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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. Ben Franklin warbles his way through 1776, and RICHARD THOMAS: MERLIN THE MAGICIAN Paul Newman shoots his through The Life Of MEETS ’THE WALTONS’ 41 Judge Roy Bean. By eighteen, TV’s John Boy had scarcely won his POETRY FROM THE READERS back of poster first movie roles . . . but he’d already run circles The Allmans dare the death note. around the show-biz biggies for over eleven years. [WHAT IN THE WORLD IS EDGAR WINTER GERALD ROTHBERG I UP TO? 54 Publisher and Editor-In-Chief I With his new LP’s nipple-and-lipstick cover and his Editor: Howard Bloom; Art Director: Norman Jacobs; Assistant I freshly-unveiled, blood-lust burning stage show, Editor: Barbara Graustark; Contributing Editors: Peter Buckley, Ed | Edgar is hurtling into the riskiest transformation Naha, Janis Schacht; Advertising Director: Charles Mandel; As sistant to the Publisher: Art Ford; Regional Correspondents: Lon L h’s career. don—Kenneth Howards; West Coast—Jacoba Atlas; New York— NeIl YOUNG. 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Printed ON THE HORIZON • in U.S.A. Subscription rates: 12 issues for $9.00. Office of Pub Whatever happened to Tull's old bassist. Look in lication: 4500 ROBAROS LANE - LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY 40218 Second class the belly of Wild Turkey. entry pending loui3ville. Kentucky B!»ek Sabbath: "We used to have fun In the old days . . . before we got exploited." 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-
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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. “I’ll be OK as long . . . and the heart of what Ozzie called ing half a shandy to them, getting as there’s me and my wife, my kids “The American trip.” Already pushed stoned. They really go overboard. It’s and my group,” he confessed on tour. to their physical limits, they began to a wonder that half of them don’t take r “But sometimes I start to wonder if show the first signs of their future dis a coffin to a gig.” And Ozzie went on my family's going to wait for me.” gust for American values in their mu to cap his image of America as a land 1971 definitely wasn't Ozzie’s shining sic. When Geezer, the group’s main of paranoid people, walking around year. At the end of the tour, he re songwriter, heard a jubilant American under a cloud of pollution, “looking turned home with hollow cheeks and newsman exclaim that “only twenty- up in the air, shivering, scared. As if a serious throat infection that had five American soldiers were killed this one day this big black hand is going forced cancellation of several dates. week in Vietnam,” he furiously pen to come out of the sky and choke Even a short rest at home gave little ned “Cornucopia” for their Vol. IV them.” relief. “When you do get a break, you LP (on Warner Bros. Records), ex As events moved steadily towards a can’t get it together,” he explained, pressing his personal disgust towards thunderous climax during the summer offering a glimpse of the tensions that the mindless slaughter of innocent of ’72, Bill Ward collapsed following would soon force him to seek psychia men and the flagrant lack of regard his return from Sabbath's sixth Ameri tric assistance. “You suddenly stop for human life he found so wantonly can tour, and Tony lommi was suffer running and you don’t know what to flaunted in America: ing from nervous exhaustion. But their do with yourself or where you are.” final fall tour was the straw that broke Who the hell are Black Sabbath? Take a life, it’s going cheap the proverbial camel’s back. Plans for 1972 came in with a bang that sent Kill someone, no one will weep a Labor Day appearance at Chandler,
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Photos: Nell Preston Bill Ward, drummer: He carried al! his sweaty clothes around In plastic bags, because his hectic tour schedule gave him no free time to do a wash. Indiana’s Soda Pop Festival capsized stuck on a rainy, traffic-clogged road “They were selling them aspirin to when the promoters failed to provide miles from the festival grounds. Sab get them stoned. For ten miles along adequate transportation for the festi bath was forced to fly off to their next the freeway there were abandoned val's big-name talent and their equip New Orleans gig without playing a cars. There were cars turned over in ment. While Sabbath waited in a hotel single doomy note. Back home, they the river. It was like someone had restaurant in Evansville, Illinois, talk would later denounce both the Festi said. ‘You’ve got ten seconds to get ing to other stranded performers like val and its promoters. “There were out of the city before it’s destroyed.” Joe Cocker and regaining their sap three toilets for, like, half a million Walking corpses sent home: That ped strength, their equipment was people,” said Osbourne in disgust. War Of The World's setting was aptly described. But the final cataclysm was yet to come. At the Hollywood Bowl, before 20,000 fans, Tony lommi bare ly managed to stagger off stage fol lowing the gig. He collapsed, (“I ' I thought I was going to die,” he said.) 1 and was rushed to a doctor, who sent the group packing for home, complet ing the disintegration of Sabbath's seventh sojourn. When Sabbath arrived home at the airport, friends and family were dis mayed to find lommi and Osbourne looking as though the black mass ritual sacrifice had been performed on them. Resembling walking corpses, Geezer, Bill, and Ozzie dashed off to rest with their wives. Tony lommi went to bed for a month with a three-month sup ply of tranquilizers and a doctor’s order for plenty of rest. With Tony recuperating and Ozzie, Bill and Geezer resting, the future be a ; i gan to look brighter. A month’s re spite worked wonders before the rav aging cycle began again with an Ital ian tour, an Austrian and Japanese tour in January, Britain in February, I® and a projected American gig in April. But after speaking with Rod Stewart, they decided upon a few changes. This time their American gigs will be shorter: they’ll cut their stays down from six or seven weeks to three or four. And they’ll be cutting a new LP in between, with frequent rest breaks planned. Down home optimism: Happy to be back in the tranquility of his Staf fordshire country home with his horses, Irish setters, loving wife, and two frisky kids, Osbourne seems con tent to listen to six-year-old Elliott bang on his drum kit. He muses op timistically about his group’s future. “We can’t stop touring because we like it so much,” he says realistically. “I believe I’m going nuts at times— but so what? As long as I enjoy it.” Hopefully, after a seven-month absence from the States and plans for a less rigid schedule have helped the boys stop crawling up the walls, •Sabbath will look forward to their American return. They have already forgotten most of the harsh words they uttered a few months ago about Black Sabbath: “Nobody ever sings about America—but now will American what’s frightening and evil,” they once fans forget, too. and welcome Sabbath complained. But American pollution, drug back to the fold? scenes and paranoia gave them plenty of 8CBXUS evil material. ODE RECORDS presents THE LOU REIZNER PRODUCTION of
Written by PETE TOWNSHEND and THE WHO as performed by THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and ENGLISH CHAMBRE CHOIR Conducted by DAVID MEASHAM with GUEST SOLOISTS (in order of appearance) PETE TOWNSHEND SANDY DENNY GRAHAM BELL STEVE WIN WOOD MAGGIE BELL RICHIE HAVENS MERRY CLAYTON ROGER DALTRY JOHN ENTWISTLE STARR ROD STEWART RICHARD HARRIS Send letters to: Letters to the Editor CIRCUS Magazine 866 United Nations Plaza letters New York. N.Y. 10017 FIGHTING WORDS FOR YES her issue and finally coming across ing Mr. Anderson come to the climax 1 would like to comment on the re the “Mona-Lisa” type photo of you- of “Thick as a Brick” and some im view on Close To The Edge in the know-who Cooper, we all got to won mature ass gets up out of his seat and December issue. It was the most ri dering about the scar. Is this cat so throws something at Ian, it’s repulsive. diculous review I've ever seen. Just weird his appendix came out of the Well he got cursed out, but that’s what kind of record reviewer is this middle???? not my main motive. I am writing girl Janis Schacht? Obviously it must An Alice Cooper Fan this in the hope that every rock n’ take a great musician to play complex Utica, Mississippi roll star will get a chance to read this and flawless music, don’t you think? because it seems that whenever a band The lyrics are interesting, the time Editor’s note: If the surgeon slicing performs at Philadelphia's Spectrum changes are incredible, and so on. And his way toward your appendix is a they leave this city in disgust. I’ve this is being criticized? Must be too shark, your scar cotdd come out any witnessed more bands begging for heavy for your mind, baby! And be where. Alice was scuba diving off the quiet: it’s really a drag. Examples are: sides, there are three pieces on the al Florida coast in 1969 when a ham- Robert Plant. Keith Emerson, Mark bum, not two! This chick can’t even merheard killer decided to go after Almond, and Robert Fripp, just to count! Honey, if you actually think him for some exploratory surgery. name a few. If you can’t publish this, that brilliant guitar work, the best The Coop was fished out of the water I at least thank you for reading it. damn bass playing I’ve ever heard, before the hammerhead's razor teeth And if you can, let some rock n’ roll beautiful vocals and tasteful percus could remove any internal organs, but stars know that some people in Philly sion. and a cat with very long blond not before the beast could make a really enjoy music and don’t go to hair who can (pardon the pun) “cut modestly unconventional incision. . . concerts to put on that fucked-up ju a mean synthesizer’’ (two in fact) and venile groupies image. Your maga play dat organ (especially on the new ALICE AIN’T ROTTEN zine is without a doubt very nice and album) is bad, well then you’re a dis This letter is in regard to a letter helps to calm my nerves. grace! published in your December ’72 issue Nick Bufforc And you also say Mr. Wakeman is about Alice Cooper. I know a lot of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania trying to be flashier than Keith Emer people who don’t think Alice is cor son! Rick sounded just as good as rupting their morals. The writer of ELTON’S MYSTERY LP Emerson, maybe even better, but I’m that letter talked of hanging a doll, Your August 1972 article on Elton sure that Rick couldn’t give a damn fondling his pet snake, and even had John was really great. It shed a little if he is as good as Keith. If you find the nerve to say Alice & Co. were light on that intrepid genius behind Yes irritating and unpleasant, well queer (in more words). Personally, I the tinted shades. then I can understand why you say think all these things add to their But I do disagree with you on one Black Sabbath. Volume Four is a mas performance, rather than take away point. Elton John (at this writing) terpiece! from it. I’ve seen them live, televised only has six albums out: Elton John. P.S Get your shit together before you and listened to their albums, so I November 17, 1970, Tumbleweed lose it completely!!!!!!! think I’ve got a fair ooinion of this Connection, Friends. Madman Across “T” groun. I'll admit when I first saw them The Water, and, of course. Honky Sullivan, Indiana I thought they were freaky looking Chateau. Looks like six to me, unless and had some pretty strong antics there’s a “mystery album” back in THE NIGHT THEY SNIPPED onstage, but as I listened to them the “oldie but goodie coner.” COOPER OFF THE TUBE more. I changed my opinion. I think If there is a seventh album, please Recently in the Cincinnati area they’re a great group with a sound you write and tell me the title and the there was supposed to have been a can really get into. name of some store (fairly close to movie titled “In Concert” starring Maybe Alice can’t sing like Paul our territory) where I can buy it. You Alice Cooper. Bo Diddley and others McCartney or James Tavlor. but Tay sec. we arc avid Elton John fans, and shown on WKRL-TV Channel 12, but lor’s singing gets tiring too. Alice is we have pretty complete album col only fifteen minutes of this concert one in a million, and it doesn’t mat lections. When we read your article was shown. It seems that the president ter if he can’t sing beacuse their stage we all started running scared. of the studio thought Alice Cooper skits make up for it all. It’s a change Luona Michelle wasn’t music or art but pornography. of pace for young people. That other New Falls, Ohio Now there were a lot of Alice Cooper letter was only one man’s opinion, but fans that thought different and were now you have the opposing one. Editor's note: Pilgrim, your search very upset, so we phoned in com An Alice Cooper Fan has ended. There is, indeed, a mystery plaints for several hours and protested Union City, New Jersey LP. entitled Empty Sky, Elton's first and some went so far as to call in a release, but it is only available in Eng bomb threat. All I ask for is that PLEASE, NO NOISE! land (or in specialty shops that cater everyone, especially those around the On October 31st I attended my to imports'). The musical clientele Cincinnati area, write to WKRL de fourth Jethro Tull concert and was joining Elton included Caleb Quaye manding to see the rest of that movie. very pleased at what the band gave on electric and acoustic guitars, Roger Danny Murphy the audience, although their May Pope on percussion (both are now Franklin, Ohio 1972 concert was better. Why? Well, with Hookfoot), Niger Olsson on when you’ve got 19.500 people com drums. Don Fay on tenor sax and After looking through the Novem- pletely on the edge of their seats watch- flute. Tony Murray on bass, and, of course. Elton on piano, organ, elec tric piano, and harpsichord.
AIRPLANE CRASHES, KINKS SOAR After years of waiting, I finally caught the Jefferson Airplane recently in Williamsburg, Virginia. To my hor- hor. Grace Slick not only looked like a middle-aged housewife but her of fensive sarcasm cracked and shattered the Airplane legend more and more as the concert progressed. The phe nomenal sound was there for sure, but the aloof Ms. Slick obviously considered her hard-ass image a reoDavid Gates and Jimmy Griffin heavy, heavy trip. Disagreed! It was of Bread more than heavy enough to unbalance Record and Perform with and topple her from the pedestal Ovation Guitars where I’ve imagined her since “White Rabbit” days. On the other hand. I’ve been raving non-stop since seeing the Kinks here in Charlottesville several nights ago. The audience was roughly a quarter the size of the Airplane sell-out last August, and a large percentage of the concertgoers were under sixteen years old. Yet Ray Davies' enthusiastic per formance kept everyone in the audi torium spell-bound and happy and crying for more! His rapport with his fans was warm . . . amazing! It was by far the FINEST stage act I’ve seen, and I wasn’t even a Kinksnik before. Perhaps the Airplane should be reminded that even superstars are not immortal, and that crowds tend to have a frightening way of being two- faced and fickle when their pride and mentality are challenged or scorned. Thai’s the way it was in 16th century England and that’s the way it u with 20th century rock music enthusiasts. Given my choice of any performer to meet or watch again, Ray Davies would definitely be the man. Some body pass the word along to him— his appeal and popularity are in NO danger. He’s too human, too efferves cent, and too talented to ever be less than fantastic! Conni Krilzcr Charlottesville, Virginia
You seem to have a lot of trouble with this dude Ed Naha. People don’t like the way he says things, and I’m not an exception. In his article No vember ’72 CIRCUS, “Doobie Broth ers: Folkies Who ponched Up The Oakies,” Oakies should be spelled I. Iftew HarjfoM, ,C®hV 06057. Okies and he helps further the legend that Oklahomans can’t get into any Z’Name . thing but goat-roper music. Well you can tell him that we’re into Bowie, Tull .Captain Beyond, Atomic Roost !\Citx ' er, R.E.O. Speedwagon and other | State ‘ heavies. We can’t help it if his mind 7 leans toward Donnie Osmond. (send^Btfer. Kim Smith L bread portvrj ATION Stillwater, Oklahoma (C You can have her soul for# song bugiftie lady’s ncA^br sale. i ■ “The Lady’s Not For Sale" • ’1 A new Rita Coolidge album. On A&M Records iW , j Produced by David Anderie I
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Homecoming includes their hit "Ventura Highway" plus new originals by Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley and Dan Peek. It's bigger than Chicago, in fact it's bigger than all Illinois. On Warner Bros. Records and Tapes. Direction of Geffen-Roberts No matter how you put it, it all comes down to: “What can you say about Duane Allman?” Now that Berry Oakley is dead, too, the whole feel of this album is even more sad and futile. That is. perhaps, the es sence of this LP. Many of those who loved him are playing on the album; thousands more are screaming in the background at the live sessions from the Fillmore. And Anthology is just that: a collection of Duane’s best * and most obscure work which led to his emergence as one of rock’s finest 1 and most beloved guitarists. Duane Allman: Duane and friends jam through four sides of this LP, exposing never-before-heard Allman classics. Carlv Simon—No Secrets (Elektra) Mrs. James Tavlor is probably the Duane Allman—An Anthology best female vocalist around. This will, (Capricorn) no doubt, bring out shrieks of It’s very sad that only upon the “what?”, “huh?” and “you’ve got to America: Homecoming is nothing to write death of a prominent musician does be kidding.” but strictly in terms of home about. Should America have stayed in England? someone start rummaging through the vocal adentness. this lady can really archives to find out exactly what sing. She hasn’t the soul of Joplin or tiful number this time out. It’s a lovely he did during his stay on earth. the delicacy of Joni Mitchell, but she waltz-tempo song with delicate lyrics has a strong, clear, pure sound that Ironically, most of the previously un like: “When Robin goes on holiday/ released and obscure tracks on this is hers alone. She also writes some of There’s no one living in our lane/ two-record set probably would have the most personally moving lyrics to Oh yes. folks still live in our lane/ day. stayed obscure and unreleased if But they’re not like Robin.” “Robin” Duane had not died. No Secrets is not as exciting a pack is followed by the title track, “We This is an admirable package for age as her last LP. Anticipation. Have No Secrets” which is another Duane Allman fans and for fans of Carly is an uneven writer: she has one of these probing journeys into good rock and blues music alike. But her moments of brilliance, but not Carly’s romantic past: Carly and her although there are many fine perform every song hits the bulls eve. She hit lover told each other everything, but ances going down here. Allman Bro the target with numbers like “Three some things, she discovered, are bet thers’ freaks may be disappointed to Davs” and “Legend In Your Own ter left untold. find that only one of four sides is de Time” before she fell in love. But Musically, the sessions are clean voted to the music of Duane and the since the first LP. she’s realized she and uncluttered, and when an orches Band. The other three sides present a doesn’t have to cry on record any tra is used, it never destroys the beau chronological history of Duane’s ses more. tiful simplicity of the tunes. This is sion work. Allman addicts may not “His Friends Are More Than Fond especially noticeable in the album’s be able to cut through all of the Of Robin” is probably her most beau- brightest cem, “You’re So Vain” (the tracks featuring Duane noodling single). If you don’t love Carly and around with Wilson Pickett, Clarence all her intimate indulgences, just hop Carter, John Hammond, Cowboy, down to the corner store and pick this Boz Scaggs, and Delaney and Bonnie; single off the rack, take it home and but it’s well worth the effort. Show cherish it. You’ve probably heard ing amazing versatility, Duane switch that Mick Jagger is singing back-up es from smooth bottlenecking for De vocals on the track: it’s true. Not since laney and Bonnie to raunchy rock those carlv Chris Farlowe sessions in leads behind Wilson Pickett. And the 1966 has Jagger sounded so good, so beauty of the LP is that after a few A loud or so clear when he wasn’t up careful listens, you’ll have no trouble front singing with the Stones. It’s a picking out his guitar from all the reallv clever song and the beat is others. Take Aretha Franklin’s “The highly infectious. Within minutes after Weight.” or King Curtis’ “Games Peo you’ve shooed the disk on the turn ple Play,” for example. Through the table you’ll probably start jumping confusion of the strong vocals on up and down and striking up a chorus Aretha’s tracks, or the horns and of “you’re so vain, I bet you think drums dominating Curtis’ cut, it sud this song is about you.” denly becomes obvious that an in The sessions, produced in London credibly tasteful guitarist is playing by Richard Perry, include back-up his part subtly and creatively—and vocals by Paul and Linda McCartney, making the song that little bit better. Bonnie Bramlett, Doris Troy and, of If the subtle licks don’t jump out and course, James Taylor . . . there are a hit you between the eyes, they just lot of nice things happening here. Flash: With Tony Kaye’s session work flow along, pulling these tracks to gone, Flash can really be themselves . . . And some of them are even twice as gether. and not Yes. nice. • fW hi: •• .*2- by Barbara Graustark James Taylor's Leggy Lover Brightens 'One Man Dog' When Carly dragged James out of hiding to sunbathe on a Martha’s Vineyard beach before hundreds of gaping tourists, startled friends realized the lonesome picker had a few surprises up his sleeve. There are ladies in my past over to a small chair and hesitantly A crowded honeymoon: With good Lovely ladies in these lazy days lowers his lanky Daddy Longlegs onto reason. Not every guy has to spend A nd though I never took a wife the wooden seat which miraculously the second night of his honeymoon May I say that I have loved me holds his 6’4” frame—but to do so onstage singing to six thousand strange one or two . . . he must rearrange his legs several faces. And if this wasn’t cause enough “Places In My Past’’ times. He stretches his arms toward to rattle the lonesome picker, he was James Taylor the waiting guitar at his side. It exposing his new LP, One Man Dog, Country Road Music, Inc./ promptly tumbles and crashes twice to thousands of eager fans who had Blackwood Music Inc. before finaly settling on the floor. As anxiously awaited his first LP in eight the audience groans its sympathy, een months. And . . . he was breaking <"T^he heavy brown drapes fall in James calmly takes it up into his arms, in his first new act since his last head I heavy folded ridges framing a hunches over the gleaming instru line appearance in New York nine mighty stage inside New York’s cav ment and softly croons: months ago. ernous Radio City Music Hall. A But while James and The Section, small yellow circle of light illuminates Another bride, his back-up band, were steaming up mid-stage, and it is into this halo of Another June, the fans to their old enthusiastic fer light that James Taylor ambles. His Another sunny honeymoon, vor, moving with ease and assurance dark hair hangs chin length, notice Another season, through a range of calm acoustic num ably shorter than it was during his Another reason bers like “Fire And Rain,” through a last New York concert in March of For makin' whoopee . . . bossa nova “Sunny Skies,” into a ’72, and he brushes it back from his kinky, flaring “Chili Dog,” blasting prominent cheekbones, revealing the “I just got married today folks,” he through the funky “Steamroller,” and same deep, haunting eyes now gleam grins, as the audience whoops its con closing with the haunting, peaceful ing with controlled excitement at his gratulations. "I married Miss Carly "Close Your Eyes,” radio and TV first New York appearance in nine Simon. That was a song to her.” Sev newscasters were focusing on one months. Hands in the pockets of his eral minutes later he murmurs, “I event: the wedding that had taken baggy grey trousers, he casually strides guess my mind is elsewhere tonight.” place thirty-six hours earlier—on a 24 CWCUS MUSIC Friday afternoon. Rock history’s first superstar musi cal merger took place at Carly’s East Side apartment in New York before the bride and groom’s respective mothers and a justice of the peace. James wore the white suit Carly had given him as a birthday present (the reluctant superstar had just turned twenty-four), and he joked about it being “my birthday suit.” Carly, bare foot, glowed in a long white peasant dress as she recited the “I do’s.” “It was totally on the spur of the moment,” Carly later explained. Even members of the band had been kept in the dark until after the ceremony was over. “It was a total surprise,” said horn player Barry Rogers. “We knew about it only a half hour before the show on Friday night.” Paying their respects: That night, James had gone onstage for his first headline performance in almost a year. And when the show was over, as the tumultuous applause was dying away, the band, the families, and a few close friends trooped up to the Time/Life Building’s Tower Suite, high above New York’s dazzling sky line, to pay their congratulations to the newlyweds. But the party was more than a mere tribute to the culmination of James’ year-old relationship with Carly. It was also a “welcome back” to one of rock music’s most reticent legends, a man the media had tagged last year as a “virtual recluse.” At the time Mud Slide Slim was released more than eighteen months ago, James almost totally withdrew from the spotlight of publicity. He shunned interviews and retired from the public view to take shelter on his peaceful, twenty-seven acre plot of wooded land on Massachusetts’ Mar tha’s Vineyard. Several months later, James stepped briefly out of his seclusion and circled the country with a series of concert dates during late ’71 and early ’72, but a lack of new material gave the impression that something was miss ing. And when horn players were as sembled a mere four days before a New York concert, there was an air of forlorn disarray. Added incentive: Towards the spring, however, things began to move more rapidly in the Taylor camp, leading some to believe that the six- After a year’s absence as a concert head- I month-old relationship with Carly was liner and an eighteen-month gap since bringing James back into the world the release of MUD SLIDE SLIM, James with a renewed gleam of optimism in Taylor is pounding the musical beat again his deep-set eyes. He had been work —with a new wife and a sma-h LP. ing seriously under the pressure to Musical merger: While One Man Dog may not present a radical depar ture from the basic folk style of James’ past LP’s, it docs present an extension of that style. “James’ ap proach is a bit different on this al bum,” says his friend and manager, Peter Asher. “He’s a little more into arranging. It’s a more consciously musical album, not just a question of him singing the song and using what ever reasonable accompaniment comes to mind.” Says horn player Barry Rogers, I “James basically walked into the stu dio without a note written down, since he doesn't write music. But he had the basic sounds in his head. We all sat down and juggled parts while he hum med the tunes.” The album is a less personal state ment than his past LP’s, with the em phasis shifted from the lyrics to the music. But one thing seems clear: the sound of this LP is optimistic. Gone are the sounds of a lonesome picker During the frequent pizza breaks that in wailing his unhappiness with the su terrupted the New York recording ses perstar scene. Gone, too, arc the lone sions for ONE MAN DOG, James kept the hot lines buzzing with love-sick long some highway tunes and his melan distance calls to Carly in Massachusetts. choly reminiscences. Instead, there’s “Love has come to me/Love has set my a renewed interest in getting “back on soul free,” he would' ’ later sing. my feet again,” and a spirited revival come out with a new LP, and he ex of love in “New Tune” and “Some posed new numbers to eager fans in one.” the early spring when he joined Carole Loving you is the right thing to do The sessions were recorded in New King and Barbra Streisand in a Three There's nothing you can do to turn York’s A & R Studios, up at James’ For McGovern Benefit at the Los An me away home on the Vineyard (to give the geles Forum while Carly escorted Nothing anyone can say LP “a looser sound,” said Peter) and You're with me now and as long out at Hollywood’s Clover Studios. ticketholders to their seats. as you stay But all of the sessions were remem Back home with Carly, putting the Loving you is the right thing bered for a casual looseness that is finishing touches both to his new to do . . . James’ trademark. At one point, when songs and to the converted barn-like I know you've had some bad luck trumpet player Randy Brccker needed edifice that marks his homestead, with ladies before a special piccolo trumpet for “Hymn,” James began appearing more frequent They drove you or you drove James and the band trooped out to ly in public, surprising hundreds of them crazy rent one from Manny’s Music Store. summer tourists with a venture to the But more important is I know “James would never think of sending Vineyard’s most public beach hand- you're the one a flunkie out to do anything,” recalled in-hand with Carly. “I think she’s A nd I'm sure . . . Barry. “He always does it himself.” brought him out of his shell,” re Loving you is the right thing Last year, for example, when Barry’s marked one friend. And it was begin to do . . . car developed a flat outside Carnegie ning to seem clear that love was in Hall before their show, James ran out deed bringing James around. When her own session work was in front of awestruck fans to change Carly’s love song: In early Septem finished, she eagerly listened as James it. ber, shortly before the actual studio taped his new numbers and arranged Now that Taylor has decided to work on One Man Dog was due to old and new remnants into workable “get back on the streets again,” the begin, James and Carly holidayed in order. “It’s sort of a conglomerate,” he next batch of awestruck fans to catch Hawaii, resting up before the October said of One Man Dog. “They’re one- his act will be the Japanese. After studio work. Upon their return, Carly minute tunes,” he said of “Hymn,” some time off alone with Carly just flew off to London’s Trident Studios “Fanfare,” “Mescalito,” and “Chili “relaxing,” his schedule called for a to begin work on her latest LP, No Dog.” “They’re fragments that I’ve Japanese tour in January. And while Secrets. The state of her relationship had for some time but they segued James himself refuses to divulge other with James was best expressed in one easily when we recorded them.” Some, future plans, it would appear that the song, “The Right Thing To Do,” like “Chili Dog,” had been success twenty-four year old superstar is final which she subsequently revealed was fully tested before audiences at the ly finding his groove with a great band “the first love song I’ve written.” McGovern benefit. Others, like “Mes behind him and one extra added in When she warbled the lyrics into the calito,” had been performed as far gredient :“Love has come to me,” he microphone, there was little doubt to back as 1970 in small clubs like New now sings happily. “Love has set my whom it was dedicated: York’s Gaslight. soul free.” • m CIRCUS ON THE HORIZON Wild Turkey Is More Thon A Chip Off Tull s Thick Brick A| 5 he long-haired bassist careening with Ian. Most of them were pretty other group, Wild Turkey does have 1 across the stage looks familiar, small and a bit rough, but it does a a recognizable sound of its own. It but the group does not. Their name? band good to play small gigs before seems that most of the writing and Wild Turkey. Their sound? Inventive hard audiences. I mean ... if you arranging is all done by . . . guess British rock. And that well-known have things too easy, you don’t put who? bassist? None other than Glenn Cor enough effort into it.” “I don’t want to sound egocentric,” nick, ex-Jethro-Tull-ite. Conquering the States: With their Glenn confides, “but honestly, I don’t When Glenn left the fantastically fame growing in England, the group think I could successfully collaborate successful Tull band just a year and a released their first Warner Brothers with anyone because I don’t think half ago, a lot of people thought that LP, Battle Hymn, in early ’72 and they would be sympathetic to what he was crazy. After all, Ian Ander promptly set off to conquer the States. I’m doing. This is one of the reasons son and crew were just on the verge They latched onto a Black Sabbath why I formed the band ... I don’t of really making it big. Album sales tour, playing before audiences which think I could fit in’ with any other were skyrocketing. Concert requests Glenn remembers as being “very group.” were swelling faster than a pregnant young, but very excitable and pleas With the second album out on the elephant. Audience response was close ant.” stands and a hectic tour behind him, to that of pop adulation. None of that On their recently-completed second Glenn admits to wishing Tull’s suc mattered much to Glenn, though. A U.S. tour promoting their new Chrys cess streak would rub off on Wild founding member of Tull, Glenn had alis LP, Turkey, Glenn relaxed back- Turkey. “Well, when you put a band started to write songs that were not stage at New York’s Academy of Mu together you want it to be a success, compatible with the musical identity sic and reflected upon the problems otherwise it’s not worth bothering of Jethro; and rather than remain as Wild Turkey has faced and in some about in the first place.” just their bassist, he decided to go his cases is still facing. Seriously, he adds, “What I really own way. “I suppose one of the hardest things would like now is for this band to be “After I left Tull, I realized that in forming a band is being the psychi seen by both reviewers and audiences there wasn’t too much a bass player atrist, keeping everyone happy and alike as a band, a unit. Get into the who didn’t sing could do on his own,” together,” Glenn smiles. “I can tell songs and not the solos. We are a six recalls Glenn. “So I had to find some you, it’s taught me a lot, but thank man group and not a one man show.” really talented musicians.” fully everything’s been just fine. Ev Wild Turkey, a stubborn splinter Talent scout gets a head start: erything is on a very even balance. group trying their best not to be just In short order, the search led him “Then there are always the com a chip off the old brick. to vocalist Gary Pickford-Hopkins, parisons between Wild Turkey and drummer Jeff Jones, lead guitarist Jethro Tull,” he sighed. “We’re really by Ed Naha Alan “Tweke” Lewis, singer-guitarist not an offshoot of Tull, and we don’t Mick Dyche and keyboardist Steve want to play ourselves up as that. Gurl. And with their aid, Glenn began There are some similarities, of course, a series of struggles that would soon but most of those were present on our result in Wild Turkey. first LP when we were still searching Once together, Glenn and crew for a direction. Turkey is a different were faced with the problem of get story. We’ve moved away from acous ting the new group out on the road, tic songs, and now we have more of which really meant starting from a rock feel to our music.” scratch . . . almost. Turkey, which Glenn produced, “Because of my Tull experience, a does indeed smack of hard rock. The lot of people wanted to hear the new double guitar harmonies and lead- group,” says Glenn. “I guess you trading between Tweke and Mick are could say that we had a head start. impressive, with Mick handling slide Each one of us knew, though, that honors. The meshing of the strong once we were booked it was up to us guitar sound and Gurl’s high-spirited to impress people enough to be book piano work provide ample room for ed again. We had to prove ourselves the rocky rhythms pounded out by worthy of their interest.” Glenn and drummer Jeff. The total And once Wild Turkey began im sound is very dissimilar to present pressing audiences, there was no stop Tull, or past Tull for that matter, and ping them. They played all over Eng really can’t be compared to any group land, from sedate college campuses to around the rock scene today . . . roughneck booze halls. Occasionally, which is exactly the way Glenn likes their travels stirred up memories of it. another time and another band for Six-man circus: “I don’t want any comparisons or any labels,” he states. Wild Turkey: Ex-Tull-ite Glenn Cornick sat Glenn Cornick. in a corner and wondered what a raspy- “It was a peculiar feeling,” he “That would be pretentious. Just call thoated bass player*could do on his own. states, “to play with Turkey a lot of it rock.” The solution? Find some talented mu the same places I did in the early days Although not comparable to any sicians in a hurry. CIRCUS 27 Sparks: Betty Boop Sings Dirty Little Ditties by Janis Schacht Sparks: Russell Mael wins the "flapper of the year" award, and Sparks shimmies up the charts. parks cautiously approach the girl, does he exercise by breaking about, lyrics reminiscent of those stage of Max’s Kansas City. two by fours? Just what is his early psychedelic bands such as Keith There’s hardly enough room for the game? Could he be enticed? No West’s Tomorrow, and The Pink quintet plus Harley Feinstein’s drums one's quite that lame, no one’s Floyd when they were still singing and the amplifiers, so lead singer Rus quite that nice. . . . “See Emily Play” and “Arnold sell Mael is reduced to pacing back (“No More Mr. Nice Guys’’) Layne.” The songs were all dirty little and forth, taking tiny mincing steps Childish perversions with a hard ditties about harmless perversions fill much like a Walt Disney character rock riff: Russell grabs the micro ed with electronic sucking noises, sneaking stealthily into the night. phone off the stand and begins to tinkling pianos and heavy drum beats; Stamping his feet and clapping his chant, his eyes getting wider and these were all set to complex melody hands in early Mick Jagger/Jose wider: “The nice-a guys can-not and lines that floated in and out of major Greco style, he lets loose with a clear the nice-a guys shall not, the nice-a and minor chords as easily as a sal high voice, resembling Jon Anderson guys will not win!” He shakes a finger mon floats upstream. of Yes or Colin Carter of Flash. back and forth in disdain for the Sparks is five Los Angeles youths: Looking out from under a crown of puritanical hero of the song. The mu Ron and Russel Mael (brothers), Bolanesque corkscrew curls, the love sic itself is filled with Who-like guitar Earle and Jim Mankey (brothers), ly Russell rolls his steely, blue-grey riffs straight out of “Pinball Wizard” and Harley Feinstein, the drummer. eyes like a ’20’s flapper, flipping his and is backed by a solid bass line that Ron Mael, songwriter extraordinaire, palms up in front of his chest, Betty would do the Move proud. It is rolls his eyes in his best slapstick Boop-style. With mincing, chippery fronted by warped lyrics such as “Fa fashion while he twitches his Chap- steps, he approaches the mike and la fa lee she thinks only of the higher linesque mustache and plays silent recites in his best “to be or not to be” parts of me/such a shame were I she/ movie-style piano, backing his brother fashion: I’d set my sights much lower, then I’d Russell’s antics. Ron has a degree in Just when sin is quite the thing, sing fa la fa lee/but as it stands now graphic arts and not only designed there’s one who holds quite tight that would be a felony.” Remember the group’s album cover when their to what has worked before. What’s the days when Marc Bolan’s first band LP first emerged less than a year ago his outlet, what's his secret, is it would sing “Desdemona lift up your as Half Nelson, but patiently agreed something one can buy at some skirt and speak?” to design a second cover when the drugstore? Could the gospel be his This is what Spark’s music is all band’s label decided to reissue the HORIZON album under the name Sparks (Bears- ville). Roxy Music: Space Age Greasers Russell Mael’s physical innocence is often betrayed by his sharp wit and incredible sense of comic timing. Few T Tear ye, hear ye! Come to a gath- ion. It seemed very remote then—but observers of their Max’s appearance JlJL ering of the old and the new. now, it’s a feeling that’s around that will forget the night his microphone This is the place where the weird, the we happen to represent," Andy fell apart right in the middle of his cosmic, the shiny, the electronic and MacKay explains, combing his D.A. big finale “Whippings and Apologies?” the leopard-skinned meet the violent and removing his saxophone from his The courageous roadie shimmied frenzy of the 1950’s rock and roll. mouth just long enough to talk. “We’d across the stage on his stomach to fix Dress six gentlemen in glittery worked it out by the middle of last it, but when it was back together Rus finery that almost fits, almost con year, so it’s not just something we’ve sell stopped his dancing, put his hands ceals, with a dash of sex appeal and jumped on all of a sudden." on his hips, rolled his eyes, shook his a touch of the space age (but border The music, though not instantly head and mouthed, “I don’t want it ing on the ’50’s Teddy Boy/greaser likable, is immediately recognizable anymore.” look), add producer Pete Sinfield’s as something completely out of the Rundgren lost his G.T.O.: Earle (ex-King Crimson member) touch of ordinary. When the opener, “Re Mankey plays a mean electric guitar. taste and dash of eccentric, electronic make/Re-model” revs up side one, It’s hard to believe that this man who outer-space noises, plus Roxy’s almost there’s a lightning flash-back into mid moves so frantically onstage has a incomprehensible lyrics, and finally period Velvet Underground. Bryan degree in electrical engineering and top off the potpourri with a beat you Ferry, long a devotee of Andy War that the sexy-voiced wench who sighs, can dance to and—lo and behold: hol, might well have picked up on “ooh let's do it,” on the song “Biology Roxy Music is born. Lou Reed’s vibrations. 2” is his dental surgeon wife. Roxy Music is a band that has Later on the side, the shockingly Earle’s brother Jim could pass for achieved a great deal of fame in the haunting sounds of “If There Is Some a French romantic lead. He’s kind of one year since its birth. They have thing” chills the blood: a Jean-Paul Belmondo type with a received the title “brightest hope for little bit of long-haired Carole King 1973” from a prestigious British pop I would do anything for you thrown in for good measure. Jim paper, and their new album, Roxy I would climb mountains stands quite still onstage in his grey Music (Reprise) entered the English 7 would swim all the ocean floors suit, black shirt and white tie, while charts the very first week of its re I would walk a thousand miles he lays down a heavy bass line that lease. They have even begun to threat Reveal my secrets . . . puts him in a class with Ace Kelford, en the status of supercharged “rock I would put roses round our door one of the musicians who helped put phenomena” like T. Rex, David Sit in the garden growing potatoes the Move on the map. Bowie and Slade by hogging the cover by the score . . . Drummer Harley Feinstein is a stories in the British rock press. favorite with the girls. He smiles into Some other English bands that are Surely these promises are a fate worse the audience, his cigarette dangling still struggling up through the bottom than death for the likes of a freaked- from his mouth as he keeps the beat. of pop-dom have begun to resent out rock and roller. They were brought together on rec Roxy Music. After all, if you were Look at Roxy Music. If you can’t ord by Top 40 superman Todd Rund playing all the seamiest venues and accept their appearance, then listen to gren; but it is rumored that after dragging yourself all over the country the music. If the electronic synthesizer Todd lost the lovely G.T.O. Miss trying to establish your reputation, work doesn’t impress you, the rock Christine to baby-faced lead vocalist only to discover that a band less than and roll will. As the “leader of the Russell half-way through the record a year old that has played less than pack's’’ motorcycle speeds between ing of the album, the Rundgren/ three dozen dates together (including your speakers, Bryan warbles: Sparks friendship began to cool. One gigs with Alice Cooper and David thing is known for sure—their next Bowie) is right up on top with their You're so sheer, you're so chic LP, A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing, first album and first single you might Teenage rebel of the week. . . . was not produced by Rundgren. get a little hot under the collar too. “Virginia Plain" If 1967 psychedelic rock music had The Uncola Kings meet Teen If ] ’ never died . . . if Keith West’s Tomor Angel: True, Eno (synthesizer & you find yourself doing the lindy, you’re hooked. row were still together to perform tapes). Bryan Ferry (vocals & piano), ” re hooked. # by jam-s Schacht “My White Bicycle” (a song which Rik Kenton (bass guitar), Andy Mac Roxy Music: A synthesized blast from the Sparks performs with much enthusi Kay (oboe & saxophone), Paul past dressed in glitter and gold. asm) . . . and if the Move had ever Thompson (drums) and Phil Man- been as good onstage as they were zanera (guitar) have only played thir on record, then and only then would ty-odd dates together, but they seem there be no need for groups like to feel that the key to their success is Sparks. But it is 1972. The Move their over-all originality and intelli were never any good live, Keith West gence. is a thing of the past, and psychedelic So these six gentlemen, who come rock is something which faded into on much in the style of Fifties greas the distance on a whiff of incense and ers with cosmic powers, dye their day-glo posters. All that is left are hair, sharpen their wits, arm them some scratched records, faded photo selves with a battery of amplifiers graphs, pressed flowers and a wonder and commence to entertain. band called Sparks who make it all “Last year at this time I’d have seem fresh and exciting again. • been very surprised to find that what we're doing now is so much in fash CIRCUS 29 1 R < 2^ lice, Alice, Alice,” screamed three >. hundred frenzied fans as the red, white and blue fifty-two seater plane glided to a landing at Glasgow, Scot land’s Prestwick Airport. But when by Barbara Graustark the group triumphantly stepped down the ramp, their expressions of delight turned to open-mouthed horror as mobbing supporters broke through po lice barricades and caused such a dis array that Alice and the band were forced to flee to waiting limousines, leaving their baggage behind. Hurri Hurricane Alice cane Alice, as the Glasgow press soon dubbed the tangle-haired superstar, was whisked off to the safety of the Takes Europe By Central Hotel for the awesome begin ning of Alice’s most tumultuous Eu ropean tour ever, a tour that opened Storm with the most frightening twenty-four hours in the history of Cooper mad ness, soon produced a maniacal super- star recording session destined to make In a oV the sessions for The Who’s new Tom matter of moments, as my look like a dull summit meeting for stuffed-shirt octogenarians, and excitement turned to open-*1 . ni<'at"ca reached its peak with a Paris bash that made Jagger’s New York birthday party look like a shoe salesmen’s con three thousand of Glasgow s ® vention at a second-rate resort. Beginning the reign of terror: The first tremors of the Glasgow scare ever. were felt back in New York two days gave the band its wildest reception before the band was slated to appear at Glasgow's Green's Playhouse. Al ready notorious for their frequent out bursts of violence during soccer matches, the young people of Glas gow had erupted in a bloody battle MUSIC I Alice Cooper: The rest stop in London that I Alice hoped would be a peaceful breather turned into a tumultuous drunken record ing session with Keith Moon, Marc Bolan, Ric Gretch, Donovan and Harry Nilsson. royale, at a hotly-contcstcd soccer ex hibition game, and the front page of the London Times showed a young girl being carried out of the Glasgow Stadium with a knife stuck in her head. It was no wonder that members of the Cooper team were literally quaking in anticipation of their own Alice Cooper: When the group returned concert and hastily cancelled plans to from their European tour, they plunged have Alice go onstage carrying two into preparations for Alice on Broadway, scarves from the opposing soccer a week-long stint at New York's Broadway teams. Theater in February. At first, their worst fears seemed confirmed: surrounded by hundreds of agitated devotees, the boys were held virtual prisoners in their hotel. And forty personal bodyguards had been added to the swelling entourage by the time the boys reached the Play house to kick off their first European gig- The three thousand fanatical admir ers inside greeted Alice’s arrival with the biggest exhibit of pop frenzy ever to hit Scotland. Before Alice had even reached the stage, hundreds of eager girls had broken through police lines, collapsing three rows of seats under the crush. As the act unfolded with a flood of bubbles gushing around the musicians, Alice slunk into the spot light, resplendent in bone-crushing tight gold lame pants and a black leather top. Strutting and primping, his eyes smeared with black goo make up, he primed his band into one of their most historic concerts. Getting off on the violence: With the grace of a grotesque ballerina. Alice Cooper: This European tour made him the world’s most wanted man: Prin cess Margaret requested a special per formance, and plans call for Alice to re turn to London in May. Alice sidled through his staple mo in the garb of a Presidential candidate, tions. His pet boa, Yvonne, curled throwing chewed up posters into the sensuously around the singer's torso seething crowd . . . and the strains of and slithered between his legs with a “Elected”' filled the hall. By the time primitive, yet graceful, savage beauty. Alice reappeared for the School’s Out Hysteria mounted in the crowd as finale, the fans were dancing wildly Alice slashed his sword inches from in the aisles. his own throat, then goaded the band When the dust cleared, the only into their West Side Story stage fight. casualties were the dozens of uncon When the din died, drummer Neil scious girls sagging in the rest rooms Smith reigned triumphant; the rest of and several unfortunates who were the band lay mangled and spread- treated for bruised ribs and shock at eagled on the floor. Suddenly, Alice the Royal Infirmary. But there was was up again, stalking Neil with a little doubt in the minds of many broken bottle. He lunged, then stabbed spectators that Alice had held his the drummer between the shoulder gloved hand on the violent pulse of blades. “Hang him,” screamed the au Glasgow that night. Backstage after dience, thristing for blood. As Alice the show, Alice calmly fed a dead was bound and dragged to the await rat to Yvonne, and denied that his ing gallows, scuffles broke out in the violent act encouraged fans to follow audience, and for one moment it ap in his footsteps. “It doesn’t get me peared that Alice had lost control of off watching someone else get violent, his crowd. Quickly, several youths so why should it affect the kids?” he were dragged away by Scottish officers, shrugged. In fact, the fans staggered and the show resumed as the drummer out of the hall drained by Alice’s ca tolled a solemn beat while Alice was thartic spell and returned placidly to fitted with a noose. The frenzied their homes, quelling any predictions crowd erupted into a mass roar as of a riot. their hero dangled lifeless from the Historic recording session: But Photos: Lynn Goldsmith noose. Suddenly, smoke poured out the group’s managers breathed a deep from the gallows obscuring the stage, sigh of relief when the boys boarded police, and entire front section of the their plane for a brief rest stop in hall in billowing clouds. When it final London. Little did they suspect that ly cleared—presto, out strode Alice this short breather would prove equal in top hat, cane, and long white tails ly frenetic. On the surface, a Warner HS^ ■' ■ ■- ® 4 o0®K- ’J m <>l #a3±SOd SADHO I ' 1 i HVIOSOaVH J is? co 4— co C? — co -i-< Brothers press party for Mark Vol man and Howard Kaylan (The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie), who were touring with Alice, seemed a calm oasis after their London tem pest. Alice and the band mingled with the likes of Donovan, Harry Nilsson and Marc Bolan, then invited the su perstars down to Morgan Sound Stu dios where Alice was about to lay down tracks for his new LP. When the superstar ensemble R.S.V.P.’ed in person eighteen hours later, the results were totally chaotic. Nilsson, Donovan and Bolan brought with them Keith Moon and Ric Gretch; and the results of that session yielded almost a dozen new Cooper tunes. Alice Cooper: In Munich, a circus met him “Billion Dollar Babies,” presented at the airport and Alice rode the elephant back to the Circus Krone, a giant circus Alice and Donovan in a duet; “No tent, for the evening’s concert. He’s a More Mr. Nice Guy,” “Raped and national hero in Germany, where his first Freezing,” “Hope I Die In My Slick LP, PRETTYS FOR YOU was voted the best- Black Limousine,” “I Love The arranged LP four and one-half years ago. Dead,” “Sick Things,” and “Unfinish ed Sweet,” were but a few of the more picturesque titles. The highlights of that session came when a dog shat on the studio floor precisely as the boys wound up “Sick Things” and Keith Moon was dragged blind drunk to his car, the victim of a cognac overdose (Alice stuck with his usual beer). “Tout Paris:” If their London and Glasgow receptions had dazzled the group, their riotous, revelous welcome to gay Paris raised the feverish pitch to a climax. They sold out one show and fans threatened to riot until an other was added. The scene was the famed Olympia Theater, France’s most respected, most prestigious hall. Over twelve thousand fans viewed the two concerts with all the fervor of their Glasgow neighbors to the north; but the footnote of that blast came after the show was over; at a recep tion thrown by Alice’s good friend Omar Sharif. New Jimmies, Paris’ leading discotheque was the scene of the celebration entitled “Tout Paris,” and truly all of Paris society was out to welcome Alice to their shores. Dukes and Duchesses mingled over champagne glasses with the conti nent’s most glittery, sparkling super- stars. Princesses kicked off their shoes and danced to the loud, pulsing rock beat emanating from the live band. As Alice waved good-bye to gay Paris and winged off for concerts in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Germany, Copenhagen, Switzerland, and a final week’s rest in London before return ing home to the States to prepare for a week on Broadway in February, there was no longer any doubt in any one’s mind . . . Alice was causing more excitement in Europe than any American group in musical history. Photos: Peter J. Philbln j : Flash Flees Yes's Shadow The kids in the audience turn to each other and whisper, “They’re just like Yes.” But back in the dressing room sits a girl who helped make Flash’s new LP subtly un-Yes-like. by Peter Jay Phllbin and Howard Bloom T'he Continental Hyatt House sits Toledo, Ohio, stage where Peter had flimsy imitation of Peter’s old group. JL like a large, lifted finger in the been playing a long and frenzied gui Three-headed monster: But now middle of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. tar solo, one member of the audience the emergence of their new LP, Flash In the downstairs coffee shop Flash’s turned to his neighbor and whispered, In The Can (distributed by Capitol founder, former Yes guitarist Peter “They’re just like Yes.” A month later, Records), is likely to churn the flurry Banks, runs a straw through his milk a young rock writer in New York of accusations into a full-fledged shake and reads a review in the L.A. City returned home from an outdoor storm. The thick web of bass followed Times which compares his group with Flash concert, sat down at his type by a high-pitched filigree of guitar Yes. Banks is uncomfortable with the writer, and wrote, “The purpose of which opens Flash In The Can’s long comparison, and you can see a twitch Flash is to imitate Yes, plain and est piece, “Black and White,” smacks of anger in his nose as he pushes the simple, and they did exactly that.” heavily of the two-year-old Yes Al morning newspaper aside. Though Flash had done over 50 dates bum. And the overdubbed choir of A hail of critical darts: It is in two months with the likes of Alice Colin Carter’s high, tenor vocals cut a difficult thing to be the leader of a Cooper, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath ting with a harsh, nasal edge echoes new British band touring America, and the Kinks, though they had kept the falsetto pattern Jon Anderson es especially when you are the br^nt of their first single (“Small Beginnings”) tablished in 1970 when Yes received of merciless attacks from critics and on the charts for over three months, its first triumphant taste of popularity. fans alike. And Peter Banks’ illustri and though they had sold 100.000 Yet, despite all the similarities, there ous background has brought the at copies of their first LP (Flash, on is an undeniable difference between tackers flocking to Flash in droves. Capitol Records) within less than a Flash and Yes—a difference no Last summer, when the strobe lights year of their first rehearsal together, amount of musical analysis could ever had stopped stabbing their electric there was no question about it . . quite pin down. It is a difference that lightning bolts into the corner of a the band was being knocked as a comes from the people behind the Flash: When they whirled through an ex hausting 50-city tour of the States last summer, critics attacked them mercilessly. i ______seum date his Flashmatcs would stum music. Colln Carter, vocals: When Colin finished Peter Banks conceived of Flash late washing dishes In a London restaurant, he ble past the drowsy hotel clerk singing one night in Yes’s old Fulham house; went over to Peter Banks’ house and In a new drinking song—“I Left My and if he’d been foolish enough to troduced himself. By five o’clock that Brain In Fort Wayne.” And Clair morning they had written “Small Begin Bennett? Clair and her baby would set the new band up as a vehicle for nings,’’ Improvised a rhythm Instrument his guitar solos, Flash might well have by putting sugar In a can, and recorded spend most of that tour waiting at r been a cheap copy of what the Yes the future hit on a borrowed tape recorder. her parents’ home in Montrose, New Group was when Banks was in it. But York. Flash is far from being a vehicle What the group calls “the most for Peter’s obviously talented guitar satisfying song on the new album” work. It is, rather, a band without a was written in June, when Clair Ben leader. Every day for a week Peter nett was seven months pregnant. Clair Banks, Colin Carter, Ray Bennett and laughingly admits to being the in Mike Hough marched into a green spiration for her husband’s composi brick building in the center of Wemb tions, and this closing love song is ley Stadium’s parking lot, threaded clearly for her. their way through the corridors to Studio 3, and sat down intently to re Monday morning eyes cord the music for Flash In The Can. *• Heavily disguised Seven days and $8,000 in expenses Like a wallpapered gaze. later, they finally came out with a Sh... Ten o'clock reports. record that consolidated what the A gorgeous girl with bedroom eyes first album had created. But when Is saying to me asked to analyze the new album sev J I feel the breath of life eral months after the sessions, the Today inside of me. group’s producer-manager Derek Law “Monday Morning Eyes” rence leaned back in his Los Angeles hotel room and simply said, “You Please, no Yes: No lyrics could know, there’s a lot of Ray Bennett on be more unlike the space-aged (some this one.” With the exception of Colin say “heartless”) surrealism of the Carter's rocker. “Lifetime,” Ray had group they say Flash imitates . . . the composed all the songs for Flash In group Peter Banks left because he felt The Can. And a close look at the he was becoming like a machine . . . the group of coldly majestic, awesome events behind Ray’s strongest song k ' ■ V shows at least one key reason why ly impersonal geniuses the world calls Flash is not just Yes in disguise. Yes. No lyrics could have less in com The girl backstage: Flash’s dress mon with Yes’ strangely anti-female ing room upstairs at L.A.’s Whiskey A Go Go whirls with figures: photog Take a straighter, stronger course To the corner of your life raphers. female admirers, fringe en tourages, all the frantically fun people Make the white queen run so fast who follow the progress of up-and- She hasn't got time coming bands. Peter Banks meticu To make you a wife. lously tunes his newly-purchased, vin “I’ve Seen All Good People” tage Gibson guitar for the clicking Or with Jon Anderson’s cosmic cover cameras of several underground news papers. Colin Carter paces about the up of what he’s trying to say in room answering occasional questions A man conceived a moment’s and studying the obvious glances of answer to the dream several young ladies. Only Ray Ben Staying the flowers daily, sensing nett seems content to watch this free- all the themes for-all affair from the sidelines. Quiet As a foundation left to create and angularly handsome with dark the spiral him. brows and a blond mustache, he sits “And You And I” beside his American-born wife, Clair. I A seven-week-old baby girl sleeps on But still the slings and arrows of out the leather couch beside them. Down raged rock critics keep smacking stairs a band is playing and the bass Flash with accusations of Yes-ishness. notes thump through the floor boards No wonder that on their recently com i into the infant girl’s curious nursery pleted second U.S. tour, when the like an intense, electric, human heart stage lights went up on Ray Bennett beat. bending over his bass, on Peter Banks Bedroom eyes: Clair Bennett left jabbing his guitar with gearshift move her London hospital ten days after ments, and on Colin Carter leaning Alison was born. A week later she back and belting into his microphone, and her new baby boarded the air the four of them were more determ plane that brought Flash to America. ined than ever to show “That this is Soon her husband would go out on Flash music, and nothing to do with the road for a tdbr so grueling that 3 Yes.” late one night after an Indiana coli- 4 Photos: Jani* Schacht by Patrick "Willie Boy” Salvo, Feathers Of An Angel The Legend Of Duane Allman — 26 Albums Closer To Home From his sessions with Aretha Franklin to his collaborations with|^ Eric Clapton, the motorcycle lover from Macon, Georgia covered all the bases. The most complete Duane’s historic work with Eric Clapton began one afternoon when Allman drove album-by-album chronicle from L.A. to San Francisco just to hear of Duane Allman’s life Clapton lay down some tracks. ever published. HOUSE ROCKERS—(No Label) rowing up in Nashville, Duane and Gregg Allman first played the blues together during the winter of 1959-60 when Gregg received a guitar for Christmas and Duane a motorcycle. While Gregg was learning to play his axe, Duane was busy cracking up his Harley 165. Duane traded the junked parts for a guitar of his own, and the brothers worked together learning the riffs of blues masters like Bobby Bland, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Duane once re called, ‘‘Gregg taught me, then came the regular old apprentice thing, playing for anybody that’ll listen, building up your chops. . . .” One of the brothers’ first gigs was at a Y.M.C.A. youth cen ter dance (“doing Hank Ballard and the Midnighters’ Stuff, Chuck Berry tunes and trying to get the Beatles harmonies down”). It wasn’t long before they had formed the House Rockers, a raw rock’n Southern blues ensemble (“Sixteen years old, pulling down $41 a week, the big time, man . . .”). Conceivably some crude “collector’s item” tapes are avail able from early House Rockers gigs and rehearsals. THE ALLMAN JOYS—(DIAL) (Unavailable to the public) The A.J.’s worked the Southern go-go- I club and Liquor-bar circuit in Atlanta “I picked it up from a record. The first which immediately topped the R & B and Mobile and had a regionally success song I learned was ‘Statesboro Blues.’ charts, featuring Duane Allman as mas ful single, “Spoonful” (“It was a terrible, I just sat around for three weeks and ter technician, delicately laying back, psychedelic rendition of Willie Dixon’s practiced it. It still sounded terrible. But then “sliding out sensuous solos over tune, unfortunately.”). The Brothers laid it got better.” Note: United Artist Rec and around Pickett’s wicked growls.” down enough tracks for at least two ords plans to repackage the Hour Glass Thus began Duane Allman’s illustrious LP’s, which were never released because two-record set later this year as part of session career, which placed him in a Gregg “reckoned they were unsuitable their famed “Legendary Masters” series. strange position. During his Muscle and not representative of Duane’s play Gregg Allman is supposed to remix the Shoals period, Duane was one of the ing.” old tapes, but according to Allman only long-haired freaks around. He got The tapes depicted Duane stretching spokesman Hyland, “He’s probably get himself a secluded cabin by the lake out into psychedelic rock and blues and ting a lot of shit from them.” so he could fish and drink his Coors showed quite clearly that the Allmans beer when he could get it. “That’s the were not your run of the mill, hick, THE HOUR GLASS—THE B.B. KING most desolate place. It was a dry coun tobacco-chewing Southern rock and roll MEDLEY TAPES—(Unavailable ty. Sometimes you had to cross state group, but a highly sophisticated breed to the public) lines to Tennessee to cop a case of of serious, success-oriented musicians Duane and company interpreting sev beer.” (Note: “Hey Jude” appears on aware of every major influence from eral of B.B.’s blues titles. Two or three Capricorn’s Duane Allman—An Anthol Robert Johnson to Timothy Leary. cuts which Liberty rejected (“No way ogy.) we’ll ever release this stuff, why don’t While the rest of the session men HOUR GLASS—(LIBERTY - LST-7536) you get your own label and do it”) now gave Duane his due as one hell of a fan (STEREO) appear on Capricorn’s Duane Allman tastic guitar player, he just never was HOUR GLASS—POWER OF LOVE— —An Anthology. Cuts include “My one of them. “He would hang out with (LIBERTY 7555) Sweet Little Angel,” “It’s My Own them every once in awhile but he would Working out of Alabama and playing Fault," and “How Blue Can You Get,” rather stay by himself, being the sort of a gig somewhere in St. Louis, Duane all recorded at the Allmans’ own ex low keyed dude that he was.” (Note: and Co. shared the bill with the Nitty pense at Ricky Hall’s Fame Recording These sessions and Duane’s other At Gritty Dirt Band “who turned them on Studio in Muscle Shoals, in April 1968 lantic outings prompted Atlantic boss, to their manager. Bill McKuen” (he’s while Duane was on the road. Jerry Wexler to tip off his good friend, presently trying to sue the Bros.). In Phil Walden—then manager of Otis late 1967, the group split from their DUANE AND GREGG (STEREO)— Redding, Clarence Carter, Arthur Con Dial label, and came to “Decadent (BOLD 33-301) ley, and Sam and Dave—to see “this L.A.,” to sign with McKuen. ("They When “Los Angeles soured,” Duane long-haired guitar player and talk to even stopped at a motel on the out got fed up with the “jive Hollywood him. Phil then talked Duane, then a skirts of town and cleaned themselves scene," and he and Gregg went back free agent, into starting a band, which up, so as to make a good impression.”) to Florida, where they joined Butch he wanted to do anyway.” And it was McKuen turned them into the Hour Trucks’ band—the 31st of February. not too long after that Walden initiated Glass by creating a phony non-Allman Duane wound up moving into gui- Capricorn Records, originally slated for image, dressing them up in top hats tarist/bass player Berry Oakley’s place', R & B acts exclusively, and became the and love beads and having them record the Green House. For a brief mo Allman’s manager.) pseudo-psychedelic rubbish to cash in ment it looked as if Butch Trucks was on the summer of flower power. Duane about to become the star, and Duane THE DYNAMIC CLARENCE CARTER recalls the Hour Glass as “A good damn and Gregg were going to fall into the (ATLANTIC SD 8199) (STEREO) band of misled cats. They’d send in a background. Trucks got a chance to Recorded at Fame Studios, Muscle box of demos and say, ‘Okay, pick out make a record at Miami’s Tone Studios Shoals, Alabama, this LP features Duane your next LP.’ We’d try to tell them that and snapped it up. Duane and Gregg pickin’ and strummin’ on Carter’s “The that wasn’t where it was at—then they’d came along as just another piece of the Road of Love.” Duane’s fiery slide gui get tough and say, ’You gotta have an band. Three years later Bold Records tar work compliments Clarence’s deep album man. don’t buck the system, just put out the Butch Trucks sessions . . . seated ability to project what the blues pick it out!’ ” Their two Liberty albums much to the annoyance of the Allman is all about. (Note: “Road of Love” ap- sound like the American Breed’s bubble Brothers, who by then had vaulted into pears on Capricorn’s Duane Allman— gum instrumentals minced with the As a lofty position as one of America’s An Anthology.') sociation’s harmonies. The Hour Glass, most highly respected groups. But produced by Dallas Smith, existed six Duane And Gregg, the record in ques ARETHA FRANKLIN—THIS GIRL'S months and was sent on a nation-wide tion, offers a valuable insight into Du IN LOVE WITH YOU—(ATLANTIC promotional tour by Liberty Records ane’s musical, puberty, when he was SD 8248) “who they were very unhappy with at just beginning to find out what to do ARETHA FRANKLIN—SPIRIT IN THE the time.” with the tools he possessed. It also DARK (ATLANTIC) According to Allman spokesman offers the first recorded version of According to an Allman spokesman, Mike Hyland, “They never really “Melissa,” which was later to reemerge "Jerry Wexler heard Duane play on the played any of the scheduled gigs ex so successfully on Eat A Peach. ’Hey, Jude’ thing and wanted him to cept a Cleveland promotion man’s play on Aretha’s record. Duane dug daughter’s sweet sixteen bash and HEY JUDE—WILSON PICKETT black cats, and he never seemed nervous the Whiskey-Au-Go-Go in Hollywood, (ATLANTIC—SD 8215) (STEREO) about playing with them.” Duane is where they jammed with the Buffalo One day a telegram arrived at Duane’s featured laying down a slithering, sex Springfield, especially Neil Young and temporary residence, the Green House, ual, slide passage throughout Jaime Stephen Stills,” (which explains the from recording studio owner Rick Hall, Robertson’s “The Weight,” which Stills/Young vocal influences on later who had heard and liked Duane’s work brought the Queen of Soul out of her recordings). The Hour Glass “got on The B.B. King Medley Tapes. "Wil temporary recording doldrums and into abused in the non-deliberate but inev son Pickett desperately needed a guitar the R & B spotlight once again. itable Los Angeles tradition” and the player; and when Hall heard Allman, In “It Ain’t Fair” Duane methodical band broke up. However it was during he freaked .and asked the blond Geor ly slides and jerks a few tears from his the group’s hippy-trippy days in L.A. gian to play on a Pickett session.” six string around Aretha’s ever-present that Duane Allman mastered the slide Pickett loved Duane’s sound and nick wailing plea for respect. (Note: Duane guitar, the deciding factor which “set named him “Skydog,” whereupon Duane appears in a photo with Atlantic boss, u.------t from Jegions of guitar players suggested that Wilson record "Hey Jerry Wexler and session bass player him apart Jerry Jemmott during an Aretha ses- roaming t!the country.” As Duane put it, Jude.” They cut an LP and a single 3* C1K€US> The Allman Brothers Band fell into its first jam almost by accident—but when sion on the back of Aretha's Gold (At it was all over, they were speechless. lantic SD 8227), although he never played on any of the songs on the LP.) Duane went down to Georgia for a much Duane also appears on several cuts needed vacation ... a vacation that of Aretha’s Spirit In The Dark LP, and turned out to be his last. generally stood behind her in the sha dows when she was going through some heavy riffs during her so-called “come back period.” INSTANT GROOVE—KING CURTIS (ATCO SD 33-293) This may have been Duane’s most insipid session performance: his chord structures sound restricted and undirect ed, as if he wasn’t given enough room to stretch out. Nonetheless, Duane loved playing with King Curtis because the I masterful soul saxophonist “fed Duane’s growing needs for both reassurance and II I worth. Curtis always gave him first call on any sessions he produced, telling r Duane all along that he had somethinglething I unique and that he ought to stick with it.” When the Allman Brothers played basically Duane’s only non-Atlantic en LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE in Boston two or three days after Curtis deavor after he’d begun to achieve suc SONGS—DEREK AND THE was slain on his front steps, Duane cess. “Columbia got permission from DOMINOS (ATCO SD 2-704) dedicated their set to him and played Phil Walden, whereupon Columbia pay If his session work with Aretha, Cur "Soul Serenade" on slide guitar especial ed Duane so much money, he freaked tis and Delaney and Bonnie had made ly for him. (Note: “Games People Play” out and wanted to give some of it Duane a valued attendant to the royal is featured on Capricorn’s Duane All- back.” family of rock’s top musicians, it was man—An Anthology.) his collaboration with Eric Clapton that PERCY SLEDGE—(ATLANTIC) finally transformed him from an im ARTHUR CONLEY (ATLANTIC) Duane cut several tracks with Sledge perial servant to a king. “I’d been Duane appeared on several follow up after his “When A Man Loves A Wom a fan of Eric’s a long time,” Duane ex singles and LP tracks to “Sweet Soul an” success. plains. "Drove up from L.A. to San Music.” Like most all other Muscle Francisco once, just to hear Cream play. Shoals, Duane Allman session work, TO BONNIE FROM DELANEY (ATCO So when Tom Dowd (the producer) men “The gigs were done with only chord SD 33-341) (STEREO) tioned that Eric was going to be cutting charts to work from (to quote Duane), DELANEY AND BONNIE AND FRIENDS some stuff at those studios, I asked Tom and you played whatever the hell you MOTEL SHOT (SD 33-358) to be sure to call me, so I could come felt." DELANEY AND BONNIE TOGETHER down and watch. You know, guitar play (COLUMBIA KC 31377) ers feel a kind of fellowship, each dig BOZ SCAGGS (ATLANTIC SD 8239) Rumor has it that Duane’s first meet ging what the other is doing—it’s the 1969 ing with Eric (Derek) Clapton took same with all instruments, really. So I Co-produced by underground maga place at one of the initial Delaney and went down to listen, and Eric knew me zine czar Jann Wenner, Boz’s first Atlan Bonnie sessions. (Note: “Going Down man, greeted me like an old friend! tic effort features Duane on dobro and The Road (Feelin’ Bad)” is included on That cat is really a prince—he said slide guitar releasing some sweet and Capricorn’s Duane Allman—An Anthol ‘Come on, you got to play on this rec relaxing uptempo “organic music.” (Note: ogy.) ord’—so I did. We’d sit down and plan it One cut appears on Duane Allman—An Anthology.) JOHN HAMMOND—SOUTHERN FRIED (ATLANTIC SD 8251) Duane played on his friend John Hammond’s Southern Fried LP “simply because he thought the world of John and his playing.” Featured Allman-aug mented cuts include Willie Dixon’s “Shake For Me” (appearing on Duane Allman—An Anthology) and “You’ll Be Mine,” “Crying For My Baby” and "I’m Leavin’ You.” RONNIE HAWKINS—(COTILLION) Duane riffs with the Hawk on "Down In the Alley,” which also appears on Duane Allman—An Anthology. The standout feature of “Down* In the Al ley," a track that attracted John Len non’s praise, was Duane’s slide guitar. LAURA NYRO—CHRISTMAS AND THE BEADS OF SWEAT (COLUMBIA) Believe it or not. Duane is on one of her tracks, “Beads of Sweat.” This was out, work out our different parts and provisation band (like the Grateful Duane’s fatal accident. try it one time. Then we’d say, ‘Well, Dead). In fact, they were a well polish let’s try some more of this in here, and ed, blues-oriented, unified ensemble, very LAST NIGHT AT THE FILLMORE EAST some of that there—’ everybody con much aware of who was to do what BOOTLEG/TAPES (THE ELECTRIC tributed, just sorting it out, Memphis and when. LADY LABEL EL 3304) style. Most of it was cut live, not much A dedicated Long Island Allman overdubbing—and it was all done in THE DUANE ALLMAN SOLO ALBUM freak’s gift to the Brothers. Features ten days.” (CAPRICORN) the entire two-night Fillmore last stand, Layla represents the burgeoning of THE GREGG ALLMAN SOLO ALBUM recorded on some of the best equipment Duane Allman’s “guitar guts,” in which (CAPRICORN) available . . . producing the finest boot he masters the art of “exploding” his Before and after their last European leg reproduction in the world, bar none. phrases, instead of flirting and teasing tour the two Brothers were busy work his listeners. Duane’s slide guitar parts ing on extended solo projects in the Ma on “Layla" and the other tracks are con con studios, but as of yet these projects centrated on the high strings and gen are still unreleased. EAT A PEACH—SUBTITLED DEDI erally run into each other, sounding like CATED TO A BROTHER—DUANE ALLMAN (2CP-0102) a bottleneck guitar; whereas Clapton’s JOHNNY JENKINS LP (CAPRICORN) slide phrasings are more definite, with Duane appeared and produced three The Allman Brothers Band had final greater vibrato, almost like a high cuts for Jenkins: “Bad News,” "Down ly made it. Their Live At The Fillmore sounding pedal steel. How can you dis Along the Cove” and “Rolling Stone.” LP had reached the top fifteen on the tinguish the two virtuosos? Clapton play The latter two will appear on Capri charts, and their name was finally about ed a Fender which sounds a little bit corn’s Duane Allman—An Anthology. to become a household word. Then they thinner, and brighter—a sparkling sound; decided to take a vacation in Macon, Georgia, and just lay low for a few while Duane played a Gibson which THE ELVIN BISHOP GROUP—ALLMAN weeks. One fine and sunny morning Du emits a full tile screech. Layla represents BROTHERS TAPES (Still unavailable the critical turning point at which Clap to the public) ane wheeled his cycle out onto the high ton triggered Duane Allman’s metamor Several choice cuts from a Fillmore way for a relaxing bout with the open air—only to end up in a confrontation phosis from guitar soloist to guitar sym- West Allman/Bishop jam session. “Jam phonist. With Elvin” appears on Duane Allman with a truck. Some predicted that the —An Anthology. Allman Brothers Band was finished. But HISTORY OF ERIC CLAPTON (ATCO within less than a month, they were SD 2-803) THE EVERLY BROTHERS—STORIES back in the studio to finish the LP Du Contains “Layla.” (Note: “Tell the WE COULD TELL (R.C.A.) ane had helped them start. The result Truth” which appears—minus Duane— Duane helping out some different bro was Eat A Peach (every time Duane here is a totally different rendition than thers. went back to Macon, he’d “eat a peach what appears on the Layla LP.) for peace"). The new LP featured sev ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND—IDLE- THE FIRST GREAT ROCK FESTIVALS eral live cuts of the Brothers and WILD SOUTH—(CAPRICORN OF THE SEVENTIES (COLUMBIA Duane blowing the doors of the Fill SERIES—ATCO SD 33-342) STEREO G 3x3085) more down. But with Duane’s death, Touring steadily (six nights a week— Features the Allmans doiiing a bad ver- Dicky Betts was forced to emerge as in their own Winnebago trailer bus) the sion of “Statesboro Bluesi”’’ live at the a master soloist. And although it may Brothers built up a steady repertoire 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival. be hard to believe, many say it was which finally appeared on their Idlewild Dicky all the time who was the better South LP (named after a farm the group HERBIE MANN—PUSH, PUSH of the two guitarists. used to own outside Macon). The LP (EMBRYO STEREO/SD 532) firmly established the group’s individual This entire LP shows an uncomfort istic style, featuring some fine instru able Duane Allman laying low, confined DUANE ALLMAN—AN ANTHOLOGY mental work by Duane and Dicky Betts below Herbie Mann’s structured flute (CAPRICORN) on flowing rock numbers and old back- thing. The sessions probably helped A recorded biography of Duane All- alley blues. The one problem was that Duane’s playing considerably; but too man, the session man, the soloist and “this was Duane and the Brothers in a bad the musical meeting didn’t occur the Brother—1947-1971. studio, and live shows of theirs often earlier in his career. A personal friend of Duane’s who turned into a whole other scene with wishes to remain anonymous eulogized long, extended instrumental jams that COWBOY—FIVE’LL GETCHA TEN Duane in a letter just after he died in shifted through a vast range of moods.” (CAPRICORN SD 864) that fatal crash: By the time of Idlewild South's release, An uncredited (“I thought it was a “Duane was a pretty wild person. He Duane had virtually ceased session work, bad session”) Duane Allman plays do always had a fast bike, a fast car, and and by sheer word of mouth, the group’s broe on “Please Be With Me” for Cow a lot of women—and basically lived a reputation had continued to spread. boy’s LP. Shortly thereafter the Cow very fast life. He was always doing (Note: “Statesboro Blues” appears on boys temporarily packed in their six something, and his only relaxation was Capricorn’s Duane Allman—An Anthol guns, seemingly not able to handle the fishing. He went fishing whenever he had time off. He didn’t like being singled ogy.) big time. Could be Duane’s last session work. out as the ‘star’ of the Band. He didn’t THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND AT like photo sessions or interviews, but THE WPLJ DELANEY AND BONNIE FILLMORE EAST (CAPRICORN he always did the ones he was asked AND FRIENDS (FEATURING DUANE SD 2-802) two record set to. He may have been drunk during the ALLMAN AND KING CURTIS) TAPES interview, but he did it anyway. Duane Whereas Idlewild South lacked spon —SEPTEMBER 1971 (Unavailable taneity, The Allman Brothers At The Allman was your typical Southern gen Fillmore LP could very well be tabbed to the public) tleman. He was polite, but not over Duane and King Curtis Gust before bearing. If he got mad, the best thing to the most definitive live recording in the his death) gigging with the Delaney and history of rock and roll. It clearly con do was to leave him alone. Duane was Bonnie Band (Bobby Keyes, Carl Radle, one of the most complex persons I’ve veyed all the energy of their live sets. A Bobby Whitlock) during a live radio double-album set recorded during their ever---- met. He never finished high school, broadcast at A & R Studios, New York but he had a lot of intelligence, and March ’71 gig. this LP showed Duane City. Allman and Dicky Betts as the all-time I’m sure he had a very high I.Q. He masters of “syncopated guitar” team THE ALLMAN BROTHERS WPLJ used to read a lot, and he was always TAPES (Unavailable to the public) rpicking___ ~ his _guitar. Duanes was a bad work, and demonstrated dramatically ’ " ' a lot.” that contrary to popular opinion the Duane and the Brothers live at A & mother, but I, for one, miss him Allmans were not just a free-form im- R Studios on WPLJ radio just before Play on, Brother. II I TELEVISION Richard Thomas: He learned Spanish, n, then took up Chinese JI he most far-out language " Next he’ll try Persian. Richard Thomas: by Barbara Graustark Merlin The Magician Meets In his twenty-one years, Richard 'The Waltons' has juggled more career balls than a circus veteran. Now TV’s new Houdini pulls another surprise from his bottomless top hat. ‘1 . ••• »• D ichard Thomas is probably Ameri- his parents. His father, Richard Thom you’re born in a trunk, you think ca’s foremost twenty-one year old as Sr., first broke with tradition to nothing of walking onstage. . . .” magician. Those who call him Holly leave the mining pits of Kentucky and Hunting whales at ten: Richard wood's youngest Houdini cite his un his rural ties to pursue a career in followed up his Broadway success canny ability to juggle ballet shoes, the ballet. “I think his folks were with a TV debut on the Hallmark Mandarin Chinese lessons, King probably a little shocked,” the younger Hall of Fame Christmas special, then Charles spaniels, screenplays, poetry, Thomas reveals. “They probably ex apearcd on several horror/ghost photography, Confucianism, soap op pected him to come home and study shows. (“They were my favorites. I eras, Broadway and TV performances, at the University of Kentucky as a loved to die because then the audi world-wide travel, ivy-covered cottages, veterinarian.” ences would feel sorry for me.’’) a beautiful girl friend, six major film But the smell of grease paint ran When the boy turned ten, his fa credits, contemporary art, and Colum thick in the elder Thomas’ blood, ther retired from dancing to teach, bia University all in one incredibly and he eventually married Barbara leaving his mother free to accompany varied and unusual career. And how Fallis, a ballerina. When Richard was Richard on his travels for an NBC many other intense, green-eyed actors born in 1951, the infant officially documentary series entitled One, Two, could boast that they started their ca joined the troupe, and spent his earli Three, Go. Mother and son valiantly reers at the age of six, progressed to est years in Cuba, where his folks trooped off to hunt whales in the their own documentary TV series at danced. Three years later, with the Pacific, play basketball with the Bos ten, and at the tender age of nineteen advent of a political crisis, they were ton Celtics, screen haunted houses in possessed the amazing ability to forced to flee to New York, and it England, and test moon capsules at "throw up at the drop of a hat!” was on the Upper West Side that Cape Kennedy. In retrospect, Rich If you’ve begun to realize that Richard would intermittently spend ard remembers, “I missed almost a Richard Thomas, the gifted actor who his next eighteen years. year of school, but I learned about portrays John-Boy each Thursday Richard claims he had no real tal booms, mikes, and cameras. By the night on CBS’ The Waltons, isn’t your ent for dancing. “I’m just plain awk time I was eleven, I sounded exactly run-of-the-mill guy next door, you’re ward,” he confessed. “I fall over or like Pane Fonda.’’ probably right. “I don’t even own a into things all of the time. My kid sis With the demise of the series. Rich pair of dungarees!” says the young ter used to help me tie my shoe laces.” ard was free to pursue other acting actor, who instead prefers to lounge But if a career in the ballet would ventures. And at sixteen he won his around his West Hollywood bungalow turn him off. acting was fated to turn first film break: co-starring with Paul in a flowing Indian caftan. And on him on . . . professionally—at the Newman and Joanne Woodward in I the streets he’s rarely found out of age of six. His private school teacher Winning. But he soon found himself his conservative attire of sports jacket, recommended the youngster for the up against a disturbing problem: in shirt and tie. Quite a change from the part of John Roosevelt in the Broad successive films like Last Summer and conventional T-shirted, tight-sweater- way production of Sunrise At Campo Red Sky At Morning, he was being ed, blue-jeancd, high-heeled garb most bello. “It was the first time I knew I typed into the role of “the inexperi kids don as their natural gear. was a real actor,” he says. Broadway’s enced, sensitive, eternal virgin. Open- Switched his mining pick for bal first seven-year-old superstar? “There’s faced innocence. Ugh!” Admittedly, let shoes: But Richard Thomas has no such thing,” he confesses, “because his youthful appearance had its draw always led a unique life style—one when you’re eight you want to be a backs—he later lost the role of the which he no doubt inherited from fireman. As for stage presence, when young boxer in (John Huston’s) Fat City to Jon Voight. “They couldn’t The Waltons: It’s the first show that "has see me as anything but Josh in Red the guts to stand up for Its values." Sky At Morning," he shrugs. Breaking the mold: Determined to break the stereotype, Richard co starred opposite Peter Lorre in Skip per, stepping out of character to play a delinquent “who is stupid, ugly and hostile.” He shaved his head, then "wore dirty T-shirts, tight jeans and greasy leather jackets. It’ll either be a great step forward or the most hor rTv 3k T rendous thing you’ve ever seen,” he said at one time. \. Bl And in February of ’72, Richard took to the 80-degree-below-zero chill of a Minnesota winter to film his cur s 1 rent release, You’ll Like My Mother, —a chiller-thriller that should estab % lish him as a “heavy” par excellence— playing a fugitive rapist-murderer. Meanwhile, Richard’s private life / ■ was anything but innocent. Up until his graduation from a private high school in 1969, Richard continued to cultivate a flock of friends who con sisted mainly of the Cuban and Span ish neighborhood kids from the 96th Street area. "But pretty soon all my friends turned into junkies and got sent to jail for stealing cars . . . and we started taking them in to kick their habits.” Several friends were sent down to Synanon, in Lexington, Kentucky. It was not unusual for others to go the cold turkey route in Richard’s room. These past experi ences, he feels, have placed him in a strange position regarding the drug sit uation. Although he’s tried marijuana, he claims a happy childhood immu nized him against any later need to depend on drugs. “I can’t really condone the use of marijuana by A society until it has cleared up the areas in which young, uneducated men become prey to such drugs. Marijuana may not be addictive, but it is definitely the instrument that is used by the local pusher in the ghetto to turn young children on to hard drugs.” Teenage trouper turns dropout: Perhaps his growing awareness of pressing social problems influenced his next two years at Columbia Univer sity. But perhaps the realization that he was learning more about life outside the educational arena led to his drop ping out two years later. For after that time, Richard admitted that “College wasn’t the place for me to be at the Richard Thomas: His hobby—photography moment.” The former English major- —helps his acting, he claims, by enabling turned-Chinese-scholar soon found him to observe people and situations at close range. that in college he was losing touch with what was happening. “It wasn’t show is about the Depression, but it that he’ll find someone to film it. He a vital experience,” he remembers “I concentrates on things that are true and his girlfriend, talented actress just didn’t feci part of it. It didn’t live of just about all times, and situations Sian Barbara Allen, whom he met on for me.” After he dropped out to pur that are as applicable today as they location for You’ll Like My Mother, sue his acting interests in The Waltons were then. John-Boy’s a universal enjoy taking in the latest flicks. And original TV pilot, entitled “The Home- character; he’s learning about life and then there’s always his collection of coming,” Richard finally came to the he’s the recipient of the values ex contemporary art, breeding dogs, read conclusion that "Acting is my life. pressed by the parents and the grand ing. . . . I was never indecisive about what I parents.” Richard claims the show “You can’t lose touch with the out wanted to do. I’m learning more of shies away from preachy overtones, side world,’’ he says of his varied relevance to myself from my own and concentrates instead on the close interests. “Any artist who does that is private education outside of the ness of the family itself. “It’s the only going to destroy his art because it school.” But the concept of “dropping show on the air right now that has will become irrelevant.” out" occasionally nagged at his con the guts to lay its own moral values on He’s already planning his next seri science. “That was really the only the line. Everyone in this industry is ous venture: combining serious writ time I had ever quit anything, and that so terrified of making a commitment ing with his flourishing acting career. was a disturbing thing I had to face that it’s refreshing to see a show that “I have to get down and really pro in myself.” isn’t afraid to stand by what it be duce something,” he complains anx Finding the right role: Caught in lieves. It’s a way for people to get iously, as though he's rested on his this transition period, Richard could back in touch with certain values of laurels for twenty-one years. easily identify with the character of living. In a world where it’s so easy to Just what does an active, restless, John-Boy in The Waltons, his next, feel alienated it’s a lovely thing to be sensitive guy do to burn off his ex and continuing, venture. While there able to tune in and feel part of some cess energy? “It’s hard for me to re would appear to be few similarities thing.” lax,” Richard admits. “I don’t know between John-Boy’s home-spun life Keeping tuned-in: Richard prides if it’s my Upper West Side paranoia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains during himself on staying "tuned in,” and but I can’t get high. I have such an the depression days of the early *30’s his nervous energy and driving spirit incredible amount of energy I burn and Richard’s own urban existence, keep him scurrying from one project off anything I would use. It’s very the actor finds many underlying simi to another with the thrust of a burp hard for me to get drunk, too.” He larities. "My family is from Appala gun. In addition to his acting credits, listens to music, “anything from Hen chia,” he points out. “Mostly from he’s involved with both photography drix to Beethoven. They're not so far Kentucky. And I’ve spent much time and writing and is currently revising apart, you know. And I read. Making traveling down there." But there’s a his first screenplay, a Western (“with love’s not bad, either. If you've got deeper identification, as well: “The a nice juicy part for me”) in the hope to go, go natural!” • u 1 by Ed Naha release is another drowsy collection collection of Hendrix songs. Although An A to Z listing of catchy catatonic tunes which in these tunes will be relished by some, cludes snippits of Dylan (I’ll Be Your they arc not the best of Hendrix, and - for the ravenous Baby Tonight”) and (gulp) Peggy when Jimi was alive that was all that Lee (“Fever”). Rita’s style is, as he allowed to go on record . . . the record buyer. usual, cool and smooth: and her ar best. The very best. Jimi was a per rangements are straight from slumber fectionist and. indeed, his fans ex land. Everyone sounds half-dead. Yet, pected just that from the master of al Rita can’t be dismissed lightly, for un space and psychedelia. War Heroes Love it! derneath all the superficial sluggish captures Jimi torn between his “freak ness is an amazing amount of R&B flag” days and his later return to his influence and, for want of a better R&B roots. Songs like “Highway word, soul. Joined by such rock not Child” and “Izabella” would be aver ables as Marc Benno, Al Kooper, age rock tunes without the added John Sebastian, Kris Kristofferson and gift of Hendrix's flashy guitar and Booker T. Jones, easy-going Rita pre Mitch Mitchell’s thunderous drums; Worth one listen Listen to it ’til the sents a pretty picture of reclining rock but others like “Tax Free” and “Be at least. grooves grow old. sounds. ginnings” occasionally rise to heights of instrumental grace and skill. While Ij not a “bad” album. War Heroes does Leave it! slip into occasional mediocrity, which The Grateful Dead— is something that die-hard Hendrix Europe ’72 (Warner fans just don’t expect . . . and Bros.) shouldn’t have to. Savory, but for Rating: 1 ear 1 mouth I, special tastes. A triple LP Dead out ing, Europe '72 is a Pick of The Month mixed bag of sounds that sometimes The Byrds—Best of delights, sometimes mystifies and the Byrds (Greatest sometimes produces an unwanted Joe Cocker (A&M) Hits Vol. II (Columbia) heaviness around the eye-lid area. Rating: one heart Rating: two ears Garcia and crew score heavily with After a two year lay- such Dead standards as “Truckin’” off, the raspy voice of Ever since their fondly remembered and “Cumberland Blues,” and their Joe Cocker has found “Mr. Tambourine” days, the Byrds Everly Brothers type harmonies tend its way back to wax . . . and how have been in the vanguard of the to make a lot of semi-vapid material sweet it is. A bit mellower and more “folk-country-rock’’ movement, chang come to life. Where the Dead die, reserved than in his Mad Dog days, ing members as quickly as they did however, is in their attempts sat jazz- Cocker proves to be in top form styles. Resembling an abbreviated oriented numbers. Working on the here, growling through such plodding sound history of the group’s sound, theory that when you ain’t got nothing rockers as “Black Eyed Blues” and Best of the Byrds captures the band you got nothin’ to lose, the Dead at the really scary falsetto infested in their various flight patterns through tack free-form “Prelude” with as “Woman To Woman” (his big British out the years. Representing the early much cumbersome verve as their single). Then shaggy Joe manages Byrds are “Wasn’t Born to Follow” name implies. Europe '72. despite its to get things really moving with and “He Was A Friend of Mine” flaws, is an important addition to the “High Time We Went” and “Mid (their poignant tribute to JFK). Mc- record collection of every necrophiliac night Rider,” getting ample Grease Guinn and company's mid-period in two respects: a) it is a documentary Bandish support from the Chris Stain shows up in their infamous “Jesus Is of the “live” Dead of ’72; and b) it ton Band and the Sanctified Sisters. Just Alright” and “The Ballad of is the only album out of the recent Although a couple of the long blues Easy Rider,” and the Byrd's later FM- multitude of Dead offspring that cuts tend to let the pace slacken a oriented period turns up in the form doesn't include “Playing In the bit, Cocker comes through with of “Chestnut Mare” and “America’s Band.” croupy gusto. Joe Cocker may not be Favorite Pastime.” A few country- as frenzied as some of Joe’s past ef flavored ditties round out the har forts, but it certainly proves to the monious history of the band quite doubting rock world that Cocker nicely, making this an enjoyable ex Jimi Hendrix—War Power is not a thing of the past. perience for most Byrdmaniacs. Heroes (Reprise) Rating: one ear, one Rita Coolidge—The mouth Lady’s Not For Sale It’s sad to see an old (A&M) friend kicked around when he isn’t V Rating: one ear present to defend himself. Jimi Hen Rita Coolidge sings like drix devotees may feel that way after I most people sleep. Her third A&M listening to this latest posthumous 44 CKCUS Steve Miller— nicely from pedal steel-inspired in Reed high and dry. Then the Lord Anthology (Capitol) strumentation to wailing rock riffs. spoke again saying, “Keep punchin’ Rating: two ears No matter what the style, Rick’s low kid, you ships gonna come in yet, Guitarist Steve Miller keyed Poco-ish delivery is tight, pol you betcha.” So Lou-of-the-bizarre is probably one of the ished and worth listening to. cut his first solo LP for RCA last last of the “cult” rock stars playing spring, and Io it was good, but the in America today. He has never people bought it not. Now in another achieved tremendous commercial suc land, a disciple of the prophet Reed, cess, yet he has always been popular New Riders of the starman Bowie began to spread the with rock audiences and rock musi Purple Sage—Gypsy word. And verily it came to pass that cians. He is the rock world’s favorite Cowboy (Columbia) Bowie’s words were “in." And Bowie son, and this LP set shows why. Join Rating: one ear begat Mott and they were “in.” But ed by Paul McCartney, Boz Scaggs, Throwing away a lot of forsaking not his master in oddity, Nicky Hopkins, Lee Michaels and a junior G-Man attempts at rock that Bowie returned to Reed the prophet dozen or so other able hands, Miller made Powerglide crash land with a and humbly did produce for the seer assembles the best of his rocky guitar sickening thud, NRPS comes across, a second solo album. And behold, laden tunes from ’68 to ’72. From this time, with quite a few decent Transformer was born, and truly it funky blues (“Don’t Let Nobody ballads and moderate C&W movers. was a miracle on wax—cleaving Turn You Around”) to raunchy rock The title song, as well as such tunes Reed’s dense rock nuttincss unto Bow (“Living in the USA”) to more deli as “Linda,” “On My Way Back ie’s starman sound. cate pieces (“Journey From Eden”), Home” and “Superman” show off the Anthology gives non-Millerites a band’s adequate ability at vocalizing chance to see the genius behind rock’s and picking out pretty melodies. But Don't Overlook? most unknown super hero. watch out for those rockers! These guys just don’t know how or when to These Disks I stop! The most offensive track on the Frank Zappa—The LP is a seemingly endless rot-raga en Grand Wazoo (Reprise) Joni Mitchell—For the titled “Death and Destruction.” Liv Rating: one heart Roses (Asylum) ing up to its name, the song proves x' Frank Zappa once re- Rating: two ears that David Nelson is one of the worst marked that most rock “Introspective” would guitarists on record today. At times it audiences wouldn’t know good music ^> have been a better title sounds like he is beating a small ani if it bit them in the ass. Well, a lot for Joni’s newest. While retaining the mal into submission for God knows of guys and gals won’t dig this record melodic grace and charm she present what immoral act! If NRPS would too------much. - There’s no ffunny------stuff.... „on ed in such classics as “For Free,” quit horsin’ around with rock and it. No bathroom humor or vaudeville “Circle Game,” and “Both Sides concentrate on country ditties, they routines: just a hell of a lot of jazz Now,” her newer works add lyrics just might come up with a winner. rock. Zappa has abandoned his “give _ which reveal more intimately than the morons what they want” musical ever the inward struggle of Joni Raspberries—Fresh philosophy and has returned to the Mitchell, the larger-than-life pop star. Raspberries (Capitol) excellence of Mothermania circa In practically every song from the «k- Rating: one foot 1968. It’s great. Drifting in and out ironic “You Turn Me On I’m A On their second album, of melodies and staggering solos, Radio” to the moving “Woman of the Raspberries do Zappa’s twenty-one member group _ Heart and Mind,” Joni expresses the their best to sound like their name really jazz it up with Frank’s wah-wah §> quiet intensity and dignity of an iso sake. Drawing on their stock of Beatle work shining like a guiding light and lated individual trapped by feelings sounds, the boys come up with a Don Preston and George Duke offer- and situations of which she is never semi-winner with “I Wanna Be With ing ample aid on mini-moog and or- quite sure. For the Roses is a glimpse You,” but the rest of the album falls gan. With hot brass and hot licks. into the heart and soul of one of into the “I Wanna Gettouttahere” cat Grand Wazoo is not the kind of mu rock’s most prolific songwriters. egory. The Razzes manage to castrate sic that a cro-magnon “Billy the - a couple of country ditties and a Mountain” fan will dig. but Uncle ^> Beach Boys egg with the same pre- Meat-ers will relish it. Zapped again! pubescent talent we have come to The Wackers— Rick Nelson—Garden know and fear in their McCartney Shredder (Elektra) Party (Decca) caricatures. Fresh Raspberries is the Rating: two ears Rating: one ear perfect gift for that self-respecting This is the Wackers You gotta admit, Rick’s masochist or for the suicidal maso third album, but if you , got guts. He gets booed chist who wants to look before he haven’t heard about them by now j off Madison Square Garden’s massive leaps. don’t feel badly about it. They are stage at a concert, goes home and one of the best kept secrets of this writes a song about it, and then decade. The Wackers brand of wack watches it become a top-ten single, Lou Reed—Trans and roll takes in a bit of everything, What was that old saying about former (RCA) from distorted guitar work ala 67-68 “laughing| last?. ” Well,popular as Rating: two ears to the dense T. Rex-ish sounds of the “Garden Party” was as a single, it And the Lord spoke seventies. Super-funky singing, violent was a pretty wimpy excuse for a to Lou Reed and said drum work and wild lead guitar push song. Garden Party as an album fares “Go thou and be outrageous.” And the Wackers’ rollicking rock sound a bit better. Divided between limp thus came the Velvet Underground, past your ears and clear through to country stuff and straight-on rock, which begat many strange sounds. your skull. A few ballads, and a lot Rick’s material is brought to life by And the Underground issued forth of rock all add up to Shredder . . . his Stone Canyon Band, who switch many hassles which left the prophet a bumping and grinding extravaganza ^> that cuts to the bone. S&.$> I 9 ◄ new york by Janis Schacht l: ■1 B fesagsaaaasss ssgaaaaaeseaeeesssaeseeseeesegeeeeae T n the year and a half since “Your I Move” catapulted him to fame, Yes’s lyricist and lead singer Jon Anderson has won an imposing repu tation as an enigma by stubbornly re " A fusing to unravel the puzzles of Yes’s LP’s. But Anderson has just made history by finally giving a note for note explanation of one of his most I - mysterious songs—“Close To The Edge.” At three o’clock in the morn ing while touring deep in the wilds of Pennsylvania, Anderson put some classical music on his cassette re corder, leaned back in his motel arm < chair and confided, “For me ‘Close To The Edge’ is a hymn about being close to God. In the middle section we had this idea of creating the void and then having a piano rise out of it . . . very simple. Then the song comes up and speaks of all the cruelty that abounds on this planet. Most of the politicians who are involved with get ting it together are too involved with heavy religious trips, name trips, com munism and so on.” “Then there are several lines that relate to the church. Churchgoers are always fighting about who’s better and who’s richer and who’s more hip. Jeff Beck: Stevie Wonder gained a hit So at the end of the middle section with “Superstition,” but may have lost there’s a majestic church organ. We a friend. destroy the church organ through the moog. This leads to another organ solo rejoicing in the fact that you can Stevie Wonder surprised everyone recently when he issued “Supersti turn your back on churches and find tion” as the single off his new album, it within yourself to be your own Talking Book (on Motown Records). church.” But the person he surprised most As if this wasn’t already enough to was Jeff Beck. Beck was in New York boggle the mind, Jon went on to tell and talking about his new band Beck, how the concept for “Close To The Bogert and Appice when he told Cir Edge” started. “I had a dream about cus: “He won’t be able to use any of two or three years ago. I dreamed I the sessions I played on for his album. was walking down this road carrying I played lead guitar for him and in an amplifier. I stepped into some return he wrote me a song. It was a quicksand and I started to sink. I fair exchange. Now he’s doing the didn’t scream out, because there was song he wrote for us, which means we nobody about. I died, and I finished up can’t do it. So I’m not going to let on this hill, and this old man had his him use our stuff ... so there.” arm around my shoulder and was Beck’s new band was recording at pointing. At the end of his hand was Chess Studios in Chicago ovei' Christ my life all spread out. I laughed and Jon Anderson: He dreamed he was walk mas, so expect a new album soon. ing through quicksand with an amplifier said ‘oh, that’s what it’s all about.’ in his arms. It was incredible.” 46 CIKCUS BACK PAGES Santana's Summit Jam With John McLaughlin For months, guitar giant Carlos Santana had wanted to meet guitar legend John McLaughlin face to face. When they finally got together in Co lumbia’s New York studio recently, they did more than just shake hands. They sat down with six other musi cians and spent a week recording a new LP. The results should emerge in the next few weeks. Santana:oantana: Joinedj up with Mahavishnu in the studio. Hollies Bicker Over 'Long Cool Woman' A few months back, when The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn completed plans to cut a reunion album with David Crosby and the other former group members who had made the Byrds a legend in the mid-sixties, re- ports swept through the music world that the modern-day Byrds were go- • ing to hang up their feathers and call it quits. Not so, said McGuinn, cram- med onto a backstage couch at New York’s Academy of Music with a •Jg dozen other folks. "I’m not leaving. Maybe later, but not right away.” The Hollies: Ex-HoJIle Allaiin Clarke "want- ed to start a blood bath." In an abrupt reversal of their slow Bernie Calvert, the Hollies’ bassist, slide into obscurity, The Hollies sold disagrees that Clarke was the man one and a half million copies of "Long who really made the hit happen. He Cool Woman (in a black dress),” points out that when Allan walked making it their first million seller into the studio with "Long Cool Wo since "He Ain’t Heavy He’s My man" it was just another country and Brother” way back in 1969. Many peo western song. Bernie, guitarist Tony ple have been saying that the success Hicks, and drummer Bobby Elliott of “Long Cool Woman” would never reshaped the tune into a bouncing have happened without Allan Clarke, rock gem. Then Allan sang the high, the Hollie who left the group shortly echoing vocals that made the song after he wrote the hit single. One of so distinctive. But now that Allan has the people spreading the story is Al left the group, handsome Hollie Terry lan himself, who wanted to come over Sylvester closes the group’s show by to America during the Hollies’ tour singing Clarke’s song. Where was to plug his own album, My Real Name Terry when "Long Cool Woman” was is ’Arold. Epic Records told him to recorded? Admits bassist Calvert, "he stay put until the Hollies went back was probably at the pub around the to England. corner.” indon by Kenneth Howards Led Zep Unzips A Fresh LP jfr After fourteen months without an LP, Led Zeppelin is finally on its way back to the turntable with an album that should be out any second now. Gazing out his Swiss hotel window 'Mr at placid Lake Geneva, Zeppelin’s - < •jSf Robert Plant explained that the group’s insatiable wanderlust had done more than anything else to hold the album up. After a British concert • » a year ago “we had a little break and went to Australia. We came back and • had about three weeks off and then went to America. In between gigs, we had studio time booked.” And then, of course, there was Japan and Swit- • zerland. When asked whether their travel fever would ever bring them back for a concert in their native England, Plant flicked a cigarette ash on the plush carpet, thought for a second, then replied, “We are doing some gigs in England sooner or later, Led Zeppelin: The travel bug’s bite slowed unless we’re playing in Basutoland down the new album. or Zanzibar.” • Tony Kaye, the organist who left In an empty Harlesden rehearsal Spooky Tooth Revives Yes a year back then helped Flash room where Family had scrawled cut their first LP, has finally gotten their name on the wall during a prac his own group together—Badger. tice session untold months ago, Mike Badger burrowed its way onstage for Harrison and Gary Wright tuned the first rime among familiar faces. their instruments together for the It opened the bill at London’s Rain first time in three years and began bow Theater for a group called . . . to reconstruct the long-gone band Yes. called Spooky Tooth. Greg Ridley had left for Humble Pie, Mike Kelly had • Fairport Convention, the pioneer found a new home in Frampton’s ing British folk-rock group that tour Camel, and Luther Grosvenor had ed America a year ago with Traffic, gone off on his own, but Wright and nas just reshuffled its lineup for the Harrison had replaced them with umpteenth time, losing the last of three new members and were wheel its original members guitarist Simon ing into music that was simultane Nicol. The new organization, led by ously nylon smooth and loaded with fiddler Dave Swarbrick, includes vet sexual power. Why did Mike and eran Fairport member Dave Pegg and Gary decide to get together after all new members Jerry Donahue and this time? Admitted Gary, when he Trevor Lucas. took a minute off from his piercing vocals, “there was a certain unique ness with Spooky Tooth, and I thought as hard as I tried, I could never reach that unique thing in what I was doing alone.” Spooky Tooth: Finally together after 0 0 Q 0 0 0 o o o o ooooooo o o o p o o ooooo three years apart. as C1KCU* BACK PAGES row The Royal Snore Greets Elton's Jump V After a tumultuous two-and-a-half hour Madison Square Garden per I formance that saw Ian Anderson and his four Tull henchmen set a new record for slapstick crotch-scratching in a comic skit, the elusive Thick As A Bricklayers flew off to the south of France, holed up in Strawberry Studios (better known to Elton John fans as the Honky Chateau) and went back to work on a masterwork called Passion Play (due to be released in March). As you might remember from your English classes, passion plays r were big in the Middle Ages and re enacted the battles of Jesus. God and Satan—often with Mary Magdalene thrown in for good measure—right before your very eyes. Now that Ian’s Marc Bolan: The British screamed that Elton John: The Queen’s thumbs nearly America killed him; but Marc said they attacked the deity in Aqualung, may twiddled when Elton’s finger’s thumped were wrong. be he’s getting ready to hit the Devil. the keys. Bolan Says He • Jackson 5 fever has reached such a ZX film about a kid growing up in manic pitch in London that when the 1 the fifties featuring a rock Ain't Dead Yet jouncing quintet landed here for a band in which Keith Moon plays series of concert appearances, their drums and Peter Townshend and the When the long-time ruler of the fans wrecked three rented Rolls Faces’ Ron Wood play guitar? It’s British rock roost came to America Royces and forced the group to travel no fantasy. The movie—which also hoping to be greeted by hordes of in an armored car. Meanwhile, Dar boasts Ringo Starr in an acting role, fainting jfans and found himself play ling Donny Osmond’s appearances at the Everly Brothers singing some of ing to half-filled houses and lukewarm the Rainbow Theatre whipped up so their old songs, and appearances by crowds, the English papers screamed much hysteria that one astonished re Steve Winwood. Jack Bruce and Har in horror that Mark Bolan’s career porter swore he’d witnessed the birth ry Nilsson—is being shot on the Isle was dead. But when Bolan got back of the new Beatles. of Wight, and may be out in Britain to London and drove down to the Red by this spring. Lion Pub for a scotch and coke with an old friend, he announced that he was indeed alive and kicking. “I came back and read all that shit about the American tour,” he declared in dis gust, “and most of it was nowhere near the truth.” Then he pulled out Polaroid photos of a packed house at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and proceeded to tell of the thousands turned away from his concert in Los Angeles. Finally, before turning to the subject of his next album (“a su per high-energy thing”), Bolan looked excitedly across the pub table and countered the charge that he had been over-hyped with a stab at his favorite target . . . Mr. Ziggy Star dust. “You can’t talk about me having a heavy hype when David Bowie is walking about with 45 bodyguards,” he declared. “Nobody is that pre cious.” Kris Kristoflerson, who’s just fin ished up his co-starring role in Love west coast by Jacoba Atlas In Blume, has signed with director Sam Peckinpah to play Billy the Kid in the film, Pat Garrett and B’.lly the Jt was four o’clock in the morning Kid. Kristofferson won the role after $ Bowie's { on a railroad train headed for just about every actor in Hollywood Phoenix, Arizona. Airplane-hater and New York had been considered, Arizona Vision Dgvid Bowie, on his way to a gig, from Joe Dellesandro of Andy Warhol stared out of the window at the deso fame to Jon Voight. Previously men late, desert landscape when suddenly tioned for the role of Pat Garrett a set of gleaming metallic domes and were Marlon Brando and Ben John- towers loomed up in the distance. son; James Coburn is playing the Quickly the vision coalesced in Bow part. ie’s mind of a city of surviving earth As everyone knows by now, Pat lings rearing its sterile magnificence Garrett was the former gun-slinger on the face of a half-destroyed planet. turned marshall who shot young Billy As the train drew nearer, it revealed down at the tender age of 21, after he the grim sight of a nuclear testing and Billy had been close buddies. Sam station; but this only spurred David’s Peckinpah, noted as one of this coun imagination to further heights. By the try’s outstanding western directors time he arrived in Phoenix, Bowie (and one of this country’s most no had written “Drive-In Saturday,” a torious purveyors of violence), is re cosmic rocker (destined to appear on turning to the six-gun genre. The his upcoming studio LP) about two script was written by Rudi Wurlitzer, humans in the desolate city of his who also wrote Two-Lane Blacktop— vision who pore painfully over ancient the film that first put James Taylor videotapes of romance in a pathetic on the screen. attempt to relearn the lost instinct KristofTerson’s current role in Love of making love. In Blume, directed by Paul Mazurski Meanwhile the subject of another (I Love You, Alice B. Toklas), is $ Bowie composition, “Jean Genie” (“A that of a hippie musician who takes small jean genie snuck into the a wife away from her straight hus city . . .”) has been preening himself band for a time but doesn’t stick for his return to the limelight. Iggy around for the final curtain. Thor Stooge has been changing hair colors oughly appropriate for music’s most every other day (from silver and infamous ladies’ man. green to silver and blue to silver and pink) while waiting for the new Kristofferson Wins Bowie-produced Iggy LP to come out and while preparing a stage show A Six Gun that will probably involve even more stage paint and peculiarity than the Kristofferson: About to play the part of Billy The Kid. David Bowie: An apparition of gleaming mixture of silver body paint and blood towers led to a song about loveless Iggy used to finish his act in two humans. years ago. <; • The Rowan Brothers, who are suf a teenybopper act, blew it with the fering not only from too much hype underground and record press. They (in the form of a quote from Jerry ««are cute, and Sixteen Magaine will Garcia which says they are as good love them to death. Instead of recog as the Beatles) and mismanagement nizing that fact and giving the group from their record company, Columbia, a pre-teen showcase, Columbia and played a disastrous debut at L.A.’s the Rowan Brothers management put Troubador. Columbia had bought out them in the adult Troubador and they the house for two days, filling the died. opening night seats with everyone At least two executives from other from the industry and the press. labels joked that they were planning Everyone expected something good, on writing Columbia Records presi but got the worst. dent Clive Davis a telegram thanking The Rowan Brothers, who are ador him for saving them money. That’s able to look at and will probably have not so funny when you think about it. an excellent career ahead of them as - 50 CIRCUS '»•> <• ...... Way back in the good old days of Hollywood there was a couple known as the Battlin’ Bogarts. Needless to say this famous pair was actor Humphrey Bogart and his first wife (before Lauren Bacall). Everyone en joyed their fisticuffs; but no one these days seems to have that kinc( of sense of humor. Sonny and Cher were re ported in a fist battle with Cher walk ing out of a Las Vegas date and fly ing up to San Francisco. She later personally called the press to tell re porters she and her husband did have a spat but no punches were thrown. Too bad. Did Sonny Sock Cher? Cher: Mrs. Bono denies the tale of a fist fight. The Stones have figured out a way Although some thought they’d nev ••• ••• ••• *:• ••• ••• to escape the winter cold of their er live to see the day when Cheech homes in southern France. They’ll go and Chong would be allowed on tele on tour in sunny Hawaii and Japan. vision, that day now seems very near And rumor has it that when the sun indeed. The ethnic duo is now in hot TV Paydirt I returns to the States this coming negotiations with Universal Televi summer, Jagger and the gang will sion for a series of their very own. For Cheech And i follow it for an unprecedented second After All in the Family and Sanford tour in less than fourteen months. and Son, Maude, and Bridget Loves Chong? x Bernie, the Chicanos and Chinese need a break. Stones Tour Blasts Cheech and Chong: Universal Television may make them the underground answer X The Pacific to Archie Bunker. < 1 iX IX w i ■t- x ' ‘'A X ■■■ X % IX X ■ X J3 X X .4 I • Calls have been coming into the this group is almost stealing the show X Los Angeles offices of Chrysalis Rec from Procol, and everyone wants to ords from all over the country con know who they are. Who are they? ❖ cerning their newest import to these Simply a British band similar to the Mick Jagger: Rumors have him storming shores, Steeleye Span, now currently best of Fairport Convention and Pent- the States again before the summer's out. on tour with Procol Harum. It seems angle. Look for them. CIMML® J* thehese over-promotion, are the twenty theLP ’publicitys that the don CIRCUS’t mean Polla shows are winning the race for rock popularity this month. The hype, thing on this exclusive CIRCUS chart. It is compiled directly from letters sent by more than 4,000 serious rock listeners living in every corner of the U.S. and Canada. (A star shows that an LP is shooting rapidly toward the top of the chart.) 1 ( 2) Black Sabbath—Volume IV 11 ( 9) Grand Funk Railroad—Phoenix 2 ( 1) Alice Cooper—School’s Out ★ 12 (—) Moody Blues—Seventh Sojourn I ( 7) Jethro Tull—Living In The Past 13 (—) Deep Purple—Machine Head 82 4 ( 3) Emerson, Lake & Palmer—Trilogy 14 (16) Ten Years After—Rock & Roll (10) David Bowie—Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Music To The World Stardust 15 (—) Allman Brothers—Eat A Peach 6 ( 5) Yes—Close To The Edge 16 (13) Leon Russell—Carney 7 ( 6) Mark Bolan & T. Rex—Slider 17 (—) West, Bruce & Laing—Why Dontcha 8 ( 4) Rod Stewart—Never A Dull 18 (12) Rolling Stones—Exile On Main Street Moment 19 (18) Uriah Heep—Demons & Wizards 9 ( 8) Jethro Tull—Thick As A Brick 20 (—) Mott The Hoople—All The Young 10 (14) Cat Stevens—Catch Bull At Four Dudes A selection of the most-played LP’s 2 Tommy—Various Artists 11 Homecoming—America and singles as monitored off the air 3 Garden Party—Rick Nelson 12 Hold That Plane—Buddy Guy by CIRCUS listening posts. 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With that man who's never stopped by rain or sleet or slush or snow slipping a fresh and shiny Circus through that slot in Reasons' your door every month. Eh™.Jen Years Mark: ROCK N' ROLL INTRODUCTORY OFFER l* Mail to: —i 2 I ...Alvin Lee fiddled with his clogs I CIRCUS MAGAZINE I I in a record company office and ask I P.O. Box 4552, Grand Central Station I ed us to point out that ‘'I’m Going } New York, N.Y. 10017 I Home” is not where Ten Years After I J Enclosed is $...... I is at. I I Please rush my subscription. I ...Dr. John The Night Tripper sat I nSG — 1 year C$10—2 years 1 down to a telephone in L.A. and told I Age I us how he got Mick Jagger and Eric ] Name ’ I Clapton to play on his latest album. l Address I j City . . I ' I And you could have missed it all. I State . . . Zip I You could have gotten to the four years since he first broke onto What In The World Is the scene singing “Tobacco Road” with his brother Johnny in 1969. He has pulled out of White Trash, the Edgar Winter Up To? eight-piece, gospel-rock horn band he founded only three years ago, and has started showing up at concerts every First he left White Trash. Then he got where from Long Pond, Pennsylvania, to Montreal, Quebec, with a totally together a drastically different different group—a four-piece, horn less rock ensemble. He has brought four-man band. And now the nipple-dominated out a new LP—They Only Come Out At Night (on Epic Records)—that has no horns, no machine-gun congo cover of his new LP has raised the beats, (no gospel piano riffs, and no Jerry La Croix. Instead, it has steamy, suspicion that he is gliding into glam rock. raunchy, guitar-dominated rock plus the totally unexpected, possibly un by Howard Bloom welcome addition of a sentimental ( )h, my God,’' a startled nineteen- one cheek, and a cut-glass necklace country and western tune and a year-old in Galveston, Georgia, more ornate than a palace chandelier strangely romantic, Neil-Diamondish, gasped as she lifted an ominous black just above one outstandingly naked soft ballad. album jacket out of the bin in a local and prominent nipple. Lo and behold, Jubilant hell hound: But most im record store and stared in wide-eyed it was Edgar Winter, the musical gen portant, Edgar's live show has chang fascination at the picture on the cover, ius who had once sworn he would ed dramatically. He no longer shares “What in the world has gotten into never play the big time unless he the spotlight with Rick Derringer and Edgar Winter?” The cover photo she could wear a suit and tie. Jerry La Croix, and he’s rid himself of held in her hand seemed to show a Drastic metamorphosis: The girl a dungaree-clad back-up band. Now startlingly pale platinum blond wear in Galveston had good reason to be he enters the utterly dark stage, then ing bright red lipstick, pale violet eye surprised. Edgar has just gone through suddenly becomes visible in a blaze shadow, a glittering gold sequin on the third radical transformation in the of blinding white light, his purple ■>! V,. Bi Edgar Winter: Edgar has just Mm' gone through the most radical change of his four-year career in the big time. But it’s not the 5 change his album cover seems I 5 to show. MUSIC cloak billowing around him as he his battered instrument. It is a per White Trash’s high school reunion: assaults the crowd with the jubilant formance that makes the shouting, Three years ago, Edgar tracked down rhythms of “Keep Playing That Rock stomping show of White Trash look Jerry La Croix, one of the musicians and Roll.’’ Within minutes, he has old-fashioned by comparison. he had played with just before he the restless, talkative thousands sway No spangled trans-sexual: But dropped out of Beaumont High ing their shoulders uncontrollably as one thing about Edgar Winter hasn’t School in Texas, at the Ivanhoe Club they watch one of the most savagely changed. Both onstage and offstage in New Orleans, flew down to see violent, exhausting performances to he has not gotten into the David him, and convinced him to help form debut in the last twelve months. Bowie, sequin-and-hot-pants rock trip a new band. Six months later, Jerry During “Frankinstein,” the last num his bizarre new cover seems to indi and Edgar had pulled together most ber on his new LP, Edgar charges in cate. Sitting in producer Rick Der of the members of their old high to the middle of the stage wearing an ringer’s bedroom a few weeks ago school group and had formed White ARP synthesizer keyboard slung explaining how White Trash came to Trash. By the time the band played around his neck with a guitar shoulder an end, how the new Edgar Winter its first gig at a health food restau strap. His fine silver-gold hair -flying Group began, and how a string of jet rant in Woodstock, Edgar was ecstatic. around his face in the yellow light, set travels and offstage bashes led to “I loved it. It was like magic. It was he wrings notes from the ARP that the new LP and its nipple-dominated like it was always supposed to have slam the air like fistfulls of hand gre cover, Edgar seemed a million light happened. I just couldn’t imagine all nades, wail into the night like ban years removed from the world of those guys that I thought that I would shees struck with blood lust, sizzle glitter and masculine lipstick. His hair never sec again quitting what they and explode in the stadium’s depth blazed like soft yellow lightning as were doing and coming to work for like the insatiable fires of hell itself. it fell to the shoulders of his cowboy me for fifty dollars a week and a Then abruptly the lights go black and cut sky-blue denim shirt. He looked place to live. But," he admits thought for twenty unbelievable seconds, Ed down shyly at the rich, maroon ori fully, “I’d forgotten the hassles we gar’s Day Gio painted fingers—lit by ental rug as he spoke, running his used to go through in high school." an unseen ultraviolet light—dance in fingers over the swirling spirals of The night Trash cracked: Slowly eery independence on the keyboard silver studs on his thighs. In his slow, tensions developed within the band the darkness has swallowed. By the soft Southern drawl he began the tale as Edgar watched one of his musi time the last echos of “Frankinstein” of the conflicts that had catapulted cians go onstage drunk and smash die away, Edgar is on his knees, drain him into gambling his career on a new his instrument and as he started to ed and panting, his head bowed over sound. come onstage in flowing capes only I J 7 Dan Hartman, bassist and songwriter: Ronnie Montrose, guitar: When he was Chuck Ruff, drums: Chuck watched with Less than six months after he graduated fifteen he dropped out of school, ran astonishment as Edgar rolled on the from High School he was making $300 away from home, and lived on the floor wailing like a synthesizer while to $400 dollars a week producing rec streets. But by the time he was 24, he smashed partygoers lurched around him. ords in his home town . . . yet he was had played with Van Morrison. A month later they wrote a song about still living with his parents. it—"We All Had A Real Good Time." to find that the rest of the band made ing. Tall, blond, and naturally cheer A few weeks later, on a plane be him feel weird because they rigidly ful. he was what Edgar called “a tween London and L.A., Dan played stuck to their sloppy jeans. But the ray of sunshine on the road.” Edgar a tune he had just written, but worst part was that Edgar was ach Crawling across the floor: Chuck’s Edgar didn’t like the words. “Gee,” ing to explore new musical ideas, rays of sunshine would turn out to he said, “that sounds more like you’re while the rest of the band stuck stub be vital to the band's sanity, for in riding along with your radio on feel bornly to the R&B horn sound. Late the next eight months they would al ing good.” Dan quickly snatched a on the night of January 1, 1972, after most live on the road. And the road, notebook out of his travelling bag, a concert in Toronto, Edgar gathered in turn, would bring to life the songs scribbled down Edgar’s line, changed the band in his hotel room and an of their first album. After a concert “riding” to “driving” because it nounced that he wanted to quit. “They in Washington, the group threw a “sounded more powerful,” and before couldn't believe it. The Roadwork al party in Ronnie and Chuck’s hotel the plane taxied to a stop at the City bum was just coming out, and they rooms and was getting raucously of Smog’s vast airport, they had fin could see a bright future for the band plastered when an old friend from ished “Hangin’ Around,” the good and didn't understand why I would be their early days surreptitiously slipped feeling, slightly Beatlish number that destroying it. They were trying as a bit of acid into a quart of Schlitz would eventually open their new LP’s hard as they could. But I was just feel that was being passed from hand to first side. ing despair because they couldn’t hand. Within minutes, Edgar thought The accidental lipstick god: But change.” he had turned into a synthesizer and the album’s sexual high point—its The weirdest band: One week later was rolling on the floor singing an as perversely jolting cover—did not Jerry La Croix had taken the remains tonishing series of screeches and blips. blossom into full flower until Edgar of White Trash in hand and was look But Dan Hartman suddenly became and the group drove to the uptown ing for a new management contract, depressed, ran across the hall to his Manhattan studio of famed fashion while Edgar had gone out on the road own room, lay on the bed and turned photographer Francesco Scavullo to with a new band, testing drummers out all the lights. “I came over and shoot a jacket photo. Scavullo sat and bassists as he flew from city to brought this girl that he’d been talking each member of the group down and city and concert to concert. And six to cause I thought that would cheer touched up his features with makeup months later Edgar had finally con him up," says Edgar, “but he just kept so that the blinding studio lights solidated what one member of the talking about the walls closing in on would not make them look unnatural k new group called “the weirdest, him." ly pallid. But after all the standard group shots had been taken, Barbara, Edgar’s lady, began to horse around with the makeup just for fun. First she had the make-up man paint Edgar’s li lips a bright red. Then she had him daub eyeshadow on Edgar’s brows and glue a sequin to his cheek. When Barbara and the makeup man stood back and admired their work, they had transformed quiet Edgar Winter into a brazen seductress with sideburns. Scavullo hung a piece of jewelry around Edgar’s neck, turned a huge fan on him to blow his hair out, started clicking away . . . and the final set of pictures scared the group shitless. “Barbara went over board,” said guitarist Ronnie Mont rose. “We knew those pictures could kill us, but they were the only ones that really grabbed you by the guts,” said Edgar’s manager. But how did Edgar Winter, the white-haired wailer from Texas who had started out wear ing nothing but suits and ties and had ended up stomping on his synthesizer while his Frankinstein cape swirled strangest band I've ever been in.” A month later, when they gathered in savage billows around him, feel Guitarist Ronnie Montrose, a square a half dozen people in Edgar’s Con about a picture that could have made shouldered, handsome 25 year old necticut living room to help Dan write his churchgoing mother and father with a Paul McCartney-like face was lyrics for a song that would com wish they had written him out of their aggressive, flashy and argumentative. memorate his strung-out night in will? “The picture is just satire,” he Bassist and songwriter Dan Hartman, Washington, Hartman's overwhelming said, his reddish pupils flashing was 22, open-faced, innocent and exu determination to write optimistic strangely as he looked up for the first berantly energetic, Ronnie’s total op songs had led him to pen a bouncing, time in fifteen minutes, “It’s indica posite. Twenty-one-year-old drummer boisterous tune and a title embody tive of our time of extremes.” Then, Chuck Ruff, like Edgar, was one of ing the unlikely claim that “We All chuckling with the absurdity of the those rare kinds who could help keep Had A Real Good Time.” But those strange creature on his own album the dynamite kegs of such drastically who had actually been at the Wash cover he confessed, “I still can’t be different personalities from explod- ington blow-out knew better. lieve that it’s really me.” e 56 Neil Young, America and Joni Mitchell: Fresh LP's From A New Musical Family by Barbara Graustark $ y■ / America: "During the first six months or our career we sounded like CSN&Y—but now we don’t," said Gerry Beckley. So how come HOMECOMING critics can point to at least a dozen comparisons? While America and Neil Young were calmly shaking hands in the cow pastures of Neil’s ninety thousand-acre ranch, Joni was frantically perusing Hollywood gas stations for new song material. Researched by Patrick Salvo and Barbara Applebaum -r. rL i 3mLi.'- 7? «„I' L'■7c ; \ NeiS Young Takes A Journey A hove Hollywood’s raunchy, bill- geants, GeflTen thinks of himself as a board-strewn Sunset Strip, David “baby doctor,” running their small but Through His Past Gcffen perches his slender figure on select musical stable like one big hap the edge of an oversized stuffed sofa py family and carefully protecting that almost obscures his slight frame the interests of his prosperous clients. from view. In 1961, David Gcffen was Their motto? The family that plays just another cightccn-year-old, Brook together, makes bread together. lyn-bred Dylan fan. Today, he is “Most of our people hang out here,” Gcffen says of the comfortable Asy president of the Asylum Record Cor lum office. Almost on cue, Graham poration, and. with partner Elliot Nash wanders in to talk to David Roberts, one-half of a management about the recent Neil Young docu team which claims a string of musical mentary, Journey Through The Past. successes longer than a Hebrew Na He mentions Joni Mitchell's name and tional salami. Geffen's King Midas David turns to remind a lady friend touch has gilded the likes of Crosby, sitting nearby that Joni, virtually un Stills, Nash and Young, Joni Mitchell, known in 1969, opened the CSN&Y and, more recently, America: today, bill on their first tour. Today, Joni, the names Gcffen and Roberts are Graham. David, Steve and Neil, re mentioned in the same breath as Pres main both friends and musical col ley's Colonel Parker and the Beatles’ leagues: and the men have provided Brian Epstein, “simply,” says GeflTen, the songstress both with subject ma “because we're the greatest managers terial for her tunes and with musical in the world.” accompaniment. What’s more, all arc While some managers arc like foot frequent visitors to each other’s homes. ball coaches, and others like rank ser- And now another GeflTen client has Neil Young: Now on the first lap of his world tour, Neil’s concert dates will hope fully reveal more new Young compositions than his latest LP, JOURNEY THROUGH THE PAST, did. MUSIC recently started to appear as a guest at the Neil Young ranch in Northern Heart” rings of Steve Stills’ rhythm California: America. But despite their emphasis and vocal phrasings. familiarity outside of the studio, three Before America began production Graham, David, Steve and Neil re- of the new LP, they approached Gef GetTen “brain children,” Joni, Neil fen to ask his management advice. Of and America have produced three al course, the irony of America coming bums that set their in-studio work to Neil Young’s manager immediately IP moving in different directions . . . struck the businessman like a wet miles apart. towel across the face. After all, in took an immediate “paternal” liking April ’72, America had pushed Neil’s own LP, Harvest, off the top chart A /I to the twenty-year-old trio. “A sort position, and David had been taken of comraderie,” explained one friend. aback. “Being Neil’s manager, my first And Geffen was quick to add, “Neil w reaction was, ‘My God. there’s this f f doesn’t feel paranoid or uptight about group that sounds like Neil Young.’ America now. America’s not compe I heard ‘Horse With No Name’ on tition for CSN&Y.” the radio and thought, ‘What is that?’” ___ When Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young And here was America asking Gef were touring the country with Joni, fen to manage them several months Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley and later! Dan Peck were mere musical infants Young’s private prairie: Geffen attending an American high school in swiftly phoned Neil to share the | ■ 'W Watford, England. Yet the American- irony. “We told Neil that if he object born musicians bought enough records ed, we wouldn't carry the matter any to know what sound they liked—and further,” explained Geffen. But to his when America was born in 1970, they surprise, Neil didn’t object and, in discovered their roots were back in y Ld, expressed a desire to meet them the vocal harmonies and lyrical de and to invite them up to his ranch. lights of their California predecessors. Having cornered the market on the One of the new breed of “second gen “Neil Young” sound, Geffen quickly eration” groups “fathered” by the arranged for the boys to meet Neil in likes of CSN&Y, America has paid the midst of his bovine wilderness tribute to their homeland by making ranch in Northern California. Sur their Americanization final: they have rounded by log cabins, a plush studio, moved to California and dedicated fact, expressed a desire to meet them their latest LP, Homecoming, to the if they ever were in the neighborhood return trip. of his ranch. New twist to the Neil hassle: Now Within days America found them everybody knows the similarities ad selves face to face with the man nauseum between Neil Young and whose shadow had hounded them like America. But nobody knows it better an enraged ghost during their early than Dewey Bunnell, the guitarist/ days. Dewey, Gerry and Dan drove singer who is incessantly accused of up to Northern California to visit imitating Neil’s style; in fact, Dewey their co-manager. Elliot Roberts, at has begun to call his voice, “my own his lavish spread next to Neil’s bovine personal affliction.” Since the release wilderness. And less than a mile from of their first LP, America, in Britain Young’s log cabins, plush studio, in mid ’71 and the subsequent success motorcycles, tow’ering redw-oods. horses of the hit single, “Horse With No and dogs, the “alleged plagiarizers” Name” in the U.S., the three Ameri met their “father figure.” Was the can-accented expatriates have seen the result of the meeting fisticuffs, guns, shades of CSN&Y hovering over their or a battle of the twelve strings? On careers like the mask of red death. the contrary. The first thing that hap And with the release of Homecoming, pened when denim-clad America the furor threatens to continue. For stumbled across Neil’s cow pastures while Geffen claims that Dewey’s was that David Crosby said. “I like voice is the only similarity between your records very much.” In fact, Neil Young and America, others have everyone hit it off quite well, and al rapidly pointed out that their hit sin though no musical partnership was gle. the pop-oriented “Ventura High born, according to Geffen, CSN&Y way,” bears an amazing resemblance America, however, was a little para to early David Crosby, right down to noid over the big move to the U.S. the haunting do-do-do's. Furthermore, “We’re used to English attitudes,” whichever American is flexing his Dewey explained. “And England has vocal chords in “To Each His Own,” been good to us.” "No doubt we’ll has obviously taken lessons from have to go th- ough the CSN&Y tag all “simple songman” Graham Nash. over again,” i tused another American. “Only In Your Heart,” strikes a re "But we do consider it a homecom semblance to Nash's “Our House, ing of sorts.” and America’s version of “Head and “Ventura Highway:’’ It was obvi- Joni Mitchell: Even with her forty-acre farm In Canada ready for habitation, she still finds it hard to settle down. “It’s home when I’m there, but so is the Holi day Inn, in its own weird way.” ous that the style and spirit of West Coast living affected America’s music, f xL for California quickly reared its head in their Homecoming songs, from the hapry notes of Dewey's “Ventura Highway:” Ventura Highway in the sunshine Where the days are longer The nights are stronger Than moonshine You’re gonna go, I know . . . to the spirited strains of Dan’s “Cal ifornia Revisited:’’ Everyone I meet is from California There's dancing in the streets in California . . . The LP is distinguished by a funky flavor that some feel America chose in order to help them rid them selves of the Neil Young image. "No,” emphasizes Geffen, “they just wanted a really terrific drummer and bass player.” Joni Mitchell Ends Two-Year Musical NEIL YOUNG While America were gazing towards Hiatus With 'Roses' the sun-streaked California sunset in Joni Mitchell: Neil Young taught her how search of their musical futures, Neil to make a film; David Crosby taught her how NOT to make one—his first screen Young was busy rediscovering his past attempt was a disaster. Now she’s ready with a documentary film and sound ing her own filmscript for production. track entitled. Journey Through The Past. David Geffen was a frequent vis itor to the Young ranch while Neil was splicing together pieces of cellu loid, and for a while it almost seem ed that the documentary might never reach the theaters. Said Geffen, after peering over Neil’s shoulder, “If it’s really good we’ll take it to festivals and get the widest possible distribution for it. But there isn’t going to be any I attempt at exploiting the movie or Neil because of his popularity.” Celluloid footprints: The movie itself is a vague, abstract documentary of Neil's life, and, according to one Young spokesman, “is in no way like any rock and roll movie ever done be fore." Opening up with flashbacks of MUS/C Neil’s formative group, the Buffalo Neil’s life. Perhaps the documentary sical poems. And despite the fact Springfield, it highlights the band’s will tic the pieces together; or maybe that her old lovers usually remain appearance on TV’s Hollywood Pal Neil Young will just remain a very her good friends, the unfulfilled ro ace and in a screaming concert circa private person—even to his fans. mances make for melancholy songs: 1969 performing immortal songs like, Pack your suspenders, I’ll go meet “For What It’s Worth,” “Mr. Soul,” JONI MITCHELL your pain and “Rock ’n Roll Woman.” CSN&Y No need to surrender, 1 just want If Neil Young has one foot firmly have their parts to play, with some to see you again . . . revealing moments in the film, as Neil planted in the past, his musical col league, Joni Mitchell, has established pushes David Crosby into arduous re she sings in “See You Sometime,” a a firm entrenchment in the present take after retake of “Alabama” at final good-bye to Sweet Baby James. with her latest LP, For The Roses, a Neil’s Santa Cruz ranch. But perhaps her most revealing hauntingly melancholy LP that is But it is the story of Neil’s poli song comes from her experiences in more autobiographical than any of tical involvement—which produced the fickle music business. The title her past hits. “She is searching, like such Young classics as “Ohio,” track, “For The Roses,” compares the any woman is searching,” explains her “Southern Man,” and ‘Alabama”— trials of an artist dangling on the friend and engineer, Henry Lewy. that reveals the artist’s sensitive na seesaw of success to a horse running “The handicap she has is that, one, for the roses in the Kentucky Derby. ture. Graham Nash recalls Neil’s she’s only meeting people in show earlier days, back in 1970, when he Both strive for the sweet taste of suc business ... so after the relationship cess; the award-winning horse is later toured with CS&N as being totally matures there’s the conflict of career non-political. About the time that put to pasture and shot after break vs. career. The other handicap is that ing his leg. As for the artist: Graham was penning “Chicago” dur to create she knows she has to have ing the Chicago 7 trial in angry pro solitude. A lot of people can’t quite test against Bobby Seale’s being tied Now you're seen on giant screens sec that. ‘What do you mean you gotta And parties for the press to a chair, the leader of the Pennsyl go away. Don’t I come first?’ they vania commune called the Hog Farm, And for people who have slices of say.” you from the company Hugh Romney, asked Graham if Joni's quest: The search for hap CSN&Y would play a benefit concert They toss around your latest piness has carried Joni from her na golden egg . . . for the Chicago 7. “Neil and Steve tive Saskatchewan, Canada, home said ‘No,’” recalls Graham. So he I seem ungrateful, with my teeth through the Canadian folk circuit sunk in the hand promptly penned a stanza to “Chica (with friends Leonard Cohen, Neil go” that begged, “Won’t you please that brings me things I really Young, and Gordon Lightfoot), and can't give up just yet . . . come to Chicago/just to sing.” It finally into American prominence five pleaded directly for Neil and Steve’s years later as a folk performer/poetess Back to life: Along with Joni’s involvement. “Well, one year later,” extraordinaire. After her marriage to recalls Graham, “Neil wrote ‘Ohio.’ recent decision to immerse herself in Chuck Mitchell was dissolved in 1967 the touring scene has come a renewed He is a man that feels intensely when (he served as the subject for her things really affect him and for him interest in the Hollywood social scene, haunting "I Had A King,” from her and she has been photographed at to start a reaction inside himself he first LP), Joni quickly infiltrated the needs a good reason. (Before) he such tinseltown events as the premiere California musical establishment, of Warhol’s Heat, and at a private didn’t have one. However, when he making friends with the likes of CSN- learned about four students who got party to announce Elton John’s own &Y, who have added their accom label, Rocket Records, where she shot down (at Kent State). . . paniment to each of her LP’s. celebrated alongside Jack Nicholson, Jigsaw puzzle: Journey Through But in 1970, at the peak of her Kris Kristofferson, The Fifth Di The Past was also a project with a flourishing career, Joni disappeared mension and David Cassidy. Since good reason behind it: it was a state from public view. Interviews dug too her switch from Reprise Records to ment Neil needed to make on his mu deeply into her personal life, she Geffen’s own Asylum label, she has sic and on his political philosophy. claimed. “All people seemed interest also set up her own music publishing “Neil has always acted withdrawn, ed in was the music and the gossip. company and begun serious work on only releasing his true self through I felt that the music spoke for itself a filmscript. “I could have sold it a his music and his loved ones,” said and the gossip was unimportant.” million times over,” confides Geffen, one close friend. And while Neil has Her concert tours had been immensely “but Joni was never completely satis never remained idle for too long (he successful gatherings, yet she felt un fied with it.” manages a thousand-acre ranch, a fulfilled. “You tailor-make your But Joni is taking her step back string of horses, and a family life with dreams to ‘it’ll be this way,’ and when into the present with caution. For she Carrie Snodgress and their six-month it isn’t, it can’t live up to your hopes.” realizes that with any new-found free old son, Zeke) the need to present his And, in addition, Joni felt too person dom or decision comes “a lot of lone life through the vehicle of film took ally attached to her own work to liness, a lot of unfulfillment. It im temporary priority over any solo re handle performing the pieces in pub plies always the search for fulfillment, cording ventures. lic. which is sometimes more exciting than Yet many ardent Young fans won Her men and her music: But de the fulfillment itself. I’ve talked to der if perhaps Neil is too deeply spite her extensive travels and her friends of mine who are just search embedded in the past. Only one new varied friendships, she still turns her ing for something, and one day they song, “Soldier,” appears on this LP; relationships with men into the sub come to you and they’ve FOUND and while his past excursions with jects of her beautiful tunes. From the IT! Then two weeks later you talk to CSN&Y and the Stray Gators made early days of “I Had A King,” up them and they aren’t satisfied. They great music, this LP only duplicates through Ladies Of The Canyon’s won’t allow themselves to think old song material. Moreover, the “Willy,” (about Graham Nash), Joni they’ve found it—because they’ve LP leaves us without any theme to has turned the men in her life into come to enjoy the quest so much. link up the varied pieces it shows of the princes and sorcerers of her mu- They’ve found it—and then what?” Theq Onlq Come Out i-u, ?.: _ < The Edopr Winter Group Produced bq Pick Derringer : Epic