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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Buffalo State Archives: History of the College at Digital Commons at Buffalo State. It has been accepted for inclusion in Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons at Buffalo State. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The most-asked question of the week is why Joe Perry always makes a puss when a picture of Aerosmith i$ taken. No matter, we're glad to )see "Dream On" Tee;nageMusicin the 70's: Part 2!! climbing up the charts, and Aerosmith "Checkin' out the halls, makin' sure the coast is clear, -GARY SPERRAZZA! will prove, within the next six months, to Hi there! .. , Nab, don't get excited, I'm Lookin' in the stalls, Nah, there /3.in't nobody here, be one of the more important bands of still dead, but me and the boys figured Well, my buddy Fang and me and Paul, the 70's. this is a good enough way to attract your To get caught would surely be the death of us all ' ,, . ______, ______attention fo the fact that some friehds of Ifthe guy on the right would've consulted ·smokin' in the Boys Room , mine 1 the Marshall Tucker Band, will be an optometrist, hq, wouldn't have. to put neighborhood and they're still alive, so with Mike Bloomfield at the Century 1 arrows on his clothes to show us where what are you waiting for? ~ They put m:e to work in the school bookstore, - Theatre Nov. 15 at a· pm (sponsored by Amen. Check-out counter and I got bored, it's at, as if we cared. As for the 9ther Buff State's SUB). Moving on down the line, to bands The teacher was lookin' for me all a~ound, two, look at it this way, at least it keeps whose spirit is clearly lodged in, and Two hours later, you know where I was found "-', them off the streets. l hence end up copying, the 60's are Smokin' in the Boys Room \ 11 Badfinger, the Raspberries and Blue Ash. Smokin' in the Boys Room them. , Badfinger (Apple Rec.), still not Now teacher, don't you fill me up with your rule~, Guess what's gonna happen? Brownsville Station are pure raunch delivering their c9me-back album as Cause everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school" promised for much too long, are best ·-Brownsville Station 'n' roll. The music is hard, bloozy rock, each tune ,concise and to the point. remembered for their incredible Big J-,eaf Music (ASCAP) Beatle-takes a few years back. Singles like They're punks, without much sense of "Baby Blue,''. "Day After Day," "No where they are in the music 'scheme of With the ending of one stage is always On one end, we have two British Talk about androgeny in rock. Above are . Matter What,,,, while not getting too things,' and put them on a stage and they left a few pieces from which a new stage groups: The Sweet and Slade. It's hardly the fabulous Sweet, of dubious parentage, many originality points, served as a don't leave without making you happy. emerges. So it is with the new Teenage possible to ever say enough about the with four well-dressed gentlemen. contrived reminder of the past, and And with the limitations of a 3-piece music: a return to the art of the single. SweeJ: in terms of their effectiveness. injected a little excitement back into band being so restrictive, that's quite an Structurally, the attention is focused on They've rnastered .the single, their 4-part over-dubbed clapping and chants. The radio. Same goes for Raspberries . accomplishment. · its' tightness and conciseness, infec harmonies are delightful, the music is as recent · Warners release, Sladest, is (Capitol) who are a little too clean and Their sole album recorded on · the tious melody, crisp harmonies, and a snappy and heavy as they come. They suggested: it's an up to date "best-of" "- polished for my tastes. Yeesh, Eric incredibly large Columbia complex, sharp · eye on production. _ Being a don't even need albums, The Sweet collection hopefully introducing Slade Carmen could have come out' of any Aerosmith's problem is that they are Remember when you were in high school combination , of a resurgence in pop. simply have no use for them. They chum ' the right way to the States. Buffalo high school. literally ignored by most, because it's not and four guys would come up to you and consciousness and the punk-rock of the , out a fine string of singles and then when To · say that the aforementioned If the success of the previous two too known that Aerosmith even exists. the one on the left would say: ','My friend 60's, Teenage music breaks up into·four there's enough, Bell Records puts them groups are popular in England is an bands are hints to any companies, there's I'll let Dann DeWitt's review in CREEM says you called me a prick. " If you said styles or approaches: all together and releases it as an album. understatement (The Sweet's current no reason· why Blue Ash (Mercury Rec.) Magazine speak for me, since it was that "Yeah,. I did'' they'd kill you. If you said 1) Concentrate on the rocking aspects That's class. 'Because the Sweet have been "Ballroom Blitz"; went from No. 15 to' shouldn't be right up there with them. review that made me run out and get the "No, I didn't," they'd say "What, y,ou . 9f the 60's, and fuse it with the discussed at length pr~viously, we'll move No. 1 within two weeks qf release, Slade'$ Generating recall to the early Who, aibum: ' callin' me a liar?" and you'd get killed 70's (Slade, Sweet, Aerosmith, on. "Sqweeze Me Pleeze Me" debuted in the Beatles and Byrds, Blue Ash's first albu~ "Not only do they have archetypal anyway. Note Dave Hill on the right who Brownsvill'e Station, etc.) •• Slade have finally made the big m:ove British Top 30 as No. 1 ). In America, the No More No Less is a fine link of the 60's locker-room sneers and kid-next-door looks like he's ready tobiteyour ear off. 2) Just out-and-out copy it (Bad.finger, by switching labels from Polydor to heavier teenage bands don't have it so to now; a blast from the past. Although I dimensionality; they ain't got moustaches Raspberries, Blµe Ash, etc.) Warners. Manager Chas Chandler easy. like them, the final ·jump from 'like' to And I don't know why, I just don't know . .. I like this band because they seem to 3) Poke 1 fun at it (Wackers, Big Star, (ex-Animals) may not see the mass idol Consider Brownsville Station: their 'WOW' is not there. I don't know, all why, be true to themselves; there's no etc.) following in England recur here, beca)lse / flair for predicting styles before they · three bands are too "nice" and a bit too So you think my singing's out of time, imitation c6untry or superhip posturing 4) Concentrate on the ~ofter/pop Slade's policy of demanding the audience happen always result in BS being left out for.mulated in their approach to Teenage well it makes me money, or frosted hair, just a few pimples and a aspects of the 60's and fuse it with Up and moving follows too closely on the when the style becomes. popular. BS did music: they take it too seriously. And I don't know why, I just don't know full LP of screaming, metallic, creative the 70's (Blue, Curt Boetcher, heels of the "boogie"-rock era now fading an , album of 50's , revival .music on Take rock 'n' roll too seriously and it's why anymore rock ,and roll. Their format is out of the David Beaver) · in America. Other than that, Slade's Warners, later the 50's revival .came in, BS not rock 'n' roll anymore, See? So come on feel the noize, Girls grab the • classic mold: two guitars, bass, drums, a Note: Some of those listed donnot singles formula seems to fol\ow this: were unmentioned. BS did a boogie boys vocalist ... but what they do out of this always perform in just the style Noddy Holder's incredible voice album. boogie became the rage, BS were And get wild, wild, wild." structure is a fucking pleasure . .. Make they're accredited, b,ut at times bellowing out sonfe distinctively teenage , ignor('ld. Now with their lqtest release, "So you think I've got an evil mind, well -Slade some trouble for yourself and. get this combine it with the other styles. lyrics, strong rhythm with heavy off-beat Yeah (Big Tree), they've brought out tHe I'll tell you, honey Yellow Dog Music (ASCAP) . album. They've played in ,, my These are general listings. drumming, piercing guitar, and teenage p1;1nk style they've always had in

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But then a speed jolts us, destroys this relatively ambiguous. Even if we could initial mood, and creates a new direction interpret them, they still sound offensive. for the piece. Oldfield is conscious of Side two ends rather anti-climatically rock-electricity, it is employed most in ' retrospect of side one. The music rastefully and methg_d.ically in his seems to float away; a ball of energy, of -presentation. many moods, floating off· into the Oldfield's lightning quick trc1nsiti6ns canyons, under the sea and into the from piano to mandolin to electric guitar obscurity of the overwhelming thrust of are all valid, each instrument adds c1 new nature. Long Player,s dimension to the piece, a new dir)ction A purposeless, little sailor jig, which I to be pursued. The instruments seem to refuse to consider as a part of the piece, ends the record, perhaps Oldfield's little Has The Train Been Gone" and "My Soul · plc1y themselves. The instruments are characters in Tubular Bells, they -c1re soft-shoe off of the scene. I~ A Witness" are in the gospel vein, the Oldfield's accompc1nying musicians. . It is not important as to who Mick former a fifties nightclub crooner, the Percussion is not used on this record Oldfield is but what he has presented us latter a traditional gospel footstomper in to lay the base of the sound. Yet Tubular with. Tub~lar Bells is an intense listening the style recently adopted by Leon Bells is not pointless free form. This is experience that you can't boogie to. If Russell and Delaney and Bonnie. one of thepc1rndoxes of the record. One you don't want to concentrate or listen "Sunday Morning" is a strange Tubular Bells which Oldfield convinces us not to dwell closely, don't buy this record. But if you combination of Beatles and bluegrass TUBULAR BELLS - Mick Oldfield · in. give Oldfield a chance, you are giving with banjo played by Dennis Coates. (Virgin/Atlantic) 'Th_e initial pic1no melody is ever yourself a chance to experience your Like authentic rock 'n' roll? Like to have A reprise of the title song starts Side It is most difficult to speak of an present; hc1unting us, introducing gentle imagination through that media known as a good time? Like to get your ears two rolling and "Space Race," the intense li~tening experience. How does mandolin, explosions, musical explosions/ Tubular Bells. blasted? Well then, go see Alice Cooper in current single, immediately follows with one put sounds into words? The same of c1 triumphant, jolting nature. -Michael Sajecki the Aud on New Years Eve. But in the its Arp buzzing alongside a clavinet, piano problems one might find when trying to And then bass coupled with , fuzz meantime, Festival East is presenting The and organ, all played by Preston. Whew. describe the type of ' music · that guitar, Oldfield's only condescension to Doobie Bros. with Billy Joel at Kleinh_ans (Whaddya mean, "Whew?" So what?-Ed.) thEE Mahavishnu Orchestra plays, are again giving his piecEJ a stifling unity, becomes Nov: 14 at 7 pm. Tickets are $6, $5, $4 at And as if that isn't enough, he also plays encountered when one speaks of Mick the central focus, the dominant theme the same places we tell you all the time. bass throughout the album. Talk about Oldfield's Tubular Bells. which brings side one to a close. With the' B'illy Preston your complete musician. ('(eah, let's talk Oldfield presents us with a concept bass· and fuzz · guitars humming, the EVERYBODY LIKES SOME KIND OF about Roy Wood-Ed.) , album here. The concept being that Master of Ceremonies, Viv Stc1nshall MUSIC Also on this side is Dylan's "It's simplicity breeds complexity. Tubular intvoduces Oldfield's cast of chc1racters, BILLY PRESTON (A&M) Alright Ma, I'm Only. Bleeding" which is Bells is designed to be a single piece, an his instruments, one by one. This is the Billy Preston rode to fame on the crest . not very impressive since the only one instrumental portrayal of musical moods ' closest · thc1t Oldfield comes to of the wave created by the Beatles. able to do justice to Dylan is Dylan and experiences. Mick plays'· all the self-indulgence. Side one flows to an end Toward the end of their career, the himself. (Check out Manfred Mann's instruments himself ala Roy Wood; a with a beautiful choral treatment of the Beatles used Preston's keyboard talents, covers, they're good, too.-Ed.) On That's total listing of· every instrument that bass-line coupled with a lilting acoustic most notably on Get Back. Subsequently The Way, Preston covered another Dylan appears on the album would only waste ending. this led to his being known as the "fifth composition, "She Belongs to Me" which space: -guitars, keyboards, percussives The instant in which we flip the Beatie" and a solo album on Apple, was ineffectual as well. It. seems he might and of course, the tubular bells record over, reinforces the transition That's the Way God Planned It, produced h.ave learned something from the themselves. There is no danger of from side one to side t'wo. For c1lthough by George Harrison. Unfortunately this non-s11ccess •of the LP as a whole but then self-indulgence or boring solos on this Tubular Bells is designed as c1n entity; it is album never made it and Preston again, now he's more established and we album. Oldfield doesn't play every not rec1lized. There are·ceruin recurrences Queen disappeared only to resurface a few years all know the ability of established artists instrument well, but well enough for his of style and mood, but side two is moving QUEEN (Elecktra) later with his debut album for A&M, I to wax bad songs for sheer monetary own purposes. in a direction of its own. In this day and age of rockdom, there Wrote A Simple ;song . and then gain. It all begins with a simple piano A gentle, mandolin-type guitar are those groups which have attained that catapaulted into nationwide attention Closing the album is "Minuet for Me," melody, then the tinkling of a melody, with pic1no accompanying, sets meas~re of excess, the jaded gold, and with the bizarre single "Outa Space" Preston's attempt at the classics. The glockenspiel; bass and organ. round out the focus for side two, as the·serenity of platinum record, /md these fat, 'cats which was followed by "Will It Go keyboard parts are done well but ·the this initial mood, a mood executed with gentle acoustics helps us to visualize wallow in their successes, producing Round In Circles." Now Billy Preston is strings just seem to mock tpe overall the lightness of c1 tear drop, the musicc1l gondolas floc1ting down the wc1ter streets records which are not only inferior to Gordon Lightfoot (above) modeling the recognized for his keyboard genius and it concept of it and if there's one thing a compression of an instc1nt's emotion. of Venice; or a waterfall dripping slowly their own standards, but also offensive to authentic K-Tel Canadian Folkie Outfit. really is about time. With Everybody modern composer/ pianist just doesn't A guitc1r enters here with c1n c1lternate as ~classes into a gr~at river. The music is the ears of the listening public. Includes: blue workshirt, faded jeans, Likes Some Kind of Music, Preston do, it's treat the classics lightly. melody; a melody which moves as imaginative as yo~ want to visualize it. Then, there are those third generation genuine suede cowboy boots, boxer displays the diversity of styles he can The album might lack the significant simultaneously with the first. The listener A little Scottish flavor enters the rockers, who by permutations, shorts, a Martin D-28 guitar (with extra E assume alongside with his virtuosity and material to become one of the most can choose to )concentrate on whichever scene, as butterscotch guitaring and cross-mutations and combinations, hope strings), and instructions on developing some very slick horn and string important albums of our time ,but it's melody he prefers. Both c1re equally tympani helps us to visualize the pride to capture enough of the best ele~ents of your own scrufty beard. Those foterested arrangements by Paul Riser and Clarence inerely an exercise in self-indulgent distinguishable. and strength of the old, scottish clans. the legendary figures of the rock world, in seeing the outfit modeled will be McDonald. expertise. Preston shows that he can play The piece has lulled us into a Oldfield plays a bagpipe-sounding guitar so as to sound as appealing as possible to pleased to note that Festival East is Side One open with the title cut, a an~ play he does. He might even prove to Siddarthian mood of meditation, we cc1n (?) as the drums begin to pulsate. the listener. Ideally, they will also come presenting said folkie Nov. 11 at 8 pm in short intro number which is followed by be one of the masters of keyboards for close our eyes and se~ stars, planets, and Perhaps the single flaw of the album is upon a style of their own, something to Kleinhans Music Hall (the best from the a strong keyboard rocker, "You're So the 70's, let's hope he's give the chance. galaxies; we can hear the ocean funneling the grunts and howls heard at this point identify them. Enter Queen. west and the most in the east, to say the Unique." The next two cuts, "How Long -Andrew Cutler in our ears. on side two. Whether these grunts reflect Queen is a squad of newcomers to the ' least). Tickets are $6, $5, $4 at all distaste, pain or condescension is all rock world. Freddie Mercury - vocals and Festival tipket outlets.

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STRAIT, t NOVEMBER 1973 25 'I difference) one of the most tragic This tune, coupled with the next, own, they will be a force to be reckoned H~'s accompanied most every one from . political disasters in our history. Then "Doing All Right," marks the real talents with. Dylan's moaning tones, there are those that are so topical, they and diversities of Queen. This second All said and done, Queen is still a To the Byrds, ole Ario, .Bill Monroe, and are' already outdated. Senator Sam At number starts out a bit slower, with piano . most impressive debut album. the good ole Rolling Stones. Home will never be outdated and though and acoustic guitar, ·a Jon Andersonish -Michael Sajecki sounding vocal, and Hollies' harmony. They've got alittle help from some it may not ever be as popular or sell as The power, of this tune lies in its ability friends with lots of feel. many copies as, for example David to make the transition from slow to fast Leland Sklar plays bass guitar and Al Frye's album, it will probably 'out last tastefully, from gentle acoustic to electric Perkins plays the steel. them all. explosives. Moods and melodies are Dear departed Clarence White adds some Sam Ervin is of course the North beautifully interwoven here. fine guitar. Carolina Senator who gai~ed national As the album continues however, one fame when he began heading the (You'll always be 011e of the best, no hears a collection of rockers which are Congtessional Committee investigating matter where you are.) competently executed and reasonably the Watergate Conspiracy. He displayed enjoyable. Except one begins to play the his southern-style wit and wisdom often They'~e chosen some fine numbers, with "guess who that sounds like" game from while cross-examining (and lecturing) lots of breaks and fills. ' here on in. witnesses at the nationally televised 'Teach Your Children' by Grahm Nash, Here's Muddy Waters again. He's still '"- The next number, "Great King Rat," hearings; and he uses the album to do the crying and_ singing the blues. And you and one from Stephen Stills. same, (and make a little money in the is a definite Black Sabbath influenced 'Winterwood' from Don McLean,and know why? Because you didn't buy a rocker, except not as snail-paced as the process). E. J. 's 'Honky Cat'. ticket for his concert yet. The night he's above mentioned. The same type of Ozzie Ervin uses funny stories (some are here is a very special one. And you know (They must have taken lessons from Osbourne echoing - vocals and a little Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt.) parables, •others , Hee Haw rejects), why? It's A Night of Genuine Chicago Ritchie Blackmore wah-wah guitaring personal comments on things like Blues, that's why. Shakin' St. will be added just for good measure. Gazette marriage and friendship. and recitations We forget who said it, but Kinky there full-force, and Clapton, Beck and Well there's guitars and fiddles, "My Fairy King" is enjoyable insofar \ b . of poems, (the old stand by Rudyard Freidman is · to country music what Page might sneak in to get a few more DON T GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB- Al Munde and his anJo too, as the delicate piano work and well Kipling's "If"), and song lyrics with Lenny Bruce was to comedy. We think guitar tips. So when UUAB says they COUNTRY GAZETTE (United Artists) Kenny Wer.tz )singin' out them good ole executed harmonies are concerned; but is simple background music added. The . that's sufficient enough to announce that proudly present, they do mean they 'Lonesome Blues'. rather mediocre when one hears the songs chosen range from "Bridge Over UUAB is presenting Kinky and his Texas proudly present: Muddy Waters, Hound (Sung to the tune of 'The Grand Ole Opry Flatt and Scruggs number bout the Lucifer's Friend (who aren't the most .song,') Troubled Water" to the beautiful old Jewboys in the Fillmore Rm. at 8 pm on Dog Taylor, and the Houserockers on pretty girl 'Down the Road'. original grpup around either) screeches, hymn, "The Old Rugged Cross." All are Nov. 16. While we're on the subject, the Nov. 3 in Clark Gym. Tickets are $3 - One listen to their playin' and_I know and tendency towards over-amplification. delivered in Ervin's charming sou them night before (15) Steve Goodman will students, $4 - nonstudents and night of Come all you music lovers, sit down and that you'll be sold. We can go right down the line now., drawl. There is, however, nothing unusual make · the stage warm for him. Now, performance. You can get them at Buff get all set. •· David Meinzer "Liar" is a refreshing beginning to side or unexpected, and Ervin does not even here's the hard part: both shows ·are $1 . State and UB ticket offices. What more I'll tell you 'bout some fellers called the two, which shows . a good deal of go near any issue that might be in the (hear that, only a dallah), but if you'd do you want us to do, take you there Country Gazette. potential but also a good deal of outside least bit controversial; nothing on like to go to both you can purchase a ourselves? Their number two edition is finally on influences. Phase out drumming, the stand, . Watergate or any politics for that matter, ticket for both sh"ows for $1.75. glittering guitar work, light Yes-type And you'll never hear a finer four man nothing on racial problems or prejudice, Understand? Whew. If you still don't, argue it out with · the people at the Buff piano; Brian May - guitar, piano and vocals and harmonies, Santana-type blue grass band. just tried-and-true all-American timeless vocals; Deacon John - Bass; Roger percussives coupled with a little mambo commentary. State and Norton ticket offices. But don't Meddows Taylor - percussion and vocals, vocal cha11t. This is all very nice but it is Is.Sam Ervin (or real?Yes, he probably bug us, OK? We're still recovering form these· musicians are young, fresh and also a bit too excessive. There might be Well there's guitars and fiddles, is but he's also pretty dull. · our announcement that Bowie would be naive, naive insofar as they show us their too much going on here. Al Mund_e and his banjo too. ' -David Meinzer coming Dec. s; 1972. influences a bit too vividly. For all practical purposes, "Jesus,". the Kenny Wertz singin' out them good ole This is not to say that Queen are last cut on the album, once again 'Lo'nesome Blues'. carbon-copies of anyone; one can detect reinforces Queen's potential for a style of Flatt andScruggs number 'bout the moments of originality and spontaneity their own which is not quite defined yet. pretty girl 'Down the Road': all through the record. Everyone is There is an acoustic, guitar riff, handled in One listen to their playin' and i know influenced by everyone else in rock and classical ~itar "breaks" fashion, coupled that you '11 be sold. roll. The degree of success with which a with excellent vocal harmonies, but in the group disguises their influences is what middle of the tune, .we find a senseless, marks their appeal. In this respect, electric freak out, which almost destroys First there's Kenny Wertz on guitar,he's Queen's future is a little uncertain. anything good intended here. really been around '. Sam Ervin Queen is basically a tight, competant Queen is a pleasant listening And he can play most NashvilleDarlin's SENATOR SAM AT HOME outfit which can rock with the best of experience which should figure to play right in to the ground. SENATOR SAM J. ERVIN, JR. them, and can compare with the heavy prominently on the charts with a little Alan Munde on banjo, his fingers they (Columbia) metal circuses in degree of volume. exposure, ·even in their embryonic stages. ... just prance. _ There have been stacks of record The album starts out with a real foot It is not quite certain whether Queen are And when Roger Bush thumps the bass, albums, comic and otherwise, released as stomper. "Keep Yourself Alive," a hard, individual enough to step out of the you all just gotta dance. a result of Watergate hearings. Many have driving rocker, a good time melody with electric bedlam of many of today's noise biting jabs thrown with righteous Alright everybody, get off my .back. some ecstatic guitar work, a pulsating rockers. They possess the electric brawn But best of all is Byron Berline, a fiddlin' entertain and captivate you at 8 pm in indignation at public figures. Others have drum beat, crisp, strong vocals and just to of Black Sabbath · and the delicate, away. · They're here. They're here. And you can the Gym and if you 're not there, Peter make things proper, prim and sick, meaningless jokes which make fun thank. the Buff State SUB for it. Dec. 1, Gabriel will foxtrot all o,ver your face. ' tasteful brains of Yes. If Queen can fuse . And where he gets those mandolin licks \ of (instead of finding humor in, there is a professional, a bit of phase out recording. these two influences into a sound of their from I really cannot say. GENESIS will do their best to amuse,

STRAIT, 1 NOVEMBER 1973 27 STRAIT, 1 NOVEMBER 1973 26 . . ' claim to fame, other than this because he's backed up by Argent. T•he His Wes-Montgomery-influenced picking "J w'1nna ki11; Iwann,~thrill malfuI).ctiqning saucer, is "It Ain't Easy" rest of the album is pure poop including is quite nice, but who needs it when you I carry,1snod.,yreey_s~for ,i:I pot of gold which I:ias been done by everyone else, Tim Hardin's "Misty Roses" -and · Mike can have the real thing? • These days, I'~e ~~'en bJt_ pritpe-t~me, I'm out of my only bet_ter than his anemic version. The D'Abo's "Warm My Bed." Listen' to thjs guitarists are a dime-a-dozen and mnd-:.,-· ,<--«·. ... , ' (.old Cuts ·9BS i:{ouse Band, which has been getting before your annual visit' to the dent ist Upchurch should keep that in mind next But _I k_e!f:p_r!3qqrd_ing for that disc of gold around (as usual-Ed.) helps poor old Ron and you.'ll feel no pain. time he solos. And I've got a· -cold" make a bigger mess of this project than he NOW HEAR THIS rock and roll band that shows many originally intended. You name it, he does YAQUI THE LAST ILLUSION "I've been to Hoboken, I've had my nose it bad. Monumental over-orchestration, Hanson .. influences of the Faces, from Billy (Playboy Records) J.F. Murphy broken (Manticore/Atlantic) Steeles' Ron Wood-like slide to Charles offensive brass, a chorus with at times Read Yueh. Over the past year, Spitin the ocean for that disc of gold drowns out Ronnie boy (Thank God for (Columbia) A bunch of studio musicians trying to Ray's Kenny Jones-like steady beat. The Playboy has released over 50 of the worst I've been to Nashville, L snort with Steve small miracles), all help this record to This ·ain't gonna be easy, but here make it big. Hanson present us with a only trouble is singer Pete Maclan's insults to music that I'm surprised they Stills become the totally forgetable listening goes. Have you · ev~r heard anyone play pseudo-soulful rock sound which is inability to front-the band like Stewart. haven't gotten around to releasing a Barbi I think Dave Crosby is a son of a bitch experience. Ron Davies is an unidentified jazz, rock, arid bar boogie on the same pleasant enough to listen to, but lacking Nevertheless, "Angry Tiger," "Lovin' Benton solo album. Now, everyone- is But he's ge_tting rich" object, and he's better off that way. If it album? Well these guys do it, even though the intensity to make a lasting You" and "She's A Driver" prove to be complaining about a vinyl shortage. jazz is their strong point, but you don't flies, use it as a Frisbee. "I'm from Ontario, I've been to Buffalo ~pression. Junior Hansoq, a Billy Face-like and extremely likeable. Bitch, bitch, bitch. I propose there is a find that out till the second side of the brain shortage in the Artist & Repertoire I've found phrenario in a joint of gold Preston and Keef Hartl~y graduate, FIVE AND DIME album. The first side is bull shit which is CHRONICLES departments of many record companies, I've had some lucky breaks, my gobddam guitars with Hendrix in mind, but where -David Ackles just indescribably Wierd. J.F. Murphy ,, ·Hendrix's guitar weeps, Hanson's (Colm,nbia) Booker T. and Priscilla Jones cuz if Playboy was concerned about back aches (A&M) plays piano, melotron and lead vocals, screeches. Jean Roussell, 21 year old If you have a tendency toward e-col-o-gee, they would stop wasting what But I keep recording for that disc of gold This disc is enough to make any fan of while all the time being backed by a bass, keyboard wizard of Cat \Stevens fame, Leonard ·. Cohen and his stylistic little vinyl is left or else steal Grand Funk And I've got a cold" the old MG's break down and cry. After a guitar, drums, a sax, and assorted horn adds the same type of ineffectual individuality, perhaps you '11 enjoy David from Capitol. Penthouse, Oui, Gallery, -George Gerdes more than a decade of hits, why Booker arrangements. Ove_r all the album is just moog-electric piano tokenism that is Ackles' album, Five & Dime. Actually if don't get no ideas, OK? 1972 Old Void Music T. has to resort to this sappy lovey-dovey O.K., nothing outrageous really. As a ruining the Cat's sound. Although Conrad you can picture a cross betwixt 'To~ matter of opinion, I'd rather wait to hear shit is a mystery to me. No rockers an_d LOVIN' FEELING Isadore on drums and Clive Chaman . Paxton and Leonard Cohen, you '11 have their next album, cuz it'll probably be 0 that's a fact, I would even be glad to hear Phil Upchurch (ex-Terry Reid and Jeff Beck Group, Ackles down to a tee. The piano has · much better. "Last Illusion" seems like it ' "Mo', Mo', and Still Mo ' Onions" rather (Blue Thumb) respectively) on bass give the group an dominance throughout the album, (I was just thrown together, except for side . than this dreck. This man is the studio musician's excellent rhythm section, it's not enough wonder if it's because it's the instrument two. Gi¥e them time to collect t he Dave plays?) which comes through studio musician. His name can be found to make Hanson a distinguishable element JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL feedback, . and then they'll have crisply, honkey tonkly, thirty-ish and at on . millions of R&B ,albums from Curtis in rock. It seem~ one should expect more (Original Soundtrack) - Neil Diamond something. times just plain mellow. D.T. Ackles Five Mayfield to B.B. King. Originally a from the Manticore label, the new home (Columbia) · and Dime is a day dreamy, listening bassist, Upchurch now makes the git-box of ELP. ,A Christmas- rebipe : The Perfe~t Guess who's com t09--r album, one of those that you break out his axe and does a-fine job of transition. Present. · during a lethargic trance, strictly for EARLY ALLMAN Ingredients: Allman Joys , listening pleasure. It's nice and will most rn@(!)LI '· 1 highly touted romantic bestseller likely wear well on. you if given a fair (Dial/Mercury) ( Johathan Livingston Seagull) Tt-lE'N SUDOENL.'f, chance. So relax, have a daydream. Well, the record moguls are at it 1 pop singer with fans of all ages and _MY FEE'T SiARTEO again, releasing old tap~s•from the depths talent to boot. (Neil Diamond) WAL"-INC, 0'f BLOW~ AWAY of their crypts in order to make a fast 135 musicians and singers. n!EMSELVES ! Christoper Cloud buck, but this particular album is 13 technicians (producers, engineers, rt1E1 TOOi(. considerably better than most of its' {Chelsea/RCA) etc.) · ME IN "!"O Another album of unknowns, this 'SoA.\E ! genre. The Allman Joys were, you 7 top rate packaging designers and wooos time hyperkinetic rock, rock, rock, . guessed it, Duane and Gregg, artists. , instead of the singer/songwriter sleeping pre-Hourglass and pre-Allman Bros. Band, Singer writes .orchestra type music for pill syndrome. Obviously these guys don't aided by some other guys who obviously motion picture sound track based 'on best . want the average consumer to know who never made it. Only one real standout seller; mix with musicians, singers and they are, hence the clouds covering their here: "Gotta. Get Away" is a fine technicians; package in an elaborate faces on front and back cover. This is punk-rocker of mid 60's vintage that jacket with lyrics, fancy typography, soft pure amphetamine music for those who could've been big nation-wide. Produced focus colori photos, and an embossed just gotta move. Witness the up-tempo by John D. Loudermilk (author of the booklet cov:,er; release 8 to 10 weeks punkiness of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" ever-popular "Tobacco Road"), this before Christmas and shortly before , which is enough to make Walt Disney rise album is for Allman fanatics only but corresponding movie (if said movie ever don't pay more than $2.99-for it. f rom the grave feet jerking spasmodically gets out). Then sit back and watch the and fingers snapping wildly. But who dough roll in. wants a half-rotted corpse dancing down HIGH ROLLERS AND OTHER FINE LADIES the street? Wait until they get a good ONE YEAR Jambalaya producer. Colin Blunstone (A&M) U.F.O. (Epic) (re-released) Any band that chooses the title' of a Ron Davies Spawns one good cut - "She Loves Hank Williams song can't be all bad and (A&M) '.I'he Way They Love The Way He Loves this debut album illustrates the above The deluxe musical experience with How You Love The Way I Love Hi~" statement. Jambalaya is a tight five piece the masochist in mind. Ron Davies' only, (?!? !@&%$+t-Ed.) and that's only

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