'Judas Priest-On Tour' Violators Attacked
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MARCH 18, 1978 VOL. 1, NO. 1 Benefiting FREE San Antonio For Your Austin• Houston Entertainment ~ 'Judas Priest-On Tour' JC 35296 The high priest of heavy rock 'n' roll with their inimitable style grace our shores once again. To change or not to change. That is what a rock and roll band must deal with. A group may develop a success ful formula for its music, which leads to personal and/ or commercial contentment. Musicians, upon reach ing this point, find their music evolving in a new direction or continuing their successful format. Judas Priest has choosen the security of proven success. Their first two ViolatorsAttacked domestic albums were well See story on page 10 received in this area. With the release of a new album "Stained Class" and • Elvis Costello an upcoming concert March INSIDETHIS • Radio Survey 24 their claim to fame is • Trivia Quiz sound. ISSUE! .-HELLO IT'SUS- / Welcome to It's Onlu Rock and , Muhammad Ali, chicken fried steak, Roll. What are you being welcomed cars with dead batteries, Rocky Hor to anyway? ror Picture Show and working over It's Only Rock and Roll is a time to afford concert tickets and newspaper/magazine of sorts put out vinyl habits. by a few people who know and love Sound comp'iicated, si1ly, insane, music and believe it's time for a unclear? It is all that and more. semi-intelligent, semi-informed rag Best of all it's fun and we' 11 attanpt about music on the local scene. to write about it: show pictures of Because no one is adequately it and make a meager living from it filling the music news and informa as long as it stays complicated, tion void in San Antonio, we decided silly, insane, unclear and fun. to try to fill it ourselves. The newspaper business is, by and By our personal credos Rock and large, a losing proposition. It's a Roll is what gets us and a lot of killer--mentally and physically, it's other people through the day and a very expensive hobby and it takes deserves a newspaper at least. a lot of cooperation from writers, Now, what exactly is Rock and readers and advertisers in order to Roll and, by extension, what willyou achieve any kind of success. be seeing in these pages? If It's Only Rock and Roll ceases To us Rock and Roll is, of . course, to by a joy to do we'll walk away the music of everyone from Elvis and do something else--but it will Presley to Elvis Costello, and it's all be Rock and Roll. more. Rock and Roll is a lifestyle that includes Saturday Night Live, (Continued on page 12) GENERAL LUIS S. PARRA, JR. 622 W. HILDEBRAND 732-0671 Concerts Coming Your Way AUSTIN/ARMADILLO AUSTINOPRY HOUSE San Antonio March 24&25-Bluegrass Music March 24&25-RayW. 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They offer gift cer Riviera told us this was the first tificate ' prizes in their E.C. look show of Elvis ' new tour and the first alike contest; they're selling Elvis time to play in Texas. sweatsh1rts, gigantic posters of the He finished his first tour before elfin rock figure hang from the walls Christmas, did the 'Saturday Night and large standups of Elvis aim true Live' performance (where many saw at customers waiting to buy tickets him for the first time) and then to his already sold-out performance flew back to England for a rest. for this night at Armadillo World Hq. Elvis & Co. had gotten in just a few hours before because they were The Armadillo is jam-packed by snowed in at the New York airport. eight o'clock and the show doesn't They were scheduled to do a radio begin for an hour--unusual for Austin interview at KLBJ but the station where folks are kno~m to saunter in manager said they'd come too late just minutes before the main act and cancelled it . steps on stage. Many people have come from San Antonio and surround Following this news, Riviera lau ing parts to see what could be "the nched into a spiel about his reasons next big thing". for his and Elvis' reluctance to have anything to do with the press. After trying to no avail to per They even regretted doing the Time suade concert director, Jan Hash to Magazine article. This is when let us backstage to interview Elvis Jake told us not to quote him on after the show we unexpectedly got to anything. talk with Elvis' manager, Jake Rivi era. Clover, the San Francisco group who moved to England and backed Elvis Riviera had recently left his on My Aim is True, is not the same partner, Dave Robinson,and their group as The Attractions. He told . Stiff label, and taken Elvis and us these were all English: Pete Elvis' producer and performer stable Thomas-drums; Bruce Thomas-bass; and mate, Nick Lowe, with him. Steve Young-keyboards. A rather keyed-up individual, Riv Riviera elaborated on his diss iera, like Costello, has little love atisfaction with CBS in not pushing for the press, but he was talking any singles off the LP before launch easily. About the lega-li _ty of Stiff ing into a tirade on the joke that releasing any of Elvis' old material, is American radio.