The Shakin' Street Gazette, Volume 2
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State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College Digital Commons at Buffalo State Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine Buffalo State Archives: History of the College 11-1-1973 The Shakin' Street Gazette, Volume 2 The Shakin' Street Gazette Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/shakinstreet Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation The Shakin' Street Gazette, "The Shakin' Street Gazette, Volume 2" (1973). Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine. 2. https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/shakinstreet/2 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) .