'pringfield is flashing his oiler, one by one, thf,lit faces fallin ,, into Chipmunks just can't do country or blues On "Stella Blue," the chipmunks do solo to this get-up-and-guzzle-fall-down- influences on Side two. "The Liar" and their bowls of ice cream. A sleepiri' , or folk-rock junk, . or nothin' like that some cute harmonies · and sound like a. drunk ditty. Elton and Bernie take on the "Bad Boy" are thickly polished up-tempo epidemic if you ever seen one. Ice ·cream· and expect to be taken seriously. So they bunch of Nashville cats speedin'. "Row guises of salty dogs in "Sweet' Painted ballads where Springfield even sounds like all over the place. What a mess. recorded, changed the speed, and then Jimmy" was pretty bad on 45 so I moved Lady" directed at waterfront hookers. Pete Gabriel (of Genesis), especially in his Shit, I had to do something. The party ·• recorded again. Not bad for a bunch of it up to 78. It V'.'.as heaven. The Del Newman's orchestration, including pronounciation of '' (and was fallin' apart. Everybody was snoring. · amateurs. They grTw beards, grew their chipmunks flipped out, playin' bongos, the ·old world sound of the accordian is Foxtrot followers know exactly of what I ' Even Snuffy the insomniac fell ·asleep. I hair, developed pot bellies, wo~e work and steel guitars with their teeth. predominant here and adds to the-feel of speak). "The Photograph" is out of the . was in a jam. Steel guitars, violins and ·shirts and jeans and toured the country . With "Weather Report Suite," the the song. Left Banke-baroque_ style of pop and in · . saxyphones; · saxyphones even! The . with 'the Band, who are · ~eally the chipmunks prove that ,even du~ critters Also inclµded is the AM rocker "Born Out of Time," Rick exhibits a Dead go together with saxyphones like ' Katzenjammer . Kids and Rocky and can be progressive. They 'got the "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting". sense of movie star theatrics similar to CHatlie Brown k akin' it with Aretha Bullwinkle in·disguise. (But that's another Hollywood ,strings and Chicago to ·back, with pure punk guitarwork by Davey I , Bowie. The showstopper of Heroes is Side ,Franklin. And Garcia, man he's been dead story.) · em up and Theodore sang the lead vocals Johnstone and some great macho-kill two's closer, · "Do You Love Your for years, but he don't know it yet. Some But the reason that it's all so obvious cuz Alvin wuz guzzlin' beer. ' . lyrics, even though it's hard to picture 1 Children." A sense of tense expectation , people say that the Dead are a-. livin' is that the chipmunks didn't quite get the The album ended, the party was nice, pudgy Elton . and Bernie as tough ices 'its' first few minutes and the whole myth. I don't know man 1 I could hear the imitation ~bwn pat. We all know the Snuffy is still sleepin', (I hope he thanks ' asskickers. thing bursts into a cutting Yes-type riff El ton John - snoring through my ear mufrs. Dead ain't as bad as this new album of rrie for this someday, when he wakes up.) Pl9wing through the sediment, some Just Jhen I got •a great idea.' Kill two theirs makes them sound. So if you and a great mystery Vf'dS solved.' I knew underscoring an extended e:horus where cuts such as the afor~mentioned pop up 'the

/ - STRAIT, .15 NOVEMB·ER 197 3 26 $TRAIT, 15 NOVEMBER 1973 27 have, at times in the past, made joking references to what we call the "CBS House Band," a group of session musicians who back up noted or un-noted singer/ types and appear to be Cold Cuts quite close as when you'll find one ------member on an album, a closer look will FULL SAIL GRANICUS (RCA) reveal other House Band members present Loggins & Messina (Columbia) Careful with this one. The S0's rock also. To give a complete personnel list This is more of "the same old wine in 'n' roll revival has died away to be would be no fun, that's for you to figure a brand new bottle." While it's not a bad replaced, on the critics level, by a out (gives you something to do next time album, it has nothing new, nothing we you 're browsing through · your local haven't heard from L&M before. They've punk-rock revival. Even though the punk revival hasn't run its course· from the record· store,right?). Since they are simply rehashed the J:!!aterial from their critics to .the audience th'oroughly, a new sessioneers, they're not paid to be too first two albums. "Lal::iaina" is a slightly inventive, hence hindering the new solo spritely repeat of "Vahevala." "Path Way revival has .been started. Following a chronological order, the punk rockers artists' chances, by giving him a lifeless To Glory'' is a "new" and even more backing. With this album, Craig Doerge , monotonous "Golden Ribbons," or then discovered drugs. Acid , that's what Granicus is. Granicus' -music is · (in the trend of some of his fellow House ·: "Same Old Wine." 'My Music' is a repeat Banders, Larry Carlton and Danny of "Your Momma Don't Dance." "A straight driving rock with dips and escalation in power coupled with such Kootchmar, who've both attempted solo Love Song" is· an attempt to repeat the albums) brings together many of his pals successful tenderness o("Danny's Song." moronic lyri&s as "Let me drop my load on you, America" and "I've been high, to produce an' album that reveals all of It's no longer a fresh breeze that L&M's the CBS House Band's faults. Doerge sails are full of, it's hot air. Or maybe it's I've been low/I've been people I just don't know." Funniest thing · on the hasn't the strength to carry this limp gas. Things are repeating. Loggins and album is Stephen () collection of tunes alone and even his Messina seem to prefer it that way, but a Holden's predictable liner notes as, in own buddies show no signs of wanting to belch like this is unexcusable. true Stone 'form, he makes a mountain help. It looks like the CBS House Band ALL AMERICAN BOY out of a molehill and an ass out of will never break up, so remember, boys, (Blue Sky/Columbia) himself: "Granicus advances white blues we'll be watching you. Rock on? Not as bad as one would think, but progressivism in'\rock without sacrificing not as good as one would want. This solo the grass roots populism that "blah blah FM LIVE album business is becoming such a bore, blah." What's a political science major Climax Blues Band with Bowie's make-up artist or Led Zep's doing reviewing records for Rolling (Sire) roadie all singing their fave hits, etc. , but Stone7 Anyway, Granicus is so bad that Disappointing, but by no means bad, if anyone has deserved a well-received it's a sure shot they'll make it. We're just set from this fine English band with a solo career, it's Rick Derringer. Sure you worried that, by following this order in misleading name, Although blues is used know him as leader of the McCoys, as music revivals, the next revival is goipg to - as a backdrop for their material, the Johnny and 's guitarist and be , and then we'll all nod out music is raw, powerful rock which draws producer and for his guitar work on quietly with Jerry, Grace and those other from any other music form it' sees fit. albums by , Richie Havens, robots. , This foursome is a tight, cohesive unit ' Todd Rundgren and (surprise) Alice's , with snappy vocals (a great bass vocalist), past two albums and his newest, Muscle HIGH ON THE HOG but most of their strong points are lost in of Love. It's ·just that 'Rick should have Black Oak Arkansas this overlong live two-record set. Live released this in early 1972, when it (Atco/ Atlantic) versions of many·· of their older gems would've been dubbed a classic but now, Look out, those home-spun high ("All the Time in the World," "Shake with r0ck and pop on the upswing again, energy rockers, BOA, are back with more Your Love," "Standing by a River," All American Boy can only be called of their get-down-rock-and-roll. Still "Country Hat," "You Make Me -Sick''), 'nice.' As Rick sings, it's an think they need a singer since Jim traditionals ("Seventh Son," "Let's Work \ "uncomplicated" album of solid rock Dandy's vocal masturbation is not my Together") and new material alternating with slower ballads. Highlights idea of a good clear voice, but he's a good ("Mesopopmania,' ' "I am Constant") are are : "Slide on Over Slinky" which gimmick. He gets to jump around and lost in the chaos of the rowdiest New could've been a great follow-up to "Hang answer when people ask ·him why his York crowd ever captured on vinyl. On Sloopy" - "Teenage Love Affair," skin-tight pants never split in mid-kick. Constant chattering, yelling a~d can't miss with a title like that and I Basically BOA is a fair rock and roll band firecrackers going off lead this reviewer to f think he knows it - "Joy Ride" and and this is a fast improvement over their recommend any of their five other studio f "TimeWarp," two hi-energy instrumentals previous releases. A clearer produ'ction albums, where Climax really shine, i that are pure knock-outs - the best job allows "Swimming IN Quicksand" version of "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" and ~'Jim Dandy" to shine.brightly on an LIVE A. T THE RAINBOW rI ; around (after all, he wrote it). If he can otherwise uninspiring disc. Focus (Sire)

[ shuck his occasional resemblance to Wlat this world needs I is a good CRAIG DOERGE Johnny and Edgar , (a problem with laxative. WAen an album's highlight is the I (Columbia) I best stereophonic applause ever . hanging out with them too long), he'll do !.,et's get serious for a moment: we • iI just fine . recorded ...... r I ! STRAIT, 15 NOVEMBER 1973 28