THE TECH TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1970 PAGE 5

entertainment - :Tuesday, October 13, 1970 recordings: concert: Richard Brautigan Mungo Jerry? "- Small Faces" Growing By Leon Pero that saves the material from Mungo Jerry. good margin .Following LISTENING TO 'RICHARD being entombed in the polyester There's a little Mungo Jerry By Rob Hunter by a BRA UTIGAN Harvest ST-424 is the fact that Brautigan doesn't in Rod Stewart and Ron Wood Beck's near-fatal accident in everybody. It's not anything though, the group dis- Richard Brautigan is thee write poetry: his work is almost normal. It's the - two carryovers from the old 1967, part of you that bandeed and remained largely in- grandson of a minor Washington entirely anecdotal, consisting doesn't listen to anybody else. Jeff Beck group ' led the re- bande mystic, who, in 1911, predicted mostly of stories made poetic juvenated Small Faces into the active for a year-long period. It's foot-stomping, . beer- ally, Beck's bass player the exact date on which World entirely by the richness of their drinking, and kazoo playing. It's Tea Party for a three-night set. (WFin War I would begin. Richard imagery and rhythm. Brautigan just that indicated the parity of this (Wo 1)and Stewart - re-formed plain enjoying yourself. ' with the remnants of the Brautigan's grandmother was a writes stories; what is better, Pretty much the same mood band with the best name groups dFaesu bootlegger during the Depression Brautigan is a storyteller. At first around. The five-man group has be:t group. The combination is present on Mungo -Jerry(Janus ,en rewarding. Last April, and she lived with a man named his voice comes through the Records), the group's album. (Rod Steward, vocals; Wood, Small Jack, an Italian, who came down speakers as a barely-modulated, lead and slide guitar; Ronnie Faces made their first Tea They had a top ten record with appearance, playing be- the road one day selling lots in well-enunciated tenor, a little "In the. Summertime" and that Lane, bass; Ian McLagan, piano; Party L Florida. He stayed with Richard breathy and set in that regionless Kenny Jones, drums) plays rock hind e Lee Michaels; their 1½/2 hr. is typical of the material on the sily stole the show, and Brautigan's grandmother for American accent that betrays its reminiscent of Led record. The instrumentation is a Zeppelin resulte d in a headline perfor- thirty years and Florida went on owner as coming from any of little fancier, and, of course, Beck - perhaps result without him. dozens of cities and on the whole, last week. After a dis- in the Mid- the album is more of much better than both. ance All this is related by Richard the same - iting Monday show (the atlantic States, or on the West that is to say, great. They have Three years ago, when Beck sappound Brautigan in a tale calle.d Re- Coast. (In Brautigan's case, was still somewhat prominent, man couldn't seem to find taken England by storm and if switches when they were venge of the Lawn. It is one of Tacoma, Washington. Now he Rod. Stewart's the same thing doesn't happen in grating lead vocal neededpower I) the group got on the over a dozen stories and poems lives in San Francisco.) style was somewhat remarkable. right t America, it is our fault and not rack with strong Tuesday which Richard Brautigan, who After a while, however, the theirs. They are a necessary part Today, it's absolutely amazing. and V inherited -magic from his mad subtle nuances become per- Wednesday shows. They of anybody's existence and they Beck's relatively little-known an grandfather, has committed to- ceptible -' and the voice infuses album "Truth" contains some of play a n assortment of Stewart- fill a long empty void. Anybody songs mixed plastic on a first album called the whole with the marvelous the first and certainly some of Wood with re- who can't egjoy Mungo Jerry ed 'Stones' cuts, including Listening to Richard Brautigan. sense of.~childlike wonder that the finest stereo harmonizing on arrange Brautigan can't really enjoy life. a fanta astic jam on "It's All Over is the 35-year-old pervades Brautigan's writing. -Jay Pollack record - all the more notable in Now." prose poet storytelling nature Soon he begins to weave a spell; Wood's distinctive slide that they preceded Led Zeppelinguitar mystic, whose four novels and then it is like sitting around a tom style on several original three . poetry anthologies have fireplace on a cold winter night THE TECH WISHES TO CONGRATULATE cuts is rapidly placing him in won him a secure place in the listening to a storyteller out of ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN that tight-knit core of 're- literary pantheon of the counter- the days of medieval bards. FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO LITER cognized' guitarists. culture. His celebration of This weekend, the Byrds Listen to Richard Brautigan ATURE RESULTING IN A and natural and -everyday things tell about his grandmother's WELL- Frank Zappa will be in town, descends from the work of geese, who got drunk on the DESERVED AWARD OF THE NOBEL followed by Lee Michaels. Both Robert Frost and the teachings sour mash; she took them into PRIZE. I should be good shows. of Eastern religion, for he finds the basement and stacked them in these a signifigance and like cordwood after plucking Iwp"WAL 0 film: beauty that transforms some- their feathers. An hour later the thing as ordinary as a telephone geese began to wake up. Listen ea . J&Irriva Sunfl ower call into a transcendental ex- to the sounds of Richard Braut- The Association "Live" - (War- perience. igan's life in San Francisco. - Beaucoops of Blues - Ringo By Emanuel Goldman When most poets record their There are a few minor com- ner Brothers) - Starr (Capitol) Mad Magazine won't have work, the result is generally of plaints about the album. There is Gobs of the Association, who Country-Western much to go on to parody Sun- show in this with an historical interest only. The a totally superfluous reading of double set that they English accent. Ringo is backed flower. The film itself is so are all mediocre ability to write poetry rarely "Love Poem" ("Love Poem. It's musicians. They up by good people, and sound far-fetched, a simple recounting guarantees the ability to read it,' so nice to wake up in the morn- do have a few good songs, quality is impeccable, of the plot reads like a Mad though, but there's and a reader with any imagin- ing and not have to tell someone and gratifyingly, all of- nothing to thle album. Proves scenario already. their harmonies are recreatable ation can usually create a mental you love them, when you don't once and for all that Starr is a Ten years after the war, a voice better than- any poet's love them anymore.") by 17 of live. For your added enjoy- terrible musician. faithful wife goes off to Russia natural one. Brautigan's friends and his wife 'ment/dismay, all of the chatter to find her husband, reported This record, though, is not - and' the- fact that San and bad jokes between songs are In California - Compton & missing in action. Against im- one for the archives. One thing Francisco columnist Herb Caen left on the record, which makes Batteau (Columbia) possible odds, find him she does (Please turn to page 6) this album as complete a per- Albums like this are a dime a - married to a Russian girl. The formance as anybody could dozen. Even backup men like wife, having refused to believe want. Rusty Young and Jim Messina him dead all those years, had from Poco cannot make a great simply sat in the parlor and For the Classic Mind In A Wild Sanctuary - Beaver & record out a bunch of mediocre waited. The husband, along with Krause (Warner Brothers) songs. Extremely ordinary. a couple of thousand other Free Somebody had to make a Italian soldiers, was dying in a Boston University record like this sooner or later - Love Chronicles - Al Steward Russian blizzard when a young Tuesday Oct. 27 8:30 pm SFAAX a lot of jungle noises and thun- (Epic) peasant girl hauled him to her Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth der as performed by two Moog The songs are all about his home - surely a first in the KARIN AND INGRID GUTBERG, duo-pianists (Larghetto & synthesizers. The album as a adolescent and p6st-adolescent annals of man-hunting. Allegro in E flat-Mozart Schereo, opus 87: Saint-Shens 7 variations whole is very pleasant and light sex hangups, spelled out in great Since Sophia and Marcello are on theme by Mozart) on the mind. Not for close lis- detail. The arrangements don't pretty to watch, I recommend MIT tening though. match the songs and Jimmy Page that the distributors quickly Monday Oct. 19 8:15 pm The Sala De P.R. is extremely out of place here. serialize the film and sell it to MIT CLEAN WIND QUINTET, performing Reicha, Hindemith, Mashmakhan - (Epic) Rut, mainly, who cares? the afternoon TV soap operas, Poulenc. This is a group with a keen before it loses any money in the New England Conservatory sense of rhythm and musician- Axe - Randy Bachman (RCA) theatres. At the Paris Theatre. Monday Oct. 5 8:30 pm Recitat Hall ship.' The record doesn't lag-any- This instrumental album GEORGEANN PETERSON,. piano, Bachelor of Music. where from start to finish and is suffers from the same troubles as Schubert/Sonata in B Flat; Scarlatti/3 Sonatas; Bartok/Suite No. 14; worth hearing. do those by the Guess Who, the Dreams Brahms/Waltzes Opus 39. group from which Bachman By Emanuel Goldman Tuesday Oct. 13 8:30 pm Jordan Hall Dewey Martin & the Medicine comes. The softer songs are We've come a long way from NEC COLLEGIUM- MUSICUM, under the direction of Daniel Ball - (Uni) pleasant and distinctive enough, the days of Spencer Tracy, Bing Pinkham of the Faculty Handel/Organ Concerto B Flat; Bach/ This album is, po surprise. but when Bachman tries to show Crosby, and The Bells of St. Harpsichord Concerto in E Major; Loeillet/Trio Sonata in F Major; Dewey Martin always was the how big and heavy an axe he can A n thony. Today, for three Fasch/Sonata in G Major; Bach/Cantata "Non sa che sia dolore" least talented member of Buffalo wield, he sounds just like any- bucks, you can see a man of the Wednesday Oct. 14 8:30 pm Recital Hall Springfield and he proves it here. body else and gets lost in the collar make it with a fantastic. FREDERICK HAND, classical guitar. crowd of strong lead guitarists. liberated woman, a woman so Monday Oct. 19 - 8:30 pm Jordan Hall Cynara - (Capitol) impressive and flawless in fact, DEAN . BOAL, piano & ELLEN TeSELLE BOAL, cello. The group pretends to have A ttila - (Epic) that one wonders what on earth Vivaldi/Sonata in B Flat Major; Chopin/Sonata Opus 65; Cowell/ real depth, but it sounds more Angry music. Angry listeners she sees in a priest who, for Hymm-& Fuguing Tune No. 9; Earle Brown/Music for Cello & Piano; like thickness. after they realize they've wasted example, has advised a boy in Honegger/Sonata. their time and/or money. confession to pray to stop mas- Monday Oct. 19 8:30 pm Recital Hall Zoo - (Mercury) turbating. No, in spite of good STEVE ZANK, piano, Bachelor of Music A French group that should Yellow Hand - (Capitol) looks and a willingness to find Wednesday Oct. 21 8:30 pm Jordan Hall have stayed where. it came from. This group does a good imit- out what women are about, NEC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, under the direction of Gunther A real zoo! ' ation of Buffalo Springfield, in Father Gregory is no swinger. He Schuller. Followed by Reception (by invitation) in Brown Hall. cluding six old unrecorded songs is dead set against abortion, even Strauss/Ein Heldenleben; Schubert/Symphony No. 8; further pro-- Second Coming - (Mercury) by Steve Stills and Neil Young, a for a fifteen-year-old poverty- gram to be -announced. A nice average album with lead guitar which sounds like stricken girl with a dozen or so Friday Oct. 23 8:30 pm . Recital Hall nice average songs played by Stills' and vocals which, at their siblings running around in a two BROOK LANHAM, piano. Bachelor of Music. Brahms/Rhapsody in nice average people._ best, sound like Richie Furay room flat. Pieces of Dreams is B Minor; Mozart/Sonata in D Major; Bartok/Selections from and Springfield harmony. Their just that: a fabrication of Cath- Mikrokosmos VI; Dallapiccola/Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera. Happy and Artie Traum - (Capi- originals aren't bad either. Some olic Conscience, a film hoping Thursday Oct. 29 ' 8:30 pm Jordan Hall tol) of their worse vocals are a little that controversy will com- NEC WIND ENSEMBLE, under the direction of Frank Battisti of Happy and Artie who? grating, though. (Please turn to page 6j the Faculty. -Maurice Le Beau