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byRajphSmdmn. America's Addiction: Will The Beave Ever Grow Up? BY JOHNNY GRAHAM “ To Beaver” T-shirts, flat-top haircuts and wearing the same clothes their mothers and fathers wore The following article is an attempt by the author to draw listening to Elvis Presely, Gene Vincent and Eddie twenty or thirty years ago. Move over old order and let the an analogy between the direction of political thought and Cochran. Our own president, a man as immersed in style as old order take over again! cultural phenonema, popular music as an example, in John Wayne was in his war movies, has said himself that he This is not to say, though, that change has not been at­ America’s recent history. The intention is to show the wishes to bring this country back to a time when things tempted, that the movement of thought and the con­ reader that we have merely gone to where we came from in were good, a time when you drank a glass of milk before struction of the progression has not been at one time the last twenty-five years, that is, the irretrievable past, you went to bed. In other words, our chord progressions variated on. The new music to come about in the sixties as a clung onto by nostalgia and its fear to enter into the future have not changed. We’re celebrating our past result of Elvis and Chuck Berry (the Hippies and “Eight bravely. The question then should start as such — What is achievements and not moving earnestly onward. Miles High,” “Purple Haze" and “Break On Through To this “ homesickness,” this love of nostalgia we possess? This drug nostalgia, stagnating when used as a way of The Other Side’ ’) touched many people: old and young, rich The year is 1983 (going on ’84), yet we find much of our life, can be found in such cultural meters as popular music. and poor, hawk and dove — much like the aspirations of the popular culture and politics fixated on the images, thoughts A group like the Stray Cats is the perfect symbol of a Kennedy presence. If the Western and American victory in and sounds of 1963 and 1945 and 1955. Today, politics and culture come full circle in its growth. Although the music World War II was analogous to the mid-fifties emergence of popular music have come full circle. W e’re again wearing sure is fun, it ain’t new. Kids of all styles and genres are (Please turn to pg.HA, col.I) 2A Thursday, December 1,1983 Daily Nexus Vinyl Exams Are In Season Short Shorts Are A By HUGH HAGGERTY was a year old when “ My Easter is also R.E.M.’s Generation” was released) producer. With the help of and yes, Pete produced this two talented women, Faye Must This Winter record and yes, there are a Hunter on bass and Sara lot of similarities here with Romweber on drums, Easter Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories Pete’s stuff. Simon’s jazzes up R.E.M .’s sound but Edited by Irving Howe and liana Weiner Howe are just as full of that self- here, you can also un­ Bantam Books, $2.95 righteous don’t-you-love-it- derstand the words.- By SCOTT LEWIS when-I’m-pitifully-profound Psychedelic pop at its best, Short shorts aren’t just part of some women’s summer wardrobes. They’re also a fascinating literary sub-genre. tone which pitifully profound Faye Hunter’s pathetic And Irving and liana Howe have shown just how absorbing people take to like flypaper. : Twin (tainting on the cover of this Barrels Burning — E.P. doesn’t do the music they can be with their new anthology of thirty-eight He’s got the same twinkling JoBOXERS: Like Cars, guitars and women. justice. miniature masterpieces. There’s not a bad one in the lot. Gangbusters — power chords and Period. Where ordinary short stories run from three to eight The four musicians of overemotional and thousand words, short short stories (short shorts for JoBoxers’ were kicking cymbal crashcis which make brevity’s sake) don’t run much longer than twenty-five around for a while me kind of wish that Simon hundred words and average only about half that. Many of under the name of Subway was into jazz or punk; one them are shorter than this review. Sect until the lead singer Townshend is enough, Short shorts are not merely short stories writ small. As left. They picked up a hot thanks. Howe puts it in the introduction, “Our short shorts are American vocalist/- indeed like ordinary short stories, only more so — but that’s named Dig just the point, only more so makes for important dif­ Wayne and the result is this ferences.” fine of street-wise THE BONGOS: Numbers Just as the short story length does not permit the same w * white R&B. Like a lot of JUMPSPACE: Jumpspace With Wings — development of character, plot and theme as does the British bands, their image is Having gigged around novel, so the short short allows less room for development what makes them stick out. This is a nice Santa New York since 1979 and than the short story. Short shorts render these elements Floods, suspenders and Barbara band playing pretty after a string of European down to their most compact form. They afford us brief but workcaps, these guys fit pop/jazz music for nice and hit singles, the Bongos are brilliant flashes of people and places, humor and horror, their name perfectly. Maybe pretty Santa Barbara finally getting nationwide faith and fear. you’ve heard the , “Just people. Vocalist Rose Burns notice. They integrate The lack of space forces the authors to give us the just Got Lucky” on the radio ... has a smooth Minnie Rip- strains of Latin, rock and barest necessities of characterization and so the characters well, their sound is kind of a perton-like voice and folk and a bit of psychedelia in short shorts tend to be only bare skeletons. As Howe says, throwback to early Joe B.J. FRANKLIN: B.J.’s songwriter/guitarist Josef for a remarkably original “Situation tends to replace character.” Almost all we learn Jackson/Graham Parker/- Velvet Allstars Live! — Woodard plays and writes dance sound. Despite the of the old man in Hemingway’s “ A Clean, Well-Lighted Elvis Costello and if you’re This album ’s release with a cool George Benson momentum which Place” is that he is alone and incredibly lonely — we don’t still partying to those coincides with the opening of approach. Support the locals seems to have going for know about his past or future, and we don’t even learn his records, you’ll party to this B.J. Franklin’s Mardi Gras — even if they have a hard them now, it’s still too easy name. But his name isn’t important here, for we are more one, too. Cafe which happens time being fresh. to dismiss them as another interested in his present circumstances. Likewise we aren’t tomorrow night. (See article nuevo-tomato band. Ketchup told the trapeze artist’s name in Kafka’s odd but affecting in this section.) Featuring or canned, we’ll definitely be “First Sorrow” because his name doesn’t really matter, B.J.’s mean saxophone and seeing more of them in the either. What does matter is that he spends all his time aloft: the keyboards of Danny future. “ His social life was somewhat limited.” Nadya Zelenin in O’Neill, this is un­ Chekhov’s “After the Theatre” is a rather ordinary girl in a complicated blues jams rather ordinary situation who is sketched perfectly. dished out with an intense Although the characters in a short short may range from Louisiana fervor that says the mundane to the bizarre and back, and although they are “it’s party-time.” The spirit not as real as their novelistic counterparts, they are of the Mardi Gras is packed fleshed-out enough to serve their creators’ purposes. If the plot of a short short is not simple nearly to the point into these classic licks and L E T ’S ACTIVE: Afoot — nonexistence, it is probably a variation on a very well- SIMON TOWNSHEND: the best part is, you’ll be The notable trivia con­ o f known theme. An extreme case of the former is Jerome Sweet Sound — able to see Velvet live every cerning this band is that Weidman’s moving “ My Father Sits in the Dark” wherein Yes, he’s Pete’s little weekend at the Mardi Gras Let’s Active producer/- brother (very little — Simon Cafe. songwriter/guitarist Mitch the narrator’s father sits alone in a chair in a dark house. A good example of the latter is “The Eclipse” by Augosto Monterroso. In this story, one of my favorites in a fine book, an exceedingly popular adventure-story cliche is turned on its ear. James Thurber also turns a very familiar story inside out with “ If Grant Had Been Drinking at Ap­ pomattox.” The short short length also requires that the theme of the work not be built block upon block. Instead the theme is honed to a razor point. Sherwood Anderson’s “The Untold POINTER SISTERS: Break Lie” is a sharp and pungent examination of marital doubt. Out — Leo Tolstoy’s “The Three Hermits” examines faith versus THE JONES GIRLS: On liturgy in a perfect parable. Giovanni Verga’s “The Wolf” Target — is a narrative on the power of repeated passions. And “A Both of these vocal groups Yom Kippur Scandal” by Sholom Aleichem is a sharp and got their start singing back­ amusing vignette about the craft of tale-telling itself. up for other big names in I could go on and on about the individual stories, but I’d pop. The Pointer Sisters did run out of sufficiently good things to say before I run out of it for people like Elvin stories. Buy this book for yourself, you will enjoy it. Buy Bishop and Dave Mason in another copy to give to somebody else, maybe someone who the early ’70s and didn’t stick claims to have insufficient time for Tolstoy (that’ll show with it for very long before them!), or maybe a younger reader you want to get hooked. going out on their own. The An appropriately short short review would simply say, Jones Girls spent years “BUY THIS BOOK!” backing up more soulful artists like Aretha Franklin, Teddy Pendergrass and . This is the Pointer Sisters’ sixth L.P. done with producer Richard (Please turn to pg.9A, col.l) HAPPY HOLIDAYS from the EGGHEAD Thanks for your patronage Hope to see you next year

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The Curse of Lono Television and its major attendant By Hunter Thompson magazine, TV Guide, are both institutions & Ralph Steadman overripe for parody. Gerald Sussman, a Bantam, $9.95 former editor-in-chief of the National Reviewed By Lampoon, would seem eminently suited for SIMON TEMPLAR the job. Unfortunately, his recent When the going gets weird, reads like one of the Lampoon’s worst the weird turn pro. issues. ■ The reign of Carter fades, Most of the material here is about as ef­ lost to future historians, but fective as the Grenadian Army. Two major the age of Nixon still looms program listings are for Rocky X III and an • like a foreboding shadow, NBC News Special with Roger Mudd: Ex- incarnate in the new right. Nazis in Show Business. The last in a series The Reagan Administration of witless articles reveals the dirty secrets marches along to the beat of of dry-cleaning N FL uniforms. The hapless an all too familiar drummer. buyer is luckily spared from the nadir of begins to question where enterprise: the advance publicity.brochure the American Dream ac­ where the author interviews himself in a tually resides, what it has become, if it even exists. One further wonders what has Reviewed By Scott Lewis become of the anti­ spokesman, pen dipped in display of self-indulgent pointlessness. red ink, ready to point out In spite of the general low quality of the book, there are a few gems. Fantasy Island, is rampant malignancies.' deservedly warped irfto Reality Island, where three stories intertwine as their characters Just as one is prepared to meet ghastly fates. There’s also a squib on Suzanne Somers optioning Henry James'

toss up his hands in Portrait of a Lady for a TV movie where she’d co-star with Gary Coleman and either Tom resignation, along comes an Selleck or Larry Hagman. The final effort is a phony ad advising readers, “ Reach out and author of mystery and piss off someone. Call collect.” legend, the fabled King of But the few good parts are not sufficient to salvage an otherwise dismal book. All but

Gonzo, the quintessential fanatical and forgiving Lampoon fans are better off spending their hard-earned cash on outlaw journalist, Dr. other books (Try Berke Breathed’s hilarious book of Bloom County cartoons.). H unter S. Thom pson. Thompson’s return from a self-imposed retirement is brought in the form of a wild sea

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“ They call it Kona' Weather; grey skies and rough seas, hot rain in the morning and mean drunks at night.... A huge cloud hangs over the island at all times, and this goddam filthy sea pounds relentlessly upon the rocks in front of my porch ... the bastard never HAIR D ES IG N IN G FOR MEN El WOMEN sleeps or even rests... 9SS C EMBARCADERO DEL MAR * FOR APPOINTMENT “ We are paying $1,000 a week to sit out here in the rain on the edge of this savage black GOLETA CA 93117 805-968-4415 rock and wait for the annual typhoon — like the fools'they know us to be. Well, fuck these Genuine NEXxUS Products arc sold only in professional hair styling salons. people. They lied to us, and their lies have caused us to suffer ... which means we must go to the mattresses and bomb them them into the sea .... The time has come for vengeance."

Master of the random element, Thompson’s story is told in a dark, humorous, often incredulous prose. In his seven-month stay, Thopmson attacks virtually every foundation A. S. PROGRAM BOARD & KTYD of Hawaiian culture past and present, including religion, creating more than his usual handful of enemies. This man does not understand the concept of cease and desist; he present pushes everything to the edge of human endurance, then crawls out beyond with a banshee scream. This is not a book for the weak-souled, the idealist, or the criminally insane, but if one is planning a vacation to the islands, it is required reading; except you may not want to g o ... or you may. Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why. and DOUBLE TROUBLE Text copyright 1983 by Hunter Thompson; Illustrations copyright 1983 by Ralph Steadman; Excerpts and illustrations used by permission of Bantam Books; All rights reserved.

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By DAVID COSTANZA Anne: His father was a greyhound. Another WhiteFront D.C: About the gig at Halverson’s tomorrow night, what’s Two summers ago the WhiteFronts appeared in Isla The White Fronts the game plan? Vista. Armed with garbage can cymbals and a psychedelic Dr.D: We intend to pass a lot. they began an assault on the local music scene Are Stone Groovy D.C: Do you ever think of food while you’re playing that still continues today. Their musical adventures have drums? taken them across the country to Ann Arbor, Michigan; to Dr.D: No. For a while I think of playing drums, but that Joe’s Star Lounge and some of the great garages and living usually goes away after a couple of . rooms of America; and back to the backyards of Del Playa. (This was leading nowhere. He was unable to tell me Unable to find suitable housing for their act in Isla Vista anything important about the band.) they took it on the road to lower State street, where it is now D.C: What is the aim of all serious art? housed inside of a spacious adobe warehouse. A cold Dr.D: To make noise. warehouse I might add, but they insist the cold keeps them D.C: Back to the gig, the WhiteFrontss will exchange awake during rehearsals. It is in here that I am about to music for food— care to explain? speak to Dr. D. Beatrok — groove director ancl drummer of Dr.D: You see, if people gave us money, w e’d just spend the WhiteFronts. A member since the band’s formation, it on food. We’re just eliminating the unnecessary step. I Beatrok is an accomplished Jew’s harpist and saxophone am personally fond of canned corn and grapes. If you don’t player along with his spot as the band’s drummer, but he want to give us food, give us 50 cents, or a bus token, if you really only plays one thing: “ the groove.” There is a tape have one. deck playing the WhiteFronts covering an old Byrd’s tune, Bill: It’s a new thing we’re trying out, sort of like barter. “The Bells of .” As the song begins the Doc im­ D.C: If you could be a verb, which one would you be? mediately starts to gyrate around the room. Bill and Anne, Dr.D: Shuffle. who are also WhiteFronts join him in the middle of the D.C: L ik e... cards? warehouse, dancing around a cement mermaid. “The Dr.D: Lik e... off to Buffalo. WhiteFronts are canned goods!” the Doc yells and he D.C: What are your musical influences? begins to instruct Bill and Anne on some of the finer points Dr.D: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Flintstones... of being groovy. D.C: What is your goal as a drummer? I’m here on the occasion of the band’s re-emergence Dr.D: To play nude in front of a big audience ... also, I’d tommorow night at Halverson’s Scandinavian Deli (640’ like to have this hovercraft, where I could start it up during State Street) where the band will be exchanging music for a gig and fly above the band and out over the audience. food. (SO cents for those who believe in cover charges). The Girls would be on it too... feeding me grapes. neat-o psychedelic strains continue as I look about the D.C: You once said if you want to play in a band you have warehouse at all of the different instruments, wondering if to travel to another planet. What does this mean? any of them work. I suggest to the Beatrok that we begin the Dr.D: I’m not sure ... I think I might have been filling up interview. The dancing and the music stops, Bill and Anne space. . climb on top of an old refrigerator and Dr. D. Beatrok D.C: You also said that if the WhiteFronts ever got tight, speaks: they’d have to start getting drunk before gigs. Dr.D: You know, the WhiteFronts doing a Byrd’s song is D.C: That’s not it? Dr.D: Did I say that? sort of like an Apache Indian barbershop quartet. Dr.D: The Gross National Product of Chad? D.C: Yes. I believe you did. Are the WhiteFronts tight? D.C: Doctor, if you had three pails of troubles and I gave D.C: How about a little of your family history? Dr.D: I don’t think s o ... it’s hard to tell. you two, what would you have? D r.D : W ell... it’s just my mother and m e ... D.C: You were an actor before ... which do you prefer ... Dr.D: Five pails of troubles? D.C: Are you sure that’s all? Drama 5 or Jackson 5? Bill: No. Bill: His mother was a Greyhound Bus driver. Dr.D: Jackson 5, though Drama 5 was pretty cool. D.C: Do you consider yourself a good actor ... I mean,' could you act convincingly like a strip of bacon? Dr.D: Sure, if I had the right costume. D.C: What kind of costume are you wearing now? D r.D : These are my clothes, man. (It seemed as if we were coming to a . The warehouse had become extremely cold. Dr. D. Beatrok had gotten up to light a sofa cushion and throw it in the middle of Congratulations. the stone floor. As black smoke rose to the sheet-metal ceiling he plugged the WhiteFronts tape back in and began to dance. A groovy attempt to keep warm I assumed, and (Please turn to pg.9A, col.l) You’ve just become Brandenburg Concertos anetter In Campbell Hall The Chamber Orchestra opens the holiday season with a performance in UCSB’s Campbell Hall tonight at 8 p.m. Their program features all six of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. When they played the Bran­ denburgs here in 1981, the sold-out house responded with a photographer. standing ovation. The Brandenburg Concertos are some of the best-loved pieces of concert music today. 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BOX OFFICE 962-8606 *914 Santa Barbara St. IS New Kodacolor VR films. ______Produceo By with me Dramatic Publishing Co of One ago Daily Nexus Thursday, December 1,1983 5A B J. Franklin Opens McCartney Lights Up '' By IAN DEPTH blance to Gichy Dan’s Mardi Gras Cafe “Say say say what you Pi PIS OP PEACE PAULMcCARTNEr Beachwood record and there want but...” Paul Mc­ are a few traces of Beach- Cartney has a new album boys scattered about. After

climbing the Christmas Say Say Say comes The

Charts. The single (a Other Me, a latin shuffle collaboration with Michael about Paul’s alter ego. “ I Magic Ingredients Jackson), acted like a dustbin lid” Say Say Say, plays over and Yowza Yowza, the voice is over on AM and FM radio there but it isn’t in the and on Music TV and as we dustbin. Keep Under Cover all know repetition is the starts off then takes off: name of the game game “What good is art when it game. Have you seen the hurts your head?" a video? It’s sweet and subtle rhetorical question the and sleek ... kind of a cross wallbanger aesthetes among between a pleasant dream us might consider. Paul and a cereal ad. Good taste sings the ballad Love You So

(Paul’s & Michael’s?) Bad so good it hurts — prevails and the video soulful falsetto.

vignette bears no resem­ The Man is another Mc- blance to the song’s lyrics. Cartney-Jackson co-op Isn’t it a bore when the video _ number with a image is dictated by the damn song? But back to the music. intro born right out of an Isley Brothers record. Paul & Theoretically this is a record review, still, the Say Say Say Michael both sound like happy men in this one but what’s video is very much a product of the same technical mastery the song about? Being happy ... demonstrating that Paul’s and stardust opulence you can expect from McCartney’s (and in this case Michael’s) lyrics aren’t so much trite and records; perfect, sexy yet almost androgenous vocals superficial as they are abstract, like a painting that mixed with funky textures and percussive effects and decorates as it defines ideas. Michael’s squeeking and concrete sounds whirring amidst elastic (but not plastic) scatting in the back-up tracks don’t hurt either. The

melodies that support but do not subserve the urbane lyrics Sweetest Little Show has the sweetest little guitar solo in it, in this latest produced set of 11 songs. Spin it reminiscent of ’ White Album, which is followed and you get “The sweetest little show in town.” by its own little applause track and angels could be proud of Corny, you say? But do you mean corny or comfortable or the long notes of harmony held by the golden voices that

sublime? The trouble with sublime art is its real power is fade and surge into Average Person, an advanced often sublminated in skill and skill is pleasing and pleasure rockumentary series of imaginary interviews with average is comfortable; so comfortable, in fact, that one might not people: an engineer who wished he’d worked with lions in a By HUGH HAGGERTY notice how sublime the experience is. How sublime is it? zoo, a waitress who failed an audition for a Hollywood film Santa Barbara seems to be aching for a place like B.J.’s Let’s get down to the songs. part, and a boxer who “ lacked a little extra height.” The Mardi Gras Cafe (535 State St.). The club is having its As side one begins we hear the orchestra tuning up average person? Paul’s got kaleidoscope eyes. What’s

grand opening celebration tomorrow night (continuing (corny?) and then Paul comes on crooning a paen, the band next? Hey Hey, an instrumental number co-authored by Mardi Gras style throughout the weekend), and if the (complete with tabla drums) is behind him and then a Stanley Clarke, not un-like a Jeff jig played by Santa’s hubbub around town is any indicator, it is going to be one chorus of unison voices join in — the Pestalozzi Children’s Elves in the tropics. What a lovely bass line during the satin

happy party. The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce is Choir(?): “Will the human race be run in a day? ... what section. Next is Tug Of Peace, a big clapping vamp, almost even going to cut the ribbon! are we gonna do? ... Play the pipes of peace.” Pipes of juju music (Sunny Ade style) with arguing counter­ The partying will hardly cease this weekend. B.J. will Peace is the title of the record and pipes of peace, both the melodies, “ It’s a tug of war. No no, your troubles cease blow his last notes on his old saxophone and have it en­ musical and smokeable varieties, are the motif of the when you learn to play the pipes of peace.” shrined on the walls of the cafe. Velvet is gonna rock the album cover. The back photo shows Paul in kookily casual house with its New Orleans brand of Cajun bluesjazz while clothes reeling as if between puffs from a classical indian

B.J. breaks in his new sax. There will be free samples of the peace pipe that is mounted on a tripod, like a telescope. Through Our Love closes out side 2 and shows McCartney food to be served — gumbo, chili and ribs — and lots of door Effective, don’t you think? Back to the music. is still the old optimist staying young in love. “Just want to prizes. B.J. says, “ When you walk in the door, you’ll know The overall sound of the record bears notable resem- do whatever feels right...” you’ve come right to the party time! ” ------—=------Managermusician B.J. Franklin says this is a dream come true for him. Having played with his band, Velvet, for 12 years in the Santa Barbara area and putting up with the runaround that a musician has to deal with, he dreamed of opening a club where musicians and audience alike could be in a cool, comfortable, happy atmosphere which would guarantee a fun time for everybody. When Beaudelaire’s closed down over the summer, he saw his chance and snatched it | UCSB up. He has completely remodeled the place with the emphasis on a New Orleans party atmosphere. A new stage has been built complete with a curtain (It’s showtime!), and a big bar and a bright new kitchen have been added. Complimenting the groovy music will be great Cajun food at great prices along with beer and wine. Happy hours? Of course, g SUPER complete with a happy hour dinner special Wednesday through Friday from 4 to 6:30 p.m! The club is already booked up for the first month. Monday nights will feature a dance contest with local D J’s playing judge with qualifying rounds for an eventual grand prize of $500. When that’s over, Mondays will alternate between dance nights and Santa Barbara * HOLIDAY Blues Society-sponsored Blue Mondays with top name blues artists. John Lee Hooker and fa another Jimmy Witherspoon show are tentatively set for sometime in early ’84. Tuesdays will showcase the Milton Kelley Band, Wednesdays will have blues singer Jenny Hood, and DRAWING Thursdays through Saturdays B.J.’s band Velvet will groove the Cafe. On Sunday nights, there will be open jam sessions with local musicians. B.J. guarantees that his killer sound system will insure that the audience hears exactly what the musicians are playing. B.J. plans to call the Mardi Gras Cafe “ home” for a long time, and from the sound of it, & Tomorrow he shouldn’t have any problems getting support from the Santa Barbara community. Be a $ part of the historical grand opening this weekend — you won’t regret it! Dec. 2nd t® f at l:OOpm FR0WIEX Photo Systems at the $ UCSB Bookstore SAME DAY PHOTO CHRISTMAS CARDS fa Photo Dept. & & Winning entries will be ^ announced and prizes ^ awarded. Winners need not Unique Gift Items be present. Photofinishing Open Monday through Friday 8 am - 5 pm & Services Available V * Saturday 11 am - 4 pm ^ ^ (Electronics/Photo Dept. 961*4251) 1229 STATE STREET • 966-2269 6A Thursday, December 1,1983 Daily Nexus

far reaches. The evil the top of the charts). On government wants to exploit Cougar’s new album, Uh- Vinyl Exams... their powers for espionage huh, the mediocrity is still Latin Fusions Plus: (Continued from pg.2A> so the band forms a com­ present, but there are Perry. On Target is the mune- somewhere in enough crowd-pleasers to Jones Girls’ debut; after Austrailia. The government make it a success. Argentina's Arco Iris that brief history, something ends up attacking the Cougar demonstrates on By BILL THOMPSON should tell you which album commune whereupon it this L P a creditable knack As any artist knows, no work of art is completely is better. Right On Target. forms a protective telepathic for writing convincing, . original; that is to say, without the influence from others’ The Pointer Sisters tried to shield around itself and the stripped-down rockers. The work. The mark of a true original artist comes in their update their, sound with Planet Earth best cut is “ Pink Houses,” a ability to take the multitude of past experiences and add to drum computers, extra Orchestra flies off into steely critique of con­ them the individual creative toiich that makes their work synthesizers and a new rag space. Damn LSD escapists! ventional ideas on success in different. wardrobe but the result just THE JAM: Snap! — Giving up on world peace so America. However, in musical stylings of Arco Iris, the Argentinian jazz sounds like another Pointer Just the thing for the up easily, huh? Anyway, the song’s anthemic chorus, band now based in Los Angeles, is a perfect example of this Sisters album; mostly trite, and coming Mod in your album is impeccably Cougar laments that often blending of past influences and creative touch. danceable disco. The Jones family who thinks (s)he produced with some great the fruits of a lifetime of On their latest recording, Blue Pheasant, their first Girls cook up some sizzling should be convinced that special effects and labor are “little pink houses release here in the U.S. the band has compiled a very in­ grooves and their great Paul Weller invented trademark Starship for you and me.” Well heck, fectious blend of Latin percussion, jazz improvisation, and harmonies sit on top pretty fashion. Seriously though, choruses. Kantner is now John, we really can!t even beautiful melodies that make the album accessible to all as you please. These Joneses this is one fantastic making a movie of the same look forw ard to that those who enjoy music and are willing to listen to anything are definitely worth keeping collection of songs only it’s name and I’ll bet his anymore. that isn’t presented to them on Top 40 radio. up with — they’re absolutely sort of like coming out with a imagination outruns his A number that par­ The delicate balance of influences is evident from the gorgeous, too! book called Shakespeare’s money supply. ticularly annoys me is first cut, “ Acancaggua,” with its folkish melody that in­ Greatest Hits. The real fans “Authority Song,” Cougar’s vites one to take a serious listen. “ Chacarera Dance” is will tell you to buy it all. But, attempt to align himself with powered by the clean guitar playing of John Chiiodini, and hey, all the hits back-to- the rebellious tradition in the driving rhythms congas, drums and other various Latin back! And they used the . When I listen to percussion instruments. This is the strongest piece on the English mixes and the demo Cougar’s vague album and the overall performance of the band is enhanced version of “That’s En­ sloganeering (“I fight by an absolutely brilliant production. tertainment!” What a authority, authority always What really sets this band apart from others in the Latin- Chrismas present! wins” ), I get a strong hankering for more a r­ jazz genre is its insistence on not falling into the standard ticulate spokespeople like groove that is typical of most Latin groups. Arco Iris has Chuck Berry or The Who. the freedom and spirit of solid jazz improvisation. They are not shy of using silence as a means of musical expression. JOHN COUGAR: Uh-huh — There is one novely tune on THE SUBURBS; Love Is There is not a barrage of guitar solos or percussion wars to By DAN FLYNN the record that Cougar co­ The Law — lull the listener into a Latin haze. These guys are too cool. John Cougar has gotten wrote with under- The flute and woodwind playing is delicate in pieces like They’re into tongue-in-cheek quite a bit of critical flak appreciated artist John “Aconcagua,” and cutting in others as in “ Blue Pheasant.” profundities like Mona Lisa lately for being somewhat of Prine called “Jackie .O.” The drive of Ara Tokatlians saxophone playing gives the is into smiling. Just look at a pedestrian product from The music on this cut is listener a strong impression of the hectic city life, while his these song titles: “ Monster the school performed on one of those work on South American woodwinds is reminiscent of small Man,” “Accept Me Baby,” of hard knocks. On last abominable keyboard village life in his native country. Adding to this rural feel is “ Hell A ,” (like smellay) and PAUL KANTNER: Planet year’s American Fool LP, consoles (you know, the kind that simulate dozens of in­ the vocal stylings of Danais Wynnycka, whose voice seems “ Perfect Communist.” The Earth Rock And Roll Or­ Cougar showed that he had struments and you can see to float throughout the whole album. Not to be forgotten is trouble is, it sounds like they chestra — all the attributes necessary them performed in shopping the element that pulls the whole thing together, the bass stole a buttload of riffs and This might’ve been a great for success in this style; malls). Cougar backs off playing of Micho Leviv. His funky accents mix well with all studio tricks from Iggy Pop. Jefferson Starship album if tough, grating vocals, street­ from his emest “rock and the other elements to form a whole that is as unique as it is No matter; Iggy’s last it weren’t for Kantner’s wise lyrics and a winning listenable. album was pretty bad and inflated ego and that his rock n’ roll beat. The roll-is-my-life” stance and If you are one of those jazz purists who won’t even pick up Minneapolis (home of the concept for this album veils problem was that Cougar shows that he does have a “ fusion” album, you’d be making a big mistake by shun­ Suburbs) deserves to have it in pretensiousness. To put wasn’t outstanding in any of sense of humor. All in all, Uh-huh isn’t a bad record, ning this one. And if you are one of those daring listeners it’s own rock and roll heroes it briefly, it’s about a band these qualities, (which who’s tired of Top 40 or commercial jazz sweetness, it’s — Prince is not a hero, he’s a with telepathic powers that really didn’t matter since but you probably won’t be time for Arco Iris. The record is available at the Sound king. sends its fans to the mind’s the album ultimately went to playing it a year from now. Factory and Gramophone Records.

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Musical and Play Auditions Set for January 3 & 4 The UCSB Department of Dramatic Art will be presen­ ting the musical No, No Nanette in late February and early March in the Main Theatre. Letters Home, a play con­ cerning the life of Sylvia Plath, is also scheduled for Winter Quarter in the Studio Theatre. Auditions for both shows will be held on January 3 and 4. Audition information is availible from the Drama Production Office (Snidecor 1603).

“ By Leaps and Bounds ” includes works by both faculty and right) “Rectangle Sky” choreographed by Janet Vucinich. student choreographers. Pictured above are “ Celluloid Photos by Christopher Glennon Summer” choreographed by Marian E. Johnson and (to the By Leaps and Bounds Opens Three Run Night By Leaps and Bounds studies and professional reality as my point of between a parent and a child plays tonight through work in dance, he has earned departure for L ’Invitation. or between any two than in Saturday at 8 P.M. in the degrees in dram a. He The final product, however, the singing of a lullaby. Such UCSB Main Theatre. The reports that the work of will probably not be able to an exchange calls up very modem dance concert is playwright has influenced be defined in literal terms primitive emotions. directed by-Susan Alexander the development of this and it will be difficult to Hopefully, my dance will and presented by the Dance dance. determine a specific call up some of these same Division of the Department narratinve. Reality is a emotions when, in our in­ “Strindberg,” relates of Dramatic Art. personal thing. Whatever we nocence, intimate exchanges Dennett,“ is known as the Featured in By Leaps and experience is our reality. between men was an easy precursor of modem drama Bounds are original Our nightmares— our and natural thing.” and was the first to develop a choreographies by Alice fantasies— our descents into The dance for three per­ method of writing which Chouinard, Anne Goodman, madness. formers is set to songs of became known as abstract Nadya Hollstein, Marian Saint-Saëns, Schuman, and expressionism. His works “ L ’lnvitation’s personal Johnson and Janet Vucinich, Duparc and is one of seven are filled with densely statement about com­ all dance majors. In addition original choreographies that SOLD OUT. Final performances of Euripides’ “Hecuba" symbolic action 6et in munication between men. 8 in faculty members Susan will be presented in By will be given tonight through Saturday at pm the UCSB dream-like states. He in­ Something that, in my ex­ in Alexander and Nolan Dennet Leaps and Bounds. The other Studio Theatre. These performances like the ones sisted, however, that he was perience, rarely gets beyond November are sold out however. The Greek tragedy is have also prepared works works in By Leaps and a realist first and last the superficial. My title is directed by Stanley Glenn and presented by the Depart­ for this concert. Bounds range from because his point of somewhat ironic, for there is c h a ra c te r stu dies to ment of Dramatic Art. Next quarter the “Hecuba” com­ Dennett’s dance piece is departure was realistic no more intimate com­ romantic summer follies, pany will tour to other college campuses, including UCI and titled “L’Invitation au detail. munication than the nur­ and have been discussed in UCSD. Voyage.” In addition to his “ I, too, have chosen turing that takes place previous Nexus articles. Photo by Christopher Glennon Daily Nexus Thursday, December 1,1983 7A

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9 6 5 -2 8 7 1 BELOW COST! MCCAMUY SQUARE AT STATI I N I A OUIRtA 8A Thursday, December 1,1983 Daily Nexus Writer. Producer Director & Star Streisand Succeeds A t Them All In 'Yenti' By M.T. HANSON Seldom does an actor both direct and star in a major (Eailjebral ¡Boofesíjüp motion picture, a feat commonly marked by failure, but this doesn’t stop . Not only does she direct Catholic, Charismatic & herself in the lead of M GM /UA’s YentI, but she co-wrote Other Christian Books and Gifts and produced it as well. And she succeeds at all four en­ deavors. 727 State St. Along with Streisand, Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving Ph. 805-966-3218 provide excellent performances during the film, making it not only a delight to see, but a possible -contender for several Oscars. Streisand directs the film with a soft touch, and subtleties, from soft lighting to character close-ups, lend the picture its brilliance. On the set in Czechoslovakia, the costume mistress came up to ask Streisand a question: would she be wearing the same hat on for a just completed shot in a scene to be filmed later? Mandy Patinkin and Barbara Streisand in Yenti women. Her scholarly father, played by Nehemiah Persoff, Streisand recalls, “ I caught myself saying, ‘well, I’ll ask lets her study at night. “ God won’t mind you should study, the director.’ Then I went, ‘Ohhhh.’” It may have been a but the neighbors I don’t know about.” When he dies she is surprise for Streisand to both produce and direct, but this left to the guiles of the village women, who are determined isn’t evident in the film. Heminiscient of a toned down to get her a husband. Rather than that she cuts her hair, BY Coppola, the film’s bigger-than-life perspective solidifies dons men’s clothing, leaves town in pursuit of an education, Streisand’s attempt at presenting a realistic fantasy. It and thus begins our story. LEAPS works. Each inch of footage is careful work, but so careful Mandy Patinkin is good as Avidgor, with whom Yenti (as one isn’t conscious of this until after the film is over and one a boy) falls in love, and Amy Irving as Hadass delivers her AND finds himself clapping with the rest of the audience. best performance yet. No need to ruin the movie by further Yenti is a film about triumph, both the character Yentl’s, revealing the plot, but if you enjoy the likes of Twelfth

and Streisand’s. No major film company would agree to Night, or Much Ado About Nothing, you’ll love this movie. BOUNDS finance Yenti, believing the subject matter too Jewish and Streisand dedicates her film to both her own, and all our the star too old. Streisand persisted though, and eventually, fathers, but the elation at viewing such a complete, con­ after many considerations and compromises, MGM/UA sistent, humorously serious work, is truly her crowning agreed to back her. At times Streisand expressed terror glory. The music, a collaboration by Michel Legrand and and amazement at having taken on such a feat, but as Marilyn and Alan Bergman, is also quite good, and MGM/UA is now boasting, she is, “ the first woman in the Streisand, the only singer in the movie, weaves a soulful history of motion pictures to produce, direct, write, and melody with her beautiful voice. perform a film’s title role.” Yenti is a triumph and clearly one of the year’s best Streisand proved capable through her direction and films. Streisand put her heart and soul into Yenti and it delightful performance, but the story and script are the shows. During several crucial scenes Yenti, with heartfelt A MODERN DANCE CONCERT other half of this film’s charm. Yenti is an Eastern passion, pleads with Avidgor, “ Nothing is impossible,” and PRESENTED BY THE UCSB DANCE DIVISION European girl who desires nothing more in life than to study in light of the film’s problems and history, it’s quite obvious Talmud and Torah, which at that time was forbidden to Directed by Susan Alexander that this is Streisand’s tour-de-force.

December 1, 2 & 3 8 PM UCSB Main Theatre 's Dumpy Years: 'Don't Look Back' Tickets $4 ($3 UCSB Students) Arts & Lectures Ticket Office. 961-3535. By RONE WILLIAMS There’s no rock and roll here, just the infamous nasal Once there was a skinny drawl, primitive acoustic guitar, and howling harmonica. little man that was loved, The film’s opening shows such promise, too. With “Sub­ respected, and listened to by terranean Homesick Blues” hammering away in the Talks by one and all. He was what was background as Dylan lears and flips narrative placards for known as “ the spokesman of the ignorant as he stands in a dirty New York street with Swami Dayananda a generation.” Only he didn’t someone looking suspiciously like Allen Ginsberg shuffling like the idea a whole lot so he and gesticulating behind. I thought I’d died and gone to set about doing everything heaven. At this juncture I was all set for some straight­ he could to dump on his ahead rock and roll anarchy of the sort that I would never image and his followers. It admit to liking any longer if I was at a cocktail party. Not a took him a while, but after chance. All I got was circular cynicism, some of which was the more or less notorious incredibly funny, but not exactly what I’d had in mind. “ Slow Train Coming” it seemed as though he’d pulled it off. As soon as Dylan arrives in swinging mod London a herd At any rate, the ranks of Bob Dylan fans have thinned out of would-be-hipster journalists descend upon him and begin quite a bit and I doubt that even the solid “ Infidels” will to'ask questions of mind-boggling stupidity. It’s as if bring back the lost sheep or win many new converts. But someone paid them to behave like morons so that Dylan - that’s as it should be. His time has passed and he’s clearly could verbally shred them. Sometimes his replies are relieved. funny, sometimes confusing, often egotistical, and nearly I don’t suppose any of that’s news to you, but Don’t Look always vicious. But if anything, he’s treating these people Back was obviously shot on the assumption the audience more courteously than they deserve. This type of human knows Bob Dylan almost intimately and desires to hang on being is what is known in the vernacular as an “.asshole.” his every sneer. This was okay by me, but if you’re not These exchanges take up a very large portion of the film. fascinated by Dylan, folk, or the sixties counter-culture Which is not as bad as it might sound since the interviews there’s probably not too much in D.A. Pennaker’s cinema- are informative, humoruous, and thought-provoking while verite portrait of the Great Man to keep you amused. the concert footage is not what it might be.

Don’t Look Back was shot in the spring of ’&> during a The film seems to be almost a parody of cimema-verite. three-and-one-half week tour of England. Though Dylan Pennebaker must have gone out of his way to make a film

had just released Bringing it All Back Home, his first this rough. The concert footage is particularly rough. electric masterpiece, he toured England as a folkie. (Please turn to pg.9A, col.2)

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Fronts... 'Don't Look Back'... Nexus Arts & Entertainment (Continued from pg.4A) (Continued from pg.8A) joined him dancing next to Nevertheless, there are some truly great shots and the film convinces one of its spon­ Editor: Hugh Haggerty the fire, trying desperately taneous authenticity. This seems to be an almost calculated strategy, however. The film to keep some sort of contact was cut to its present hour-and-a-half from twenty hours of raw footage. Albert Grossman Contributors To The with the young beat wizard. (Dylan’s unpleasant manager) produced the film and supervised the editing. And it was Everyone was up now not released until two years after it was shot. All of this would seem to point to the fact that Gonzo Christmas Issue: dancing around the burning things are, as usual, not what they seem to be when they show up on the screen. sofa cushion. The warehouse Dylan has sweet, beautiful dumb Joan Baez in tow and she’s awfully fun to watch. iDavId Costanza, Ian Depth, Dan Flynn, Bllli was filling with thé thick, Another bonus is some great early footage of Dylan singing at a civil rights meeting down 'Thompson, Simon Templar, Scott Lewis, Ted black, poisonous smoke, but south somewhere. 'Costas, Katherine D. Zlmbert, M. T. Hanson we were having too much fun I enjoyed the film enormously, but I don’t think it was the sort of thing most people go to & Johnny Graham to care. ) a rock movie for. If you’re the sort of person who’s interested, and you know who you are, D.C: If you were the last go by all means. We Wish You A Happy Holiday Season man on earth would you still Don’t Look Back opens Dec. 9 at the Victoria Street Theater. practice drums? See You In 1984 Dr.D: Yep, I’d beat on rocks. ***** Dr.D: Who’s your favorite m f c . drummer? Dr.D: Ringo ... well, a cross between Ringo and Sly Dunbar. (W e could barely see each other, only our stomping hands and clapping feet showed that anyone was left METROPOLITAN THEATRES C 0 R P 0 W I0 H alive. Dr. D. Beatrok yelled out: “In L.A. the SANTA BARBARA WhiteFronts are good ... cough ... in San Francisco FIRST THEATRICAL RELEASE IN OVER 50 YEARS! they’re even better ... cough NEW 35MM PRINTS - LIVE ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT cough ... in Canada they’re out of it man ... cough cough ...” and he threw in another cushion. Bill followed him by DAYS throwing my tape deck into ONLY! They thought he couldn't do the job. the fire.) DUCK SOUR HABEAS CORPUS ■ I A TRUE STORY D.C: Anything left to say, DOUBLE WHOOPEE downstairs LIBERTY Doctor? BIG BUSINESS YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN' PRESENTED BY JOHN QUINN Dr.D: Yeah ... you know, IN COOPERATION WTTH peace ... and love ... cough STUDIOS cough cough ... love u rn q i everybody ... cough- coughcoughcoughhhh even the animals and people Live you hate... Organ ARLINGTON Provided by upstairs I I CENTER GAYLORD CARTER and you’ll come to Terms. 1317 State Street 966-9382

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Wing Dec. 3. profession, lamenting their fate of being hated for being too There’s no hope of coming up with memorable, glowing To mark the occasion the museum will host public open critical or criticized for being too understanding. praise, or witty, withering remarks that will take their houses from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 3 Champlin (L.A Times) has written many pieces on the place among the list of reviewer’s cliches. No. It’s just and 4. In addition to the inaugural exhibits there will be live defense-of-the-critic theme, and Kerr, the New York Times another mediocre play or film that will produce an equally entertainment ranging from instrumental music to puppet theater critic, once tried to convince readers that reviewing mediocre review. shows, children’s theatre, mime caravans and more. a bad play is no fun at all, and in fact is quite exhausting. Sometimes I can get around the problem by asking According to Museum Director Richard V. West, “Dolls “A good show makes a man want to review it,” Kerr myself what was missing. Then I write one of those “ this on Holiday” visitors will see a wonderfully preserved wrote; “ whereas a bad one only makes him want to go film would have been really good if” or “ the only thing that selection from the Alice F. Schott Doll Collection of dolls, home and lie down.” kept this film from being interesting was” type review. toys and puppets. Dolls in the exhibit will be grouped by . Kerr’s main point is that a bad play is so difficult to watch The other option I always try to consider is how I was type before settings that evoke their periods and places of because of the effort he has to make to stay awake, find feeling the day I saw the film. Did I have a headache? Was origin. Elaborately costumed Parisiennes, or French something worthy in it, and find something to write about the theater too hot? Or was I just too tired to be swept up in fashion dolls enjoy a gossip, while their American cousins when he gets home. After such a negative experience, who it? If so, should I take these factors into consideration? Are created of wood, cloth or papier-mache display a simple wants to write about it? I agree, but far worse for me is the movies made to cater to tired critics? charm far different from their European counterparts. mediocre play or film — ecause it doesn’t affect me. Can No. A really excellent movie will transcend the stuffy There are wax dolls from England, bisque dolls from you imagine having to write about something that was so theater, headache, or sleepy critic. Tomorrow’s English France and Germany and rag dolls from America, all in bland, so unimportant, that it gave you no impressions, no paper will be forgotten, and the exhileration of the event beautiful condition, many having recently undergone thoughts? will provide me with enough energy to write a decent restoration or cleaning. Strong feelings, negative or positive, are easy to ar­ review. ticulate because they’re definite. I either like something or In bad movies, the headache gets worse, the theater The Creative and Performing Arts Department at I don't like something, and then I tell why. Easy. grows hotter as I become angry at what I see, the scathing Westmont College will present its annual Joys of Christmas But my downfall comes, too often, when I am sitting in a adjectives will already be swimming about my brain as I concert on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m., at the First theater unaffected. Another adequately made, sufficiently eagerly await the chance to go home and give the meager Presbyterian Church on State and Constance. Admission is acted, and well-enough produced film rolls by, and I know it piece of junk the rip job it deserves. free. is headed for the drive-ins within the next week. I could The mediocre movie does nothing but make me more write a one inch long review; that can be effective, but not aware of the limitations that are already there. The theater The UCSB Department of Music and the Music Affiliates all the time; besides, I might not get paid. doesn’t get hotter; it’s just more noticeable that the picture. will present the University Symphony Orchestra, con­ So what I usually do is flip through my notes, finding The headache isn’t forgotten; it becomes all the more ducted by Serge Zehnacker, in its first concert of the year nothing but a “ things to do” list and the beginnings of the important as there isn’t anything else to think about. on Friday, December 2 at 8 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Concert English paper due tomorrow, and try to drudge up the Maybe that’s the answer. Hall. reasons why I don’t remember what I just saw. Perhaps the worst insult a critic can give a film is that it The program includes “Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. That’s the hardest part; trying to remember something I wasn’t memorable enough to merit praise or criticism — it 201” by W.A. Mozart, “Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra” by have no interest in remembering, and then piecing together just fell in that limbo state of mediocrity. Igor Stravinsky, “ Unanswered Question” by Charles Ives the fragments into a rational justification for my lack of Katherine D. Zimbert will be the new assistant editor for atid “ Polovetsian Dances” by Alexander Borodin. feelings. the Arts/Entertainment section next quarter. Admission is $4 or a Music Affiliates Series Ticket, with proceeds to benefit the Music Scholarship Fund.

Four performances of Tchaikovsky’s delightful Christ­ mas fantasy, “The Nutcracker” will be presented on Dec. 2,3 and 4 in Oxnard Civic Auditorium. Joining forces for this lavishly mounted offering in music and dance will be the Ventura County Symphony orchestra, How To E ase The Burdens conducted by Frank Salazar, and members of Oxnard’s Academie Ballet Theatre under the direction of Mme. Mara Lysova. This year marks the fourth consecutive O f Campus Life. collaboration between the arts groups to bring this classical favorite to county audiences. Beginning at 8 p.m: on Friday, Dec. 2, “The Nutcracker” will be repeated on Saturday, Dec. 3, at 2 and 8 p.m., con­ cluding with a matinee only on Sunday, Dec. 4, at 3 p.m.

Reserved seats for Nutcracker performances at $9 and $6 are available through ticket outlets at Henson’s in Oxnard and Camarillo; Jailhouse Records, Ventura; Blue Sky Music, Ojai; Donna Tours, Santa Paula; or through the Symphony office in Poinsettia Pavillion, 3451 Foothill Rd., Ventura, (805 ) 643-8646. “ Nutcracker” Coloring Books and Story Books are on sale at $3.50 each at the Symphony office and will be available at all performances.

When the Santa Barbara Drama Workshop’s production of Ross Canton’s original play “ The Jungle” opens tonight at 7 p.m. at La Casa De La Raza, it will mark the beginning of a new stage in the young theater company’s develop­ ment. “The Jungle” written and directed by SBDW founder and executive director Ross Canton is the first production geared for an adult rather than child audience and the first SBDW producton to go to Los Angeles. “The Jungle” , which stars Ben Bottoms and Nina Rodgers in the title roles of the Soldier and his young wife Janice, is a highly-intense and personal journey through the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of two young people who are experiencing it. Controversial and timely in its perspective of war and its effects upon individual lives, the play strives to understand the thoughts and feelings of two people caught up in a war neither wanted but are forced to face. “The Jungle” will only have four Santa Barbara per­ formances before it goes down to Los Angeles on Dec. 9 and 10 at TheaterTheatre. The Gala Wine and Cheese opening on Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. is a benefit for SANE (committee for a sane nuclear policy). “The Jungle” will continue through Dec. 4 at La Casa De La Raza, 601 E. Montecito St. For more information call the SBDW office at 969—3505 or SANE at 962—8991.

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By HUGH HAGGERTY Flesheaters, one or more members of Black Flag, the You’re in Los Angeles and can’t believe you’re in the Minutemen, the Last, the Bangles, the Plugz, Circle Jerks, dirty part of town — perpetual dust, even if it’s Westwood. Surf Punks, a couple disc jockeys and a bunch of people that You hear things which assault your innocence and defend I never heard of. your guilt; the smog inhales your lungs. “Hey, can you spare a change?” Ignore it so that all you see are the Some cuts have music accompaniment or just tonal cigarette butts lying against the curb. Squint down the accompaniment. Name tracks are “ After The Revolution” street to see a phantom approach you and ask for a dance. by a bloke named David James, “ I Don’t Sweat” by Dave Sure. Alvin and “RTD Boogie” by Chris Morris: “When I told Such are the “ voice prints” which went on Harvey people in this fair city that I didn’t drive, they looked at me Kubernick’s English As A Second Language: a two-record like I said ‘Yeah, I chopped that babies head off, sauteed it set of no less than 84 pieces of retarded, mutated, in mushrooms and served it for dinner.’” Give it a chance progressive adjectives raised by the maternal City of the and pick your own favorites. Some of the “ poets” you might Angels. It’ll sit on your turntable and warp the present want to get drunk with; you might like to join them on a tense for two hours if you let it. grafitti run on Malibu or you might want to just punch them Contributors to this project include John Doe and Exene and take off — maybe even lift the needle on your turntable. of X, Charles Bukowski, Wanda Coleman, Dave Alvin of the The record is a “social document.” It breathes down your Blasters, Steve Wynn of Dream Syndicate, Chris D. of the back and in your face. It’s fantastic L.A. and it’s greatness. America's Addiction With The Beave... (Continued from front cover) Americans. They are the psychic head who influence its Yes Is Back: '90125' rock n’ roll, then the ambitions of J.F.K. were the same to progress yet they are not necessarily the popular images; BY TED COSTAS the sixties freedom in music; the chords that had been the most famous faces are often not doing the most im­ Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every established by tradition were in both-cases variated freely. portant work. Financially, the Beach Boys are a success, work of art. There were no fears, if you were any good, to involve a little but critically the group X is saying more about the coun­ — Emerson. .engaging dissonance or shake up the status quo. The try’s potential for brilliance than the Beach Boys could There are three distinct possible directions the band, Beatles (too much talked about sometimes) took the E-A-B- even fake. The Beach Boys on the White House Lawn? YES, could have taken with their new album, 90125: E chord progression of “ Roll Over Beethoven” and What’s the difference between them and Glenn Miller forty- 1) Commerciality — they could write “ bubble gum liberated its form; from Chuck Berry’s “ Roll Over five years ago? Maybe one day we could have had the Doors music” like Asia or the newer Genesis. Beethoven” came the likes of “ Helter Skelter” and “A Day on the White House Lawn with Jackie boogying at the front 2) Backward — they could revert to their old “ Yes In The Life.” In the same way John Kennedy took the of the stage and the whole country turning on! Hail to Album,” progressive seventies sound. victory of World War II and expanded it to mean almost Bukowski, Ginsberg and Kerouac! To the showers with Rod 3) Forward — they could move on, leave the past behind,, anything is possible for Us. During his time he created a McKuen, Bob Hope, and Joe McCarthy! and drive towards new and innovative sounds in music. So, mythic world where it was alright to allow for idealism. For what did they do? The latter of the three. They went for­ The Right Stuff, the Right Stuff, leads you to in­ a time there, the opening crescendos of Utopia had real ward, with a different sound, like true artists> Not com­ fluence your culture; but it also tells you something very Tradition shaking in its black leather wing-tips. Yet what mercial, not stagnant, but different, and certainly ac­ important: anyone smart enough doesn’t run for president. happened? The threat, the ideals and the apparent bravery ceptable. led both integrated worlds to their graves. They murdered The greatest presidents of this country right now are YES has gotten back together after almost four years of John Kennedy for playing his guitar too loud in the street writing books and teaching at universities. When was the separation. They have played musical chairs with the and cut down John Lennon for being more than just a last time, America, that They put someone up there you members all along, but this time only a new guitarist has country-singing, home boy like was. The really wanted to vote for? and you didn’t use your vote as a been added. Their new album, 90125, is very good, and very chord change died as did the coming variations and so we defense against the one who was worse than the other? different. The songs are shorter and more structured than When this happens, as it has, the system becomes an AM have come full circle, imitating Elvis, fearing commie- their songs of the past, but equally as musical. Jon An­ pinko-fags, and, of course, the “Leave It To Beaver” T- radio government with an AM radio majority for a derson, lead vocalist, is the main influence on this album. population, and only a smaller percentage really doing shirt syndrome. We said goodbye to Kennedy and hello to His voice is as clean and mystical as it has ever been, and anything to variate the continual “ blah” of muzak that Johnson and Nixon. Yet most discouraging of all is our the lyrics are quintessentially ’s. spills forth from such a system. current president who stands as a symbol for all of this The musical element is where YES shows its progression. If America is afraid to enter into history, to kick its nostalgia intoxication — his plastic, black hair has stayed They seem to have put away their old “seminar sound” nostalgia addiction by separating its past from its potential the same since “Bedtime for Bonzo!” So many, it would (back to back solos) and instead use only tastefully or­ future, then it can only live on in its mediocre present. Let’s seem, are captured, crying and homesick. No president chestrated “licks” where appropriate. Only the single, after Kennedy can run for office outside the shadow of his remain faithful that the music can change — most of us “ ,” leans towards commerciality. know it must change — and try to avoid the problem of style, charm and youth. Former guitarist, , who is currently with If this is what the so-called figurehead of our country is to history repeating itself. Maybe all the good lines have been Asia, is not missed at all. New member, , adds present to us as a goal, then we must separate ourselves said (and after punk, all the hair styles), but that shouldn’t a driving rock element to the YES sound. , from it in order to have any working future. For years there deter us from at least trying to write our own lines. Mr. bassistsong writer, and , drummer, have never has been a rift between government and people. Are we Reagan might be trying to bring us back to his good ’ole boy been so clean and tight as they are here. Veteran then Un-American because of this rift, this disagreement? America, but let’s face it: style is fiction, a costume worn keyboardist, , is no , but he What makes us Americans we find is not the decisions of by reality. No matter how many flat-tops, Eddie Cochran definitely does his part for the band. our government, but the culture we live in; American by records or glasses of milk we drink, it won’t save us from Overall, the sound is quite different. It pulls on you, right of culture. Many of us are not proud of the actions of being dragged uncontrollably into the uncaring Future. captures you, and stays with you. It is a newer and more our government, but rather we are proud of the What this essay is trying to say, I suppose, is to stand up consistent YES sound. The band has moved on, and has achievoements of our culture. We are proud of the films, and rattle the cages of Tradition; because if you don’t, moved forward. Their new album, 90125, might not be what music, books, games and people, the private heroes, that there are people with guns in the world abroad you expected, but it is certainly anything but a disap­ populate our land. If the government network wants to lay who are just waiting to tear that Stray Cats shirt of your pointment. claim to these institutions as its own, then let it; but the tanned, pretty boy back. It’s needless to say what they’ll do latter may not lay claim to te government. It is this culture with it when they get it off you... Why waste a bullet when and its contemporary and established icons (E.T. and you can hang someone — like they did in those old John # 4 4 # 4 Kilroy) that integrate the country into one lot known as Wayne movies. Pre-Christmas 12A Thursday, December 1,1983 Daily Nexus cA-S. PROGRAM BOARD This page provided and paid for by the A.S. Program Board V ------— ------— ------/ Stevie Ray Vaughan: C O N TE S T UCen Art Gallery Guitarist Extraordinäre University Center Gallery Announces A COMPETITION IN THE VISUAL ARTS Visions o f 1984 An International Exhibit and Competition for Works on Paper: Prints, Drawings, Photography Paintings and Books

Texas’ best-kept secret is about to explode Three months later, Vaughan and Double wide open in the person of Stevie Ray Trouble found themselves in Montreux, Vaughan, the 28-year-old blues guitarist Switzerland, at the urging of veteran from Austin, whose electrifying live ap­ poducer Jerry Wexler, who, after seing the Size Limit 30" x 23" pearances and singularly fluid playing style band perform in Austin, convinced the coupled with a razor-sharp attack moved ’s promoters to book DEADLINE: January 31,1984 New York’s Daily News’ Bill Carlton to Vaughan, even though he was unsigned to a proclaim: “Stevie proffers a can’t-miss and little-known outside of Entry Fee: $5.00 for each piece mixture of bring-down-the-house Texas. David Bowie happened to be in the showmanship a la Jimi Hendrix plus the audience, and was so impressed with seamless taste and intelligence of Eric Vaughan’s performance that he ended up Clapton.” talking backstage for hours about blues Mail To: This music critic wasn’t alone in heaping guitar and their mutual love for old blues praise upon Vaughan, for he was present at records. This chance meeting landed University Center Gallery the now legendary private audition that Vaughan the job as lead guitarist on Bowie’s University Center Vaughan and his band Double Trouble new album, Let's Dance. performed for the Rolling Stones on April 23, Stevie Ray and his band Double Trouble U.C. Santa Barbara 1982, at New York’s Danceteria club. Ron have released their first album, Texas Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Wood was said to have stood mesmerized in Flood, which has received much critical front of the stage, his eyes “ big as saucers,” acclaim besides moving up record charts and begged off the request to jam with nationwide. Stevie Ray will perform in Send original work or slides — enclose SASE or, iff Vaughan by saying, “What could I possible Campbell Hall tomorrow night at 8 p.m. play after that?” in a mailing tube, return postage. QUARTER IN REVIEW Cultural Events UCen Activities

Cultural events — Fall North Hall. Hosted a Halloween Dance 1983: in the Pub. Laurie . Dalton of Giant 1) Co-sponsorship of “Dia What other cultural Eden performing in the De Los Muertos” — with organizations have had (to Events to happen during PUB. One of the many Cultural Arts, name a few events of what Winter Quarter 1984: F R E E events sponsored by November 2, 1983, Lotte they’re doing): 1) Cultural meetings to be A.S. Program Board. ~ Lehmann Concert Hall. 1) Arab-American Associ­ held Wednesday afternoons Photo By Dwight Rim 2) Co-sponsorship of ation — 1. Potluck Cultural (please check times and “Los Folkloristas” — with Dinners, 2. Lectures on place). ALL ARE Chicano Cultural Arts, Cultural issues. WELCOME TO ATTEND]!! November 9. 1983. Campbell 2) International Students 2 ) Cultural week Hall. Association — l. Coffee celebrations from various- 3) Co-sponsorship of hours every Friday night. 2. groups: 1. Yiddish Culture “ Zubin and the IPO” — with Lectures. Week February, 2. Black Jewish Students Action 3) Black EOP, Asian, History Month Celebration Coalition, November 5, 1983, Chicano EOP components — — February. Events sponsored or co­ Norman Allan Judy Gorman-Jacobs sponsored by UCen Ac­ UCSB Jazz Combo Rich Stillwell tivities: ALL FR E E ! Young Adults Famous People Lectures Giant Eden Kelsey Walker-Quintet Storke Plaza Dance Mark Levy Coffeehouse Musicians The Women's Center. Arts t Lectures. AS . Commission on the Michael Frey The Colours Status of Women, m iA S . Program Board present The Stand Party Line The Terraways Me First Noise Boys! The Medflys PORNOGRAPHY, NATURE, AND CULTURE SPECIAL EVENTS

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A lecture by V y The Pub were put SUSAN GRIFFIN on by this com­ Feminist Poet and Philosopher BUSSOY S — Fall Dance Concert mittee to name a Author of Women & Nature and Pornography & Silence few: CONCERTS Tim Jones " i t . A * , Wednesday, October 19 MOVIE DANCE CONCRT Ross Bennett 8:00 pan. in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall t o ,. DANCE CRAZE GANG OF FOUR Robert Aguayo