State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College Digital Commons at Buffalo State Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine Buffalo State Archives: History of the College 4-1-1974 The Shakin' Street Gazette, Volume 9 The Shakin' Street Gazette Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/shakinstreet Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation The Shakin' Street Gazette, "The Shakin' Street Gazette, Volume 9" (1974). Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine. 9. https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/shakinstreet/9 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Buffalo State Archives: History of the College at Digital Commons at Buffalo State. It has been accepted for inclusion in Shakin Street Gazette, Student Music Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons at Buffalo State. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume one, number nirle. Shakin' St ntourns a death in the Fan1ily (It's only a movie: Gone With the Wind) IT'S ONLY A MOVIE T.V. screen magazine, that you can't rinky-dink piano work compliments of Family touch or feel. This is what Family has left· Tony ·Ashton, and a swing band style (United Artists) . us. saxophone solo. · Well, its finally happened and don't But we've heard all this before. Or Family are to have us believe that the say you hadn't been warned. With the have we? As Roger Chapman blurts out rock world is as bastardized with unreal completion of their latest album, Family "Two evils can never make one right, Be celebrities as was hollywood thirty years have split up, due to the fact that after sure one evil has already been done," in a ago. They present us with a concept, but producing many· very are we being good albums; setting presumptious in the pace and style for believing it7 many of their brethren Take tv.o is called english bands; and "Leroy," lyrically existing as an another cliched re-run, innovational entity given musical scope by within themselves; they a country/western had yet to reach the melody complete with levels of success and harmonica ,and some popularity that they so steady finger pickin' by richly deserved. They Charlie Whitney, had done it all, and yet another Family too many people _had mainstay. "The chick uttered, "Who the hell that he;d choose,"would -Take a good long look at F2.mily cuz this is the last time you '11 ever see 'em are they?" have dollars to lose ... " Yes, it's true, We've heard this before, Family are gone now, too. Chapman's and the real effects of delivery of vocal makes their departure have yet one feel his perspective, to be felt. It's like a rock and roll they're not really gone perspective towards ,the yet, the memory of images around him. them is something like And in today's musical remembering a movie, trends, there are many the emotions and re-runs existent. nostalgic chords forcing "Buffet Tea for their way into your Two, a farewell kiss for mind, making you . you." I climb aboard laugh and cry. Quite ' and sh,'ut that door, futile, however, they're we're through ... " a only re-run plots, subliminal cuts; raspy half spoken, half sung manner, it sweet, sweet vocal delivered by Chapman repetitive drum beats, re-hashed guitar seems !as if Chapman obliterates every in his own razor blade style, some riffs; cheezily produced sensory collages thbught he conceives as the chorus line excellent percussion by Rob Townsend, and "It's only a Movie." Just a movie, "It's only a movie, it's only a show," and on this track we have a folk rocker of complete with all too real celluloid takes our minds as mesmerized prey. A sorts. As it is paradoxical that Chapman characters, stick men and women, perversified, electrical tango of sorts, here eulogizes the happy wanderer, it is boogiing insanely. Glamour. glitter and complete with chincy drama achieved by also quite extra-ordinary that "Buffet Tea SHAKIN' ST. GAZETTE SHAKIN' ST. GAZETTE 0th STREET is beyond me :. :Maybe Lynne is teasing With such obvious changes, one would those wishing for something Move-like in expect to hear a uniquely new sound. for Two" transcends almost every style behemoth of innovation. It is really too "Strawberry ·Fields Forever" as the sound. If so, cut it Lynne, nobody here Well, don't get your hopes up. The sound that it tends to imitate. This non-chalant, bad t_hat the band had to break up on this springboard of an experimental likes a wiseass. is different solely because of the use of happy jaunt builds in tension until it note of seeming pessimism, and it would extension, ELO planned to be a The difference between dependability harmony, which is something new for the 'breaks into a type of dirge, dramatized by be ironic if success was the icing for semi-classical pop-rock fusion. ELO would and predicatability here lies iri the Purp. However, if you're looking for the. addition of strings (compliments of Family's final production and the album rock as hard as the occasion demanded, implied belief that when a group restricts dynamic riffs and changes to accompany Del Newman), and a repetitive, primal turned gold. yet still integrate complicated arranging itself to a set format as is the case with this fine vocal performance, don't bother urgency propelled by the drum beat. I wish Roger Chapman, Charlie through the use of cellos and other ELO, there is the danger of being trapped to look here. Burn could've easily been The futility of the happy wanderer is Whitney and Rob Townsend all the luck traditionally 'classical' instruments. by· their self-proclaimed boundaries, with called "Part 396 is a continuing series on further established in the next tune, in the world in their future endeavors, It was in the first ELO album, No stagnation close behind. Roy Wood saw Blackmore-Lord solos." If Ritchie "Boom Bang," a sensationalized song title and if this trio remains together, all will Answer, that Lynne would come to the this when he left and that's why the only Blackmore is such a hotshot guitarist, to equal the seeming vulgarity of the not be lost for the Family cultists. fore, sharing half the writing and vocal thing you cari predict for Roy is that he why don't he learn some new licks, huh? lyrical content. "Sick and tired, all -Michael V. Sajecki chores. Natural that Lynne would shine will be unpredictable. Now I don't think As a result, there are few redeeming hay-wired, Fever thats for sure, Moon, here considering his past with the Idle this problem will be evident in ELO for cuts on the album worth mentioning. The Lune girl e,rection for a cure." This cocky an album or two more. ELO has a fine title cut, "Burn," I know, you've heard it l·:j·' I... _j_ I'(.4, .1 . )Vl' .. ' .J>I( ·1.. ·-- ~ ..I .. J ..l( __ .'I·:,·. _··-·• 1r-1' . ..·, Race. Lynne later complained that he was rocker shows strains of Gospel inflection, .-., in ')"!w·i·h;rd I la}~ becoming angry that Wood was getting all talent for developing music around the all before, shades of "Highway Star," etc. adding another dimension of perplexity songs' themes and that, along with Nonetheless it's pulsating, hypnotic and (.)... ·1.> l c: .. , .• ... .·,· ·1?. , ;.~,,, ..··y1J.. l .... •\ the credit. Wood also complained that he Deep Purple to this number, not only the futility of a felt too restricted in ELO's format. Lynne's irrepressible sense of the absurd, BURN · potentially explosive. On "What's Goin' frustrated ego, but also the fact that this Jealousies rose to a breaking point, and make ELO one of the few really Deep Purple On Here," Jon Lord's use of honky-tonk 'basic honesty is a typical re-run. "Cos I Wood finally left to form his own band; entertaining and intelligent bands around. (Warner Bros.) piano is a welcome change from that got those T.V. nudes running through my Wizzard, leaving Lynne to handle ELO. Taken on its own merits, On the Third So what if everything Deep Purple does overworked organ of his (you know what 'head." Most are familiar with ELO II because Day is a very good album, but ELO still sounds the same? I mean, they never they say about these English rock and roll "Boots N Boots" begins the second of the semi-hit "Roll Over Beethoven." claimed to be creative heavy metal stars 1). On "You Fool No One," Ian Paice side, with a salvation army type brass On the Third Day is an extension and wizzards . or did they? Even though saddles up and rides his cowbell - fine arrangement, as the happy wanderer has refinement. It has its fine points, but the band has undergone a shake-up in vocal unison by H & C in harmony no his soul wrapped up in a sweatshirt; Lynne (who writes all the material) is personnel (again), the sound of their less, and Hughes, cocky as all hell, "Boots n Boots "there so much I got to becoming too predictable, rather than newest album, Burn, is typically Purple threatens: see ... " This tune, initially shows strong dependable. and just what I was afraid of - "If you think you 're gonna take me gospel strains; but an amazing transition A blatant use of drama characterizes predictable. for granted, chasin' 'round wit,h all you takes place with the ease of hitting a "King of the Universe," a song not unlike Bassist extraordinaire Roger Glover see-gonna make you live to regret it" · guitar string, as the number switches to a their own "10538 Overture" in cello has gone on to bigger and better things, LOOK OUT!!! country/folk flavor and Chapman's vocal ELO stabs and chorus.