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U C S B ^ rts & Lectures Junebug Jabbo Jones: Black Folklore and Front Porch Wisdom

Don't Start Me To Talking or I'll Tell Everything I Three lectures of special interest to students are Know: Sayings from the Life and Writings of coming up soon: tomorrow night marine environ­ Junebug Jabbo Jones, Volume I is the ample title mentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau will show films of a one-man show filled with the wit and wisdom and discuss his work; next Tuesday afternoon of the rural Black South, starring actor John Mexican novelist and Regents' Lecturer Elena O'Neal. An accomplished playwright, poet and Poniatowska will present a lecture on "Feminism, theater artist,-O'Neal will portray Junebug in Literature and Society: A Mexican Perspective"; UCSB's Main Theatre in two shows on Saturday, and on Tuesday evening counselor-author April 23 at 2 PM and 8 PM. Tickets are on sale Geneen Roth will give an inspirational presenta­ now. tion on "Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experi­ ence and Resolution of Eating Problems." Roth is Junebug Jabbo Jones is both narrator and main the author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and character of the show, a moving concoction of Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, and the tales and anecdotes that present an entertaining leader of successful and popular workshops that range of personalities, including a cheating plan­ help people overcome habits such as overeating tation owner, the pretty daughter of a preacher, or compulsive dieting. Says Roth, "We must cut and a broken-down disc jockey. The play is rich the cord between our body and our self-worth.... not only in characters, but also in vivid language. We've lost touch with what hunger feels like and "I was so broke I had to borrow eye water to cry how to differentiate it from other feelings." with," he tells us. Later he exclaims, "she was jigglin' things that I didn't know had muscles in And don't forget: there are only sevemmore ticket em. office shopping days until Frankenstein, so avoid the rush and buy your tickets now! The Ticket Of­ Junebug makes it clear that he is a storyteller, not fice is open from 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through a liar. The distinction? A liar covers up things, Friday. Student-priced tickets for the Guthrie whereas a storyteller uncovers things. June bug Theater's Frankenstein are $12, $10 and $8. (And I and his characters go about uncovering injustice that includes the thunder-and-lightening special on a plantation, in the boys locker room, at a effects, too.) John O’Neal lunch counter, in a jail cell — "just doing what needs to be did." A p r il As a student in the 1960s, John O'Neal was on the front lines of the civil rights movement, a 21 Panel Discussion with John O'Neal leader in the Student Non-violent Coordinating î 8 0 s " - * Committee. As he and other civil rights workers "Critical Condition: Black Theaterand the 1980s" Thu., Apr. 21 / 4 PM / Main Theatre. traveled around the South, they began collecting the stories and sayings, the "front porch wisdom" 21 Paisan of rural Blacks. In this sense, Don't Start Me To Roberto Rossellini's neo-realist film about WWII. Talking... is an oral history, as is Volume II (You Thu., Apr. 21 / 7 & 9:30 PM / Campbell Hall Can't Judge A Book By Looking At the Cover) 22 Jean-Michel Cousteau which deals with the urban Black experience. "Rediscovery of the World" O'Neal npw tours the country performing as Fri., Apr. 22/8 PM / Campbell Hall Junebug and visiting campuses as a guest lecturer. His visit to UCSB is co-sponsored with the Center 23 John O'Neal as Junebug Jabbo Jones for Black Studies and the Department of Dramatic "Don't Start Me to Talking..." Art. Sat., Apr. 23/2 & 8 PM / Main Theatre 24 Das Boot During his three-day visit to UCSB, O'Neal will Terror and adventure aboard a German U-boat. join actress Lillian Lehman and UCSB faculty in a Sun., Apr. 24 / 7 & 9:30 PM / Campbell Hall free panel discussion titled "Critical Condition: Jean-Michel Cousteau Black Theater and the 1980s" today at 4 PM in 26 Elena Poniatowska, Regents' Lecturer the Main Theatre. Tomorrow (Friday) at noon he Mexican feminism, literature and society. will give a free mini-performance as Junebug in Tue., Apr. 26/4 PM / Girvetz 1004 FRANKENSTEIN the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Auditorium. He 26 Geneen Roth will visit campus classes and entertain young stu­ A lecture on conquering eating disorders. dents at Franklin Elementary School as well. Fol­ Tue., Apr. 26/8 PM / Campbell Hall lowing each performance of Don't Start Me To Talking... he will participate in a discussion with 27 Open rehearsal: Anthony de Mare the audience. Hear a concert pianist prepare for the stage. Wed., Apr. 27/7 PM / Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall 28 Anthony de Mare, piano Tickets to are $10 for Don't Start Me To Talking... An award-winning pianist plays new works. the general public, $7 for UCSB students. Buy Thu., Apr. 28/8 PM / Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall your tickets now, at the A&L Ticket Office in Building 402. To charge by phone (minimum 30/1 Frankenstein order $10), call 961-3535. The Guthrie Theater in a classic Gothic tale. Sat., Apr. 30/8 PM / Campbell Hall Sun., May 1 / 2 & 8 PM / Campbell Hall Buy Frankenstein tickets now.

Tkkets/Charge by Phone: 961-3535 Daily Nexus Thursday, April 21,1988 3A Jabbin’ With Junebug GO BOWUNG THIS WEEKEND JON: Well, it’s home. It’s not pretty deep. I ’m in New only my particular home; Orleans. I too have a need AUTOMATIC SCORERS it’s the home of Afro- for water and so I have dig a “ In the absence American people in this well, but the water table in f of things to do, country, and it’s the base New Orleans is only about Only at Orchid Bowl from which we will have six inches. But wherever you Fun St Easy to Use! people do each whatever influence we will are you have to dig in your other.” have. Because of our par­ particular place to get at the All You Do Is Bowl ticular relationship and our water. But when you get that Computerized Scoring peculiar history here, we water, your water will do the have an especially im­ same that my water does for portant role to play. me. OPEN 24 HOURS Just as the condition of What that metaphor people nearest to the bottom meant to say was that we of the social pyramid raises can’t get to the universal ORCHID BOWL close to UCSB the tendency of the whole truth without going through Hwy 101 at N. Fairview social pyramid to raise and the particulars of our own their conditions change, so circumstance. Just like 5925 Calle Real, Goleta 967-0128 changes the conditions of the performing, you can’t make whole society. If we are to do a universal character an effective job of making a without making a particular humane just society in character. You have to be this country, and through somebody in particular. If I DESTINED TO BE ACLASSIC- that in the world, an tell Laurie’s particular truth THE BEST OF THE SEASON. especially important role and really get to her story -loyce Hauser WNBC RADIO has to be played by the Black then I will be at the truth for people and the means are not all humankind. But I can The most stylish thriller in a long time! in these urban centers. only do it by a particular Wonderfully directed and acted ” N: You’re also giving a truth. -leffrey Lyons SNEAK PREVIEWS Junebug Jabbo Jones has John O’Neal: Oh yeah. We lecture here entitled Let me speak some en­ "No lover of mystery or suspense should a message for you. He’s got tell stories all the time. We “ Critical Condition: Black couragement to you. One of miss 'LADY IN WHITE.’ It will keep you in some tales of truth about the don’t recognize it as what Theatre.” What is that my great idols is Pete Seger. common folk. He’s the we’re doing. I bet you there’s critical condition? In a concert he sang a mounting suspense right through the storyteller from the past that a whole bunch of stories JON: I didn’t invent that historical song about the film’s chilling climax.” your present has been about UC Santa Barbara. title. I suspect what it sort of founding of the republic and -Stu Levin ENTERTAINMENT REPORT missing. He’s not a liar, who And part of the task of implies is that there has there was a verse about the he explains is “ somebody becoming a UCSB student is been a decline in the number writing of the Declaration of who covers things up.” He’s learning what those stories of performing groups that Independence. The verse in the business of “ un­ are so that you can tell your identify themselves as Black went “ Wasn’t that a time, a covering things.” version of them. So I think and that aim to serve the time to try the souls of men. Junebug Jabbo Jones is people are ready. Black community in some Wasn’t that a terrible time.” the mythic character por­ N:What is the work that way compared to what was And he ended with a verse trayed by his creator, ac- Junebug needs to do? available in the sixties. I about now about the time we tor/director/playwright Jo­ JON: There’s a song that think the point is that age-old were singing in during the hn O’Neal in the one-man goes “ Tonight I ’m blue, but I axiom that we tend to un­ civil rights, peace and play Don’t Start Me to won’t be blue always, cause derestimate the value of and women’s movement and Talking or I’ll Tell the light’s gonna shine in my that is that “ art reflects instead he sang, “ Isn’t this a Everything I Know: Sayings backdoor someday.” And life ;” the condition of the time, a time to try the souls From the Life and Writings the other one that occurs to people becomes the con­ of men. Isn’t this a won­ of Junebug Jabbo Jones. me is the Percy Mayfield dition of the art. You can derful time.” It’s saying that Volume I, which he will song that goes “ Heaven look at what is being sold in yeah there’s a lot of pitfalls perform this Saturday in the please send to all mankind the art galleries and get a to face, but for every danger Main Theatre. The mouthful understanding and peace of pretty good idea of what the there’s a cause for finding title says something about mind, but if it’s not asking quality and the character of potentiality. the mouthful of collected too much, please send me life is for the people who buy anecdotes and tales O’Neal someone to love. I lay awake and make that art. by Laurie has put into this character. at night in a world full of N: A parallel difficulty, if McCullough Part narrator, part main trouble and I find that the you bring it to UCSB, is the character, Junebug is the answer’s always the same. separate Black fraternities NEW SK Y PRODUCTIONS P resen ts A FRANK LALOGGIA FILM LADY IN W HITE vehicle to do the “ work the Unless man puts an end to and sororities. The Sta rrin g LUKAS HAAS • LEN CARI0U • ALEX R0CC0 ■ KATHERINE HELMOND Executive Producers CHARLES M. LALOGGIA • CLIFF PAYNE needs to be did.” this damnable sin, we’ll argument is that they are A ssoc ia te P rodu cer CARL REYNOLDS Director of Photography RUSSELL CARPENTER Junebug is the product of leave the world all a flame.” segregating themselves, and Produced by ANDREW G. LA M ARIA - FRANK LALOGGIA many collectors in the Civil W ritten a n d D irected b y FRANK LALOGGIA That’s Junebug’s work. yet their argument is “ no, SlIllUlllMlk nil V.hcnc S.lMlUlllh' Rn’tiflS M i 13 PMtMTS STRONGLY CftUTtOHEO Rights Movement of the What Junebug represents we’re creating a base where “ L iv e all you 1960s. It is said no one person is the celebration of the we can relate to ourselves, ; can be solely attributed with wisdom of common people. where we understand where c a n it’s a PREMIERE ★ TONIGHT AT 9:00PM the invention of this We have a tendency in this we are going and creating a mistake not to.” GRANADA THEATRE 963-1671 preaching folk character, country to draw the con­ platform for ourselves.” Henry James Sep. Adm. Req. No passes or Group Sales but that his birth was part of clusion, I think invalidly, JON: What I would say in Regular Engagement Begins Friday a collaboration of stories and that if you’re poor, you’re regard to self-segregation is FIESTA FOUR THEATRE IV 9634)781 Daily Showtime«: 5:45. t:00,10:16 Sat & Sun (1:15.3:30) folk sayings brought evil. Because if everybody in a story. I use to direct The together by O’Neal, and his the land of liberty, in the Free Southern Theatre. We friends in the Student Non- land of the free and the set about to create a book of Violent Coordinating brave, doesn’t get their’s — our own which was to be Special Student Committee in the rural they’re probably just lazy. I called the axiom of the Free South. think that’s probably in­ Southern Theatre. Now we Discount Price In the following interview correct. (He chuckles.) But only got two of them before *10.00 an animate weary traveled what happens is they start to the theatre expired. The first O’Neal, who was rushed over believe it, without knowing one was “ In the absence of from the airport to the Nexus it. I don’t think most people things to do, people do each THURSDAY, to make the arts’ press time, are malicious, but we do fall other.” The second is not an discussed with true into these malicious ideas. axiom at all but sort of a APRIL 21 storyteller’s grace the And so it becomes Junebug’s little metaphor. We called it relativity of Junebug Jabbo work to challenge this bad the truth in the bottom of the Jones. thinking and celebrate the well. And the idea is that you Nexus: Tell me about the wisdom of the common need water in Santa .Bar­ ARLINGTON freedoms and the limitations people. bara. So you have to dig a of using the storyteller’s N : It might seem too obvious well. I don’t know what the form. Are modern audiences that your focus is on the water table here is like, but THEATER prepared for an art like this? South, but why is that? you probably have to go 8 :0 0 PM Tickets: $16.50 an d $15.50, STIFF BOX available at Arlington ED: laurie Ticket Agency and all ASST: jesse TICKETMASTER locations. WRITERS: To charge by phone adam ben call 583-8700 keith sean (service charge added). chris nick Presented by COVERSPEW: jesse Dancing Cat Productions ART: lisa CH O ICE: artistic (over integrity) 4A Thursday, April 21,1988 Daily Naxus

INSIDE ON THE LAST PAGE ON THE INSIDE ON THE LAST F Oiling the Issues With Power and Passion

our way of putting music on tape...we told Fiber “ It’s a great compliment....” wanted to try and leave a little of the at­ Countering Garrett’s austerly bizarre mosphere and give a sense of the land....” stage presence were his frequent smiles Well, I ’U buy that. But live I expect all the which seem to give off sincerity and allowed mad energy back, and Midnight Oil him to easliy connect with the fans. Every produced. Taking the “ world beat” -esque time he flashed his pearly whites the crowd songs of the album, they infused them with a gave an extra communal scream. fluid hydroelectricity which carried unin- The band seemed loose and comfortable, terupted through the entire show. With a even taking a few digs at the venue of the loping rhythm and strong drums, the songs last show, the upscale Santa Barbara — while not that musically diverse — built County Bowl “ you know, that place up upon each other and never gave way to where all the white gloves and black ties excess. live.” The Arlington was more their speed Sharing much in common with Aussie as they told KCSB “ I don’t think I ’ve ever friends Hunters and Collectors — using a played in what looks to be a classy Mexican trumpet to give a haunting effect, for restaurant... the stars lighting up made our example — Midnight Oil manages to avoid day.” the self indulgent meanderings of their The stage itself was a piece of art, a sort of “ W e ’re here to be friends ... but we colleagues and keep their swing and slide Outback as done by Walt Disney on a bad rhythms smooth. acid trip. A stuffed kangaroo and dingo, a simply couldn’t pull back from what But what made this concert special — spinning windmill and bits of hanging we feel to be the truth....” rather than merely interesting or fun — was barbed wire created a real atmosphere of Peter Garrett the presence of Garrett. His voice is fairly nighttime in the desert. Garrett said “ we lousy but that’s irrelevent when the real joy wanted to reflect our experience with the is his visuals. He’s six foot seven, with a stage” and “ our fascination with the bush.” “ I don’t want to get up on a soapbox, but Aborigine issues. The concert, however, let bald pointy head that has a sort of reptile It was even functional, the drummer using a when this world is ruined we can’t just get a the music do the talking to create a solid ridge running down the dome. The man corrugated tin water tower to give the sound new one.” With that succinct summation of show which rarely lost momentum. commands attention. Was it disconcerting of a low steel drum. their state-of-the-world view, Midnight 00 The Oils have been cranking out slam­ that such an avid environmentalist could By the encore the crowd had been keyed propelled into another thumping yet ming, churning, smashing tectonic plates of look so utterly alien? The antithesis of sky high by old and new power chord an­ thoughtful tune. rock & roll for eleven years now. The latest earthy, Garrett would look ridiculous in a thems “ the Power and the Passion” and The Australian band kicked off their more acoustic album seems a bit limp forest. On the other hand, the outback is “ Beds Are Burning.” A boom and a slash American tour in front of a large and compared to earlier stuff. At first I thought always refered to as moonscape. and it was all over. raucous crowd at the Arlington Theatre last the band might have lost some of their Garrett’s dancing is big fun. Imagine a Rather than some half wit cutesy sum it Thursday. Known as the “ Oils” to their musical fervor, the old rock “ I had a child bobbing and weaving Kareem Abdul Jabbar all up review big ending, I ’ll leave you with loyal fans, they are famous for their politics and it really mellowed me out” excuse. But on speed, bleach him out until he is the color the immortal words of Peter Garrett — “ We as much as their music. Lead singer Peter no, the Oils as usual have a more en­ of a cave fish and then step back and watch don’t pay attention to critics.” Garrett ran for the Australian Parliament compassing explanation. Garrett told the giant hands fly. Supposedly fans down and wrote a book about Aussie politics KCSB’s Jason Fiber “ going into the bush under like to dance like Garrett — or at­ CHRIS SCHEER focusing on environmental, nuclear and and spending time in the outback softened tempt it anyway — at Oil’s shows. Garrett

W H IS K EY v v L IV E * * KEITHBEAT FRESH PRESSED With their latest release, Live A t The Whiskey A Go Go On The Fabulous Sunset As far as new records go, Kirk’s collaborative effort on the first three Skinny Strip, X has catalogued their claim to the there’s too much to write with ex-The Box founder Puppy records, ’’Bill unofficial title, the Greatest L.A. Band Since about. A few exceptional Peter Hope is finally bought his own synth and The Doors. things have flown by the released in its entirety. started a band” explained With 24 songs spanning the band’s nine- desk this week that are Releasing the 12” “ Leather Cevin Key in a recent in­ year career, the double-album offers noteworthy. To start off Hands” two years ago, terview. Frontline’s new with the new L P by The listeners something of a musical time Voltaire fans got a glimpse L P Corrosion is a direct machine. Beginning with “ ,” Fall, F renz Experiment. at the project’s direction. response to his previous Fall fans shouldn’t be the band rips its way through several of the project. Mutated vocals, misled by > the single reverberated bass rhythms earlier songs which set them apart from the “ Victoria,” as this album and the driving force of the other angry bands of the late 1970s and early contains several examples 1980s, including “ House I Call Home,” “ The sequencer, culminate into of Mark E. Smith’s a hauntingly danceable Once Over Twice” and “ Blue Spark.” distorted vocals and wife disc. One of X ’s most endearing qualities has rendition of the Woody Guthrie song “ So Brix’s guitar crescendos. All one needs to do is been their ability to consistently reproduce Long.” As a whole this project is mention the name ... Jesus the energy and vitality they exude on stage In this song, lead singer John Doe laments more accessible than and Mary Chain, and ears into studio-recorded albums. But just in the band’s inability to gain wide-range anything they have at­ turn. The new 12” release case their previous efforts have left you musical acceptance and seems to tempted before. Lookout entitled “ ” is wanting something a little angrier, a little foreshadow the eventual breakup of the fo r future singles, another turn for the better more amped, now you’ve got it. band: hopefully the title track for the Scottish based trio. Although guitarist Tony Gilkyson chooses "Some friends that I know had a mighty ’’Frenz” will be a dance “ Trio” in the sense they to play the songs his way, rather than offer a great band. floor innovation. haven’t consistently held musical Xerox of former-X guitarist Billy They played and they played all across this In the solo artist file we onto a drummer. Zoom, the music retains its original in­ great land. find Peter Murphy and “Sidewalking” is eight tensity, thanks in part to the increased But the radio would not play their'heart-felt Richard H. Kirk. Ex- minutes of extended J&M emphasis on drummer D.J. Bonebrake. songs, Bauhaus persona Murphy Chain. Yes, a dance record, At times, however, one almost wishes that So they packed up their bags and they delights die audio world and a good attempt at that. Gilkyson would follow Zoom’s original moved to Wyoming, with his new record Love “ Sidewalking” still chords and riffs, especially on “ Hungry Singing so long, it’s been good to know you. ” Hysteria. Following in the reminds us of ’s Wolf” and “ Burning House of Love,” where Well OK, it doesn’t rhyme, but hearing the same dance vein as his vocal style from the early his solos, while displaying an undeniable sadness in Doe’s intense, bluesy voice is previous album and singles, as well as the guitar prowess, are more flashy than enough to bring a tear to the eye of any collection of singles, Love guitar/bass drone. The contributive to the overall quality of the diehard X fan. Hysteria presents us with drums change it all, songs. If you like X, buy this album now. If you Peter’s unique view of love, remeniscing the Three Although Live is mostly reworkings of don’t, borrow a copy from a friend and philosophy and history. Johns “ Never and Always” previously released songs, the album does make a copy. You won’t be sorry. The single “ Indigo Eyes” 12” . The B-side is the offer three new pieces, including a moving BEN SULLIVAN proves Peter’s love for the highlight by far, two live dance floor, yet escapes the The L P Hoodoo Talk is a tracks taped in Detroit; texture of the rest of the mirror image of Kirk’s “ Taste of Cindy” and record. The cover of the earlier efforts. Butt­ “ ” show the BELLY DANCIN’ FELLOWS B o w ie/ Ig gy Pop shaking rhythms and Chain’s maturation since collaboration “ Fun Time” keyboardic ecstacy clash the days of the 20-minute bElly oN oVeR BaBy cLLoTh-nA-bRae iRisH dREaM also destroys the ambiance heavily with Hope’s blues live set, and these exam­ oUr FaV HipPy cAfe IS coN- thEaTre fEatUriNg biZaRRe set up by “ Dragnet Drag,” vocals. A stirring record ples well provide the tiNuiNG tHe BoRSoDi’s fRiDay dAncIng aND cELtiC and “ His Circle and Hers through and through. listener with the front-row Meet.” Being more ac­ suRReAliSm wiLL sTarT tHe With the ever-growing mashed against the stage coNCerT SeRIes tHiS wEeK wiTh cessible doesn’t mean that following of , feeling. eXOtiC bElly dAncInG. jEnaEnie eVeniNg ofF aT 9 PM. oNlY 2 Peter’s chilling, macabre one must wonder about all wiLL bRiNg bElly dAncIng tO kiSSeRs aT tHe dOOr foR aLL feel for pop doesn’t shine of the people who helped That’s the best beat for BoRSoDi’s FoR tHe fiRst TimE aGEs — miDteRm mAdNesS through. A must for the them get their status. Ex- this week, but you’ll be fan. iN seVen yEarS. a 25 yEar pRo, heRe wE coMe. Pup William Schroeder, back. With the inevitable a.k.a. , founded sHe’LL bE jOIneD bY 12 yEar Old tOniGHt aT osCar’s: youNG breakup of Caberet his own band two years ago bElly sWaYinG proTegEE an- FresH fELLOws aNd tOaD ANd Voltaire in the past, with the name Frontline SuyA aNd liVe aCComPiAnMenT thE WET sproKEt, rAgiNg tuNeS keyboardist Richard H. Assembly. After working KEITH YORK oF aRaBic aND peRsIaN muSeS anD bEER AnD daNcINg ChecK sHaHlA. iT... Daily Nexus Thursday, April 21,1988 5A rPAGE ON THE INSIDE ON THE LAST PAGE ON THE INSIDE

LAURA JELUFFE/Daily Nexu* Black Downy Mildew Watch

I get to Oscar’s about 9:30 after searching Local faves The Black Watch opened the high and low for the place. It’s not really on show. Tearing through a set which included State, but more like a half-block back in John Andrew most of the songs from their new long- Federicks is St. some parking lot. The place looks like a player St. Valentine, the newly unveiled Valentine yupster watering hole. Brass railings and rhythm section of drummer George Fields everything. We sit down and eyeball the and bassist Rodney Spalding lent new depth stage. Immediately I get a sense of dread. and excitement to The Black Watch’s live “ We’re really in for it tonight,” I mutter to show. Fields, a jazz player, and Spalding, my companion. who comes from a progressive-rock There, directly in front of us, lay the stuff background, brought along a virtuosity nightmares are made of. The stage was which was exciting to watch and to listen to. littered with paraphernalia from the most Singer//Guitarist/Producer/- dreaded genre on earth: Poofter-Haircuts- Leader/Frontman John Andrew Fredrick ’n’-Attitudes Brit-pop. All the evidence was reminded me quite a lot of The Cure’s there: Fender guitars, Roland Jazz Chorus Robert Smith in posture, build and amps with stomp-box effects, and a stripper demeanor. He displayed a keen sense of drumkit. I was gonna be bombarded with humor throughout the set, once inviting Chorused Guitars and more Songs About soundman Paul Howard onstage to play sax, Depression. I ’d probably hafta blow my “ So we can be John, Paul, George, and brains out on the drive home or something. Rodney.” Well, I took a long walk around the joint “ Whatever you do, whether it’s eating and discovered, to my surprise and dismay, breakfast or killing someone, it still is just a pair of restroom doors with real-life, something to do,” I explained to Fredrick, honest-to-God punk-rock spraypainting on “ and that applies to teaching English or each: “ Sid,” for the little boys and “ Nancy” playing in a band.” John Andrew Fredrick for the girls. No matter that Sid would’ve paused, and told me, “ That’s great! You just wet himself, and Nancy would likely can use that to open our interview.” pee on the floor. I had merely been explaining why I didn’t People were just beginning to show their feel that his former position at UCSB had faces, and I was eager to see who would turn anything to do with his music. He had been out for this kinda show. Turns out, just about everybody. Not that NICKWIT KREST everybody was there, ’cause only about 75 people showed up. But all kinds were there: afraid of another article that would focus ' ' /'-t the frat boys with their matching sorority solely on his teaching role and ignore his miil girlfriends in their uniforms of sweats, music. “ I won’t even mention it,” I Avias, and wrinkly pastel socks; the Rock promised. But my editor kept at me to at Guys wearing black vinyl Style Auto jackets least mention the fact that Fredrick’s with “ Z-28” on the sleeve; Siouxsie Sioux students are up in arms about his dismissal corpse chicks straight from the set of “ Dark from UCSB’s English department. So I just Shadows” and their modified—mohawk, did. End of discussion. punk-guy boyfriends. The following is stuff I asked him about Downy Mildew is NOT a hardcore band the band. from L.A., as their name would suggest, but N : How long have you been doing The Black a more moody and introspective unit whose Watch thing? live set differed markedly from their latest JAF: I formed the band in January 1987, so LP, Mincing Steps. about fifteen months. The L P ’s a strange one — impossible to N : Where does the name come from? pigeonhole, even describe, with no obvious JAF: The Black Watch is a military influences. The songs have a brooding, regiment that was formed in the 14th cen­ ethereal quality about them, with almost tury in Scotland. I wanted the name to have Downy Milder laissez-faire arrangements. All this results both a military and a musical history, plus is a kind of fui in a very powerful album that I knew would reflect my Scottish background. grows on cabl be difficult to reproduce live. N: Do you mind if I ask you who your Downy Mildew (the name comes from a musical influences are? fungus that grows on cabbage) simply JAF: No. I think it’s important to have sidestepped this problem by playing a influences. I ’m really very heavily in­ majority of songs from their two earlier fluenced by Robyn Hitchcock, particularly releases, Broomtree and the self-titled his later work. I think his new album (Globe debut. Their live set had a much more ob­ of Frogs) is sheer genius. Also, early Echo vious influence: that of the Velvet Un­ and the Bunnymen and the Cocteau Twins, derground. To say that several of the songs although we don’t really sound like them. w ere “ V elvety” would be an un­ N: Any other projects going at the present derstatement. They chugged along, a time? veritable wall of sound, propelled by Nancy JAF: I ’m also publishing a record-review McCoy’s spartan bass playing and John magazine called CHILL, which is available Hofer’s tub-slugging drumming. through local record stores. More often, though, the songs became a N : Any plans to tour in the near future? sort of soundtrack for emotion, as Jenny JAF: No solid plans as of yet. If we do go Homer’s plaintive vocals (reminiscent of out, it’ll be as a support band. Airplane-era Grace Slick and especially N: Any plans to record again in the near Natalie from 10,000 Maniacs) reached from future? deep within her soul. This woman can sing JAF: I ’ve already got several new songs with a sincerity I have rarely seen and can written, but I ’m holding off on recording ’til change the crowd’s mood instantaneously. I see how St. Valentine does. Both Homer and Other Vocalist-guitarist Have a listen for yourself. The S t LAURA JELLIFFE/Dally Charlie Baldonado are exceptional front- Valentine cassette is available at Mor- persons. What they lack in overt charisma ninglory Music, Rockpile, and the rest of the they more than make up for in honesty. bigwig record stores in town.

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The beer lines were tremendous. followed by a shattering performance of Fortunately, so was everything else about “ ” by Floyd the concert in the L.A. Coliseum newcomer Rachel Fury. last Friday night. The “ new” Floyd (sans As if the music were not enough, Floyd’s ) played to a capacity crowd stage show and special effects were on the second leg of their Momentary Lapse staggering. A gigantic pig hovering over the of Reason World Tour. crowd, a two-ton flying bed, a spectacular As could be expected, the band played all laser light show (including a four hundred of the songs off the new album while in­ foot undulating green sine wave) a stadium­ terspersing the new material with older sized mirror ball, and an immense circular Floydian favorites such as “ One of These video screen (accompanying the music with Days,” “ Welcome to the Machine,” and “ Us brilliant animation, film and light effects) andlliem .” combined to create a truly fantastic per­ The climax of the show was undoubtably formance. toward the end of the second set with Gilmour carried off the vocal duties ex­ “ .” At least ten thousand tremely well considering the daunting task lighters and eight times that many voices of replacing the modern-day Orpheus, filled the Coliseum with a feeling of unity Roger Waters. After the three-hour per­ unlike any other gathering of that formance there was little doubt left in my magnitude which I have experienced. There mind which one’s Pink. Wish you were were, of course, the obligatory ethereal there. guitar solo, and Richard Wright drum and keyboard jam, SEAN DEMONNER 6A Thursday, April 21,1988 Daily Nexus Manzarek and McClure’s Lyric Inspiration won’t be there ( “ If there’s Michael McClure’s poetry anyone in rock ’n’ roll who rolls off punctuated heavy could pull it off ...” ) Man­ beats with rythymic and zarek’s and McClure’s hard-ending phrases. Sharp powerfully continued sense and heady, his oral delivery of 1965 will. inspires the kind of mind “ Michael’s got a won­ fugues you only wish you had derful grasp of what it ‘E X H U M A TIN G in your English classes. means to be a human being, ... Boorman has made his most dizzyingty Beyond thought provoking, alive, living for your alotted funny movie, an anarchic celebration o f this program is a fusion into years on this planet. What it family... Breathtaking.” that altered state of the means to be a creature. A karmic nothingness of creature with intelligence is - David Ansen NWSWEEK knowing. basically what we are, and R ay Manzarek’s ac­ Michael’s got a good grasp of “RADIANT Warmly companiment of lilting, that.” personall” acoustic piano is the Now that we’ve survived -Janet Muslin NEW YORK TIMES distinctive score to this the twentieth anniversary ancient mode. Together, the revival of the sixties, we can “TWO THUMBS UR” legendary keyboardist of perhaps look to some of its - S1SKEI. A WERT A THE MO\ IES The Doors and the famed better inspirations to San Fransico beat poet, enlighten the emerging ’90s, Morrison mentor, and a hope of this performance. HOPE playwright have conspired “ I think people today are an evening of aural and oral starved for some com­ delights set for performance mitment — riot necessarily G lo ry at Zelo’s Monday evening at just spiritual — but a 8 p.m. that promises to send spiritual, political, IV Theater your more intelligent spirits ecological commitment. Sat. April 23rd soaring. That’s what the sixties were 7 * 9» 11 pm It’s too simple, really, a all about. We were at the Sponsored by Mortar Board $2.50 Cr A.S. Underwrite prophetic poet who meshes special when perhaps we going to be a little weird, but wall. There were many the wiles of mother and should reserve ourselves for once you hear what we’re wrongs that had to be motherless nature, bringing moments like these, a show doing it’s extremely natural righted and the young people what critics call a that you truly don’t want to and organic and very were up in arms about it.” “ solidarity with the beasts” miss. Manzarek and Mc­ transporting. It’s a very Considering the wrongs, on stage; just saying words Clure just call it music and liberating kind of per­ just how have we turned out? like we were some Kings in spoken word. I call it the formance.” Not too good,” he says court, he the Fool bound to esscence of live. Get beyond Manzarek’s ability to with an extended slow irony. offer painful insight in the idea of a literary poetry create the backdrop for “ I ’m surprised at the rise of riddles we must choose to reading. Manzarek thinks poets is more than for­ the mercenary aspect of the ignore or understand. we’re more than ready for it. midable — just check The the stock market. It’s just a Coupled with the music, an “ People didn’t know what Door’s Live at the Hollywood little bit too economical for improvisational blend of to expect,” said Manzarek in Bowl. Hopefully the two will me. So much concern with a jazz, new age and classical an interview conducted by do a poem McClure wrote dollar. It’s much better to strains. Yea. It’s classic. So phone last fall, “ But ten, after seeing Jim Morrison live in harmony with your classic I’d never seen fifteen minutes into the set for the last time to the brothers and sisters.” anything like it until I ex­ they understood exactly backing chords of “ Riders . “ We’re trying to set up a perienced it on a Fall run in what we were doing and on the Storm.” It will vibration that will inspire Seattle at the U of W. were frankly mesmerized probably be the only ap­ people to do something with Perhaps you’ve been and transfixed. They ac­ pearance of Morrison in the their lives, or the way things Celebrates Thursday! encouraged one too many cepted it extremely well. evening however, though are to make the world a little times to see something You go into it thinking it’s they have been doing a bit better.” hazily slithering piece about Out of date? Hamburgers by Laurie McCullough French Fries 99« Pitchers 3-8 pm Coronas B.Y.O.P. 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NEW COMPACT O.K., you’ve heard the hype. Colors is bringing the bad that’s been written in real blood and doesn’t have to rely on DISCS boys to the silver screen, 20 feet tall, “ high on crack, toting a the tired cliches of cops and robbers. The best of both worlds, * machine gun....” It’s been the first page daily in the L.A. but it takes guts to try to eat it too. The cruel irony of this Times Metro section, the front page of the New York Times, * situation is lost because of the crueler irony that Hopper of all the cover of Newsweek — 100 percent prime-time gang- people can’t take it deep enough. He gives us the same old N o w in S tock : * bangers, pumping themselves full of junk and each other full dramatized cop plot, then by trying to make it realistic only * Ziggy Marley ★ Eric Clapton of lead at a steadily accelerating rate, learning fast that makes it boring. * surviving isn’t squat when only the “ lucky” get a minimum The movie is shot and cut as clean and neat as Tightrope or Thomas Dolby ★ Glass Tiger ★ Cheap Trick wage that keeps you below the poverty level in a city where First Blood, and the “ realism” is just Hollywood, not the * Jethro Tull ★ MSG ★ Trio ★ Nektar money talks and all others can walk with the slow, bored and deliberate pace of Blue Velvet or River’s Edge that makes * Cult(Interview) ★ Iron Maiden hungry. Now mayhem and murder aren’t just unavoidable, everything so strange you oh-so-slowly feel it’s life, not Scorpions ★ Timbuk3 ★ Neil Young * they’re profitable, and you don’t have to go south to Central Memorex. (I wouldn’t draw the comparisons of two films America, just to south-central L.A. Hopper happened to star in if his own advertisements hadn’t Dale Bozzio ★ 801 ★ Manfred Mann * * An awfully tasty vision of the modern world, crack-headed so blatently done it first.) It’s as if Dennis is saying, look, I ’m Jimmy Cliff ★ Soft Cell!Non-Stop Erotic) cowboys brawling it out over turf and dress codes, a kind of sober, I can cut it in Hollywood. Baby, the fact that it’s hip to * Kubrick West Side Story, with 16-year-olds who screw and be mainstream is the whole problem, and what made Velvet shoot faster than 30 second bites. It may be ugly, endless, and so timely. Getting kicked out of Hollywood is a laurel you (or viciously void of purpose, but it’ll look neat and make great at least your reputation and your advertisers) have been drama. Do you get it? It’s real, the brats that Crockett and resting on, but this effort is anything but “ visionary.” Tubbs only have reason to blow away on Miami Vice aren’t They keep telling us the key is to anticipate nothing, but just media creations, they’re really out there, armed and this film isn’t only hinged on preconceived interest, its plot dangerously giving police brutality a good name. We can sets up our oldest cop flick expectations. No one who sees this have it all, blood and guns, sex, drugs and rock’n’rolling Uzi- movie hasn’t heard the news, but the first 20 minutes still fests without Norris or Stallone and all their simplified, contain three of the driest, most cliche-ridden spews about fantasy crap. Just the facts ma’am. That’s enough to make how “ they’ve got shot guns, they’ve got Uzis, they’re actually the story exciting and interesting, for once. killing each other over colors.” Thanks a lot for common > What director Dennis Hopper has given us, however, is a knowledge. Then we get Robert Duvall as the paternal old- morning jory * movie that tries to be Hollywood and honest, a hopeless timer one year from pension teamed with hot-shot Sean Penn VISA/MC AMEX L il * juxtaposition that loses its own edge. Yes, a decent cop flick, who likes to kick the bangers back. They make their good