The Living Daylights 2(6) 12 February 1974

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L The Weary Weekly Waffle T N BRAZIL a robber declares love for Richard Beckett \ < i 9 ' J, Carmen Miranda, strong coffee, • v - -v ( r / toucans, the long white gravelly reaches of beats up the Copacabana . . . and fatherhood. Brazil’s long coastline sure picks up its share of the week’s news flotsam and jetsam^ Every reporter with an expense account and an airline bag has dug o t o n l y B r i t a i n s c r e w s himself into the press rooms of Rio, plugged NTHINGS UP: Proving that we are himself into the nearest available telex •(as stupid as the mother nation, the machine and chums, chums, churns. Austral­ ■(federal and New South Wales govern- ians gets a bonus: Biggs PLUS, JUST FOR £ ments signal their punches so often and YOU, OUR MOST NEFARIOUS BUSI­ £ so loudly after the so called "discovery" NESSMAN, ALEXANDER BARTON. £ of businessman Alexander Barton, in While Biggs and Barton are regarded by £ Rio de Janeiro, but not unnaturally he the public as romantic front page fodder, fled the city shouting that he had done those behind bars are seen as Bad Eggs. Prisoners are getting shot at Bathurst, beaten :( no wrong, that the collapse of his $20 and boxed in at Long Bay, gassed and fired :( million company was all a bit of a joke upon at Goulburn. And while this continues, :( and that the whole series of allegations the general public feeds its own sublimated £against him were the work of the criminal instincts with news of an English £ present "socialist-communist govern- mail thief and a Hungarian who built an £ ment". Barton has quite obviously been empire on pulverised opal and other peoples £ paid quite a tidy sum of money by the money. £ present federal government to make If NSW justice minister Maddison was these allegations of socialism and com- running a zoo in the manner he runs his ■ munism against it. Next, he will allege prisons the RSPCA would have him strung ( that W hitlam is the possessor o f workers up by his balls. The Australian gave you the : hands, and that good old Margaret is information, Harry Gumboot (opposite) £ crocheting the red flag. That won't harbor, south of the New South Wales :£•££ gives a gut reaction. O PRIZES FOR GUESSING £ restore the lost $20 million to the N THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE city of Wollongong, by using plastic ;£££ So organised society stinks. So you pack J creditors but it leads to a knockabout RICH: A survey run by private schools instead of real plants. In other delightful :£££ your swag and hit the highway. Where are £ comedy scene that makes people forget in New South Wales, which attempted news on the ecological front it has been you heading we ask. We’re going to Darwin £ the real issues involved. It is understood to prove that children who attended the announced in Sydney that gardeners :£££ you say. Where are you “ staying” we ask. :j that the New South Wales government, exclusive establishments were not neces­ have managed to develop a special plant ££££ Why, you say, we have a tent and a dole ■: for instance, is extremely embarrassed sary the issue of gilded (or at least that will actually grow in petrol fumes, cheque and we’U live on OUR beach and may j; by Barton's sudden reappearance — he the greedy landowning councillors get her­ silvered) loins has failed because the thus making them useful for median :£££:£ £ was supposed to stay away and shut up. nias trying to lift us off. Good luck, says parents questioned refused to reveal strips on highways. The main roads jijijij Terry Maher, who lived at Lameroo, pre con­ e o b v i o u s l y w a n t s t o their income. department gardeners admit that the crete jungle (p.4). BORROW SOME MONEY: Singa- plants are not attractive and the flowers ;£££ H ET THE NIGGERS YEAR CON­ insignificant .. . but they are extremely :£££ Maybe the people heading up to Darwin £ pore's prime minister Lee Kuan Yew tough. Thus mankind solves the prob- ££:?£ should come down to Melbourne. Thanks to j: buried a press inspired feud w ith out G TINUES APACE: Aboriginal af­ ours and the Age's comments on the amount ■: dynamic leader Whitlam, and doing the fairs minister senator Cavanagh who will lem of the m otor car by once again •:•:•:£ of shit entering Port Phillip bay, St Kilda j: well known asian crawl, claimed that be rewarded with the job of plantation worshipping it as a God. £££: beach could be the haven! Why, last time we j: during the good Gough's visit his tiny manager in the Spice islands when he looked at it we saw vast unpopulated ex­ j: fascist island state where leftist views quits his present job, made what is be­ OU'LL ALWAYS BE MUMMY'S M panses o f sand. The shit has emptied the ( are rewarded by a free gift of electricity coming his weekly contribution to racial LITTLE BOY: The minister re- :£:£:£ beaches. Y : through the fingernails, that the Labor understanding between aboriginals and .sponsible for Papua New Guinea, sena- :£j:£ Colin Talbot stays in the city playing ■ government had left Australia: "stirring whites by announcing that the national tor Morrison, said that the tim ing on records. He lays himself bare and confesses • with the drama of fundamental changes aboriginal consultative committee which independence for the all black nation why he has no Jagger, only Joni Mitchell, : carried out with great panache." He changed its name to congress, could go was a tw o sided affair and that Australia &•£:£: Linda Ronstadt et al (p. 9). : carried on by telling Whitlam: "The fuck itself if it demanded control of would have a say in it. Independence £:•$: Our spread this week reproduces Percy : impression your policies have given money spent on its own people. He said involved "a colonial government as well Leason’s The finish o f the old buffers race, : abroad is one of vigor. The optimism the black body had no right to change as a government" he said in Port Mores- :;£:£ an extraordinary example o f Australian : and enthusiasm in your dynamic ap- its name nor had it any right to attempt by and added that Australia was anxious SftS black and white art which we recycle for : proach to both domestic and external to control its own peoples destiny. that the colony leave kindergarten as :£££ your enjoyment. ■ events and forces are widely known." soon as possible. Surprisingly he then ::.:££ Margaret MacIntyre swings in this week as : Harry Lee then threw up. hanks, ted, thanks a lot: stated that he thought the young black £:£:£:£: editor of our music pages. Contributions can T In an obvious effort to save Aus­ country had received a bum deal from the £££•: be sent to Margaret at 42 Brunning street, ET SHE'S A TEASER THOUGH: tralia the embarrassment of a prolonged Bougainville Copper Company and that £:£:£( Balaclava, Vic (91.3514), together with a list BThe "Australian sprint star", royal progress through the flooded perhaps it might be a good idea if the of your favorite Top Ten numbers. As she as the daily blahs call her, other­ nation, Britain's jovial (love • those contract was renegotiated. Obviously :£•:■£ explains, it gives readers an insight into the wise known as runner Raelene Boyle, miners) Ted Heath, called a general Bougainville copper has forgotten to writer’s leanings, bias and blindspots. said she would be too busy to hop in election for february 28, claiming that replace senator Morrison's water pipes :££•:£ and guttering not to mention failing to :£££: While womens lib is cutting deep inroads and out of beds w hile on a sprint the public record that his government's into factories and homes in outer suburbia, mission in Canada. Ms Boyle's strange decision was threatened by a mob of take him out to lunch. the fashion and cosmetic houses along Van­ : announcement to reporters followed a blackeared Welsh coal diggers. In reality ity Fair are still exploiting women and : ruling by the Australian Womens we all know that he was missing the ILL THE WHITE MEN: In a W£ laughing all the way to the bank, Margaret ■ Amateur Athletic Union that the hot dear queen Elizabeth who will now have Kcombination new wave cultural :£•££ Smith reports on page 21. : legged Miss Boyle could not run in to hasten home on february 28 after revolution and a put-the-white-world- £:£:£ Thanks to all the graphic oriented stu­ • Toronto, Winnipeg or the US city of San opening Australia's parliament instead down-move, China has claimed more or £;*£ dents who answered our invitation to come : Diego unless she was accompanied by of touring the land receiving gifts of less every island in the China sea and £££; up and see us sometime. Some have already : a chaperone. Not surprisingly Ms Boyle diamonds cunningly fashioned into the told the heavily American subsidised £:£:$ spent a day with us; others will be contacted : reacted at this return of victoriana in shape o f gum leafs and w attle sprays. nations of South Vietnam, Japan and £:*•: soon. Be patient. It takes time to give ; quite an obvious way. She said she South Korea they will get into terrible ££•£: everyone a chance . . . we hope to use all the : would not run in Australia again and HO NEEDS TO BREATHE ANY­ trouble if they attempt to touch them. ££££ talent available. ■ added that she would now shop around W WAY: Alderman D. Sutherland, a Although the world China watchers ££:•£ Living delights will help sort out this : the world to find a country willing to member of the Sydney water board, was started immediately to tie themselves in- :•:£:£: week’s dead spots — it’s still the centre i pay her athletic expenses. It is believed reported beaten to death by a group of to knots in an effort to explain all this, :£:•:•:■ spread lift out . . . stick it on the wall and • that the A W A A U is glad of this because whole earthers after he suggested that the answer seemed simple — China wants tell your friends about it. Gross omissions, if ! it would rather retain its moral virtue the board save money in landscaping a to be a colonial power like any other :£:£:$ any, should be reported to the editors : than have a runner who might win. new sewage treatm ent works at Shell nation, little red schoolbook or not. :£££ concerned. EDS The Living Daylights is published every tuesday by Incorporated Try Our Counter Culture Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Rosslyn street, West LEE H A R D IN G and ANNE SYDENHAM have between them an encyclopedic Melbourne, Victoria. You can write to us C/- PO box 5312 BB, GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. 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to inquire into the scandalous machin­ As the tear gas and shot gun blasts ations and cover-upping of the NSW \echo throughout NSW prisons a public service board. “ Yes they’ve given royal commission has been set up us a flogging” , shouted one of the to diffuse mounting criticism of the Bathurst prisoners from the back of a police van, “ and they’ve promised us public service board. Here HARRY. Tl 1 another one when we get to the Bay.” GUM BOOT tells its members to go I And as for the miserable McGeechan, I and suck eggs. generalissimo of the department of cor­ - n v rective services: he flew into flights of HY are you bothering? The short poetic panic after Sunday’s Goulburn history o f this country is redolent .J I, W •ST' flareup. (Shall we have another commis­ with reports of dignitaries in rooms in­ 'T sion into that?) Apart from understating vestigating the rebellions o f incarcerated p (again) about the numbers shot, McGeech­ men. Commissions such as yours are ill an claimed that his department would advised to pontificate upon the roots o f a stand up to the most critical and analytical collective rage. With life’s roulette wheel examination internationally. The NSW f T loaded your way, what right have you to public service board wouldnt stand up to issue pompous moralisms on the motives 1 a casual examination through the wrong of men born beyond your class — fetter­ end of a telescope. That’s why it appoints ed, beaten and humiliated in a way you its own employee hacks to masquerade as will never yourself experience. l investigators . . . that’s why the prisons The cost of the commission could be keep festering . . . that’s why all inmates are painted as violent psychopaths wield­ better spent recompensing the hapless, ) % victims of the shootings. Not ten, as f 1 ing handmade bazookas . .. r 4 admitted by the taciturn authorities, but i . And do not think that jail is packed 20, mostly shot in the back, as revealed : j with hardened fiends, like the ones who by the Australian. There is much blood .i f used to brawl with James Cagney; gang- on the ruins of Bathurst jail. Some from /u . •i . w - bangers, torturers, thugs and vampires. recent times (the 1970 inquiry into bash­ Those who experience jail for the first ings heard chilling accounts). time are amazed to find themselves sur­ I rounded by mortals whose most out­ Some of the blood is from men so 1 . I desperately impatient to be free, that last standing characteristic is ordinariness. week they clawed at the bricks with their Whereas men of the class and calibre of hands. 1 Maddison can fiddle expense accounts and tax returns with impunity, frolicking Typically, the NSW minister of justice, in that immunised zone of white collar I Maddison, has mourned not the misery, crime, the convict in the cell next door is so dramatically exposed by the affair, but P I, a victim of a tougher social scene. Jail the cost. Millions of dollars of damage he merely aggravates the discontent. It is cries. The familiar priority of profit be­ time to stop institutionalising revenge and fore people — that same instinct that to empty the prisons of all but the most framed the laws which put most of the I4 ,. viciously recalcitrant. | prisoners behind bars in the first place. The NSW public service board consists! There is no need for an inquiry into of liars, schemers and sadists. Certainly! the razing of Bathurst jail. Its cause is Maddison deserves — if anyone does — a| obvious. The system had pushed too far. spell in his famous isolation box. Have you seen the aerial photos of the The blood on the bricks of Bathurst institution? In this Skylab, sensuous age, may have come from the former resi­ such is the domicile still accorded to dents, but it has now symbolically trans­ offenders of the realm. Would you grow ferred to the hands of Mr Maddison. He old in such a place? is to the administration of justice what J£> What makes Maddison so despicable is Cain was to the tradition of fraternity. not only his attitude of dumb intransi­ POSTSCRIPT gence to the options of penal reform. He lingers on — in Maddison down to the South America and Asia. Apart from the If you want to help humanise jails, con­ has obligations beyond the ministers of lowliest uniformed backroom bullyboy. Victorian amenities o f Australian jails and tact Tony Green of the Prisoners Action justice of other lands. For it should never Yet surely our convict heritage leaves a the relentless thuggery of the warders, Group, Box 238 PO Cammeray, NSW. be forgotten — despite its apparent comi- dreadful obligation upon the shapers of there is a cruel stranglehold of ancient (Ask for a copy of Jim Staples’ recent ness — that the white civilisation of this public policy, the professional chauvin­ bureaucratic prohibitions which this ad­ speech to the ^^^^A ustralia party, country was beach-headed by men and ists, the politicians. Australia was carried ministration has done nothing to relieve. where t h e ^ l l l l l l l l k shenanigans women in chains. Indeed, they were the forth to life on the lacerated back o f men The NSW prisons are controlled by the ' of the Public instrument of its conception. If it wasnt and women in irons. A debt is owed to public service board who, as Sydney Service Board for vagabonds who poached pheasants these unwilling pioneers. All today’s af­ barrister Jim Staples recently expressed are exposed from stately acres, or women who fucked fected gabble about the quality of life it, manifests an unwarranted degree of in detail.) lords for money, then there may never falls as hollow platitudes unless we can conservative political lawlessness. “ Not have been a NSW, a ministry of justice or humanise the “ department of corrective one single reform in the act or regulations 1 a Mr Maddison. services” . It is rime to put an end to or in the style of custodial behavior have One thing that shines out in the institutionalised revenge. Yes we are bet­ occurred within the wall of a single prison history books, is the uncanny cruelty ter than some, as Maddison never fails to in the whole nine years of the present with which the convicts were transported mention, but worse than plenty. The US administration,” he says. A Sydney in­ % here and how they were treated. The cat is experimenting with relaxed coeduca­ quiry into bashings at Long Bay prison o ’ nine tails sings through each page. (A tional jails; Holland has abolished got under way recently with the arbitrary relic is still proudly displayed by police at womens prisons altogether; parts of disbarment of an overcurious solicitor. the Sydney easter show.) Europe prefer weekend hostels, and con­ The only possible relevance of a royal If the flagellator has gone, his spirit jugal visits are commonplace throughout commission at this time would be for it

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I . F IT is at all possible to have an ■ ikPORSTION OF 1HE _ anti city in the middle of a city ■ y OF DARWIN then there is only one place in Australia where this has been achieved, ' 0HPIN6 ON BEACHES Lameroo beach, Darwin. So it was iS PROHIBITED with much grief and anger that thousands of former residents heard m i g m w i s m - the news of its tem porary demise last week.

To those who spent evenings under its moon and the rainforest, Lameroo was more than a squatters city 150 yards from the GPO: It was an international intentional community at the place where the Indian ocean meets the Pacific. It was a state of mind much the same as Nimbin and Victoria street can be considered states of mind and it was what it always claimed to be — a free beach.

For six years travelling people, nomads on the road and hippies on the trail, have been using Lameroo to rest their weary heads. Because it was a free beach you could live as you liked and do as you liked.

To some of the residents "doing as you liked" meant you were allowed to swim w ithout clothes in the Hill Whorf Arafura sea. This latter activity was officially sanctioned when the city fathers deemed Lameroo to be a nudist beach — a free beach in the official sense of the word. Now they are telling us that "free beach" does not mean you can camp on it free. No, it means that you have to rent a flat from the same city fathers at about $80 a week and commute to your "free beach". If people on the road and seasonal workers can't camp at Lameroo or any- It means you have to live w ithin the other beach around our coastline: confines of a plastic city and If they can't set up a tent in the suburbs that produce the highest fields beside our highways and byways suicide rate in Australia. And you when they get tired, what are they to could hardly blame them. Avoid Darwin do? Is there no alternative to living — camp at Lameroo. in exploitive motels and caravan parks? A t Lameroo you can experience some of the best sunsets and dope that The only way the city fathers can Southeast Asia has to offer. Yes stop people living on Lameroo is to there are mosquitos and sandflies and put a giant fence around it and have rocks and mudflats but there are it padlocked. And what a dog-in-the- also little herm it crabs who scratch manger act that would be. on the side of your tent until you

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The taking o f Lameroo beach: (Above) what they couldnt break they burnt. (Flight) beach dwellers get the word to leave their home on the hill. (Below left) Darwin city council officer (white socks) lends a hand at urban renewal. (Bottom right) shifting house the Darwin way . . . Old friends meet again

AST thursday in Melbourne LMichael Cahill was arrested by detective sergeant Michael Bell, of the drug squad and charged with possession of marijuana and driving a vehicle at more than 35 miles per hour. His car was also declared to be unroad worthy. Bell and Cahill are old friends: last december Cahill was chief witness in a case where charges Adelaide against Bell and Arthur Smith, JP, were unexpectedly dismissed. Bell and Smith were charged with probes conspiring to obstruct justice and Cahill alleged Bell had blank search warrants in his possession signed its drug by Smith (TLD 1/9). So on thursday, after the fuzz had gone completely over his car and body searched him, Cahill was squad whisked off to Russell street head­ quarters, frisked again three times and finally let out on $200 bail. BRIAN JOHNSTONE Cahill’s case comes up on feb­ ruary 26. SPECIAL two-man CIB Keeping a close eye on the team is investigating the af­ matter is Victorian treasurer o f fairs of Adelaide’s drug squad the Victorian Council for Civil following allegations of police Liberties, Ed Flannery, the man brutality, dope peddling, and who laid the charges against Bell underworld connections. and Smith and who now enjoys Inspector H. D. Beath, the man the attentions of the Victoria in charge of “ C” Division which police having his name, address, covers most of Adelaide’s south­ car make and registration number ern region, and sergeant Davey, boldly chalked on the Russell culled from the suburban force, street “ active list" blackboard. have been posted at Adelaide’s main city headquarters during the Footnote: Another witness who past week to conduct their investi­ appeared against Bell and Smith gation. was recently hit with a summons The inquiry follows months of for $200 of back parking fines. agitation by the Drug and Legal My, oh my, there’s nothing like Protection Union in Adelaide. The a little court case to get those union was set up as part of the police up and about . . . alternative community centre which was to be housed in 281 Rundle street city. However con­ tinual police intimidation of the Activists prepare fora Green Christmas centre’s inhabitants and the prop­ erty’s landlord soon saw the cen­ PIOTR OLSZEWSKI tre out on the street (TLD, 2/5). ELBOURNE marijuana etc, academics from the pharma­ Inspector Beath told me the M activists are preparing for cology department who discussed inquiry would be strictly inter­ another year of conflict with health aspects and effects of departmental and that it was de­ narcs, august authorities, and smoking; and others including signed to either substantiate the other assorted bodies. police surgeon Birrell. DLPU’s claims or to clear the The most ambitious plan is a There’s some dissension among detectives involved. marijuana vigil to be held in members of the dope unions as to Its success or failure would Melbourne’s city centre, early their ultimate goals and this tends depend on information forthcom­ march. This action is being to impede their growth. ing from the DLPU or individuals coordinated by the Dope Smokers Some members advocate claiming to have suffered at the Union at La Trobe university. To outright legalisation of marijuana hands of the squad. raise funds for the publicity of but the most popular policy is one Chief organiser of the DLPU, this vigil and to set aside money of being allowed to “ grow yer Peter Carey, told me the union for a bail fund, the DSU is own, smoke yer own” . “ Smoke didnt trust the CIB. He claimed planning to run a benefit concert yer owners” fear that outright CIB personnel had been involved at Ormond hall, Prahran (february legalisation would provide an in many drug raids and bashings 15, 8.00 pm-2 am, BYOD) bands opening for other competitive and the inquiry would get the to appear include Reuben Tice drug manufacturers — such as the same treatment as the Duncan and Curried Breakfast. beer and tobacco merchants - to case. (George Duncan, and Ade­ lay their grubby little profiteering laide university lawyer, drowned The DSU, highly optimistic hands on the weed and rip in the River Torrens in 1972. that the “ straight” press would smokers off at a more A homosexual and non-swimmer take a more responsible attitude extortionate rate than the present to marijuana in the coming year, chillum, eight feet tall, information pages in the campus his death was alleged to be the erected and displayed. dealers - if that is at all possible. work o f the local vice squad. conducted a press night to paper, Rabelais, as well as a five Other dope activists are The Melbourne marijuana A subsequent inquiry led to the announce details of the vigil and page supplement on “ growing interested solely in organising activists movement is still in its resignation of a couple of detec­ concert to reporters. your own” . Broadsheets non-profit co-ops in an attempt to infancy, this being the second tives who refused to give evi­ Representatives of the Melbourne containing this information were eradicate the odious dealer. This, year of its organised existence. dence.) Age and the Sunday press also issued. La Trobe’s most of course, is a fine aim. The Basically the action groups Carey said the DLPU would attended and took a sympathetic successful activity was their character of the average dealer is evolved early in 1973 from the not give the investigating team view (as well as a few tokes) but Buyers Co-op. The union bought rapidly degenerating as heavies remnants of the Draft Resisters any information. He felt it too the result was that four days later large deals of good dope and sold and criminals become lured in by Union. risky. Many peoples names would the Age ran an anti-pot article it, at five percent profit, to big money. Carlton “ village” be placed on the mat and he is rehashing the old pot-leads-to- The draft resisters, having won students. The profit was used, to a dealers, once considered “ cool” , worried the police may do an other-things rave. Needless to say, their battle following the election small degree, on publicity, and to now harass each other with knives about face and intensify their no mention of the impending vigil o f the Labor party into a large degree on free dope which and metal piping as they squabble hassles. appeared in print. So much for government, were left without a was distributed at university over territorial rights. Recently the “ straight” press. union nights. The DLPU wants an open cause. Success had whetted their two dealers violently confronted public inquiry and believes it has Meanwhile, over at appetite for action and so they The highlight of the Monash each other in busy Swanston Melbourne’s Monash university, enough evidence to keep it busy turned their attention to the dope unions activities was a forum street, outside Melbourne the dope action is taking more of for at least a few weeks. marijuana injustices. on marijuana conducted in july university. rollicking “ crazed freak” front, Carey says the main charge laid A grass roots lobby was last year. Speakers included Don Despite their problems, with the first confrontations against the drug squad would be organised and led to the Chipp and Bill Hartley who Melbourne marijuana activists planned for orientation week. brutality, but many pushers have formation of three main action discussed the political possibilities seem determined to remain Highlights include a joint rolling told the DLPU that most of their groups — the dope smokers unions o f legalisation; academics from functional. There’s a lot of contest and a who-can-smoke-the- local supply comes from the busts at La Trobe and Monash and the Monash’s botany department who smoking, a lot o f rapping and most parody of the chunder 'n' stash at city police headquarters Marijuana Action Group. discussed physical aspects of the philosophying, and a lot of dirty jokes iron man boozing where dope is personally sold to During 1973 these groups were plant and dispensed informative planning going on. Something’s contests so “ popular” on the the pushers by police. quite strong and active. At La titbits such as dope is best bound to happen. campuses. Also, a monumental Trobe the DSU ran dope activated when heated to 250 °F. Page 6 —THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 □ I LOST MY MERCEDES- BENZ, DOWN 'X

PIOTR OLSZEWSKI There is a r i j u a n a has been an abundance of BYTHE M banned at Nimbin’s food presently at' communal property, Tuntable “ The Kiln” ,the communitie: falls. Nimbin representatives say food co-op in the this has been done following sawmills. Contacts are being warnings from local authorities. established with other growers In Word is that if anyone gets busted the area. So far, suppliers o f RIVERSIDE on the property, the place will be paw-paws, watermelon, honey, WILLY YOUNG closed down. organic vegetables, macedonian HE FLOOD in Brisbane was My engineering friend tells me but no people . . . so all you Apart from this compromise to nuts, and sweet corn have been an amazing natural that there are flood gauges all the needy folk get your arses over authoritarianism, the Nimbin! T found. phenomena. The river was way down the river valley, and it there quickly! In the early stages property is advancing healthily. Residents from other local allowed, by act of God, a few is possible to calculate the flood of the flood, volunteers had to be Luckily the region has not communities have already begun level 24 hours in advance. Despite beaten off with sharp sticks. suffered too badly from the days of heady power and majestic, bartering for beans, zucchinis and if not muddy, beauty; although a few mistakes (one calculation of A news item about a motel floods which have devastated cucumbers. A link-up is being few people saw it in this light. The the river level was 1.4 metres too owner in western Queensland who nearby areas — the only adverse established with the Wholefoods witnessing o f a crashed barge low: a lot o f unexpected water) killed two of his labrador dogs to affects have been the inconveni­ Co-op in Brisbane and hopefully a lifting, in rising waters, a bridge the actual service of flood warning feed his starving guests captured ence of swollen creeks which network of communication and to the community was ratshit. the imagination of the English makes crossings hazardous at off its pylons, and smaller craft transport will be established along being smashed in the river, was an Expected levels were given as high press, and the subsequent story times, and the steady rains which the entire east coast for organic anti social act, as authorities had tide readings at the port office, about the floods in the colonies have kept people indoors and off growers and consumers. pleaded with the population to but for miles up the river the somehow implied that labrador the land. Some activities, such as A methane convertor is being stay at home and watch the floods micro-geographical adjustments dog was the staple food. Bunuel post hole digging, have been built and will hopefully be in on TV. Sightseers were described make this reading meaningless. comes to the suburbs: a woman postponed. action before the communities as “ ghouls” who fiendishly got Householders needed direct, visual returning to her home after flood The current rain is also making second shithole is filled. Harry their delight from the suffering of information: “ In 12 hours the waters had receded, found a dead the erection of dwellings more Tucker, Nimbinite, suggests, other people. "Animal” was a river is expected to rise two cow on the livingroom floor. urgent. Nimbinites are striving to “ There is organic work to be done word much used by the press. metres above its present level, yes, A householder removed all meet a self-imposed deadline of “ a at Tuntables - want to get a little The Prince of Darkness did not up to that line below your items of furniture from his house dome a day” . But the wet bit of god on your hands?” declare a state of emergency, and window sill.” to higher ground except the conditions are obstructing the Alternative schooling is the casual observer might well Several radio stations piano. The piano floated in the work and there is a shortage of another Nimbin problem which comment that this was abandoned their normal programs rising water and subsequently materials, especially for the requires an urgent solution. inconsistent with his action of and offered their services to aid the honky-tonk smashed the construction of “ skins", the outer Meetings have been held declaring such a state of evacuation: they threw their windows, the walls and the covering o f the dome. discussing the possibility of emergency for such lightweight microphones open to the public. ceilings of his house. Plans are underway to organise starting on a Nimbin alternative hullabaloo as the Springbok tour In the midst of immensity, human Friends watching the waters pre fabricated construction of school with the help of Gordon o f 1972, when Bjelke-Petersen, response was quite banal. There from their veranda, saw a garden domes in the cities and then have Lang, who operates the Southern the premier, called out the guard. were thousands o f telephone calls table adorned with four glasses them transported to the site. Cross alternate school at nearby However, early in the piece, of the variety: would A (and a (one of them half filled with Basically these domes are being Ballina. Houston, the leader of the description of A) at X please, beer), a packet of cigarettes and a built along the lines of village, or Hopes for radical changes in opposition, criticised the premier contact B (and a description of deck of cards, float slowly by, tribal, communities. Each tribe the far from satisfactory Nimbin for not declaring a S of E sooner, B’s relationship to A) at Y (which followed by a garden chair. will be a unit comprising one large public school are also high. Seven and the consequent omission to varied from Perth to New A doctor found himself, his dome and four smaller domes, of last year’s nine public school do so can be logically explained as Zealand) because B is worried house and his Mercedes-Benz each accommodating four staff have been replaced; a new, a petty rebuff against Houston. about you. Quick thinking ad-men surrounded by rising water. With persons. It is hoped that hopefully sympathetic headmaster The premier spent most of his whipped up a few commercials of considerable difficulty he drove individual tribes will cultivate from Sydney has applied for the time tplevising himself touring the type: House destroyed? his car on to the patio of his their own vegetable patches, position at Nimbon, and eight domicile. As the waters rose he leaving the much larger communal around in a helicopter, eruding Wondaful roofing will make your alternative school children have paternal concern, issuing banal home more beautiful when you jacked up his car and placed vegetable patch free for other applied for admittance. statements “ water as far as the rebuild. A free translation of my bricks beneath the wheels. He requirements such as barter. Down in Melbourne, a Nimbin eye can see” , and taking full favorite announcement is as persisted in his efforts until the Tuntable Falls villagers have Communications Centre, which advantage o f the fact that the follows: Ms Smith at the church car was supported on columns of already spent their budget was recently established, has Labor lord mayor, Clem Jones, hall at Taringa has blankets bricks to a height allocation of almost $3000 for moved into larger and more was away in New Zealand at the 20 beds, milk (very of four tools and have also added another efficient premises at 161 Spring empire games, and unable to get scarce) and two vehicle to their truck fleet. Trucks street, City. back to the city. (This situation is bullocks (meat already owned are a two ton The communications centre is typical o f many disasters, those also very Dodge and a Toyota. The new playing an increasingly important who want to get in cannot, scarce vehicle, purchased for $500 is a role in Nimbin’s development. It likewise those who want to get Blitz, a four wheel, 3 ton, 6 acts as the last frontier o f the out.) cylinder unit, bigger and more beautiful people in the wilderness When Jones finally returned, powerful than a Landrover. of the city jungle. Its prime he made up for all the frustrations The Blitz is also equipped with motive is to recruit and supply of his absence by dramatically a power take-off driven winch information to suitable wouldbe closing the gates of the with lA” steel cable. It should Nimbin pilgrims. The centre Sommerset dam, against the prove an invaluable work beast for advices people of the conditions advice of his engineers. By this the community - using the four of their pilgrimage, equipment time most of the flood waters wheel drive it should be able to they should take, and the had receded and his tow building materials up to the problems they will encounter justification for flooding the village site on the mountain when making the transition from small farms above the dam was plateau; the winch will enable urban individualism to rural that he wanted to hasten the building logs o f up to 40 feet in communalism. fall of receding waters to length to be lowered from the The centre will also organise allow the citizens of Brisbane forest; the power take-off can be forages among Melbourne an earlier return to their homes. adapted to drive a mobile saw factories seeking out waste The local press, not bench. The Blitz will also be used materials which could be useful at to draw the many old, formerly Nimbin. The centre carries out content with two buffoons on horse drawn, farm implements research for the community and the stage, angrily questioned owned by the community. supplies them with relevant city why Gough Whitlam did not A large vegetable patch has news and the latest alternative cut short his already been established at agriculture books. Picnics and asian tour to visit the scene of Nimbin and heavy rains have gatherings are being planned to devastation. ensured that seedlings are thriving. raise funds.; J | THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 — Page 7 Continued from page 7.

The car was last seen floating away. * *• * of one and tearing the shirt from THE FLOODS in Brisbane another. These cameramen were showed that the forces of nature really annoyed because they were dwarfs man’s capacity to build own fault. Look shooting the film to advertise the permanent structures, and they at me, Flood Relief Fund. were a moral lesson illustrating I’ve Generally the axiom poor peo­ the anguish that is self-inflicted by never ple are nicer than rich people held an attachment to material owned a car, Flood waters water. possessions, although few people and can carry my came to within saw it in this light. possessions in two sacks. And inches of the floorboards of the * * * My experience of the flood is a what are you really worried Divine Light Mission building, and tale of one trapped in Graceville, about, your lives are not in building by-law here that does not they were as usual, totally blissed IT WAS a big event — it the heart of the suburbs, on an danger, only your possessions” . permit landowners to build closer out. “ Only one and a half inches completely disoriented the innocent visit to my parents However, under the than 2’6” of their property to spare” , they smiled, “ Maharaj system, and most daily routines in house. The area is about half a circumstances, this sermon boundaries: hence no terraced Ji has done it again!" the whole city have been affected. mile from the river, and typical of seemed tactless, and my attempts houses.) Since the roads were Some people were untouched. Obviously this is a value the lacklustre of the suburbs, the to regard the event as a marvel of closed, they were able to spend The Kenmore ladies went to their judgment, but I think that few area was deprived of the glory of nature faded as I began to worry their time walking down hairdressers as usual, and the St people have had their set of values the eddies, and instead muddy about their fridges, their washing Coronation drive which became a Lucia ladies, inconvenienced by changed by this major upheaval, waters of ominous stealth crept machines and their television sets. huge park not only for them but the shortage of consumer and few have come to willingly along the street, broke effortlessly Then as the hysteria mounted, I for everyone in the district. She products, drove around looking accept it. I only saw one couple into the houses, and receded, started to feel a real bastard for said: “ For three days people for shops where they could buy w ho went back to their silendy leaving their signature of not feeling more concerned. I would look you in the face and 16 pounds of butter. mudstained house and just sat on debris and mud. seemed really callous. talk to you, everybody (it was I’ll mention Jindalee, the the veranda and did nothing, Nonetheless, the event brought Community spirit was high, wonderful); but after that some of developers brick-veneer paradise, everyone else was quite frenzied. us all together. In the initial a n d everyone wanted the guys took advantage of the home o f the nouveau riche. The Most people wanted to get exciting stages I was quite happy confirmation that the action they familiarity and they started flood has the dubious distinction back to their homes, clean them to get to know all the people in were taking was justified. Some goosing you in the tits, again (that of being the only act of nature to out, dry the carpets and repaint the street who I had never really areas of consensus were was depressing).” ever enter Jindalee. In contrast to the walls. The most consistent met before and previously shown watertight: the flood was awful, The police Were all over the the rest of the suburbs, where the sentiment that I heard expressed no inclination to do so. The flood everyone felt dreadful about the place. Most people thought the cleanup was done in groups and was: what a shame about so and forced us to expose ourselves, it threat to their houses, and police did a sterling job and their the mood quite cheerful (despite a so, they won’t be able to recover forced us into the street, it everybody’s neighbors were image in the public’s eye has never busload o f tourists being pelted their losses (to the point they opened us up and we talked. I was wonderful. The only conflict was been higher. I must admit I talked with mud and an irate man were at before the flood). Rather happy to feel friendly and human in the division o f opinion between to policemen for the first time, turning the hoses o f his pump on than transcend their former selves, and relate to the family o f man; at those who thought they should and even regarded them as to passing cars), the residents of most people became their this stage the flood did not look stay with their homes and those ordinary people. The context was Jindalee worked in isolated groups quintessential former selves to an as though it would touch us. w ho thought they should friendly, but there were still signs and hired big trucks and alarming degree. Nice people were However, in the peak of the flood, evacuate. The suburb could have of aggression and authoritarian­ machinery. They were completely nicer. Pessimists were more when it looked as though we were become Utopia, if everyone could ism. “ If I catch one o f those pissed off by the whole thing and pessimistic. Poor people were all going to go under, I felt the have been evacuated in one big looters, I’ll be holding him under bad vibes were in the air. A man poorer. Rich people became more friendship had gone too far. I have barge, or if everyone could have the water.” One man rang up the with a loudspeaker in his car was grasping. Opportunists had a field already stated my attitude to been persuaded to drown in their radio station on one of those driving through the area day. The flood has been an excuse material possessions, but, in the homes. As it turned out, those inane direct-talk-lines and was broadcasting to the householders to wipe off and close the old suburbs, this attitude made me fleeing tried to persuade the critical of the police in the way he that he was offering to replace botanic gardens. feel like a pork chop in a remainders to leave, and vice was evacuated. Immediately the their broken windows for free. Here the floods have synagogue. versa. A lot of tension was station received a barrage o f calls One immediately thought: what’s geographically made two worlds, The dynamics of the situation created. rushing to the police’s defence. the catch? One resident perched the brown world of the once were so strong I could not retain My friend, Sue, reports from "My husband is a policeman and on the hill above his flooded submerged land, and the green my set of values and I was another homogenous community that louse who called does not home with a high-powered rifle, world that was untouched. The completely sucked in and saw the — those people living on realise what a service he is doing. protecting it from looters who he dividing line is quite distinct. I can event from their point of view. It Coronation drive in the cluster of He’s been on continuous service desired to shoot in the neck. not stop thinking o f the line: “ He was the perfect time to deliver my terraced houses, the only ones in for 72 hours and I havent seen Jindalee residents attacked TV who enters the gateless gate, walks sermon. “ This suffering is your Brisbane. (By the way, here is a him for three days.” cameramen, smashing the camera freely between heaven and earth.”

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N THE beginning there were no Carol King, Carly Simon, Sandy Denny THERE’S a history of why the time of * * * I lady singers. But there came the and more. Further down the list there is a the lady singer is here. It’s only in the past AH, but travel blues & the jazz & Ma Rainey & Bessie penumbra. A little doubt. Who is and 10 years they’ve had a voice, because till with me through j Smith who sang it. And there came swing who is not. It will probably get down to then it was virtually impossible for a the past, come & big bands & the Andrew Sisters, more the ones I like better, but this is the way woman to write songs. No known classi­ turn back time’s jazz & Billie Holiday. Broadway 8c Holly­ of getting to that. cal composers, no known troubadors, no crisp pages. Spin spin, whirl whirl, fan wood 8c Jeanette MacDonald. Now take singers, in the Gordon Light- Woody Guthries. Most o f the woman tastic colors, faded photos etc . . . I guess And all this begat rock 8c roll which foot, Neil Young, James Taylor, Van singers now, if they indeed play instru­ the first music the young ears fed the begat the Ronettes 8c Chiffons 8c Crystals, Morrison style. They talk/sing more of ments, use self-powered ones — acoustic now tired brain Included Rosemary 8c all begat folk which begat Odetta 8c the universals and the old loner I'm guitars, pianos, dulcimer, autoharp, deli­ heading for the highway, dont lay no Clooney, Andrew Sisters, Doris Day, Joan Baez 8c Mary Travers 8c Janis Ian 8c cate things. Force o f habits (that is, social claims on me sing another sad song I’ve Patti Page and Judy Garland. Most o f Mimi Farina 8c LSD begat psychedelic norms on both sides) wouldnt allow seen fire and brimstone scene. They dont the music (!) was vastly unimpressive. rock out of which were Grace Slick 8c much troubadoring. Janis Joplin, 8c Bob Dylan, country get down to the low level, for instance, The parliamentary debates with Dr music, wars, pestilence, drugs, expanding like Joni Mitchell on the album Blue — the Little wandering on the highways with Evatt were better fun. guitars and harmonicas because there was consciousness, all that was in the begin­ song My old man “ . . . the bed’s too big, There were also Jeanette MacDonald, rape and that. Not much work because ning 8c more created the lady singers. the frying pan’s too wide” . They can’t Shirley Jones, neither of whom are in my it's too real. they couldnt sing loud enough. The usual “ bag” , or for that matter, I in theirs. stigmata that liberationists might point Instead, they (the male singer song­ Ginger Rogers I couldnt get into, to. Not much work in rock & roll because THE ABILITY o f a lady singer to say she writers) cry o f (a) finding the old perfect Dorothy I.amour wasnt as good as Bob it was and still is a man’s world. Millions is a woman, better than a man can say he love, Miss Right, girl in a million, heart of Hope, and Billie Holiday was black so we of male groups, few female. Fanny, is a man (in song), and be more credible hearts; (b) having left such a woman to didnt hear her much, Edith Piaf was Goldie & the Gingerbreads. And a few doing so, creates the genre of lady singer. "hit the highway” because he had "things French. The Andrew Sisters were pretty half-halfs - Suzie Quatro (she's a group?), Distinct and valid. The basic difference to do” ; (c) seeing such a goddess across funny but Elvis was better. Therefore, in Lulu 8c the Lovers, Jefferson Airplane, between lady singers and others is their the road each day; (d) wanting to return the preschool years it was rock & roll: Delaney 8c Bonnie, Great Society, Big unique sensibility. Other differences to be but feeling that “ urge for going” or Fats Domino, Elvis, Lloyd Price if he was Brother, Cold Blood. That’s most of noted are the physical characteristics and having a mind to “ ramble” . Whereas a around then. That takes care of the early the timbre of the voice, these mainly woman (that is the particular woman in them. Folk music had a few, basically Joan Baez was the only one to become and middle 50s. applying on a female/male basis. Qualities the lady singers department) is into the The 60s. Here’s where it happens. popular. Janis Ian (Ian 8c) Sylvia, Nina (& inherent in lady singers are the ability to nittygritty lowdown feeling. Gut level. Days o f cheap wine and Cadbury’s Roses Frederick) are, or were names. Mimi sing (well), the ability to look physically Got a feeling the old man’s splitting and Muscle Beach Party films. There were Farina was (and still is) a good name. In a good on record covers (relevant to men, (geographical displacement), but having bulk female vocal groups around. The word, tough. too, in terms of the ultimate getting no hope of stopping it, declaring what is Shirelles, The Crystals, the Shangri-Las, there); an apparent general tallness, the with no shitpretty metaphors, and more You dont get to say there are women the Chiffons, The Ronettes, The Dixie ability to play musical instruments (most­ or less just being there. They are more singers and there are lady singers over­ Cups, The Essex - mostly black groups ly) and to write lyrics and compose music realistic, more constant (make that less night. It's a tough decision to come to. singing solid wax wonders like Leader o f or at least to interpret lyrics with great inconstant), less ephemeral. Think of the record collection. Who to the pack, Chapel o f love, Da doo ron ron sensitivity. In maudlin songwriting terms it’s heart include, who to leave out. Which way to etc. versus soul. Woman with the heart, which jump, whether they should all be blonde * * * is riptearing, men with the soul - the old (ha ha that’s a joke), whether they should Clothespins on washropes, universality of it all. And on the occa­ sing, play and compose. Whether age SUE Thompson who sang Norman was Window to window tie sions the lyrics dont convince this much should count, where it all began, will it not a lady singer. The Ronettes were not Socks and bells and nightgowns of the difference, then the ladies drag a ever end . . . that sort of stuff. Splitting lady singers, Suzie Quatro is not a lady Tassels in the morning sky. singer, it is even in some dispute whether drachma (or a ton) more feeling in from infinites. It makes you do things like that. she is a singer. Bette Midler is not a lady somewhere. Now this is hard to verify Makes you edgy. Guests think you’re a Womanchild on the sidestreet singer, Billie Holiday was not, Helen because it’s down to the individual ear, deviant because you’ve got 100 albums Flashin’ in blackpatch Reddy is not, Grace Slick might be soon mind, heart, soul, and inadversion. And if by female singers and no Mick Jagger. Lipstick on her reefer but it is unlikely, there are more who are you believe Stephen Stills sounds more What’s that? No Mick Jagger. You're Waiting for a match. not than who are. convincing than Joni Mitchell, you havent kidding? No Mantovani, no Wagner, no (Laura Nyro, Blackpatch) The lady singers are Joni Mitchell, listened to Joni Mitchell. flutes of the Andes? No budgerigar train­ Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt, Carol Hall, ing albums or train recordings? Sorry.

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continued from page 9 which get played/displayed/promoted or Well, who else to write off? Helen cally porno trappings. Which is not to say somehow picked up is small. Reddy, and very quickly at that. I am she is repulsive to look at, being certainly So you wait in the dying 60s for Straight country ballad is possibly the woman is hardly the sort of song where better than chubby Gaz, but that they flashbacks of a better time. Trends come only area where women singers (/song­ she says she is a woman better than a man both murder reasonable oldies of the rock and leave, like white soul, made palatable writers) find success, with a whole host of says he is a man. She is obvious and world. When she fades in a couple of for dull audiences, various rocking and them doing well - Dianne Davidson, popular and good luck too. Olivia New­ months, I’ll make out she was never rolling, and in the woman singing dept. Susan Raye, Anne Murray, Sammi Smith, ton-John? No. The country singers like there. . . . hoping for songs like Tar and cement Tammy Wynette and others selling large Tammy Wynette could almost make it Janis Joplin is dead and could never by Verdelle Smith, Carole King’s It might numbers of records and becoming well sometimes, particularly Tammy Wynette. sing fantastically well, although she was as well rain until September, Cher with known and liked. But the female equiv­ Mainly it’s the style of singing and the exciting. What is interesting is the female Sonny singing I got you and similar songs alents of the stars like Stills, Young, housewife stuff which gives doubts. rock group Fanny. The idea seems o f despair. But it’s all right, though that Morrison, Lightfoot, Wainwright, etc, etc, Roberta Flack started off well as a fine strange, because it’s extremely rare. They couple, according to the best people, (equivalent in the star sense) are rare. interpreter, but she’s heading for the Top play songs like Cream's Badge just to shouldnt be liked anymore because they 40 and its bag of gold. Her latest album prove what they can do, perhaps. They * * * were a bit too Hollywood Au Go Go. I Killing me softly, is in that tradition and do it alright, probably got more talent than Slade, although very patchy. Grace like them. should make her a lot of money. Cohen’s Real soul music and real blues was You might have said that you loved Suzanne is good on it, but the best is the Slick is still the first lady. Her new album repressed here because it was black, either me Top 40 thing Jesse arranged by Deodato is great, with the old Jefferson Airplane type backing, plus some acoustic stuff. that or because no one liked it anyway. But I wasnt really listening and written, funnily enough ha ha by Trouble is her hippie breeding comes The Supremes were about the heaviest. And it could have been the sound of Janis Ian, herself probably too early and through when she gets hold of a record Number ones all over the place. Small-f my own voice too folksy to be in the lady-type singers. cover to conceptualise. Someone should funky was Martha Reeves, Gladys Knight. Coming back to me, whispering. Most of it, as you might expect, is drowned in strings and slush, making it an talk to the J.A. about this boring busi­ The big one was Tina Turner with Ike in I wish you ’d left your number. ness. As for her music, though, it is there somewhere - River deep, mountain (Claire Hamill, Wall to immensely saleable album and it will probably “ walk out o f the shops" and sit excellent. You can still recognise the high. We all liked that. And o f course wall carpeting.) itself down with Neil Diamond on the powerful voice which had all the pill Joan Baez. Ever reliable, trusty, faithful * * * stereo phonograph. freaks listening to White rabbit all night to the cause, soloing away in the clear some seven years ago. In fact, if you liked blue air with her warm icy voice. She was NOW WE should eliminate here some * * * the old J.A. and thought they went ratty the only one (apart from Phil Ochs, heh talented persons from the race. First to Just before our love got lost you said three albums ago, this could be the one. heh) doing that protest thing. And pretty go is Cher who is good for nostalgia value “I am as constant as a Northern star". Of the souly type lady-types, the ones good too except a little too nightingale. - if you can be nostalgic about 1965 - And I said " Constantly in the darkness are Linda Lewis and Claudia Lennear. Odetta was too trad and didnt sing stuff but her albums of the 70s are patchy and Where’s that at?" Linda Lewis, out o f England, has a as interesting anyhow. And $t the time just havent got it. I figure it’s okay to If you want me I'll be in the bar. fantastic range from Michael Jackson to Nina Simone was being impressive, sing­ have one, which might have a good track On the back o f a cartoon coaster Mahalia Jackson, and her songs are cutie- ing her songs about race hate. on it; Foxy lady is reasonable. In the blue TV screen light pie stuff, and very engaging. Her voice is Now Joan Baez, once again a 60s * * * I drew a map o f Canada . . . very clear, and she’s not a loud singer. thing, and once again one album wouldnt (Joni Mitchell, A case o f you) Claudia used to be an Ikette with Ike & hurt. She’s less into politics of experi­ Tina, explaining quite a lot of things. Her I GUESS lady singing as a genre was ence, more into politics. Her sister Mimi LOCALLY, that is Australia, there arent album Phew shows she can sing with born around 1969. Joan Baez, mention­ Farina shouldnt necessarily be eliminated many female singers in the “ lady singer” great power, and with Ry Cooder backing ed up there, was a forerunner but not one here but I havent heard much of her genre. Jeannie Lewis has a lot o f spirit, on bottleneck & slide the album is one to herself. Joni Mitchell had left her hus­ lately, so it’s hard to say. doesnt write much, tends towards jazz & hear. band in Canada and was writing songs for Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner are blues, and at times, although with an Last minute inclusions here include people like Tom Rush to sing. Linda mighty and we all know what they sound exciting range, is too strident. Rene Maddy Prior, the singer with English Ronstadt had a hit with the Stone like, but not here. The Andrew Sisters are Geyer sings well enough to make one traditional rock group Steeleye Span, in Poneys, Different drum, Melanie had all good fun and sing like vixens and all been to Woodstock and wrote Candles in replay her record a few times. But the the Sandy Denny vein. Also a couple o f very 40s but belong to another taste. Ma country/blues/jazz types - Tracy Nelson, the rain about it. Joni Mitchell hadnt songs she chose (or which were chosen Rainey and Bessie Smith and blues singers from the group Mother Earth, and Bonnie been to Woodstock and wrote Woodstock for her) while being a reasonable "show­ are not included. Raitt. Both write a little and have a about it. case” , were not ultimately a good Sometimes what Billie Holiday sang similar feel about their music - a fairly Laura Nyro was writing songs for was a pre-emptor as they say, being a bit choice. Margaret Roadknight is not a powerful sort of countrified ballad. Three Dog Night, Blood, Sweat & Tears o f a writer what with God bless the child, writer but quite a sensitive interpreter. Then Maria Muldaur, who almost and Fifth Dimension and was doing her but not really. Once again, a place in the However, she leans probably too far into made it to the finals. She’s been around own songs, for which she has not yet had record stack wouldnt be astray but not in folk & gospel for here. Linda George is for quite a while singing with folksy recognition. Tracy Nelson was singing with the lady-type singers. This also rules heading for the Top 40, and quickly at mobs, but it was only late last year she with Mother Earth. Judy Collins was out Diana Ross for those who read the that. got the Big Push from her record com­ singing mainly other people’s songs, in­ book and saw the movie, Lady sings the There are a few singers worth a listen. pany. Her solo album was received well, cluding Joni’s Both sides now. blues. Touch me in the morning is one of Claire Hamill writes her own songs in the though it was patchy. That’s the trouble During the next three years, Linda, those big selling albums, a far cry from sort o f romantic/metaphoric tradition, when they get the push, because a com­ Laura, Joni each released a couple of the Supremes, quite pleasant though, and sings, plays guitar and piano. Renee pany will often turn the album into a albums, some didnt get to come here. altogether not out of place as background Armand isnt too bad. Her songs are the sampler-display case for the talents. In None was m any way popular until Joni’s music in the sort of restaurants where the simple type, sort of everyday songs. Her this case Muldaur hasnt got time to build Ladies o f the canyon in 1970 which had waiters make you taste the wine. voice has that early Carly Simon whine up any sort of mood because the material some success. Melanie was the only Top Judy Garland is out except if you still and she may head the same way. Mother varies so much. Even so, this is an album 40 proposition. Carole King came out of go to see Wizard o f Oz at xmas showings. Hen is the back-porch down home type worth having, she’s bound to do more. whatever retirement she was in to release And Nina Simone, while being incredibly without as much polish or sophistication Writer late in 1970. And Cher was still talented is not in this bag. She turns out a as, say, Bonnie (of Delaney &) but with * * * releasing; good old Cher, but she’s not a more sincerity. 1 think she's small time in nice Bob Dylan song though and has SANDY DENNY found fame with Fair- lady singer, she is a woman who sings. the long run. written a few reasonable ones. port and now has a couple of solo albums Janis Joplin and Grace Slick were Pamela Pollard sounds like she’s trying The Pointer Sisters, again very talented, out, both of which are splendid. She already long famous but they, at least to sound like Laura Nyro and not doing a loads of fun, very boppy, A-l harmonies writes much of her own fairytale music, then, were not lady singers as such. fantastic job of it. She’s on the same label but not here, although it’s an album or possibly modern traditional if such a (CBS), and she goes for the funky (white In 1970/71 Carole King consolidated worth having. Now Bette Midler and her thing is possible, with a leaning towards style) but the odds are very long. Barbara herself and became more popular than two albums. The first had “ star” written the Dylan-type images like: Oh when I Keith performs a gutsy version of All Melanie, though popularity has never all over it (by her record company) and was a lass at school/I looked out at the along the watchtower and wrote Free the been a criterion of goodness. In 1971 the second has suffered criticism which sky/And now among the woodlands cool/ people, so she’s got a bit of proven Carly Simon released her first album suggests it aint as good as the first. Both Gathering sweet primroses I... talent. Her other songs are as good. which was then, and still is, a sleeper. are very patchy albums with samples of Carly Simon is fast heading away from Susan Taylor in the country-rock road Carol Hall happened about the same time, her capabilities from ballads to camped what she could have been. Her first album is good. The backing is tight and already known tor her songwriting capa­ Andrew Sisters, Shangri-Las and Crystals was really promising, and her second sympathetic, her voice is exceedingly bilities (for instance by Barbra Streis­ songs. I think I agree about the second Anticipation, was on the same track. pleasant and she is worth hearing. Ellen and), and Rita Coolidge, out of Mad Dogs not being as good for a few reasons: one There were some excellent songs . . . Dan Mcllwaine tends towards the rocky blue­ went solo but picked up little, as the is she murders a Dylan song and Da doo my fling, Anticipation, I've got to have sy music, doing the songs of Hendrix, and trade magazines say, attention. ron ron (with too many tempo you, and always one of two which seem­ changes). Apart from that, either album is playing some solid guitar. This one grows * * * ed there to pad the sides out to 20 okay for that area but the Andrew Sisters on you. minutes. Her third album, which made it Alice Stuart plays guitar (electric) too, SO. In 1974 there are many albums did it better. However, Bette’s more for her in the States, No secrets, with the and sings Statesboro blues as good as any. available by women singer/songwriters relevant to now, except not here. She is hit song You're so vain, saw her treading Carol Hall is in the neo-Streisand Bronx and as many by the non-songwriters. It is “ into her own” , perhaps. around the old Top 40, and getting away women-city-blues-singer scene. possible to believe the lady-type singers We may as well rub out Dory Previn from the down-tempo stuff. The album, * * * have arrived, that is, gained acceptance, now, sort of Streisand without the range, apart from being extraordinarily commer­ although this is untrue. The number of doing imitation show songs to her cult SUZIE QUATRO? No thanks. She’s the cial, was also patchy. releases in this sub-genre is minor indeed audience. She writes them herself, but a female Gary Glitter. He’s got the glitter, Now she’s just released her fourth, taken with total release figures, and again, lot of them suck, and basically she’s she’s got the leather and hints of whips the number of those albums released boring after a couple of songs. and all those pseudo-decadent and basi­ CONTINUED

Page 10 —THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 Dory Previn In Concert, United Artists L Hotcakes. Once again it will head up to 70016/7. the top of the charts; now that die's Stoneground Words, Melaine, Neighborhood pregnant and James Taylor’s partner, NHTC 251. she’s really into the Apple Pie class. Court and Spark, Joni Mitchell, Asylum 7E-1001 (import). The title track is a boring little show- (which I won’t go into). Her live concerts ful. She’s in the vaguely country area and For The Roses, Joni Mitchell, Asylum SD 5057 (import). stopper, and there are, as usual, some dull are apparently powerful affairs, with her new album is almost perfect. It’s tracks. One track is Think I'm gonna have Blue, Joni Mitchell, Reprise MS 2038 (im dewey-eyed boys crying in the aisles as quite a few albums since she did Different Port). a baby, which is more good PR. The the beautiful woman communicates with drum and she’s never really been big, and Ladies o f the Canyon, Joni Mitchell, Reprise lyrics on the cover, which I think is them. might not ever be. But there is no one RS 6376. the first time she’s done it. Most of them Totally different is Laura Nyro, who who can sing like her. If you’re interested Clouds, Joni Mitchell, Reprise 6341. are fairly forgettable although Misfit and Joni Mitchell, Reprise RS 6293. used to have dewey-eyed girls hysterical listen to the album Don't cry now, and Dont Cry Now, Linda Ronstadt, Asylum SD Safe & sound have some class. A lot of it in the aisles. Something funny happened her version of Jackson Browne’s Rock me 5064. is about love — sitting under apple trees to Laura Nyro. Apparently she stopped on the water on the Capitol album Linda Linda Ronstadt, Capitol SMAS 635 (im­ and such, so one guesses James and she shooting up in New York, or whatever Ronstadt. port ). are doing fine.Hotcakes, nevertheless, will Silk Purse, Linda Ronstadt, Capitol ST-407 she did, and got married. Consequently Finally is Joni Mitchell, who really (import). sell more copies than the other albums she hasnt released an album for two started all this. Her sixth album has just Hand Sown/Home Grown, Linda Ronstadt, mentioned here; mainly because she’s years, although “ they” say she is being been released overseas, and it’s a strange Capitol ST-208 (import). crossed her markets and everyone loves signed to Asylum. Nyro, in press releases one. Joni has never been an optimist - Stone Poneys & Friends, Linda Ronstadt, her. I would humbly suggest her first two Capitol ST 2863 (EMI). etc., was alluded to as "enigmatic” . . . perhaps a despairing optimist. On this she Stoney End, Linda Ronstadt & the Stone albums are ultimately more entertaining “woman in black” . . . “mysterioso” . .. has less hope in her songs, as in Just like Poneys, Pickwick SPC 3298 (import). than her last two. that sort of thing. She certainly looked this train . . . I used to count lovers like Gonna Take a Miracle, Laura Nyro, CBS Carole King has gone quiet. She made that way. 234074. railroad cars/I counted them on my side/ Christmas and the Beads o f Sweat, Laura it writing songs with Jerry Goffin years Her songs reflected her origins, which Lately I dont count on nothing/I just let Nyro, CBS 233912. ago, and putting out the odd single. Now were a jewish/catholic family, and a home things slide. Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, Laura with about four albums released in the in the Bronx. She did as much as anyone And in Car on a hill. . . Nyro, CBS 63346 (import). past four years, she’s had a success graph, New York Tendaberry, Laura Nyro, CBS to push the street music of Harlem, and a I feel like I'm sleeping SBP 233758. from interesting with Writer, to mam­ subdued Phil Spector girl-group sound. Can you wake me The First Songs, Laura Nyro, CBS 234283. moth with Tapestry (that album sold Her songs are brilliantly textured by her You seem to have a broader sensibility Hot Cakes, Carly Simon. Elektra 7E 1002 zillions o f copies), and back to pleasant powerful piano. She has written some I'm just living on nerves and feelings (import). with Rhymes & reasons. Mostly her songs No Secrets, Carly Simon, Elektra EKS great songs, which other artists dont do as With a weak and lazy mind 75049. rhyme well, the melodies are always well, and on her final album a lot o f the And coming to people's parties Anticipation, Carly Simon, Elektra EKS interesting, but the lyrics are often drab. material was drawn from the Ronettes/ Fumbling deaf dumb and blind. 75016. About the best she came up with on Crystals days. If Barbra Streisand in fact I wish I had more sense o f humor Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes, Phillies Rhymes was in Ferguson road . . . I’m looked better, was younger, took cocaine PHLP 4006 (import). Keeping the sadness at bay Conspicuous Only in its Absence, The Great gonna head on up to old Ferguson road/ and could write songs, I think she’d like Throwing the lightness on ihese things Society, Columbia CS 9624 (import). Find myself a spot/Where the sun shines to have been Laura Nyro, but you never Laughing it all away . .. Cheap Thrills, Big Brother & Holding through/ril throw some old mattress/In can tell. I suppose it’s white soul music at Stylistically, the album is similar to Company, Columbia KCS 9700 (imp). the back o f the bus/And get a good head its best. (For black soul, there’s an album After Bathing at Baxters, Jefferson Airplane For the roses. You must consider back in RCALSO-1511 (import). start on forgetting you. What I mean is, I out by Labelle, the group which backed the days o f her first album - she had so Manhole, Grace Slick, Grunt BFLI-0137 like the woman, but she doesnt make the Nyro on her last album.) much drama and spark, a truly individual (import). playlist too often. Linda Ronstadt is different from these sound - that she was alone in the field. It Aretha: Lady Soul, Aretha Franklin The difference between Melanie, Linda last few singers. She doesnt write or play Atlantic SAL 932831. lasted for three albums, then she changed Nina Simone in Concert, Philips PHM Ronstadt, Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell, much. But the songs she chooses are the a little on Blue, still the album I least 200-135 (import). as a whole, is possibly complicated and best around - written by people like prefer. For the roses was a change again, a The Best o f Judy Garland, MCA DXSB maybe only in the eye o f this beholder. Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, Rick more mellow sound, and now this, with a 7172. But (a) these women use their voices as Roberts, Bob Dylan, Eric Katz, J. D. The Original Recordins, Billie Holiday, CBS similar feel. Instead of simple guitar or SBP 234300. instruments almost, the way they mod­ Souther, Fred Neil, Tim Buckley, Laura piano, she now tends to use rock backing, Bette Midler, Atlantic SD 7270. ulate etc. (b) The songs they write are Nyro and more. Her voice is beauti­ and on occasion, it reminds of Blue. The Divine Miss M, Better Midler, Atlantic dramatic, with pauses and changes and Probably the worst offence is one track SD 7238. Sandy, Sandy Denney, Island 11-34697 flashes, and not the usual three minute where she sounds like she’s doing an run of mediocrity, (c) The lyrics they Mother Hen, RCA, MLSP 4641. Andrew Sisters, and another where she Lark, Linda Lewis, Reprise MS 2120. write are extraordinarily good, and often uses Cheech & Chong on an "I’m mad but Phew, Claudia Lennear, Warners BS 2654. poetry in the sense that Dylan’s words are I dont dare cause crazy is okay” type song. Barbara Keith, Reprise MS 2087. poetry. (Unfortunately only one of these I dont think she needs to bother. In fact Beads & Feathers, Carol Hall, Elektra EKS points apply to Linda R., who writes 75018. it’s a real drag on the album, and almost F oxy Lady, Cher, MCA MAPS 6135. rarely and plays less.) But (d) the way worth a letter. The title track Court & Free Fall Through Featherless Flight, they interpret a song, which gets down to spark is probably worth the admittance Jeannie Lewis, EMI EMC 2505. a subjective level and finally how the song (DMOTHEK price though. Basically, that’s it. Best of Delaney & Bonnie, Atlantic SD gets through to you. ®gETfe MUM-C-g. 7074. (SboUr flrrcHEu. THE DISCOGRAPHY The Pointer Sisters, RCA L 34965. Since Melanie’s beautiful song Candles ROK5T7V>T>'s ®Cflfuy 5 "WN Quiet Fire, Roberta Flack, Atlantic SD Honky Tonk Angel, Ellen Mcllwaine 1594. in the rain, she has released a few albums. Pl£| Polydor PD502. gPUNDf) REkllS Killing Me Softly, Roberta Flack, Atlantic All of them have been patchy, but all of (Tj) Lavra nyO (import). (g)goHAiiE p^irr Writer, Carole King, A&M SODL 9333985. fault is probably the mudbrick syndrome Satisfied, Mother Earth, Mercury SR 612-70 Rhymes & Reasons, Carole King, A&M ODL (import). 34708. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 — Page 11 Alberto the dirty director From ROGER HUCHINSON in Breda, Holland. l b e r t o is about 35. He of the CP in 1958 for “ porno­ another movie.) You are giving pornography a bad cost Alberto his word to those A doesnt eat lunch because graphic practices” - ie. the mak­ Alberto, somewhere in Tobago name.” publishers back in ’71. he’s afraid of becoming fat, wears ing of sex films while still a (Trinidad) persuading the people “You know nothing, Alberto, Alberto, you see, is a kind of shoulder-length black hair and a student in a heady attempt to lure to fuck for his shoulder-held about publishing. Stick to your ascetic. When he took these build­ straggly beard, and speaks five the Italian people away from the camera, heard the news and rejoic­ films.” ings in Breda he was doing so not languages easily - all in the same repressive doctrines of the roman ed. Within a year he’d gotten a “ You stupid sons of bitches, only in order to have a base in a soft, cultured tone. catholic church. Alberto never large building in Breda, southern drink of my mother’s piss” - for country which accepts pornog­ He is an ex-member of the saw anything wrong with fuck- Holland and converted it into a Alberto is still Italian. “ In 1974 I raphy, but also so that he could Italian Communist party, calls films, and was quite a long way pocket Hollywood. Series after will produce the magazines which lock himself and a group o f faith­ himself an anarchist, and is one of ahead of his revolutionary time in series o f exotically directed, Ton- will do to porno publishing what ful staffers away in a place with­ the richest businessmen in south­ using them as subversive weapon­ film - In Deutscher sprache, ex­ my films have done to porno out distraction: the better to pro­ ern Holland. ry. The CP, then as now, dis­ quisitely packaged 8 and 16mm home movies - clean up. I will duce perfect pom. Alberto is probablv the biqqest, agreed; and Alberto was let loose muff-movies ensued. Western certainly the best hardcore pornog­ on the world outside the party, Europe lapped it up. By 1971 wipe you o ff the market, and then Breda is a town without dis­ raphy producer in Europe. For where he wandered for nearly ten Alberto was rich and celebrated. you can come to me and ask me traction. You might say that it’s more than five years now his films years, exploring anarchist groups The success of his proud, glossy to stick to my films.” 20th century liberal capitalism in - issued under the nom de pom and pornographic arts. products changed the home movie It must have been a glorious perfect working order. There is of Lasse Braun - have been edg­ In 1968 a Dutch pomographer world. moment, and Alberto lived com­ financial inequality in the town, ing miles of competitive celluloid was brought to trial in Amster­ At an Amsterdam pornog- fortably on it for a couple of of course - but no apparent into the North sea. The secret of dam. His defence was the time- raphers conference in late ’71 years until, some months ago, he poverty, everybody is well-cloth­ his outrageous success can’t be honored civil rights case - “ De­ Alberto was given a standing ova­ realised that his deadline was com­ ed, well housed, and well fed. summed up at all, but it's some­ fine to me this obscenity", “Are tion on entry. At this same con­ ing up fast. He knew what he There are many hippies and stu­ thing to do with the Dutch parlia­ you not ignoring man’s life- ference several porno publishers wanted to do, and knew enough dents in Breda, but that famed ment and courts, and quite a lot force?", etc - the kind of thing got into a heated argument with about himself to recognise that he Dutch tolerance has quashed any to do with CLASS. that courts in England, America, our hero. couldnt do it alone. He wanted a life they might have shown. No­ Of which, before Alberto came and Australia have been slapping “ Why are your magazines not couple of small, pocket-size maga­ body has been busted for soft along, the porno film world was contempt charges on since time following the expert professional­ zines to sweep away Color climax drugs here for two years (there are desperately in need. Badly print­ immemorial. But the Dutch, as is ism of my films?” the conversa­ and similar tripe, a few regular rumors that parliament may legal-* ed, undirected 8mm horror shows their wont, listened, and consider­ tion might have gone. "Why are booklets to grab the occasional ise it in summer); and the hippies which purported to be titillation ed . . . questions were asked in they still ugly, unworkmanlike consumer, and one magazine to simply congregate in a bar or two (and, to color-blind robots with a parliament, the case was thrown pieces of boring shit?” embody his vision o f pornograph­ set aside for the purpose and penchant for the missionary posi­ out o f court, and within a few ic publishing; Oui-type wit, Play­ smoke themselves silly. With noth­ tion, probably were), were shoved months there was no such thing as “ Ah, Alberto, the magazine boy stature and elegance, all this ing obvious to complain about into plain cardboard boxes, label­ printed or filmed sexual obscenity market is different from your film and split-beaver too. they have sunk into dull apathy. led or stamped like boodegs, and in the Dutch legal books. (Our market. People like their porno He got an English editor — Breda, dope-haven, pom- furtively hawked in the back­ grubby.” anonymous Don Quixote, inci- myself — on a shorttime provi­ empire, tolerant, affluent Breda is streets o f Europe. dentally, went on to make a large “ But you have offered them sionaisional contract. *naAnd tnethe reasons boring as a drink.in in a brew. Enter an anarchic Italian, ex­ fortune in the next two years and nothing better. You serve them why I shall leave at the end of the w ery pelled from the Milanese branch retired at the age o f 32. But that’s with an ordinary product only. first ;ssue are the reasons that may

F. “ JERRY” Rentzloff, G central Texas sales manager Texans, but they are, understand­ for Lone Star beer, gazed around sounds ably enough, also a major event at the beer garden outside the like a very the ’Dillo. Cody, you will recall, Armadillo World Headquarters in gentle and was thrust upon an unsuspecting Austin. "Yep, they sure do drink patient national audience in 1970 as “ the a lotta beer at this place. You man trying first hippie country and western know, we stock more here than to sing his way band” , when they put their anywhere else in Texas ‘ceptin’ out of tongue-in-cheek lyrics to country the Astrodome over in Houston.” a straitjacket melodies and came up with such “ Yep” , replied George "Com­ someone has classics as “ Lost in the Ozone” mander Cody” Frayne, sitting entrapped “Wine Do Yer Stuff". “ I'm Down across the table from Rentzloff ing the him to) Seeds and Stems (Again)” , and “ I Took Three Bennies and My and squinting into the bright 'Dillo since he took it over in for no Semi-Truck Won’t Start” . december sun. 1970 good reason But Cody and crew were al­ “ Yep,” Rentzloff continued. - adding the terraced at all. But ways much more than a country “Why, all together we’re stockin’ beer garden, a downstairs game while George band with whacked-out lyrics, and 45 kegs for this Saturday night. room with "foos” ball and pinball, Uones Ray Price, That’s a lotta beer! ” Ernest Tubb and recently their music has had more a fledgling art gallery, and, up­ to do with a particular time than a “ Yep,” Cody grinned, at what stairs, the residence and studio of countless others particular genre. That period he rightly took to be a com­ Jim Franklin, who in many re­ have all hit pay dirt covers about 1945 to about 1955, pliment spects is the spiritual father of the since leaving Texas, Willie and is one of the true heydays of “ Yep,” Rentzloff added. “ It’s whole shebang. still plenty never did despite his vast talents native American popular music. In always best when you guys is Franklin is an artist best palatable By some standards that makes New York, Charlie Parker was playin’, that's why it’s so much known for the armadillo drawings when Frank­ him a Loser, and perhaps that’s blowing non-stop sax. Bob Wills more than usual even. You got a and comix he started turning out lin, as master o f ceremonies at the why his fellow Texans become and His Texas Playboys had added way o f gettin’ ’em all excited and in 1968. In his work, the creatures ’Dillo, dons his God costume or more rabid in support of him dixielandish brass and drums to screamin’ when you play, and behave in a most uncharacteristic his armadillo headdress to deliver every time he suffers a bigger traditional country lyrics and in­ they jes keep cornin’ back for manner. One might metamor­ a stream o f unconsciousness intro setback in the Nashville music biz. strumentation; it was called West­ more beer. Yep, that’s it all phose into a police helmet, or out for the next band. Or at least they like to think ern Swing, and all over the South­ right.” of a spinning LP and then casually The only thing ’Dillo audiences something to that effect in Nash­ west, shitkickers just couldnt get By now, Cody was beaming so stroll into the ear o f the listener. ville, where the Music City busi­ like more than Jim Franklin-as- enough of it. In the urban ghet broadly he was unable to keep up They might be humping the state God is country music, which is ness establishment that has always toes, blues shouters like Wynonie his end of the conversation with capitol building in Austin, or one what most of them grew up hear­ controlled country music is frank­ another yep. Harris were working with big might transform itself into the Taj ing. They may have gotten way­ ly puzzled and nervous about the jump bands and likewise blowing The man from Lone Star — one Mahal, or a whole pack o f them laid by the mid-60s rock explo­ new audience that Willie and his the roof off. of three local brews that Texans might be arching in neat forma­ sion, but it wasnt long before the sidekicks — Waylon Jennings, cling to like moths to light - Never before had different tion over a Texas highway. flower child had mutated into the Billie Joe Shaver, et al - are forms of American music found would make a good rock critic. In no time, the armadillo be­ cosmic cowboy, and it did so with forging. It’s unprecedented in so much in common, and the He’d called this one perfect. But came a symbol to the freaks who country music, and they’re mostly a vengeance. Gingham" gowns, main thing they shared besides the then it looked like a can’t-miss flocked to Austin for college or afraid that they will be left out by imitation nudie shirts, and stet­ strong swing feel was that they proposition right from the start. because it’s just easier to live the this new breed. sons are standard dress at the were all very hot, music to work Here we are at Armadillo hippie life there than it is any­ A couple of years ago, Willie ’Dillo. And since it is such an up a sweat by. Musical boundaries World Headquarters, a former where else in what is still, after all, grew a beard and longer hair and intensely localised scene - no got smeared more and more, the national guard armory near the Texas. started hanging out with the likes high-pressure New York or Los dance beat kept getting bigger, 40,000 student University o f Then armadillo consciousness o f Leon Russell. When he finally Anqeles music biz hustle for these and by the end of this 10-year Texas, site of Charles Whitman’s spread. An armadillo festival was decided to give up on Nashville, mellow folks! - the. bands they period something had emerged last stand. The AWHQ is now held in Victoria, in south Texas. usually favor are homegrown he found the 'Dillo so congenial your archetypal dank American which became known as rock 'n Haughty Nieman-Marcus o f Dallas groups like Freda and the Fire- that he moved in right down the roll. rock emporium, but it is one that featured His and Her armadillos dogs, Greazy Wheels, or Kinky street. Eddie Wilson likes to say tries harder. Cody manages to cover all that ($100 each) in their catalog one Friedman and His Texas Jewboys. that his hall is the place where That’s due to Eddie Wilson, a ground. In fact, the crew is the year. The capper came when the Their hero is Willie Nelson, Texas rednecks and hippies can strapping Texan who, with a shave best argument going that great UT student body voted to change who at 37 has been kicking groove together, and since Willie and a slight trim, would look very music knows no time period any­ its mascot from the Longhorn to around the country music scene has come to embody so much of much at home giving orders in a more than it knows a handy genre the Armadillo. Like most in-jokes for some 20 years with little both elements, his concerts are real Guard armory. Himself a for­ label; when played right, it’s all that grow into fads, even if not national success. Nelson is as fine always a major event. just hard, foot-stomping music,1US1C, mer PR man in the Texas beer , national ones, it was all a lot more Commander Cody and His- a songwriter and as distinctive a right here and right now. idustry, Wilson has been upgrad­ enjoyable in the old days. But it’s singer as you’ll ever hear; he Lost Planet Airmen may not be Yep. J Page 12—THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 1ACE Percy LeaionTHE BULLETIN 1923 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974-Page 13 Prepared by Stephen W all, who also acts as TLD outpost and copy host^Tuesdays to Thursdays, at 18 Arthur street, Surry S c f d n e t y Hills, 698.2652.

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FIVE”: Vanity Fair Hotel, ganya, 444 Oxford street, “CONTEMPORARY, Spring street, Chatswood, and THE RAIN PEOPLE: WAR AND PEACE — First 4-7 pm . Paddo. Donation. of 20 BBC episodes: TRADITIONAL FOLK": “ MERV ACHESON 8.30-11.30 pm. Aust Govt Centre, Phillip GORDON BA RTON a a f y n d a p Edinburgh Castle Hotel, & Hunter streets, 7.15 pm, Channel 2, 8.00 pm. TRIO”: Bellevue Hqtel, SPEAKS at Humanist AMERICA — First of 13 Pitt street, 8 pm. Paddington. Afternoon — $1.20 (members only, join House, 10 Shepherd street, “DOUG RICHARDSON, KIDS at door $3.00). by Alistair Cooke — The 3-6. Broadway, 212.2038, 8.00 Brits Look at the Yanks: RADIO, TV TERRI WELLES, DAN “DOC WILLIS”: Albury TIDIKAWA AND “THE PIED PIPER”: — pm . Channel 2, 8.50 pm. JOHNSON AND Hotel. Afternoon. FRIENDS — Anthropologi­ kids theatre: Independent. NORMAN LINDSAY — “THE WORLD OF JAZZ” OTHERS": The Shack, “DON DE SILVA”: Louis cal documentary: Film­ 929.7377, 2 pm. JAZZ, BLUES FESTIVAL “REDHEAP”: — with Eric Child: ABC Brookvale, near entrance Tavern, Elizabeth street, makers Cinema, t pm, CHILDRENS SHOW — Channel 2, 10.10 pm. Radio 1, 10.25 am. to mall. 8.30 pm. $1.00. Paddington. Afternoon. tues-sat, $1.50. “ABBOTT & COSTELLO, FOLK NATIONAL RADIO THE­ DON FLETCHER, AL “DOC W ILLIS”: Beresford FRENCH CINEMA — LA BATMAN SERIAL”: Film­ ATRE — “COLD GRADA­ HEAD, MORAG, BOB Hotel, Surry Hills, 7.30-10 JETEE, NUIT ET BROUIL- DON MORRISON: Red makers Cinema, 2 pm. Kids TIONS”: ABC Radio 2, POMEROY, ANDY AND pm . LARD, PREMIERE NUIT: Riley, 211.3240, 7.30 pm. 8.30 pm. __ 50 cents, adults $1. Filmmakers Cinema, St TONY: Elizabeth Hotel, “DEEP BAYOU JAZZ/ PETER BOOTHMAN — “D R A G O N W Y C K” ROCK BAND”: Stage KIDS MATINEE: Manly Peter’s lane, Darlinghurst, 8-10pm, 80 cents. Mod. Jazz: Limerick “ SPINE C H ILLING Door Tavern. 7-12 pm. Silver Screen. Details 31.3237. Members only. Castle, 8-12 pm, free. Join at door $3.00. 6 & 10 JUNIOR AND THE GOLD STAGE p m , $ 1 .0 0 . TOPS: Fiddlers Vine, HENDRIX: Manly Silver Cronulla, 7.30. “THE HOSTAGE” by Chris & Eva 51 .9 5 6 3 or leave messages Screen. 7.30 & 9.45 pm, MERV ACHESON TRIO: Brendan Behan: Cronulla $ 2.0 0 . Bellevue Hotel, Paddo. Arts theatre. Surf road, 51.7425, write Flat 8, No. 7 Irving CHRIS TAPPERAL AND Cronulla. 8.15 pm. 'W t e M o u 'u t e avenue, Windsor, 3181. DAVE FURNISS: Forest “THE EAGLE HAS TWO JAZZ, FOLK Lodge Hotel, 7.30-10 pm. HEADS” by Jean Cocteau: Sundowner hotel, Geelong. MIXED FOLK — Phyl, Genesian theatre, 420 Kent 1966) HSV7, 9pm. FLYING CIRCUS: ABV2, PETER BOOTHMAN BIG PUSH: George hotel, Lobl, Eric Kawaski, Peter street, Sydney. 8.15 pm. GETTING STRAIGHT: 1 0 .5 0 p m . MODERN JAZZ: Limerick St K ild a. Phelps, Bernard Bolan, Bill f a e t d a y (AO, 1970) GTV9, 9pm. F E L L IN I’S 8 V2 : (A , 1 9 6 3 ) Castle, 8-12 pm. BOOTLEG FAMILY: Pres­ Morgan: Elizabeth Hotel. FILM A good repeat, HSV7, ton Institute of Technol­ ABBEY JAZZ BAND: RADIO 1 1 ,1 0 p m . Lord Dudley Hotel, Paddo. NFTA’s classics — ogy, Plenty road, Bundoo- ROCK ra. MERV ACHESON TRIO: “METROPOLIS” by Fritz THE HIGH BAROQUE IN TV, RADIO BRIAN CADD: Matthew RADIO Randy Wick Bistro, 123 Lang (1926) and “TONI” KUSH: Croxton Park, Pres­ ENGLAND: 3 A R, Flinders hotel, Chadstone. Avoca street, Randwick, by Jean Renoir (1934): to n . 1 1 .1 0 p m . HANNS EISLER: 3AR, SAILOR, SAILOR — MATT TAYLOR: Gordon 7.30-10.30 pm. AMP theatre. Circular CLOUD NINE: George 3 p m . Radio play: ABC Radio 1, Institute of Technology, DICK HUGHES JAZZ Quay. $1.20. 7.15 pm. hotel, St Kilda. 1 1 .0 0 am . Geelong (aft.). PICK OF THE GOONS: PIANO: French’s Tavern, Members only, join at DOVE: Prospect Hill hotel, FOLK ROCK — with MACKENZIE THEORY: 3LO, 7.15pm. Oxford street, 6-9 pm. d o o r. High street, Kew. t t lU M d f f y Marian Henderson: John Gordon Institute of Tech­ TIM BROWN: Northbridge Currie, the New York Pub­ “THE CABINET OF DR HOT CITY BUMP BAND: H o te l. CALIGARI” — 1919 Ger­ nology, Geelong (eve). lic Library, Channel 2, Station hotel, Greville DON MORRISON: Red 8 .50 pm . man film , silent, surrealist, street, Prahran. ROCK Riley, 263 Riley street, WHAT A WAY TO GO — plus “ENTR’ACTE”, FOLK French, 1924: Workshop Surry Hills, 211.3240, 7.30 Movie with Shirley Mac­ FOLK MADDER LAKE: St Al­ p m . Arts Centre, 33 Laurel BALLENDEN KER, AN­ laine, Dick Van Dyke, Paul bans hotel, St Albans. street, Willoughby. Info DREA MclNTYRE: Union ROCK Newman: Channel 10, 9.00 FOLK NITE: At the Com­ KUSH: International hotel. 95.6540 (day), 41.4183 hotel, cnr. Fenwick & IRRELEVAIMCIES pm . mune Coffee Lounge, 580 Airport West. (evening). 8 pm. Members Amess st, N. Carlton, 8-12 BAND OF LIGHT: White­ SYDNEY OR THE BUSH Victoria street, N. Mel­ SID RUMPO: Whitehorse TOUR OF VICTORIA only, join at door. pm. $1.00 inc. supper. horse hotel, Nunawading. — Doco on decentralisa­ bourne. hotel, Nunawading. BARRACKS: Oxford “TIDIKAW A & FRIENDS”: BUSHWHACKERS AND BIG PUSH: Croxton Park tion: Channel 2, 9.20 pm. PETER PARKHILL: CHAIN: Croxton Park, Filmmakers Cinema. 10 B U LLOCKIES BUSH hotel, Preston. street Paddo. Be there at STRANGER ON THE Frank Traynor’s, 100 Lt. Preston. 10.55 with polished brass p m . $ 1 .5 0 . BAND: Polaris Inn hotel, R E D HOUSE R O L L RUN — A Western with Lonsdale street, City. FOX: Sundowner hotel, and clean gaiters. “A WINTERS TALE” — Nicholson street, Carlton. BAND: Sundowner hotel, Henry Fonda, Sal Mineo, G eelong. PUCCINI'S IL TABARRO surf 6$ foam: Manly Silver G eelong. Anne Baxter: Channel 2, FILM R E D HOUSE R O L L Screen, 7.30. $2. Except CHANCE: George hotel, St — Sour Angelica, Gianni 1 0.0 0 pm . BAND, TANK: Waltzing Schicchi: Opera House, tues. & wed. JAZZ K ild a. THE JAZZ SINGER — DUEL (Spielberg) and GO­ Matilda, Springvale. BOOTLEG FAMILY: 7.30 pm, $6.50, $8.50, Movie with Al Jolson — a ING HOME: NFT A Guild, BIG PUSH: George hotel, HOT CITY BUMP BAND: Matthew Flinders hotel, $10.50 (opera for the peo­ classic: Channel 10, 11.15 ROCK Melbourne Uni Union St K ild a. Prospect Hill hotel, Kew. C hadstone. ple at one sixth the basic pm . Bldg, 7.40pm, $1.20, 80c CLOUD NINE: Grovedale wage?). “ C H IN C O G A N ” , “ S N IB - FRANK TRAYNOR: MADDER LAKE, ALROY stu. hotel, Geelong. B O ” , “ B IG S W IF T L Y ” : Beaumaris Civic Centre, BAND: Teazer, City. LA DE DAS: Matthew Chequers, 8-3 am. $2.00. Beaum aris. SID RUMPO, AYERS ROCK DRAMA WORKSHOP Flinders hotel, Chadstone. "TRANSITION”: Oceanic ROCK: Caulfield Town BOOTLEG FAMILY: Pres­ Hotel, 7.30-11.45 pm. H all. FAT ALBERT, 8 DAY WORKSHOP: Claremont BLUES ton Institute of Technol­ $ 1 .5 0 . CLOCK: Chequers, 8.00 theatre, 14 Claremont og y. pm- 3 am, $2.00. PORYG CAMP DANCE: street, South Yarra. Phone DUTCH TILDERS: Sings FOLK HOME: Dennison Hotel, JAZZ Balmain Town Hall, 8-1 Adrian 24.6405 for time. the blues at Frank Tray­ 7-10 pm. Free. a m . n o r’s, C ity . FOLK DANNY SPOONER, PETER BOOTHMAN — JANIE MYRIAD AND Modern Jazz: Limerick GEOFF AND DIANE FRIENDS: Outpost Inn, TV, RADIO FOLK OUTDOOR NEW MUSIC HOLLINS, BOB WINTLE, Castle, 8-12 pm, free. 52 Collins street. City. BUSHWHACKERS AND PREMIERE: THE BOX: “TRADITIONAL FOLK”: ENTERTAINMENT YOU: Play at the Com­ MIKE O'ROURKE, B U LLOCKIES BUSH Said to out bum and tit ROCK Red L io n . mune, N. Melbourne. PETER PARKHILL, AN­ A GARDEN OF VARI­ BAND: Dan O'Connell, cnr No. 96, Channel 10, 9 pm. “TRADITIONAL FOLK” DREA MclNTYRE: Tav­ ETY: Sight acts and acro­ Canning and Princes THE HISTORY OF FAT ALBERT, 8 DAY — Declan Affley, The FILM ern Folk club, Union hotel, bats. Flagstaff gardens, streets, N. C a r lt o n . PAPUA NEW GUINEA — CLOCK: Chequers, 8 pm-3 McKennas, Jane Herivil, C arlto n . 12.10pm, 1.10pm. 8— 1 2p m . $ 1. BUSHWHACKERS AND PART 1: Radio 2, 10.15 a m , $ 2 .0 0 . Jack Hopkins, Dine De REPULSION (Polanski) MEET THE CITY SLICK­ MYSTERY GUEST ART­ pm . TROUPADOR: Brighton Hugard: Elizabeth Hotel. and REFLECTIONS IN A B U LLOCKIES B U S H ERS: Recording stars in ISTS: Tankervllle Arms, BAND: Polaris Inn hotel, MOVIE: TIME LIMIT — Hotel, 7-10 pm, free. 8-10 pm. 80 cents. GOLDEN EYE (Huston): concert. Treasury gardens, Nicholson street, Carlton. Army drama with Richard TRANSITION: Oceanic “ DON M O R R ISON, NFTA, Guild Theatre, Mel­ C arlto n . JOHN CROWLE: Frank HUGH McEWAN, JOHN Widmark: Chan 10, 10.40 Hotel, 8-10 pm, free. BRIAN SALTMARSH”: 12.10pm, 1.10pm. bourne Uni Union Bldg, T ra y n o r’s, C ity . pm . FLAKE: Revesby Worker, Freudian Slip. 699.1736 Parkville, 7.40pm. $1.20, CROWLE, GORDON Mc­ lNTYRE: Frank Traynor’s 8 -1 1 p m . 8.30 pm. Free. TV 80c stu. JAZZ C ity . FILM JAZZ WAR AND PEACE: Part I, A B V 2 , 8 p m . DRAMA DAVE RANKIN JAZZ JAZZ NFT A — OFF HOLLY­ “DEEP BAYOU JAZZ/ WORKSHOP BAND: Alma hotel. Chapel WOOD, ALEX IN WON­ ROCK BAND”: Stage RADIO street, St Kilda. OWEN YEATMAN: Pros­ OWEN YEATMAN: Pros­ pect Hill hotel, Kew. FILMS DERLAND plus ZABRIS- Door Tavern. 7-10 pm. DRAMA W O R K S H O P : KIE POINT: Australia Free. HISTORY OF PAPUA pect Hill hotel, Kew. BRIAN BROWN QUAR­ Claremont theatre, 14 FRANK TRAYNOR: Ex­ TET: Commune, N. Mel­ HAMLET: Russian film by Government Centre, Phillip "KEVIN GOODIE TRAD AND NEW GUINEA: Part Claremont street, South change hotel, Cheltenham. Kozintsev —■ Best Shake­ street, 7.15 pm, $1.20 JAZZ”: Limerick Castle, I, 3AR, 10.15pm. bo urne. NEW SOCIETY: 3AR, Yarra. Ring Adrian STORYVILLE JAZZMEN: speare film ever made: (members only — join at 8-12 pm. Free. 24.6405 for details. Opera House, Music Room, d o o r). 7 .1 5 p m . NEW MUSIC Manor House, cnr Swans- “GARY WALFORD JAZZ EDUCATION NOW: 3AR, ton and Lonsdale streets, 7.30 pm, $2.00. WEST COAST USA — BAND” : Unity Hall Hotel, OUTDOOR JACK & JILL: SOME EXPERIMENTAL PRO­ 7 .3 5 p m . MELBOURNE NEW C ity . B alm ain . REGRETS — Melbourne GRAM. 16 Films, 10 Fllm- ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Com- DAVE RANKIN JAZZ makers: Filmmakers “DOC WILLIS JAZZ”: Al- mune, N. Melbourne. BAND: Railway Club features: Filmmakers bury Hotel, Oxford sireet, Cinema, 10 pm, $1.50 A GARDEN OF VARI­ hotel, Pt. Melbourne. C inem a, 10 pm, $1.50. Darlinghurst. ETY: Sight acts and acro­ POETRY ROCK FOLK ELECTRONICS bats. Treasury gardens, FILM ROCK 12.10, 1.10pm. BRUNSWICK POETRY DON MORRISON: Red MEET THE CITY SLICK­ WORKSHOP: Saxon Hall, T H E CONFORMIST, FAT ALBERT, 8 DAY "GARDENING” — the in­ Riley, 211.3240, 7.30 pm. ERS: Recording stars in Saxon street, Brunswick TELL THEM WILLY BOY CLOCK: Chequers, 8.00 side dirt: Chan. 2, 6.55. HOT CITY BUMP BAND: pm-3 am, $2.00. TRADITIONAL FOLK: concert. Flagstaff gardens, (behind Town Hall). IS HERE: Trak, 445 "THE UNINHIBITED” — Whitehorse hotel, Nuna- MAGIC: Brighton Hotel, Red L io n . 12.10, 1,10pm. Toorak road, Toorak. movie with Melina Mer­ w adlng. 7-10 pm. Free. TV 1 1 .4 5 p m . couri, James Mason — the RED HOUSE ROLL TRANSITION: Oceanic RADIO,TV TV pain in Spain: Chan. 10, BAND: Croxton Park KUNG FU: For all you Hotel, Coogee, 7-10 pm. MEETINGS 1 1 .1 0 p m . hotel, Preston. fans, HSV7, 7.30pm. Free. PICK OF THE GOONS — MADDER LAKE, FOX: GEORGIE GIRL: (AO, MONTY PYTHON’S PHILOSOPHY OF MISS

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977.5503. 2 pm. 60 cents. STAGE Bexley Masonic, 8-12 pm. home): Channel 2, 11.00 Geqrge street, City, “TRANSITION”: Oceanic. a m . CONTEMPORARY 337.2810, 8 pm, $2 50. “GRAVEYARD, CARUAS THE UGLY AMERICAN FILM “THE HOSTAGE”: See w o n d o y JUTE, LOTUS” : Liverpool — Brando classic/US bull­ frid a y . GEORGE GOLLA, DON Town Hall, 8-12. $1.40. shit: Channel 2, 1.45 pm. FILM "KANAL" by Wajda: “THE EAGLE HAS TWO ANDREWS, BENJAMIN, THE LAST CORRIDOR — ROBERT R A Y M O N D ’S Union theatre, 5 pm. HEADS": See friday. SIMON'S BOTTET, DAN $ 1 .5 0 . BIRTHS Political Play: A B C JOHNSON, SOFT OP­ COLOR FILMS — THE CHOCOLATE “KNIFE IN THE WATER" Radio 1, 8.00 pm. ERA: Kirk Gallery, 422 GREEN WORLD, LIFE by Polanski, “STRIKE” by ROCK Opening of Leichhardt LOVE OF WOMEN AND Cleveland street, Surry AND DEATH ON THE ALLSORTS Elsensteln: Union theatre, Womens Community ADMIRATION OF Hills, S.00 pm, $1.50. GREAT BARRIER REEF: 7 .3 0 . $ 2 . “SEBASTIAN HARDY": Health Centre. Fed heavies GREAT MEN — The Life 10 am, 12 noon, 2.00 pm, MODERN JAZZ GROUP: “IF” (Lindsay Anderson) Manly Vale Hotel, 12 are expected, could be a of Frank Harris: ABC 4.00 pm, $2.00, kids Limerick Castle, Smith and 1970: Filmmakers Cinema, noon-3 pm. $1. groove. 164 Flood street, Radio 2, 8.30 pm. CLASSICS $ 1 .0 0 . Anne street, Surry Hills, mldnite. $1.50. “JASPER, 69ERS, 2 p m . MAN IN QUESTION — NFTA — IMAGES OF 8.00 pm-12 pm. “WEST COAST USA EX­ FLAKE”: Hornsby Police John Bell (Nimrod Street MUSIC ON THE HOUR — THE MIND SERIES — BLAZE & WARREN PERIMENTAL FILMS": Boys Clpb, 8-1 2. $1.50. Theatre) interview: Chan­ Classics for one nicker, kids JALSAGHER (The Music W ILLIAM S, Chequers, 8.00 Filmmakers Cinema. 10 “CH INCOG AN", "SNIB- u u id a p nel 2, 9.35 pm. 20 cents; Opera House, 11 Room) and JE T’AIME, JE pm-3.00 am. $2.00 pm . $ 1 .5 0 . B O ” , “ B IG S W IF T Y ” : WILDLIFE SAFARI TO am-4 pm. All tickets sold T’AIME: Opera House, RASHOMON by Kurosawa ‘ 1 T I D I K A W A & Chequers, • pm-3 am. $2., ETHIOPIA — BBC Doco at d o o r. info 44.5793, 7.15, $1.60. plus BALLAD OF A SOL­ FRIENDS": Filmmakers ‘‘BUFFALO, N IT R O ” : series — this week Across ALIRIO DIAZ — Guitar Join at door. DIER — Russian film: Op­ Cinema, 6 pm. $1.50. Caringbah YMCA, 7.So­ TV, RADIO the Great Salt Desert: Picker of note: Conserva- LES ENFANTS DU PARA­ era House music room, " J A C K & J IL L ” , “ S O M E il.30. $1.40. Channel 2, 7.55 pm. torium, 8.15 pm, $4.30, DIS by Marcel Came: 7.30, $2.00. REGRETS” — Melbourne “FLAKE”: Curl Curl DIVINE SERVICE — St CONCERTO — Ashkenazy $ 3 .2 0 . Union theatre, 7.30, $2.00. Films: Filmmakers Cine­ Youth Club, 8-11.00. Peter Julian’s RC church plays Beethoven: Channel ALL BACH CONCERT: CHILDRENS SHOW — TV, RADIO ma, 4 pm. $1.50. “FINCH, OTHER ENDS”: (for those just returning 2. 8.25 pm. Ejsted Centre, 464 St ABBOTT 8* COSTELLO, BATMAN SERIAL: Film­ NEW MUSIC — Pierre makers Cinema: 2 pm, kids Boulez’s PLI SELON PLI: 50c, adults $1.00. ABC Radio 2, 8.30 pm. LA PRISE DU POUVOIR THE TOTAL SEDUCTION PAR LOUIS XIV — An in depth study of (R. Rossellini, 1966) Hitler's mass manipulation French Cinema: Film­ of the German people: makers Cinema: 4 & 6 pm, Channel 2, 8.50 pm. $1.00. Members only, join PHILOSOPHERS IN DE­ VIMALA THAKAR: BRUCE McNICOL: Com­ EXPERIMENTAL at door, $3.00. BATE — Sir Karl Popper, (Tapes), Friends house, mune, N. Melbourne, FILMS ON ARTISTS — Sir John Eccles — Heavy 631 Orrong road, Toorak. 10—3am . no doubt: ABC Radio 1, MELBOURNE NEW JAMU (J. Oehr and I. SUE EMMETT, BRUCE u t e e k 1 0.1 5 pm . MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Com­ Stocks): Filmmakers Cine­ McNICOL, JOHN GRA­ ma, 8.00 pm, $1.50. MONTY PYTHONS FLY­ TV mune, 580 Victoria street, HAM: Outpost Inn, City. SEAGULL, MAN WHO FILM CLASSICS: W.E.A. ING CIRCUS: Channel 2, N. Melbourne. IN CONCERT: With Rare PETER PARKHILL, PHIL THEATRES LOVED CAT DANCING, Film Group, 72 Bathurst 1 0 .2 5 . MACINTOSH MAN. Earth, Deep Purple, Buddy DAY, JULIE WONG, street, 1.30 pm, details Miles, Rory Gallagher, JOHN AND JUANITA: THE ARCHITECT AND 9 3 .4 6 8 0 . HSV7, 10pm. Frank Traynor's, City. MEETINGS THE EMPEROR OF AS­ GOING OUT A WINTERS TALE: Manly SYRIA by Arrabel: Pram WHAT’S UP DOC, OH Silver Screen, 5.30 pm, RADIO OUR LIVING RELA­ Factory, 325 Drummond L U C K Y M A N . $ 2 .0 0 . JAZZ TIONSHIPS: MS Alice street, Carlton, tuesday- DAVID CASSIDY and his THE PRIMARY YEARS: McKenzie, Theosophical sunday, 8 pm , $ 2 .5 0 , DAVE RANKIN JAZZ JAZZ group “the Hollywood 3AR, 7.15pm. society, 188 Collins street, $1.50 students. ROCK BAND: Lemon Tree hotel, C ity . Bowels”: Randwick race­ DISC COURSE ON JAZZ: ROD FREEMAN SMITH YARRA YARRA J A Z Z Carlton, 2.30—6pm. GEORDIE, HUSH, SHER­ course, march 2. $4.20. With Eric Child, 3AR, and MOSES: Back theatre. BAND: Old Melbourne THE PLANT: Polaris Inn BET BUFFALO, 69’ERS, Usual agencies. 9p m . Pram Factory, 325 Drum­ Motor Inn, mon-sat, 7.30 hotel, Carlton. OUTDOOR DOUG PARKINSON: E. S. W H O ’S W H O by K eith HOT CITY BUMP BAND: mond street, Carlton, 8 onwards, sat aft 3 onwards. Marks Field, Anzac parade, ENTERTAINMENT pm, $2.50, $1.50 students. [Waterhouse and Willis Hall: Prospect Hill hotel, Kew $ 1.0 0 . Ensemble theatre, Milsons THE SAIL and BEARD (a ft). OPERA Point, 929.8877, 8.00 pm, ITALIAN DAY: Gladi- (Jean Harlow meets Billy t o f r m d o v JUNCTION CITY JAZZ REALITIES $2.75 to $3.25. ators, drama, music, wan­ the Kid) by Michael THE CORONATION OF BAND: Prospect Hill hotel, ELTON JOHN: Randwick dering troubadors of Italy, McClure: La Mama, 205 POPPEA by Monteverdi: K ew (eve). MUSICIANS UNION racecourse, february 24, Fitzroy Gardens, 3 pm; Union theatre, Melbourne VICTORIAN JAZZ CLUB: Faraday street, Carlton, 9 BAND — BAND ASSOCI­ $5.20, usual agencies. ROCK pm , $ 1 .0 0 . Uni Union big, thurs-sat, 8 Manor House, City. ATION OF NSW: At Hyde SYDNEY FILM FESTI­ WHY BOURNMOUTH and pm, $4, $3, $2 students, Park, Martin place respec­ VAL: 660.3909. CAPTAIN MATCHBOX, THE MISSING LINK by $1.50 students. FILM TV tively, 3.00 pm-4.30 pm. THE GREAT MOSCOW DUTCH TILDERS, MAC­ John Antrobus: Actors Brass Bands — Bring only CIRCUS: March 29-april 7, KENZIE THEORY: Teaz- theatre, 169 Church st, POETRY VANISHING POINT: TOPAZ: ATV-0, 8.30 pm. your Imagination. David Jones. er. C ity . Richmond, fri-sun, 8.30, Athenaeum, Late, Collins DIAL-A-POEM: Ring Tom BAND OF LIGHT: Mat­ street, City. 10.30pm. RADIO $2, $1 students. thew Flinders hotel, Chad- THE SLAUGHTER OF ST and ask for poem 3 2 9 .6 0 3 9 . stone (aft). KIDS SUNDAY NIGHT ON THERESA’S DAY (comm, BAND OF LIGHT: Chelsea RADIO TWO, 3AR, 7.30 wed) by Peter Kenna: City Hall (eve). TV PROFESSOR ZIGGLES' pm . Alexander theatre, Monash BIG PUSH: Whitehorse TRAVELS: Claremont the­ Uni, Clayton, mon-sat, hotel, Nunawading. 8.15 pm, 2.15 sat, $3.50, SESAME STREET, for atre, 14 Claremont street, JOHN RUPERT AND THE $2 students. earlybirds: ABV-2, 8 am. South Yarra. 2pm, $1, 50c am-5 pm; sat, 11 am- 4 pm. HENCHMEN: C ro x to n E N E M Y by Robin THEATRE fo r kids. v t t o t t c t y T H E SCULPTURE Park, Preston. Maugham (Somerset’s COURSES CENTRE: Student Works, GARY YOUNG'S FAT nephew) directed by Eliza­ CAIRNMILLAR INSTI­ LOVE FOR LOVE with 3 Cambridge street. The CATS: Sundowner hotel, beth Heinds: Viaduct the­ TUTE OF HUMAN RELA­ the Old Tote Theatre Com­ Rocks, tues-sun, 11 am -4 G eelong. ROCK atre, 27a Cromwell rd, TIONS has courses: En­ pany: Opera House, 8.00 pm . SKYHOOKS, CLOUD South Yarra, wed-sat, 8.15 pm, $5.50 (concessions, CLOUD NINE: George quire 100 Collins st, City PAINTINGS, WALL NINE, LOBBY LLOYD pm, $2.50, $1 students. except sun). hotel, St Kllda. or phone: 63.9876. HANGINGS, EGLITIS, AND THE COLOURED COUNCIL OF ADULT COWARDY CUSTARD: DRAPER: Divola Galleries, BALLS get It on at the EDUCATION has courses: Marian St Theatre, Klllara, Balmain, 822.3018, thur, 498.3166, except tues. Frankston Police-cltlzens ROCK FOLK FILMS Enquire at 4th floor, 256 fr i, 11 am -6 p m ; sat, sun, Youth club, Tower Hill WHAT IF YOU DIED TO­ Flinders st, City. Tel: 12.30-7.30 pm. road. MACKENZIE THEORY: FRITZ THE CAT (R) and MORROW by David Wil­ PHIL DAY: Frank Tray- 6 3 .4 2 3 1 . PITT STREET BOOGIE R E D HOUSE R O L L Sacred Heart hall, Winifred nors, City. MOVE (M): Carlton cine­ liamson: Elizabethan the­ WOOGIE by Tyra Hutchen BAND, MATT TAYLOR: street, St Albans. ma, Faraday st, Carlton, GALLERIES atre, Newtown, 8.15 pm, — Hippie metamorphoses Brighton Town Hall, Boxs- COLOURED BALLS, RED thur-sun, 7.45 pm, 90c. fri, sat, 5.30, 8.15 pm, l> Phillips Thomas: Ho­ JAZZ LANDSCAPES OF 18TH hall street. HOUSE ROLL BAND, 3 4 7 .5 5 2 4 . $4.70, $3.70, $2.70. Con­ garth Galleries, 31.6839, & 19TH CENTURY — MADDER LAKE: Glen SKYHOOKS: M itch am Prospect Hill Hotel, Kew. TRAVELS WITH MY cessions. mon-sat, 10.30-5.30. Leading Brit artists, Robert Waverley high school. Oval, aft, $2.50. AUNT and ENGLAND TOOTH OF CRIME by ARCHIBALD E X H IB I­ Rainer gallery. Prints by SID RUMPO: Matthew SID RUMPO: Teazer, City. NEW MUSIC MADE ME: Dendy Mal­ Sam Shepard: Nimrod TION: Art Gallery of Flinders hotel, Chadstone KUSH: Tannery Hall, Wer- vern, Glenferrie rd, Mal­ Frlederick Hunder-Wasser. Street theatre, 33.3933, NSW, 212.2100, tues-sat, Photographic displays, gal­ (eve). ribee. NIAGGRA: La Mama, 205 vern, 7 days, $2.50, 8.30 pm. No monday. 10 am-5 pm; thur, 10 am- lery society corridor, plus MATT TAYLOR, AYERS FANTASY: Croxton Park, Faraday street, Carlton, 5 0 9 .0 5 5 5 . THE PHILANTHROPIST 10 pm; sun, 12-5 pm, ex­ from 13 feb, American art ROCK: Beaumaris Civic Preston. 8 0c. THE BABY and THE by Christopher Hampton: cept monday. C en tre. 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THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 — Page 15 Page 16— THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 THE FINISH OF THE OLD BUFFER': WHEN I AM Antonin Artaud was not of this planet, & he believed that FOREST BLUES CAUGHT “all writing is pigshit". Most people ignore most poetry / because Thinking most poetry / ignores about going on the dole when i am caught between most people . . . and getting a bike your movements, these poems are people poems Cocabola is a myth . . . these poems and the walls wavering are mythbreakers . . . i've nearly decided in uncharted perspectives, creating & presenting a myth / is to get a band together always i am simplified . . . a simpler communication form / than a silver streak explaining & analysing everything. My mind is copyright or maybe a buzzsaw tearing do not discover what i discovered i'll just sit in this cottage into my occipitus without consent in writing. Some­ watching the seasons change i am deafened, stunned, day you will / listen / to your playing records and the organ blocked in the noises own voices / & poets will be irrelevant. until they come of your crooning style, I am not the keeper of the faith. to put the cloth whenever we get there, over everything. momentarily together, i wonder where we are. PARANOIA

for the last few days now there's been someone else in my head unused areas she started out i think in one of the remote but she's getting closer and says she wants a share of the action GONEBEDSONG she'd like to do some of my talking i. she says. auction woman handing you the deals she's been using my eyes for some time she's learned from illustrated classics discreetly taking a view of routine spook tricks; every time i'm not looking. magic flash and thunder and alakazaammm she wants to get out. i don't think my friends would really yr body's drumming loud and hard like to know her bop bop a lop with her nasty insinuations bop a lop bop bop and endless repertoire of slimy comments. yr breath is promising yr rhythms fuck her. you seem to be alive then again, she can't stay there — bop bop a lop alive i'd go nuts. i think i'll get rid of her. but you've seen all this before / you told me eliminate her. like it was in the late movie .. bop bop a lop you're not surprised a bullet through the head by cloaks and stars and rich brocades a vampire at the neck . . . i'd go . . . but she'd go with me . . . II. but wait — come on i stole yr confidence there's a few things i've got to do . . . i stashed it in the mattress COCABOLA BROWN my first million, inside the guinness book of records n e w s ' n 'w e a t h e k ------the nobel prize, and not forgetting the guy down the street so now you've lost yr movements these poems/graphics are from with the lovely balls. now we cannot be recovered Cocabola's Funny Picture Book perhaps a hypnotherapist and now you know yr changes which is available from could coo her into sensibility TOM ATO PRESS $2 post paid and now i never hear yr laughing and render her powerless. . . aahhmm . . . 117 Glebe Pt. Rd„ nor hum yr bop a lop. Glebe. 2037. perhaps a numbing snort of dope

Poem for my 0 jesus Christ isn't it nice Roadhouse Blues after Rimbaud mother Three hours hitching, wore down leather heels & the windows of hashish now on her birthday re-enter the house now on gravel roads . . . then made Gundagai:

Tomorrow & all is quiet cabled Melbourne, late ordered toast will be & all is dark at Green's Roadhouse, buttered, with cold cheese; your 55th time . . . & in your secluded house

will be & in you now drummed on a laminex table, drew my nails my counting pin & in your hour across soiled vine & flagon wallpaper my faraway highway . . . 1 can hear till a waitress with overhanging tits i can hear i'm doing junk whose hairy legs shone like boiled crayfish in a dreamer's fashion i can hear you do not understand your body now my poems my anima offered incisively the plate inscribed: there is no longer - GREEN'S ROADHOUSE. HUME HWY. GUNDAGAI any loss then poured out my lukewarm tea; for you. a pool of roadmetal in thick white china.

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THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974-Page 19 REACTIONS and feedback are part of what Daylights is all about. Here ERIC BEACH replies to Confessions of a mid­ CONFESSIONS dle class work addict which appeared in TLD 2/5. LARRY DRAKE took offence at our boxing piece in TLD 2/4. Eric A** wrote that the overcoming-your-condi- tioning-triumph is a bourgeois preoc­ cupation and about as interesting as a radical who drives a Porsche. Larry's SHIT EATER ERIC BEACH objections are obvious. EEMS to me that every mid­ kind of thinking are as trust­ around and people looked after ing and I thought you could take old bodgie mates got a life sen­ Sdle class kid is an only child worthy as American prisoners of me because I was a dumb kid but a crash course on life, at 20 I was tence for murdering a drag queen well I was brought up in a war in Korea. they werent all so kind and al­ a tired little old man who wore his and then burning the house down. family with six surviving kids, so When I left school I bummed truistic and I wasnt a dumb kid father in law’s shoes to the wed­ Most men get hold of a wife and maybe I’m not so precious. As anymore. Before I started High ding. It was just take longer, the difference be­ Dad often told us, he left school School I taught myself speed read- tween the working class and at 12 and slaved for a cocky, the middle class is the educated himself by reading ten difference between books a week on a one man revenge and torture. railway points station, and if he Well one day I was was still slaving his guts out it was walking up the street probably for one thing - so us kids would thinking about money because not have to do the same. I was getting 29 dollars My mates started going to jail a week and paying 18 at the time I started to sit the first dollars rent and supporting outside” exams. Mum, who did a wife and child and for other people all the time, going to university afternoons scratched her rash and had a and this huge parade against tail-end baby VIETNAM was singing down It was as if she’d had the baby to the hill towards me and I touch the compassion locked up was on them before I saw them, in her children. I still needed to me in the suit I hated, an old hate so I hated all the back-clap- friend o f mine was in front with a pers who came in to admire the a megaphone, I yelled louder little one looking at Mum as than I’ve ever yelled “yr goin though this was the one thing she the wrong way” ; an old friend could be proud of. of mine just smiled and gave Which made me look at the the peace sign - we used to hang pride I took in suckling number round The Big S which was a six. Everybody’s too gutless to kind of mutual support system declare they’re better than anyone for bums fresh oilt of school else these days, but I think I and also the glorious freak-drag learned more in my misery years queen-crim-black and white-out (they’d be formative years in a ward-bound-school for anyone in­ middle class family) than some terested m becoming something student o f his own conscience rather than becoming someone. would gain out of umpteen ses­ Well I got an E for English sions which are named in the One and decided to keep on usual pretentious gobbledygook writing poetry and got a job “ consciousness raising” and the nightshift baby-sitting an IBM graduates who could accept that 360/30 and watched the hills ac­ ross the bay switch o ff to a TV timetable and in the morning Boxing: It’s loathsome, nauseating & causes brain damage walked the opposite way in rail­ LARRY DRAKE human being worth his salt.” tied down and rests in a fluid in with each other in the heat of way stations and the wife said T WAS appropriate that The writer was Paul Gallico (in the bony skull. A blow causes it combat can inflict fearful injury. you’re only trying to be different and I left in agreement. IWard McNally’s name an Esquire article) who, as he said, to wobble from side to side. Even So can the hard floor coming in should be directly underneath the started the notorious Golden a moderate blow will cause it to contact with a stricken man’s One day during my time in picture o f the flattened pug on Gloves contests in those Benight­ bang against the side of the skull. temple. Complete severance of an Queensland, which was a time of page 6 of TLD 2, 4. For Ward, the ed States. He made his living as a A more severe blow may cause eyelid is not unknown and occular purple and red which can p’raps perpetual loser, has lost again. sporting journalist before becom­ such a sudden forceful movement palsies, notably o f the oblique be explained by jacaranda trees Inevitably. You simply can’t win a ing a successful novelist and was against the bony parts of the skull muscles, have often occurred. and poinciana blossoms and which campaign designed to make “ the well qualified to write on the as to bring on bleeding or bruises. Not least of the evil fruits of was cut short as a Boggo road haircut: I was lost in some ignoble art” respectable, accept­ subject, having attended thous­ “ In part the brain rests on the the “ fight game” is the effect on psilocybin reverie in Taringa when able, bearable and tolerable . . . to ands of fights to record the sharp bony sphenoidal ridge. A the spectators. Have a look at the a carload of hoons drove past and make it anything but loathesome slaughter for the “ sporting” pub­ severe blow that jolts the frontal expressions on the faces of some shouted “ what do you do for a and nauseating in any community lic. "If I were a dictator,” he said, lobes of the brain against the ridge of these people snapped at the living” fortissimo and the universe with the slightest 'pretence to be­ “ I would abolish prize fighting in will destroy the tissue, tearing ringside. Naked bestiality, blood ing civilised. my country by decree. I would through the fine membrane which lust, unrestrained cruelty — these screamed out o f me “ NOTHIN’ ” and Jill, who was with me, de­ On the subject of boxing Ward scrap all rings and burn all boxing covers the brain and the brain are the instincts the promoters are cided that when she finished her is, I regret to report, the king of gloves and never let a youth be substance, and induce bleeding. catering for, and the bloodier the degree she was going to be a social crapmerchants. I really do regret taught to strike another with his These injuries do not heal [my fight the better the gate is likely worker. She may as well work in a this, for in other respects I admire fists.” emphasis] and the destruction of to be next time. dress shop. the man. It is LITERALLY IMPOS­ the brain cells is permanent. The It's a safe bet that the young “ Most of the things said and SIBLE to engage regularly in ring frontal lobes which are damaged thugs who slake their sadism by My sister in Canada sends me written about boxing - that it is fighting without suffering some in this way are those parts which beating up inoffensive pedestrians photos o f the baby and describes healthy, manly, sporting, virile, brain damage. The very fact that control man’s highest functions: in the streets of our cities are the smashing little outfit she got and good for the development of the hands are padded with gloves the power to co-ordinate his regular spectators at “ the fights” . him for xmas, my brother in Asia character and self-reliance - are protects those delicate instru­ movements, to restrain his im­ writes to me he’s on his way down untrue . . . I reproach myself ments from damage and makes it pulses and to exercise his power □ under, he thinks we can wreck the when I recall that I invented and possible to strike much heavier of self-control.” world with an awful compassion and once went to demonstrations started the Golden Gloves am­ blows than could be struck with The risk of serious injury is not ateur boxing tournaments, and by the naked fist. confined to the brain. Here is the as a policeman, glamorising and publicising a dan­ “ The injuries inflicted on a opinion of Mr J. H. Doggart, MD, I never hear from the youngest gerous, useless sport am responsi­ man’s brain over the years,” wrote FRCS, surgeon to the Moorfields musketeer who still hasnt ble for hundreds of young men doctor Edith Summerskill, who eye hospital in Britain. In an read Kurt Vonnegut and becoming professional prize fight­ was health minister in a British address to the British Ophthalmol- sells insurance for Americans ers. Labor government (in her book ogical Association he said: in New Zealand, “ If there is a chapter in my life The ignoble art), "reducing him to the baby of the I would care to elide it is this one a sub-human mental condition “ The contention that serious familv writes me . . . Boxing is the most selfish, without necessarily making him and permanent injuries are that he's joining self-centred sport there is. The certifiable, are only appreciated exceptional cannot be the army and tail- rules, customs and usages of the by those in direct contact with maintained by anyone end Penny is tall game, as a boy rises from nonen­ the unfortunate individual. When who takes the trouble and freckled and tity to fame, tend to make him the structure of the brain is con­ to consult the medical nine years old cruel, viscious, lazy, irresponsible, literature. Here we find sidered it must be obvious that with her period unreliable, callous, untruthful, this sensitive organ cannot fail to a long tale of disaster, - you wouldnt greedy, merciless and cynical. The be damaged by the impact o f a especially to the eyes know her writes profession may engender a certain succession of blows over the and their adnexa. It must mum, dad stoicism, courage and endurance, years. be remembered that gloved but by and large boxing and ring “ The brain weighs about three and ungloved fists are not doesnt. fighting have never added an iota pounds. It is o f the soft consis­ the only instruments o f des- to the stature o f anyone as a tency of cold porridge. It is not truction. Boxers' heads colliding □ Page 20 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 (Durted &

S o m e of the concepts of (Dsmdc comeon can’t really womens -J MARGARET SMITH L_ relate to this lib have filtered kind o f woman down to the majority of women with the rapidly changing fashion somewhat more extreme and It’s hard to very well yet, because she in the workforce and to women in scene. trendy Sportsgirl or Tullo shop. It understand whether their ideology is so new and doesnt conform to suburbia. Successful demands are is a sophisticated type of In Shop. is connected with their the majority of her sex, which I Bright chemical colors being made for equal pay, more Dozens of silinky and “ correctly” appearance, ie. that they want to have been so turned off by. This is dominate the clothing; dyes very childminding centres, and made-up salesgirls act more like be a sex object and as artificial as something I have to work out for removed from anything in nature consumer groups protesting about hostesses to this inner kingdom, possible, or whether the clothes myself, because it really is more or their own personal body rising prices have almost become and some of them aimlessly express something unconscious in natural to be bisexual than to be coloring. Many o f the primary social norms. mouth the words of the pop them. either homosexual or tones worn before were slightly Womens Electoral Lobby is music that goes on all the time. “ Women at university seem to heterosexual.” muted, but now they are beginning to make itself felt as a The male section is exactly the be caught between two worlds — * * * technological test tube colors that conservative political pressure same, except that there are whether to be liberated, ALL THE new glossy and compete against the natural soft group while Valium consumption suitably slinky males selling independent and projecting their pseudo-liberated womens colors of skin and hair. So your by women is on the increase, clothes that are like the female selfhood, or to follow the fashion magazines seem to be catering for face isnt drowned out, it must be helped by the local GP, and ones, but tailored for men. of the city. A lot of them talk a market of young women who heavily painted too. Mary Quant’s women are wearing some of the about liberation, and still seem to want to be intelligent and PR girl, Sue Scully says: "Color Anne Summers, womens lib most artificial fashion and want to be a sex object, for up-to-date, whilst at the same yes, but where else could we go, writer and political scientist at make-up ever produced. These are example they will have bleached time being glamorous sex objects. we’ve been everywhere else!” mainly young women, but there is Sydney university, says: “ Men hair.” The cover o f each magazine is a Lastly, women are coloring seem to be wearing the same some overflow to older women. Michael Elvins finds he faces threat to any woman who doesnt their hair more than ever before. superficial clothes as women, Women may feel that they are the same sort of problem: “ When happen to be super-attractive, or In these days of ecological without rethinking their roles and the victim of the supermarket I was a boy in my mid and late who is starting the natural process consciousness, dyed, strange therefore allowing themselves to oligopoly, but as yet they arent teens, I always found more boys of ageing. By their very contents, colored hair is back in force. The be just as manipulated by fashion suspicious of the fashion houses, whom I could have sensitive aware these magazines are creating a hair dries out, splits and ossifies: and advertising as women. The shoe manufacturers, and make-up communication with. The girls split type of womanhood. that’s secondary . . . more subtle ideas of what womens brands. They’re wearing four inch appeared silly and caught up in Jenny, a script-assistant for a Merivale from the fashion lib is all about dont seem to have their conditioning. Can’t work out film company says: “ Unfor­ and upwards platforms on their house of John and Merivale says: been felt yet. It’s really hard to shoes while knowing it makes if it’s entirely their conditioning or tunately for many women, wo­ “ I liked the casual, natural look, substantiate evidence of this, them prone to ankle injuries and whether it’s something innate in mens Ub has only been grasped but love change so I’m glad the though; you can only go on what them, but I feel it’s probably the at the intellectual and practical throws the spine out of alignment. new look is here. I would change you see around you.” But they’re fashionable! One former because, o f the two sexes, level. They havent tried to the way I dress every week - it’s A young sociologist at NSW woman said to me: “I’m sure woman is the most creative one, understand what it means for lots of fun. It’s great the way men university, Tom Zubrycki, has these shoes must be designed by and man the most procreative. It’s them personally. The fashions have changed too and it will go a similar views on this trend. men who hate women!” mens desire to physically conquer now encourage men to primarily lot further.” Merivale thought Before the fashion industry "Women seem to have taken on the world that has got us into the see women as sexual targets. that girls were changed by putting took over women were controlled these new fashions with great zest, mess we’re in today!” Women seem to want this, though on heavy make-up: “ Their whole and marketed by their parents. and they are probably more Michael has been thinking out at the same time they want real personality changes.” It was all The mother especially had a lot to artificial than ever. his attitude to women lately, relationships, and in a way the fun to her, and of course it would say about how her daughter should especially to the small minority of primary way they attract men is be because she has finger on the dress and look to attract that intelligent and natural self-defeating. Ninety percent of special man. Today that role’s in control button. fashion trends are manipulated by John and women that are the grasp of a multi-million dollar starting to the fashion houses, but at least 10 Merivale industry. It’s hard to say which is emerge.“ I percent must be desired by the most threatening to the women to allow such manip­ woman. The home-based ulation. marketing at least allowed for When women start seeing variation from house to house. themselves as whole and naturally Now there is a more beautiful human being*, insidious complete control who are capable of of her; she is made to creative and individual feel that she must be expression in their primarily a sex personalities and in object, she must their dress, then prevent ageing womens lib and losing can be said her appeal, to have and that really she must reached keep up home.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 - Page 21 H ER E are great plans afoot for similar to the early 60s when Tin T the music pages but probably, Pan Alley kept things going by like all things great, progress will be churning out hit after hit. That same slow. At the moment, suffice to say that lack of direction seems to have hit we hope to feature more articles, again, and the formula songs are more information and more interviews. back on top again; but hang around, The reviews will still be there, because what that usually means is but briefer, and generally those — his by line was lost) forecast musician: "Can't make it to the something is about to break. printed will be favorable. This does of doom for rock music last week. Nim bin survival festival, man, unless Top TO favorites is a direct not mean the TLD reviewers fall Certainly acoustic participatory you pay" Dunstan fails to see that steal from various English rock off their chairs and applaud anything music can be a lot of fun, although the point of this is that every magazines (Let it rock. Cream), that spins on a turntable. It is I do feel that the folk boom in the rock musician in Australia is and the idea behind it is to give simply that with so many good records early 60s, when guitars were lugged fighting for their own survival the reader some idea of the taste of released each week it seems a waste to parties and Tom D ooley sung every day — I dont want to destroy the writer or whoever, and also of space to slag artists. Exceptions again and again, revealed that some are any fantasies, but rock musicians maybe to jog your memory about some w ill be made in the"'em peror has more blessed w ith musical talent than have to eat, just like you and me. all time greats you may have forgotten. no clothes" cases, in the hope that others. To limit yourself to acoustic Certainly rock music appears we can stop you dipping your hands music, simply because it is more to be in the midst of a slump. - MARGARET MACINTYRE into your pockets for some well-hyped politically pure or whatever seems crap. like one good way to cut yourself off Talbot's Top 10 — or ten golden hits from the graveyard of past wax Hopefully we will be able to from a hell of a lot of good music. 1. I Was Made To Love Her, Stevie Wonder 7. Leader of the Pack, The Shangri-Las cover a fairly wide musical spectrum, Once music is put down on record it 2. For Willie, Joni Mitchell 8. Be My Baby, The Ronettes but the emphasis will probably stay becomes business, and that goes 3. Madame George, Van Morrison 9. Eight Miles High, The Byrds on that which comes loosely under the for C&W, jazz, and all the rest 4. Little Darlin', The Diamonds 10. Do You Believe In Magic, title "rock music". as well. 5. He's a Rebel, The Crystals The Loving Spoonful I was stunned to read last week Graeme In using the quote of the 6. Spanish Harlem Incident, Dunstan's (Make mine country style "rip-off, capitalist" rock Bob D ylan/The Byrds ______COLIN TALBOT A montage of

guitar pickers ALLAN WATSON T’S a great thing to hear a ningly beautiful and relaxed jam. Inight o f brilliant jazz. To be They did “ show” tunes, a beauti­ able to watch and hear a group of fully funky slow blues, whipped highly accomplished musicians in­ up a little boogie, and had a very tegrate their talents to create a fine time indeed, establishing an beautiful unity of rhythm and easy rapport with the audience sound is one of the finer things of with a little goofing around and life. When you get such a thing, cracking funnies. Both did solos. you enjoy it all the more because Herb Ellis’s crystalline interpreta­ of its rarity. tion of Django Reinhardt’s Les Kim Bonython’s latest jazz nuages left the crowd momentar­ package, The great guitars, featur­ ily stunned into silence. A splen­ ing the Charlie Byrd trio, Barney did opening set. Kessel, and Herb Ellis did just this In contrast to Kessel and Ellis last friday night at Melbourne’s the Byrd trio opened by plunging Dallas Brooks hall. But are they into the rhythmic complexities of great? To the 60s generation that One note samba really cooking. may sound like an extravagant Very intense, very complex. Claim. Like we know Hendrix was Charlie Byrd seated, crouching great, and you can argue about over the acoustic guitar, utterly Clapton, Santana, and Zappa, but absorbed, his whole attention giv­ who the hell are Barney Kessel en to the instrument. Behind him jind Herb Ellis? Most people have Michael Lee Stevens on drums and EMMETT TILL heard of Charlie Byrd, but the Gene Byrd (a younger brother) on It’s a large format book with others . . . something out of the a frenzied Fender bass work. Writings and drawings by Bob matter what loons like A.J. Web­ past. Byrd is one of the finest Dylan (published by Knopf, costs erman find in his trashcan, what more than 300 pages. The songs are listed in order o f album ap­ Kessel and Ellis were big names acoustic guitarists in the world $7.50). dedicated popculturephiles dig in the 50s; both playing - at today. Unlike the more linear, out about the early days, whether pearances, up to New morning including the accident period different times — with the then attacking style favored by Ellis HERE’S probably still a lot he played his guitar upside down, from Blonde on blonde to John formidable Oscar Petersen trio. and Kessel, Byrd seeks and at­ Tto say about Bob Dylan, whether Ginsberg wanted to fuck Wesley Harding. Scattered During the 60s they slipped from tains a chromatic richness that is most o f it will be as unnecessary him. through the book are Dylan’s the limelight and occupied them­ staggering. Michael Lee Stevens to the general schemes o f things, What matters is his music. drawings proving definitely he was selves with studio work (Ellis), or drummed superbly: his slashing, as what went before. Songs, poetry. And these you may While A.J. Weberman proclaim­ no visual artist. There are half­ ending up doing Pop A&R for the light cymbal work, and whip like find compiled in a large hard­ completed songs, rough notes for Verve label (Kessel). An unkind counter-rhythms, combined with ed himself a “ dylanologist” and bound book titled Writings and went through Bob’s dustbins to songs, and poems and notes of fate for two very talented musi­ the fluent lines of Gene’s Fender drawings costing $7.50 which is a see what he ate the night before - various descriptions. It looks like cians to be relegated to the back­ to provide a pulsing mesh that small sum for anyone really inter­ looking for empty ampules - every song he wrote - at least waters of the music industry, but Byrd rode on, moved around, and ested in music or poetry or Bob Dylan was busy being himself since he hit New York that first things have picked up lately and returned to with devastating ac­ Dylan and his relevance to both. which is an iconoclast’s icon­ time - are here. Some o f them are they have started touring again. curacy. It’s without a doubt the best book oclast. Like switching from folk relatively simplistic, many are And time has weathered them Byrd doesnt so much improvise about Dylan because 1.) he wrote to rock, growing his hair fuzzy beautiful, line upon line. He was well, both as humans and musi­ but rather explores a number. On it and 2.) it’s his poetry and, it instead of long, putting out a so consistently good that imita­ cians. a thing like Chick Corea’s Five seems, all the songs he ever wrote. double album, being declared tions like Donovan and Paul Ellis, plump, jocular and grey­ hundred miles high he took ele­ They are the most important dead or irreparable, cutting his Simon and the millions of others ing, his personality a sort of weird ments of the theme, dissected things about the man, his amazing hair right off, going country, sign­ who have followed cannot match. admixture o f W. C. Fields and them, and then constructed deli­ songs. We know he performed ing with Johnny Cash, coming out It also sparkles more than 90 Charlie Drake, is a real corker. It’s cate harmonies around them. He them as no other could, but even for Israel, living back in the city, percent of modern poetry, and a pleasure to watch and hear him is one of the few musicians who without his voice the songs stand doing other people’s songs like Big most novels. There are few song­ ripping o ff licks with such aplomb can fully exploit the potential of as some o f the best written when yellow taxi and generally setting writers who should even be talked and verve. the acoustic guitar. On this instru­ performed by people like Roberta trends, waiting for others to fol­ of comparatively - John Prine, Kessel, on the other hand, both: ment he, John McLaughlin and Flack, Nina Simone, Manfred low and then switching on them. Paul Seibel, Randy Newman, Joni in deraaaiMr and playing style the little known Ralph Townsend Mann, Rod Stewart, Joan Baez, Scarlet Pimpernel, now you see Mitchell and Jackson Browne makes aa atcellent foil to Herb, stand alone. The Byrds and thus. Taking the him whoops now you dont, stuff. would be-almost all. swarthy, goateed, handsome, and The evening closed with Kessel words from the songs, they’d be Or perhaps he couldnt account for By weight of writings and his very, very cool, he is the epitome and Ellis returning and all three poetry, and great at that. So good, why he was doing all this, as in he amazing imagery, Dylan wins: of 1950’s hip. guitarists getting together on a that probably Australia’s best didnt know the answer but felt every second song being a master­ Ellis tends to favor lean, blues medium tempo version of un­ poet of the moment, Robert the feeling. Does it matter how piece. Devotees will be pleased to inflected lines and generates a decided numbers and, giving a nod Adamson will maintain Dylan is many times he ran away from know that Can you please crawl compulsive swing that shows the to the man who in some ways is one of the main influences on him Hibbing, if at all, whether he went out your window is here, (use influenr* of Charlie Christian. the father of them all, played a su­ and not only that but that Dylan to university, whether he hit up, your arms & legs it won’t ruin Kessel, on the other hand, is perb version of Charlie Christian’s is one of the greatest poets o f the starved, wore black socks, was you). It was released only on more an introvert. Ellis hits you Benny's bugle. A fine way to fin­ century (this includes Ezra Pound, embarrassed about being jewish single in 1966. with his clear, direct statements; ish, played at a skimming, swinging etc & others), which takes Dylan early on? Possibly. Anyway look at it like this: get Kessel continually surprises with tempo, each musician traded fours out of the realm of pop star and If he wore three-piece suits and the book, learn the lyrics, recite quirkish turns of phrase, oblique with flash and verve, ultimately mere culture hero into eternal looked like Paul Simon instead of them at parties, be a hit or, stick quotes, and an impeccable ability bringing the house down as two of burning star status beyond James a scrawny pale old kid, it wouldnt it on the coffee table, or, rewrite in avoiding the obvious. Very the guitarists moved into riff se­ Dean, and he didnt even have to have been the same. But he could his poems, you know, line from speedy, he is bebop guitarist par quences behind Ellis who once die with his wheels turning: here, line from there, make just as excellence, and one of the most again showed he is still one of the do that now and it would seem part o f the mercurial schiz and This wheel’s on fire much sense, or, change a few sophisticated rhythm guitarists in most compelling jazz guitarists in Rolling down the road. jazz. the world today. possibly his fans would think it words and get your own songs gas and do likewise. Now it doesnt going, maybe whip in a new chord Their set developed into a stun- Best notify my next o f kin □ matter so much. And it doesnt This wheel shall explode. here or there. Page 22 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 Danish hard core. Color photos on friday, february 15, in lovely instant people. David, 755.1340, Deployment 10 for $10. Color slides 6 for $6, Balmain town hall. Bring grog, $2 Wednesday, thursday, after 6 pm. 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Box 524, Gosford, 2250 to Midnight THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974-P a g e 23 Fritz The Cat. (The director in fered opportunities of showing picks up a bunny on Sunset FTC Superstar is called Ralph; Fritz revolted by it, thus showing Boulevard, gives her a line - “ Okay, Ralphy, Giwidamee. I’ll how basically nice he was, how “ Yeah, so now my ex-wife is read th’ piece o ’ shit.” ) basically nice the identifying audi­ trying to soak me for as much as Bakshi had to exercise im­ ence was, while allowing them to she kin get . . . Th’ producers and mense powers o f persuasion initial­ pick up their kicks by seeing directors are trying to run me into ly to get Crumb to sign a clear­ Harriet Horse whipped bloodily the ground! Mass media is a total ance to allow him to make the with a bicycle chain. shuck! I’ve been shucked! You’ve film. The exact agreement that It’s the old arena bit; the Rom­ been shucked! Th’ whole system was finally achieved remains ans only had the pleasure of is rotten to the core . . . success mysterious, but it is known that it watching gladiators slice each oth­ has made me bitter n’ cynical!” — included no provision for supervi­ er up in the arena, we can watch and lays her, then speeds off to sion o f any kind by Crumb. Since biblical spectaculars, Ben Hur, his appearance on the Johnny the film came out Crumb has been Barrabas, and have both the plea­ Carson show. lying low and refusing to com­ sure o f watching gladiators sliver “ Yeah, I think these kids have ment. It seems unlikely that there each other in the arena and the some points worth considering for some o ’ that big-time movie BRICK CHRISTIAN will be any more Crumb-based pleasure o f feeling morally superi­ about our society, Johnny . . . hero cock. It’s enough to wear a films — Mr Natural will remain or to those bloodthirsty Romans. some of their gripes are legitimate tomcat out. . . haw haw . . . drink obstinately uncinematic. For This also made it possible to . . . of course, a lot o f what is up, ol’ boy.” o l l y w o o d tours; see the which relief much thanks. shift the political centre of the called the ‘counter-culture’ is just "Let’s get down to business, homes of the stars. . and The filming o f Fritz the cat story. In the strip the cops are immature sophomoric nonsense, H shall we? I think we can get this over to your right is the iron presents an object lesson in the undifferentiated pigs and the revo­ but there’s something to be said tax mess straigntened out so that gateway to the palatial grounds of ripoff. Granted that immense dif­ lutionaries comics — fools, sadists, for the new life-styles that are you won’t have to go for broke the Fritz The Cat estate formerly ficulties lay in the way of getting poseurs, but still (if the word can emerging nowadays . . . speaking . . . heh heh . . . ” owned by Goofy The Dog, a onto celluloid the quality of one be applied to a mixed assortment of which, Y ’wanna take a look at “ Swell . . . great . . . love ya, popular feature comedian of of the greatest graphic artists of of bunnies, birds, bears and cats) a clip from my latest movie? I baby . . . yer a prince . .. I’ve yesteryear . .. Fritz purchased the all time, what emerged was in­ human. think you’ll appreciate the rele­ acquired a taste for the expensive vast estate two years ago after his excusable. I went expecting an In the film the cops are comic vance of this scene to what we’ve life . - . don’ wanna have to give first box office smash hit ersatz imitation, and what I saw pigs, knockabout comedians who been talking about...” up all this jet-set carousing I been Fritz is back in People’s comic was a grotesque travesty. are brutally murdered, and the On the way home he is divert­ in to lately . . . Ah, fuggit! I No. 1. The artwork might have been revolutionaries are demons, ed into the apartment o f an old dunno . . . producers are cheap Inside the gate we find the big excused — the backgrounds had junkies, bikies, led by a radicales- flame, Andrea Ostrich, but can’t chiselers. . . who knows ...” Lat­ star himself, engaged in typical some merit, though the animation bian lizard, pure evil. In the get it up. “ Er . .. Y ’wanna tie me er, business disposed of, he is decadent moviestar pursuits - to was slack and characterless. The film Fritz wanders around weakly up an’ beat on me? You useta get climbing on to a sleeping Abigail be precise, he is pouring a bottle production had, after all, been protesting when Harriet is being off doin’ that.” Andrea suggests, (“ Lemme just push this big ol’ tail of brandy over the head of a large done on the cheap, and animating thrashed. but even this does not work, “ I outa the way here an’ - ” ) when blond alligator named Abigail. talent is becoming harder to come the phone rings. In the strip he is the one who guess there’s been too much ugli­ The resulting chase and fight is by every year since the short suggests “ Here’s a bottle we kin ness between us, Andrea . .. let’s “ Hey Fritz, man! Stevie! Liz’n! cartoon was eliminated from the­ shove up her cunt!” and he is the try again later, okay? Where’d I Y'wanna come to a script confer­ atres by cost pressures. one who begins fucking her first. put that beer?” and Fritz watches ence t’morra at my office? We got Ralph Bakshi has no intention of himself on TV instead. When he a winner! I think we’ve found a But what had been done to the allowing anyone to believe for a leaves the flat Andrea follows him truly great story here . . . Made plot was not a question o f incom­ moment that he advocates over and stabs him in the back of the for ya, kid. All about the prob­ petence but o f greed. Fritz the throwing the government of head with an icepick. lems o f living in today’ s turbulent no-good as Crumb portrayed him America by force or violence. If Fritz The Cat, times! Really beautiful, and —" in the strip was too specialised for there should be another Mc­ finis. "But we havent even wrapped the mass market, Bakshi thought. Carthyite purge he is covered. up Fritz The Cat, Ski Bum yet! Too amoral, too dirty, too un- After the business lunch Fritz Whatsis now?” cute, too adult for the late-teeny- “Liz’n man, I know you’re boppers he hoped would flock to OH W OUIff n«e gonna go crazy when ya read it! see it. Fritz had to be shown to be You eerrz -we CAT?? We’re all really excited about it good at heart under it all, had to cut short by the arrival of Bruno down here . . . really! How ’bout reform, had to see the error o f his Bear, tax expert. “ When I think of lunch t’morra . . . meet at my ways in being such a randy con­ all those years when I was a office at noon?” niving little furry shit. complete unknown, y ’know?” Then back to the now- The plot Bakshi found a little Fritz tells him. “ Yearning for awakened Abigail. gutless. Nobody got killed, the them high class haughty bitches! Robert Crumb being a super- tortures were unrealistic and con­ Now all I gotta do is whistle! star with little or no taste for ap­ ducted with insufficient relish, Sheeit. It’s disgustin’! Glug. Y ’see, pearing in anyone’s publications and there was hardly any blood. Bruno ol’ boy, bein’ a big celeb­ but his own, this is probably as The answer to both deficiencies rity, all these bitches are waiting close as we’re going to get to his lay at hand. By making the story­ around with their labias drippin’ verdict on Ralph Bakshi’s film of line more gruesome you were of­

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During the past two Page 24-T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 JOHN WILLIAMSON tary commander in Vietnam and the joint chiefs o f staff. ” HIS WEEK heralds the visit McNamara had a hand in coun­ Tto Australia of the cold war ter-insurgency operations that had statesman, Robert McNamara, their effect all around the world. who, on friday, sits down to lunch When he took over as secretary of with Gough at the Lodge in the defence there were no agencies in' company of representatives from the department that were respon­ Australia’s aid agencies. sible for guerrilla warfare research Remember the days when Within a year four agencies withii McNamara was as hated and vili­ that department had been expand­ fied for his part in the Vietnam McNamara: ed to deal with that type of war as Johnson? Remember? Well, research: the Advanced Research if you find you’re having some Projects Agency (ARPA), which difficulty recollecting it may be was to develop the techniques of because since McNamara took up systems analysis and operations his job with the World Bank some Master research for use in guerrilla war­ years back there has been a con­ fare; the Armament Development certed attempt by the liberal es­ and Test Centre (ADTC), which tablishment to “ rehabilitate” the was to develop new munitions to , man, which has been achieved by use against guerrillas; the Combat citing the “ evidence” thrown up Developments Command (CDC), by the Pentagon Papers to of War which tries to work out how wars “ prove” that he had been against against guerrillas will be fought the war all along. or rather the US — into the communism would involve the more adventuristic escalations of after Vietnam and what new After all the Pentagon Papers Russians. (But in doing so the US transfer of a nation of 20 million the Vietnam war, as proposed by weapons and combat strategies are a pretty hefty load to hurl at let its armed services run down.) people from the free world to the the joint chiefs of staff and gen­ will be needed (CDC is now plan­ anyone, and as most of us can’t By the beginning of the 60s, communist bloc. The loss of eral Westmoreland’s staff in ning strategies for projected limit­ get it together to take on weighty however, it had begun to be ap­ South Vietnam would make Saigon. He was never against the ed wars in the 1980s and 1990s); tomes like that we simply feel parent that the main threat to the pointless any further discussion war himself and personally watch­ and the Limited War Laboratory we’ve got to take their word for US position came, not from about the importance of Southeast ed the smooth running of the’ (LWL), which develops equipment it. Well, I’ve got news! Michael Russia, but from departure of Asia to the free world; we would American military machine in and rations to enable American Klare, in his book, War without countries formerly in the US have to face the near certainty Vietnam. As Alain C. Enthoven soldiers to fight in any climate end, shows just how important sphere of influence. that the remainder of Southeast and C. Wayne Smith who worked and under any conditions. McNamara was in the US plan to When Kennedy’s new adminis­ Asia and Indonesia would do a under McNamara point out, “ Un­ Since 1970, when McNamara police the world in the 60s, 70s tration took over in 1960 they complete accommodation with like the determination of peace­ joined the World Bank, we have and 80s. realised this, and JFK and his ad­ communism, if not a formal in­ time force structures and the started to hear complaints from McNamara’s involvement in the visers set out to ensure the United corporation with the communist defence budget, in which the OSD him about the plight of “ under­ war without end was crucial. Dur­ States ability to destroy liberation bloc." The Pentagon Papers, in (office of the secretary of de­ developed” countries. One won­ ing the 50s the Eisenhower ad­ movements in Third World coun­ fact, note that it was on this fence) staff was heavily involved, ders just how sincere that talk is. ministration followed the concept tries. memo that Kennedy approved the or even the determination of force Take McNamara and latin America. that America’s main enemy was In november of 1961, secretary sending of several thousand ad­ deployments to Europe, which During a 1967 congressional review the USSR and that the main o f defence McNamara and Dean visers and combat support troops also involved OSD, decisions on of the Pentagon’s Military Assist­ strategy in this regard was to be Rusk, the secretary of state, wrote to Vietnam which set the scene force deployments to Vietnam ance Program McNamara declared massive retaliation: a huge array a secret memorandum to Kennedy for America’s later massive in­ were made largely by the presi­ that the Pentagon’s primary aim in o f bombers armed with nuclear on Southeast Asia which said: volvement there. dent and the secretary of defence latin America was “ to aid, where weapons to put the fear of God - “ The loss of south Vietnam to McNamara was only against the dealing directly with the US mili- necessary, in the continued de­ velopment of indigenous military and paramilitary forces capable of providing, in conjunction with the Gallagher’s digestive problem police and other security forces, the needed domestic security” . Of By a pissed-off member of the NSW Builders Laborers Federation the $US45 million in direct aid that the US proposed to give latin orm gallagher, the proclaimed revolutionary (marx- executive minutes and other rele­ America in 1968 McNamara want­ N federal secretary of the ist-leninist) and workers ally, also vant books at the motel that day. ed 76 percent to be in the form of Builders Laborers Federation, wants to see them axed. Under union rules this is illegal, a military hardware and services took a leaf out of king Richard’s The antipathy that Gallagher 48 hour notification must be related to fighting the guerrillas book and ruled his domain from a displays towards the NSW branch given to the branch secretary there. position of impenetrable isolation has its roots in the CPA split of when these documents are requir­ Way back in 1962 McNamara when he met with the union’s the mid 60s, and it is fired by his ed, and Bob refused the request. had placed enormous emphasis on Federal Management Committee empire building personality. Three The next Wednesday (6th) the US training of the latin American (FMC) in Sydney last week. of the FMC members were either members of the executive were at military. As he said in front of the Locking themselves behind on, or closely associated with, the Industrial court for the open­ US house of representatives ap­ the panelled doors of their now discredited NSW branch ex­ ing of a new wage claim case being propriations committee, “ Prob­ Koala Motor Inn suite (a three ecutives from the past, including presented by the 11 unions involv­ ably the greatest return on our star, ex R and R establishment, the one that the Mundey group ed in the building industry. military assistance investment now managed by a former valet of took over from. Working hand in Simultaneously, about one mile Norm Gallagher . . . comes from the training of select­ troubles with NSW HRH the duke of Edinburgh), hand with Gallagher they now away, Gallagher and his men were ed officers and key specialists at Gallagher and his men refused control the union in SA, Tasmania revoking the Right of Entry per­ days of motel air, whisky, and our military schools and training admittance to the NSW delegate, and the ACT, and they have the mits of the NSW branch’s organ­ arguments, he was heavily into centres in the United States and branch president Bob Pringle, and numbers on the federal body. isers. This meant that building fantasy land. overseas. These students are hand- then proceeded to launch their The decisions taken by the foremen could prevent union of­ Well the NSW branch will picked by their countries to be­ most savage attack yet on the committee in Sydney were quite ficials from entering a site on prove hard to digest, just as Stalin come instructors when they re­ NSW union. amazing. They began the week by which industrial problems had (“ The big fish always eat the little turn home. They are the coming The committee, which is made barring Pringle on the grounds arisen. The workers on the job fish” ) had problems with Yugo­ leaders, the men who will have up o f the six state secretaries, and that only the state secretary could be denied union assistance slavia, so too will Norm with the knowhow and impart it to their Gallagher, the federal secretary, would be acceptable as a delegate. in a dispute. NSW branch. forces. I need not dwell upon the was supposedly meeting to discuss Bob was standing in for Joe After three days of Gallagher’s The Gallagher-MBA fantasy, value of having in positigtps of the deregistration case the Master Owens, the secretary, who at the antics the union leaders were not whereby Gallagher takes over the leadership men who have first­ Builders Association has brought time was away on his annual surprised when they learned that NSW branch, throwing out the hand knowledge of how Ameri­ against the union. Under our holidays, and by denying him he had informed the MBA o f this present leaders and lifting many cans do things and how they Byzantine industrial laws the admittance they effectively dis­ decision before telling the union. o f the Green Bans, and in return think. It is beyond price to make derigistration action has to be enfranchised the 10,000 workers The executive met that after­ the MBA drops its deregistration such friends of such men.” taken against the federal body and in the NSW union, the largest in noon and decided to call a mass action, is unlikely to eventuate. Although he’ll probably mouth all its affiliates, so although its the federation. meeting o f the members to discuss The union executive, one of the the right liberal phrases when he directed mainly at the NSW But while Pringle was fuming the actions of the FMC during the most open in the country, has too comes I’m damn sure McNamara branch, all the other state outside the meeting, the commit­ week. The wage claim and the much rank and file support, and will never repudiate the work he branches and the federal organ­ tee was listening to the charges of branch’s approach to the quarry there is nothing to hide on the did when he was secretary of isation will suffer if the MBA wins maladministration and misuse of workers strike which is rapidly phoney issues that Gallagher has defence and the thousands of peo­ its case. funds being laid by the NSW rank closing down the industry in NSW raised. ple that died as a result of it. j— j The NSW branch of the MBA is and filer, Joe Ferguson. These were also on the agenda. They desperately keen to have the same charges had been rejected by decided to allow the FMC to Green Bans removed, as they are the rank and file last October, inspect the books in the presence now stopping construction on when Ferguson led an opposition of the president and acting secre­ APTHPQ about $3000 million worth of team that campaigned on these tary, and any NSW rank and filer apartments, office blocks, hotel- issues during the triennial elec­ who was also interested, provided motels and the like, buildings that tions for the executive of the state the members voted for this pro­ FORUM PRESENTS the city needs like a hole in the branch. The charges were also posal at the mass meeting. They head. They would also prefer to 'THE SLAUGHTER OF ST. TERESA'S DAY' dismissed by the FMC during its did. By Peter Kenna work with a union which was less november meeting, but the NSW It was during this conference featuring Margaret Cruickshank united and militant on industrial delegate was allowed to attend that big Norm made his last phone — Mil I I ______matters. They can see the sky that meeting. call to the branch before flying ALEXANDER THEATRE - MONASH UNIVERSITY opening up and raining dollars if Trifles like this were of no back to Melbourne. In a voice Book now - 544.0811 ext 3992 AH 541.3992. only the Pringle-Owens-Mundey concern to Gallagher, and he loud enough to be heard by most Also at M.S.D., Myers, & Dial-A-Ticket service, leadership can be removed, and phoned Pringle on the tuesday, of those present, he informed ______SOUTHERN CROSS HOTEL they have been acting with the demanding that he produce the Pringle that he was going to “ eat STUDENTS $2 AFTER 7.45p.m. knowledge that Gallagher, self- the NSW branch” . After three THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 — Page 25 Daylights saving MOST Australians have no hope o f a say thru the mass media. Participatory democracy, freedom of speech and communication-oriented media are for most people sheer fantasy. But in TLD, we have a no-vested- interests, anybody read, anybody write, national weekly medium: it. is actually worth saving! If the articles are too shithouse — write better ones. The product is as good as the stuff we send in. Keep the complaints coming in, in mercilessly straight language. We are not in this paper to impress or outdo each other, but to do a job of communication: informing, enlightening, and inspiring each other. Who gives a fuck if it’s a capitalist ripoff! We can still use it. Besides, if anybody’s making too much out o f it, their punishment is automatic: excess money will clog their spiritual pores and destroy higher consciousness. PHIL 0 'CARROLL, AlbUry, NSW

More, more non-coercive cultural or counter-cul­ tionary masses are primarily a means to achieve the desired effect — and 1000 YES, utterly agree with Anonymous, tural revolution is unscientific non­ an end, and that end is the scientific Harry exposed? bad effects into the bargain! Balgownie (Letters, TLD 2/4). Let’s sense. validation or otherwise of marxism. ADMIT it Neville. Expose yourself. It is my belief that in preparing have more good stories and more o f Marxists believe that a truly scien­ Admit that instead of putting your children for the workforce, by taking tific outlook entails the recognition There are undoubtedly some TLD Tabloid story in Living daylights. own' name to your poxy ramblings, up most of childhood with schooling, readers who have the inherent ability MICHAEL WILDING that to interpret the world is to, in you hide behind the alias o f “ Harry we are depriving them o f a satisfying fact, change it, and that therefore a to acquire a marxist consciousness to a Wilding, is of course, an editor of G um boot” . human life, present or future. greater or lesser extent and it is in their Tabloid story. truly scientific ideology (which is All o f the Gum boot trade marks, When I read of a politician's pro interest to do so if they realise the marxism) must be a fusion o f theory (intellectualising middle class preju­ posal for nationwide “pre schools” , value o f knowledge — the alternative is and practice; while religion could be dices, condescending style etc), are that is for taking up even more of the nigger mentality o f either the Flatfoot said to be also a fusion o f theory and yours also. So you think you know childhood with schooling, I am promp­ vulgar bourgeois materialism o f Billy practice it is a form of philosophical everything, but are too gutless to admit ted to write urging (1) that any such fancies Snedden and Co. or the primitive idealism and so is scientifically mean­ your neurosis; rather you prop up this “ pre schooling” remain strictly volun­ petty-bourgeois utopianism of Harry WOULD ya believe that I married a ingless whereas marxism is a materialist dickhead Gum boot as the supreme tary and (2) that the age o f compul­ and his friends at Nimbin. I certainly black homosexual, working class philosophy and so amenable to scien­ snotnosed intellectual that you really sory entrance to schools be raised. hope that someone is impressed by woman and that I'm a gracious em­ tific verification. Thus, in keeping with are. Children would have a better life what I have to say because the more ployee o f the state constabulary? scientific values, a marxist is necessar­ Yet perhaps you are doing the and be better prepared for adulthood if and better Australian marxists there Probably not? .. . that’s OK ... I ily a revolutionary communist because readers o f your counter culture rag they had more chance to take in the are the sooner and easier it will be to just wouldnt get breaks like that. the scientific validity o f marxism can some kind o f service. Perhaps the real world (outside school) in their consolidate communism in a people’s HOPPER only be ultimately proved by the con­ counterculture (which, by the way, openminded years. solidation of communism. republic o f Australia. doesnt really exist It’s just a collection CAROL EASTGATE, Petty-bourgeois idealists like Harry o f part time dropouts wearing Indian LEONARD AMOS, Wodonga, Vic Comrade Amos Gumboot imagine that marxists are style clothing and eating vegetables, Wynnum, Qld strikes again motivated by some metaphysical who most o f the time fill their essential notion o f bringing salvation to the Great slabs of our favorite pen pal's middle class roles as pie eating, money W ay out exploited and oppressed masses under spending students etc), needs some HARRY GUMBOOT (if he is to be politics had to be cut this week, capitalism, but for marxists the revolu­ Sorry Leonard. - Eds west taken seriously, why does he — or is it kind o f fantasy to cover up its natural insecurities. she? — use that ridiculous pseudo­ HOWZABOUT having Living delights nym?) is for once on the right track Just as superman stood for “ truth, justice and the American way” to kids extended to give a coverage (however with his sentiment that “ If the adven­ minor) to all o f us here hicks across the ture o f life is regarded as a search for of many years back, Gumboot repre­ sents freedom, anarchy and all that shit Nullarbor? Even just a TV/radio col­ truth, both within you and without umn would do marvels for morale. you, then one feels almost prim con­ for the day dreaming counter culture. tempt for the citadel o f the lie.” Harry, But anyway, who gives a fuck. IAN, however, in keeping with his petty- Screw Harry Gumboot, become Rich­ Perth, WA bourgeois mentality, has to obscure in ard Neville. metaphysical idealism the scientific MARK BURFORD, I think it’s truism that the essence o f Being is Adelaide, SA one’s knowledge o f Being. P.S. I admit though, that in amongst all about music of the crap Harry Gumboot covers Harry, the prisoner o f petty-bour­ IN REFERENCE to Jim Mackenzie’s geois ideology, does not know, or is up with some truthful observances LJHOS R.ESFtiiviSi/3>Li5 criticism o f my criticism o f Albie ever likely to know, that only marxism and intelligent ideas, some things R3 TH I -S j Thomas (TLD 2/3) . . . I say “ three — correctly formulated by Soviet which generally seem to be lacking cheers for relevant criticism", but let’s marxists, in my opinion — is the only in this ratshit paper. (Though it's at least see whether the criticism is scientific world outlook, and therefore getting better.) actually relevant before we get too the truth. Naturally I regard scientific No says Harry carried away. Mackenzie must have truth as being the only truth because been either dreaming or sleeping when science is the knowledge of objective WHO is Humbert Humbert, who is reality which is the only state o f Being. Peter Pan, who is Shylock? Humble he read that I was Dutting down R ock for being 20 years old, or for any other O f course, that marxism is the only Harry Gumboot is who he is. Let us reason. scientific world outlook is a subjective not waste tim e w ith guessing games to assertion on my part which is not gratify shallow curiosities. It is H. G.'s If he’d bother to read my original necessarily in accordance with objec­ ideas which may merit discussion, not letter correctly, he’d see that I was tive reality no matter how much scien­ the inconsequential identity behind unequivocally defending what I regard­ ( GJ ee_ Pr R -H i 1 tific investigation undertaken on my the signature. ed as a valid and still-evolving art-form. behalf; but as marxism is the highest Have you got it this time, Jim? As for level to which I can raise my subjective Pearls before swine the so called great SOUND debate, that consciousness I must necessarily reject SLOWLY, as the heart becomes more horrible apprehension arises from the anti-marxist viewpoints for the present. variegated, a new self awareness en­ stupidly inappropriate title The living Harry, however, has reached a level o f velops the being. Yet predictably the daylights gave my letter — I’m wonder­ consciousness which I can only regard tortuous onslaught surrounding exist­ ing right now what sort of title the with theoretical contempt because it ence remains unbroken. Although person concerned will give this letter — contradicts my subjective viewpoint. necessarily obvious and sometimes which effectively obscured a great deal In this respect it is important to oversimplified, the truths that spill of the purpose o f the thing. emphasise that we are all psychologic­ from the pages o f TLD each week But as for the rest of Jim’s “criti­ ally different because the mind o f each remain for me strangely edifying. No cisms” — you quibble over my use of individual is the result o f a unique sentimental bullshitter me, just abso­ the term “ avant-garde” . That is a com­ interaction of biological heredity and lutely delighted at what you’re doing. monly accepted phrase for a particular cultural environment. As we are all RODERICK, type of music: I could have used psychologically different all thought Subiaco, WA plenty of terms, but for the sake of about creating a community conscious­ reader comprehension, used a term ness or mass consensus based on some School of life very much in use. Personally, I dont ideology such as anarchism, Christian­ THE SCHOOLING of children is like care how olde worlde you find it, Jim. ity, fascism, etc. purely through some any interference with nature: we may It doesnt matter to me at all.

Page 26 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974 Another point: you call Dolphy and Coleman too cerebral for your tastes THESE DAYS. Well. I congratulate ■ r e L L t f E , H o w you for descending from'the heights at least at one stage to like them once. And anyway, your rather patronising You ++AD ~DELuS)Qty attitude towards academia, to cerebral art, including, to you, Dolphy & Cole­ -t h a t YOU ARe ,4 man, seems based on a false analogy between “ GUTFELT PASSION” and -psycw 1 ATRIST P Great Art, and, to be neat about it, “ cerebral” with Mediocre Art. If we accept this at face value w e’re led to a farcical esthetic situation. Ever heard o f Imagination, Jim? That comes from the ol’ brain, doesnt it? Or dont we need imagination either? In any case, your condescending, hipper-than- thou criticisms o f the two above men­ tioned musicians are ill-founded, based on your own “historical” approach. Dolphy and Coleman were both criti­ cised when they first came on the scene for discarding conventional tech­ Living on nical processes in a search for a new way of expressing emotion. the line They were criticised for being too I WOULD like to bring to your atten­ direct, too emotional. The search for tion the living conditions provided by new ways and means I’m sure you the Queensland railways for their em­ could find on your battered old copy ployees in outback areas. I imagine of Ornette’s “Free Jazz” , if you look­ other government departments in other ed: or didnt you ever bother to hear states are also in on the act, but can’t THAT one, Jim? confirm this, perhaps you could and Going back to your patronising at­ enlighten the public. titude towards m y so called “ academ­ Floodbound at Blackwater in CQ, I ic” approach (that was something again got a job as a fettler on the railways for that I was condemning in my letter, a week, until the Capricomia highway, Jim), I feel that you too are guilty of a P.T., Sydney. to you, that is the stuff Watergates are Forget the Aerogard? route 66, reopened. Accommodation little o f that yourself, in labelling my I just want to say that I agree with made of and it goes right over your was provided but no tucker. This con­ argument for "jazz" “primitive”. Do everything that she(?)/he(?) said. head. Instead o f probing that point, I WAS going to say the bloke you got sisted o f a camp bed, plus a vermin you need sophisticated theories for Particularly that I too enjoy almost you go on to the vagaries o f tax to write up Sunbury (TLD 2/4) was a infested mattress in a humpy, practical­ GUT music? Please, let’s be consistent. everything in your paper. minimisation. Ask yourself the ques­ shitwit but I guess his piece o f piss just ly open to all elements. Communal Just in case you ’ve forgotten Jim, I’m middle-class, I’m working and tion next time something like this put the cap on the whole bad trip. cooking facilities consisted of one I’m not putting down Rock, or any I’m tied to hire-purchase, mortgage etc. occurs who did this and why did it Sunbury may have been all rock and wood stove, no wood provided. The other form o f music. As I said pre­ I’m well and truly into this “ owner­ occur and you might get the point. frolic for some — but I think there place was infested with redbacks, lice, viously, I’m not a musical fascist. I’m ship” thing: the “ status” thing. The next redhot point that com­ were a lot who wished it had happened silverfish, cockroaches, ants, bed bugs, just trying to unmask a particularly I’m not really as aware a person as I pletely eluded Mr Drummond was different. I was there for the full three flies, mosquitoes and the like and those that concern the size o f XL bad piece o f criticism. Last time it was like to think I am: I have however, and a half days and the things I probably snakes in drier times. Petroleum as compared to his unnamed Albie Thoms. This time it’s you. read every issue o f your paper and remember most are: a guy fart-arsing The shower was a tin bucket affair, com petitor. I do suspect that there is an Y ou say that I “ drop names” what I want to thank you because it has made around in the river and then drowning surrounded by decrepit canvas in full I an O and a C in the name somewhere. was attempting to do was to illustrate me want to see. another swimmer (pissed to the eye­ view o f the pub and a Shell roadhouse my contention that there has been At the same time I do think some o f Mr Sykes says, “ A company for in­ balls) w ho returned to the land o f the on the highway and passing trains. The stance, which started only four years valid contemporary music outside of your letter writers have a hold of living only after 15 minutes of resusci­ toilet was a dry pan affair which hadnt ago has now got about six times the “ classical” . Theories and ideas in criti­ themselves, like: What a lot o f ques­ tation; all the cut feet (including been emptied in weeks and could be number of outlets that I’ve got, but die cism are useless if they dont have tions in the same issue o f TLD. I mine), cubic miles o f garbage; the smelt from ten yards. It also had its thing is w e’ve n ot cheated or any­ practical application to the art they are thought that one should have been in stories I heard from ambulancemen share o f redbacks and other vermin and dealing with. And where is the substan­ your poetry contributions page. thing.” about the Saturday night brawls on die no toilet paper was provided and it tiation of your “ sophisticated" theor­ RICHARD ZYCKI, This unnamed and nameless com ­ hill, the 10,000 meatheads guffawing didnt have a door. I am still receiving pany has recently signed a contract ies, Jim? Who in Rock do you feel has Wauchope, NSW. at each other and yelling “ Suck more treatment for infested bed bug bites, been doing all these wonderful contem­ with a large overseas oil company to piss” ; the sharks selling shit food at scabies and tropical ulcers from the porary, “ rare" things? I’d like to know. Am os made stop price cutting and to receive petrol Toorak prices; the wolves dressed up in outpatient department at the Prince I might even agree with you. But ex refinery from that company at long hair and caftans selling pretty Henry hospital. perhaps, for you, all rock performers a mess Australian prices. The implication from perfumed candles from 60c and even­ If a private company pulled such are as good as each other, pouring out all this is that this unnamed petrol tually couldnt get rid o f them at three capers, government departments and THE SOUL cries out in torment, while Great Art, because they use electricity. discounter was set up to compete not for 50c; and the bourgeois bastard unions would jump on them. Is the assorted fools argue over what or what OH, and thanks for noticing Col- with the established oil companies, but organisers who got around in a helicop­ government immune? I would be is not anarchy through the letter col­ trane’s name in print at least five times directly with XL Petroleum and indeed ter. willing to swear to the above in a court umns of your paper (it doesnt matter last year, Jim. I’m slipping, arent I. this unnamed company may have been I think the whole of Sunbury was of law. what name is given to the illusion of Perhaps it’s because, as even you no­ established by the overseas oil compan­ very unhappy and uptight. People are JACK ROBERTS, how the world should be, it is still an ticed, he's not really cerebral enough, ies for this express purpose. still smoking grass to compete, and Maroubra, NSW illusion of reality). No murmur is is he, like Ornette, or Dolphy? Mr Drummond however missed taking o ff their gear to be daring raised about the article by Am os KEITH SHAD WICK, these points in his interview with Mr (although no one did that much this Shrinks Drummond, Gadfly o f the giants a Glebe, NSW Sykes, perhaps a repeat interview with year). Maybe we are working loose of supposed interview with Ian Sykes of Mr Sykes and if he bears in mind the our gout crushing surroundings, but I stink O K chaps . . . kiss and make up — Eds. XL Petroleum. points I have made, the interview will keep thinking o f all those meatheads IN NO other profession is psychiatry I can put up with inane questions be more to the point. sucking piss. more mistrusted than in the medical but to miss two very controversial G.R. COXON, The only really good thing about profession. Poofter points that Ian Sykes makes as if they Tottenham, Vic. Sunbury this year was the top of the At the age of 24 I was depressed, bashers didnt exist, shows a degree of incomp­ hill where they had the folk tent with and prescribed anti depressants (1964). etence in the reporter second to none. theatre, pottery and weaving demos. By chance a doctor discovered I had THE SIGN of being aware and adult is Did Mr Drummond fail to comprehend Exam sham The folk and the rock play Africa, abnormally high blood pressure for my to be big enough to accept one’s the import o f the statement that Rex AS A marker in English Composition which had three runs there, really age and I went to a leading specialist mistakes, but apparently the heavies at Connor did not know tfce XL had lost in the NSW School Certificate Exam­ caught on and a lot o f people saw it. who put me on drugs to lower it. Also TLD are unable to do this. its quota of crude oil, and that XL is ination, rather appalled at the task, I Sunbury w on’t really be a festival until a spell in hospital for tests. While in An item in the editorial notes of the only company to lose this quota am sending this “ answer” to you as a that part of it is expanded into a total hospital “ resting” the BP “ fell” without your last issue (TLD, 2/5) informed now that it cannot buy cheap petrol on conscience-appeasing gesture. involvement sort of place and the medication. On leaving hospital it rose. readers that some gays had come to the overseas market. An English Composition (Ordinary hillside music becomes more than a The specialist discovered (I told him) I your offices to negotiate a reply to a This, to say the least, is a crippling Level) School Certificate Examination. giant piss-up, which you can have was on anti depressants and sleeping recent article and, as you put it, “ they blow to XL especially in view of the My Impression of a lively crowd scene. anywhere. It all depends on whether pills. The picture changed dramatically. were received with little cordiality” . decision o f the tariff board to return My impression o f a lively crowd scene people will really let themselves go and Some 18 months later I was again You then went on to say the gays dumping securities to XL. A t no point is certainly not this examination room get into it instead of coming along to hospitalised for tests re blood pressure, had probably been the victims of a has Drummond attempted to find out the atmosphere is up the shit; no fun. watch. the specialist assumed I was a NORT E “bully-boy from ASIO”. Come on, who imported the dumped petrol in Just a heap o f stuffed dummies sitting Dont kid yourselves — Odessa Pro­ boy, I read his case notes, that as I was admit the obvious; you have poofter question or to even highlight the posi­ down at desks doing some crap exam­ motions is run by businessmen who, on barbiturate tablets I must be knock­ bashers on your staff. It comes as no tion of the customs department in ination paper. Now my impression of a like the rest o f the filthy rockbiz scene ing o ff amphetamine thus answering surprise to me to learn this. Poofter taking arbitrary decisions that are aimed lively crowd scene is say a rock concert in Australia — are more interested in his query that my blood pressure al­ bashers are everywhere, including in solely at XL. The obvious conclusion is with (sex) everyone freakin’ out and dollars than experimenting and having ways fell while resting in his care. On so-called radical and progressive circles. that the department o f customs and ’avin a bloody good time. Some gooses fun. ward rounds he told one of his juniors excise has made decisions in favor of may resort to dope and alcohol to dump that “Oh well he’s had psychiatric MARTIN SMITH, The fun revolution is there for the the large oil companies at the expense their hangups. taking. It doesnt belong to the cosy help, it’s really not worth bothering Glebe, NSW. of XL but all Drummond can say is, My definition of a lively crowd counterculture elite, nor the promoters with.” The end result is (not yet 30) I “ How have the big oil companies acted scene. like Odessa w ho will sell you a cheap walk around with a blood pressure of Hold it improperly? Are there any specific Please excuse this mess but I got so substitute in a pretty packet if you 130/180 (an average assessed at examples?” hung up on this paper I had to take my dont organise it yourself. two readings a day for 30 days). IN YOUR letters (TLD 2/5) you Mr Drummond may I point out that hate out somewhere. ANXIOUS MOTHER OF TEN, ANON, printed one entitled Suggestions from you have just had an allegation made THIS IS STUFFED M oonee Ponds, Vic. Sydney, NSW * THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 12-18, 1974-Page 27 F YOU saw Angela Mao not, even the faking is magnifi­ The Raymond Chow Hong was a fast-talking, speedy young “ You shouldnt ask such a ques­ Itake on a gang of rapists in cent. Kong movie machine that bolted American producer, Andre Mor­ tion — it’s a political question that Enter the dragon you’d have The distributors had to cut the Bruce Lee into a cult idol, hopes gan, who is righthand man to causes problems with Hong Kong guessed she was going places. Well, crunching bones bit, though we it has come up with a female Raymond Chow, head of Golden and Taiwan,” said Morgan inter­ it’s not every day you see a fragile were so numbed by everything counterpart. They’re backing 22 Harvest Films. preting her reply. “ After all, Miss asian flower demolish a pack of else that I can’t see how it year old Angela Mao — discovered Andre Morgan justified the ex­ Mao’s family fled from Shanghai vicious hoodlums with some would've mattered. Anyway, it’s three years ago in Taiwan and ploitation of Kung Fu - which to Taiwan after the revolution, resounding kicks, hand chops and such a stylised kind o f brutal since famous in the Far East — as does after all extol pacifism - in her parents still live in Taiwan and hefty throws. ballet that it’s beyond reality. the new superstar of the western movie violence, by saying it was she travels on a Taiwan passport. And without losing an ounce Lady Kung Fu's fascination is Kung Fu fad. She’s a black belt of okay because the good guys al­ Of course, she hates the commun­ o f her femininity either! we said. one o f a cute little China Doll in a the Korean form of martial arts, ways win. ists," he added. That was just a cameo role, an pyjama suit, so pure that she Hapkido, and also studied Chinese But what about the anti-Jap­ You couldnt fault Ms Mao’s hors d’oeuvre to the coming doesnt so much as hold hands T’ai Chi Chuam. anese caricature of the Lady Kung modesty and virtue, as she sat splendor o f Ms Mao on screen in with anyone, and she minces in And to kick off the export Fu film? “ Have you ever seen prettily and enigmatically, at one her own right as a fully fledged while the American Gidget voice action they flew her to Australia Japanese in Hong Kong?" rallied point vowing that she’d never take film star. on the dubbed soundtrack says; last week, still smarting from a Morgan. It was a popular Chinese her clothes off for a movie. None Lady Kung Fu is the first of “ I just beat up the japs!” misplaced Kung Fu blow she col­ film theme and Ms Mao contribu­ of her films involve her in any her films to be released here and Or she’ s out there alone sur­ lected while working on a film ted that she’d been brought up to love scenes or the taint of sex. it’s an orgy of martial arts rounded by eijl thugs and sudden­ with George Lazenby (Stoner) feel that japs were bad people, but And as for womens lib, she violence with a dynamic fighting ly her eyes widen with summoned which set back her arrival here. she didnt think it right that one might be the symbol of self-de­ performance by Mao that makes power and all hell breaks loose, We met her in the smooth bar group of people dhould hate an­ fending womanhood, but the the Ali-Frazier bout look like love with Angela emitting Minnie of Sydney’s Boulevard hotel. Ms other group of people. army of Right On Sisters! hasnt Mouse squeals as she hurls bodies Play. Mao was got up in a ming blue However she was not partial to filtered through to the ladies of Set in China in the early all over the place. cheong-sam, demurely slit to re­ chairman Mao, who incidentally is Hong Kong. She believes a wo­ century, Lady Kung Fu opens a It’s a sado-masochistic turn-on, veal a glimpse of stocking top, a the best known exponent of T’ai man’s place is in the home - martial arts school and encounters no question. A Kung Fuck. Like mink stole around her shoulders Chi Kung Fu. The question on her cooking the food, looking after hassles from a hostile group of those noticeboards in Soho shop despite the heat, and a pair o f attitude to Mao’s China flustered her husband and raising the child­ rival Japanese exponents. With her windows advertising French mis­ diamonte-studded shoes with en­ her composure for the first ren. She’d just got married secret­ two offsider-brothers put out of tress offers discipline. Angela Mao crusted, see-thru heels. This was time. ly a few weeks ago to a former action by the Jap aggression, she is promoted as “The Hong Kong decidedly not our pyjama-clad Chinese film star and after her 18 battles for her life and wipes out Hell-cat who will give you the Lady Kung Fu, but an impeccably months contract is up she’s going th e entire team nearly licking of your life!” groomed film studio starlet-stable to phase out her career. single-handed. As for Bruce Lee, a close friend Her feats of skill in the almost of both Andre Morgan and Angela uninterrupted string of sensational Mao, the mystery surrounding his fight-scenes are pretty incredible, death had been fabricated by the leaving the set like a battlefield, media. “ It was a freak,” said strewn with broken, moaning Morgan. “ He was hyper-allergic to men. a headache pill.” It particularly blew me out But with his posthumous fame when die flew through the air and and the cult following for Kung vaulted herself back off a post Fu, it looks like Angela Mao will into an opponent’s head, and be kicking her way into our hearts when she horse-whipped a guy for quite some time with her long plait, leaving his to come. face a bloody mess. I dont care if she’s really got her chi together or £ ) JUDITH RICH

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