A 24520 IFEBRUARY 1973/ Z5', GREAT BRITAIN 30 PENCE 11 li Behind BLACK SABBATH'S U.S. Hatred La.,-/ Neil Young, America & FcompleteI if Joni Mitchell: 'Coast-To-Coast ■. 3 LPs From v? L CONCERT i California's L. Listings A r.. '''''''' ■” t A Hurricane ALICE r '/ji COOPER Hits Duane Allman: England The 26 LP's JAMES TAYLOR'S He Carly Courtship: Left ' What It Did For Behind One Man Dog' FREE COLOR ‘Flash In The Can' [MARC BOLAN And The Yes Dilemma I \Calendar Poster! Richard Thomas: The Waltons' 21-Year-Old Whiz Kid I i— ________ BUCKWHEAT - Buckwheat is Debbie Campbell, lead vocals and guitar; Bucky Smotherman, lead vocals and keyboards; Dub Campbell, lead guitar and electric violin; Mark Durham, bass and vocals; and Rick Gilbert, drums and percussion. Together they make some of the spunkiest, good-time rock'n’roll ” .) music around. You’ll hear a touch of blues, a little gospel, a trace of country, a bit of funk and a lot of fun in their music. Get Into the new Buckwheat LP “CHARADE” now and you’ll be into Buckwheat for a long time to come. DON’T MISS BUCKWHEAT LIVE AT CIN-A-ROCK V/ AT THE FOX THEATER IN ATLANTA, 'I NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 4. I AMPEX I 9TEAEO TAPtS J THE RECORD LOVERS GUIDE The mouth’s 24 most pungent LP’s . bite-sized reviews that sometimes bite back. THE PICK OF THE MONTH anas The one LP so powerful it should be played VOL. 7, No. 5 February, 1973 at a nuclear testing site. THE CIRCUS TOP TWENTY 46 TABLE OF CONTENTS Alice, and Black Sabbath sprint neck and neck REPORTS FROM BACKSTAGE toward the Circus chart’s number one slot. WHY BLACK SABBATH HATES AMERICA 4 BODY. MIND AND STARS How a two-year trail of touring foul-ups has forced Ozzie Osbourne into a scathing denunciation of LETTERS 10 the States. An Indiana lady blasts Circus on behalf of Yes. JAMES TAYLOR’S LEGGY LOVER BRIGHTENS NATIONAL SCENES 16 ’ONE MAN DOG’ 24 Tour dates for Traffic. Free, and dozens more. When Carly Simon dragged James out of hiding to America’s biggest coast to coast concert calendar. sunbathe on a Martha’s Vineyard beach, she also OUR BACK PAGES 46 hauled a new clement into his music. A rerun of the Stones tour this summer? Led Zep HURRICANE ALICE TAKES EUROPE BY STORM 32 unzips a fresh LP. Thirty boiling bulletins from The most peculiar tour in Alice history! First the L.A., London, and New York. Coop hits Scotland, then he yodels with Bolan. COSMIC CHARISMA back of poster FLASH FLEES YES'S SHADOW . 34 Circus astrologer Alan Oken tells you whether this Back in the dressing room sits a girl who helped month’s stars will make you look like a genius make Flash’s newest LP subtly un-Yes-Iike. or a moron. THE LEGEND OF DUANE ALLMAN—SIX HEALTH back of poster ALBUMS CLOSER TO HOME 38 One new reason to drown your cold in vitamin C. The 29 LP’s and nine unreleased tapes that tell MOVIES back of postec- the final tale of Duane’s life. 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J w / this month-long stint, leading vocalist country in the world!” He attacked Ozzie Osbourne to praise American the country that had given birth to the audiences. “The trouble with English strongest congregation of Black Sab­ crowds,” he explained, “is that they bath fans in the world with stinging listen to you as if you were a jukebox. accusations like, “They’ll do anything They shove in their fourteen bob and for a dollar,” “People are living night­ expect you to work your balls off. mares over there,” and “Everybody What I dig about America is if you in America is crazy.” The denuncia­ ! do a duff gig because you’re worn out tions shocked American and British from travelling and you’re not into fans alike. And just what had prompt­ it, they still dig it because they’re into ed Britain’s dark princes to let loose ■. your trip.” with the strongest barrage of anti- ■ America’s too Satanic: But a American sentiment since German au­ I mere seven months later, Black Sab- diences ripped down the U.S. flag at Lii bath were singing another tune. Not last year’s Jeff Beck concert was a 1 only had they refused to sing Ameri­ mystery to Sabbath admirers. But back ca's praises during their seventh fall home in England, recuperating after tour, but they made musical headlines their seventh American tour, the by giving a startling slap in the face group’s members began to shed some to the thousands of American Black light on their puzzling motives. Sabbath fans who had pushed their Bastard groupies and plastic three previous albums to gold—and walls: 1971 was the year that saw who promised to do so with their Black Sabbath’s third LP, Masters Of fourth release, Black Sabbath Vol. IV. Reality, turn solid gold But it also “Black Sabbath To Quit America!” marked the beginning of an anti- screamed England’s musical weeklies. American sentiment that would rapid­ “The time has come to pull out,” ly intensify in the year to come. Dur­ ! said their manager, Patrick Meehan. ing 1971, the group was on tour for And the usually good-natured Ozzie ten out of twelve months, with four lashed out with the stupefying charge trips to the States. The fly-by-night that America was “the most satanic schedule drained the group’s collec- > - '' '.v'VW ■ i . Tony lommi, guitarist: In Los Angeles’ famed Record Plant recording studio, he let out his pent-up touring frustrations on the piano ... his first try at playing . and plonked out “Changes,” one of VOL. IV’s best cuts. Ozzie Osbourne: After his hellish experi­ ences In the U.S., Sabbath’s high-strung vocalist couldn’t wait to return to his “little piece of heaven on earth” . back home in England. All/S/C Freedom’s yours, just pay your tivc energy, and by the end of their band members sprawling. Pressures kept them scurrying through three dues, fourth tour, Ozzie was openly griping We just want your soul to use. about “those hassling bastard group­ American tours that lasted six or ies screwin’ me up” and the horrors seven weeks apiece. Yet they couldn’t Bring a coffin to a gig: But the of “flyin’ around and around, landing stop to relax. Admitted Osbourne, low price Americans seemed to place again. The hotel room’s the same, the “We’re only here for a short time. In on human lives was not the only topic walls, it drives me mad.” But it was three years time or even next week, for group discussion; they could not more than the red plastic walls of the they could be saying, ‘Who the hell escape noticing the wanton use of overly commercial Holidays Inns that are Black Sabbath?’ ” Under the mot­ drugs by young fans. Ozzie exclaimed finally drove Ozzie to tears. Personal to, “You’ve got to do it while you in amazement, “Over there, it’s ‘Get problems also tugged at the already can,” Black Sabbath forged into 1972 stoned, forget it, man.’ It’s like drink­ high-strung singer.