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"Fly Like An Eagle" - Steve Miller Band bhes number. " You Send Me" is an old (Capitol Records) . Sam Cooke tune and Miller has a ball When I finally got hold of a copy of Steve ove "~iu bbi ng all of those harmonies . . Miller's "Fly Like An Eagle" and gave it a 1 Hl':l sound of the entire album is aided thorough listening, I realized that I had immeasureably by excellent synthesizer heard at least ten of these twelve cuts on wOLk Musical themes of space and the radio. The fact that so many tracks soaring flight weave in and out of the from one album receive airplay is a tribute album underscoring its airy, expansive to just how fine a record this is. It is un­ •feel. There simply is not a single cut on this deniably Steve Miller's finest album to album that's inferior to any other, and date and the one which has finally that's a pretty remarkable ac­ delivered him to wider audiences. complishment. Steve Miller's brand of rock has taken on its own characteristics. Miller doesn't / . indulge in guitar pyrotechnics but relies instead on tried and true rhythm licks, a ..",...... •..•..'• .., .' •. ,." .. .•'. .t~ . .• .. fine flair for melody and his sweet and .iliii b.r laid-back vocal delivery. With Gary Mallaber on drums and Lonnie Turner on By Elias Lieberman bass, Miller's band is a tight ensemble'that "The Best . Of The Band" - The Band heavily toward the earlier albums. I would handles the rockers with as much taste as (Capitol Records) liked to have seen "Rag, Marna, Rag" the acoustic numbers. The title cut as well If you g.sther any five people together included or perhaps "I Shall Be Released" as "Take The Money and Run" have and ask them to compile a list of tunes for but this would have made for dispropor­ received lots of AM play and have risen in a "best of" album, you will invariably get tional representation. The Band is not a the charts, but they are by no means all five different lists. This is the inherent group that has enjoyed success on the AM that the album has to offer. "Wild problem with such aU;>t.ims, but since the airwaves. Their music is a blt too earthy Mountain Honey" is beautiful with its record companies can't please everybOdy and relaxed to hav~ that sort of appeal and exotic drones and synthesizer runs. all the time, they try their best. "The Best their reputation has grown by word-of­ "Dance, Dance, Dance" is an acoustic ./ Of The Band" succeeds fairly well mouth and the legion of fans they've won country pickin' tune with very fine Dobro although I personally feel that there are a over in · concert and on tour with Dylan. work by John McFee. Veteran blues few glaring ommissions. To date, the Band True Band fans probably have every harpist James Cotton assists on "Sweet has produced seven albums and now their album released by the group so this is Maree" and gives an incredible per­ "best of" album includes "Up On Cripple clearly not intended for them. It is, formance with his earthy harmonica Creek," "The Shape I'm In," "The however, a good introduction to a growls and moans. Miller plays aC9ustic Weight," "It Makes No Difference," "Life significant American band, one which has twelve string on this track and just when Is A Carnival," the previously unreleased defined its own inimitable textures and you're convinced that he'll never cha~ge "Twilight" "Don't Do It" "Tears of styles. It's the perfect album. for those of chords, the song breaks into a churnmg Rage," ~ "Stage Fright,.". "Op'helia," and you who are easily saturated by their ~ . "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. "­ sound. It's a varied selection, weighted more

Leary -Continued from page 8 TAXIE ENTERPRISES constituted a "glorious renaissance" in oilly mistake was being ahead of his time. which a large segment of the population Unfortunately, in this country that usually denounced the dead-end of materialism requires persecution. It is a tribute to the and embraced the more noble thoughts of man that he has maintained his Irish ecology and spirituality. humor throughout. Dr. Leary also cautioned that we must not cling to the past, but rather move forward. He remarked that there have been casualties, specifically the drug­ LRP Continued from page 12 burnouts. Leary suggests that there should mentioned by students, Ching-ing Lee and be meetings of the "Veterans of the Eugenia Gurary, was the formation of a Sixities", just like the veterans of the social club of foreign students, as well as Foreign Wars. They can all sit around and natives of the United States, where they smoke joints and say "What's happening could exchange difficulties in adjusting to HALLOWEEN, MASQUERADE ~I man!" a la Cheech and Chong. their new life and help each other over­ Many have mocked Leary in much the come these difficulties as well as meet new same way. Art Clepp, for instance, says people and learn about other cultures. BALL AND COSTUME CONTEST )il that Leary is an "intellectual whore" and Burr Angle, co-ordinator of this program an egomaniac. There is some credence in at UMBC, stressed the need for this type of these statements, but Leary must be program, which would only help with acknowledged as a sharp cookie. Not upper level English, and would not be a / October 29, 1976 many have the acuity to become a citizenship or beginning English program, professor at Harvard University. by saying that "the immigrant is often 9:00 pm-1:00 am lit He is an American satirist, a twentieth very highly motivated with a high dgree of - m century Mark Twain. Timothy Leary was preparation and has a lot to contribute" to ~ the scapegoat for an entire decade. His this school. St. Augustine Hall Elkridge

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