In Review a Little Bit by Brad Flash
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Page 6, Retriever, September 27, 1976 In Review A Little Bit By Brad Flash. The big news around Plains Georgia is that Amy Carter, 8 year old Whistling Down the Wire -to Shake Some Action daughter of newly elected President Jimmy Carter, has lost the first of her baby teeth. It is also reported that the By Elias Lieberman young Miss Carter will receive from the fare share. He is gifted with one of rock's tooth fairy, five shares in the Skippy "Whistling Down The Wire" - Crosby anachronistic group called the "Flamin' ,Peanut Butter Company. Nash (ABC Records) finer harmony voices. Unfortunately, his Groovies" . Within the-relatively short period of one ' own compositions tend toward the This five . man group hails from year, Graham Nash and David Crosby pedestrian or the obscure. "Mutiny" is California and the days of Haight-Ashbury . have managed to turn out two new albums. confusing and disjointed. "Marguerita" is but in the eleven years the nucleus of the " Wind On The Water" cOhvinced quite a more interesting but also somewhat group has been together they've never made it into the limelight. In 1972 the Groovies relocated to England and began developing a style and personna that reeks of Liverpool and the mod culture which Crosby spawned the Beatles and Stones. This brings us back to the albwn cover because there, posing for all the world like the Beatles or Stones, with their pastel shirts and and pointed boots, are the Flamin' Groovies. The album cover is a perfect clue to the music to be found inside. The Groovies have done their homework and Nash have their early sixties sound down pat. Most of the cuts are under two and a half minutes, tailored for AM radio and chock Just think, if we are lucky (or unlucky Whistling full of hooks and pleasant harmonies. As if laE~pendiing on your viewpoint) this could to demonstrate where their roots are, the b~ the "Top of the News" come album even contains a version of the INlovf'!m IhPr, and election time. To some it BeatIe's " Misery''', handled by /1:he be a welcome respite from the news to Establish Groovies with the reverence it dese~es. Ford went to church, swam the The remainder of the tunes are origi'nals of the. White House pool, ate break by the group but they are indelibly or even that he awakened to find his stamped with the sixties English sound. was in sleeping in the same bed. a Duo Today, when Capitol Records is spend [HF~aVf>n forbid. The Amy Carter story just ing millions in an effort to rekindle beat the misreported story of Jack Beatlemania in a generation that has crept dealing cocaine in Boulder, Colorado. up behind us, SIRE Records may have. the Every four years television carries the few people that the long lost spirit of answer in the Flamin' Groovies. For a of two big sporting events, the CSN +Y was not really lost but merely maudlin. Crosby and Nash are at their taste of some pleasant nostalgia or -just a finest however, on the tunes which are the IUJlvrrlDic~s and the Presidential election. redirected. The new Crosby-Nash release, pleasant diversion, give a listen to "Shake , the "race" for the White House "Whistling Down The Wire", is very much true collaborative efforts. "Taken At All" Some Action." and "Out Of The Darkness" are fine ~~~------~~-=-- to seem more Olympian than the in the same vein as its predecessor. It's an event. The two major album full and brilliant flashes and examples of what they can create when they meet halfway. Ica.ndildates have come "face to face" in highlights, but moreover, it goes far in 'The Debates." defining exactly where Nash ends and "Whistling Down The Wire" is still a transitonal album for Crosby and Nash. This historical event will attract a large Crosby begins. audience interested in who can Crosby-Nash are backed up once again They are still hard at work defining their identity as a duo. Their future releases will handle the medium of television and by touring band, Danny Kootch on create a better image. guitar, David Lindley on slide guitar and probably reflect a greater spirit of fiddle, Craig Doerge on keyboards, Tim cooperation in their songwriting so that Image is very important. Att~l"- the last Drummond on bass and Russ Kunkel on neither measure of talent is swamped by showing of the TV show, "The oreat drums. These musicians are all studio the other's. Debates," four years ago, a survey was veterans and collectively they create a taken which showed that the television polished sound which Crosby-Nash put to image a candidate exudes is a major effective they create a polished sound "Shake Some Action" - The Flamin' determining factor for the choice of which Crosby-Nash put to effective use. Groovies (SIRE Records) President. They provide the framework within which Both can'!iddtes have a sports image. the songs themselves sink or swim. The Shakin' and Flamin' The news IS always reporting a soft great secret of "Whistling Down The ballgame which Jimmy Carter and "his Wire" is that David Crosby is more of a people" play. Or a story of Gerald Ford musician than Graham Nash can ever and "his college football buddies rhope to be. It is Crosby's tunes, like "Time getting. together. Even the fact that Jerry Mter Time", the instrumental "Dancer" The first thing you have to do when you can SWIm the length of White House pool is and "Foolish Man" which are the album's look at this album cover is remind yourself played up. highlights. His acoustic guitar work is that this is indeed a new albwn, recorded gorgeous, his voice flexible and warm. and released in 1976. Otherwise you are Gerald Ford has been in sports all his This is not to say that Nash doesn't do his bound to fall into the trap of a delightfully life, suffering many "football related The Political Suspense of the "R" Document By Brad Hopkins 'Irving Wallace has masterfully woven the plot around the watchwords of "Iaw and order." , loving care grew into the FBI. A secret plot to subvert the US Con Hoover during this time period took the stitution, a midnight death-bed confession coalesces around the actions of Vernon old Attorney General dies with a clear law into his own hands, arresting 'six to ten and the forces of good and evil that mesh Tynan. As an ardent Hoover lover conscience, and now the burden has beeri thousand persons in a five day span. These together to enlighten or keep hidden the passed on. Somehow, the FBI Director, people, were citizens as well as "aliens." mysterious R Document. Tynan fee!~ that it is his obligation to / ' Ech!ar Hoover and the country to try and with his myriad system of informers and They were arrested, some without Irving Wallace, in his.new novel, "The R eliminate the crime problem in the US. evesdropping devices gets wind of the fact warrants. and placed in detention centers. Document" has suceeded, in the af To do this Tynan must have the that outsiders are aware of the R This is the plan that Hoover's fictional termath of Watergate, in exposing the Document. It seems that the Director also sucessot intends to use if the amendmEmt legal possibilities of putting the people of President's support. The proposed legislation would say that in a time of knows that the priest was involved in an passes. This is all to insure meaning of the: the US under dictatorial power. unsolved narcotics case when he first took phrase "law and order." The action is fast' Crime has been rising at an, -alarming national emergency, the Bill of Rights would be susR,ended and the country would the vows. The FBI chief wants the priest to paced and takes the reader from ' rate, according to FBI statiSti¢s . The be ruled by the Committee on National keep quiet about the R Document, or Washington to California, where the, President is doing nothing, as ·' are the knowledge of the narcotics involvement deciding vote on the amendment takes' Attorney General, and the Congress. The Saf~tY' " headed by none other than, the FBI Director. will be leaked to the public "from a place. To abridge the basic rights of FBI Director, Vernon Tynan, thinks it's Irving Wallace has masterfully woven reliable source." freedom of speech, press, and worship to' about time to insure that there is law and The 2nd "dropped stitch" is the fact that obtain "law and order," was one of 'the order. He begins to doctor the crime the plot around the watchwords of "law and order". the FBI director needs money for his ways the Nixon Administration tried to figures he is receiving from across the The weave is perfect for Tynan except "Mien Kampf." The Director is aware of force on the nation restrictive legislation. country. He then subtly suggests to the for two dropped stitches. The old Attorney an unsolved million dollar robbery of All Irvimz Wallace has done is to stretch President that he should introduce some General is in the hospital suffering from a laundered money but to get this money the real thread a little longer-almost to new legislation to the Congress. This stroke: realizing he is dying he calls for Tynan must gain the confidence of the the breaking point, to infer that there is-a legislation would be able to reverse the Chris Collins, the new Attorney General, to crook who is serving time.