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By Craig Zerouni : At Wit's End in America Let’s get right to the point. songwriter/guitarist Andy saying things that are subtly boyhood musical idols were, was formed in Swindon, “He (Andrews) was XTC’s music has been Partridge. Standing in a outrageous. “Bach’s quite besides the Beatles, the England. writing these songs that the described as “controlled large (dry) shower deep in good,” he says of the com Monkees. “I wanted to be in Partridge’s staccato rest of us considered sub experimentalism,” which is the bowels of the Events poser, “because he’s just the Monkees,” he says, not outline of that period runs standard and he was a bit about as good a description Center before their recent sterile meanderings up and too surprisingly, because like the highlights of the six peeved that we didn’t like his as one could want. The sound appearance here turns out to down the scale.” Reasons for “they were in a group and o’clock news: “Got together songs,” explains Partridge. is fresh, bright and witty, be the only place we can his personality, or at least a they were having lots of fun ’73...couldn’t play very “They were O.K., but they with a self-confidence talk, so we do. framework for it, emerge and getting girls and being well...very flashy weren’t as good as the stuff running through it that is Partridge is a small, pink later when on one occasion successful and at that age, I clothes...’76 record com we’d been doing, and we both obvious and pleasing, man, with little round he admits “I used to like was 13, that’s what I wanted panies started getting in thought it would be a step and which works: last year’s glasses and an aire of comedians a lot.” Does, he to do.” terested in us...had a per down...we’d be throwing out Drums and Wires Lp went mischief about him. He looks like Benny Hill? “Yes I do, sonnel change...” The songs that were better songs gold in Canada, and the about as much like a new but I like him for the wrong So he set out to do it. With personnel change was the than the ones we were trying single “Making Plans for musical direction as, oh, sort of reasons. I like him Coling Moulding on bass, ousting of keyboardist Barry to make room for.” Nigel” was a hidden hit here. Elvis Costello. He takes a best when he’s really dirty, Terry Chambers on drums Andrews for guitarist Dave The songs have evolved Most of this musical at moment before we start to really titular. He’s a lousy and Barry Andrews at Gregory, a change con into quick, bright, witty and titude is the product of the sing an Aria into the shower comedian, but he has a great keyboards, and very much sidered by critics to have nicely eccentric ones, and coyly understated per head. way with tits and buns.” impressed by the New York solidified XTC into a viable while most of that is at- sonality of lead singer/main Partridge seems to enjoy Characteristically, his Dolls, a band called Star Pile . group. continued page 4 * • .■* *-** jMl 4rm . PAGE2A DAILY NEXUS THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1980 i think... Tongues Missing The Gift The Media, Mew Music, by jean mattock Playwright Shepard’s Monday sax gutterly wails Theater is collaboration. work revels in a sweat- out gritty solo lyricism Actors, directors, designers, drenched language that is against the discontinuous And Propaganda percussion of Skip writers grappling with casual and mythical in the by jeff Whittington “job” is tailor-made to stunt the very kind of creation. same breath, LaPlante’s homemade in struments. The ambience of Pardon my polemics. energy and creative intelligence that the Usually it happens simultaneously mundane productive aspect requires. So, when the and elevated. He’s got the 50’s beat poetry jams. A For the past several weeks I’ve been somewhat sequentially. engaging in a harangue about Art and whistle blows, Bill Drone enjoys himself in Playwright writes script. best chops of anyone writing throwback. The second part of the Media and Entertainment and Society and consumptive ways. Director envisions in today. If you doubt this, look at the consumption Tongues is missing that evening, like the per the such that probably baffled anyone who terpretation. Actors create came to this column expecting another dose statistics for television, alcohol, spectator their parts. One, two, three. gift. The first part (which formance as a whole, is called Tongues. With of enlightening record reviews, such as the sports, junk food, movies, drugs and noisy But groups such as Joseph was created last), Savage/- rock ‘n’ roll albums. Love, while its title may Chaikin sitting, a blanket original “Radio On”. But believe it or not, Chaiken’s Open Theatre all this has actually been relevant .to the The clever part is this: in these days of decided to do it all at the imply toughness, is pure Rod covering his lap, hands never slipping from their question of what popular music is up to in multinational conglomerates, chances are same time. Actors would McKuen. Alternatingly AC, Inc., owns the companies that produce whiny and aggressive, it is easy pose on his knees, the 1980s. act. Writers remold the The upshot of this is simply a point that Bill Drone’s favorite form of consumptive/- actors’ words. Everyone direct and honest. And Tongues evokes Beckett. Scale extremely limited — Plato made two millenia ago: the arts to compulsive entertainment. Lucky Bill! He casts about for direction. basically banal. generates profit for Amalgamated Con Rock and roll playwright pulling us into detail. When which we are exposed shape our world Tongues is that sort of views. People generally accept this, but the solidate, Inc., both on and off the job! collaboration between Shepard has condescsended Chaikin leans forward it becomes a momentous point they usually miss is that we are Now, social reformers, management American non-traditional to the use of jazz to ac specialists and sociologists have been company Savage/Love. statement; the slightest inevitably affected by form as well as theater heroes Sam Shepard content, by what is left out as well as what is wrestling for decades with the problem of and Joseph Chaiken. Harry Man’s Stormy alteration of expression significant. putin. how to make hierarchies more responsive to There is no single Most media reformers seem to think we the needs of the people who make them up. character. Rather this is can end up with “clean” media simply by I’ve got no answers for the half of the transformational theater, expunging all the sex and violence and problem that exists during Bill Drone’s from Shepard and Chaikin’s racism and sexism and so forth. When all work day. But what about the half when he’s Open Theatre background. these pernicious things are removed, we’ll not at work? A goodly portion of this falls The single actor becomes a have pure entertainment that people will be squarely into the field known as “arts and conceiving mother, able to enjoy with nary a care. Putting it entertainment,” and that’s something I feel “Nothing they told me was politely, this assumption is stupid. safe talking about. like this. I don’t know whose People are propagandized by the absence Maybe it’s appropriate — large numbers skin this is” ; two people in a of what is excluded from the media as well of people are going to have to spend most of IH8® riüxicflfi conversation about where to as by the presence of what is included. their lives at the bottom of the hierarchical eat which then metamor- There is no “mere entertainment”; the act pyramid, and perhaps it’s best they get a RESTAURANT phosizes into a monologue of passively sitting around and sucking up steady diet of messages from their media about a hunger so all- pseudo-art to put youf brain on hold for a that it’s perfectly fine to be there — OHM 7 DAIS A WilK encompassing that “there’ll few hours is pernicious in itself. messages that assure them of the rightness Let’s examine this with a look at modern of the status quo. • LUNCH Er DINNER be nothing left but the • AIR CONDITIONED 1 hunger itself when it comes social entropy. But, on the other hand, such propagan • BANQUET FACILITIES back. Nothing left but the Bill Drone works for Amalgamated dizing simply strengthens a system which • FOOD TO GO Consolidated, Incorporated. This generates should be as open to improvement as any • CATERING SERVICE hunger eating the hunger when it comes back.” profit for AC, Inc.; it also tires and bores other human invention; a system which OTEN could be made better if we only had the will 11 OOA.M. TO * RM.MON. THUR Shepard’s best work has Bill Drone, because hierarchies like FRI. N I A T . to make it so. Nobody likes alienation, but 11 0 0 A M T O 1 0 :0 0 F JR. w w w »»»« taken disparate elements Amalgamated Consolidated tend to be SUN t :0 0 A M. T O 0 :0 0 F.M and altered them into an concentrated in the upper echelons — many seem quite willing to perpetuate it by - * r r glorifying its root causes as portrayed in the ■ n s i r undefinable, but distinct removing any real responsibility from the 967-0313H whole. The mathematics is folks in the lower echelons and leaving them media. 3 * 4 0 * 4 1 1 AVI. ( I ONdr W— W 0 0 UT 4 post-Euclidean, but with “jobs” that are interchangeable cogs Plato was right; artists have ex continued page 7 in the machine. traordinary influence over the con Since Bill Drone spends his working hours sciousness of the people. And if the artists as a machine part rather than an in preach passivity, is it any wonder that we telligently functioning human being, he get more drones and further alienation? LASERIUM PRESENTS must find self-expression outside of his Art should be a means of exposing people ‘.‘job.” This kind of expression — roughly to a wide range of new possibilities. This has speaking — can be either productive or become difficult in an age when the only THE DOS EQUIS LASER DEMENCE consumptive; The trouble is Bill Drone’s influential outlet for art is the mass media, and the mass media are controlled by the very same hierarchies that are part of the t‘:n w problem. The point I’m trying to make is that this continued page 6 AN INCREDIBLE JOURNE^ Jeff Whittington writes for Images, the en ICE CR EAM INTO LASERIUhTS PAST, tertainment supplement to The Daily Texan at PRESEN T AND FUTURE 9- the University of Texas, Austin.
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by sandy robertson The forward motion of the story is juxtaposed with the UNIQUE GIFT IDEAS The Last Wave is not a surf film, but water gushes dream-time portions of the film. Together they create and through almost every frame. It is a film about a freak movement towards an awareness that removes the weather pattern in Australia and about the cracks in our character from his surroundings and leaves him suspended HOLIDAY DECORATIONS world where water and dreains seep in. in the past. • Paint It Yourself & Save • The film opens with a prologue passage which shows a Director Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, The first-ever hailstorm in a rural village in the Australian Plumber) has effectively manipulated the camera speed to Outback. The unexpected rain causes happy chaos in the intensify the contrast between dreams and reality. In the schoolyard which quickly turns to catastrophe when the opening scene, Weir uses fast motion to describe the panic 5915 CALIE REAL • ORCHID BOWL CENTER hail falls, breaking glass, injuring children and animals. and chaos of the schoolyard. When Burton is alone in his ID-5 >jn.. T F 10-5:30 SAT. 517-3003 In Sydney, where the rest of the film takes place, the study or with the aborigines, the camera slows down almost rains cause traffic problems and minor inconveniences for imperceptibly to create a feeling of meditation and the people—and then the foundations of life begin to shake. timelessness without relying on conventional slow motion The excitement of November rain turns to fear as the shots. deluge of water takes on disastrous and apocalyptic tones. The film climaxes with a chase scene through the sewers (There is reference to a plague of frogs brought forth by the of Sydney and develops into a vision of beauty and terror. abundant rain.) The Last Wave will be shown in Campbell Hall tonight at Set against the background of this natural catastrophe is 7:30 as part of the Australian Film Series. the story of David Burton (played by Richard Cham berlain), a lawyer who defends four aboringines in a murder trial. The defense and trial includes a mixture of cultures and dreams that unfold into an apocalyptic vision and Burton’s personal insight. The story works on two levels: it is an exploration of cross-cultural communication and cultural conflicts of modern urban life, and it is Burton’s personal quest to understand the murder, the freak weather, and his own fears and dreams. “There are no tribal people in the city,” the man from ‘R E V E R IE ” Legal Aid tells Burton. “Urban aborigines are no different than depressed whites.”' The relative truth of that statement is part of the mystery that the film attempts to Dance to the fabulous music by solve. It also illustrates the attitude of educated white The Beatles, The Beach Boys & The Stones Australians towards native Australians. Burton’s wife looks at a coffee-table book about aborigines that shows two pictures labeled THEN and NOW, showing a proud native chief and an overweight ghetto dweller slumped next to a Come for the Fun of It! garbage can. Mrs. Burton later confesses, “We’ve been in Australia for four generations but I’ve never met an aborigine.” The cultural conflict is graphically illustrated in the trial Hobey Baker’s scejie. In an architecturally modern courtroom, the judge and barristers wear British formal wigs and argue the 5918 Hollister Ave. intricacies of the law. An aborigine swears on the bible and Food & Drink & Dancing then asks, “Facts? What are facts?” Linear history is in comprehensible to a culture that views the natural and personal world as cyclical. Burton’s quest begins as a professional inquiry which leads to a visit with the tribal magician who slowly mur murs “who are you” over and over again. His trouble-some iUCSB Dramatic Art announces I dreams — tribal secrets and visions of drowning — force the narrative onward and lend a mystical quality to the ! Harlequin Presents j Head film. [ theatre for young audiences, supervised by Marie Starr • adapted by Marie Starr, Larry Jorgensen, & Ken Small 5 directed by John French & Chuck Rounds and T R antlers E A above M E R s 4 a play by David Rabe the rest Moosehead, Canada's Premium Beer, directed by Stanley Glenn is on the loose in America. presented by the Taste the light, yet hearty and robust beer UCSB Department of Dramatic Art from the wilderness of Canada. UCSB Studio Theatre ★ 8 pm It's head and antlers above the rest. Nov. 13-15 ★ Nov. 19-22 ★ Dec. 4-6 also 2 pm ★ Nov. 15 ft- 22 (No Late Seating) Moosehead. Tickets: $2 (Fri/Sat nights $2.50) Arts Et Lectures Office (961-3535) Canada's Premium Been Note: The play contains All Brand Importers Inc. Roslyn Heights. N.Y 11577 Sole U.S. Importer 1980 © ______coarse language and violence______DAILY NEXUS THURSDA Y, NOVEMBER 13. 1980 because it is different, and a fairly large piece of yet all it is is a strip of film, property. !M fflgn(g!m iffl© B
deals with the eternal contents himself with took the subject up again philosophy “life is a drag” creating a solid anchor for more seriously. “I don’t from a distinctly upbeat the two guitarists to secure know if we’ll be big in the point of view. It is also themselves with. Gregory States; probably by ac Save With refreshing in its lack of alternates between guitar cident, not by design. I think diabetic woe-is-me love and a small keyboard he if we ever get big it’ll be a songs. Instead, XTC prefers uses mostly to duplicate sort of strange fluke. So we’ll to deal with more relevant studio effects on stage (“We just sort of fire off these little topics, such as the fate of the do about 90 percent of the darts and see if anything A Special souls of the men who died things on the album on stage, connects.” while building the Tower of which is more than most After their set, the band London, and it deals with bands,” says Partridge). sits around in their dressing them in a very sly, very But the star of the show is room, not doing anything in behind-the-back manner. Partridge, and on stage he is particular. Except Par fro m The sound almost didn’t MBWiiumir mtiir— mro— K tridge, who seems intent on get out, at least this time. getting someone to form an Moulding, who writes about Partridge: opinion of his latest outrage. a third of XTC’s material, “I’m not willing to bend to explained “Atlantic had the “1’m not American audiences — I ..Pizza Hut».. think they should bend to Virgin (XTC’s home label) WITH THIS COUPON— Save $3 off the regular catalogue, and distributed it willing to me,” he says to no one in $ price of any large Pizza Hut* pizza or $ 2 off the in America, and they didn’t particular. OO regular price of any medium-sized Neither he nor the group pizza. take up the option for that bend to OFF year; they just dropped the seems to be all that pleased 3 whole catalogue, which left American with the night’s per ANY LARGE PIZZA OR us without a record company formance, or maybe the in America. We were just audiences crowd’s reaction to it, which Good at all participating going to embark on this tour, was polite at best, and $ Pizza Hut* restaurants.. and this thing with RSO — 1 want Partridge repeats his ^ > 0 0 came up (although statement at least four times technically signed with them to before his publicist from J m OFF Virgin, Black Sea is being RSO finally responds. ANY MEDIUM PIZZA released and distributed in bend to “Why?” she says. “I don’t this country by RSO).” n 99 think people will buy it,” he Coupon valid through On stage, XTC takes with me. says of Black Sea. “America Nov. 26,1980 them the same idea of in MNSSISOMNBSISaMMOimM is this huge sort of...you drop Goleta— 7127 Hollister Ave. 968-1557 tellectual experimentation. a far cry from the gentle, shy a pebble in it, and it doesn’t At two points during the little imp seen off stage. He make any sort of ripple at all ©1980 Pizza Hut, Inc. show, they are backed by kicks, screams, taunts, — it just gets swallowed up.” Cash redemption value 1/20 cent. white lines on a black jumps, and generally gets Given Partridge’s pen One coupon per customer per visit. Not good with other coupons. background, moving very lost in his music — which is chant for the slightly fast and very randomly. The all he asks of his audience. outrageous (“I’m not really audience loves it, mostly “We’re playing music crazy about musicians in people are supposed to dance general,” he says, “they to,” he screamed last bore me—all they ever want Sunday as the band came to talk about is music” ), it’s back for an encore, “and hard to tell just what XTC these people are being made expects to do or not do in to sit on their fucking asses America. (by security). Now get up But the real question is, and dance!” what does America expect to XTC is big in England. do about XTC? Music as sly They are very big in Canada, and sharp as this is not the expecially after last year’s sort of thing that should be Drums and Wires. They are ignored. It’s not hard to see not very big in America. why the band was upset — Why not? “America is 50 it’s no fun being clever when different, monstrous no one gets the joke. countries. We’re very big in And if XTC ends up going the country of New York; over the heads of American and they quite like us in the audiences, it won’t be the country of Texas,” explains first'time America rejected Partridge. Far enough—but something because it made what about Canada? That’s them think. PLUS SPECIAL GUEST . 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LP successfully rides the fine line between rock and art; a synthesis that most other albums fail to achieve. Joy Division, a quartet from Manchester, is currently one of the most popular new bands in England. Both its albums are in the alternative top ten and their latest singles are one and two respectively on Original Unknown Pleasures the alternative singles Soundtrack Joy Division charts. Unknown Pleasures is their first album (Closer, Recording (Factory) their second LP, is available McVicar as an import). Their sound is truly unique Roger Daltrey Few releases have captured — unlike conventional rock my attention as much as ’n roll which uses the electric (Poly dor) The Times Unknown Pleasures. This continued page 6 Square oe Once again Roger Daltrey HILLEL presents has stepped away from his Soundtrack Who front-man role to record Various Artists 'The Jewish Me ackson his own solo LP. This time (RSO) / it’s the soundtrack to the Want Others to Know' film M cV icar, which The only thing worse than with HILDY SHEINMAN Nq Longer recounts the story of a the Times Square movie is Director of Education at legendary British convict its double-record sound Temple Shalom, Newport Beach The Man and in which Daltrey himself track. I mean, at least the also stare. movie only cost $3.50, you THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Past solo efforts for can erase it from you mind, 7:30 pm • URC Beat Crazy Daltrey have seemingly but the soundtrack is about 777 Camino Pescadero been geared to expose the three times more expensive The Joe Jackson Band “softer” side of his tough- and once you buy it, you’re (A&M) guy image. The result has, “«tuck with it. unfortunately, all too often This collection makes K- by oren aviv been a disappointing of Tel look like it has some Jim Cumutt & Andy We intrai d» Present* So Joe Jackson has come up with another record, Beat fering of bland pop tunes credibility. Who would put Crazy: ten songs, inner and outer sleeves, lyrics printed peppered with a token hard Roxy Music and Lou Reed on out, and custom art work. Sure, .another fun, pumpy Joe rocker or two. Not on the a new wave sampler while Jackson album, right? Let me put it this way. If Jackson new work, however. Mc- ignoring the Clash, Elvis had changed his name for album #3, you’d do one of two Vicar’s tale is underscored Costello, or Iggy Pop? things after listening to it: throw it away, or throw it very by an inviting blend of both Robert Stigwood would. far away. snappier ballads and more- Maybe these performers Unfortunately, though, this is a Joe Jackson album. Not challenging-than-usual rock were sm art enought to one song is as exhilirating or intense as “I’m The Man” ; not ’n roll numbers. refuse to be abused. one song has the excitement of “One More Time” ; not one Of course, Daltrey brings Seriously America, there’s song has the wit of “Sunday Papers." He seems to have his own proven interpretive no reason to buy this forgotten that a reputation must be carried on, not sat upon. vocal talents to the current soundtrack. If you want the If you’ve never heard of Jackson before, it’s probably recording. As usual, his Pretenders’ “Talk of the because you enjoy the Easy Listening kind of stuff. If so, go great versatility allows him Town,” you’re better off get a copy of Beat Crazy. But you needn’t rush — they’ll not to either shriek in caged- buying the import single sell out fast. animal frenzy, as on the raw because you won’t have to But the entire disc isn’t god-awful. This collection of and truly intimidating “Free wade through bullshit like background music and reggae-ish toss-outs is not without Me”, or to gently croon on a Robin Johnson’s “Damn bright spots, though those two spots are dull compared to lyrical lullaby like “Without Continued page 7 his first two efforts. Side one is plain disgusting, as you wait Your Love”, each with equal credibility! In addition, the Jean-Cue and listen for more to come, but all you get is the feeling you’ve been violently ripped off. Side two, if you will, superior selection of tunes on “saves” the album, if for nothing but to allow for a last the McVicar soundtrack is inkling of hope we fans must cling to in order to avoid a highlighted by sparkling instrumentation, especially ■ E* FEATURE-LENGTH COLO« slow, painful death. TRAVEL-ADVENTURE FILM DOCUMENTARY It opens with “Crime Don’t Pay”, a song with a great set with appearances by the /¿V «S, - «Î... ?onty of lyrics and an extended synthesizer finish that grabs you remainder of The Who’s and holds on until the next three songs follow. A truly personnel on some tracks. splendid time (4:26, to be exact) that makes you smile with Thus is McVicar not only LARSGNFGITGN BAND the most spirited and ad glee, since you just knew he wasn’t serious about those Produced & Narrated IN PERSON by other songs. But lo! More trash! The next three numbers venturous addition to the FRANK KLICAR fail in every respect, including purpose. But then, as if to Daltrey collection to date, A NEWiilm of this diverse country Sun, Nov. 23, 7:30pm answer our cries for mercy, another ray shines through the but also easily the most as it is m the 80 s smog, as “Pretty Boys” makes you smile, and best of all, listenable. It seems as if (finally) Roger Daltrey has RESERVED SEATS NOW: $4.50 at Arlington Theatre makes you MOVE. A fantastic harmonica solo makes this the Lobero Theatre Box Office. 33 the song with the most verve on the record, and this might artistically “justified” his East Canon Perdido Street, phone $10 * $ 9 * $ 8 ventures away from The (805)963-0761 just prove to be a high-selling single some day. Following ARLINGTON THEATRE BOX OFFICE. COUN TY BOWL BOX OFFICE. TURNING POINT. this, it’s back into depression, as you stare helplessly at Who, proving that he can BILL GAMBLE S - LA CUMBRE PLAZA. MORNINGLORY MUSIC. ALL TICKETRON indeed stand on his own 8:15 p.m. TUES. NOV. 18 LOCATIONS. AND ALL THE USUAL TRI-COUNTY TICKET OUTLETS your receipt while you subject yourself to the sounds of FOR INFORMATION CALL 805-965-5181 away from Pete Town- LOBERO THEATRE “Don’t Fit”, which fits in perfectly with the rest of the crud, . (Only Santa Barbara Area ShowingI Produced by Vision Attractions- and then it’s over. OVER! Just like that. The cover art shend’s “guitar and pen.” suggests a bag of tricks and a barrel of monkeys, but it’s all —Patti Prichard a pack of lies. I find it important that Mr. Jackson (we’re no longer on a first-name basis) has printed on the record sleeve the following words: “This album represents a desperate attempt to make A TTENT/ON: MUSICIANS! some sense of Rock and Roll. Deep in our hearts, we knew it was doomed to failure. The question remains: Why did we try?” SUPER GUITAR STRING The question remains. ANDSONGBOOK SALE! ■ - COUPON OFFER $2° ° OFF S c ° ' ANY SET OF GUITAR STRINGS ERNIE BALL. MARTIN. GUILD. FENDER. GIBSON. AND MORE)
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The On the other hand there fills, and the call and revamped lineup plays - NEW!!! - Baudelaire’s are performers who remain response vocal interplay of together well, com Monday & Tuesday iconoclastic, refusing to Hawk and Frank are the plimenting each others October 30 compromise to attain band’s trademarks. On their strengths and weaknesses. Adults $100 ★ Children $1.50 b y mainstream acceptance. best songs — “The Frank’s inspired bass at all Metropolitan Theatres Charles ponce de ieon Unfortunately many of these Alienation Suite”, “Going to playing and urgent vocals There is an internal musicians have trouble New York” — they blend and the contributions of conflict that most struggling getting gigs and end up their individual parts into Sissy Hawk were another bands go through. On one literally starving. IQ Zero some exciting new sounds. pleasant surprise. These hand there is the desire to be are an example of a band Some songs purposely leave guys have fun playing and it popular, make money, get that successfully merges you waiting for a hook — a shows. Like most bands, FRANK SUMATRA 966-4046 famous — all very un these two seemingly in catchy chorus of guitar they have some good FAYE DUNAWAY derstandable goals. By compatible approaches — phrase — but never deliver. material and some filler, GRANADA their music is unusual, This makes the more subtle and hopefully they’ll be able lllllU M SInM TH E FIRST playing the music that the DEADLY SIN masses want to hear you quirky, imaginative; but parts of songs stand out, to integrate new and old He’s searching V=j| assure yourself of a large, still acceptable. rather that simply the hooks. songs into the tight, cohesive also: DRESSED TO KILL for a killer... receptive audience. To IQ Zero’s music while being set they seem very capable appeal to as many people as IQ Zero — vocalist/- creative and original is still of delivering. possible the music must be organist Sissy Hawk, acceptable. Much of the void of any eccentricity or bassist/vocalist Quite band’s repertoire is uptempo I like IQ Zero because they 2001:A SPACE complexity. Though the Frank, drummer Blave — perfect for dancing. All have the courage and in music may sound great, it Burdock, and guitarist T.C. the band members are good tegrity to do things their way loses all the creative Ulman — play innovative musicians, especially Ulman without conceding to the elements that make music pop music that while who injected some in pressures of the conformist MOM m M M i • STANLEY KUBRICK PROOUCTIOM ODYSSEYS an art form. Artists should drawing from influences teresting solos throughout Santa Barbara club scene. have their own style, not GEORGE joy division from 5 “Interzone”, a harrowing { 965-5792. A WARREN MILLER FEATURE FILM hooks. You’re more likely to BURNS guitar as its main rhythm find yourself humming a journey into a world of ■ESTA 1 OH, GOD! instrument, Joy Division’s guitar riff than a vocal emotional angst set to a m S t a i r BOOKD sound is based entirely upon passage. chilling heavy metal guitar Q g 5 ] the bass guitar. The rest of riff and a churning back- «ha-THE GOODBYE GIRL the music is built up on top of The standout tracks' on the beat. that foundation. The electric L Pare: “New Dawn Fads”, They have set down A t last, guitar passages are slow and employing a hypnotic bass seminal music. Unknown Pleasures is one of the finest Mr. Wrong. ’’ hypnotic, utilizing effects line and some very lyrical characteristic of Jimi guitar passages; “Shadow LP’s of the year — Play”, an entrancing mix of something really different 0 K91«est stair SlrrH\2 Hendrix and Jeff Beck. WED7N0V. 19 Unlike a lot of bands Joy psychedelic guitar, lum for the discriminating ^ j i l l c T a ÿ b û r g ARLINGTON 8 pm (Ski Expo from 7 pm) Division uses musical hooks, bering bass and in listener. MICHAEL DOUGLAS THURS., NOV. 20 spacey guitar riffs and trospective vocals; and —Charles Ponce De Leon Magic Lantern 7 6 9 pm Advance Touts: Al Ski Shops & Mominglory heavy bass lines, rather than GOLDIE HAWN more accessible lyrical think from 2 challenged the entropy old world might be a little syndrome in so many ways. PRIVATE better off if the arts and It wasn’t just content — the BENJAMIN media did a bit more to way the rock lyrics so often DRIVE-IN THEATRES promote personal autonomy, challenged so many cultural ^She didn't join the army for this . —R— ALI MOVIES START FRIDAY rather than conformity and assumptions, the way the mediocrity. An even better music flew in the face of point: the arts and media what was supposed to be )• ■ ■ ■ 964-8377 AN OCCASION YOU ^ «Mfö f.7!»2 _ I'HAHLiTjN HUSTON WONT FORGET!» would have this effect commercial — it was the SUSANNAH YORK ^ A i r p o r t dhivefn simply by promoting a participatory ethic as well. ■ÉSTA 4 THE H olkitft and Fm vw w 91« H4*lr Klwrl variety of viewpoints, even if AWAKENING 1RS it didn’t actively also: TINTORERA —R— propagandize for freedom. • h o : F A D E T O B L A C K O IE MW Let’s wrap this up with a few comments on everyone’s favorite form of en tertainment — popular music. One of the things I originally found so all-fired appealing about rock ‘n’ roll w as that it directly
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filmi o f n o t e l m u s ic ! CAL Performing Arts will present the German The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is displaying until baritone, Hermann Prey this Friday at Campbell Hall. Dec. 8, an exhibition of color photographs by Dr, Herbert The recital, entitled “Winterreise,” will feature the M. Cole. A professor of art history at UCSB, Dr. Cole has poetry of Wilhelm Muller set to the music of Franz Peter spent more than three years primarily in West Africa, Schubert. Tickets are available at the Arts and Lectures conducting field research, and photographing aspects of Ticket Office. For more information, call 961-3535. ten distinct African cultures. Subjects in his exhibit in The UCSB Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ron Miller, will clude tribal dress, personal ornamentation, architecture, present a concert on Saturday, Nov. 15 in Lotte Lehmann festivals, landscapes, and portraits. Hall at 8 p.m. The program will feature works by Bill Art critic/independent curator Richard Armstrong will Holman, Thad Jones, Billy Buyers, Ray Brown, and local discuss the stylistic differences and similarities between composer Art Lyons. Tickets are $2 at the door. contemporary art produced on the East and West coasts Prisms, a contemporary music ensemble featuring tonight at 8 p.m. at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. UCSB faculty and students, will present a concert on The lecture will incorporate slides and provide time for Sunday, Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Hall. Under audience discussion. Held in the Museum’s auditorium, the direction of assistant professor Joan Smith, the the admission is $3 at the door. concert will feature works by Igor Stravinsky, John An exhibition of advertising and graphic design by the Melby, Marta Ptaszynska, W. Kdtonski, Harry T. Bulow, Neumeier Design Team will be held Nov. 14,15 and 16 at Walter Piston, Garry Eister, and Douglas Ovens. Ad the M. Shore & Son art gallery, 12 W. Anapamu Street. mission is free. The show, featuring 40 award-winning pieces by the local World famous cellist, Zara Nelson, will be the guest design firm, includes posters, company letterheads, artist with the Santa Barbara Symphony in its next pair newspaper ads, brochures and other examples of com of concerts on Nov. 16 at 3 p.m., and Nov. 18 at 8:30 p.m. munication art. in the Arlington Theater. She will be performing the The psychic thriller, The Last Wave, from director AMAN dance troupe in action Authenticity is the key to AMAN — in its dances, Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto in A minor and Don Quixote Peter Weir will screen in Campbell Hall tonight at 7:30 by Richard Strauss. p.m. Set in contemporary Sydney, Australia, the movie costumes, music and instruments. Ultimately, AMAN is The Santa Barbara Jazz Series will present The Ron stars Richard Chamberlain as a lawyer whose defense of “both an ethnic troupe and artistic experience” New Carter Quartet Monday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Lobero five aborigines accused of ritual murder, involve him in a York Times. The company of over 50 dancers and musicians' which derives its name from a variant form of Theatre. Tickets are available at the Lobero Theatre box series of bizarre and inexplicable experiences. The film •office. presents a terrifying insight into the primeval powers “Amen”, performs folk music and dance from more than that threaten the civilized wold. 40 national groups with extraordinary versatility. A Today the Noon Film Series at UCSB will present Eric typical concert uses more than 200 hand-made ethnic times square from 5 of business. Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind, in Buchanan 1940. costumes and 75 instruments. The Santa Barbara Dog”, which sounds like our —Jim Reeves little brother wrote the lyrics Admission is free. program will include dances from Romania, Bulgaria, tongues from 2 Continuing with the Samurai Film Festival,the Algeria, India, Russia, Ireland and the United States. when he was in diapers and Black Sabbath played the everything adds up. Fleschmann Auditorium, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa AMAN not only offers us a view of the world but it also Tongues never attains that Barbara, will present on Monday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. celebrates America’s unique multinational heritage. music in a washing machine. Don’t ask me what the hell single voice. It is more a Duel At Ichijoji. The film continues the story of Over the last 16 years, AMAN has grown from a local series of bits. Random. Musashi (Toshiro Mifune) in battle-laden sequences, L.A. dance group to a national touring company. Under Suzi Quatro’s doing on the soundtrack because in my Occasionally there is thè where he first meets his arch-rival Kojiro Sasaki (Koji the artistic directon of Leona Wood and Barry Class, sense of one of those great Tsuruta). AMAN recently completed tours through the East (which opinion she’s about as punk as T. Rex or Slade Shepard monologues, but Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Zabriskie Point (1967) included its New York debut), the Midwest and Alaska. usually the piece skips on, a will screen Nov. 16 in Chem 1179 at 7:30 p.m. The film, AMAN remains “...one of the finest ethnic companies (remember them?). I’m going to quit now before I get victim of its own minor photographed in Death Valley, examines the co-existing anywhere. Repeat: anywhere.” Los Angeles Times. proportions. radical and straight cultures of the turbulent late 60s, and - Tickets are available at the Arts and Lectures Ticket a heart attack but don’t forget that a penny not spent Chaikin handles the acting features music by Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead and Office ($5 students/$6 UCSB faculty and staff/$7 general fine. Maybe next time he’ll on the Times Square The Rolling Stones. public). The ticket office is open Monday-Friday from 9 get out of the way and let soundtrack is a penny a.m. to 5 p.m., including the noon hour. For information Shepard write. and reservations call 961-3535 or 961-4435. earned; i.e. put Stigwood out ARTS it U X T I R IS Coming Events
foundations including pany, BALLETS BLASKA. He also Guggenheim, Jerome and choreographed works for the Rockefeller and the National ROYAL DANISH BALLET, LA C a l e n d a r Endowment for the Arts. At SCALA in Milan, THEATRO Thurs., Nov. 13 present Clarke is creating a film COMMUNALE in Florence and the Noon, Buchanan 1940 about her work for American OPERA de PARIS. ERIC HOFFER: THE public television in collaboration Robert Barnett was born and PASSIONATE STATE OF with filmmaker Joyce Chopra. raised in the Adirondack Moun MIND (Noon Films) Felix Blaska was born in Russia tains. In 1971 he joined and raised in Paris. Blaska began PILOBOLUS of which he is still a Noon, North Hall 1006 his professional career with member. Barnett has worked with THE HOLLYWOOD Roland Petit and then became Clarke on many projects over the BLACKLIST, THE IN artistic director of his own com- past nine years. FORMER, AND THE POLITICS OF DEGRADATION (Lecture — Victor Navasky) 7:30 p.m., Campbell Hall THE LAST WAVE (Australian Cinema Series) Friday, Nov. 14 8 p.m., Campbell Hall HERMANN PREY Sun., Nov. 16 7:30 p.m., Chem 1179 ZABRISKIE POINT (Antonioni Film Series) Tues., Nov. 18 3 p.m., Girvetz 1004 A CALIFORNIA PER SPECTIVE ON THE IN CROWSNEST West Coast TERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL FORCES TRANSFORMING ENERGY Premiere Nov. 20 & 21 POLICY (Lecture CAL Performing Arts presents music! Robert Barnett joined the — Emilio Varanni III) the West Coast Premiere of company shortly thereafter. 7:30 p.m., Campbell Hall CROWSNEST, a dance/theatre CROWSNEST made its debut in Hermann Prey to Perform MOUTH TO MOUTH trio, Nov. 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. in 1979 at the American Dance (Australian Cinema Series) Campbell Hall. The performances Festival. Recently the company The second event of the CAL emotions of a rejected lover as he will offer similar programs on has performed at the Espace Performing Arts 1980-81 Concert contemplates the 24 scenes of his Thursday and Friday although Cardin in Paris, the Palm Beach Series will be the German “winter journey.” It combines the Tickets to all Arts and Lec each evening will feature different Festival, the American Dance baritone, Hermann Prey. Prey will typical traits of romanticism: the tures performing events are solo works by Miss Clarke and Mr. Festival and at the Spoleto, Italy appear in UCSB’s Campbell Hall love theme, longing for nature and available at the* Arts and Barnett. During their UCSB Festival in July. on Friday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. a youthful naivete. Lectures Ticket Office, ad residency, the company will also Martha Clarke was a member of Michael Krist will accompany jacent to Campbell Hall. Thè present a free lecture- PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATRE Prey. In addition to his operatic and office is open Monday-Friday demonstration on Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. from 1972 to 1978. Clarke has also The program, “ Die Win concert careers, Prey has also from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For in in Campbell Hall. been a member of the ANNA terreise,” was written during the been involved in television and has formation call 961-3535 or 961- . CROWSNEST. was founded in SOKOLOW DANCE COMPANY next to the last year of Schubert’s recorded for every major label. 4435. This half page was 1978 by Martha Clarke with Felix and is a graduate of the Juilliard life and reflects much of his per The Chicago Tribune calls him prepared by the Arts and Blaska to further explore creative School of Music. She has been the sonal mood at that time. The work “...the most persuasive master- Lectures staff. interactions in dance, theatre and recipient of grants from several consists of 24 songs devoted to the singer of our time.” P A G E 8 A ______Advertisement THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1980 A.S. Program Board All New Laserium By Vince Corry 1960s, for example, were not as Concerts Committee sophisticated nor technologically Chairperson advanced. Campbell Hall .will be tran LASERIUM, for all of you Sci-Fi sformed into a laser fantasy this fanatics, is a single krypton gas weekend as LASERIUM returns laser that travels through a series with an all new show. of optics in a laser projector and Unbelievable lasers and in splits into four beautifully-colored credible special effects create a beams. sensational three dimensional fantasy in this year’s, “The Best of Each concert is performed live Laserium.” A Laserist (laser by a laserist who exercis3s com artist) will create a progression of plete control over his artistic everchanging brilliant light pic medium. The laserist, then is to tures on the huge curved laser each performance as a dancer is to screen in suitable conformity with a choreographer: a creative in recorded music which ranges from terpreter. “The Best of Laserium” such rock groups as -Yes, Joe offers audiences a fantasy-like Walsh, The Doors, Little Feat, The celestial experience. The brilliant Pretenders, Pink Floyd, Genesis lasers come so close to you that it and Led Zeppelin among others. A is tempting to reach out and grab concert quality sound system is one. used in these performances. Many have called it “The Dream “The Best of Laserium,” Weaver” others have called it “An sponsored this year by Dos Equis, Incredible Journey,” this en can be seen Saturday night, Nov. tertainment form of the eighties 15 at 6, 8, 10 and 12 p.m. and Sun receives all sorts of in day at 2, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. in Camp terpretations. Laserium is a dif bell Hall. Tickets for this en ferent concept in entertainment, tertainment medium of the one of the more unusual art forms. eighties are $3.50 for students and Animation Double Feature “The music fits tightly to the $4 for the general public. Good By Films Chairperson made in 1968, was animated by As part of the continuing British visual images that unfold at the seats are still available and it is a We don’t all live in a yellow Heinz Edelmann and features Film Series, Yellow Submarine show,” said Laserium spokesman better entertainment bargain than submarine, and our world is more eleven songs by the Beatles. and Animal Farm will be shown on Ross Webb. “Those who call it a a movie. complex than the Kingdom of Co-featured with Yellow Sub Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 7 and 9 p.m. on light show are actually selling it Many find LASERIUM is close to Pepperland, but for 90 minutes we marine will be another animated the UCen Pavilion. Ticket prices short because it is much more the heavenly state of nirvana when can forget all than when the classic, a John Halas/Joy Bat are $1.50 for undergraduates and sophisticated than that. Light they are in an altered state of Beatles’ animated film Yellow chelor version of George Orwell’s $2 general. shows used by rock groups in the mind. See you there... Submarine is shown next Tuesday. novel Animal Farm. Halas and Yellow Submarine is the story of Batchelor are highly respected how the Fab Four — John, Paul, British animation artists whose George and Ringo — saved the teamwork on this film, the first good people of Pepperland from animated adult feature, exploits those nasty villains the Blue the irony and tragedy of Orwell’s Meanies. The musical fantasy, vision of the SovietRevolution. ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE UMONS NERNATIÒNAL REGION XP
By Betsy Wilson moderators, judges and coaches. It Special Events Chairperson won’t take up that much of your Attention! The College bowl time, but will be very rewarding. Deadline has been extended one Contact Betsy Wilson at 961-3536. week. All those interested in participating in The Varsity Sport of. The Mind please sign-up in the Free Program Board Office with the secretary Denise, on the third floor of the UCen. Anyone that sighed up Conceit before Oct. 22, please sign-up By UCen Activities again, the list was lost. You are The Gears will be playing encouraged to get a team together Thursday, Nov. 13 at 8:30 p.m. in and sign-up or sign-up individually the UCen II Catalyst. This hot new and we’ll match you. This is your wave group opened for “X” chance to participate in UCSB’s recently in Los Angeles and were a first College Bowl Tournament, smash so don’t miss them. Mid where you might possibly reach terms are over and „the finals Nationals and get on television. crunch isn’t yet upon us so take Show us your smarts, participate. advantage of this lull in your Professore, we can use your studies and come see the Gears participation also. We need tonight. Free!
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