trasting or emphasizing her voice, the instruments tend Hall/Oate$ to drown out the words too often or else are content to foUow her lead from beginning to end. The "Sominex " c Darryl Hall and John Oates do so want to be rock quaUty of the music combined with dry and unoriginal a and roll stars. They'll do just about anything to get lyrics undermine most understanding of what it is she's there. Play any style music to whoever will Usten. CO trying to say. Q On their newest highly poUshed release for RCA Breaking through the album's surface are two songs titled Darryl Hall and John Oat«s they try some of merit. "SaUy Go Round the Sun" IS for the Merry- Gamble-Huff-Bell string arrangements some psuedo go-round set. It has a chorus which reminds one of «3 soul rhythms and some of so high vocals and come up "Ring Around the Rosy" and is suitable for, say, a with a listenable, sometimes even fun, imitation of the Mario Thomas record. real thing. "Pavane," by Gabriel Faure, is a classical tune sans The best song on the album, "Soldering," is a simple lyrics with a gentle combination of guitar, flute and reggae tune featuring hip imitation island accents mon. Lucy Simon vocals. It is beautifuUy done and deserves to be There are reasons to like this album, but un­ The singing brothers and sisters of renowned musical rerecorded wlsewhere. The most lifelike and fortunately, they are also great reasons to buy the real figures are beginning to crop up with increasing moderately amusing lines occur in a tune called "From McCoy. regularity these days. But unless you listen to KJOI Time to Time to Time," relating the experience of her Bruce Schweiger alot (or any equally somnambulant station) you'll very first kiss at age 14, deUvered through a shield of 6- probably never get to hear Lucy Simon, sister to pop 12 insect repellent Yumm! music's domesticated hotcake, Carly Simon. Other selections tell of the sadness of a parent dying, On this recently released album titled simply "Lucy a best friend turned snob, and assorted love songs Have flute Simon", she makes her first solo attempt, singing portraying old love remembered, present love doubted, mostly her own compositions. Lucy has a very nice and other common ailments of the heart. voice, but unlike Carly's, it's the kind of voice you'd There's no question that Lucy Simon has musical like your kindergarten teacher to have. Her songs are talent, but in this album it seems that the effort is will toodle simple and slow melodies that would lullaby you into misdirected in aiming for a post-crayon audience. sleep after chasing away the boogie men in your closets HopefuUy in the future she'll stick with singing for the By THOMAS ELLIOTT NEAL and underneath your beds. under 10 market. DIANA FEY Staff Writer But this is not a children's album. Tim Weisberg, alias the pied piper, may have ended The songs are extensively orchestrated making good up with more than he expected. Certainly, he fulfilled use of strong string and horn sections. Several of these any expectations held by the audience. Steomboth... Opening night at the Troubador was a warm Continued from page 7 successful gathering. For the most part, Weisberg But along with the bigger showcases, art in L.A. featured numbers off of his new album "Listen to the has also been creeping into aU areas of the southland City." Throughout the performance the Troubador in the form of smaU ensembles. crowd remained absolutely mesmerized by his unique The Cheherazade Ensemble, recently formed, is an musical style. example of a positive, although admittedly smaU step, Weisberg demonstrated a diverse blend of various in the right direction. musical modes. His latin influences were nicely Their first offering, Bruce Jay Friedman's compUmented by a rich blend of solid electric bass "Steambath" was a fine beginning. It is running lines. through Oct. 11 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday Songs such as "The Love Maker", which drew sighs nights at the Century City Playhouse, 10508 W. Pico from the women, the song with no title yet, showing a Blvd., in West L.A. latin influence, were really get overs. One particular Some of the performances are weak in parts but piece titled "The Dealer" really kicked with a funky generaUy this is a enjoyable rendering of an excelent opening bass Une, followed up with a syncopated play. drum beat that had everyone's head weaving. "Steambath" concerns several lost souls tem­ His backup group were exceptional as always. Kent porarily put on hold before being plunged into the Lesly, on keyboards, Todd Robinson, on guitar, mysterious existance which follows death. Bugsy Anderson on bass, Bobby Tore on p>ercussion Their fate has been sealed by an outrageous and "Grimes Tystick" on drums are all fine musicians e character who is the steambath attendant (Philip d in their own right. Horn), a Puerto Rican and also God. I, After the final number the crowd refused to leave. The rest of the characters in the steambath are t Clapping furiously and yelling like fiends they there only for God's enjoyment. He describes them as e demanded an encore. HappUy, Weisberg obliged them neurotics with a story to tell. with a solo number which utilized an echo chamber Randy (Robert Wheeler) is an up and coming and a tape playback that left the audience spellbound. scholar who has just finished his first book on New heights of musical acclaim are in store for this Charlamagne, which he feels would finally set him on artist. Who knows, Tim Weisberg may become the the right track in life. He is a do-gooder, optomistic new apostle of the jazz/rock music scene. Tim Weisberg and hard working. But unfortunately his Ufe was cut short after he choked on some food at a restaurant. it Randy doesn't want to die and he does everything n in his limited power to convince God to let him go « back to the living. It Rocky Horror His friend and confidant in this quest is a beautiful y blonde named Meredith (Gay Lawrence) who is in the same fix. Having just had her first orgasm she reports that she obviously has a lot more to experience in life. Randy and Meredith along with a group of other misfits who include an old man, two male homosexuals, an AU-American slob named Biberman, film falls flat and a Nazi named GottUeb, are all just pons in God's By BRUCE SCHWEIGER after the press showing at is presented with an augmented devious Uttle game. 4 Entertainment Editor Twentieth Century Fox? cast of extras caUed the "Tran- The results of this unlikely plot are reveaUng and t* The only thing "The Rocky Because the movie wasn't crazy sylvanians." humorous. •» Horror Picture Show" suffers from enough. The film's ending is given away PhiUp Horn is the standout performer as God; is the lack of excess needed to pull Mel Brooks could cause much too soon for my taste and mixing the proper amount of nastiness and clownlike Ml off a project that was potentially coronaries with this material. rest of it is just campy enough to antics to make the character a real treat to watch. a so crazy that it seemed like it The movies' not hokey enough, be annoying but not enough to be Wheeler is not as strong in his portrayl of Tandy. couldn't miss. not sleazy enough, not Cfunpy reaUy funny. He's passable, but lacks the aggressiveness which the The film seemed like it was enough. All the potentially funny Again Tim Curry, as the role caUs for. is guaranteed money in the bank. bits are taken just to the brink of transexual scientist Frank N. Lawrence is good in her more limiting part. She has d After all, it was a smash play in madness and then allowed to fall Furter, is stiU a scream. Richard a very nice body which if often on desplay and she is- London and L.A. Tim Curry, on their face. O'Brien is a believable, if not gives a nice interpretation of the often used dumb- who starred in both productions, Most of the sets look like scroungy enough. Riff Raff. The blonde character. was doing the film. A dynamite IS "Munsters" rejects and the rest of the cast is adequate but The supporting cast is passable, but at times un­ ce score. Sex, Glitter, Music, laboratory looked Uke the men's nothing special. professional. However some wiU no doubt improve as 98 Dancing...Jeezus, it's Frank Capra room at the Forum. "The Rocky Horror Picture the play's run goes on. S gone disco. The movie, as weU as the play's, Show," a Frankenstein in plat­ The shows start at 8 p.m. and tickets are priced at So why was I so nonplussed hottest number "The Time Warp" forms, is fun. $4 general admission and $3 for students.