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University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO Wavelength Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies 10-1984 Wavelength (October 1984) Connie Atkinson University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength Recommended Citation Wavelength (October 1984) 48 https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/48 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wavelength by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS EARL K LONG LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS DEPT NEW ORLEANS, LA 70148 HAVEsoMETHING EXPLOSIVE .......................................................................................................................IN STORE FOR YOU • • • • • • • • • • SALE PRICE SCHlZOPHRENlC CIRCUS S499 MAGAZINE I N EW ORLEANS I 504 · 897 . 50 1 5 WWOZ mOVES STUDIOS ISSUE NO. 48 e OCTOBER 1984 TO ARmSTRONG PARK "I'm not sure, but I'm almost positive, that all music came from New Orleans." -Ernie K-Doe, 1979 FREE CONCERT FEATURES A Ghost Story . 16 Hackberry Ramblers . 20 Roy Hayes . • . • . 23 AND PARTY DEPARTMENTS IN THE PARK! SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 ALL AFTERNOON I EVENING 14 STRY TUNED TO WWOZ 90.7fm FOR DETRILS OR CRLL 891-2335 14 co-sponsored b,y 15 The New Orleons Jozz ond Heritoge Foundotion ( o.nd with help from the French mo.rket Corporo.tion Cover photo by Alice Quarles Hargrave. Member of NeiWOfk hblloller, Nauman S. Scot!. Editor, Connie Atkinson. S.nior F..d ltor, Bunny Mallhews. 0111« Manaatr, Diana Rosenberg. Editorial Assiotanu. Allison Brandin, Siobhan O'Quinn. l'yp<Mllina, Sandra Alciatore. Advtrlislna Salts, Rhon Fabian, Rae Lynn Rivere. Dlstrlhtlon, Joe Torczon. Contri butors: Carlos Boll, Allison Brandin, Zeke Fishhead. Jon Foose, Carol Gniady, Tad Jones, Jon Newlin, Ric Olivier. Diana Rosenberg, Kalamu ya Salaam, Shepard Samuels, Gtne Scaramuzzo, Hammond Scot!, Almost Slim, Keith Twitchell, Nancy Weldon. Les White, William D. White. Wa•·tltngth is published monthly in New Orleans. Telephone (504) 895-2342. Mail subscriptions, address changes to Wavelength, P.O. Box IS667, New RHYTHm & BLUES REVUE Orleans, LA. 7017S. Subscription rate is $12 per year. Foreign $20 per year. First class subscriptions, $28 per year (domestic & Canada). AO airmail rate at S40 per year (overseas). The entire contents of wov~ltngth ar(' copyrighted 9 1984 CONTEmPORARY JAZZ JAm Wa•·tltngth. 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BvrNoW 1'/AB~POM 111011.9NOSO ~~ 511~-r jfl)Sit.. ~M -tffG t!lri1'T b.S. •. •~ October 1984/ Wavelength 3 OCTOBER NEWS R.E.M. Shot New and jolting experiences he's not had much time for during the last few years, explains guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M. Too many motel rooms to inspect in faraway places, too many soundchecks in the middle of nowhere. We caught him in Texas, at the Sheraton­ Austin, en route to Europe, Japan and Tulane's McAlister Auditor­ ium, where Buck and associates will deliver an October 2 lecture on the powers of "Pretty Persuasion." Persuasion.'' Does R.E. M. maintain a back­ log of material? We always try to keep ahead. We'll have about five or six new ones in the set when we get to New Orleans-brand-new stuff. It helps to work out the kinks on the road, to see what can go wrong with a song, what can go right. Still down on videos? I think if we ignore them, they'll go away. I think they're pretty much overrated as far as their importance. They just cost so much. Our album cost a tenth of what it costs people to make one video. Peter Buck, third from left, doesn't believe in ghosts. How do you feel about the music business? record because you said it was stuff that we do now, we won't be play at Papa Joe's Original Music I actually entered the music good" or "I've gone out and doing so we might as well get good Hall. Four sets a day for tips. They business with such negative bought this Flannery O'Connor live versions of some of the older play covers, they don't do any thoughts that I've been pleasantly book because you said so and I stuff before it gets thrown away. originals. Some of the covers are surprised. I'm probably the only really enjoyed it." That's good. It's good to have it in the archives really cool. They also do guy in the whole world who could Okay, so tell us about some in case our playing goes down one "Whipping Post" and Little Feat. say that. I read all the stuff about good records. day. Oh yeah! Posthumous eight­ It's pretty weird. the business, about how everyone Husker Du and the Replace­ record set live album! R.E.M. does its share of weird was a jerk but I've met tons of ments are two of my favorites. The Do you ever take vacations? covers . .. good musicians and lots of good Meat Puppets' new record is really I had three days off and I went We do them intermittently-one business people. We're still cool. I've been getting a lot of old down to New Orleans. I went to or two a night. We do some enjoying it and that's the main stuff-bargain-basement hunting, the World's Fair, saw the dB's, Velvets songs, a Troggs. song or thing. that kind of thing, old soul and hung out. I saw Alex Chilton two. A lot of them are totally un­ H!hataboutyourF/annery blues records. I've been listening to playing down in the French rehearsed, like "Smoking In The O'Connor! Hiilliam Faulkner a lot of New Orleans stuff. Ernie Quarter. I like him, he's real Boys Room.'' We were playing connections? K-Doe-l've got about ten singles cynical. He recognized me and I'm Detroit and thought, "Let's play a I'm reading Faulkner's on him I've been discovering not sure if he recognized what song by a Detroit band." We Absalom, Absalom right now. I slowly and surely around the band I was in but he came and sat couldn't think of one. The old think it's great stuff but we don't country. I just got the Wild and talked to me. None of us Motown stuff was too complicated match up to them or anything like Tchoupitoulas album, which I mentioned Big Star and I think he for us. that. I think you can find your really like a lot, and the new was happy about that. Know any ghost stories? influences in certain places and it Neville Brothers album is pretty I think he wants to get into it a I don't have one, unfortunately. doesn't always have to be music. cool. little bit more. I told him, "If you I don't know any fictional ones That's why I always try to mention H!ill R.E.M. ever release a live feel like touring or anything, give and I certainly haven't had any good books and good bands and album? me a call and I'll try to help." The happen to me in real life. I'm good records when I do interviews We'll be recording the last three band he's with now, the drummer keeping my ears open but I don't because I have had a lot of kids dates of this tour just because the kinda sucks but when they do blues really believe in ghosts. come up to me and say, "Gosh! feeling is that if we tour with the stuff or soul stuff, it's really fun. -Bunny Matthews I've JZOne out and bought this next [studio) album, a lot of the They're called the Scores and they DeGeneres the last several years as amateur film and TV offers, both The Dave tionally reserved for men. Says comedienne are to be overlooked), Letterman and The Tonight shows Ellen: "The men in the audience · Not Degenerate her Showtime win has gotten far have called, and special appear­ are looking to see if you're pretty more than just a foot in the door; ances such as co-hostessing with and the women are looking at the Comedienne Ellen DeGeneres, one might say she's been hurled Joan Rivers at a recent celebrity men to see if they think you're cable television network head first into that mythical room tennis benefit.
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