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Inside: Agent Orange Donald Fagen Class Reunion Ain’t Misbehavin’ It Came From Hollywood 2 A Thursday. November 4.1962 Daily Nexus The Nightfly Light Touch of Donald Fagen By JAY DeDAPPER Jersey listening to jazz as a spandex jackets, one for of its cynical hindsight and Donald Fagen’s first solo form of rebellion and escape. everyone.” almost foolish musical ac album The Nightfly could This love of jazz led to ob The music is straight companiment. “The easily be the eighth Steely vious results with Steely Dan forward Steely Dan right Nightfly” is Fagen’s tribute Dan album if it weren’t so — a band noted for its down Fagen’s synthesized to those late-night radio cheery. There is a good sophisticated jazz/rock blues harp. “Green Flower hosts that kept him up all reason for this: Donald flavor. As he states in the Street” is an off-beat affair night. Again Fagen takes a Fagen is the vocal/- liner notes, the songs on this featuring a great per light, comical look at all Of synthesizer half of the famed record represent some of the formance by guitarist Larry this: “So you say there’s a duo. Presently Fagen and images and fantasies of his Carlton. “Ruby Baby” is race/ Of men in the trees/ Walter Becker (the other youth. filled with Four Freshman- You’re for tough half) are pursuing their own One of the great forms of style vocals and is one of the legislation/ Thanks for interests, much to the rebellion at that time, ac few covers Fagen has ever calling/ I wait all night for dismay of record executives cording to Fagen, was the done. It is quite different calls like these.” It’s so who have seen the Dan’s late-night radio emanating from the dark obliqueness of catchy you wind up singing popularity grow over the from New York City. The similar tunes on Gaucho, the chorus. past few years. The Nightfly cover is a portrait of Fagen Steely Dan’s last album. Probably the most unusual should satisfy the execs and as a late-night talk show This song typifies the ap song on the record is “The the fans. host, complete with a pack of proach Fagen has taken — Goodbye Look.” Fagen sings Fagen grew up during the Chesterfields and a Sonny music that’s fun and easy to as one of the last Americans fiftties in suburban New Rollins record. The back listen to. in Cuba after Castro’s coup. cover shows a typical “Maxine” ends the side Fagen has written a song suburban tract late at night with the classic slow dance about women and love and Exerobics, An Aerobic Exercise Studio, presents... with a house that has one right down to the sultry tenor indirectly brings in the upstairs bedroom light on. solo and “deep” lyrics: Cuban crisis. This also Everything on the inside is “Some say that we’re provides Carlton with the 44 as good as the outside in reckless/ They say we’re chance to pick his way THE SWEAT SET” terms of imagery. much too young/ Tell us to through the best solo he’s The first side of the album stop before we’ve begun/ had in many years. The opens with the first single We’ve got to hold out till Latin rhythm and xylophone release. “I.G.Y.” which graduation/ try to hang on provide an ambience that all stands for International Maxine.” Classic. falls in place. The record Advanced * Fast Paced * Fun Geophysical Year. Fagen’s “New Frontier” is great ends in the most upbeat way look at what 1976 was sup tune about a summer party imaginable. “Walk Between A Challenging Workout posed to bring is a in dad’s new bomb shelter. the Raindrops” evokes an N E W C L A S S T IM E humorously light view of a Again Carlton provides some image right out of a world where people travel sparse yet excellent guitar Hollywood musical. The tune “undersea by rail/ Ninety solos. This is a great upbeat is short but the straight Tues-Thurs 4:15-5:15 p.m. minutes from New York to song that will surely be swing tempo and the Paris” and “there’ll be released as a single because (Please turn to pg.7A, col.5)
OTHER CLASSES AVAILABLE 9:00-10:00 am M-W-F Int. Ain't Misbehavin' Brings 9:30-10:30 am Tu-Th Beg. 5:30-6:30 pm M thru F Int. 9:00-10:00 am Saturday Int Professionalism to S.B. By JOHN KRIST Barbara Mills, with a husky voice that can 147 N. Fairview F air view Center Call 683-2022 Living in Santa Barbara, you get ac alternately screech like a cat and purr like a customed to feeling continually half- well-oiled preacher, exuded sensuality with nourished, to having your appetite for the every ounce of her rather substantial bulk. sight and sound of high-caliber performing Deborah Barnes, her face that of a kewpie artists only occasionally satisfied. Sure, doll, danced and pranced, and wielded her there are a couple of polished theater dramatic vocal range like a whip. Melodee companies and a handful of accomplished Savage, with perhaps the cleanest and musical groups, but usually one needs the purest voice of the three women, moved and vast resources of a large city like Los sang with a seemingly effortless elegance Angeles to encounter those who are true and control. professionals at their craft — performers John Thomas and Frank Farrow III, the who possess the ability and dedication two male members of the company, were required to earn a living at what they do. polar opposites of one another. Farrow, Santa Barbarans, at least the number who bearded and barrel-like, growled and could pack into the Arlington Theater on two mugged his way through the show, nights, were treated to precisely that last becoming serious only when absolutely week, as the touring production of Ain’t necessary. Thomas, on the other hand, had Misbehavin’, the Tony Award-winning more moving parts than a Swiss watch. V i z z a musical show celebrating the work of jazz Long and slender, rubber-faced like pianist, composer and recording star Farrow, he expressed the nuances in each Thomas “F ats” Waller, swept into town like phrase of a song with every inch of his body. an electrical storm of singing, dancing and After an initially shaky start (why is it high-altitude camp. that every show at the Arlington seems to 9 6 8 - 1 0 9 5 It was a simple show — five on-stage suffer from some type of sound system performers, a seven-piece backup band and screw-up?), the show reached out and ‘S E R V IN G U C S B S IN C E 1971 " 30 tones either written or made into hits by grabbed hold of the audience, refusing to let Fats Waller. Sets and costumes, impressive go until long after the finale. It was an in their slinky glitter, helped establish the evening of first-class entertainment that left mood, ranging from that of smokey dive to a lingering, slightly bittersweet afterglow: HUNGRY? smokier dive, but it was the ability of the an exuberant feeling that something special performers to breathe life and character had just taken place, coupled with regret into simple songs that made the show so that it will probably be so long before it absorbing. happens again. $ 1 .0 0 OFF ANY , On Any SPAGHETTI Medium Size DINNER Pizza A T $ 2 .0 0 OFF V* On Any * PRICE Large Size LIMIT: Pizza 4 Dinners per coupon One pizza per coupon Expires New. 1 0 ,1 9 8 2 Expires Nov. 1 0 ,1 9 8 2
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The magic of the modern forming live, she demonstrates confidence and, above all, America’s most remarkable theater company, the recording studio’s vocal overlays call give a mediocre voice* *1REfHR?>Who needs vocal overlays when the undoctored National Theatre of the Deaf, begins its 29th tour this fall, a strong vibrancy, and additional studio musicians can turn sound is this much fun? and will be seen tonight in Campbell Hall at 8 p.m. the music of average players The Wild Combo, with The nationally acclaimed company will perform a new into something both exciting Hayes’ brother Kevin on play developed by the actors and playwright Shanny Mow and confident. drums, Paul Davis on guitar with the group’s artistic director, David Hays, based on the Watching Bonnie Hayes and Hank Maninger on bass, romance of Parzival. An innocent fool, Parzival undertakes and the Wild Combo in the all looked like they were a rousing, rollicking quest for the grail that leads him from UCen Pub Saturday taught having a good time on stage, one boisterous escapade to another. me something new: that one and sounded rehearsed and Since the founding of this.extraordinary company IS of the biggest pleasures for a tight together. Maninger’s years ago by Broadway designer David Hays, the world has music fan is, after enjoying athletic leaps and bopping applauded an exciting new theatrical form. Using the an album, to see the group were a good counterpart to Superb ability of deaf people to communicate visually, plus live and have them sound Hayes’ more hurried moves. their natural acting talent, Hays fulfilled a long plaimed-for different.. .and better. Hayes performed all the project: a fully professional permanent acting company of With only the most basic songs from Fun, with the the deaf. The National Theatre of the Deaf is now the sound system, as available highlights of the album, foremost equity-scale, full year dramatic touring company in the Pub, Hayes and her including “Girls Like Me,” in America. three-member back-up band ‘ ‘Separating, ’ ’ * “Shelly’s The National Theatre of the Deaf is designed for all provided about an hour and a Boyfriend,” and audiences. Its purpose is to create a new theater form that half of very danceable, “Coverage,” marking the synthesizes spoken English and American sign language. energetic pop music. As lead high points of the show as Audiences around the world have found the NTD to be singer and keyboardist, as well. stimulating and stunning theatrical entertainment. well as songwriter, Hayes It’s too bad that Hayes The combination of sign language and speech opens new was the centerpiece of the doesn’t communicate her horizons of fneaning to the public. Audiences who have seen show. She played, sang and danceable sound and acute the troupe immediately realize that this handsome com conversed with the audience sense of humor as well to pany is concerned only with unique and beautiful per with complete confidence. vinyl as she can to a live formances. This is not “social work” but professional The intimacy of the Pub’s audience. But the group is theater. stage set-up would make only a couple of years old. Judith Crist on the NBC Today Show advised her some performers nervous, Perhaps in time, they’ll audience: “Don’t miss it. A wonderful company... a superb but Hayes seemed to enjoy relax a little in the studio and company... one of the most exciting kinds of theater that I having the audience close. She took the fact that, probably lose some of their recorded polish. I certainly hope they have ever encountered. A startling new theatrical form. because of the overabundance of parties in the middle of move in that direction — it would be a shame if they went You really owe it to yourself when it hits your city to see the Halloween weekend, her audience was next to non-existent the other way, and ended up dampening some of their National Theatre of the Deaf.” (maybe 30 people) with humor. Audience size was less natural on-stage energy with artificial studio stuffiness. For information please call the Arts and Lectures Ticket important than audience participation and enjoyment. Office at 961-3535, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. The 60 Egos, a local group, opened the show. A six- Asides from her confident, fun stage presence, the best member pop/rock band, half women, half men, their music aspect of the show was Hayes’ soupd. On their first album, was good, but perhaps because of the sound system in the Good Clean Fun, Hayes and the Wild Combo sound polished Pub, their vocals were hard to understand and con and professional. Vocal overlays, especially on “Shelly’s sequently ineffective. Boyfriend,” the first song off the album to receive much • airplay, fill out any rough edges to Hayes’ voice, giving her Photo by Audrey Israel
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STORE 1011 STATE ST. I 5718% HOLLISTER AVE Downtown S.B. Downtown Got Available at the (next to Crocker Bank) UCSB Bookstore « A L E HOURS FRi-SAT 10-5:30 pm I SUN 12« 4A Thursday, November 4, 1982 Daily Nexus Memories of Firenze with Vivoli’s Ice Cream of Italy Slightly Inspired Class Reunion: Tt Came From Horror or Humor Hollywood’
By PETER LEFEVRE By JONATHAN ALBURGER National Lampoon’s Class Reunion is an attempt to mix Zombies Of The Stratosphere. Fri & Sat 11 am-Midnight Sun-Thurs 1 lam -llpm the school blood and gore movie with the type of humor that The Weird E ffects Of LSD. Serving L u n ch the National Lampoon magazine is so renowned for. Were I Married A Monster From Outer Space. the movie to make a solid commitment to either genre then What do these especially awful cheapie flicks have in perhaps its overall tone would not have been so confused. common? Or is that a loaded question? Well, aside from Les Ballets As it stands, the film is constantly compromising itself, its being suspiciously-titled plot summaries, they are among a laughs tainted by quite standard special effects, and any handful of bronzed examples of Hollywood at its narrative TROCKADERO suspense-generated tension is prematurely eased by silly and technological worst. They are they kind of B- movies de Monte Carlo and occasionally offensive one-liners. that play on the tube’s Late, Late, Late Show. They are so A reason for the ineffectiveness of either the jokes or the embarrassingly schlocky that they are riotously 'funny. shocks is the movie’s blatantly fictive nature. When the And, strangely enough, they are eminently watchable, conventions used in a film are obviously a work of the which is why many truly wretched Aims of these genres imaginaton, the film has a tendency toward the mythical. have gained cult status. This is an advantage if the emotion that the director wishes The genres almost exclusively deal with toe fantastic and to evoke is wonder. When a filmmaker wishes to evoke fear toe science fiction, stories of man pitted against monsters or laughter or both, however, a choice must be made. Is the on earth, around toe universe, or those which originate film going to represent life as we perceive it, in which case from within the mind. The movies are usually hiehlv. and if life is imitated successfully then the audience will believe clumsily, symbolic and allegorical; but they are decidedly in the characters, or is the film to present an imaginary sophomoric in approach, due less to a lack of imagination world, in which case if the world is purely fantasy then the than to a dearth of funds. audience might suspend their belief and play along with the Celebrating around 100 of such gems through guest star joke? commentary and energetically-edited snippets, It Cam e When a movie straddles the two, the audience doesn’t From Hollywood is a lighthearted documentary, fashioned know where to place their empathy and there is no visceral in toe Saturday Night Live vein, that offers chuckle-worthy connection to the action on the screen. Where there is no insight into how and why so many films of toe ’50s and ’60s visceral connection there is no audience reaction. In Class attempted to answer the era’s ever-pressing social issues: Reunion one can admire the concept and some of what it why can’t our kids be trusted? and why does the animal Wednesday, November 10 inspired, but it rarely, if ever, receives the attention that it kingdom go berserk? O Thursday, November 11 was designed for. How is it possible to care at all about The sci-fi cinematic treatise takes the form of mad UCSB Campbell Hall — 8 PM people who attended Lizzie Bordon High School? How does scientists unleashing inexplicably subversive and insidious Wed s performance includes new works, one react to a transfer student from Transylvania High? behavior from victims who lie prone on operating tables Thors, old favorites. The class itself doesn’t appear so much like a class as it with a spaghetti strainer on their head (and placed appears to be a symbolic representation of every pop Reserved Seats: SI2 OO/SI0 OO/S8.OO precariously under a photo enlarger lens which is strapped phenomenon since the fifties. The credits read like an in to a microphone stand). So much for scientific deter (UCSB Students: Sl0.00/S8.00/S6.00| ventory: One punk. One polyester disco freak. One Jam es Tickets/Charge By Phone: minism. 961-3S35 Brown clone. Two hippies. Presented by UCSB A rts & Lectures 1982. The darkness of toe human psyche is as frightening, so The film starts with the class, still in high school, at a they assert, as a giant amorphous blob oozing out of a beach party. The only way to tell that the reunion hasn’t movie theater, craving teenagers but consuming started yet is that the men all have their letter jackets on. everything in its path. The monsters include, as hostess The When the reunion starts 10 years later, no one looks any Gilda Radner points out, toe “burnt casserole monster,” older. The class president and football team captain play a alien pipe welders, animated crepe paper, toe sponge National nasty prank on the school loser. At the reunion, the loser, rubber tree, rock monsters who come to life from the side of recently esepaed from a mental institution, begins to kill a Martian rock quarry, and toe adorable slime people — the class off one by one. Strangely enough, the loser only and, oh, yes, toe endearing critters with eyeballs on their Theatre kills those that no one else liked so that in the end when the shoulders. class president apologizes and saves the loser from falling Another oft-used film target are the creatures, both of o f the D eaf to death, the dead bodies become unimportant and are this world and from beyond, who, “like communists,” have forgotten so the dance can continue. After all, what are a it as their sole purpose to break United States security and few corpses compared to a rekindled class spirit? The disrupt army intelligence. Not a difficult task. reactions to the deaths range from the class goodie two- One of my personal favorites is a film which has toe shoes remarking upon hearing of a murder, “How distinction of being named The Worst Film of All Time in absolutely gross!” to the two hippies seeing a cafeteria The Golden Turkey Awards book: Plan 9 From Outer worker stuffed in an oven and then, chilled to the marrow Space. Its creator — scriptor and editor — was given an with horror, running out to roll another joint. While entire segment of It Came From Hollywood; Ed Wood was vigilante groups search out the killer, the rest of the class also selected as Worst Director of All Time. The dialogue is remains in the gym and plays bingo. inconsistent and the acting wooden, even cardboard, which These images are designed for humor, but it seems as if is at least consistent with toe quality of the sets. An air the filmmakers have no faith in the comic potential of the plane’s cockpit, for example, consists of two folding chairs film, leaving no room for pacing. The film revolves around and a shower curtain (complete with bar rungs); there are the plot and not around the comic development which is a no controls and no stearing devices. The aliens’ space ship Presents an original theaterpiece, death blow to the entertainment value. One of toe central is equipped with such ultra-futuristic appurtenances as “PARZIVAL, From the Horse's Mouth” plot conventions is that everyone is trapped in the building worm-gnarled card tables and kitchen utensils. In one shot TONIGHT! because the doors have been locked. Come on... it may be night, but the reaction shot shows day. Plan 9 is The movie bills itself as being brought to you by the same Thursday, November 4 decidedly abysmal, but magnificent. people who brought you Animal House. That may be so, but UCSB Campbell Hall — 8 PM When quizzed by a comrade about toe plan to invade and don’t be fooled. The only survivor of Animal House to ap rule earth, toe leader, in all his intellectual acumen, Reserved Seats: $10.00/$8.00/$6.00 pear in this monstrosity is Stephen Furst, the fat pledge. asserts, “As long as they can think, we’ll have our (UCSB Students: $8.00/$6.00/$4.00) This movie provides none of the lunacy or contempt for problems.” Tickets/Charge By Phone: 961-3535 convention that Animal House did. More importantly, Class We are treated to Gilda’s gorillas and Dan Akroyd’s Presented by UCSB Art, & Lectures 1982. Reunion has no choice comic performances in it, an aliens in two earlier segments. The all-time best film title element that Animal House had in abundance. Again, in reads, The Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Animal House there was a closer semblance to truth. Deep M ixed Up Zombies. A close second is I Walked With A in the recesses of the American collective psyche there was Zombie. Of course, there is an entire roster of Japanese the notion that somewhere there existed a fraternity Godzilla Vs (??) contributions, and toe classic Don Siegel exactly like Delta Tau Delta. A number of people who were Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, in which societal agents high school seniors when it was released probably went out turn man into pod-like stereotypes; toe film is paranoic and searching for it, or started an Animal House of their own. polemical, ringing of anti-McCarthyism and warning of Lizzie Borden High could not possibly exist, so how can we police-state totalitarianism . 1957’s The incredible believe in its characters like we believe in Bluto Blutarsky ? Shrinking Man dealt similarly with man’s diminishing There were few performances that weren’t abrasive for individuality in the dawn of the nuclear era. the simple reason that there were few characters that On toe airier side of these dubious achievements (the weren’t abrasive. How does one compliment an actress latter two films are notable exceptions) are toe films whose only function in the film was to get laughs by being dealing with urgent American concerns — V.D., LSD, blind? Even Gerrit Graham, an actor with numerous illegitimate children, miscreant youth, drunk youth, credits behind him, is uninterested and uninteresting in his Blacks, immortality and the like. Reefer Madness role as the class president. He had appeared in another “documents” how marijauna cigarettes are used by toe attempt to bridge comedy and terror, as Beef, the rock star sexually ineffectual, the young dope fiends, and the impaled by a neon lightening bolt in The Phantom of the psychotic. There’s the first monster musical, too. And in P aradise, but it did not help this film. Zane Busby, as a former cripple who arrives at the what Akroyd describes as “National Geographic’s Madame reunion cured because she sold her soul to the devil, is Butterfly,” a blonde soprano chortles unintelligibly in an African sacrificial ceremony while buzzed natives wack sporadically amusing. Her face is constantly contorting away at their bongos dissonantly. Another flattering into obscene looks and then springing back to a rather at LEONARDO depiction of Blacks shows goofey black-faced white actors tractive, sultry expression. Her wicked mimicry and Linda A World Premiere performing admittance procedures in heaven, singing all Blair-style growling paired with an innocent, childlike pout The UCSB Department of Dramatic Art comes as close to matching terror and humor as the movie the while. In an accompanying scene, a Black taps a number while life-sized watermelon slices dance about Presents gets. Still, her character suffers at the hands of the plot. him. The laughter is minimal. a new play by Paul Jarrico With the ability to shoot fire from one’s mouth, why worry about locked doors'.' t or tnat matter, why worry aoout a The weird, wily and wonderful provide the best escapist based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci killer who knocks his victims out with a rubber mallet? moments in It Came From Hollywood, a little ditty marred directed by Stanley Glenn There is a guest appearance by Chuck Berry, as himself, by its brevity and questionable selectivity, making it seem Nov. 11-13 & 17-20 the entertainment for the reunion. He also provides vir only slightly inspired. More well-integrated clips with 8p.m. UCSB Main Theatre tually the only entertainment for the audience in the Radner and Akroyd’s humorous voice-overs would have theater. helped. Tickets: $4 ($3 UCSB Students) Arts & Lectures Office 961-3535 Daily Nexus Thursday, November 4,1982 5A Tubes and Oingo Bolngo Double Header m i i g e m i l i » By BARBARA POSTMAN ------HAIE DESIGN It is nice to know that Fee Waybill of the Tubes still has the incredible energy that propelled the band to STUDENT HAPPY HOUR4 notoriety. At the Tubes’ concert last Saturdays & Tuesdays 9-2pm Thursday in the Events Center, Waybill showed SAVE OVER 40% himself to be an interesting combination of per Wash • Condition • Cut $10 sonalities. At one moment he Reg. $17.00 is Merv Griffin, playing Master of Ceremonies for * UCSB Student Reg. Card Must Be Presented the hour and a half ex To Receive Special Rate travaganza. Then he is a drugged rock star, nearly passing out on stage. 2830 G De la Vina Finally, he is a finely-tuned Santa Barbara (806) 687-3814 athlete/acrobat, performing impressive feats of strength and stamina. An evening with author, critic, and dean Though the band members are all very talented, of American feminists especially guitarists Bill ELIZABETH JANEWAY Spooner and Roger Steen and drummer Prairie “Are Women’s Rights Human Rights?” Prince, they are merely a Danny Elf man performs nasty habits. musical backdrop for Waybill and his team of.female exotic dancers. Watching the Tubes is a bit like watching a burlesque Photos by Bill Duke vaudeville revue. Each number is just that: a “number.” Every song is performed as an act, featuring props, dan cing, volunteers from the audience and Waybill’s lively personality. The best part about Waybill is that he has no shame. He is as comfortable in his hot pink G-string while performing as Quay Lewd as he is in his ski mask during “Mr. Hate.” He Janeway's work examines women's .roles seems to have no idea how silly he looks, but because of his in social change and the women's movement self-assurance, he isn’t silly. His pride gives him a certain within the larger society. She is the author amount of legitimacy. of Cross Sections: From a Decade of The Tubes, though they have definitely maintained their Change and Powers of the Weak. originality and excitement throughout their seven-album career, shined on the cuts from their earlier years. There is MONDAY, NOV. 8 — 8 PM nothing else like watching Waybill perform “Mondo UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Bondage,” “Tubes World Tour” or the now classic “White Tickets: 82,50 general admission S’ Punks on Dope.” $2 for UCSB Students. Available at the door only. It was interesting to watch the Tubes immediately after Presented by UCSB Arts S’ Lectures (961-3535), the A.S. Program Board, and the Women's Center.
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Fee Waybill the athlete. A Free Lecture by SHEILA watching Oingo Boingo perform. The latter are good musicians and lead vocalist/ringmaster Danny Elfman is extremely kinetic and talented, but they just do not com LODGE pare to the Tubes when it comes to a real show. Oingo Boingo’s set included several excellent songs, such as “Nasty Habits,” and “Only a Lad,” but perhaps because of Mayor of the City of the inadequate sound system in the ECen or because of the similarity between their set Thursday and their set during Santa Barbara their last tour, they were truly second-string. Judging by pure music alone, Oingo Boingo is a much U t more interesting band than the Tubes. Oingo Boingo features an exotic blend of pop, rock, big band, and African THE ROLE OF rhythms.-To traly appreciate their music, however, it needs to be coming from a good sound system. When it becomes THE CITIES muddled in the ECen, all the audience has left to enjoy are }> the visuals, which the band lacks, especially compared to IN THE EIGHTIES the Tubes. Perhaps if the two bands had performed in a good concert hall, it would have been Oingo Boingo who Thursday, Nov. 4 stole the show. 3 :0 0 p .m .
Presented by Arts 0 Lectures (961-3535) Oingo Boingo’s duel xylophones. 6 A Thursday, November 4,1982 Daily Nexus
RESEARCH PAPERS» Improve your gradaal Rush 61.00 for the current , 306 page, research A Weekend of Punk in Goleta catalog. 11,278 papers on file, all academic subjects. By BETH GLAZER Help in a World Gone Mad” got the crowd moving, but soon Research Assistance 11322 Idaho This weekend the Santa Barbara area punks, and anyone the audience’s energy level died. The audience was A ve., #206W, Los Angeles. CA 90025 (213)477-6226 else interested in fine music, had as busy a Halloween amazingly quiet during the set, prompting the drummer to weekend as folks in Los Angeles > Friday night Agent ask “is this a library?” Toward the end of the set, however, Orange played the Goleta Valley Community Center, and the crowd got lively again, especially during such popular Sunday Angelic Upstarts and Social Distortion, a popular songs as “Pipeline” and “Secret Agent Man.” english Oi band and a popular Los Angeles punk band The band-dealt well with technical problems, such as respectively, did the same. cords that were continually being unplugged and poor Perhaps because of this minor rush of gigs the crowd at mixing, but the problems made the band harder to enjoy. Agent Orange was quite small. The GVCC couldn’t have Otherwise the band played with mechanical precision that been more than a quarter full. Still there was a comraderie became dull at times. The mood of the evening was one of a different between the audience and the band helped by lots of jokes slightly bored anticipation, and the climax of the show was sec o f jaws. and intermingling. The drummer of Agent Orange was the during the last song. A local punk jumped off the stage into cause of most of it; he kept trying to get the audience to the arms of a waiting bouncer. He was carried like a baby play Red Light-Green Light. out of the hall, and three quarters of the audience and the The bands’ spirits were better than their music, however; drummer swarmed out after him. Other than this one in FRIDAY Er SATURDAY MIDNIGHT Agent Orange played little of the fast surf music they are cident the crowd behaved well, perhaps aware of the fear MAGIC LANTERN THEATRE known for, concentrating instead on harder punk songs. the local police have of punk shows and their willingness to The opening numbers “Too Young To Die” and “Cry For shut them down. The GVCC is the only place in this area that allows punk concerts, so if any major problems arise, V¿x'.'?1 wn'S.'t»' î j ; "f"'/ life here could become much '*V'-S more quiet. Secret Service, a local -Ï^Æ&ïvfSï band, opened the set to a 3;«2®a mildly enthusiastic H. 965-5792Y03-5/Y/ He is 3 response. They were MUKI m N Z E $2.50 ADMISSION! F iesta*! million light followed by a surprise guest, ffU jco J CONCERTS AND 916 S la l* Street y e a rs from The Strike. This band in a M17 State SPECIALTY FILMS. EARLY BIRD SPECIAL PRICES! ho m e. * * * ■ ■ ■ • • • * cludes two members of the LICONCERT INFO FOR FIRST PERFORMANCE OF THE DAY. ^ He is ofraid. late great Los Angeles punk (except Riviera, Drive-ins, & Magic Lantern) X H e is torolly band, The Adolescents. They MONDAY & TUESDAY BARGAIN NITES PLEASE CALL 965-5181 “ .alone. put in a tight set to an t h e E x t r a - 1 FOR FILM INFO $2.50 audience that almost T e r r e s t r i a l ignored them. A highlight of ^ A d m is s io n a ll d a y lo n g ! ( e x c e p t M a g ic L a n t e r n ) , .A UNIVERSAL PICTURE PLEASE CALL 966-9382, -/AAll programs subject to change without notice.' their set was a renedition of the old Smokey Robinson -¿L'.yjC y'vÄOil' v>v [nv,**/. song, “Tears of a Clown.”
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[=, All Nightmare TfUI'MJ PSYCHIATRIST” “WEEKEND GIR a different íVm'Á set o f jaws. Wii«SKV.:,nÄV J C’9?9 70TH CENTURY-rOX FRIDAY A SATURDAY MIDNIGHT MAGIC LANTERN Daily Nexus Thursday, November 4,1962 7A 'EvSfltnfllitifiC Donald Fasen A d W v U K U C I I 1 (Continuedfrompg.2A) cordingly using man;many o f the positively bright lyrics make same studio musicians. Not Santa Barbara: The Creation of a New Spain in America, it seem as though it should only are the Brecker an exhibition celebrating the city’s bicentennial year, is be brief. This little ditty ends Brothers there in fine form, currently on display at the University Art Museum. The the album in a way no Steely but also bassist Chuck exhibition illustrates.Santa Barbara’s history through an Two New Films Dan song ever did. Rainey and drummers Ed ingenious mixture of photographs, a large model and The Nightfly represents Green and Jeff Porcaro. original drawings by architects and planners. Donald Fagen at his most Best of all, Carlton turns in Open This Week positive. The dark some of his best work in An incredibly explicit and disturbing documentary film sophistication of Steely Dan many years — and it is The National Theater of the Deaf will perform a new play on pornography opens for a one-week run Friday at the is replaced here by a light consistent throughout the tonight at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall. For ticket information, Magic Lantern. Not a Love Story, produced by the National humorous touch. This is record. call the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office, 961-3535. Film Board of Canada, is intended to portray the impact what makes this record so The Nightfly is a fine pornography has on women and their self-images. The film appealing. Fagen employs album in every way and is quite an improvement over The UCSB Music Affiliates and the Department of Music includes interviews with photographers, magazine much of the musical Steely Dan’s last work. This will present a “Town and Gown” music program on Sun producers, strippers, X-rated movie house owners and heritage that Steely Dan has is a record not to be missed. day, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. in the Faulkner Gallery of the Santa several feminist authors. developed, while ac- Barbara Public Library. Admission is free. The program The film’s message is immediately apparent. Por will feature pianist Jim Mohan performing works by nography is degrading to women and perpetuates a notion Mozart, Scarlatti, Prokofiev and Chopin and pianist Scott of the subservient female performing for the dominant Ellison performing a piece by Liszt. male. The effectiveness of the manner in which this message is delivered, however, is questionable. The film includes clips from pornographic movies and shots of those The China Syndrome will be presented Sunday, Nov. 7 at 42nd St. clubs that feature “Live Sex Acts.” 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall as part of the Politics in Film The problem with a film of this nature is that the people series. For tickets, call 961-3535. who need to see it, the people who need to be sickened by / s l this sort of thing, will not see the film. Even if they do, it is likely that they will not be sickened, but rather, will view "OAT HOBBY » 0 Tonight, Enjoy O O Auditions will be held for a cable television production for the film in the same way as they view any film featuring o o O O Santa Barbara’s nine physically fit women for the aerobic portion and five naked women being over-powered by men. dancers for the jazz dance section. The audition will be There is a fine line between a film portraying and Newest, Hottest Band... Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Santa Barbara Ballet Theatre, 122 E. analyzing pornography and a pornographic one, and un Arrellaga. Call 685-1189 for more information. The actual fortunately, Not a Love Story crosses it too often. performance will take place on Nov. 20. =. The run at the Lantern is a benefit for the Take Back the NEON Night Emergency Fund. It is sponsored by the Santa ★ Happy Hour from 4:30-7 Leonardo, a new play by Paul Jarrico, opens Nov. 11 at the Barbara Rape Crisis Center, the Women’s Community UCSB Main Theater. The show, presented by the Depart Building Project and the Shelter Services for Women. On ★ We proudly prepare perfectly ment of Dramatic Art, runs through Nov. 20. For ticket Friday and Saturday night after the film, several women from these groups will be present for an audience dialogue. plump prime rib for only $6.95 information, call 961-3535. (pretty petty price, eh) —includes trip to our salad bar! i Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a troupe featuring B arbarosa, a new film directed by Fred Schepisi, opens men in tutus and toe shoes, will perform Wednesday and Friday for a limited run at the Riviera. The film, starring Thursday Nov. 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall. For Willie Nelson and Gary Busey, is a classic Western, with an tickets and information, call 961-3535. interesting depth to it. Nelson is Barbarosa, a notorious bandit roaming the wilds of Texas who meets up with young Busey, a huge man with the look of an innocent child. Talley’s Folly, a play by Lanford Wilson, will be presented Though he robs from absolutely anyone, and seems to by the Ensemble Theatre Project beginning Nov. 12. The murder without a second thought, Barbarosa turns out to be award-winning show will run through Dec. 18. For tickets savirg money for his wife, a beautiful Mexican woman FOOD & DRINK / 5918 HOLLISTER AVE j j and information, call 962-8606. played by Isela Vega, who patiently waits for his return. Set against some of the most beautiful and breath-taking V . 964-7838 J r Pirin, the Bulgarian National Folk Ensemble will perform panoramas ever seen on film, the story deals with the man at the Arlington Theatre Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. For Barbarosa versus the legend tickets and information, cal 966-4566. Barbarosa. Nelson is im pressive as the bad guy with The New York New Music Ensemble will perform in Lotte a heart of gold, and he, along Lehmann Concert Hall Saturday, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. For with Busey, perform with tickets and information, call 961-3535. grace and restraint. The relationship between Busey Spend an evening with...... Works by Jeffrey Vallance will be on display at the and his mentor Nelson is University Art Museum through Dec. 12. The mixed media portrayed quite sym works of this 27-year-old artist originate from sources pathetically as a true formed early in life, and the West Gallery exhibition will friendship evolves. examine part of the evolution and use of contemporary B arbarosa is a film worth culture found in his art. seeing. It is an entertaining and visual delight. UTOPIA The Santa Barbara Jazz Society will perform in Campbell Hall on Dec. 4, not Nov. 4 as reported in last week’s Eventualities. iT k
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David Lindley and El Rayo X will be performing Friday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Ticket prices are $8.50 for students and $9.50 general admission. Tickets are available at the A.S. Ticket Office, Morninglory, and Turning Point. Lindley — 'El Rayo X'
Question: Why would an drummer Ian Wallace lent a moody singer/songwriter internationally-acclaimed their reggae/ska expertise LP were delighted by the Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan will be appearing in the UCen Pub Tuesday, rock guitarist/singer/band to the tracks. For special album’s rollicking good Nov. 9 at8:30p.m. Admission is free. leader, famed for his precise touches, William “Smitty” humor and imagination. touch and impeccable taste, Smith (expert in cheesy low- Blair Jackson termed it “one forsake the high-gloss sound budget Vox/Farfisa organ of the best American dance most of his peer strive for in sounds and Curt Bouterse (a records I’ve ever heard” in N. Y. Production 'Home' favor of an internationally renowned hammer dulcimer the May 8, 1981 issue of the grungy, home-recorded player from San Diego) were California music magazine The Cultural and Special father’s farm lightened by to the wit and song of its effect seemingly out of brought on board, and BAM. Rolling Stone Event Committees are the kick of moonshine and people. Through Cephus fashion for a decade and a Browne contributed backing reviewer Ariel Swartley bringing the New York Stage rip-roaring Saturday night Miles and his rambunctious half? Is he crazy? vocals to four tunes. gave the album a four-star production of “Home” to fish fries. But, on the verge tall tales, we meet a slew of Well, not really — but he is Even more diverse than rating in the magazine’s Campbell Hall on Thursday, of manhood, he suffers hard vivid characters — from the David Lindley, master of the players were the tunes July 9,1981 issue. Reviewers Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. losses — his girl, his family’s slick jiving hustlers and stringed instrument lore chosen. El Royo-X included in local newspapers across A unique play by a former land, and finally his welfare bureaucrats of the from around the world, forays into ska/reggae the country showered the LP North Carolina farm boy, freedom. Quoting the city to the folks down home connoisseur of roots-rock arrangments of oldies with kudos, ranging from burst onto Broadway. The Commandments, he is — like Black Sarah the material and all-around (“Don’t Look Back,” “Bye “sunny, clean and winner of immediate rave hauled off to prison for Conjure Woman, the fake musical idiosyncratic. Bye Love,” “Twist and educational’’ (The reviews, within weeks, refusing to fight in Vietnam. Indian Ole Chief, and One Veteran session and touring Shout”), New Orleans R&B Washington Post) to “a “ Home” also garnered On his release, Cephus Arm Ike who lost it from the player, he surprised even his (“Tu-ber-cu-lucas And the butterscotch malt... nominations for two Tony runs north to the big city for elbow down trying to steal many fans in the spring of ’81 Sinus Blues”), guitar driven irresistibly tasty” (New Awards and the Outer Circle nights of glitter and high one of Sydney Joe Murphy’s with his acclaimed El Rayo- rock (“Mercury Blues” ) and Mexicp Daily, Critics Citation for Best times. But the life he leaves prize hogs. XLP. Tex-Mex (“El Rayo-X”. Albequerque). Show of the Year. Now, for there — with welfare hand Hailed by The New York “El Rayo-X’s sessions Lindley also included three You can catch this its 1982-83 season, Daedalus outs and street corner drug Tim es for its “love, passion featured a multi-national off-beat tunes — “She Took “irresistibly tasty” sound Productions of New York is dealers — fills him with a and purpose,” “Home” cast of expert players. Off My Romeos,” “Quarter Friday, Nov. 12 at Campbell proud to present the national longing for home. So he pulls received nominations for Lindley called in bassist Bob Of A Man” and “Ain’t No Hall. Lindley will perform tour of this acclaimed black himself up and takes the long two Tony Awards and the Glaub, horn player Garth Way” — by his friend Bob shows at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. play. bus ride back to North Outer Circle Critics Citation Hudson, keyboardist Billy “Frizz” Fuller, curiously Tickets are $8.50/students, Written by actor Sam-Art Carolina where he finds a for Best Play of the Year. Payne and singer/- funny songs that fir the $9.50/general admission, Williams, “Home” startling surprise. A gift of Tickets are $7 general instrumentalist Jorge album’s toe perfectly. and can be purchased at A.S. spotlights a young black deep loving and friendship, it admission and $6 for Calderon. Trinidadian El Rayo-X was greeted by Ticket Office (third floor man, born and raised in proves to Cephus that the students. Tickets can be percussionist George widespread acclaim by the UCen), Ticket Bureau of Cross Roads, North “on vacation” God he used purchased at Morninglory “Baboo” Pierre and British press. Those who’d expected S.B., Morninglory, and Carolina. Cephus Miles is a to pray to “has finally come Music, Turning Point Turning Point. bright, playful character back from Miami.” Records, Santa Barbara who loves his simple life — Fast paced and funny, Ticket Bureau, Ticketron, U C en Pub the field work of his grand “Home” is sharply attuned and A.S. Ticket Office. Shades Rocking Tonight The Shades are a new Kevin Strange, the Shades’ tensively in Southeast Asia Santa Barbara band that is drummer, was born and and did short stints with already drawing con raised in New Zealand. He Freddie Cannon and Charles siderable attention. The eye played clubs there and Musselwhite. piece band consists of throughout Southeast Asia, The Shades are an exciting seasoned players with world as well as being the drum and unique band whose wide playing and recording mer for the down under sound is difficult to define. It experience. version of the Rocky Horror is definitely dance music, David Crane, lead Picture Show. His New ranging from original funk vocalist, fronted the local Zealand experience brought and R and B to Latin and favorites The News for two him back to back with the reggae and hard-driving years. Split Enz and Leo Sayer. rock and roll. Howard Miller, one of Gary Sangenito, virtuoso Their cover tunes include Santa Barbara’s hottest bass player, holds down the hits from the Police, guitar players and bottom for the Shades. His Pretenders and Steely Dan, songwriters, started in the playing experience includes as well as a sprinkling of Bay Area with the ’60s band local groups Fat Tuesday classic oldies. The Wedge. He toured and Son Santa Bruta. The technical prowess and Hawaii and Europe Shawn Fabian, Santa energy of the Shades is a promoting their top selling Barbara’s tallest guitar powerful force building in The Shades will appear in the UCen Pub tonight at 8:30 p.m. Admission LP. player, also toured ex Santa Barbara. is free.