T'<^y^i'-i5j't_rf'vAy^^^^^ ^ 1. - ', 1 ^"'^s « ' ) Friday, April M, 1971 UCLADAILY dRUIN 13 Friday, April 30, 1971 12 UCLADAILY BRUIN Guess Who 'Celebration at Big Sur!: Stepson of 'Woodstock' They Don1Know What We Look Like PHOTO SERVICE DAVE'S vocalist Burton Cummings, "and I knows who's in the group N.^w by J. Hendler SpeciqiStudentRates by Harold Bronson if see them when we came off you talk about the Rolling Stones 'Rolling Stone is a biased used to WHILE^U VVAfT everybody knows Sur attempts to do for the Northern the cleu. PASSPORT PHOTOS the road. Sometimes we used to who's in the elebration at Big Visual This beast as we know it, characterized by paper." ( ' -, Stuffpnt«. • I ^" I'ji MecJK,.!^. Jjr n// D Cofds group, but we really concert of 1%9 approximately what characteristic of .jtog(upt>% together. We wanted to get haven t "non-profit" comprehensible picture, was not jam had c alifornia * "They're full of shit." By Pr<jJe>iiOi»ai because of the that type of publicity. They did for its larger Eastern counterpart Celebration Camera focusing was often disregarded, information." someone from home don't \\(K)dstock I "Erroneous tVutn f wJeiul 9lJq 4/ 4U^ ' W,l.lht».' Hlv.j^ Cor Vele.a"A-. An oss i Carl GotUeib, says that the dif- subjects, ren- )VVO border situation — getting papers even know what we look like eiebration's producer, featuring zooms which, while closing in on Such were the comments I ( " film and Woodstock is the dif- indistinct. Granted, — because it was the easiest thing Burton Cummings then between his dered them simultaneously received when I asked Canada's tPrence decide which described their music between a spectacular and a warm^ intimate film." documentary footage is hard to collect because it cannot be Who about a certain article to do. We couldn't and ference Guess appropriate in saying that Demetrakas, the guitarist we wanted so we accepted speculated as to any future would have been more the re-shot And if Baird Bryant and Johanna that appeared in Rolling Stone—an He spectacular conceitt and a warm film's footage, they would have of them. changes: "Everything difference lay between a editors, had cut out poor article that grossly distorted their both size of the crowd ahd number little film short. Speed-blinding pans ac- The~tJueS5"^WR(revioIve3" some done so far are personal ex- concert. The k had more than a -artistic values, TnaklngttiBmmirw intimate was dwarfish when \compared jo companied by poor focusing, however, are too much to out of Chad Allen and the periences that can be taken on a nerformers at Big Sur be a money-grubbing bunch, and years ago around mass level. We'd like for people Woodstock. The concert at Big Sur, which feature tolerate even in a film of a mere 82 minutes' length. made me somewhat suspicious of Expressions. Back then, to those of pick on what Stills, Nash and Young, J^)ni Mitchell, it was difficult to get up we're com- Baez, Crosby, their ideals. The Guess Who, in 1%5, Joan Straight footage which might have otherwise been quite Canadian-based records airplay, municating and have them t elate fact, are very pleasant fellows who decent was often hindered by pseudo-artistic gimmicry. promotional gimmick, to it in their own ways. are very much concerned about so, as a Coarsly-changing colours and t)adly matched gold tinting company made up a "We're building more layers on their music, monetary rewards their record did not enhance Joni Mitchell's rendition of "Woodstock" contest to name the group. They our next album — there'll be more As falling second. ( the song ) . And save us from the blatant film metaphor ! less trite lyrics. I *" for a British sounding music and went All has not been so pleasant with were looking Joni sang, "... turning into but terfhes above our nation", ilk being "in" then) back and looked at some of my the group, however. Just as they name (that you can imagine what appeared on the screen. Perhaps the was selected. classical stuff because I got started getting recognition and and "Guess Who?" my most offensive was the in-and-out zooming technique a song originally degree in piano. There'll be more achieving star status, leader They recorded thrown in by an apparent veteran of TV's Shebang. and the music instead of cute little tunes." Randy Bachman left the group. performed by Johnny Kidd Such technical problems tend to aggravate Celebration at Gary Peterson ex- Pirates called "Shakin' All Over" "One thing that's really hard to Drummer serve its ' failing, is to inadequately America. do is superimpose chords, the Big Sur's greatest which WITH MAX SHULMAN plained, "It was triggered off by and it became a big hit in Walrus added. "Nobody's function as a documentary. First, the film fails to draw any . done I By Ih* aulhor of Rally Himnd Ihr Flag, Hnyt . lt<tl>ir (iiil,» fir. lucid consistent illustration of the event Second, it that for sometime and I'd like to and Third, really get into that." gives the concert itself no appearance of continuity. fail to linger long enough upon the It appears, then, that the combo the cameramen too often featured, as, for example, upon Neil The Preening of America are about to get deeper into iheir performer being to singing from another world. music, accompanied by the con- Young, who seems be shooting rendered that which was depicted tributions from their guitarists Fourth, bad friendly Stranger who Recent polls taken on American ranipuses by Tinfie and News- difficult to look at. fired for being "Too wierd and a who, up till now, are still searching week hnve revealed unexpected, and most welcome, results. Both mag- sings his conversation. for their own identity within the azines found that today's undergraduates, far from boiling with revo- What redeems Celebration at Big Sur are the performers for future expectations lutionary fervor, are just as torpid as everyone else. group. As Crosby in a communal bath themselves. If seeing David Celebration at Big Sur had achieved the aura of in the music scene in general, If Joyous tidings, of course, but I must say that I was never worried. from Sebastian and several other people doesn't excite have with John timacy which its producer had hoped for, it might ^Sure, life-styles are a little different agreed the on campus these days; neverthe- most of the quintet m Morrison and the Combs Sisters, John Sebastian least enjoy seeing Steve Stills get into a Dorothy you, then you'll at been a far more enjoyable experience As it stSnds as a less, I've always felt that down deep this generation clings to the same prediction that a type of free form Esalen Institute, a far more and others, was held at the fight with a spectator. and probably missed a lot solid values that sustained all film, it is stiff and presumptuous their predecessors, music will prevail. setting than Farmer Yasger's civilized and conducive Experience was all about Still, the Inmy own college days, for example, the most popular aid to socia- perfqnners are unintentional on;^, ad- of what the Big Sur Last year the Guess Who played — The most exciting as Field. audible, the people, bility on campus was precisely what it is today: Miller High Life Beer. who ap- music was basically clear and the White House and received libbers, such as the police at the film's beginning And, mind you, college swimming pool was blue, my days were a ^ood long time ago. I got my size and volume of both and recorder were always, were entertaining, the criticism for it. Cumulative These differences between parently didn't know that the camera B.A. way back in 1908. much you ask for? (My, alma mater, incidentally, was a school Sur concert a far less who'd been and there was a nude scene What more could the group in- concerts and settings made the Big running. Also of interest are the painted teacher I'm sure you all know -the Wyoming College of Belles Lettres and comments from than the Woodstock concert, at least on a Commercial Baking, from whence, as you are undoubtedly aware, cluded: "It was bad because we dynamic subject level. In order to filmically delineate the came a veritable host of graduates who later achieved stardom in the sickness — he had trouble with his (There are certam people who play concerts and that was more of superficial breadstufTsKame like DarrellJ. which the filmmakers of Celebration^pparently — men In.skip who invented rye bread gall stones or gall bladder. That's believe that "Shakin' All Over" a dinner-dance. Gary Puckett went energy" with caraway .seeds; Irving T. Whitsun who invented the toothpick, distinguished the concert, they had to try to make a why he left the group while we was recorded by members of the down better than we did, although felt thus making it possible to eat rye bread with caraway seeds; Sol a big event (such as Bagel us. It was too small event look "big" rather than were on the road. Then it got to the English Who backing a singer they danced more for who invented the permanent doughnut which bears sitting). his name; and see look small (enough to watch in one point where he was doing a lot of called fiddie James, but this was superficial.