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Wavelength (July 1984)

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UJauelenalh For ISSUE NO. 45 e .JULY 1984 ISSN 07 41 · 2460 New "''m not sure, but I'm almost positive, that all music came from New Orleans. " Orleanians - Ernie K-Doe, 1979

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Bluesrockers copies in two weeks from the its Spanish mood from Ruffner's Willie Cole comprise Ruffner's bandstand," Ruffner explains, slide tuning and melody: "That polished . Bandstand "and the instrumental side was one was recorded live with two The single is the first record to Bourbon written and developed right on the guitar overdubs," he continued, come out of Blue Streak Studio's bandstand." "one guitar is tuned to an open D 8-track facility and was self-pro­ Street "Red Hot Lover" is a funky Slim tuning and the scale I used for the duced by the group. "We sell a lot Harpo-style dance cut thick with melody is not normally used for the of 'em on Bourbon Street," Ruf­ Mason Ruffner and the ­ shuffling ninth chords and blues; it's your standard 1-2-3-4-5 fner smiles, "People around town rocker's new single is what you Mason's two bluesy Strat solos. progression ar.d the dropdown have been waiting for us to come might call a "bandstand record." The flip side, "Sunset Serenade," tuning gives it an ~nusual sound." out with a record. One guy bought "We've already sold about 200 is a flowing instrumental that gets Bluesrockers Mike Stockton and seventeen copies." -rico

Foster's: Quick Relief for Claustrophobic Pickers About a year ago I was discus­ sing the options available to a local guitarist in need of quality repair work for his or her guitar with a friend and we both agreed on one thing: Foster's repairs on Banks Street does the best work in New Orleans but their showroom is en­ tirely too cramped. Well, local pickerswill be happy to Jearn that a trip to Foster's Custom Finishes and Repair will no longer mean squeezing themselves and their axe into a closet-sized showroom. Jimmy and Vernon and Gene have recently added a new, spacious showroom with room for over a hundred guitars to their shop and they can still lay claim to having the best, and only, sales and repair shop in town devoted exclusively to guitarists and their beloved in­ struments. -rico 4 Wavelength/July 1984 EGYPTIAN DAY at the world's Fair is July 23.

Louisiana world I've Known Rivers. Sun. 1: Profiles, 2 pm: Sof-Sheen, 4 Exposition pm: New World Ensemble Music Schedule with Moses Hogan. 7 pm: Black Chorale. Mon. 2: 12: American Showcase Tent Shawn Henderson. 8 pm: Spir­ Gust outside the Italian Vil­ it. Tues. 3: 4 pm: Trudie lage): Call 566-2300 for list­ School of Dance. Wed. 4: 4 ings. pm: Family Circle Gospel En­ semble. 8 pm: Lyle Bove. Amphitheatre. Fri. 6: Lou Thurs. 5: 12, 4 and 8 pm: Lec­ Rawls, Charles. Sat. 7: ture with Morris F.X. Jeff, Jr. . Wed. 11: Fri. 6: 12: Tuskee Dancers. 8 Wayne Newton. Thurs. 12: pm: The 10:30 Band. Sat. 7 7: Jimmy Buffett, Coral Reef 12: Tuskee Dancers. 4 pm: Band. Fri. 13: Patty LaBelle Mark Taylor, 7 pm Tuskee and Bobby Womack. Tues. 17 Dancers. Sun. 8: 12: Tuskee and Wed. 18: Julio Iglesias. Dancers, 4 pm Bethany Thurs. 19: Go-Go's/INXS. Fri. United Methodist Choir. 7 20: Johnny Mathis. Sat. 21: pm: Shirley Chatters Bloom. Everly Bros. Sun. 22 (free) Mon. 9/ 12 noon: Lee Bates, Egypt's Aswan Dance Troup. Carl Marshall & S.D. 4 pm: Mon. 23: (free) Egyptian Na­ Children's Art Festival. 8 pm: tional Day Ceremony. Wed. 25 Hale Smith Amistad. Tues. 19 and Thurs. 26: Washington and Wed. 11:4pm Children's National Symphony. Fri. 27: Art Festival. 8 pm Hale Smith (free) Peruvian Dance Troupe. Amistad. Fri. 13: 4 pm Greer Sat. 28: Paul Anka. Sun. 29 Goff, 8 pm Hale Smith Amis­ and Mon. 30: Alvin Ailey Dan­ tad. Sat. 14: 12 pm: New Zion cers. Tues. 31 and Wed., Aug. Baptist Church Youth Choir. 7 1: World Youth Symphony Or­ pm: Angelic Voices for Christ. chestra. Mon. 16:8pm: New Zion The Cave in The Winery Baptist Church Male Choir. 569-5071. Sundays thru Tues. 17:8pm: 1st St. United 0 (.) Thursdays George Lees 6-9 Methodist Church. Wed. 18: ii and Harlan White 9-1. Fridays 12, 4 and 8 pm: Lecture - and Saturdays: Harlan White Black Catholicism. Fri. 20: 4 ed May 31st "Bobbie Gentry Day." 6-9 and John pm; McDonough Tallahatchie About three hundred people Rankin 9-1. 34 Ronelet­ tes. 8 pm: New gathered round the Peavey-speak­ Coronet Stage (in the Con­ Zion Baptist Mystery Still Church Radio Choir. er-laden Pavillion to hear good vention Center next to TV 6) - Sat. 21: 12, 2 and 7 pm: Brother Blue. unsolved lookin' Bobbie tell the story of the Call 566-2687 for info. 4 pm: Wade Griffin. "Ode": "'Ode to Billy ,Joe' started Mon. 23:8 Folklife Pavilion, Federal pm: St. Francis DeSalles out as a short story that I wrote, Quick: What song has been Fibre Mills Building, in "The Church. Tues. 24: & then I changed to verse. I started 12, 4 8 covered by one hundred and elev­ Back Door" -12-9:45 pm: Sun. pm: Dr. Morris F.X. Jeff­ writing it about midnight and fin­ en artists, sold over thirty-five 1: Fairs and Festivals Day­ Lecture. Sat. 28: 12 noon: ished it around five-thirty the next St. million copies, and used by Snooks music, crafts, Les Bons a Rien, Francis DeSalles Church morning. I recorded it in one take Eaglin to close his second set at Richard Michaud's Band. Choir. 4 pm Tambourine & Snug Harbor on June 18, 1984? later that day and that became the Mon. 2 thru Sun. 8: Acadian version we used on the record. The Fan with the Mardi Gras But of course, you say, that must Music Week. Lawrence Ar­ Indians. Mon. 30: 8 question people ask the most pm: Price be Bobbie Gentry's mysterious douin and Family Band (Zy­ Elite Chorale. memoir, "Ode to Billy about that song is 'What did Billy deco), Wayne Toups Cajun Joe." The Louisiana World Expo­ Joe throw off the bridge?' I've Band. Mon. 9 through Sun. 15: Miller Beer Garden. 569- sition's Mississippi Pavillion never told anybody the answer to Achafalaya. Mon. 16 thru Sun. 5160. Through July 15: Gilien­ recognized two parts of the above that one." 22: Sady Courville & Mamou ifelder Quintet 8 pm. July 15 three-part question and proclaim- -rico Hour Band. Mon. 23 thru Sun. through November: Tiroler 29: File Cajun Band. Every Jodler Band. 8 pm. Through Fri. and Sat. 8-9:45 pm. August 31: Australian Boys Dancing to music in "The 3:30pm. FRANKIE FORD, Back Door" Reunion Hall. Thurs. 5 accompanied by manager Italian Village. Daily in the through Sat. 7: The Cold (late KEN KEENE, Piazza: Village Street Players night 11:00). Thurs. 12 thru spent part of Sat. 14: A-Train (late night his recent do Pinocchio at 1:30,3:00 and European tour 4:30. Tues. thru Sun.: Italian 11:00). Pete Fountain: 8 pm­ shopping for Dance Band with singer Anna Wed. 4, Thurs. 12, Mon. 16, real estate. Thurs. 26. Look for Pete here Cardiff Castle Maria Franzella on Sundays. In south Wales, Fri. and Sat.: Live Dance 3 or 4 times a week on un­ shown here, Bands - check for times. Sat. scheduled appearances. was nixed be­ cause it didn't and Sun. at 5:30: Italian Folk Sheila's: 11B Fulton Street. have central Dancing with New Orleans Live music nightly from 9:00. air-condition· Folk Dancing Troupe. Call for info 569-5025. Ina. Wavelength/July 1984 5 golden moments in new orleans rock 'n' roll ospel quartet singer Lathan John Adams is approached G by New Orleans Dorothy Labostrie (who coin­ cidently lives in the same apart­ ment building as Adams) in 1959. Labostrie had written an R&B ballad that she hoped to have recorded on Joe Ruffino's Ric label. After much hedging from Adams, he was eventually convinced to cross the line and record an R&B song. The song, "I Won't Cry," turned out to be a solid local hit, but more importantly paved the way for one of America's best singers to record nearly one hundred more singles and LPs. Thankfully, Adams still remains active, with a brand new record out this month. -Almost Slim Johnny Adams

letters

To the editor: Johnnie Allan & The Memories are I am delighted that "Frankie one of the most exciting bands Ford's Jam" at the anywhere in the world! Jazz Fest received Almost Slim's Thanks again to Slim for the rating of "8," as did the genius of great rating, and to Wavelength . for the opportunity to let the world In answering Slim's concern as know that we really appreciate it. to my connection with the whole Frankie Ford thing, I offer the following: 0\.\r Hero otil\ blv.ncler-s throv.

The Leroi Brothers AI Ferrier Forget About The Danger Think Let's Go Boppin' Tonight Rico's Recent Rockin' OfTheFun Flyright 597 Columbia SC 39106 Like most of the albums in the Releases Review Steve Doerr keeps the Leroi Flyright reissue series, this one Brothers non-stop dance party contains several outstanding cuts an you believe it? $7 .98, and gain rolling with three excellent and a few duds. " Blues Stop $8.98 for an album? $5.98 I just listen to the sound of the compositions that fit like a glove Knocking At My Door" kicks Cfor an EP? Incredible, huh? rain ... , on the Brothers' upbeat style. things off righteously with a If you're like me (yes folks, some This cut, "Sound Of The Rain," "Eternally Blue," "Pretty Little driving barrelhouse beat and the of us music writers, us less-famous segues into "Hot Wind" which Lights Of Town," and "Dance great electric guitar (rhythm and music writers, buy our own records feels big and wide open, as if the With Me Tonight" all have a lead) of Al's brother, the late just like you), you'll want to tale being told were one of Wild timeless rocking groove much like Bryan Ferrier. "She Left Me" squeeze every last penny of musical West proportions, epic and the tastefully chosen cover follows as a showcase for Al's value out of your prized payday grandiose; ditto for "John material from their debut LP, vocals, and those familiar with the record purchases and I'm happy to Brown." Without looking at the Check This Action. "Dance With "Crowley Sound" will thrill to report that there are a number of disc for writers' credits you might Me Tonight" features Steve's blis­ Katie Webster's piano and Warren recent releases in the rockabilly suspect they were classic tering harmonica break that Storm's solid backbeat. and upbeat country bins of your country / western songs in cover sounds for the world like a Cajun I've always preferred Al's local well-stocked record versions. . Joe Doerr's "D.W.I." energetic rockers to those emporium that are definitely worth Lest you think Rank And File is (" . . . national pasttime of the arrangements that play on a slower their salt, real red-blooded too "serious" a band, check out average guy . . . ") and a gut­ beat, and although the guitar work American releases. "The nominees the subtle humor of "It Don't kicking version of Roy Head's of Bryan Ferrier is consistently are ..." Matter," "Last Night I Dreamed" "" round out this juicy on the reworked versions of ("that I went to Hell . . . "), or excellent EP. both "Honey Baby" and "Hey Rank and File their raucous cover of Lefty Baby," the arrangements pale Long Gone Dead Frizzell's "I'm An Old Man"; I Violent Femmes when compared to the powerful Slash/Warner Bros. 1-25087 wish they'd cut loose like this a Hallowed Ground cuts found on the Goldband Bayou Legend has it that Rank and File little more often. Slash 1-25004 Rock compilation LP. Al's version While neither a country nor a are a group of ex-punkers who Jason and the Scorchers of "You Win Again" hasn't a moved to Austin to learn how to rockabilly record (this band is thing on Hank Williams' original Fervor unequivocally impossible to play country music from the inside EMI America SQ 19008 or ' excellent out. Their debut Sundown LP won pigeonhold), Hallowed Ground cover. This record was voted EP of the contains four wonderful songs that a ton of well-deserved acclaim and Year by The New York Times, and Like Larry Hart's "Good even poked its nose into the are knee-slappin', chaw-spittin', Rockin' Joe" (on Bayou Rock), you'll be hard pressed to find one get - down - and - praise - the - Lord country charts without forsaking that rocks harder or packs so much "Indian " tries to the drive and energy of good rock. "countryfied," anyway. "Country cash in on the popularity of into every groove. Any­ Death Song," "Jesus Walking On Two of the original members have body who's caught their live shows Williams' "Kaw-Liga"; "I'm The left Rank and File, but, happily, The Water," "Sweet Misery Man" and "Send Her Back" tip locally for the past three years or Blues," and "It's Gonna Rain" the tradition of quality music lives heard "Broken Whiskey Glass" the hat in Johnny Cash's direction on in their new album, Long Gone plow new, and definitely rural, with their booming vocals and from their first EP knows that territory for one of America's Dead. these boys have it coming. Jason rhythmic country guitar; nice Tony Kinman couple most eclectic, enigmatic, Chip and Ringenberg is in the process of Dig AI Ferrier's latest-he'll dig the country melodies to lyric themes intelligent, and inventive bands ... establishing himself as a and I ain't funnin', podners. that have an engaging way of songwriter and country dealing with the universal concerns troubadour of the highest order as of modern life without getting the first verse from "Pray For Me bogged down in weighty rhetoric. Mama (I'm A Gypsy Now)" These songs sound earthy and full shows: of memorable hooks but they "Jesus gives to those who give never come across as dumb or themselves, simplistic: That's what you said, "And when there's hope Do you say that now? There's such a rush to put it 'Cause in my arms you took down until! bled I step aside But still I went down every road And let the others hang around you led . .. , I don't listen to the talk they talk Guitarist Warner Hodges deftly of Wood and lead bridges the gap between sweet Listen to the planes flying country twang and distorted power overhead rock with a style that embraces AoCO Listen to the sounds of the loss both genres expressively.

8 Wavelength/July 1984 tunes, but highly derivative. . Smell Of The Trio unofficial motto was: "You got to Serious collectors will relish the Female is one of the best Cramps Volume Two (Collectibles) make those bottles bounce on the two instrumentals by At's 1959 records to date. It blasts off from MCA 1561 table" and this incredible backup group, The Vamps, the Peppermint Lounge with lead An excellent companion to collection of 1946 to '56 King entitled "Gunsmoke" and singer Lux Interior's regally titled 1982's Listen to Johnny Burnette! releases proves that he practiced "Chisolm Trail Rock''; both "Thee Most Exalted Potentate Of that follows its lead by assembling what he preached. I'd put "Well, remind me of those wonderful Love" where de Lux turns a phrase a number of classics and Oh Well" right up next to anything Fifties black-and-white TV and drops a pun or two: unreleased outtakes of definitive Bob Wills ever recorded and like­ Westerns. "Love Me Baby" is a "I'm the celebrated hot 'n tot rockabilly. Paul Burlison's stellar wise with the title track and Bill gem that sparkles with Bryan's Telecaster riffs and Johnny's Haley's best efforts. Mulllican heavy tremolo, Slim Harpo-style oftwat, Make a hole, lookout, make way impassioned vocals uphold the could cover black R&B ("Grandpa guitar and a great solo. trio's legendary status alongside Stole My Baby," "I'm Mad With Some of AI Ferrier's best '57, for thee big shot, I'll make you dear my turtle Cochran, Vincent, Elvis, and Co. You") and turn right around for 'S8, and '59 recordings are as­ dove, "Lonesome Train" and "Train some hard-bopping jump blues ("I sembled here, many for the first Kept 'A Rollin' " appear with Done It," "Rocket To the time; had Flyright chosen the later Ride the range up to your love, We'll have big fun on the bayou Burlison's signature double-E­ Moon"). "Cherokee Boogie" and and harder rocking versions of string lick; "Lonesome Tears In Tokyo Boogie" show Moon's At's two little hits and thrown in son ofa gun ... " And the weirdness never lets up. My Eye'' sports two beautiful almost childlike fascination with his beautiful rendering of "Sixteen "Call Of The Wighat" could be Mexican solos; but the real gem off-the-wall phonetic experiments Candles" (Brian Setzer eat your the theme song for a perverse sit­ here is "Sweet Love On My Mind" and the simple wonder of the way heart out), I'd call it the definitive com on pygmy cannibals and "I with its macho/vulnerable lyrics, words sound, in any language. AI Ferrier primer. You'll have to dramatic stops and walking bass. (Many historians credit Mullican dig those up on your own ... Ain't Nothin' But A Gorehound" makes a perfect lead into the Essential listening . . . and with writing the lyrics to Hank Tile Cramps Cramps most appropriately chosen dancing. Williams'" Jambalaya.") Smell Of Female cover song ever: "Psychotic Now that you got the word, Eaigma 21 Reaction." Moon Mullican Ferd, run out and plunk down are a scary and Seven Nights To Rock those greenbacks on some anemic-looking bunch of pale­ Rubber Rodeo Western 2001 American music and help keep our faces, the prime exponents of a Scenic Views Aubrey "Moon" Mullican's pickers and shouters off the un­ bizarre genre they call "Rockabilly Mercury 818 447-1 M-1 "pumping piano" and honky tonk employment scrolls. Stay tuned for Voodoo"; sort of like the ghost of Those nice cowboy boots all vocalizing laid part of the found­ hot tips on starting your essential Bela Lugosi singing with a termin­ point to the same conclusion in my ation that Jerry Lee Lewis built his rockabilly collection in the near ally-stoned reincarnation of the view: this record sucks. rock'n'roll empire upon. Moon's future... 0

new bands BY ALLISON BRANDON

when and how do style that blends a modern rock allow them the freedom to play use to start their car). When I saw all those band sound with their own New Orleans originals. them, opened with a 0 K• flyers materialize roots. The results are quite The band now has 27 very rousing version of the Charlie on every po1e on St. Charles pleasing, especially in the originals danceable originals with four in Brown theme song, one of only and elsewhere? Well, being in the "My Time is Coming" and a the workings. They have previous­ two covers they do. Members Ken dark about the personae of the funky "No Use Kickin'." The ly released a 45, though they Cipnic on guitar / vocals, Mike staple gunnies(?) does not lessen band also does a bang-up job on a consider that material to be way Murphy on guitar/ vocals, Jimi my appreciation for their often few choice covers such as Elvis past them now. Beninato is Cass on bass/ vocals and John fascinating graphic creations or Tobler on drums/ vocals have been that 1 can sometimes plan my entire together about six months, though weekend at the stoplight on Broad­ Cipnic and Cass have been playing way and St. Charles. Currently my together in different incarnations favorite piece of portable graffiti of Popstart for about three years. happens to be for a band called the John Tobler has worked with Dis­ Lemmings-perhaps because of a appointed Parents, Pop Combo, certain pity for the self-imposed and Keystone over the past five doom of this band or just curiosity years, and Murphy has played about how they close their act. guitar for about eight years At any rate, another band that including studying at the New makes the most of lamp post Orleans Center for Creative Arts, advertising is The Newsboys. and belonging to a dixieland jazz Members Jeff Beninato on bass, band! Paul Garaudy on drums and the What struck me most about this newest addition to the group, New band besides the very witty, almost Yorker Lester Kenyon on guitar absurdist lyrics was that I felt and handsome lead vocalist Don transported back in time to the Berry are no strangers to the music early 1960s. Perhaps it was the scene. All of the members have Costello's "Allison" (oJ1e of our currently working on songs of a fascinating conglomeration of played in various bands or engaged personal favorites) and the Police's more serious nature, one in part­ people in the audience, and the in studio work over the past ten "Melissa" (Berry's Sting imper­ icular about the feelings of a friend warm rapport these guys had with ~· They met and began jamming sonation is amazing on this tune). who is a Veteran. "The the crowd, or maybe the humor together about three years ago and Yet the band's ultimate aim is for a problem with writing songs is that that is interwoven into many of started playing seriously as a band strictly original playlist, and it is you can't sing in paragraphs; one their tunes. Cipnic, who writes a this past year. Although it's hard this goal that has shaped the or two words or one line has got to great deal of the lyrics, prefers to to categorize anybody's music attitude of the band, which evades mean something.'' think of their songs as "abstracts" these days, I would describe their the more profitable rut of playing or as he put it "Listening to our music as a sort of funky Phil Led Zepplin covers to pay bills and nother band that is a must music is kind of like shopping in a Collins or better yet as just New instead plays music for its own see, especially if you have a department store." One band, a Orleans rock'n'roll. Bassist Jeff sake, spending time on their own Asense of humor, is Popstart lot of diverse items from which to Beninato says the band pursues a material and working clubs that (named after the technique they choose. 0 Wavelength/July 1984 9 rock 'n' roll

s nearly as I can figure, "progressive rock" is the Asame as "art rock" (whatever that is), and it is still the vaguest tag for whatever it is that Yes, King Crimson, Genesis and Pink Floyd do. As for the culprits of the early Seventies "progressive invasion," we might point to Bowie or Eno or even go back to Sgt. Pepper, but the fact is that most of the experimentation and "innovation"-inevitable as Sixties licks became dieMs, and interesting to us for a time-quickly became pretentious, mannered, downright boring. This is not to say that nothing good came of all this: among others, and Bowie, there from the beginning and still doing good work, some XTC, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, and Laurie Anderson, a performance artist who charms critics and sneaks onto rock (whatever that is) charts. Nowadays, if asked what kind of you prefer, avoid answering either "rock" or The GENERICS scoH at anonymity. "rock'n'roll" unless you are ready to declare allegiance to Loverboy the latter, which is an attractive, or .38 Special, Judas Priest or Van unnoticed: the band won the Time hot product right now and we Halen. If your reply is "new might have anticipated "You're So Saver Music City contest for their figure why not take the plunge. music" (even vaguer than Square (Baby I Don't Care)'' or lilting "Heart in a Box," a song The problem is financial, of "progressive" and utterly mean­ "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," but the with one of the most bizarre course. We've got five or six great ingless), you own Kajagoogoo and wild action was separable from the images of emotional manipulation songs, and if we could just develop Spandau Ballet records and wear wild noise. Many fans wanted to on record; Cox Cable's Music City our PR sense like the Models or the X, Duran Duran, , be Elvis, but most were too scared Program recently showcased forty Raffeys, we could make it move. Billy Idol or Adam Ant buttons. to try. Today all the fan has to do minutes of Generics music, which An EP would be an audacious More than harmless stereotyping, to be Michael J. is buy a glove and· had predictably propitious debut, but the chances of it moving this is a state of affairs suggestive roll up pants; these gestures, for results-increased club exposure at you out of the clubs and into tht of the fragmentation of the pop the fan, seem to be inseparable Augie's, the Loop, Jimmy's, a concert halls are slim. Are you music audience, not to mention the from "Wanna Be Startin' surge in popularity and confidence bored with playing in New music itself. In 1981, writing of the Somethin' " or "Don't Stop Till and a reason for the band to make Orleans? Which leads me to a tired impact of Springsteen's River tour, You Get Enough." There's no some plans. subject; could you comment on tht Greil Marcus had this to say: difference, in other words, Most ofyour playing has been in city's rock "atmosphere?" "Rock'n'roll is, today, too big between the music and the glove. New Orleans, with a date or two in Generics: Up until about two for any center. It is so big, in fact, Promotional hype, Baton Rouge and Slidell. Are you months ago, it was very, very bad, that no single event-be it a sorcery, Pepsi- and Schlitz­ thinking of a small-scale tour, and and come to think of it, it's stiU Springsteen tour, a sponsored tours, Michael's glove, if so, what do you expect this to do bad. This is supposed to be tht overdose or 's first fifteen-song radio playlists­ for the group? music city, and there just aren't album in five years-can be much this is late Twentieth-century Generics: Most definitely! We enough clubs. Hopefully with the more than peripheral. Rock'n'roll rock'n'roll. And where does this need to get exposure not only in World's Fair, more clubs will open now has less an audience than a leave the small-time band, many of this state but especially in sur­ and there will be more series of increasingly discrete which are making music as good as rounding states. This is a necessary opportunities for bands, not just audiences, and those various some and better than most of the first step. We would like to do cover bands, but bands that want audiences ignore each other." gold/platinum acts? Consider our what, say, the Models have done­ to play original material. People While this splitting of the pop own Cold, Models, Backbeats, go to New York for a week or two, should come to a club expecting to populace can be healthy for both Pop Combo, the Generics, a band open up for some of the more hear a band's originals rather than artist and fan, it is mostly con­ the very name of which scoffs at popular club bands there, build up their favorite Clash song. Also, fusing and disillusioning. Such anonymity and suggests accept­ some kind of reputation, get some too many people seem preoccupied separation obviously tends to ance_of pop diversity. confidence and experience on the or rather obsessed with MTV. foster diversity, encourage risk­ The Generics bill themselves as road. We've got to do this. We They'd rather stay at home and taking, and would seem to create "a contemporary rock band," as love to play locally, but we're a watch those boring, droning an easier "in" for the avant-garde, good a way as any of drawing on, good club act, a great club act- we English bands. progressive, or new wave artist; escaping or perhaps parodying the think, and we've got to transcend Exene of X has a good line on but because it appears easier to imprecise nomenclature used to the level of club band. this: "Cute English boys will "make it," there is a band­ help disguise any pop cultural Other than touring, which is always be more popular than glut-everybody's tryin' it, and breakdown. Together for two expensive, tiring, and time­ talented American bands." competition is stiff. Pop music, years, performing locally for just consuming, especially for day-job Generics: A little sour grapes for a while, looked as if it might be over one, and fast becoming a musicians, how do you plan to involved. Actually the club scene big enough to hold as many popular attraction on the club make this leap? in New Orleans is probably no musical types as the market itself scene, the Generics-Lenny Jorns, Generics: With a record. In worse than in New York or LA. could absorb, without damage to bass and vocals; Ken Faulkner, · June, we went into the studio to The market's bigger there, but it's the music or to rock attitudes. guitar; Barry Flippen, drums; record for two days and plan to more competitive. There are The relationship between artist Dean Meredith, guitar; Scott have something out in September. advantages though: chances are and fan now is largely a matter of Schmidt, lead vocals-are five A single? obviously greater that something association. When Elvis jerked and talented, aggressive players whose Generics: Either a single or an might happen since there's more shook across the stage the fan tight musicianship has not gone EP. A couple of us are pushing for promotion going on. You can't get 10 Wavelength/July 1984 discovered here any more. You content is there and it's danceable. you flirt with obscurity, but on the married couple, could be from the have to go somewhere else, and as We have a lot of fun; people who other hand, where would the best man's or woman's point of view, you said that's expensive, frus­ come to see us have a lot of fun. bands be had they not taken those let's say the man's. And they've trating. There are so many bands We have strong personalities in the risks? got a couple of kids, and they're in , though, that if band, and we're relating to the Do you agree that there's just spending a regular day one doesn't want to play for $100 audience more than ever. We're sometimes a great amount of together, a Sunday afternoon, and the club owner just gets somebody developing a following. And most compromise necessary-a kind of she's working in the garden and else. importantly, we think other half-sell out? he's doing whatever and suddenly The law of supply and demand. musicians respect us. Is that Generics: Yes. he just stops. It hits him just how What does it do to you to know eriough? We could go on. I see a movement in the content important these people are to him, that there are so many bands out I'm sure. You mentioned of Generics' songs, those that I just how much they mean to his there with the same aspirations as "danceable." Is there always the know, away from the three-minute life. you, that are as good as or better thought of making the song you're love song to social and political Seems almost the inverse of one than the Generics? working on a danceable one? issues, friendship, commitment. of those Springsteen stories, Generics: It might be naive, but Generics: Yes . . . well, no. Generics: Yeah, we're trying to though there is the hint that the we believe that there is enough Sometimes they come out that way stay away from too many love importance of these people and the space for everyone. Our intention and sometimes they don't. For the songs. "Heart in a Box," though, security of this life are so great that is to make something happen. most part we try to move in the is a quirky love song that resists the the fragility of life is more pro­ We've made a commitment to this straight-ahead rock tradition, but Journey, Loverboy, Air Supply nounced. From these songs, can intention and to each other and we do things in the songs like formula schlock. It was one of our one detect an attitude, a Generics plan to remain faithful to it. Living bridge major segments with a bit first songs, and it's probably the philosophy? within an intention allows of odd timing, an off rhythm. We best in that genre. Generics: . Two things perhaps, everyone to have space. The only do diverse things, sometimes have What about the new song but neither grows out of these idea is to keep reaching, to set a jazz feel or move in an artful "Human Zoo?" songs necessarily: one, any group's immediate goals and work toward direction. Generics: It's one of the best have trouble deciding these-a single, an EP, some In trying to do snmething things we've done, musically and what they want to say that those touring. We know that we just diverse, don't you run the risk of lyrically. It's biting at something people out there haven't already can't put an album out or push a lifting yourselves right out of the but we made it general enough so heard or are going to get bored video onto MTV. mainstream, or commercial that it could point to a number of with. Not just another love song or Here's a simple question: why success? There are plenty of bands targets. We also have a song called . It's a challenge, and are the Generics important? that do this, even or maybe "Going Through the Motions" the best we can do is come up with Generics: Because we have a especially those that have already that's just an image of the auto­ fresh angles for good, old ideas. good quality product that is made it. maticity of everyday life, the What about the other "thing?" energetic, danceable; the music Generics: And there's an routine that can stifle people's Generics: Oh ... when playing itself is interesting; our songs are intrigue missing in the bands that lives. And "Seven Cards"-we in a local club, always get a structured interestingly. The don't experiment. If you go too far like the concept with that- a guarantee. 0

somewhere in New Orleans there·s an Eddie van Halen and a ....:··. I I ···.... Cyndi Lauper. /I Be among the first to disccroer them at Wavl'iert:~th/ 13 Q's ~ Baffle of tiir Bands July 10 & 11 at Jimmy':;. Tile wi1rna claims a 4- song demo taping ses­ !'>ion at Gilbert Hetllenuick's Grouse Housr Studios. Votr for your faves ­ baffot!'> apailahft• at the door. JULY 10-HANDS, PRESS, FINAL ACADEMY, CRO WD, ROGUES JULY 11 - VITAL FUNCTION, MULTIPLE PLACES, NUMBERS, PO PSTART , LOOSE CHANGE

Wavelength/July 1984 11 The 16 rooms containing over 400,000 rare records original label 45's, 78's, and LP's in Gold Mine stock- Rare Records & Comics I OO 's of thousands of comics. Boogie Jake Oldies reissues S I .89 'Early Morning 6469 Jefferson Hwy. Plus top-I 00 45's & LP's in pop, rock Blues'/'Bad Luck Harahan, La. j "~ ~~ ==•1!1110 _so_u....:.l._c_o_un_try...:..______and Trouble' 504/737-2233 ~ Specializing in original 50's, 60's, Minit 601/602 1343 West Bank Expressway _&_l_o_·s______....:. The first release ever from one Westwego, LA 70094 We accept mail order all over the of New Orleans' most important 504/347-7447 world! R&B labels, this one dates from 9am-8pm Take 1-10 Mon.-Sat. 1959. "Boogie Jake" (his real name was Rodger Castillo Westbound to Mary Gammon Matthew Jacobs) was a bluesman from Baton Rouge, owNE~ Clearvlew S. exit MANAGER Louisiana, who once showed plenty of talent. Boogie Jake leased this record to Joe Banashak and Larry McKinley, who were just getting the Minit label off the record didn't get moving in the key BLUE STREAK STU ground and were looking for Northern markets because the something to issue to get their ball name "Boogie" was then rolling. Both sides are strong considered offensive. As a result, "Excello-styled" blues, very much Jake reverted to his real name for Otari Multitrack in the Slim Harpo/ Lightnin' his next Minit release, which and 'h track Slim/ Lazy Lester mold, and didn't measure up to the first apparently were recorded at Jake's release. Disillusioned by his lack of home. continued success, Matthew The record proved to be a strong Jacobs moved to the West Coast in seller in the Southern blues the early Sixties, where he market, and drew the attention of continued to record sporadically Chess Records, which leased the until his death a few years back. master. According to Chess, the -Almost Slim

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Jimmy's Modern English June 15, 1984

Modern English, the popular practlcmg the tradition of RAY FRANSEII'S MTV band, gave a slick-perhaps "squatting" -that is moving into too slick-performance at Jimmy's abandoned homes, and setting up DRUM CENTER on Friday June 15. The band house until the coppers kicked played over an hour of properly them out. As bass player Mick energetic well-executed songs, Conroy remarked, "the band ~ many from their new album prefers to play songs of a less Richochet Days, including some serious nature; they would rather SALES ... SERVICE ... INSTRUCTION fine songs such as " Rainbow's not sing about their problems." ALL MAJOR BRANDS e COMPETITIVE PRICES End," "Chapter 18," and their Well I think they could probably closest thing to a current hit, sing about squatting and still avoid e COMPLETE TEACHING FACILITIES "Come with Me." They did a being political ranters and ravers. particularly pleasing rendition of The band features distinctive 2013 WILLIAMS BLVD. one of their better songs, "After Robbie Grey on lead vocals (who the Snow.'' The band did the best was in top form on this evening) they could with the songs on the Gary McDowell on guitar, Richard new album, which are scored with Brown on drums, and Steven classical orchestration, by using Walker on keyboards. All were guitar and the like, quite charming on stage, true to though they missed touching the their MTV image and sound, and subtle beauty of stringed instru­ the crowd was very enthusiastic ments. Several of the favorite especially when they launched into songs were duly appreciated by the their biggest hit "I Melt With audience numbering close to a You" from their album After the thousand, but much of the show Snow. Quick-witted Grey made lacked that bit of magic or appropriate comments about the _.....__...___ ..... whatever that makes a concert beastly heat suffered by band and - .... , memorable. fans during the song. All in all the .. • .....,r: .s.....;.. _ Modern English is far from show was worth the ticket price in 6TH * Renegades being a political band despite the exchange for a few choice songs, a 13TH * Mason Ruffner fact that they were born out of the good opening act by the Models radical punk movement of the and of course a special show by the 20TH * Tim Williams mid-Seventies and are from ever fascinating people in 27TH * Good Wave working class backgrounds. They, attendance. along with other young struggling 7 Days a Week e 482-2680/482-9843 bands, kept their band going by - Allison Brandin

12 Wavelength/July 1984 BY CAROL GUNYADI

hree face-lifts, green fields ation for The Bounty and their eclectic d.j., will remain Anselmo's up with the fast pace of this and a strike out. No, you're optimism might remind people of in name only--and that r11ight even relatively new and powerful Tnot at the DAR Softball how pleasant a setting the lake can change. Phil Anselmo ha~ thrown industry, but are not supplying the game, you're in New Orleans in the be for a night club. The Bounty's in the towel and one L f the element that could very well be in midst of growing pains. With "the gone semi-hi-tech, using silver proprietors of the Zack's Frozen their favor. A pioneer I note as world at our door," lots of club chrome on just about everything Yogurt has thrown in the towel most advantageously utilizing owner are gallantly facing the and rose and grey fabrics where and one of the proprietors of the videos to date in this city is, of all challenge of providing poise and appropriate. The bar still Zack's Frozen Yogurt chain has places, The Parade. A hugh screen adventure in clubbing it. I resembles the bow of a ship, only taken a dive into the St. Charles creeps down when you're not applaude their enthusiastic efforts updated with a silver lady gracing property. For now, no apparent looking that will explode on and encourage more of it. the way. The restaurant is still changes in atmosphere, and hope­ appropriate occasions with hot, Deja Vu on Dauphone and operating, specializing in steaks fully, what looms ahead will only full-bodied dance videos and Conti has been transformed into a and seafood. An additional bar be improvements. various visual stimuli. Video can very pretty club. The days of the will open soon to be dubbed The A moment's reflection on a be fun to dance with. collage on the walls and ceiling, Island Bar and sits amidst picture feature in existence at two of the Another video concept that can and slippery beer-soaked floors windows overlooking the Lake and previously mentioned clubs: video. add n.~ ch to the entertainment have vanished in a flurry of filled with wicker furniture. A nice We're already aware of the power value is the use of video-­ refinement becoming sleek and touch for the lakefront. Dance of MTV and its capability of photos/ images--as a backdrop for squeaky clean. Soft hues of aqua, music is played nightly with an turning tender teens into couch live performances, the likes of peach and natural wood conjure a occasional surfacing of oldies. potatoes. More and more of it is which I've enjoyed at Wooden­ peaceful setting. Comfortable Lucky Pierre's is open for becoming evident in New Orleans. head -which incorpor­ couches are strategically placed breakfast, lunch and dinner now. I think it can be a good ated "wet" videos by using where the dance floor once was. The proprietor, who is heavily into compliment to music on occasion, watercolors and manually The upstairs has been totally real estate and also owns The and even more so if clubs are manipulating them as they're closed off and will be renovated Boot, has really done a fine job of willing to take the plunge into projected on screens on either side for apartment space. The only fixing the ol' place up ... draws a videos other than those mastered of the stage. The Woodenhead reminder of that cozy cubby hole is lot of tourists off the streets of by or Culture Club. "Multi Media Show" a painting on the wall which is an Bourbon, but the breakfast I had To take the extra step, and offer incorporated the talents of artist accurate reduced replica of the couldn't draw flies. The old something other than what George Pheanis who also supplied doorway as seen from across the Lucky's had an array of omelettes presently can be seen on the still photos throughout several room. The color scheme and and breakfast foods that made a evolutionized commercialism of songs. It added a lot to the concert. design can be attributed to the very satisfying late night redeemer. MTV at home via cable, and make Also a while back, an Uptights gig talents of the owner and half of the The new Lucky's breakfast menu it a major contribution to a bar used stills and drawings, stick operational team- Paula Collums. is very limited and cites one seems to be a sensible direction a people, silly scribbles . . . it made The music swings from Paula's omelette du jour. I found Lucky club owner would take. Clubs with me smile. Both concerts were at preference of R&B and good ol' Pierre's breakfast has lost a lot in video monitors are trying to keep Jimmy's. 0 N'Awlins music to -pop and the transition. The omelette new stuff as preferred by her seemed to have been thrown into a partner, Frank Covacevich of Sir blender. The service was excellent John's fame, who spins records at though. The coffee was weak-not least three nights a week. There's a at all like the standing spoon brew J

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here's no sense in trying to avoid the heat of New Orleans in July. Instead of T The Mighty running from one air-conditioned Sparrow (left) is place to another, why not admit 'King of the World.' you're spending summer in the Expl?.iner (right) is one of calypso's tropics and pretend you're on a crown princes. Caribbean island? A few mangoes would help the fantasy, and maybe a fifth of Vat 19, but to really appreciate the heat in de place, some of the latest dance records from Trinidad/Tobago and Jamaica will be essential. beyond this because of their Trinidad/Tobago is still the land superior technical ability. of steel drums and calypso (now Although the Radics defined the sometimes called ), but those style that these guys were playing, who haven't tuned into this music the Studio One Band did more lately might not know about the than just copy it; they. jammed emergence of soca music. Soca is around the without losing the name given to one of the the feel or getting too complicated. directions calypso has taken since And it was a pleasure to watch the approximately 1978, moving band leader, space cadet Pablov musically toward disco and Latin Black, who was having the time of music, while lyrically continuing to his Life experimenting onstage with voice the joys and concerns of the a Yamaha DX that he rented from people. Like all the best Caribbean Tipitina's and which has infinite music, it's got a beat for the body his latest album, Touch II. The album might have benefited from possibilities compared to his and a message for the head. calypso crown was won in 1979 by the addition of a few disco Prophet 5 synthesizer, which got Some of the older names are still Black Stalin for two cuts from his riddims, overall the record creates damaged on the trip from around, like the Caribbean Man album, a soca a mellow, spacey mood that is Jamaica. The other outstanding and Lord Kitchener, the two un­ classic. His latest release, You Ask guaranteed to unwind the tightest member of the band was percus­ disputed kings of calypso, but for It ... is another great album nerves. Less mellow and going sionist Eberton Carrington, who there are many, many newer names from Stalin. Slower and funkier much further into the psychedelic added expert grounation-type like Black Stalin, Explainer, than the Sparrow and Penguin possibilities of dub is a re-release syncopations on a repeater drum. Crazy, Scrunter and Penguin. The albums, this one features a vocal by ROIR tapes of a 1979 McGregor and the Studio One latest albums by these and version of a great song with a Fari dub album called Cry Tuff Band can be heard on the Ras mostly feature mixture of crooked beat called "Make Them Dub Encounter-Chapter I. This Records single of Guantanamera, calypsos, soca and an occasional Alright" as well as a vocorder features dub work by the British and a new album by them is disco number. Production quality vocal on the hot cut "Better On-U Label wizard, Adrian expected any day now. is better than ever: lively clean Days." Fading out now, but a big Sherwood, who is almost single­ Presently available at all the recordings that sound great on hit since late 1983, is a 12" single handedly taking into standard outlets is the latest issue both good and mediocre sound by Bajan , Gabby, techno-synthesizer territory that of the and African Beat systems. And albums are only one called "Boots." Produced by it's never before gone. Ideally, magazine, a special Bob Marley way to go now, because there are Eddie Grant, this one's more on those interested should pick up tribute issue, and really excellent. as many 12" 45's available as there the disco side than the other both the five-year-old Cry Tuff Included are never-before­ are albums. Two stores in New records mentioned here, with an tape and another ROIR release published interviews with Marley, Orleans carry music . from annoying synthesizer slapping out called Dub Syndicate-One Way as well as interviews with people Trinidad/Tobago. Metronome the downbeat, but the melody and System which features Adrian associated w/the Waiters such as Records has a small but interesting lyrics make this one a winner. The Sherwood's work ina 1983 style. Neville Garrett (who designed all supply which is constantly song was banned in Gabby's Both of these ROIR releases are the album covers). expanding. On the Westbank (and homeland, , because of available on pre-recorded cassette The Caribbean Show recom­ well worth the hassle of dealing its critical view of the govern­ tapes only. Ask for them at your mendations for this month are 12" with bridge traffic) is the People's ment's use of tax money for the local record store or write directly 45's ina dance hall style. Top Choice Record Store, which carries military, but with the to ROIR at Reachout International ranking is "Trickster Loving" by all the latest records, both albums crisis and invasion by American Records, 611 Broadway, Suite 2t4, Freddie McKay on the Volcano and 12" 45's. Listed below are a forces into that country, the song N.Y.C., N.Y. 10012. Another label, a slow groove, few suggestions which are became an instant hit in Trinidad. recent dub release falls short of the toasted over on the flip side by available in town. The Caribbean dances are still mark, especially next to the afore­ Little John, and called "Smoking Still going strong are the latest going strong on the Westbank. mentioned albums. Dub Poets Cocaine." Some trickster labeling offerings by both Kitch and Most have been "bring your own Dub features riddims by the High makes this one hard to find; the Sparrow, entitled Roots of Soca bottle" affairs with yucca con Times Players (the band that label reads the A-side as "Smoking and Sparrow-King of the World ciccarones for sale. The very latest appeared here with Mutabaruka) Cocaine" by Little John and the B­ respectively. As mentioned in the reggae, soca/calypso and can dubbed out by . The side says "Version." But scratched last Caribbean article, Sparrow's · be heard, played by the album offers a nice selection of into the vinyl version-side is the album contains the road march for Westbank's number one DJ's. various tempos, and I like the title "Trickster Loving." Up the Carnival '84, "Don't Back Back," Watch for flyers and listen to acoustic piano in dub, but the tempo to disco style for a Frankie and Kitch's features "Gee Mi the WWOZ's Caribbean and Reggae High Times Players sound soft to Paul 12" called "Worries in the Ting," one of the hot runners-up. shows for details on these dances. me compared to the Radics and Sly Dance. ' ' This one is also on the More on the party hearty side is Moving over to the music of & Robbie's Taxi gang. Volcano label and features Roots Rush Hour, the latest release by Jamaica, several new dub releases And speaking of great bands, it Radics. And check out the same Arrow (although this is just a re­ are available that offer some cool was no surprise last month when song in a much slower groove on mix of his 1983 release called summer sounds. For instance, take Freddie McGregor came on stage the album Sugar Minott-Frankie Heat). Almost every song on this 10 slow tracks by the two and won over the audience with his Paul Showdown Vol. 2. Little album is soca at its best, especially hottest rhythm sections in smooth voice and beautiful songs, John comes through with another "Rub Up," with the remainder Jamaica, Sly & Robbie and the but his band, the Studio One good rap over a Roots Radics being disco. Roots Radics, give them to one Band, was fantastic beyond all riddim on "To All the Possie." The Calypso Crown for 1984 dubmaster, Scientist, and one expectations. This band locked And ina disco style is June (J.C.) was awarded to Penguin for apprentice, Peter Chemist, and the into grooves that were as tight as Lodge's latest, "Make It Up to "Softman" and it can be found on result is /999 Dub. Although this any by the Radics, and even went You." • 14 Wavelength/July 1984 Critic's Choice lain Blair Examines Joe Jackson's Soul Since he first released Look Sharp in '78, Jackson has proved to be one of the more quirky, unpredictable singer/songwrit­ ers to hit the scene. Starting out as one of the angry young men of the post-punk new wave movement, Jackson sported a raw, stripped-down sound and ap­ proach that, combined with strong hooks and melodies, gave him such hits HoHest Videos as "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" But like a musical butterfly, Jackson New videos added to "Night seemed to tire of this approach, only to Tracks": settle instead on a big-band sound with "The Reflex" Duran Duran (Capitol) his Jumpin' Jive period. This too got jet­ tisoned in favor of a rock/jazz blend that "Sister Christian" Night Ranger (MCA) "Legs" ZZ Top (Warners) "It's a Miracle" Culture Club (Virgin/ Epic) "Doctor! Doctor!" Thompson Twins (Arista) "Eyes Without a ~ace" Billy Idol (Chrysalis) "Borderline" Mildonna (Warners) "Let's Hear it for the Boy" Deniece Wil­ liams (Columbia) "The Heart of Rock and Roll" Huey Lewis & The News (Chrysalis) "Obscene Phone Caller" Joe Jackson approaches one many () keyboards. Photo: George DuBose On Tour " Music Time" Styx (A&M) has been the focus of his last two albums, The 1984 model of the Jefferson Starship, (1-r) Craig Chaquico, Paul Kantner, Don "Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper Night and Day and Body and Soul. Baldwin, Mickey Thomas, Grace Slick, David Freiberg and Pete Sears, are support­ (Portrait) But as this concert showed, what ing their new Nuclear Fumiture LP and "No Way Out" single - rising on the charts. "Who's That Girl" (RCA) Jackson has gained in sophistication has Thomas and Chaquico grab a larger share of the spotlight this time around, as is been somewhat at the price of inspira­ evidenced on their national tour, which began in June 15 and will continue "Dancing in the Sheets" tion. Beginning with several slow and through major US cities during the rest of the summer. (Columbia) rather self-indulgent numbers from the " You Might Think" The Cars (Elektra/ new album, it wasn't until he ploughed Asylum) into the exuberant old "Sunday Papers" Personal Favorites In the Studio "" (Columbia) song that the show really caught fire. Never the strongest of singers or perfor­ Tony CMey, whose current hit, "Fine, is at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles producing a cut for the Heavy Rotation on MTV: mers, Jackson is at his best when tackling Fine Day," has made a dent in the charts, such caustic lyrics. By contrast, much of picks his five favorite albums. 1. Bom to new Jacksons LP and a record for older " Don't Let Go" Wang Chung (Geffen) sister Rebbie Jackson. Meanwhile, his newer material emphasizes an in­ Add, The Muppets; 2. Tlu! Pretender, " Dance Hall Days" Wang Chung strumental, introspective approach that Jackson Browne; 3. Am1ie Get Your Gun, Jackson's cohort is at the (Geffen) same studio working on fi.lm scores for grows slightly monotonous after a Soundtrack; 4. La Bolll!llle, Pavorotti; "You Might Think" Cars (Elektra) while. ln fact, the high point of the entire 5. Royal Scam, Steely Dan. Shootout and The Slugger's Wife . Westlake also hosted , who was "Original Sin" INXS (Atco) evening was a daring arrangement of "Is completing work for a television special "99 Luftballoons" Nena (Epic) She Really Going Out With Him?" that featured piccolo, accordion, and titled Stevie Wonder Comes Home. Stephen "Give" Missing Persons (Capitol) Stills was at the studio too, working on tambourine. A major disappointment Top of "Show Me" Pretenders (Warner Bros.) a record that is being produced and en­ from an artist who continues to promise the Charts gineered by Ron and Howard Albert, as "Owner of il Lonely Heart" Yes (Atco) more than he delivers. - lain Blair No. Albums Singles was , who recorded a self-produced project ... At Muscle Sho­ 1 Heartbeat Crty, " Let's Hear it als Sound Studios in , Julian 1111 cars for the Boy" (Eieklra) Dtnlece Wllll1ms Lennon was cutting tracks. Phil Ramone (Columbia) is producing the project and Pete Greene engineering ... Michael SembeUo and 2 Oancmg 1n the "Time After Time" Oa~ CVftdllauper Dick Rudolph spent some time at EFX Ina s,rinpteen (Portrait) Systems in Los Angeles producing a re­ (Columbia) cord for New Edition. Thom Wilson en­ 3 "Oh Sherrie" gineered, assisted by Richard Brenner. 11M Piny StnePtny Virgin Records artist Brandy Wells is at (Columbia) (Columbia) the studio recording with producer Bill 4 Grxe tmder " Sister Christian" Neal. Jim Gallagher is engineering, with Pressure N~Ranger assistance from Leslie Baerwitz ... Jim ( CA) Capaldi (former drummer ..(Mercury) with Traffic) wrapped up four tunes for his forthcom­ 5 Body and Soul "The Reflex" ing Atlantic/WEA release at the Au­ ,. Jlcbon Duran Duran (A&M) (Chrysalis) tomat! in San Francisco. Joining Jim in the studio were Carlos Santana and Tom 6 She's So Unusual " Heart of Rock Coster on guitars, along with percus­ ~llluper and Roll" ( rail) Huey Lewis & sionist Orestes Vilato. Capaldi and Till News Stewart Levine are producing the re­ (Chrysalis) cord. Richie Corsello is engineering and 7 Streets of F1re " Breakdance" Ray Pyle assisting .. . The Everly .....ell Brothers are at an undisclosed studio in (MCA) (Geffen) London, recording an album with Dave I 1984 " Hello" Edmunds as producer. The disc is slated Y•lllltn I.Jontl Rlcllle for an August release on Polygram ... (Warner Bros.) (Motown) The Fixx were at the Workshoppe in 9 Nuclear Fumrture "I'll Wait" Douglaston, New York recently working Jllllnon Starsllip V111HIIen (RCA) (warner Bros.) on tracks with producer Rupert Hine and engineer Rob Bengston. The Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined 10 mg. "tar". 11 Vt1IISI)er to a " Sell Control" studio also played host to projects by O.B mg. nicotine Scteam L..ra Bntnnlpn That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. lclcll WOib (Atlantic) Mink DeVille guitarist Rick Borgia and av. per cigarette (Ansta) Nils Lofgren. Lofgren completed four by FTC method. Calrflsyotlhe Gavin Report, a national radio music tunes for the Broadway play, Willie, with hdtfiJUmll. lyricist NeUe Adams. NEW ORLEANS COES TO HOLLYWOOD

BY BILL BENTLEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY GARY THE BAND: Top row (I to r>: Lewis Kahl, LEONARD , Ike Williams, John Coines, Bill Bentley, Johnny Boudreaux. Bottom row (I to r): Hutch Hutchinson, , Lee Dorsey, Jerry Jumonville, Henry Butler, Harold Battiste (eating gumbo cooked by Hudson Marquez>.

t's funny what love can make you do. Four pulled off. pass at it with a couple of booking agents, the months ago, if someone had said that Lee My first problem took care of itself. Finding person who turned into my knight in shining I Dorsey, Johnny Adams, Art and Aaron the right wasn't really a question of phone calls entered into the picture. Jay Neville, Ernie K-Doe, Frankie Ford, Clarence looking around. For all intents, the only spot in Gemsbacher, of New Orleans Booking Agency, "Frogman" Henry and Benny Spellman would Los Angeles could be Club Lingerie. With a cap­ took on this mission impossible, and after a all play L.A., I probably would have pinched acity of around 500, the room has had a long month of juggling, I received a set of seven myself and expected to wake up shortly. And if history of presenting R&B, and in a previous contracts two days before Christmas. Consider­ they'd gone on and added that I'd be in the incarnation, it was even called Souled Out. ing that the series was set to start in three weeks, middle of this divine madness, I'd have chalked Physically, the Lingerie is a dream, with a large I felt like Santa Claus had finally boogie-woog­ it up to too many viewings of Fantasy Island. dance floor, and full bar along with an upstairs ied into town, but with the number of details still But it happened, and except for the expected room for less public mingling. Once I'd con­ up in the air, I couldn't tell if he'd left a present level of insanity surrounding this sort of en­ vinced owner Kurt Fisher there might be money or a letter-bomb. Lucky for me, George Orwell deavor, almost without a hitch. to be made, my next hurdle proved to be the one turned out to be dead-wrong, and with the aid of My initial idea to import New Orleans' finest which nearly knocked the horse off the track. some knocked-out New Orleans musicians singers to Los Angeles came one balmy Novem­ As anyone knows who's ever attempted to living in L.A., the beginning of 1984 would be a ber day when I realized that living among us in takeN ew Orleans music out of town, things tend ball, indeed. the state of sunny California were hundreds of to get real fuzzy real quick. Chalk it up to an Those familiar with the history of the city's penguins. That's right, those loveable tuxedo unwillingness to test new waters, or simply say musicians know there's always been a well­ birds that normally reside in the icy environs of that many singers have everything they need in traveled trail between N.O. and L.A. And the Antarctica had been beautifully transplanted to the Crescent City, but it's not always as easy as person at the center of establishing this byway San Diego. Being a longtime fan of penguins, I it looks to get the likes of Ernie K-Doe to hit the proved to be a godsend. Earl Palmer, besides couldn't believe anything so removed from their road. Others, like Frankie Ford and "Frogman" being one of the finest drummers to ever pick up natural home would thrive among the freeways Henry, are used to touring, and continue at it a pair of sticks, is also a man of no-nonsense and palm trees. Taking a flying leap of logic, I with a passion. Again, with the Nevilles, no convictions backed by a strong business sense. figured that if those proud animals could make problem. With Lee Dorsey, he's happy enough He's presently the secretary-treasurer of the the trek to the Golden State, why not some of the banging on his beloved "bodies and fenders," L.A. American Federation of Musicians, and prime purveyors of the Crescent City's rhythm while Johnny Adams is more than willing to go once while interviewing him for a story, I ran and blues world. Just because it had been anywhere at the drop of a dime, but unfortun­ down my pipedream for the series, I'd inquired, twenty years since most of these singers had ately doesn't get that many calls. Then there's naturally, about his services. Unfortunately, ventured so far west didn't matter; wasn't it only Benny Spellman, living in Kansas City and often there's a union by-law which says no office-hold­ a matter of hopping on an airplane and hitting referred to as a "spirit" more than anything else. ing member can accept a paying job, which kept the stage? Fat chance. I'm sure wars have been So the wall I found myself running into before Palmer off the drums, but not from giving well­ waged with less logistical migranes. But being a things even had a shot at blowing up was, first, respected advice. When I told him I wanted to person of obvious obsession, I also knew that by finding all these people and, next, trying to talk round up a band of New Orleans musicians, he refusing to take "no" for an answer, it could be them into coming to California. After making a immediately said to find Harold Battiste. Of all 16 Wavelength/July 1984 the players in Los Angeles, Battiste's back­ ground assured he was capable of being the bandleader. Besides serving as director of the ~ational Association of New Orleans Musi­ cians, Battiste has an uncanny sense of musical organization. When I called him about the job, it was like he'd been sitting by the phone wonder­ ing when someone would put this kind of show together. Once I had Gernsbacher, Battiste and Club Lingerie on board, the "Friday Night in New Orleans" series actually seemed like a living reality. Like all business, the fiscal worries started to hang around like threatening clouds after the dub's adding machines started cranking. Pray­ ing for a little breathing room in the money department, I approached Popeye's Fried Chicken about a co-sponsorship hook-up which would put the "Popeye's Presents" tag on all advertisements and news stories. Their ad agency director, Pat Patterson, jumped at the chance, but after several proposals were drafted and hands held, word came down from L.A. franchise-owners that "we already have all the business we need, and don't need to spend any more money on advertising." Of course, my balloon felt a bit popped when this word was in, but by now I figured the worst that would happen would be that the club would go bust and I'd have to leave town in the middle of the sang night, hopefully still able to crawl. Compared to Barbara Ceorge·s living in Los Angeles through the spring with "I Know," only Black Flag and Megadeath to listen to live, produced 20 years there was no choice but to breathe deep and go ago by Harold Battiste for the for it. By this time, I'd come to understand the AFOiabel. Lingerie's Kurt Fisher's pet phrase- " Ain't that a bitch." You bet. My one saving thought through this period was that Popeye's West Coast version of fried chicken tasted some­ where between Church's and cement. So there. Now it was right after New Year's, I had a sure show with Lee Dorsey on ,January 20 and a band which included singer Tami Lynn, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, saxophonist .Jerry .Jumonville, trumpeter Ike Williams, drummers John Goines and .Johnny Boudreaux, pianist Henry Butler, keyhoardist Ivan Neville, bassist Hutch Hutch­ inson and leader Harold Battiste. We got lucky, and both big daily newspapers, the Los Angeles Times and the Herald Examiner ran long stories the weekend before the first show, and a general buzz of imminent excitement began to run through the city. And that Thursday, when a Bennie Spellman arrived from a fortune· sun-glassed and smiling Lee Dorsey strolled telling parlor in Kansas City. into the departure terminal at Delta Airlines, I knew for sure that, somehow, the whole thing would be a flying success. Dorsey's show was a sell-out, with lines around the corner. Ernie K·Doe burned Even when Irma Thomas couldn't be per­ sunset suaded to headline the second Friday, Johnny Boulevard. Adams came to the rescue and put on a perform­ ance that many who saw the whole series declare was the highlight. Bonnie Raitt deejayed that night, and when she got onstage to do Barbara George's "T Know," a song which Harold Bat­ tiste had produced over twenty years ago for his AFO label, it was a heartstopping instance of how timeless rhythm & blues has always been. Lee Dorsey, direct from As for Adams. it was his first uisit, much less his body shop, show, in California, and he sang with the soul had a sold·out and power of an all-timer. (It's no wonder the ShOW. .Jaz z Fest concert at the Saenger included Adams in the company of AI Green and Ray Charles.) I was in heaven, because only a year ago I'd heen sitting in Dorothy's Medallion Lounge listening to Adams, and when I'd ap­ proached the singer about playing L.A., he kindly gave me his number and said "anytime." I've still got the well-worn piece of paper, and Wavelength/July 1984 17 whenever things got tough the past few months his sister aJTived at my door at fi a.m. for a would be d£>1ighted to rome out. "Look for a I'd pull it out like a touchstone and rub it for breezy ride to the airport. It wasn't until we man in a brown suit built like a pro fullback," luck. It worked every time. were sitting over Michelob's at 9 a.m. in the was how Nabor described the singer when T he third show, with Aaron and Art Dallas-FOJi Worth airport waiting for a con­ mentioned Twouldn 't know who to look for at the Neville, turned into a blockbuster. necting flight that Tsaw the singer's luggage was airport. Of course, there was no problem T Naturally, the Neville name is like gold labeled "Sir Bentley." All the headaches of the spotting someone fitting that description, and in L.A., and when word went out that the two past week disappeared in a laugh. and for the by the time we were half-way into L.A. proper. were coming to town, the Lingerie's phones lit next four hours T was happy to be the valet for Spellman had proven to be the wild card which up. By the night of the show, the doors were shut one of New Orleans' classiest characters. When made the hand complete. A consummate by 11 o'clock, and after the last note had the gig came off like a charm, K-Doe pulled me showman, he drove the costumed crowd crazy at finished, the Nevilles had set a house-record for aside and told me there was never any doubt the Ball, and came to be the capping hero to the the room and the bar. Fiyo on the bayou had about any of it. "You didn't listen to me," he seven Fridav's. never burned so bright on Sunset Boulevard, whispered, "when T first told you that under­ The one show T'd been fltrugglingwith was the and riding back on the plane with the brothers to standing isn't important, but paying attention is Irma Thoma!> date, and for fleveral reaflon!l it New Orleans, Art was all smiles when he said it what counts." Burn, K-Doe, burn, even if T at !>till remained out of hand. Realizing that any was like the "take no prisoners" tour. Myself, T times T thought about changing his name to K­ New Orlean!> series without a female flinger wafl was feeling a little shakey. The next show, with O'as. slighting both the city and the audience. T went the inimitable Ernie K-Doe, had taken a threat­ For the fifth and sixth shows, Tfelt as if the old ahead and confirmed a fi nal Friday featuring the ening twist when K-Doe's manager, who shall pros had arrived. Both Frankie Ford and "Frog­ fine and often underrated Bettv Ann Lafltie. remain nameless for fear of losing my one man" Henry roll ed into town like the troupers But when the club decided that th.e evening!> had remaining good phone ear, had wanted to meet they are, were patient enough to help plug the really run their courfle and it might be better to on the corner of Hollywood and Vine to turn shows with live interviews on the mighty KRLA­ hold off on Lafltie, I !lensed a new fleriefl wafl over advance money. Failing that, he then AM station, and put on performances that had lurking in there flomewhere. It wasn't long informed me that K-Doe no longer could be the whole club rocking. But the last show. before the "Soul Queen!> of New Orleans" idea contacted by phone. Sensing problems, I planned as a "Forget-It-All Mardi Gras" Ball, gripped my brainwaves, and if all goes well, figured why not make a beeline for New Orleans, was shaping up as a disaster. Besides Harold sometime this summer look for Club Lingerie to talk to Mr. Naugahyde in person, and fly back Battiste & His New Orleans Natives, we had no play host to some of the women fl ingers who with "Mother-in-Law" that Thursday. Unable headliner. No singer was willing to leave make the city's stages jump with joy. Maybe to find K-Doe at the address on the so-called Louisiana for that night, and several attempts at even Ms. Thomas might consent to a date, and if contract (it turned out to be his aunt's house on signing on a Dixieland and marching band fell possible, soulstresses like Lastie, .Jean Knight. S. Derbigny), I got in touch with booking agent through at the last minute. Sitting around with the Dixie-Kups. and (why not?) . Cleon Floyd and put him on the case. The next an ad that promised a "big surprise," I suddenly If I've learned anything through this whole day, Trece ived an early evening call and the first remembered an old phone number I had for affair, it's that New Orleans carries its pride with thing T heard was "God blesses you for calling Benny Spellman'!> so-called manager in Kansas it wherever it goes. Ernie K-Doe." After several hallelujahs, K-Doe City. After a fast prayer and a cold sweat, I Borrowing the immortal words from the and T met at a club behind Prout's, made some called the number, got hold of one Roger Nabor Black Pope, there's still plenty of time to "wear quick travel plans, and the next morning he and who assured me Spellman was in fine form and it out." •

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18 Wavelength/July 1984 Ed Volker: ·How 1Write The songs·

BY TAD ,JONES with Yesterday's Children, The Glory Roads, and several productions for .Joe Banas hack, but earing Ed Volker talk ahout his song­ none oft he tracks were released. ''These never writing is like listening to a priest give a and the songwriter. saw the light of day." Volker said reflectively. Hlecture on Catholicism. Over his morn- There were only songs back "They were just casualties of the business, I ing coffee he spoke with confidence about his then. I wasn't really trying to be a songwriter; I guess. But I was learning." art. "This is what I do best! It's fulfilling to me. was just trying to get at .

20 Wavelength/ July 1984 ReBirth: Born· Again Teenage Horns

BY JERRY B ROCK

he ReBirth Jazz Band of New Orleans is a the drummer of the Antioch Spiritual Church. Marching Band. part of the current "rebirth" or repopular­ Barbara Frazier, their mother, s ings, plays The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Pinstripes, Tization of traditional style marching brass piano and organ at her Baptist church. She is Tuba Fats, and others have also been a strong bands in New Orleans. one of the chief supporters of the band a nd has influence on the ReBirth. The ReBirth, along with other young brass influenced their performance on some of the ReBirth trombonist Keith Anderson some­ bands including the Roots of Jazz Brass Band, hymns and funeral dirges the ReBirth play­ times sits in for tuba player Kirk Joseph of the the Charles Barbarin Memorial Brass Band especially on A Closer Walk With Thee, which Dozen. He has helped teach the ReBirth some of (once called the Fairview Methodist Church she taught them. the Dozen's songs and arrangements. This has BB), Tuba Fats and the Chosen Few, the Pin­ "I don't mind them using the house as a head­ led to the band's own interpretations of modern stripes Brass Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, quarters," she said, "I'm glad that they want to jazz classics like 's Blue Monk the West End Jazz Band, Leroy Jones and the play music and be in a brass band. If they work and Golson's Killer Joe. Hurricane Brass Band, the Young Men Jazz hard and keep at it they can develop something One of the ReBirth's original songs, Pie, is a Band, and not to exclude older brass bands with real good for themselves because there is a need sort of testimony to the band's determination to young members such as Doc Paulin's Brass for brass bands in New Orleans. People will stick together. The chorus repeated throughout Band, Floyd Anckle and the Majestic Brass always want to hear New Orleans music when goes, Band, Herman Sherman and the Young Tuxedo they come to this city or all over the world." "Hey there/ don't go no where/ the Brass Band, Harold Dejan and the Olympia On May 4, 1983, the ReBirth Jazz Band ReBirth's on its way/ Hey there don't go no Brass Band, the Onward Brass Band, the played its first professional performance for a where/ the ReBirth is here to stay/ Hey there Imperial Brass Band, and the Original Sixth convention at the Sheraton Hotel. For over a don't go no where/ the ReBirth is here to stay.'' Ward Dirty Dozen Kazoo Band represent a new year they have developed their own style of The ReBirth Is Here To Stay is also the title of generation of New Orleans jazz musicians. brass band music at street parades, jazz an album that is to be released this summer by The ReBirth is comprised of seven down funerals, Social Aide and Pleasure Club Arhoolie Records. Arhoolie owner Chris home talented musicians: Kermit Ruffins, parades, parties, public events, hotels, small Strachwitz recorded the ReBirth Jazz Band at trumpet; Gardner Ray Green, trumpet; Keith neighborhood bars, and at various spots outside the Grease Lounge on May 3 and 7 of this year Anderson, ; Reginald Stewart, in the French Quarter. while in New Orleans attending the New Orleans trombone; Kenneth Austin, snare drum; Keith The ReBirth's sound is distinctly New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Frazier, bass drum with cymbal; and Philip and reflects many of the musical styles Strachwitz commented, "This is the first Frazier, tuba. commonly found in the Black neighborhoods of brass band I have ever recorded and I think The first time you see the band it is evident this city like jazz, R&B, gospel, blues, and some of the tapes turned out real good. It is that these guys are young. The members range Mardi Gras Indian. really exciting music. That tuba kicks and the in age from fifteen to nineteen years old. The tempo is well paced and never rushed. In guys seem real concerned that they play in tune. Somtimes a friend named Joe or Vincent will a very natural setting they perform a variety of The room at the Grease Lounge was alive with sit in with the band on tambourine. Though they New Orleans songs like the Saints, Little Liza the people and the sounds.'' are not official members, they like to help out Jane, Sweet Georgia Brown, Go To The Mardi The record should be out sometime in late and add a good percussive sound. Gras, Down By The Riverside, Closer Walk July or early August. Keith Frazier said, "We ReBirth Headquarters (as they call it) is With Thee, Muskrat Ramble, and others. are all very happy that the ReBirth got a chance located on North Villere, half a block from The two give the band a round and to make a record. Hopefully this way more Armstrong Park and five blocks to the French warm sound with lots of tailgate. The two people will hear the ReBirth and they will hire us Quarter. It is in a neighborhood known as trumpets can play high over the rest of the band, to perform. We would like to play at more Treme in the Sixth Ward where there is a strong in counterpoint, or lay back and add rhythm. music clubs, festivals, and at the World's Fair." tradition of Black culture. There is a lot of ensemble work and call and "We like to play in the streets for parades, At the headquarters the band holds meetings response between the trumpets and trombone. funerals, parties, and sometimes in Jackson and practices. On one wall plastic music notes The drums lie down a hard second line of New Square for money," Kermit Ruffins added. seem to drift towards the ceiling. In a corner Orleans and street rhythms, while the tuba One opportunity locally to hear the band will stands a mountain of stereo equipment and on plays walking bass lines more like a string bass. be Saturday August 18 at 5:30 pm over public top rests a large mirror that has been designed New Orleans is a horn town. One of the radio station WWOZ 90.7 FM. The program into the official ReBirth Headquarters sign. In strong influences in the development of the will feature a majority of the music recorded for another corner there is an altar constructed by ReBirth's sound is that at one time or another the album at the Grease Lounge and also an Philip's and Keith's step-father, Larry, who is they all played in the J .C. Clark High School interview with the band. 0 Wavelength/July 1984 21 Robert Jr. Lockwood BY BUNNY MA'ITHEWS and HAMMOND SCOTI

obert Jr. Lockwood was born on a farm including 's "My Babe," "Flying four years and it got busted. I was taping it up. near Marvell, , on March 27, Saucer," "Out Go The Lights" and "Teenage A man stole it because everybody wanted to sit R1915. The only blues guitarist to have Beat"; Rice Miller's "Nine Below Zero," and listen to me play and didn't want to dance. actually received lessons from the immortal "Don't Start Me To Talking," "Eyesight To It was just a guitar and you had to be very quiet Robert Johnson (who was his mother's live-in The Blind" and "Fattening Frogs For Snakes"; to hear it. You had to sit up close. So this dude boyfriend), Lockwood is spending the summer Willie Mabon's "I Don't Know" and Eddie stole my guitar and I bought my first good in New Orleans on a "working vacation" and Boyd's "Five Long Years." guitar. I bought a Stella. Man, I loved that making frequent appearances at the Louisiana Between performances one recent evening at guitar. I didn't let no dirt stay on that guitar for World Exposition. the World's Fair, Lockwood sat down in a about two years! Music critic devotes almost an rocking chair and talked about his long blues Do you have any favorite guitar players? entire chapter of his Deep Blues book to career. No. Now, you know I like all the fellows ... I Lockwood, noting that "he tamed (Robert) When did you first play music? like Albert, B. B., Otis Rush-1 like 'em all. But Johnson's polyrhythmic ferocity, substituting a I had two cousins-! didn't really consider I wouldn't want to play like 'em. I think when refined, almost classical counterpoint and a them musicians but they could play a couple of you have somebody favorite, you would like to slower, more deliberate walking tempo. These tunes on the organ. I started playing that when I do that. I don't like to sound like nobody. My innovations later served as a model for countless was about 8 years old. When I was about l2Yz, favorite guitar player is dead and that was Delta and Chicago blues guitarists who would Robert Johnson came into my mother's life. I Robert Johnson. I guess what makes me feel like have had trouble (as more slavish Johnson didn't have no idea that I could possibly play that is that he taught me to play. imitators like did) integrating the like Robert Johnson played but sometimes I just Robert wasn't coming to my house-he was careening Johnson style into band accompani­ think I was meant to be a musician. When I staying at my house. He was popular period ments. Lockwood's lyrics carried on Johnson's heard him play, I must've been so enthused over then, he was recording records. When I knew simultaneous fascination with and distrust of the way he was sounding that I just had to play a Robert, I was around 13. I grew up without a women, but they evidenced little of Johnson's guitar. father so I was my own man at 13 years old. tortured, driven quality. For the most part, the It's hard to pick up a guitar and set it down And Robert wasn't much older, was he? songs Lockwood sang were disillusioned but without making a sound. He hadn't shown me Well, I don't think he was 10 years older-it assertive dispatches from the sexual battle­ anything. I was watching him play and I was was probably about 7. He told my mama a lot of field." picking up different things. I didn't even know lies, I heard him tell her lies-that he was 32, 33 During the early 1940s, Lockwood, how to play a chord. years old and all that shit. He could play ... accompanying harmonica player Rice Miller So did Robert Johnson teach you chords? There was a lot of poisoning going on in the (also known as "Sonny Boy" Williamson, not After a while, he seen I was going to study the Delta at that time . .. to be confused with blues star John Lee, another instrument anyway-that I was going to learn Yeah, they've been doing that for some time. adoptee of the name), could be regularly heard how to play-so he started showing me. I got poisoned, too. Robert got poisoned and on what is reputed to be the world's first blues My first guitar the two of us made. We didn't died. We got poisoned the same year (1938). I radio broadcast: "King Biscuit Time," orig­ have the right kind of glue to hold it (together). got poisoned by my old lady. inating from the studio of KFFA in Helena, Would you believe that Elmer's Glue was out at What kind ofpoison did she use? Arkansas. that time'? That was in 1928 or 1929. The man who cured me said it was Lysol. She Lockwood's greatest claim to fame, however, My first real guitar my auntie bought put some Lysol in some whiskey. is his guitar work on numerous blues hits, me-$3.98! I played that guitar about three or You had some rough girlfriends, huh? 22 Wavelength/July 1984 You ain't gonna never know what you got. After Robert Johnson died, you played around Helena ... I was playing at Oscar Crawford's Hole In The Wall. One night, Crawford gave me $5 not to play. $5 was a lot of money. A lot of people at that time was playing all night for $1.50. Now he gave me $5 because he wanted the jukebox to play. He didn't want somebody in the audience there, sitting in his place, staring at my feet, telling me, "Don't play." I took the $5 and I got up and went out. About five or six years from then, I had recorded records and I went back to Helena and played for Crawford. Another dude had a joint up the street about a block away that was operated by a Greek. The Greek had a black man running the place. The black man, we called him Squirrel. Now I had a record on the Was he a good student? box but Mr. Crawford don't take advantage of No. He learned how to play by having me that. And Squirrel said, "What about playing help him-1 put him on the right road. His for me?" Now at this time, you could get a no $92.'' One night, Crawford got ready to pay timing was very bad. He had a sponsor who whole band for $30, with 3 or 4 pieces. I told me. He said, "Li'l Joe, you know one time I wanted to record record with him, advertising Squirrel, "Well, man, you'll have to pay me gave you $5 not to play and here I am giving you Pepticon (a cure-all tonic). Ferguson (the $30-1 know you don't want to do that." $100 a night!" sponsor) wanted to buy me a bass and I told him I said by me having a record on that box, it Do you have any favorite solos you've I couldn't afford to stay with B.B. because he didn't give a damn what Crawford had down recorded? didn't know enough music. I said, "If you see there (at his club), he wouldn't have no people. I've never thought about that. I've been any potential with this man, you'd better put During this time, I was walking around with fortunate enough to work on hits. But I never him in a band. What you're trying to do to him $1 ,000 in my pocket. thought about them as being fascinating or any­ now is gonna only kill him. He won't ever know So the Greek told Squirrel he would give me thing like that. I just always tried to do the best right from wrong. He ain't gonna sell. Too $30. They put two tables together for me to sit job I could. many people are learning about music. They on and had my amplifier hanging up from the All the records I recorded on, if I had been know when you're playing wrong or playing next corner, down the wall, and I started playing playing by myself, they wouldn't have been that right. It just ain't gonna work. You've only got up there and you could not walk through it, it way. I've always had the ambition to try to play one . John Lee Hooker is the was so full. like whoever it may concern. Little Walter's only one who I know that really don't play The second night, during the intermission, I about the only somebody who I really played nothing and got a good name and still sells.'' went down to the Hole In The Wall. The Hole with. I done his arranging-the way I wanted it Ferguson asked me, he said, "What do you In The Wall was a place that if it was packed, to sound and nobody else. think I should do?" I said, "You've got to put they had 400 people in there. They didn't have You and Sonny Boy (Rice Miller) seem to him with at least an eight-piece band and give 35. A few people were gambling, shooting dice have been a good match .. . him a chance to learn before he records." B.B. through the horn. Sonny Boy was a very full harmonica player. didn't start off making no hits because he still The second week I was at the Greek's, I As far as I'm concerned, he was Number One. was playing wrong but he had the big band to looked up and Crawford come walking through He was always a happy-go-lucky person. He get some attention. So from that first eight the door. When I got off and walked out, his car done what he usually do all his life. He never pieces, he ain't never looked back. was parked there. Crawford said, "Hey, Li'l really shacked-up. He never stopped doing The reason I ain't no further advanced in Joe, c'mon and sit down." He said, "What's nothing. He had them girls. He was just happy­ music is I done quit playing so many times. I Squirrel paying you?" I said, "Why you want to go-lucky, going up and down the road. quit six times. When you don't have nothing on know that, Mr. Crawford?" He said, "Well, I'll Tell us about your most famous pupil, B.B. the charts, people can't be bothered. pay you more." I said, "No, that ain't what it's King ... Michael Jackson's a superstar. It don't about. You been knowing me longer than I had a show for Mother's Best Flour and I influence me. Michael Jackson's doing what Squirrel. You could've had me." He sat there was getting $800 a month for 15 minutes a day he's doing because he's got money. His stuff is for a while. on the air. The people in Helena thought I was being pushed. He's just getting across to the Squirrel had already told me that Crawford making a lot of money. At the time, Mother's people. was coming. He said, "Now I'll give you $50. If Best had 67 bands working. I was the only black It's kinda bad when artists don't really get you go down ,to Crawford's you should get act. I had that program for about a year, then I treated right. Sometimes I feel like if you got $100." I did it. $100 then is $1,000 now. left Helena and went to West Memphis, started talent, you deserve a chance. I just want to keep I went down there and Mr. Crawford said, messing around with B.B. King-that's when I playing until I leave here and I ain't gonna be "What is Squirrel giving you?" I said, started helping him. That was in 1946 or 1947. able to stop-just continue to make a decent "$90-ain't no point in me coming up here for living, that's all. I ROBERT JR. LOCKWOOD DISCOCRAPHY ALBUMS- WITH OTHERS- Little Walter Boss Blues Harmonica Chess - 2CH60014 - Contrasts Trix :1:107 Sonny Boy Williamson Bummer Road Little Walter Confessin' The Blues Chess ... 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Wavelength/July 1984 23 july listings from a bird's-eye-view on the bridge that passes over the bayou, Des Allemands looks like the prettiest, sleepiest little ftshtng village imaginable (something like Boedga Wednesday, 11 Bay in The Birds) but annually of course 11 Gospel Soul Children, 8 p.m., Theatre becomes the scene of frenzied Bacchtc for the Performing Arts. rites in celebration of this fierce, hard· headed (one fisherman we know carries a Tuesday, 17 gun in his boat and simply shoots their Crosby, Stills & N•ah, Saenger Perfor· heads off when they get on his lines), mrng Arts Center, 524-0876: this is a tent· bespiked and bewhiskered scavenger fish ative listing, as the concert-if it comes with the slightly Oriental features rumored off-will be either tonight or Wednesday. to like bacon on the end of a hook and Tickets from TicketMaster. sweeter tasting, and more widely eaten. than any other American fish. Wednesday, 18 The Producers, Steamer President, 10 Sunday, a p.m. Tickets from TtcketMaster. W•termelon Feat, to benefit the C.A.C. and the Krewe of Clones, 10 a.m. until 7 Sunday, 22 p.m., at The Exposed Flea, 345 St. Joseph. Rlch•rd Landry, in concert, Longue Vue Watermelon rolling and seed spitting con­ Gardens, 3 p.m. Information at 488·5488; tests, as well as the usual festival items. but free to Friends of Longue Vue. alas no watermelon jam out on the Father of the Waters. Information and booth ren­ Saturday, 28 tals from Mike Stark, 523-3533, before the 3rd. Gospel Extr•v•g•nz•, Municipal Auditonum, 5 to 9 p.m. Tickets "At the usual Friday, 20-Sunday 22 places," as the posters admonish. La. Oyster Featlv•l, Galliano, informa­ tion at 318·632-2224 or 632·5000. The Beauteous Bivalve Deservingly Dithyram­ bized, or something like that. Saturday, 28 St. Ch•rlea P•rlah Featlv•l, no loca­ tion given, can it be parish-wide from the fringes of Old Moisant to Airline Motors and Prench M•rket Concerts. 3o.m. beyond? Inform ation at 504-441· 7 455. French Market Concerts, 3 to 5 p.m. Sun.t: · ~~ Dave (The Monkey Speaks His Mind) Bar­ tholomew. Wed.4: The Young Reliance ·~~ Brass Band tackles the oeuvre of Johr. Philip Sousa. Fri.6: Connie Jones and the '-.... . Crescent City Jazz Band. Sat.?: Wes Mix Augle' a Del•go, West End Park. Sun.t , and the West End Jazz Band. Sun.8: Her­ Tues.3: Penny Lane. Wed.4 through Sun.8: ANN HORNBACK'S "Plane omelet'' is on exhibit at Cialerie man Sherman's Young Tuxedo Jazz Band. Silk 'n' Steel. Tues.1 0: The Cruisers Jules Laforgue, 2119 Decatur st. Fri.13: Ted Riley and the Royal Brass Band. Wed.11 , Thurs.12: Penny Lane. Fri.13 July 14: Cajun fiddler Pierre Descant, the through Sun.15: Aqua. Tues.17: Savant. hoisting of the tricolors, the roar of tumbrils Wed.18, Thurs.19: South. Fri.20 through through the Garden District, the cheers of Sun.22: TBA. Tues.24: Zephyr. Wed.25, the mob as each queen of Comus mounts Thurs.26: Tricks. Fri.27 through Sun.29: the guillotine-well, no need to get too car­ Ratnstreet. Thurs.31 : Yesterday. The co-c;o·s perform at the Amphitheatre at the world's ried away with all this. Sun.15: Danny Be•u Oeste, 7011 Read Blvd., 242-9710. Fair on July 19. KATHY VALENTINE and were Barker and His Jazz Hounds. Fn.20: Frankie Sunday through Thurs.: Larry Janca at 8. photographed at the Ciretna Holiday Inn in 1981, shortly Lynn. Sat.21: Milton Batiste's Olympia Fn. and Sat.: Larry Janca's Legionnatres stardom. Serenaders with tunes that are Parnassian Oust as long as you can't catch that disease before as well as Olympian. Sun.22: Andrew Hall's from getting too close), featuring AI Claude. Society Brass Band. Fn.27: Pud Brown. Blue Room, in the Fairmont Hotel, Sat.28: Scott Hill and the French Market 529· 7111. Through Tues.3: Lonnie Liston Jazz Band. Sun.29: Frank Federico. Smith. Wed.4 through Tues.1 0: the fiercest Lsf•yette N•tur•l History Museum, and warmest of note-benders, Betty Carter 637 Girard Pk. Dr., 3t8·261·8350. Travailler (also perhaps ti'Je most enterprising as well: C'est Trop Our: The Tools of Gajun Mus1c, how many stngers form, out of sheer chutz· an exhtbition of fiddles, , and pah and not from sheer sybaritic self· other Southwest·LoUistana-made mstru­ Indulgence, thetr own record company?)-a ments, along wtth mustc every thtrd Sun­ " national resource," as Vtncent Fumar (one day at 2 p.m. July 15: The Ardotn Family htmself) would say Wed.t1 through Band. Tues.17: Rodney Franklin. Wed.18 through WWNO, Jazz Alive, every Saturday ntght Tues.24· the Charlie Byrd Tno. Wed.25 from 10 until 12. Sat.?· Ellis Larkins, a through Tues.31 : Jimmy (the Cat) Smtth. At ptantst who many ttmes accompanied such thts rate, we ought to be able to see James fave· of ours as Mildred Batley and or The Dixte Hummtngbtrds at Mabel Mercer. Sat.14: Dtck Johnson's the Blue Room any day now. Reservations; Shift, with trumpeter Tom Harrell. dancing, as well. Sat.21: htghlights from the Great American Bronc o's, 1409 Roma tn, Gretna, Songwriters series with and 368·1000. Mondays and Wednesdays­ the hard·swinging abstract·expressionist Saturdays, Mississippi South. vocals of Jackie Cain and Roy Kral, the C•Jun Country, 327 Bourbon, 523·8630. cover of whose retssue set on MCA is one Friday through Sunday, the Gela Kaye Band of the high points of Fifties Graphics. at 8. Monday through Friday, Ray at 1:30. Sat.28: Highlights from San Francisco Jazz Just Us Band, from 1:30 on weekends and Allstars' New Year's Eve concert from 8 Monday through Thursday. Columna Hotel, 3811 St. Charles, 899·9308. Wednesdays: Andrew Hall's Society Jazz Band from 8 (horn charts by Nell Nolan). Dorothy's Med•lllon, 3232 Orleans. Snake-dancing, examples of adiposa dolo­ rosa in motion for Bol ero-eyed girl wat­ Monday, 2-Wednesday, 4 chers, and Fridays and Saturdays, Johnny Fr.. dom Featlv•l, Elton, La., Informa­ Adams and Walter Washington with the tion at 318-584·2992; but whose freedom? House Band. what freedom? the Four Freedoms? Phila· 1801 Club, 1801 Stumpf Blvd., 367·9670. delphia Freedom? (Now watch this turn out Wednesdays through Saturdays: Janet to be something terribly solemn and I've Lynn and Ya Ya. made an ass of myself again). P•da, 1100 S. Clearview Pkwy., 734-0590. Live music Mondays, but you can do the Saturday, 7-Sunday, 8 cotton-eyed-joe almost any time here. La. C•tfl•h P"tlv•l, Des Allemands, in· P•lrmont Court, in the Fairmont Hotel, formation at 504-758·7542 or 758-7423: 529·71t1. Tuesdays to Saturdays, Judy RIJIIIIIIV MATTfiEWS 24 Wavelength/July 1984 Duggan occup1es the p1ano bench from 9 M•ple Le•f B•r, 8301 Oak, 866·9359 to 1. Sundays and Mondays Pat M1tchell Tuesdays L• 'Queenie and the Skin Tw1ns, at the same hours. and aga1n dunng the Wednesdays Mason Ruffner and the Blues week from 5 to 7 Rockers. Thursdays: Bruce Da1grepont and F•t C•t•, 505 Gretna Blvd., Gretna, Bourre. Sundays: the Wabash Company 362·0598. Call tor listings. (sans cannonballs). Mondays: The R1verslde 544 Club, 544 Bourbon, 523·8611 . Ramblers. Fri.6 and 7: The Killer Bees 1n Wednesdays through Saturdays, Gary their lnvasion-01-The·Bee·Girls revue enti­ Brown and Feelings. CMS from 9 to 9 tled Honey In The Buncombe. Fn.13 An· Fridays through Sundays and from 9 to 3 son Funderburgh and the Fantabulous other evenings. Rockets. Sat.14 and Fri.20: The Radiators .-.te Fount.ln'a, In the Hilton, 523-4374. y creve comme mouches, as Tristan Cor­ Pete Fountain and his band, at 10 nightly; biere, the old dear, once put it. Sat.21 : one show only and reservations probably Beausoleil with chansons about le roi solei I a good idea. and Leroy Solei!, too. Fri.27: Exuma. Sat.28: O•zebo C• f• •nd B•r, 1018 Decatur, Good Wave. 522-0862. Alfresco; ragtime piano each Munster's D•nce H•ll •nd B•r, 627 afternoon and again as night is falling. Lyons, 899·91 09. Call for listings. Houllluln'•· 315 Bourbon, 523·7412. Live Old Oper• House, 601 Bourbon, music of a jazz nature outside on weekdays 522-3265. Call for times; featured entertain­ from 9 until 2, saving Fridays. ment includes Kathy Lucas and the Loose Hen'• Den, 4311 S.Ciaiborne, 821-1048. Band, E.L.S., the Aubry Twins, and This used to be the Beaconette but now has Chocolate Milk. the name of that ladies' shop on Caron­ P•rkvlew T•vern, 910 N. Carrollton, delet. Hmmm. Reggae music Saturdays. 482-2680. Fri.6: The Renegades. Fri.13: Ike'• Pl•ce, 1701 N. Broad, 944·9337. Mason Ruffner. Fri.20: nm Williams and her Sundays: the Wagon Train Band. Sleepytime Gals. Fri.27: Good Wave. Jlmmr'• • 8200 Willow, 866·9549. Tues.3: Pennr Post, 5110 Danneel. Sundays, The Numbers (prime? imaginary?) and The always open mike. Check the board as you Rogues (sorry but I always think of that old go in. TV show with David Niven and Charles Pete'• Pub, Hotel Inter-Continental, The COMEDIA DEL ARTE trOupe of clowns present the story Boyer and Robert Coote and Cathleen Nes· 525-5566. Mondays to Fridays, Edward of Pinocchio Wednesday through sunday at the world's bitt when I hear this group's name). Wed.4: Frank from 5 to 7 and trumpeter Leroy Fair's Italian Village. The Hands-is this what they mean by Jones from 7 to 10 (thank heavens it's not hands-on learning? Thurs.5: Popstart. Fri.6: Le Roi Jones!). a triple threat: Johnny J and the Hitmen, the Pontch•rtr•ln Hotel, Bayou Bar, 2031 Uptowners, J.D. and the Jammers, plus the StCharles Ave., 524-0581 . Bruce Versen alluring Jammerettes. Sat.7: Force of Habit. from 5 until 9, during the week, save Honky Woman: PAULA & THE PONTIAC$ cruise into Snug Tues.10 : New Music Showcase-with, in Thursdays and Fridays. Joel Simpson takes Harbor on July 23. the order to which Dame Chance assign· over post-cocktail and post-prandial ed them in front of me, the Hands, the keyboard duties and is joined by Rusty Press, Final Academy, The Crowd (courtesy Gilder on bass on Saturdays. of King Vidor), The Rogues. Wed.11 : More Preaerv•tlon H• ll, 726 St. Peter, New Music Showcase: The Vital Functions, 523·8939. Along with Galatoire's and K­ Multiple Places, The Numbers, Popstart, Paul's, one of the three places in town that Loose Change (''they do it tor quarters and consistently draws a long and deserved line give you change!!!" brags their bio but I outside; the only amenities are the musical don't believe a word of it). Thurs.t2: The ones. Sundays: Harold Dejan and the Olym· Rogues. Fri.13: Loose Change and Noisy pia Brass Band. Mondays and Thursdays: Neighbors, direct from , where I Kid Thomas Valentine. Tuesdays and remember from a lew sojourns a decade Fridays: Kid Sheik Colar. Wednesdays and or so ago-we were always the "no1sy Saturdays: The Humphrey Brothers. neighbors," sitting up playing Pasquale Rr •n'• 5 00 Club, 441 Bourbon, Amato and Bea Lillie 78's and things like 525·7269. Mon. through Wed., at 8:30 and Pol Plancon singing Schumann's Die Thursdays through Saturdays at 9, The Beiden Grenadieren on an ancient V1ctrola Celtic Folk. Sundays at 3: Gaelic Ceili with till dawn. Sat.14: Pop Combo with Lenny the Tynan Irish Stepdancers; the manage· Zemth premiering his new Spanish ment of this place are the ones that (right· language tunes like Mantequilla Mantilla. ly) took adorable Iris Kelso to task on the Thurs.17: Noisy Neighbors, tinkle, tinkle, Letters page of the Tee·Pee·Ess-Eye tinkle, makin' the wallpaper crinkle, as Betty because Iris, when talking about the French Hutton once so aptly put it. Wed.18: The Quarter cleanup and was-it-working, men­ White Animals, the Newsboys and the lioned that even Sandra Sexton's old berth Rogues. Fri.20: The Rogues. Sat.21 : The at the 500 Club looked better, and since Teddy Boys, a term not heard aloud in Sandra Sexton is about as Gaelic as carne English tor a good three decades, a asada and you won't lind any rouge pots rockabllly band from Texas, with Force of and cans of All Set and Elura cascades in Hab1t. Fri.27: The Rogues, Loose Change. the dressing rooms here anymore, just Landm•rk Hotel, 541 Bourbon, good clean lnsh entertainment of the sort 524·7615. Johnny Rusk's Tribute to Elvis made popular by Lady Gregory, Sean (and how could you resist a man with raves O'Casey, the Abbey Theatre, the Easter from the Enquirer in h1s portfolio? and Riots and the Black D1aries of S1r Roger Laurin and Nancy Munsch. At 9 and 11 Casement. Monday through Saturday. 711 Club, 711 Bourbon, 525·8379. Le Moulin Rouge, 501 Bourbon, Tuesdays through Sundays, Randy Hebert; 524·4299. Call tor this month's line-up of Thursdays through Mondays, AI Broussard. preposterous pazzazz; in The Stage D_oor, Upstairs, Fridays and Saturdays fr~ 2 unt1l Becky and Ricky and lest you be dece1ved dawn, Nora Wixted and John AuM. that this sounds like a coffeehouse folk duo, Club Sliver Doll•r, 1254 N. Claiborne, let me quickly disabuse you of that notion 822-5226. Call tor listings. because it's Becky Allen and Ricky Graham Slidell Hotel B•r. Slidell, 643·7020. and the closest either of them ever gets to Sun.1 : Trace. Tues.3: Crosstown Traffic. a cuppa mocha java is maybe Ella Mae Wed.4 through Sun .8, and Wed.11 through Morse The Cow Cow Boogie Girl singing Sun.15: Trace. Wed.18 through Sun.21 : Forty Cups Of Coffee; they're on the Nick Parker-a combination of Nick Carter graveyard shift (St. Louis I and II but not and Charlie Parker? Sun.22: Trace. Wed.25 Lafayette) at 12:30 a.m. on Fridays and through Sat.28: Sheiks. Sun .29: Trace. Saturdays. Snug H•rbor, 626 Frenchmen, 949·0696. The Lobbr Lounge, Intercontinental Sun .1: The Hot Strings with les soeurs Hotel, St. Charles Avenue. Monday through Pfister (currently working on a musical ver· Saturday, A.J. Loria from 4 until suppertime sion ot the lives of the Bronte Sisters, be· and I should set the table cause it's ing dreamed up for them by Patrick Shan· suppertime. non-who actually knew the Brontes, when The Loop, 6207 Franklin Avenue, they were teach1ng at West Jefferson!­ 282-0501 . Call for listings working titles: Wuthering Lows and The Luckr Pierre's. 735 Bourbon. Tuesd~ys Tenant of the Westwedo V.F. W. Hall. to Saturdays, Pat Mitchell from 10 unt1l 1 Mon.2· Earl King, the man with the LOUIS a.m. Professor Big Stuff (did he study VUitton trick bag or IS 1t the trick Louis Vuit­ under-ulp!-Jean Knight?) Tuesdays, ton bag? Fri.6: AI Belletto's Quartet. Sat.?: Fndays and Saturdays from 2 a .m. Lady BJ and Ellis Marsalis Sun.8: Estella

Wavelength/July 1984 25 Denson and Mike Pellera's Trio. Mon.9: by J.H. Lartigue. Through Nov.11 : Old New David & Roselyn. Fri.13: Ramsey Mclean's Orleans 1884-1935, photos and souvenirs Survivors in Friday The 13th-The Final, from the Cotton Centennial Exposition, etc. Final Chapter. Sat.14: The Delfio Marsalis Historic New Orleans Collection, Quintet. Sun.15: Consensus. Mon.16: 517-525 Tchoupitoulas St. Through Nov.18: Walter " Lycanthrope" Washington and The Waters of America: 19th Century Pain· TUESDAYS: LADIES NIGHT Solar System (is dis a system? as they used tings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Water­ 8:00-12:00 PM Two Free to ask) and Johnny Adams. Fri.20: Marsalis, falls, a mammoth exhibition of some of the WEDNESDAY: DRAFI' BEER NIGHT Masakowski and Margitza-sounds like the finest American art of the period ranging 25• A GLASS $2.00 PITCHERS original cast of an Oskar Straus operetta. from the vistas of Asher B. Durand and the THURSDAY: 50' OLD STYLE LONGNECKS Sat.21 : Adieu and the Sounds of Brazil. genre scenes of George Caleb Bingham 9 PM-12AM Sun.22 at 5 p.m.: How Blue Can You Get? through the realistic approach of Eakins FRIDAYS: FREE OYSTERS & 25• DRAFI' BEER with James Rivers, Walter Wolfman and the fantasias of Frederic Edwin Church, 5 PM-8 PM Washington, Lady BJ and a few buckets of and the ineffable (and well-represented Cerulean, Prussian and Midnight Blue here) Albert Bierstadt whose recollected· suitable for tossing about. Mon.23: Paula in-tranquility scenes SANDWICH SHOP BoalS, of Far West natural =:s::er and the Pontiacs (curious, since my little wonders were done by and large in his granddaughter drove a 1950 robin's-egg· studio in Grooklyn; the local paintings in this ALL NEW PATIO NOW OPEN blue Pontiac that she had christened Paula, show are both perfectly delightful and still, hope she isn't making her Marigny stage yes, even now, perfectly recognizable as 4801 MAGAZINE 899-9228 debut without warning me to get my name to locale. changed and put my house up for sale. Louisiana State Museum, on Jackson Fri.27: The Pfister Sisters in their Honey­ Square and elsewhere. Through Nov.18: A Why-July-To-Me? extravaganza. Sat.28: Century of Vision, a show of Louisiana Lady BJ and Ellis Marsalis stepping gingerly photographs taken between the two fairs, through the ice age of the heart. Sun.29: including works by Pops Whitesell, Frances with Amasa Mille• and oh, Johnston, Mugnier, et alia up to the present. Suzanna, dust off that old pianna, unhand Through November: The Sun King, an them little keys, troubles will go wing in' the historical extravaganza from Ia belle France moment we start singin' all our favorite saluting the man who revoked the Edict of melodies, let's get the gang around that us­ Nantes and inspired Saint Simon's Mem­ ed to hang around and when the neighbors oirs, including documents, paintings, ob­ hear me singin' tenor, they'll forget about jects, and decorative arts, furniture, ~Bon Ton West Cantor and Mr. Penner, etc. Mon.30: Ferd sculpture, etc. from le grand Siecle, and in· "Snooks" Eaglin. eluding two sumptuous Poussins (hung ~"Good time music for all occasions" Toulouse Lautrec. 514 Toulouse, poorly), a wonderful Philippe de Cham­ 529-1278. Tuesdays through Saturdays, paigne portrait of the Abbess of Port-Royal, when he is not bringing beams of sunshine some works by Bourdon and Vouet, a P.O. Box 8406 Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060 to shut-ins and convalescents coast to curious enormous pencil map on brown coast, the home of the Frankie (Oooh· paper of Paris at the time, a portrait of the (408) 425-5885 Whee, Oooh-Whee, Baby) Ford Show. Call weaselly-looking Comte de Pontchartrain, for information. Louis' cheque for his wife's gambling debts, ~ Tyler's, 5234 Magazine, 891·4989. a Jesuit map of the Mississippi with funny WEST COAST CONNECTION FOR Modern jazz, good raw oysters. Sundays: little bison drawn on the margins wherever LOUISIANA FOOD AND MUSIC-CLUBS, the Harry Connick Band. Mondays: Ellis they were spotted, and much more. At the FESTIVALS, PRIVATE PARTIES. Marsalis and Steve Masakowksi. Tuesdays: Old Mint: Life on the Mississippi, a samp­ Leslie Smith, Nick Dan1els, Mike Pellera and ling of the museum's work dealing with that Zig Modeliste. Wednesdays: The Red Rivers big bit of water to your left, and not drawn Band. Thursdays: Germa1ne Bazzle, Mike by Itinerant Jesuits, e1ther. Pellera, Jim Singleton, John Vidacovich. Marlo VIlla Gallery, 3908 Magaz1ne, Fridays and Saturdays: The James R1vers 895·8731 . Through July 31 : In Honor of Our Movement. Body, a show presented in conjunction w1th Weasey's, 1610 Belle Chasse, 361·7902. the 1984 Olympics. Fridays and Saturdays, from 3 to 7 a.m., the New Orleans Museum Of Art, C1ty LeBlanc Brothers. Park, 488·2631. Masterpieces of the American West: Selections from the Anschutz Collection, with the big shots all AT LAST ... present and accounted for-Remington and Catlin and Russell, etc. Outside: Urban .. . AN ESCAPE Garden, sculpture by Ed Walker. Aaron-Hastings Gallery, 3814 Maga­ Posselt·Baker Gallery, 631 Toulouse, zine, 891-4665. Through September: Group 524-7242. Call for information. soUNDS show of gallery artists, the lot of them. Tilden-Foley, 4119 Magazine, 897-5300. Academy Gallery, 5256 Magazine, Through July 28: handmade paper sculp· 899·8111 . Call for information. tural wall pieces by Adrienne Anderson. STYLES Arthur Roger, 3005 Magazine, 895·5287. Through Thurs.5: glass sculptures by Gene FASHION Koss. Sat.7 through Thurs.31 : paintings and sculpture by Wellington Reiter. a new music club Bienville Gallery, 1800 Hastings Place, 523-5889. Call the gallery for information. Paux Pas, 728 Poydras, 523-9653. The Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp, resident comedy troupe, doing things of a 523·1216. Through September 2: The Na­ topical-satirical sort, Thursdays at 8, THE CLUB. tional Women's Art Exhibition, honoring the Fridays and Saturdays at 10; covers contributions to American art made through variable. the years by the likes of classical sculptress Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter, Harriet Hosmer, superrealist Audrey Flack, 522·2081 . Split Ends, a musical comedy by Cll.L\.NC~:s satirical printmaker Peggy Bacon, ironic Buddy Sheffield, performed Tuesday faux-naif portraitist Alice Neel, renderer of through Saturday at 8; late night comedy 2301 Causeway B1vd. male flesh par excellance Sylvia Sleigh, workshop, Cheap Theatrix, performs twice abstractionist Lee Krassner, and hordes of nightly the same nights beginning at 10:30. (next to Gateway Hote1) others without whom American art would Theatre Marlgny, 616 Frenchmen, be a less interesting thing (these women 944·2653. July 19 through Aug.25: Garden may not be in the show, but just demon­ District, two Williams playlets, 834-3105 strate the variety of American women's ar­ Something Unspoken about the psycho­ tistic accomplishment). logical mastery of one spinster by another MONDAY IS Oalerle Slmonne Stern, 2727 Pry1ania, (Strindberg did this sort of thing much bet· 895-2452. From Tues.17: end-of-summer ter in The Stronger, bu1 never mind) and the VIDEO-MOVIE group show of paper works as befits the ineffable Suddenly, Last Summer which season of palmetto fans and Japanese deals with cannibalism, lobotomies, homo­ NITE lanterns and bug lights. sexuality, incest, repressed Poles, bad Red Beans & Rice A O.llery Por Pine Photography, 5432 poetry, every1hing in fact that makes life 50¢ Draft Magazine, 891 -1002. Through July 15: pho­ worth living. Performances Thursdays $l.OO I

26 Wavelength/July 1984 the altruistic little ragamuffin who-as less sunny film than Its namesake. Fn.20 THELONIOUS drawn by Harold Gray- always looked like through Thurs.26 And The Ship Sails On, she was wearing poker ch1p monocles. Fellim extravaganza about a sh1p full of Toulouse Theatre, 615 Toulouse. opera s1ngers go1ng to g1ve a c omrade's 522-7852. Wednesdays through Mondays ashes an honorable sea bunal that at 7:30, OneMo' Time, which threatens to becomes unaccountably part of those become New Orleans' answer to The Fan· nebulous ftn-du-stecle mterna!lonal tasticks, beginning at 7:30. hostilities that led eventually to The Great Tulane, in the Arena Theatre, informatiOn War; the use of color here IS supposedly at 865-5631 . Fri.22 through July 8: As You something for history. Sun.29 through Uke It, Shakespeare's comedy of bucolics, Tues.31 : North by Northwest, Hitchcock's usurpers and gender masquerade. At Dix­ elaborate 1959 self-parodiC summation of on Hall. as part of the Summer Lyric his earlier chase films, and Rebecca, an Theatre, 1776, which shows the Founding overly creamy woman's picture with IF THE NAME MEANS NOfHING TO YOU, Fathers .to be just big musical comedy :wonderful gliding camerawork and heavy --PERHAPS THESE WILL:-- teddy bears, nothing like the complex, often sets and strokes of high (and low) Victorian rather nutty in a clinical way, gang that bitchery in the performances of Judith emerges from The Federalist Papers. Infor­ ·Anderson, George Sanders. Gladys Cooper, THE CARLA BLEY BAND STEVE KHAN mation at 865-5269. Florence Bates, Leo G. Carroll and virtually the entire Hollywood English colony STEVE LACY ca.1940; Joan Fontaine IS the nameless herome. Laurence Olivier the jejune Max de GIL EVANS BOBBY McFERRIN Winter. DONALD FAGEN NRBQ Lo,.ola'a Film Buffs Institute, PETER FRAMPTON CHARLIE ROUSE 895-3196. Tues. 10: Night Is My Future, a 19461ngmar Bergman film about blindness JOHNNY GRIFFIN (literal and spiritual) with Ma1 Zetterling Thurs.12: The Gold of Naples, a 1957 Vit­ BARRY HARRIS torio DeSica sit-com w1th the early (and far more simpalica than now 1n her pompous JOE JACKSON WAS (NOT WAS) serenity) Soph1a Loren as every slum-boy and drayman's dream g1rl. Thurs.19: Sedot­ DR. JOHN RANDY WESTON ta e Abbandonatta. th1s extraord1nanly sour Antler's, 555 Jefferson. Lafayette, comedy of Sic11ian sexual mores (if one can 318-234-8877. ELVIN JONES GARY WINDO dignify them w1th such a term) was P1etro The Big Apple, H1ghway 1, Larose. Germi's 1964 follow-up to the more suc­ 693·8688. Seats 2000! cessful Divorzio all'ftaliana; this film, with Booker's, 1040 Texas Ave., Sh reveport. ulsn: the luscious Stefama Sandrell1 as the g1rl 318-425-2292. got in trouble and then dumped and thus Calcutta, Sh reve Square. Shreveport, TERRY ADAMS the onus and locus of the trouble. IS far 318·424·3368 I 3375. more pungent than 1ts predecessor. but less Circle In The Square, Shreve Square, of a crowd-pleaser. too Wed.25· We Were Shreveport. 318-222-2216. MARK BINGHAM Strangers, John Huston's 1950 film about ClancJ''S Landing and Brick Street Cuba IS rarely seen (and unseen by us). w1th Tavern, Shreve Square, Shreveport. ED BLACKWELL John Garfield and Jenn1fer Jones. Thurs.26: 318-227-9611 . Orphee, Cocteau's 1950 poetic rearrange­ Desperado Saloon, H1ghway 90, BRUCE FOWLER ment of the Orpheus legend 1s exqu1s1te and Raceland. 1-537-3647 overrated. absurd and breathtaking, often Emporium, 2183 H1ghland Road, Baton SHARON FREEMAN all at once W1th Jean Mara1s as the poet, Rouge, 387-9538. Edouard Derm1the (the last of Cocteau's Enoch's-A Cafe, 5202 Des1ard Street. SHOCKABILLY sons' as Heurtebise, Mana Casares as Monroe, 318-343-9950. comely Lady Death-when the lights hit her The Fool On The Hill, 1000 Bayou Black STEVE SLAGLE shmy gown 1n the final scene, there must Dnve, Houma, 851-6892. have been power failures all over Pans. and Fred's, Mamou, 318·468·5411 STEVE SWALLOW Franco1s Pener, Mane Dea, Juliette Greco, Gibson Street Lounge, Covington. once the 1dol of Left Bank beatn1ks. as the 1-892-7057 and JOH N ZORN leader of the Bacchantes Admission IS by Grant Hall, 113 Grant e1ther season subscnptlon ($15) or by $1.50 Street, Lafayette, 318-537-8513 admiSSIOn, they are shown 1n Bobet Hall, Harry's Club, 517 Parkway, Breaux Room 332 Bridge, 318-332-9569. Hee Haw, 822 Blvd., Harvey, 361-9321. " That's The Way I Feel Now" features these artists and New Orleans Museum of Art, Oty Park, Humphr-•s, Shreve Square, Shreveport, others who felt Monk's touch, playing the music of one of 488·2631 Films about Western art on 318-227-9611 Fndays, Saturdays and Sundays 1n conJunc­ Iron Horse, 403 Phillip, Thibodaux, the most important and influential jazz innovators, tion w1th current exhibitions; also a senes 1·447-9991 of class1c westerns. Sun 1 Htgh Noon, Jefferson Street Cafe, 209 Jefferson. ever. If it sounds interesting, that's because it is­ directed by Fred Z1nnemann, with Gary Lafayette, 318·234-964 7 Cooper, , Lloyd Bndges and the Mulate's, Breaux Bridge Highway, Breaux whether you own a thousand jazz albums or none at sublime. camel-faced Katy Jurado. Sun.8: Bridge, 318-332-4648 all. Shane, d~rected by George Stevens, w1th The 01' Corner Bar, 221 Poydras, Alan Ladd as the poker-faced paladin. Jack Breaux Bndge, 318-332·9512 Palance as the vllla1n, Van Heflin and Jean Pam's Place, Old Town. Slidell. Arthur and Brandon DeWilde as the good Pappa Joe's, 12375 Flonda Blvd., Baton little people, Emile Meyer as the ev11 cattle Rouge, 1·273-2376. .. THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL NOW" baron and our favonte use of that great [~ Paradise Club, 121 S. Buchanan, RECORDS cliche, the dog that howls at his master's Lafayette, 318-232-5313 A TRIBUTE TO THELONIOUS MONK grave. AdmiSSIOn free w1th admiss1on to Party Town, Military Road, Slidell. A 2 Record Set Produced by Hoi Willner for Deep Creek Productions Ltd. museum. 1·649-3867. Peppy's. 4365 Perkms Rd., Baton Rouge, ON A&M RECORDS AND BASF CHROME CASSETTES Prytanla, 5339 Prytan1a, 895·4!'13. New 381 -9079. C 198A A&M Records, In< All Rtqhh Re~rved programming, with more repertory alter­ Ruby's Rendez-Vous, Highway 190 in nating with the new-release fore1gn films. Mandeville, 1-626-9933 Through Thurs.5· My Best Friend 's Girl by Ruby's Road House, 840 Lamarque. that most notonously sex1st of directors, Mandeville, 1-626·3001 Bertrand Blier, with Isabelle Huppert. Fri .6 Rusty Nail, 540 E. K1ng's H1ghway, $9.99 LP or CAS SEnE through Thurs.19: The Man Who Knew roo Shreveport Much-Hitchcock'S' 1956 remake of h1s Scarlett O's, 1025 Broad, Lake Charles. 1934 pnmi!IVISI thriller· most people 318-436-8742 remember-helas'-Doris Day s1ng1ng Slick's Music Hall, H1ghway 31. St Mar­ Que Sera Sera. but we remember the linville, 318-394-3867 smister looks of Bernard M1les and Bren­ Steak and Lobster Inn' s Fireside da da Banz1e as the overly-lnendly couple. Pub, 820 E K1ng's Highway Shreveport. the pa1nt on Dan1el Gelin's face com1ng ott 318-868-5306. on James Stewart's hands. the deserted Tenth Floor, Shreve Square. Shreveport, church, and of course the mounting hy­ 318-425-7539. stena of the end1ng 1n the Albert Hall. Toby's, 1303 Gnmmet Dnve, Shreveport, 1017 Pleasant Street at Maga l~nP St .. oc-t- desp1te 1ts cast, a far more mordant and 318-222-9903

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Tipitina's has closed its doors forever. Sorta. Or at least until December, after the Louisiana World Exposition closes its doors. The plan to somehow move Tipitina's from the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Napoleon to Pop the World's Fair site and/or the Music? ' Federal Fibre Mills building is under consideration but doubtful. Another plan, to load Tipitina's onto three or four reconditioned Greyhound busses and put the club homegrown anarchy, trans­ on a touring circuit between cendentalism, street smarts, Rasta­ Alli2ator Pond, Jamaica and farianism, voodoo, gumbo, idle Transylvania, Louisiana, is threats and the literary tenets of possible but unlikely. from Virginia, was the host and 501 Napoleon Club, was a Ishmael Reed. There were benefits A quorum of Summa 2 4 U not particularly sensitive to the riverfront bar frequented by for various musicians, benefits to Corporation (which owns special, albeit peculiar, needs of rednecks and roughnecks, buy a piano, benefits to buy air­ Tipitina's) stockholders (over 100 musicians. Indirectly, Palmer was exclusively Caucasian. Biacks were conditioners, benefits to buy the investors, including Mrs. Alice the catalyst for Tipitina's creation. served through a hole in the wall building, more benefits to buy air­ Byrd, widow of Professor One evening in December of and the Klan held monthly conditioners. The doorman's Longhair; all four Neville 1977, Professor Longhair meetings in the bar's backroom. talents were critical and the all­ Brothers; former Professor appeared at Jed's, accompanied by Drevich, Quint Davis and the time master of this field was the Longhair manager Allison Kaslow; guitarist and Sisters of Tri-Aipha had staged late Stanley John, a Trinidadian photographer Michael P. Smith; vocalist Jessie Hill, who had just integrated concert/dances in occasionally accompanied chef Steve Armbruster; blues heir returned to New Orleans after a same backroom, which bothered Professor Longhair on the steel Ice Cube Slim; adman Robert lengthy stay in California. On the management only until they pans. A famous photograph of Alford; attorney Elliot Snellings; stage was a grand piano and a began counting the bar receipts Stanley shows him cradling a truck and Federal Fibre Mills developer tremendous p.a. system, rented for and discovered that "race-mixing" engine block in his bare arms. Pres KabacofO met at a Summer the following eveoing's was a profitable enterprise. The mark of a "mos' scocious" Solstice meeting and voted to give performance by "Cosmic Drevich, searching New Orleans (as popularized by linguist Dr. the corporation's board of Cowboy" Michael Murphey. for a music club site, was informed John) evening at Tipitina's was directors authority to list the Professor Longhair, set up on the that the 501 building would be sporadic, free-form gator-poppin' building at 501 Napoleon with a dance floor, utilized a very funky available to a new leasee in by young gentlemen (and very real estate agent. electric piano plugged into a single January and Tipitina's was born. rarely, young ladies). Poppin' the The general idea, according to small amplifier, into which was The name came from one of Ed gator is what Tipitina's was about: informed sources, is to retain the also plugged his microphone. The Volker's Christmas card collages, mimicking fornication on the name and philosophy for sound was horrible but nobody received by Drevich the day of dancefloor's dirty linoleum. The marketing at a future date. Mrs. really cared. Mainly because Summa 2 4 U Corporation's first French, who gave us Voltaire and Byrd and Mrs. Kaslow, however, nobody was there. meeting. The card bore a single Brigitte Bardot, called such vowed that they would block any The audience included Allison word: Tipitina. behavior "nostalgia for the mud," plans to use the hallowed Kaslow, Hank Drevich, Bunny The mandate of the corporation, man's primal desire to grovel, to Tipitina's name, which the late Matthews and four Tulane more or less, was to operate a slip into a bearskin and head back Mr. Byrd invented by mis­ students, who left after a few facility that compensated to the cave. pronouncing the name of a songs. Kaslow and Drevich (who musicians fairly for their services. In prehistoric days, we imagine, volcanic island between Sumatra had previously helped promote the This is a nice idea but even jazz our early ancestors feasted on and Java, Krakatoa. annual Grande Alligator Balls) benefactress Rosy Wilson, who dinosaur filets and generally Meanwhile, we will retain our were indignant over Palmer's had millions, dido 't have enough to whooped it up along the banks of memories-fond and foul-of the treatment of a " living genius" and treat musicians fairly forever. the Mississippi River-perhaps on joint. Before Tipitina's (and not vowed to do something. Sometimes, musicians-not to the exact spot that would one day too many years ago), the only Drevich did something the very mention "genuises" such as become 501 Napoleon. We can place in New Orleans where young next day by calling a meeting of his Professor Longhair and James hear our hairy uncles now, white people could hear the native friends and laying the groundwork Carroll Booker III-just don't bellowing at the full moon, licking New Orleans for Summa 2 4 U Corporation draw. the blood from their lips: "Tra-la­ sounds with any frequency (and (adapted from Howard Hughes' The real problem at Tipitina's, la Tipitina Cheena Walla Woncha safety) was Jed's University Inn. Summa Corporation). The site for though, was business. Business at Doncha Chala Teena-nay!" It's Jed Palmer, a fallen aristocrat the corporation's new venture, the Tipitina's was a combination of the same old story. 0

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