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wanlenglb ISSUE NO. 44 e JUNE 1984 BEAT ISSN 07 41 · 2460

"I'm not sure, but I'm almost THE positive, that all music came from New Orleans. " - Ernie K-Doe, 1979 HE AT! FEATURES Let the post­ World's Fair From A-Z by Bunny Matthews ...... 14 man ·deliver 4 Long Detours by Bunny Matthews ...... 20 WAVELENGTH Folklife at the Fair by rico ...... 23 to your Music at the Fair ...... 25 Jazz Festival Review doorI by Almost Slim ...... 27

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June News ...... 4 Golden Moments by Almost Slim ...... 7 utters ...... 7 Records by Les White ...... 9 Flip City by Carol Gunyadi ...... 10 Rare Records by Almost Slim ...... 12 Reviews ...... 12 Listings ...... 30 Classifieds ...... 3 7 Last Page ...... 38

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commercial success. al R&B charts. Fortunately in 1981, Z.Z. signed Z.Z. often petfonned in ew 'Down Home· z.z. Hill on with Malaco Records in ,Jack­ Orleans to entralled audences. His son, Mississippi, a label more a­ last appearance here, at the pres­ Dies in Dallas dept at handling a rhythm and tigious Seanger Theatre, under­ blues artist. For Malaco, Z.Z. lined the growth of his popularity A Western Union Mailgram was tract. Z.Z. managed to continue a recorded a clutch of singles and and the resurgence of blues. He forwarded to this scribe that string of smaller hits, which did four superb LPs, highlighted of will be sadly missed by all lovers of couldn't have taken me more by well throughout the South. The course by the phenomenally suc­ contemporary and "down home surprise. It read: records insured plenty of club cessful Down Home Blues, which blues." Z. Z. Hill, 48, internationally ac­ work and kept Z.Z. on the road for spent over two years in the nation- -Almost Slim claimed blues singer died Friday, most of the decade. April 2 7, in Dallas. By 1969, Z.Z. had left the West Funeral will be at First Baptist Coast, and started an ill-fated re­ Church, Hughes Springs, Texas, lationship with Quinn Ivy at the Thursday, May 3 11:30 AM, ar­ Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. The rangements by Reeder Davis association resulted in only one 45, 'Fuzzy Dice· Collins Funeral Home, Hughes Springs. leased to Atlantic, and Z.Z. re­ Z.Z., borninMaples, Texas, was turned once again to the West oets Head Transplant a Dallas resident for several years. Coast. He rejoined his brother and Best known for his gold album was rewarded with his biggest hit Drummer Buzz "Fuzzy Dice" "Johnny J. and The Hitmen" logo Down Home, which made him the ever, "Don't Make Me Pay For His Collins celebrated his 22nd birth­ and the cryptic fuzzy dice. world's most successful blues artist. Mistakes," in 1971. The remain­ day at Tipitina's on May 17th by The Hitmen are pumping out a Survived by his wife, Vivian, son der of the Seventies were an ex­ bashing out the ole R&R backbeat streamlined dance sound these Arzell, Jr., two daughters, Bridgette tremely prolific period for Z.Z., as for his boss Johnny J. and fellow days that blends traditional rock, and Lisa, two brothers, a sister and he recorded well over half-a-dozen Hitman, Dave Clements. In be­ R&B, and rockabilly, since acquir­ one granddaughter. LPs on labels both large and small. tween sets the trio retired to the ing master-cruiser Dave Clements -Dave Clark, Malaco Records. But for the most part, success dressing room for a variety of ado­ on bass and vocals. Their reper­ Z.Z. Hill's real name was Arzell eluded Z.Z. as albums on the lescent merry making where young toire is chock full of classic stom­ Hill, and contrary to the above powerful Columbia and United Ar­ F.D. was presented with a hand pers like "Burn Your Playhouse mailgram, he once told me he was tists labels (one partially produced painted (and sorely needed) front Down", and before the jitterbug­ born September 29, 1940 in Nap­ by Allen Toussaint) met with little head for his bass drum bearing the gers have a chance to sit down les, Texas. In his teens he began hanging around local music clubs, and got a taste for the blues after listening to the likes of B.B. King, Bobby " nlue" Bland, James Davis DIN THE BLACK: Released and Jr. Parker. He changed his this month on the Black Top first name to Z.Z. around 1960, label is "Neville·ization, partly as a play on B.B. King's the Neville Brothers· first name and to give his name more Z­ live recording. Present at Zing! the final mix·down in In 1964, he moved to L.A., Dallas were Art Neville, where he cut his first record Aaron Neville and Black "Tomble (sic) Weed" b.w. "You Top chief Hammond scott, Were Wrong." The record was a shown goosing Aaron, who surprise hit, selling in the neigh­ remains cooi.D borhood of a quarter million sin­ gles. The larger Kent record label got wind of the success and signed Z.Z. to an exclusive recording con- stephane crappelli's Still cot Rhythm

Fiddle whiz Stephane Grappelli graced the Fairmont Hotel's posh Blue Room with his cherub1c pre­ sence and virtuoso violin playing in May as the World's Fair opened. Accompanying Grappelli was an outstanding trio of stringmen in­ cluding fellow Parisian Marc Fos­ sett, Scotsman Martin Taylor, and the lone yankee, Brian Torff. Grappelli celebrated his 50th an­ niversary of recording with the legendary Django Reinhardt by playing "Are you In The Mood?" popularized by Reinhardt in the Thirties. Grappelli's choice for an encore was, appropriately, "I Got Rhythm". STEPHANE GRAPPELLI fiddles while the -rico Blue Room's candles burn.

.June 1984/ Wavelength 4 they'll jump into "Little Pig" to keep the dancers hot and the themes tight. The, are also proud to throw in a number of home grown Louisiana songs like Wayne Shu­ ler's "The Crawl.'' Their version of ",Just Like A Woman" (not the Dvlan onel takes a stab at Cajun rock. and the arrangement of "All By Myself" is borrowed quite di­ rectly from ,Johnnie Allen. But what keeps ,Johnny J. and the Hitmen from being just another dance-provoking cover band are the original tunes that sutface in the course of a typical set. "Nuclear Havride" rockets the Ventures to ThTee Mile Island in funky stop time. "I Don't Want To Work No More" autobiographically sketches the plight of every rock and roller whose day begins at dusk and "Michelle Shock" is funky and fu n­ ny without sounding trite. Mr. Dice has practically shed the "still-wet-behind-the-ears" label of a year ago by trimming most of those annoying fills from his per­ cussive vocabulary and the Cle­ ments/Beninati guitar-vocal attack has been impressive enough to win the group a three night Mother's Day weekend gig in Gulf Shores, Alabama, that included free room and board. a $50 a night bar tab and God knows what else. - rico

Whispering· Smith BUZZ COLLINS is "Fuzzy'' Tried so Hard' under the arms. Dies at 52 RICO The great Baton Rouge blues Miller who tagged Smith "Whis­ but sides like "Crying Blues," 1970, when the white blues revival singer/harmonica player Moses pering-" in jest, because his voice "Hound Dog Twist" and "I Tried caught up with the "sound of the "Whispering" Smith died this past was so strong he continually had to So Hard" captured the real flavor swamps." With the help of pioneer month after a long illness. He was move the microphone away from if Louisiana's blues style. blues researcher Terry Pattison, 52. Smith originally hailed from him in the studio! None of "Whis­ Smith rejoined Lightnin' in Whispering Smith was recorded just outside Brookhaven, Missis­ pering" Smith's singles sold very 1964, and stayed with him until he twice that year, waxing sessions for sippi, where he was taught the well (because the popularity o f moved to Michigan in 1966. Smith the English, Blue Horizon label, rudiments of the harmonica from a lowdown blues was on the wane), remained musically inactive until and Arhoolie. The year 1972 was a brother-in-law. Smith had a sister big one for Smith; he toured in Baton Rouge and moved there Europe with his mentor, Lightnin' in 1957, where he took a job in a Slim, and recorded his ftrst album, service station. One afternoon in Over Easy, ironically for the Ex­ 1958, Lightnin' Slim came by the cello label. station and Smith introduced him­ After Lightnin's death, once self. After hearing Smith play, again Smith's career went into a Lightnin' asked Smith to join his tail spin, but he continued to per­ band, where he stayed until1960. OH.IWHr DID You form around Baton Rouge and he Between 1960 and 1964, Smith WAJ:=E ME (If'?/ often made appearances at the recruited his own band, which I WA~ r>~EAMiN6 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage played around Louisiana. THAT r WA~ 'TtiCf\ Festival. Interest in Smith once Through Lightnin', Smith was Of( IHE GoNt>OLA again was shown by the Sunland introduced to the powerful blues­ f:OR. '7/X HOVR$ label, which issued a new single producer .J.D. Miller, who owned a WITH 8tLLY II>OL! and an anthology containing his studio in Crowley, Louisiana. Mil­ most recent work, ironically re­ ler in\'ited Smith to play on a leased the very week of his death. number of sessions, and dUt;ng the Although Whispering Smith's earlv Sixties he could be heard early Excello sides are no longer accompanying other artists, in­ available, the Louisiana Blues cluding Lightnin' and Silas Hogan. Anthology (Sunland 101) is an ex­ In 1963. mith auditioned his own cellent representation of his latest group, and Miller was able to lease work. four singles to the Excello label over the next two years. It was - Almost Slim

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Elvis, Scotty and Bill: The WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS on First Year (RCA), 1982 the King: The pure products of Elvis: The First Live Re­ America go crazy.' cordings (The Music Works), 1983 Elvis: The Beginning Years (RCA), 1983

t first I found it curious that as I listened to these A Louisiana Hayride/Ea­ gle's Hall (Houston) recordings my thoughts ran to a closing moment in the Malcolm Leo/ An­ drew Solt film biography This is Eh·is. an affecting version of the life that is, I came to realize, inseparable from these perfor­ mances. In a piece of concert footage from mid-1977, shot just six weeks before his death, a barely recognizeable Elvis sings "My Way" with great force, of­ fering it as a resolute defense of his life and an ironic comment upon what he had become. His appearance, of course is jolting, embarrassing, and I am relieved when across the screen comes a chronicle of Elvis' career. Every phase is represented-the mo­ ment he figured he had it made, the eight years obscurity in Hol­ lywood, the celebrated, fragile comeback in 1968, the last years of awkward, desperate searching Lauderdale Chamber of Com­ First Year; each includes five that might justify purchase. Side for a way to hold a life together merce," and "!There's] No Room songs, several too-familiar ac­ two is entirely an interview (not that some combination of relent­ to Rhumba in a Sports Car"}, the counts of Elvis' first television on The Beginning Years) in which less fame, poor judgment, and tapes are most valuable cultural­ appearances, interview seg­ Scotty Moore, the studied, ca­ sycophantic abuse had under­ ly, as a way of imagining four men ments, and reminiscences (Frank pable guitarist of the early years, mined long before. A home mov­ in the cramped studio, and then Page, long-time host of the Hay­ remembers the first recording ie segment shows a domestic three of them setting out for ride, recalling Elvis' fabled re­ session and talks of the Blue Elvis at his happiest, with Priscil­ whatever the road had to offer turn to ten thousand Hayriders Moon Boys' initial swing through la just after the birth of Lisa them. Listening to this music as after his first Sullivan Show ap­ Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. Marie. But the soundtrack in­ fans of Elvis and of rock'n'roll pearance}. The First Live Record­ Necessary? Maybe, if one wants trudes. I hear Elvis singing, "I've and perhaps as historians, we can ings is the better programmed of to hear Scotty describe the cat had my fill, my share of losing/ picture the Hayride stage, and on the two sets. On it, Elvis follows a clothes Elvis wore the first time And now as tears subside, I find it it a figure in black, with white fairly tame "Baby, Let's Play the two met and tell what hap­ all so amusing/ To think I did all buck, pomade-spiked hair, loving House" with Chuck Berry's pened when Elvis' Lincoln broke that. .. " the microphone shamelessly be­ "Maybelline," enthusiastically down somewhere between Tex­ It is at this moment that images fore a throng of outstretched introducing it as "one we only arkana and Shreveport. of frenzied, pre-Hollywood rock­ arms. It is thrilling. I delight in learned a couple days ago." His In the penultimate scene of er and bored, bloated pop avatar the good times of the music. But I brilliant measuring of this song is The Last Waltz, Robbie Robert­ clash, and in trying to hold them can't quite get out from under two minutes' proof, if you need it, son talks of the Band's decision in mind at once, I recall the line what I know is coming. of Elvis' intuitive genius as musi­ to give it up after sixteen years from William Carlos Williams' The Beginning Years is the cian and as interpreter of songs. together. "The road has taken a "Spring and All" that Peter superior of these three sets not The highlight of this set, though, lot of the great ones." His voice Guralnick attaches to one of his only because it collects all of the is a heaving, sexy version of quavers as he enumerates­ fine essays on Elvis: "The pure performances on the other two "Hound Dog," which Elvis sings "Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, products of America go crazy." releases but because the narra­ recklessly, as though he knows he Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hen­ Historically, these perfor­ tion is sensibly chosen and often doesn't have to try but decides to drix. . .Elvis. It's a goddamn mances from 1954-56 are worthy revelatory, the sound generally anyway. No non-bootleg version impossible way of life." The road if predictable additions to Pres­ cleaner, and the packaging more that I know of can touch it, save is treacherous and alluring; it can leyana. We hear on all three sets attractive (The Beginning Years perhaps for that found on the inspire a performer and destroy Elvis run hard through his Sun includes a fine book of photo­ must-own, two-record sound­ him. material, singing instinctively, graphs from the collection ofD.J. track to This is Elvis. His move­ These Hayride/Eagle's Hall dangerously-going after the Fontana, Elvis' drummer for ment through both numbers tapes give us some sense of what raucous Sun sound that Sam twelve years; the front and back seems calculated and utterly it was like for Elvis in those early Phillips got some months before cover photos of The First Live spontaneous-that is, near per­ months when he and Bill Black in the little Memphis studio at Recordings are from AI Werth­ fect performances. and Scotty and later D.J. moved i06 Union Avenue. Because we eimer's essential book of photo­ The First Year is merely a col­ from Hot Springs to Monroe to get to hear what Elvis could do graphy, Elvis'). Absence of first­ lectible. Of the four Sun sides Jackson to Tampa. And in fact with his material when something rate liner notes on any of these here, an odd, country-ish "Good what it was like for him at the hor­ was still at stake (that is, in the sets is regrettable. Rockin' Tonight" is well worth rible end is in some ways of a days before songsters/studio More accessible at present hearing, though it is the magnifi­ piece with what we learn from hacks offered up schlock like than The Beginning Years are The cent reading of Ray Charles' "I and hear in this music. "Song of the Shrimp," "Fort First Live Recordings and The Got a Woman (Way Over Town}" 9 Wavelength/June 1984• icture an oasis of sight and Stepping off the soap box for Real dressing rooms for cus­ sound, a monument to the just a minute, the specifics of this tomers as well as the stars are in P truly talented musicians new era are in order. The aban­ order. Salaried employees for making their mark on the industry, doned Winn Dixie on Magazine security inside and outside the a place where even the most un­ Street, next to the Second District club will be provided. Air con­ touchable artists are showcased police station off Napoleon is the ditioning and heating will be and brought to your door for a chosen location. The building operative for customer comfort. personal introduction. The idols, boasts of 2,300 capacity-com­ Entertainment presently ap­ the icons, heroes and masters of fortably. Parking is just at the legal praised and in the near future music ... flocking en masse to the limit for obtaining a liquor license. possibly could include the likes of throne of the stage, where their Massive monetary support from X, The Circle Jerks, Thompson loyal subjects welcome them and powerful silent partners is in tow. Twins, The Fabulous Thunder­ are rewarded for their long starved "ijids on renovation as well as birds, Berlin, Real Life, Reflex, willingness to serve as an au­ s'ound and lighting equipment Psychedelic Furs, and many dience. have already been accepted. A few others. These examples by no Picture the dynasty at our feet details on the lease are presently means reflect the wide variety of just created... the means, the hows being worked out and Logan hopes talent that are likely to grace the and whys of a place tentatively en­ fit as a musical group. In this city," to have the club open this month! stage. It will be a new music titled The Beat Palace: where he continues, "an honest day's Here's what Tim Logan has en­ oriented club, but will all tran­ dignity reigns. work is NOT worth an honest day's visioned: scend into heavy metal, rock-a­ A dream you say? Or perhaps a pay." Inside, the stage will be big billy, as well as any number of joke that an old uptown super National booking agencies have enough to accommodate national combinations. market will be transformed into traditionally passed over New touring acts-and their tremen­ What's in it for the local the South's mecca for musicians ... Orleans as a cite for bringing new dous amounts of equipment. The musicians? For starters, The Cold it's no laughing matter. The Beat talent to the city for exposure, sound equipment accepted will will officially opened the club and Palace, or whatever the kingdom mainly because there isn't a place make transistor radios out of p.a. Logan has extended them the will be dubbed, is the shot of pen­ where they can draw the crowd systems in the city. Lights will be invitation to make the new club icillin the New Orleans music needed to make any kind of profit powerful enough in design and their home. All local acts will be industry has been deprived of for on expending a New Orleans amount to generate the illusions considered. The process for this several years. concert date. Rent and other con­ and the intensity necessary for opportunity is reasonably simple "It's a local concern that needs cessions, such as high percent­ performers and audiences to really -submit a professional portfolio/ to be attended to," says the man ages from the door, are too experience the overall sensation of promo kit, including tape. The with the plan, Tim Logan. "It's not demanding for the small club a concert. A video screen will be first submitted will be the first fair making good (local) groups owners, and New Orleans be­ installed and dropped down in considered and thereafter all move on to other cities to become comes an even bigger risk for front of the stage during set bands are put into rotation. When recognized, appreciated and bene- touring acts. changes. your number comes up ... get to it.

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TAKE THE SOUNDS OF NEW ORLEANS HOME to enjoy over and over again. At CANAL RECORD CENTER, we carry a complete selection of Dixieland, Cajun, Blues and Rock n' Ro ll on a lbum and cassette. Located only a short distance from the World's Fair at 1012 CANAL STREET.

June 1984/Wavelength 10 Local bands stand to profit most the same clientele as the Leaf. One is more or less a "coin-opera­ cuse! The driving refrain of Simple from the experience extended for Carrolltown Town Hall will serve a ted lunar lander" which incorpor­ Minds' "Speed Your Love To Me" opening for the national touring buffet style lunch downstairs soon ates a video game, but it more or from the album Sparkle in the acts. But it will not be limited to after opening and is to expand onto less an amusement park ride. It's Rain was possibly the forewarning this. Local bands will get a feel of the second floor with a small, dubbed in its press kit as "an to what is the most shocking nup­ what it's like to be on a big stage, intimate dining room. The second environmental video game ma­ tual in the music world today: with professional sound and lights floor is being totally 1enovated, chine in the form of a flight simu­ Twenty-four-year-old wunderkind as well as playing in front of large and as found out by the proud lator." Designed to look and feel and mystical lyricist of the Scot­ crowds. Most importantly, respect proprietors when ripping off some like the cockpit of a space craft, it tish group Simple Minds, Jim and decent pay will be the re­ paneling, each room on the second has high-powered air turbines Kerr, secretly courted and wed wards to those who have been floor is encased with one-hundred­ keeping it afloat at the top of a seemed-to-already-have-been ignored ... our ambitious local year-old tin paneling ... floor to plastic cylinder. From a distance it obliged thirty-two-year-old Chris­ musicians. ceiling with a different design in looks like an egg in an egg holder. sie Hynde of the Pretenders last At present, the club is scheduled each room. The chef and opera­ When you get strapped inside, and month. Chrissie's ex, and father of to open this month on Thursdays, tions manager for the bar and Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pro restaurant, Gowen Naylor, was an with live music starting at 9:30 pro executive chef for The Hilton lasting til 1 or 2 am. When the Hotel in Philadelphia, and wants THE NEW FAD AT FADS: bands have finished for the eve­ to try out some Northeast seafood ning, the club will keep the on us ... but he's keeping his menu A ·coin-operated ll4~at'r:PART'·m·rr . momentum by automatically flexible and will serve traditional l •th somer•IL K.lONr; LIBRARY bringing down the lights and Southern delights. Bob Willard lander WI UN vER m oF NEW oRLEI bringing up the dance music... and will be booking music acts in the saulting cockpit. NEW ORLEANS,LA. 7.0 1 2~ will close at 6 am. club/restaurant for evenings "We don't mind giving the downstairs. More than likely it's people what they want" -words looking to be a jazz club. Some we've waited so long to hear, Mr. collaboration with the area club the jet air propels you upward, you her seventeen-month-old Natalie, Logan. owners is planned so that all may are in total control of the delicate Ray Davies of The Kinks was by benefit in what's considered "I'll balance of floating in space. Turn her side just a short week before nother new establishment scratch your back... " friendly, com­ the wheel hard enough, lean and the marriage in a carriage in Cen­ rearing it's head in the Up­ munity atmosphere. the cockpit somersaults. Saker tral Park, N.Y. Hopefully, we A town area is Carrollton One at Fads is the first in the won't be seeing any blissful duet Town Hall. It's located down the new fad at Fads. .. one country and was invented by John renditions of Sonny and Cher's block from The Maple Leaf at the that's sure to make its way Sassak, Sr. "I've Got You Babe" in the future, corner of Oak and Joliet at 8500 A throughout the nation... ••••• and hopefully (I pray) Jim's voice Oak Street and will cater much to Saker One Space Probe. Saker "You go to my head" is no ex- doesn't change. •

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11 Wavelength/June 1984 THE OFFICIAL rare records

Smokey Johnson NEW ORLEANS ·•t Ain't My Faul~ NOLA 706 Here's one that has been enjoy­ RIIYIDH &BLUES ing a revival in popularity of late, largely because it has been added ANNIVERSARY ALBUM to the repertoire of a number of Volume 1 New Orleans brass bands. Drum­ mers don't often get a chance to make records on their own, but hits Smokey, one of the best, made a NEW versions of great number of excellent instrumental RE·RECORDED and PER· singles for NOLA during the mid­ Sixties. FORMED by the ORICINAL NOLA Records was formed by producer Wardell Quezerque and artists!! Clinton Scott in 1964. "It Ain't My Of late the song has become Fault" was a two-part instrumental somewhat of an anthem for the featuring an infectious second-line local brass bands and has been drum patter that propelled George covered by the Olympia on their Davis' simple guitar passage and last LP and on the recent Heart­ Walter Kimball's booming alto fixer's album. Smokey, we are break. The story behind the tune happy to report, is still very much is that it was composed spon­ alive and well, and still in the taneously, after Smokey came up employment of Fats Domino, with an interesting drum pattern, where he holds down the drum­ while rehearsing in back of the A-1 mer's stool. Record Shop . -Almost Slim

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Rockin' Syndey John Fred & The Playboys BOOCIE, BLUES BEST OF 'N' ZYDECO Sugar Cane I 00 AVAILABLE AT: Maison de Soul I 008 Compiled by John Fl'ed himself, this is a neat collection of his mid­ MUSHROOM e RECORD & VIDEO CONNECTION e METRONOME Yes indeed, good old Rockin' WAREHOUSE RECORDS e SOUND WAREHOUSE e LEISURE Sixties on Paula, with the added Sydney is still living up to his bonus of his 1959 hit on Monte!, LANDINO e GRAMOPHONE RECORDS e SMITH'S e PEACHES name! This new set, recorded late TIPITINA'S e RECORD RON'S "Shirley." The accent is on the last year, delivers just what the English-influenced rock sound of AT THE WORLD'S FAIR: album's title said it would, and the era, but I'd always thought the by a powerhouse e DISCO PHOTOORAPHIA. ITALIAN VILLAGE e REUNION HALL more. Assisted Playboys sound like a union of the band of South Louisiana musi­ Young Rascals and Cookie and his cians, including Warren Storm, Cupcakes. John Fred was, of -ALBUM REVIEWS- Trahan and the rock­ 'Willie Tee' course, the most successful pro­ BILLBOARD'S RECOMMENDED LP'S-"Surprisingly strong solid pianist Katie Webster, Syd­ ponent of Louisiana's many blue­ remakes of their hits by Lee Dorsey, Jean Kmght, Robert ney is in good form throughout on Parker, Frankie Ford, Ernie K- Doe and others." eyed soul bands, which also includ­ -BILLBOARD , APRIL 28, 1984 accordion and harp. But the real ed the likes of Gee Gee Shinn, treat here are the witty lyrics from Clint West, the Boogie Kings and "A record that should d raw some attention to New Orleans' Sydney who seems to be a virtual special role in American music is "THE OFFICIAL NEW the mighty Greek Fountains­ ORLEANS RHYTHM & BLUES ALBUM," 12 slightly updated_ bottomless pit of great song ideas. these groups could really rock. versions o f some of the Crescent City's biggest hits by thetr The best of the lot is the snappy Of course the perfunctory "Judy original artists." "Cochon de Lait," and the uproar­ -NELSON GEORGE BILLBOARD BLACK MUSIC EDITOR in Disguise" and "Hey, Hey Bun­ ' MAY 5, 1984 ious "Slim's Y-Kee Kee" (sic), a ny" are included as well they - humorous reworking of the blues should be. The track that still "One of the great nostalgic record in~s of all time h!ls recently standard, "Tin Pan Alley." Other been made here in New Orleans. Its also the ulttmate New bowls me over is "Boogie Child­ Orleans party album. There's enough variety in the album to treats are the reworkings of Syd­ ren," a raving rocker with a terrific recordings of "She's My satisfy a lot of different moods and wh~n you have guests ney's Jin guitar dominating the proceed­ from out o f town, it's a great way to r~ mtnd them of how many and "If I Could I Morning Coffee" ings. The British beat is most R&B hits came out of New Orleans. Katie just pounding - GARY ESOLEN, GAMBIT, MAY 12, 1984 Would," with evident on "Agnes English" and 88's. it out on the "Sun City," but their renderings of SEND CORRESPONDENCE OR TO ORDER AN ALBUM OR CASSETTE What strikes me is that unlike SEND S9 (Includes postage and handling) TO· tioay§ "Harlem Shuffle" and "Night other forms of traditional or ethnic Owl" prove that the boys would Rtronl§ strains of music, zydeco continues have no trouble sharing the bill ALLOW 4·6 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY. P.O. BOX 1729 to grow and is constantly being KENNER, LA. 70065 with Raful Neal and the Clouds at changed. While Clifton might still the Temple Roof! The real treat is be the king, he has spawned the group's first hit "Shirley," fea­ -POSTER INFORMATION- legions of other zydeco artists with turing Huey Smith's band as ac­ talent. Rockin' Sydney FU LL COLOR 20 1/2" x 20 1/2" POSTER DESIGNED FROM THE ALBUM COVER undeniable companists, a song that was a hit AVAILABLE AT FINER GI FT SHOPS AND ART GALLERIES THROUGHOUT THE NEW is one and you'll probably want this ORLEAN S AR EA. DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION: STE VE SAINT GERMAIN. twenty-three years later for Shakin' one. -Almost Slim Stevens in England. .June 1984/Wavelength 12 The back cover, with nearly 25 Butler in tribute to Duke Elling­ High Quality, Low Co years' worth of Playboy photos, is ton. T here wasn't anything special alone worth the price of this o ne. in the format to make it a tribute Of course for those who attended other than the material coming LSU during the late Sixties, this from the Ellington song book, but album will be as essential as a year the performers put so much exu­ book signed by Charlie McClen­ berance and fire into their per­ don, but really I can't think of sonal interpretations that the Eva·Tone Soundsheets, anyone who wouldn't want this Duke could never have asked for unbreakable flexible phonograph discs, will faithfully reproduce the master or demo one. any greater testimonial. tape you provide. Soundsheets won't crack or chip like records, and they're cheaper -Almost Slim The quartet swung brightly to mail than tape or cassettes. Choose our special ET·1000 package and get: 1,000 through such warhorses as "Take 8·inch, 8-mil stereo Soundsheets recorded on one side with up to 9 minutes of sound. the A Train" and "Squeeze Me," (That's more time than you'll get on a 45.) label. Paper Sleeve. You send tape and Dave Bartholomew each member turning in first rate label information. In larger quantities, Soundsheets can cost less than a postage stamp. JUMP CHILDREN solos. Bazzle delivered a finger­ Write or call today for details: popping version of "Beginning To EVA·TONE SOUNDSHEETS- Dept. Wl Pathe-Marconi 1546601 See the Light" and a dramatic, P.O. Box 7020 I Clearwater, Fl33518 Dave Bartholomew is best heartfelt reading of "Lush Life." Toll·free 1·800-EVA·TONE (in Florida 813·577-7000) known for the many hits he pro­ Butler's approach contrasted nice­ duced for other artists, but as this ly with Bazzle's, being more extro­ album shows, Bartholomew's own verted and bravura filled than the The 16 rooms containing over 400,000 material stands up perfectly well older singer's supple finesse. They original label 45's, 78's, and L.P's in even though none of these tunes joined together on "Mood Indigo" stock- and pulled all stops for a high Gold Mine were hits. Jump Children features Rare Records & Comics I OO's of thousands of comics. recordings made between 1949 flying "It Don't Mean A Thing." and 1953 with Bartholomew front­ For some unexplained reason, Oldies reissues S I .89 ing the same musicians that work­ Sonny Rollins and his group des­ cended a notch on the triple 6469 Jefferson Hwy. . Plus top-I 00 45's & LP's in pop, rock ed sessions at Cosimo's studio. bill and followed the Ellington Harahan, La. ~ r;iii~iiiitii; ~ soul, country The material here ranges from tribute. 1 the frantic title track (itself well Of course, Rollins is one of the 504/737-2233 L::::J~_I ~Specializing in original 50's, 60's, great individual instrumentalists worth the price of this disc) to 1343 of modern jazz, and his unmis­ West Bank Expressway &_l_o_·s______sentimental ballads, represented Westwego, LA 70094 We accept mail order all over the best by takably personal tone and shim­ "People Are Talkin'." In 504/347-7447 worldl between, the album touches on a mering technical facility were in evidence. But somehow his per­ variety of tempos and styles, while 9am-8pm Take 1-10 Mon.-Sat. still maintaining its distinctive formance lacked emotional in­ volvement. Rodger Castillo Westbound to Mary Gammon New Orleans-Bartholomew touch. owNE~ Clearvlew S. exit MANAGER Of special interest are " Country Gal" (the answer to Bartholomew's SONNY ROLLINS' Deluxe hit "Country Boy") where rhythm section seem· he blows a scorching solo; "Carni­ Two Great Names in Music: val Day," an early rare Mardi Gras ed oblivious to any record, full of Indian overtones; texture or dynamics. WERLEIN'S and Bartholomew's own version of the I@Roland oft-recorded "Ain't Gonna Do It"; Rollins' rhythm section seemed WE DESIGN Tl£ FUTURE the bluesy "How Could You," completely oblivious to any tex­ where our man proves to be no ture or dynamics in the material, slouch of a vocalist; and the hilari­ and throughout the evening poun­ ous "Who Drank My Beer," that ded away with an unrelenting features a smoking horn section. stream of notes that ignored the While a couple of tunes don't wonderful sense of space Rollins live up to the previously mention­ conveys in his best moments. The ed classics, you can't help but one genuinely touching offering wonder why Bartholomew didn't came on a Rollins original, a haunt­ have a couple of hits himself on ing ballad called "Wynton," in Imperial. This set only serves to tribute to the young trumpeter amplify the fact that Bartholomew Marsalis. ROLAND JUNQ-6 (Above) did indeed invent the "big beat." At this point the jazz portion of 6-voice, 61-key polyphonic synthesizer with 6 VCF's, 6 VCA's & 6 ENV's. Use of Totally enjoyable from beginning the cruise was just about over digital controlled oscillator (DCO) for perfect to end, this one looks to tuning at all times. "Built·in Chorus" for rich be the because Herbie Mann proceeded string and organ effects. Auto arpeggio. Key­ reissue of 1984. to spew out a hackneyed set of Transpose all to C. -Almost Slim fusion and blues. If this was supposed to be the "Jazz Cruise" ROLAND SH-101 (Rt.) Monophonic President as opposed to "Fusion Night" what Synthesizer has outstanding features com· S.S. was Mann doing on the bill while parable to those of larger synthesizers, despite its smaller size: The built-in Digital Sequencer for JAZZ CRUISE Woody Shaw, Joe Newman, automatic playing of up to 100 steps, Octave Trans- George Adams, Don Pullen, Reg­ pose, Key-Transpose function to any key, and almost unlimited May 3, 1984 versatility. Come in for a demonstration! gie Workman and Ed Blackwell were relegated to the obscurity of NOW, if qualified, YOU CAN BUY YOUR ROLAND WITH MONTHLY This annual "Jazz Cruise" is performing at Prout's in the mid­ LOWWERLEIN PAYMENTS, CUSTOM·TAILOREDTOYOUR BUDGET! supposedly the high point in the dle of the night? When Mann IN GREATER NEW ORLEANS: presentation of modern jazz dur­ finally turned to Barry Manilow's e605 Canal Street, Downtown ...... 524-7511 ing the ten-day New Orleans Jazz "Feelings" for a ballad offering, • Lakeside, Metairie, LA ...... 831·2621 and Heritage Festival. What stel­ things got downright painful. eOakwood, Gretna, LA ...... 362·3131 • Plaza, Lake Forest, East N.O ...... 246-6830 WERtEINS lar heights were achieved during Promoters constantly seem to un­ -~~ ~ ALSO IN ~ ,,. o~ ~ /na.J«. the evening came early and things derestimate the audience for eBaton Rouge, LA, 7744 Fla. Blvd.... 926·6800 went progressively down hill. modern jazz. Next year, let's hope eBiloxi, MS, 3212 W. Beach ...... 388·4070 "' ,;:J. . .,. . The concert opened with Ellis the Jazz Cruise gets some creative eJackson, MS. 517 E. Capitol ...... 353·3517 ~.~/' ··'-" MAJOR CREDIT Marsalis and his quartet with sin­ programming. ' CARDS ACCEPTED gers Germaine Bazzle and Laverne -Bob Cataliotti

13 Wavelength/June 1984

he Louisiana world Exposition. better known as the world·s Fair. fills 82 acres cilong the New Orleans river· front. BUNNY MATTHEWS reviews.the hits and misses from A to z...

A wear ties. If they work at Perez Associates, principal architects for the Louisiana World is located AFRICAN MARKETPLACE Exposition, they have to all eat lunch at the along the International Riverfront, in the vicini­ same time. ty of the Korean and Mexican pavillions. The Considering the plight of architects, might we tradesmen are more Afro-American than Afri­ collectively pat these unhappy beings on their can and many of them have previously conduc­ respective backs? The World's Fair is an ted business on the sidewalks of Canal Street. architectural triumph-except when it rains. Thusly, one can expect a large array of incense On those occasions-despite the contention and scented oils, plus smaller quantities of that most of the World's Fair is beneath ceil­ genuine African tribal masks, electric clocks ings-the fair-goer will get wet running between shaped like the African continent ($75), record pavilions and the six World's Fair neighbor­ albums (Malcolm X's speeches and Olatunji 's hoods. For under two bucks, official World's drumming), a slim paperback entitled "An An­ Fair raincoats, in white polyvinyl the approxi­ thology Of Some Of The Public Utterances Of mate gauge of bags from the dry-cleaners, are His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie I" (inc­ offered. These disposable garments, when worn luded are the Lion of Judah's 1937 Christmas by thousands on rainy days, succeed in making broadcast to America and the two sentences of the World's Fair site look like a massive assem­ greeting pronounced by the Ethiopian emperor bly of punkish Klansmen. at the 1946 Imperial Army football finals), jewelry and sandals. "Psychic Readings" are AUSTRALIA has a large pavilion along the delivered by Charles Henry Williams ll and Ava International Riverfront, in which can be viewed Kay Jones, who will also prepare gris-gris bags the skeleton of a platypus, a group of stuffed on the spot for those fair-goers tempted to arm­ lizards, some Aborigine spears (displayed with wrestle with the hand of fate. three grey plastic wastebaskets, utilized to catch the rain leaking through three overhead AOUACADE, sponsored by Coca-Cola, seats holes in the ceiling), very smart grey carpeting 3,500 and one of the miracles of modern metal­ and computer-controlled video, multi-projector lurgy is that the bleachers- even after hours of and multi-screen audio-visual displays showing exposure to the sun'srays-stay tepid and won't surfers, floods, painted Aborigines and topless fry your thighs. There are six shows a day, seven girls cavorting on the beach. Men At Work are days a week, and the admission is free. When not mentioned or heard. the World's Fair is over, the pool will be covered The 24 young Australian attendants, explains with topsoil. an official release from the office of the Austra­ ARCHITECTS are always miserable, as well DIANA ROSENBERG lian Exhibit Organization, "have had to be very they should be. Their cousins, the artists, need carefully chosen. Not only intelligence and solely concern themseJves with the problems of THE PAPAL PRESENCE IN personality were considered, as well as fair geo­ light, paint and the utility bill. Architects, in the LOUISIANA: 18th·century graphic distribution by states- they had also to creation of their art, must deal with millionaire be of the personality type to cope with an ex­ developers, safety inspectors, plumbers, paper­ ivory crucifix from the tremely repetitive job. The glamour of going to hangers, politicians and a multitude of others. Diocese of Alexandria· New Orleans is one thing but on the other hand Architects have to work nights, Saturdays and they'll be answering the same questions many Sundays. If they're men, they usually have to Natchez. times a day, for six straight months. They'll 4 RICO 15 Wavelength/June 1984 E ECYPT, in the words of one Gentilly woman observed exiting the nation's pavilion, "ain't nuttin'-just uh Iotta stuff like Tut." These people might've built the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx but they aren't too good at simple pavilions. ELECTRICITY is the subject of America's Electric Energy Exhibit, located beneath the Centennial Plaza monorail stop. A film by David Grubin, "It's An Electric Life," shows RICO how a young dairyman uses electric milking machines on his cows (no mention is made of the WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL CIRL laws." Otherwis~ , China seems ready to take and escorts. over where the now-defunct Barker's chain left giant loan the dairyman had to secure to buy the off. The dresses, though, are hopelessly frumpy. machines) and ends with a young torch singer. The Party fashion designers should spend a few recording an epistle to electricity. A condemned hours watching ZZ Top's videos and studying man in an electric chair would've been a more back issues (circa 1961) of Sir! magazine. novel climax. have to stay courteous and cheerful, and that takes a specific kind of person." 2,400 Austral­ D F ians, most of whom look like natives of Southern DOCS are not allowed at the World's Fair. A FERRIS WHEEL, 178 feet high, is either the California, applied for the 24 positions. world without dogs-those foul, smelly, shame­ tallest or the second-tallest in North America. The word "Australian" was originally mis­ less beasts-would be a nearly perfect world. FROM THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS is spelled on the gift shop's carved wooden sign, a Only the Chinese (who have exterminated most the name of a shop located along the Wonder­ funky touch that was probably evidence that the of the dogs in their republic) and the Louisiana wall that sells stuffed, mounted alligator heads sign was made in New Orleans, where hap­ World Expositibn management have yet to in two sizes. The large gator heads retail for hazard and/or curious spellings have long been adopt this advanced,. modem philosophy of $240 and their little brothers can be had for in vogue. anti-canineism. ; $180. B

BELGIAN WAFFLES "CREOLE RI CO STYLE" are sprinkled with sugar, laden with fresh strawberries and topped with whipped cream.c The "Creole" part is a minor mystery. CADILLAC-specifically, Robert Tannen's vintage Cadillac convertible, which hangs ver­ tically in the Great Hall, near the Artworks '84 exhibition of Louisiana artists. Tannen has replaced the hood ornament with a stuffed and painted fish, attached wooden fins to the car's sides and dubbed his Cadillac "The World's · Largest Redfish." The rumor is that Tannen might dip the vehicle in hot tar to produce "The World's Largest Blackened Redfish." CANADA presents a 22-projector examina­ tion of itself in one room of its pavilion and a 15- minute "River Journey" across Canada in its Imax theatre. There is an acid rain exhibit, an 18th Century Eskimo kayak and an 8-minute video plugging the 1986 Vancouver World's Fair. CHINA has the largest foreign pavilion at the World's Fair. The only difference between the Chinese brand of Communism displayed at the World's Fair and good ol' American give-the­ __, public-what-it-wants capitalism is that under ALLIGATOR HEADS capitalism you sometimes encounter "blue are sold in two sizes. .June 19A4/Wavelengt h 16 FULTON STREET MALL. Say the World's Fair ts a microcosm-a big microcosm-of the French Quarter. Homosexuality and pmstitu­ tion have been eliminated (overtly, that is}, the Wonderwall has taken the place of Bourbon WELCOME TO THE LOUISIANA Street and the Vatican Pavilion represents St. Louis Cathedral. You can hear both Pete WORLD EXPOSITION Fountain and AI Hirt (neither of whom set foot in the Quarter anymore) and Pat O'Brien's-style Hurricanes await the thirsty. The Fulton Street Mall roughly approximates Decatur Street, which means that visitors usually encounter the place by accident. The Mall's hot spots include an Australian-esque bar, and a video-game parlor. That fair-goers would pay $15 admission to play video-games is symptomatic of a general declinec in our civilization. GONDOLA, officially known as M.A.R.T. or Mississippi Aerial River Transit, has shut down a few times during the World's Fair's early days but those stranded aboard the system have usually complained very little. After the World's Fair, M.A.R.T. will continue to operate for the benefit of tourists and commuters who like to start the day dramatically. H HAWAII does not have a pavilion but there is a gift shop dedicated to Hawaiian souvenirs. The hand-carved hula-dancer statuettes are quality kitsch of the highest order. I MAYOR INDIA DELHI, in Bayou Plaza, near the Aquacade, is owned by an Indian princess (now DUTCH MORIAL residing in Uptown New Orleans} and a group of sheet music ("Please No Squeeza Da Banana" turns Japanese at lawyers. The Delhi, with its blue metalflake and "Baciagaloop Makes Love On Da Stoop"}, elephants, was designed by Julie Jame and its photographic portraits of diva Marguerite wosu·s remote studio. fare includes samosas (turnovers}, bhujias (ve­ Piazza and jazzman Sam Butera, a very simpli­ getable fritters} , tandoori chicken with Basmati fied St. Joseph's altar (blessed by Archbishop rice (grown in the foothills of the Himalayas) and Hannan, nevertheless) and poster-sized en­ mango freezes. largements of newspaper clippings concerning J notable Louisiana Italaians, including develo­ JAPAN, if one can trust the enthralling three­ lrALIAN VILLAGE is where young Romeos per Joseph Canizaro, banker/hoteli er John V. screen film shown in its pavilion, looks like a can buy gold chains for their own necks and Santopadre, Donaldsonville Mayor Lawrence cross between Colorado, Kansas, Vermont and made-to-order high heels for the delicate feet of "La La" Regira, Angelo Socola ("The Father of Times Square. The people take great care in their Juliets. The exhibition honoring Italian­ Loui siana's Rice Industry"} and Mother Cab.-1- arranging flowers when they're at home. The Americans of the South features Louis Prima ni, the first American to be canonized a Saint. rest of the time, they rush around like crazy. A mysterious European woman with blonde hair appears in a train station. A shopping center that could be Lakeside turns up in Tokyo. Next, the Japanese celebrate Mardi Gras ...

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JED'S LOOKOUT is located on the third floor of the Federal Fibre Mills building and "Jed's 4141" is the general idea. There are abstract/expressionist paintings, slick furni­ ture, perky tones, attractive waitresses and any resemblance to a similarly-named club that once existed on Oak Street in prehistoric days is strictly accidental. K KID·WASH is like a car-wash. The kids get RICO wet and at the end, they get a little dry. If they VOODOO·DANCING along the WONDERWALL stood in the hot-air blowers for an hour or more, v VIDEO FISH by video artist extraordinaire Nam June Paik in the Artworks '84 exhibition introduces live fish to taped video. Be glad you're not a fish. w WONDERWALL is the creation of archi­ tects Charles Moore, Arthur Anderson, William Turnbull and Leonard Salvato. The latter archi­ tect, Mr. Salvato, could be seen floating in the Great Hall's artificial pond aboard a lattice elephant boat hours before the World's Fair's Press Day (the day before Opening Day) com­ menced, doing touch-up work with a can of paint. That's dedication! X XENOPHOBIA, thought incurable in New Orleans, has taken a beating. y YUNNAN is a province in southwestern China. To quote a brochure from the China Travel Source: "With regard to the food, Yun­ nan has every kind of the most famous dainties of the whole country. Bear palm, elephant trunk, deer's tendons are rare but typical Yun­ nan delicacies." Not Available at the World's Fair,z though. MUCH ZULU COCONUTS from the collection of ADO OVER NIPPLES: Morris F.X. Jeff, Sr. can be found in "The The Barth Brothers, of Mardi Gras Creole State: An Exhibit of Louisiana Folklife," floatmaking fame, prOduced the scandalous mermaids. located on the ground floor of the Federal Fibre Mills building. Also on view are David Allen's the kids would probably get totally dry-if it pavilion but Uncle Sam nixed the idea for fear "Hoodoo Dream Walking Stick," a cypress al­ wasn't too humid outside. Of course, the last that one of the killers might escape-a pregnant ligator and turtle carved by Joseph "Chelito" time it wasn't too humid was 40 years ago for 10 female on the loose would be the worst possible Campo of Delacroix Island, two voodoo dolls minutes. The solution is to let the kids wear scenario- and terrorize the waters of the Mis­ (poupees) from St. Martinville and "Purple Hull their bathing suits under their clothes. And sissippi River. A terrific idea for a movie but Pea Jelly" canned by Mary L. Gunn of Ruston. bring a towel. anyway, the only piranha Peru will have on the ZUPPA INOLESE, known as Rum Custard premises is stuffed. where English is s poken, is one of 8 flavors of L gelati (or ice cream) available at Angelo Bro­ LOUISIANA JOURNEY is one of the 0 cato's stand in the Italian Village. The cannolis, World's Fair's most popular attractions, so you QUALITY SEAL-what is Quality Seal and sadly, are frozen and not made while you wait. can count on a wait. The line moves quickly and why is that "Q" on top of the ampitheatre? The cappuccino is a bargain, paper cup or not. your guides are the boys and girls in light-blue Quality Seal is the largest brand of generic Oxfordcloth shirts, khaki trousers and Top­ cigarettes in America- that's why you've never • siders. The hurricane could be scarier but the heard of them. Mardi Gras section is superb. R M RAIN is the pavilion ofthe City of New Orleans MINIATURE W EEPINO CREPE and was organized by the Historic New Orleans MYRTLE is the official plant of the Louisiana Collection. There are photographs by G. An­ World Exposition. drew Boyd, David Leeson, Kurt Mutchler and MISSISSIPPI has many items on its agenda others; shrine/sculptures by Randy Ernst, in the Geat Hall- not to be overlooked is the Gerry Cannon and Barry Bailey; a garden with exhibition of Walter Anderson's art, including concrete reindeer (but no Madonna in a bathtub scenes of Mardi Gras iri New Orleans. half-sunk in the ground); and murals by New Orleans public school children and the author of N this story. NIPPLES on the mermaids designed by the s Barth Brothers are spectacular but how come no one's mentioned the derrieres? Now that's art... SOUVENIRS are everywhere, many of them emblazoned with the official Louisiana World 0 Exposition logo, which is the most boring thing OCHSNER MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS about the whole World's Fair. has e rected a 40 foot-high model of a human heart in the Great Hall, not far from a robot T version of Sir Thomas Lipton, founder of the tea TRAFFIC never materialized. Parking is very company. On the International Riverfront, smooth. The new re-routing of streets near the there's a robot version of Mark Twain and he World's Fair is a decided improvement. bears a strong resemblance to Sir Thomas. The robot in the Electric Energy Exhibit looks like a u robot, however. U.S. PAVILION is boring. Catfish in a tank, p tomato plants growing in water, water video­ games, Tricia Nixon clones as guides. Is this the THE MONORAIL is free. The guides were PERU wanted to have live piranhas in its country that invented rock 'n' roll?! costumed by Buck Rogers. 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GoNDoLA "7TATION. ·o ~i GA~LIC. @KEEP Tof~ cr $800 OOOT T AAGHZINE/ ¢ G'ONDO[A OOOR.~Si!§i~ raafl}~ Critic's Choice lain Blair Crowns The Eurythmics Move over Chrissie Hynde, Donna Summer, Bonnie Tyler and any other pretenders to the throne - Eurythmics' Annie Lennox is unequivocally the most exciting female performer in the entire rock and roll arena today. And if you don't believe me, just go and check her out for yourself. At the band's recent and Hottest Videos impressive set of concerts at LA's Wil­ shire Theatre, Lennox took the crown New videos added to WTBS' and very firmly set it on top of that dis­ tinctive carrot crew-cut with the ease "Night Tracks" and self-assurance of born royalty. From the moment she first appeared wearing "Male Curiosity" Kid Creole & The an over-sized tartan suit, all eyes in the Coconuts (Atlantic) house were firmly glued to this an­ "Wonderland" Big Country (Polygram) drogynous, · slightly sinister, and very "The Ghost In You" Psychedelic Furs sexy figure. (Columbia) " Dance Hall Days" Wang Chung (Geffen) "Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper (Portrait/Epic) " Head Over Heels" GoGos {I.R.S.) " Who's That Girl" Eurythmics (RCA) "The Longest Time" Billy Joel (Columbia) " It's My Life" Talk Talk (EMI America) "No More Words" Berlin (Geffen) "Voice" Russ Ballard (EMJ) "10/9/8" Face To Face {Epic) "Hang Up The Phone" Annie Golden {MCA) "Heart Don't Lie" LaToya Jackson (Epic) The Eurythmics' Dave Stewart (I) and On Tour ••• "Love Will Show Us How" Christine Annie Lennox. Photo: Lesley Campbell McVie (Warner Bros.) Scotland's Simple Minds begin their U.S. tour in june. "Olympiad" Serigo Mendes (A&M) This is not to ignore the importance of the rest of the band, which is composed "Obscene Phone Caller" Rockwell Herbie Hancock is at San Francisco's essentially of Lennox's partner, guitarist In the Studio ••• (Motown) Dave Stewart, who in tum was backed Automatt mixing an upcoming project "One Small Day" Ultravox (Chrysalis) Rickie Lee Jones is at Hollywood's for CBS Records with Ken Kessie and up by a fine rhythm section, three girl Evergreen Recording sweetening tracks Maureen Droney engineering. The singers and a brass section. Led by the with producer James Newton Howard. Whispers are at the Automatt recording Personal Favorites ultra-cool Stewart, the band pumped Marty Paich and Howard are doing the a guest vocal appearance by Phyliss Hy­ out note-perfect arrangements and a arranging. Also at Evergreen are Los man for their upcoming Solar Records Dan Dokken, leader of the band Dok­ variety of inspired dance-rock grooves Angeles favorites, The Bangles, now on album. Nicholas Caldwell is producing, ken, picks his five favorite singers: that defied the audience to stay seated CBS Records. They are recording with Dave Frazer engineering . 1. Klaus Meine (Scorpions); 2. Ronnie through such hits as the bitter-sweet producer David Kahne and arranger James Dio; 3. Robert Halford (Judas "Sweet Dreams," "Love Is A Stranger," Jimmy Haskell. In recent weeks, the Priest); 4. Pavarotti; 5. Dave Meniketti " Who's That Girl" and the smash "Here studio has also hosted sessions with Top of (Y&TI. Comes The Rain Again." Thelma Houston and her producer, Greg Poree, and a project with Jim Kee­ the Charts gan and Kevin Savigar from the Rod No. Albums Singles Stewart group . . . Reggae great Judy Mowatt (formerly of Bob Marley back­ 1 Heartbeat City, " Against All Odds (Take Tile Cars a Look at Me Now) • ing vocalists The 1-Threes) was at Penn­ (Eiektra) PIIIIColllns sylvania's Kajem recording recently, (Atlantic) mixing a project for Shanachie Records 2 Against All Odds " Hello" with producer Skip Drinkwater and en­ Soundtrack Lionel Rlcllle gineer Mitch Goldfarb . . . Huey Lewis (Atlantic) (Motown) and the News are at the Plant Studios in 3 Street Talk " Hold Me Now" Sausalito, CA, mixing a live show which Steve Perry Thompson "!Wins was captured by Westwood One. Huey (Columbia) (Arista) Lewis is producing this session; Jeffrey 4 Love at First Sting " Love Somebody" "Nik" Norman and Rick Sanchez are Scorpions Rick Springfield engineering ... Dudley Moore, every­ (Mercury) (RCA) body's favorite piano-playing actor­ 5 Learn~ To Crawl " You Might Think" comedian, is at the Sound Solution in Tile enders Tile Cars Los Angeles mixing a live recording he (Sire) (Eiektra) made with his group, the Jazz Trio. The 6 1984 " Let's Hear ~ tunes were recorded live at the 20th Vln Halen forthe~" (warner Bros.) Deniece illl1ma Century Fox studios by Sound Solution (Columbia) and may appear in the near future as a commercial record release. Meanwhile, 7 Some Tough City " Footloose" Tony Caray Kenny~lns the Sound Solution also has producer (MCA) (Columbia . Henry Lewy in mixing a new Hoyt Ax­ 8 lntoTheG~ " Don't Answer Me" ton LP . . . At the Pasha Music House in Thompson ns Alln Plrsons Project Hollywood, work has begun on Quiet (Arista) (Arista) Riot's followup to their smash hit debut 9 About Face " Oh Sherrie" album. Producing once again will be D1vid Gilmour Steve Perry Pasha mastermind Spencer Proffer . . . (Columbia) (Columbia) Former J. Geils Band vocalist Peter Wolf 10 mg. "tar". 10 Ammonia Avenue "They Don't Know Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined is at Syncro Sound Studios in Boston Alln PIISOIIS About US" That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. 0.8 mg. nicotine working on his first post-Geils outing for T~ Ull111111 av. per cigarette EM! America. Michael Jonzun is co-pro­ l'ArJ (MC) by FTC method. ducing with Wolf. Engineering the proj­ Courtesy of The Gavin Report, a national radio music ect are Ed Stasium and Tom Moore .. . trade journal. I he heart of Louisiana beats in the Folklife Pavillion. RICO has been there.

ention the term "World's Fair" and a REAL person's mind will usually turn to CAJUNS Mima ges of Space Needles, monorails, shimmering geodesic domes and various forms make of surrealistic high-tech weirdness. Indeed, the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition is no excep­ folk tion to this futuristic syndrome with its erector culture. set set-'em-up-knock-'em-down amphitheatre and gondola, computer-controlled audio-visual displays and monstrous glowing multicolored vinyl human heart. But tucked away in the warm played, with no drums and plenty of"aaaiiyee"-s. you'll find a well equipped kitchen area and two and magnificent confines of the fair's most There's local favorite sons Tuts Washington looms for cooking and weaving demonstrations, · beautifully restored building, the Federal Fibre and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, two music acts respectively, and Philip Gould's popular photo­ Mills building, is a living testament to the that bring to their art a style so unique as to be graphic exhibit "Today's Cajuns." vitality and variety of Louisiana's cultural heart­ truly inimitable. Club La Bas could well become Nick Spitzer is the head of the state's folklife beat, the Louisiana Folklife Pavillion. a haven for indigenous musicians as they make program and the man responsible for making Here the Fair-goer can experience first hand their way through the fair. Because of financial the Folklife Pavillion an important part of the many of the traditional music and art forms that restrictions, its bookings may get progressively World's Fair. "Nick saw the folklife display at live on from generation to generation before weaker as the fair wears on, so on-their-toes the Knoxville fair and began working on one for these precious crafts disappear forever into the touristas will hit the club as soon as possible to here," explains Allison Kaslow, who helps to black hole of urban condominiums and bayou­ catch the best music available. oversee the Pavillion, "and when we obtained side McDonald's restaurants. Yes, Mr. and Mrs. In addition to the musical offerings, the Folk­ corporate sponsorship through the Forest Pro­ Altoona, Pennsylvania, there's more to Louisi­ life Pavillion gives quarter to a diverse selection ducts Industry group, the NEA, and other ana than Bourbon Street and the ubiquitous of Louisiana crafts people and their wares. The groups, it started to become a reality. Like us, blue and white Southern Tours bus. first floor in the Fibre Mills is home to a they recognized the importance of having this For example: there's Hezekiah and the beautiful collection of handmade quilts, deli­ fol k culture on display for everyone to exper­ Houserockers, who christened the Pavillion's cate naive sculpture, handcrafted fiddles, man­ ience." aptly named "Club La Bas" on opening day with dolins, accordion and other important arti­ T hat giant heart in the Convention Center their ballsy R&B and harmonica-playing drum­ facts. In the downstairs courtyard visitors can possesses a strange scientific beauty in its own mer (he plays them both at the same time, step into a functioning blacksmith shop or watch gargantuan way, but don't forget that just a few incidentally). There's D.L. Menard, our "Cajun real Caj uns from as far away as Bayou Gauche steps to the west beats the heart of Louisiana Hank Williams" and his two podnas on fiddle and T hibodaux transform a two-ton cypress log culture in the Folklife Pavillion. Enjoy them and accordion chanking out a succession of into a genuine dugout pirogue wholly suitable both. Cajun classics the way they were meant to be for a little nocturnal bullfrog action. Upstairs - rico

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he 15th annual New Orleans Jazz and • It is still apparent from the sound bleed from Heritage Festival is now a pleasant some of the stages that a few of the music venues T memory for most of us, but while fifteen need to be repositioned. For example, if the years of anything is cause for celebration, it is wind was right, the din from Stage 2 overrode also cause for some reflection. Even though I the folk performers at the gazebo. am of the opinion that the festival, and Louisi­ • The P .A. at the Koindu stage was too small for ana's indigenous music, is the best thing the electrified bands that performed there, (wo)man created since fire, I wouldn't be living which nearly ruined otherwise flawless sets by up to my responsibilities as a so-called "critic" Jessie Hill and Johnny Adams. I'd suggest by not taking the opportunity to call 'em the way either a bigger system or keeping it as an area for I sees 'em and to sharpen up my vitrolic pen "folk" performances. when needed. • speaking of Koindu, how do all those mer­ Before I start stepping on toes, let me preface chants over there get away with selling "made in my views by saying I did indeed visit the Taiwan" merchandise when all the goods in the Fairgrounds on each afternoon, but due to craft tents have to be made by hand? physical and monetary concerns, I was only able • The ban on carts, wagons and giant coolers to take in two evening concerts. While it would was a good idea, but for an extra incentive to indeed be impossible to see and hear every­ reduce the coolers brought through the gate, thing, I did manage to cover quite a bit of turf at why not make the beer a more reasonably priced the Fairgrounds, so I will confine my observa­ $1 per can instead of the current $1.25 tab? I tions to what I saw first hand. know the fair makes money off the beer conces­ My major complaint is aimed at many of the sions but it's not like you get a checkered table New Orleans artists. It's obvious from the cloth and a table with each one (well, you do get a number of listless, lethargic and unrehearsed pretty good floor show I'll admit). sets I encountered that in many artists minds, • It seemed to me like there were fewer wash­ the Jazz Festival has degenerated into "another rooms than in previous years (it always seems easy pay day." I have no interest in sitting in the that way from the back of the line but it really hot sun and listening to rehashes of top 40 at a 8 did seem that way). festival that should have the greatest music in cr • How about a one-time ticket for the Fair­ the world on display. If it were up to me I would grounds? It would make lines at the Ticket­ install a penalty system that would dock money REV. AL CREEN was Master outlets shorter and it would be much from a performer's earnings for singing such presented with a box of in· more convenient for festival-goers, too. "mouse music." As a plausible fine structure I'd • was it my imagination or were the food like to offer the following: st ant grits. portions smaller? 1. $25 for every Michael Jackson tune EVEN INC CONCERTS performed. A lesson could be learned from the perform­ • The festival producers did a good job of 2. $20 for every Boy George tune per­ ers at the fais-do-do stage. Those guys are booking interesting concerts and varying them performed. professionals, they're well-rehearsed, and they from other years to make them worth attending. 3. $15 for every Lionel Richie song. know just how to put on a good show. Also, they kept the admissions at an affordable 4. $10 for every Sly & the Family Stone Here are some of my other observations from price, which was admirable. tune rehashed. etc. etc. etc. the Fairgrounds: •Thankfully, the most popular shows weren't 27 Wavelength/June 1984 "oversold." I was almost dreading going to see gether as always. (note: Fats has added a third Orleans -6- This was a hot and cold perfor­ the soldout Fats Domino cruise, but I was guitarist to his band, Walter "Wolfman" Wash­ mance. It seemed like a lot of these guys hadn't pleasantly surprised that there was plenty of ington.) rehearsed, but thankfully David Lastie's sax room and that tables could actually be procured Saturday, April 28 saved the day in most cases. without waiting in line for two hours. Swamp Pop Jam featuring Frankie Ford, Van Saturday, May 5 •The lag time between the Heritage Fair (Fair­ and Grace, Johnny Allen, J iuin' Gene, etc. -8- GrandMaster Fla sh -8- I really thought these grounds) and the concerts is too short. Luckily I These people really put out some high-class guys were pretty interesting. It's obvious they live near the Fairgrounds and could get cleaned music, even though I'm not sure of the Frankie get across to their audience, but I'd still hate to up before the 7 pm shows, but still it meant Ford connection to the whole thing. The horn have to listen to them for more than 45 minutes. leaving the Fairgrounds before the conclusion of section of this group was just cooking; they just Oliver Morgan, Jean Knight and J essie Hill -6- a lot of good acts. Moving the concerts up to 8 smelled of crawfish and boudin. Johnny Allen This might have been more enjoyable if the pm would make all the difference in the world, and Jivin' Gene were really outstanding. sound system was better at the Koindu. Jessie and probably lessen the traffic and parking Clifton Chenier -3- Clifton is really sick, he just crunch around the Riverboat and the Saenger. got out of the hospital the day before the festival • If I were a performer, I don't think I'd be too but he still insisted on coming to New Orleans. TABBY THOMAS pro· keen on doing two concerts a night. Doing a set As a result he only made a token appearance on at8 pm and then again at 1 am doesn't seem too a couple of tunes. vided the worst out­ appealing. I'd be interested to see the atten­ Gatemouth Brown -2- If you'd have seen him dance figures for the Festival's midnight shows. you'd know why he only scored a two. of-tune. out-of­ Why not book shows on concecutive evenings if Sam Brother's Fiue -2- They probably would meters blues ever they're that hot? (Even Fats couldn't make it to have scored a 6 or a 7 under normal circum­ the Heritage Fair the day after doing two shows.) stances, but when they came out on stage in encountered. • I really thought the "Soul At the Saenger" Michael Jackson attire, they automatically lost show was a great idea and look forward to seeing 5 points. more next year, but let's work on the orchestra­ A.J. Loria -1- This would have been a 2 only was especially sounding good although the band tion. At the conclusion of each performer's sets because of Mighty Sam's appearance, but after slipped up a couple of times. there was no curtain, the lights weren't lowered, the literary blowjob he got in the Gambit, I felt it Lucinda Williams -2- I can't figure out why they there was no announcement. The musicians just necessary to halve the score. keep insisting on having this woman out here looked at each other and sauntered off the stage. Bobby Marchan & Higher Ground -4- Actually every year. Her voice is grating and her bands Not very professional if you ask me. watching Bobby get dressed backstage was are inept. more interesting than his performance. As funk John Lee Hooker -2- I once hitchhiked 140 miles ••• bands go, I guess Higher Ground is okay, but in a snowstorm to see John Lee Hooker, but The following is a rating of the performances I that doesn't say much either. today I don't think I'd cross the street in a limo managed to catch this year. It is a simple 1-10 Bobby Mitchell, Benny Spellman, Tommy Rid­ to hear him. He carries the worst funk band I've rating system, with my impressions and an gley, the Dixie Cups -3- These guys were obvi­ ever heard and he is now just a sad parody of explanation of my scoring. ously given too long on stage. If they were himself. Friday, April27 alloted just half the time they might have gotten Saturday, April5 Kid Sheik -6- I didn't spend all that much time in a better score, but most of the time they were Mason Ruffner & the Blues Rockers Economy Hall but I like to catch Sheik. He was grinding out fodder to kill time and spent These guys looked and sounded great. Their good as usual, but still, he plays the same thing precious little time doing the 'hits'. act was polished and they played the hell out of every year. Lloyd Glenn -9- He was great-what more can I their all too short set. Mason deserves s pecial Golden Eagles -8- I think the Golden Eagles are say. credit for sacrificing a portion of his time to the most progressive of all the Indian tribes. Don Montecet -8- First class, entertaining, fun. allow Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow, to make his They do much of their own material and they John Mooney -7- Good show. Mooney knows first, overdue, appearance. Mason ought to sing and perform like there's no tomorrow. what to play and when to play it. have the record folks on his heels soon. Guitar Slim -lh- What a major disappointment. Bill Malone -2- Bill should stick to writing about Sunday, May 6 Slim Jr. spent the entire 45 minutes playing country music and forget about playing it. Queen Ida -7- Ms. Ida has sure improved over Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie tunes. If he Daue Bartholomew, Johnny Adams, Al Green, the years. I used to think she was none too hot, only realized what he could do with his name, Ray Charles -8- What a ' great lineup! Bar­ but I guess she's been putting some hours in on and the blues, what a sensation he could be. tholomew's band sounded great but damn it, the accordion. Pfister Sisters · 7 • They sounded good and they Bartholomew doesn't like to play more than one Tabby Thomas and the Mighty House Rockers -1- deserved the warm reception they got. verse from each of his songs and ~ell you how Tabby should change the name of his group to John Delafose and the Eunice Playboys -9- The many he sold! Also Johnny Adams was only the 'Mighty Mouse Talkers,' after he learns how best act out there on opening day. Delafose is alloted two songs after receiving equal billing­ to tune his guitar. This was about the worst curious. AI Green was uery good. At one point I exhibition of out-of-tune, out-of-meter blues, was sure he was going to ascend into heaven by I've ever encountered. I've heard better high walking up the light beam from the spotlight. school John Mayall copy bands than these guys. JOHN DELAFOSE'S 11· His cameo was highlighted by an unofficial But you know some people were actually digging year-old son played presentation of a box of instant grits! As for it, so maybe there's something wrong with me. Brother Ray, he never misses, but he really Tuts Washington -8- As always Tuts sounds the hell out of the sounded like he was having fun singing and great, but he could use a couple of new jokes. playing-not working. Snooks Eaglin -8- Snooks wasn't as hot as his drums. Sunday, April 29 sizzling set at the Snug Harbor the previous Katie Webster -9- She was excellent. Her small week, but he s ure sounded great and he de­ band backed her perfectly and she played the serves more attention. hell out of the 88s. Johnny Adams & Walter Washington -7- For really sounding great these days, and his 11- Bobby "Blue" Bland -9- Saw just a moment of once Walter remembered hewasn'tatDorothy's year-old son is playing the hell out of the drums, his set but he sounded like a brand new Duke Lounge and didn't spend the hour trying to too. Delafose manages to display the same record! sound like Eric Gale. Johnny was especially in warmth at the Festival that he does at the La-La Zachary Richard -8- Richard was really wailing. good form but the P .A. again at Koindu couldn't dances. With the surprising addition of Rufus Thi­ handle the entire band. Fats Domino, Dr. John, The Neuilles -7- Fats is bodeaux on accordion, his group was excellent. Fats Domino -7- After missing his festival ap­ always a big event at the festival so it's hard to Arnett Cobb -8- I've always enjoyed Cobb's pearance the previous week, and not giving be objective. The Nevilles sounded pretty good playing and he sounded fine with Ellis Marsalis' notice until one hour before show time (I guess until their guitarist turned up too loud and Dr. sympathetic accompaniment. some people aren't accustomed to working two John was palatable for the most part, but he Boogie Bill Webb -8- Bill sounded excellent. His days in a row) Fats put on a pretty good show. sounds a lot sloppier live than on his recent accompaniment of bass and drums provided the Once again I thught the band could use some records. Fats' band sounded a wee bit unre­ drive he needed to make him sound bluesy. tightening up, but Fats sounded great especially hearsed, but Domino managed to pull it to- Eddie Bo, Robert Parker and a Taste of New on the impromptu "Driftin' Blues." .June 1984/Wavelength 28 4tlt v4nnual governor's Cpnference on~lf~~c Hyatt Regency Hotel New Orleans join us! Anew faculty of outstanding industry executives from Nashville, New York, Los Angeles, England, Australia, Sweden and Norway. This year's speakers represent Music industry speakers and artists conducting seminars and workshops The Lennon & McCartney on songwriting • video music • making deals • building an act • A&R catalog, Michael Jackson contracts • copyrights • publishing • recording • promotion • agents and "Thriller" video, Willie Nelson, management. Dick Clark, M-TY, CBS, Warner BRI\<, Yot R C.\.WTn.' FoR A&R \\ll So\!,\\ RIHR C\.\.\~Tfl RotiJTH Bros., Capitol, A&M/Almo, Pre-conference highlight: Motown!Jobet, CBS/Fox Video, On June 8 the Louisiana Music Commission introduces a new highlight Wm. Morris Agency, BMI, ASCAP, preceding the conference, the Annual Louisiana Music Awards at the Hyatt Billboard, Hollywood Reporter Regency Hotel. and BBC!England. Registration 8:30AM • Seminars 10 AM-5 PM • Donation: $15 daily, $25 for both days For information call Ellis Pailet (504) 525-0000 For reservations call Hyatt Regency Hotel (800) 228-9000 or 561-1234

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Tickets at TicketMaster outlets, and no Coliseum; tickets as above; a benefit to Clique. Wed.20 and Thurs.21: Rainstreet. doubt trained epidemiologists on duty. combat Enemy X (title of an early Forties Fri.22 to Sun.24: Murmers. Wed.27 and pro-animal vaccination short seen many Thurs.28: Tricks. Fri.29 and Sat.30: Key­ Tuesday,5 years ago in which rabid bats were used stone. Wednesday, 6 in a peculiarly terrifying manner to convince Beeu Geate, 7011 Read Blvd., 242-9710. Ozzy Oabourne, LSU Assembly Center. Ozzy Osbourne, Mississippi Gulf Coast children to have their puppies and kitties Sunday through Thurs.: Larry Janca at 8. vaccinated, not to mention their pet bats). Fri. and Sat.: Larry Janca's Legionnaires The lllkedo, at 8 on Ch.12, simulcast on Oust as long as you can't catch that disease WWNO, part of the PBS series The Com­ from getting too close), featuring AI Claude. pleat Gilbert and Sullivan (The Yeomen of Blue Room, in the Fairmont Hotel, the Guard is on Monday night, The Gondo­ 529-711 1. Through Tues.5: Frank Sinatra, liers on Tuesday, and the delicious Trial By Jr. Wed.6 through Tues.19: the riddler, lui­ Jury and the rarely seen Cox and Box are meme Frank Gorshin (who also I remember on Thursday). The Mikado is of course did on TV many centuries a most entertain­ about a flittering-fluttering executioner who ing impression of Boris Karloff singing "A talks big, a traveling minstrel and three lit­ Foggy Day In London Town"). Wed.20 tle maids from school, the Mikado himself through Tues.26: Mongo Santamaria. and Katisha, an elderly lady in his retinue Wed.27 through July 3: Lonnie Liston Smith. who is one of the brightest of the Savoyard Reservations; dancing, as well. spinsters. Boneperte'• Retreet, 1007 Decatur, 561-9473. Ralph Cox, Monday and Tuesday Tuesday, 12 from 5 to 7; Professor Big Stuff Wednesday Chember Quintette from Monaco, in through Sunday from 4. concert, 8 p.m., Metairie Park Country Day Bronco'•• 1409 Romain, Gretna, School, 300 Park Road. 368-1000. Mondays and Wednesdays­ Saturdays, Mississippi South. Wednesday, 13 Cejun Country, 327 Bourbon, 523-8630. Yen Helen, LSU Assembly Center, sold Friday through Sunday, the Gela Kaye Band out. I still don't care much for David Lee at 8. Monday through Friday, Ray at 1:3 0. Roth's Spandex<~> britches, but "Jump" Just Us Band, from 1:30 on weekends and has to be one of the most gloriously from 8 Monday through Thursday. defeatist productions of this-or any­ Columna Hotel, 3811 St. Charles, year, as they say in critical circles. 899-9308. Wednesdays: Andrew Hall's Friday, 15 Society Jazz Band from 8 (horn charts by Nell Nolan). Modem hgllah, Steamer President, 8 p.m. I'd rather see Middle English but you Dorothy'• lledelllon, 3232 Orleans. Snake-dancing, examples of adiposa dolo­ can't have everything. Tickets from the N.O. Steamboat Co. 524-SAIL rosa in motion for Bolero-eyed girl wat­ Chember Quintette, those madcap chers, and Fridays and Saturdays, Johnny Monagesques again, this time at Munhol­ Adams and Walter Washington with the House Band. land United Methodist Church, 1201 534 Frenchmen. FrL1 : Li'l Metairie Rd. Dream Palece, Queenie, the Skin Twins and some Adven­ Saturday, 18 tures in the Skin Trade. Sat.2: Mason Ruff­ Millie Jeckaon, O.nlece Edwerda, ner and the Blues Rockers. Fri.8: Greater Saenger, 8 and 11 ; 524-0874. New Orleans Dart Association City Champ­ ionships and Cupid, draw back your bow, Saturday, 23 etc. Sat.9: The Radiators. Fri.15: J.D. Hill George Wlnaton, Saenger. The jazz and the Jammers. Sat.16: Alison and the pianist will play a benefit for Professor Distractions. Fri.22: J.D. Hill and the Jam­ Longhair's family. mers. Sat.23: to be announced. Fri.29: Mrs. Bates. Sat.30: The Radiators. Sunday,24 1801 Club, 1801 Stumpf Blvd., 367-9670. 1: Tony O.gredl and Ensemble, Longue Vue Wednesdays through Saturdays: Janet 0 Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, 3 p.m. Informa­ Lynn and Ya Ya. "'< tion at 488-5488. l'eda, 1100 S. Clearview Pkwy., 734-Q590. "'z Live music Mondays, but you can do the z ::; cotton-eyed-joe almost any time here. l'elrmont Court, in the Fairmont Hotel, DAVE BARTHOLOMEW trumpets at Snug Harbor on 529-71 11. Tuesdays to Saturdays, Judy June 9. Duggan occupies the piano bench from 9 to 1. Sundays and Mondays: Pat Mitchell at the same hours, and again during the week from 5 to 7 .. l'et Ceta, 505 Gretna Blvd., Gretna, 362-0598. Gall for listings. 544 Club, 544 Bourbon, 523-8611. l'rench llerket Concerta, 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, Gary Fri.1 : Frankie Lynn. Sat.2: Wes Mix West Brown and Feelings. CMS from 9 to 9 End Jazz Band. Sun.3: Herman Sherman's Fridays through Sundays and from 9 to 3 Young Tuxedo Jazz Band. Thurs.7: Layton other evenings. Martens. Fri.8: Pud Brown. Sat.9: Ramsey l'ool on the Hill, 1000 Bayou Black Dr., "Mr. McClean" Mclean. Sun.1 0: James Houma, 851 -6892. Gall for listings_ Moore and the Urbanites. Fri.15: danseuse Patel'ounteln'a, In the Hilton, 523-4374. Ellyna Tatum. Sat.16: Lady BJ. Sun.17: Pete Fountain and his band, at 10 nightly; Jasmine. Thurs.21: Connie Jones' Crescent one show only and reservations probably City Jazz Band. Fri.22: Milton Batiste and a good idea. the Olympia Serenaders. Sat.23: Andrew Gezebo Cefe end Ber, 1018 Decatur, Hall's Society Jazz Band. Sun.24: Danny 522-0862. Alfresco; ragtime piano each Barker and his Jazz Hounds. Thurs.28: Ted afternoon and again as night is falling. Riley Royal Brass Band. Fri. 29: Scott Hill Glbaon St., Covington. Sat.2: Snakebite and the French Market Jazz Band. Sat.30: and the Cottonmouths. Frank Federico and his band. Houllhen'•· 315 Bourbon, 523-7412. Live music of a jazz nature outside on weekdays from 7 to 11 saving Fridays; the music moves inside on weekends and starts two hours later. Hen'• O.n, 4311 S.Ciaiborne, 821-1048. This used to be the Beaconette but now has Acy'a, 1925 Sophie Wright Place, the name of that ladies' shop on caron­ 525-7239. Call for listings. delet. Hmmm. Reggae music Saturdays. Augle'• Del Lllgo, West End Park. Ike'• Piece, 1701 N. Broad, 944-9337. Straight Ahead Wednesdays from 10 to 1 Sundays: the Wagon Train Band. a.m., Sundays from 7 p.m. to midnight, and Jlmmy•a, 8200 Willow, 866-9549. Fri.1 : Fridays and Saturdays. Fri.1 to Sun.3: Mrs. Bates, Multiple Places (as opposed to CEORCE SCHMIDT, artist-in-residence at the world's Generics. Wed., Thurs., 6,7: Chain Gang. those faraway ones), The Crowd (by King Fri.8 to Sun.10: Silk-n-Steele. Wed.13: Vidor? The In one?). Sat.2: Vital Functions, Fair, behind the wheel of ROBERT TANNEN'S Cadillac, Nothing Personal. Thurs.14: Le Metro (as Gangbusters. Tues.5: Starlight (then the which hangs vertically in the creat Hall. in Zazie dans /e... ?). Fri.15 to Sun.17: The traveler in the dark thanks you for your tiny

June 198 4/Wavelength 30 spark, he could see which way to go if you Saturdays: The Humphrey Brothers. did not twinkle so... ) Wed.6: The New Rlverbo•t Pre•ldent, Canal Street Aviators. Thurs. 7: Pop Starts, The Crowd, Docks, 524-SAIL. Dinner Dance and Fire· Mrs. Bates. Fri.8: Ll'l Queenie, Major Han· works Cruise (In tribu1e to Kenneth Anger?) dy, The Times. Sat.9: Woodenhead. each night from 9 to 10:30; buffeteria from Wed.13: Tim Youngblood. Fri.15: The 7. Dancing until 12:30. Rogues. Sat.16: The Models. Tues.19: Blue S.•port C•t• •nd a.r, 424 Bourbon, Army. Wed.20: Vital Functions . Thurs.21 : 568·0981. Wednesdays through Saturdays Vital Signs (& what next? Vitalis? Brain from 9 to 1 a.m., Sundays 2 to 6, Sally Death?) Fri.22: Pop Combo featuring Len­ Townes. Call for Sunday night and Monday ny (que nalgas mas bonitas!) Zenith. Sat.23: listings. The Cold. Sun.24: Exuma (plus West Indian 711 Club, 711 Bourbon, 525-8379. cu1s1ne on the premises). Wed.27: The Tuesdays through Sundays, Randy Hebert; Hands. Thurs.28: Gangbusters . Fri.29: The Thursdays through Mondays, AI Broussard. Radiators. Sat.30: The True Faith, plus high Upstairs, Fridays and Saturdays from 2 until church, low church, the church militant, the dawn, Nora Wixted and John Autin. church triumphant and church's kicking the Club Sliver Doller, 1254 bucket. N. Claiborne, 822-5226. Call for listings. L•ndm•rk Hotel, 541 Bourbon, Slidell Hotel B•r. Slidell, 643-7020. Fri. 524·7615. Johnny Rusk's Tribute to Elvis and Sat. 1 and 2: The Sheiks. Sun.3 and {and how could you resist a man with raves Wed.6: Trace. Thurs.7: Rainstreet. Fri.8: from the Enquirer in his portfolio? and V~nce Vance and the Valiants (they hit you Laurin and Nancy Munsch. At 9 and 11 but it feels like a kiss, etc.). Sat.9: The Monday through Saturday. Clique. Sun.10: Trace. Wed.13-8at.16 L• Moulin Rouge, : to be 501 Bourbon, announced. Sun.17: Trace. Wed.20: The 524·4299. A Night In Old New Orleans Sheiks. Thurs.21 : Crosstown Traffic-first (hope the Spring Fiesta Assoc. doesn 't get day of summer, incidentally, lhude singe wind of this ... ); with Becky Allen and her Goddam, or whatever it is. Fri., Sat. 22, 23: Chlorine Chorines demonstrating why care Topcats. Sun.24: Trace. Wed.27 to Sat.30: forgot the city; shows at 8 and 10, nightly Skruples. save Sundays. Snug H•rbor, 626 Frenchmen, 949·0696. The Lev.. , 738 Toulouse, 523·9492 . Fri.1 : Lady BJ picks up the torch and Ellis Wednesday through Sunday, Professor Big Marsalis puts on the goggles. Sat.2: The Stuff at 10, Ralph Cox Monday and Tues­ Metrics. Sun.3: to be announced. Mon.4 day from 8. : Johnny (the Tan Canary) Adams The Lobbr and Walter Lounge, Intercontinental (the Bronze Churkendoose) Washington. Hotel, St. Charles Avenue. Monday through Fri.8: The Pfister Sisters in their We·Made­ Saturday, A.J. Loria from 4 until supperti me Herb-Nacio-Brown-Turn-Green! revue. and I should set the table cause it's Sat.9: the Dave Bartholomew Sextet. suppertime. Sun.10 : The New Orleans Jazz Couriers (a The Loop, 6207 Franklin Avenue, group of Courier alumni, including Bill 282·0501 . Call for listings. Rushton on flugelhorn, Charlotte Hays on Luckr Pierre'• 735 Bourbon . . Thursdays tailgate trombone, interpretive tapping by to Saturdays, Pat Mitchell from 10 until 1 Don Lee Keith, percussion by Bette Cole, a.m . get together and jam once more; a Phillip ..pie Le•f a.r, 8301 Oak, 866·9359. Carter Production). Mon.11 : The J. Mon Tuesdays: Li'l Queenie ­ and the Skin Twins; que'd Blues Band. Thurs.14: Barbara Wednesdays: Mason Ruffner and the Blues Shorts. Fri.15: Ziganola featuring cuteous Rockers. Thursdays: Bruce Daigrepont and vocalist Leslie Smith. Sat.16: the Ellis Mar­ Bourre. Sundays: the Wabash Company salis Quartet. Sun.17 at 5: the Gershwin (sans cannonballs). Mondays : Endangered Songbook with Germaine B 1zzle, LaVerne Spec1es with Terry Manuel, Cyril Neville and Butler and Lady BJ. Mon.18· Ferd "Snooks" Charles Moore. Fri.1 : The Radiators. Sat.2: Eaglin. Thurs.21 : The PfistrJr Sisters in their Exuma. Fri.8: Gatemouth 'SNOOKS' EACLIN pl-ays his guitar Brown. Sat.9: special West Bank Road Show entitled at snug Harbor on Rockin' Sydney, the Cole Porter of We 'll Build A Stairway To Parad1s. Fri.22: June 18. Galcasieu Parish. Fri.15: The Radiators. The Survivors. Sat.23: AI Belletto Quartet. Sat.16: Beausoleil. Fri.22: Rockin' Dopsie Sun.24: The Titanic Trio ("Then you're like and the Twisters. Sat.23: to be announced. a ship at sea but you cert'nly made a fool llenet.. ••, 1101 N. Rampart, 566-0464 . of me, it's the last time. Titanic, fare thee Gall for information. weii. .. " -Ma Rainey). Mon.25: the incen­ llollr'• et the Merket, 1107 Decatur, diary Ernest K-Doe. Thurs.28: Steve Masa· 581·9759. Ralph Cox, who really gets kowski and Mars. Fri.29: the Sounds of around. Wednesdays through Sundays from Brazil (macaws, dart guns, 5. maracas. " horses" at candomble ceremonies, etc.) Munater•a Dence Hell •nd B•r, 627 Sat.30: Germaine Bazzle and the Lyons . 899·9109. Call for listings. Gentlemen of Jazz. Old Opere Houae, 601 Bourbon, Tlpltlne'a, 501 Napoleon, 899-9114. Fri.1 : 522·3265. Call for times; featured entertain· Irma Thomas. Sat.2: Rufus Thomas and ment tncludes Kathy Lucas and the Loose jump back baby, jump back! Sun.3: John Band, E.L.S., the Aubry Twins, and Sebastian. Mon.4: The Continental Drifters Chocolate Milk. {leading up to some continental dividing?) ,.rkvlew Tevern, . 910 N. Carrollton, Wed.6: The Newsboys (Johnny the Phillip 482·2680. Fri.1 : Mason Ruffner. Fri.8: Morris midget will be signing autographs at Bourre. Fri.15: The Renegade s. Fri.22: the bar). Thurs.7: The Sheppard Band. Fri.8: Snakebite and the Cottonmouths (no doubt The Radiators. Sat.9: Deacon John's New plus some live cowan turtles, as well.) Orleans Blues Revue. Mon.11 : The Con­ Fn.29: Tim Williams . tinental Drifters. Wed.13: to be announced. Pllnnr Poat, 5110 Danneel. Sundays, Thurs.14: One Us. Fri.15 and Sat.16: the always open mike. Check the board as you Neville Brothers. Sun.17: Alive! Mon.18: go ln. The Continental Drifters (in a Belgian hall Pete'• Pub, Hotel Inter-Continental, room. in a Monte Carlo ball room, you can 525·5566. Mondays to Fridays, Edward hear the Continental. .. ) Wed.20: The Raf· Frank from 5 to 7 and trumpeter Leroy feys. Thurs.21 : Barbara Paige with Tribal Jones from 7 to 10 (thank heaver.s it's not Lightning. Fri.22: Bobby Whitlock. Sat.23: Le Roi Jones!). The Radiators. Mon.25: The Continental Pentourtreln Hotel, Bayou Bar, 2031 Drifters. Wed.27: to be announced. StCharles Ave., 524-0581. Bruce Versen Thurs.28: Pressure. Fri.29: Marcia Ball. from 5 until 9, during the week, save Sat.30: The Neville Brothers. Sun.July 1: Thursdays and Fridays. Joel Simpson takes Buckwheat Zydeco, Anson Funderburgh. over post-cocktail and post-prandial Trler•a, 5234 Magazine, 891-4989. keyboard duties and is joined by Rusty Modern jazz, good raw oysters. Sundays, Gilder on bass on Saturdays. Mondays, and Tuesdays: Red Tyler, :James Preaervetlon Hell, 726 St. Peter. Rivers, David Torkanowsky, Jim Singleton, 523-8939. Along with Galatoire's and K­ and Johnny Vidacovich. Wednesdays Paul's, one of the three places in town that through Saturdays: The Weasils. consistently draws a long and deserved line w.... r•a,1 610 Belle Chasse, 361 ~7902. outside; the only amenities are the musical Frl.1 and Sat.2: Firewater Bank, until 2:30 ones. Sundays: Harold Dejan and the Olym­ a.m., followed by the LeBlanc Brothers pia Brass Band. Mondays and Thursdays: Band until 7 a .m. Sun.3 and Mon.4: Fire­ Kid Thomas Valentine. Tuesdays and water. Tues.5 and Wed.6: Contraband. STACY ARTON Is Stella amt-MtKI DAY is stanleY"H Fridays: Kid Sheik Colar. Wednesdays and Thurs.7 : Firewater from 9 to 1. •streetcar' rolls again at Theatre Marlgny. 31 Wavelength/June 1984 BLUE STREAK STU

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Masterpieces of the Academr Gallerr, 5256 Magazme, the 899-8111 Sat.9 through 16: Loutstana land· American West: Selections from all scape patntings by June Woodbridge and Anschutz Collection, with the big shots Davtd Noll. · present and accounted for-Remington and Catlin and Russell, etc. Through July Arthur Roger, 3005 Magazine, 895·5287. Church Through Wed.7: Debbie Fleming Caffery's 1 : Spanish Colonial Art: The Roman photographs. as Art Patron and Educator. Outside: Urban llenvllle Gallery, 1800 Hastings Place, Garden, sculpture by Ed Walker. 631 Toulouse. 523·5889. Call the gallery for information. Poaaelt·Baker Gallery, Through the end of the month: Contemporar, Arta Center, 900 Camp, 524·7242. fiber art by 523·1216 Through Wed.20· Large Glass in· sculpture by Jack Fontana and stallatiOilS by Bruce Chao, Benjamin Kaiser, Thomas Grade. Thermon Statom and Fred Tschida, manip­ Tllden-Foler, 4119 Magazine, 897·5300. big and ulated color Xeroxes by Tom Neff and Rita Through Wed.6: Paintings (mostly pleinnaire} and photographs (all stzes and DeWttt, the latter dealing largely with largely of academic nude skirmishes and medtcaltmagery remembered by us from the 1896 volume Diseases of Childhood, Kathy B. being anything but academically nude} and drawings by George Dureau. havtng to do wtth such interesting afflictions in as the hydrocele. Tues.12: Annual Artists' Sat.9 through Tues.27: sculpture stainless steel, copper, brass and wood by Meeting, 1n whtch local arttsts, over beer Molly Mason. Sat.30 through July 28: hand· and popcorn, ponder how the CAC can best by serve the needs of the Loutsiana arts made paper sculptural paintings Adrienne Anderson. communtty Qalerle llmonne Item, 2727 Prytanta, 895·2452 Through Thurs.?. sculptures and drawmgs by John Scott. Sat.9 through Ju· ly 5 Introductions V, introducing (sopleezta· meetcha) the latest members of the gallery's roster including printmaker Franklin Adams and bizarro painter Jose Mana Cundin, as well as Mark Grote, Con· Contemporary Arta Center, 900 Camp, stance Hennessey-Cone and the above· 523·1216. Thurs.14 through Sun., July 1: rnenttoned Mr. Scott. One Big Happy Family, by Dan Evans, per· AGallery For Pine Photogrephr, 5432 formed by the Dashiki Project Theatre: call Magazine. 891 ·1002. Through July 15: pho­ for performance times. $5. tographs, some not shown before by Neo· Faull Pea, 728 Poydras, 523·9653. The Romantc Clarence Laughlin. June 7 through resident comedy troupe, doing things of a July 7 Louisiana and Atchafalaya Swamp topical-satirical sort, Thursdays at 8, by C C Lockwood. Through July 29: Diary Fridays and Saturdays at 10; covers of a Century by J.H. Lartigue. Through variable. Nov 11 Old New Orleans 1884·1935, Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter, photos and souvemrs from the Cotton Cen· 522·2081 . From Thurs.?: Split Ends, a tenmal Expostllon, etc. musical comedy by Buddy Sheffield, per· lllllenlc Arta Society, Rogers Memorial formed Tuesday through Saturday at 8; late Chapel, Tulane Campus. 486·4663. Sun.3: night comedy workshop, Cheap Theatrix, C/ass1c Greek Dance and Isadora Duncan, performs twice nightly the same nights the latter of whom was not of course one beginning at 10:30. of the famous Duncan Ststers who made Marquette Theatre,Loyola, 865·3824. such a big hit in the late Twenties as Top· Tues.5 through Sat.9: Black Medea, or A sy and Eva. Tangle of Serpents, by Ernest Ferlita, a Hlatorlc New Orlean• Collection, resetting of the one about Jason and his 517·525 Tchoupitoulas St. Through Nov.18: sorceress wife Medea who is driven to in· The Waters of America: 19th Century Pain· fanticide by his two-timing, as it might have tmgs of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Water· happened in 19th Century New Orleans. Ad· falls, a mammoth exhibition of some of the mission $5. finest Amencan art of the period ranging Theatre llarlgn~ . 616 Frenchmen, from the vistas of Asher B. Durand and the 944·2653. Through Sat.23: A Streetcar genre scenes of George Caleb Bingham Named Desire, Tennessee Williams' play through the realistic approach of Eakins which was astutely analyzed long ago by and the fantasias of F redenc Edwin Church. Mary McCarthy as an elaborate variation lllternatlonal Houae, 607 Gravier. on the Mother·ln·Law-Joke. Directed by Thurs.14 32 works by 25 artists resident George Kelly. Performances Thursdays 111 Monaco. (Are they resident there for tax through Sundays at 8:30. reasons? Is Princess Caroline behind this? RoM Dinner ThNtre, 201 Robert St., Will Ranier marry David Niven's widow? Gretna, 367·5400. Fri.8 through Aug.12: An· Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?} nie, a musical comedy based on the ex· Loulelana ltate lluMum, on Jackson ploits of the altruistic little ragamuffin Square and elsewhere. Through Nov.18: A who-as drawn by Harold Gray-always Century of Vision, a s how o f Louisiana looked like she was wearing poker chip photographs taken between the two fairs, monocles. including works by Pops Whitesell, Frances Toulouae Theatre, 615 Toulouse, Johnston, Mugnier, et alia up to thfl present. 522·7852. Wednesdays through Mondays Through November: The Sun King, an at 7:30, One Mo ' Time, which threatens to histoncal extravaganza from /a belle France become New Orleans' answer to The Fan· saluttng the man who revoked the Edict of tasticks, beginning at 7:30. Nantes and inspired Saint Simon's Mem· Tulane, in the Arena Theatre, Crimes of oirs, including documents, paintings, ob· the Heart, Beth Henley's much-lauded play jeCtS, and decorative arts, furniture, about three Mississippi sisters and their sculpture. etc. from /e grand Siec/e, and in· reunion "five years after Hurricane eluding two sumptuous Poussins (hung Camille." Through Sun.17; Tuesday through poorly), a wonderful Philippe de Cham· Sunday at 8, Sunday matinees at 2, infor· patgne portratt of the Abbess of Port-Royal, mation at 865·5631 . Fri.22 through July 8: some works by Bourdon and Vouet, a As You Like It, Shakespeare's comedy of cunous enormous pencil map on brown bucolics, usurpers and gender mas· paper of Paris at the time, a portrait of the querade. At Dixon Hall, as part of the Sum· weaselly·looking Comte de Pontchartrain, mer Lyric Theatre, Brigadoon. the Lerner Louis' cheque for his wife's gambling debts, and Loewe musical about a Scottish town a JesUII map of the Mississippi with funny that comes to life once every century. In· little bison drawn on the margins wherever formation at 865·5269. 33 Wavelength/.June 1984 MUSIC 75(: SUMMER IRMA 2 RUFUS STARTS SCHNAPPS REGGAE .1 o·d1 M p rt• walkin AT all nite long FESTIVAL T OMY aS the oog· EVERY DRINKS 2 for 1 H A THOMAS 10 PM W~~~~~~AY TIL MIDNITE 11 pm $7 11 PM $7 3 "Summer in 6 7 8 9 DEACON the Citv'' JOHN'S THE SHEPPARD THE NEW ORLEANS JOHN NEWSBOYS BAND RADIATORS BLUE._!IT~EVUE Earl King, SEBASTIAN smokey fOrmerly with Johnson, 11 THE LOVIN' $ SPOONFUL 7 10 PM $! 11 PM $5 sn:~~~ - ~Hnn PM

10 13 14 15 THE 16 JOHNNY ONE JAY NEVILLE CLOSED and us THE HITMEN BROTHERS 10 PM $3 10PM $3 11 pm $7 17 ALIVEI 20 21 22 23 Acoustic THE BARBARA BOBBY THE RAFFEYS PAIGE WHITLOCK RADIATORS Jazz WITH TRIBAL form~::kwith Quintet LICHTNINC & The Dominos $7 10 PM $3 10 PM $6 11 PM $5 11 PM $5 24 27 28 29 She's Long, 30 PRESSURE sh:~e~:n. THE CLOSED TBA REGGAE FROM MARCIA NEVILLE AUSTIN BALL BROTHERS $A 11 pm $5 11 pm $7 ~------~------~ BARBARA PAIGE IRMA 1 Buckwheat THURSDAY, THOMAS ZYDECO and JUNE 21 FRIDAY, JUNE1 ANSON FUNDER· TBA BURGH & The ROCKETS TUESDAY VVEDNESDAY 3 JOHNNY 4 4th RENO of July AND HIS THE SAX MANIACS RADIATORS ~ 10 PM $4 MARCIA BALL FRIDAY JUNE 21 - SOLO PIANO EVENING

onco on Mualc, June 9 and 10, Hyatt Regency Hotel. Music industry s FILMS.;.,, -,· peakers - . ,... .. and artists conduct seminars and work­ - Lorol•'• Pllm Buffa lnatltuto, shops on video music, publishing, A&R and 895-3196. Tues.5: La Passion de Jeanne other matters of vital import. -- d'arc, carl Dreyer's heavily stylized 1927 Loul... na Ynchcapoa, an intensive GEORGE film usually regarded as the swan song of video workshop with Laurie McDonald. - the silent film; done entirely in huge, from Fri.15 through Sun.17. Registration tenibilita-filled c~. and with a famous through Susan Horowitz at the CAC, -- performance by Maria Falconetti. Thurs. 7: 523-1 216, or Karen Kern at NOVAC, The Doll, Arne Mattson's 1962 bit of 524-8626. Fee $70, $65 for CAC or NOVAC WINSTON pathology about a man enamored of a win­ members; enrollment limited to 6. :-- dow dummy-somewhat grim, especially Mow Orto.na Womona• Cauoua tor - when compared to Jacques Baratier's Art, Drama Hall, Delgado, Wed.13 at 8. creepily funny Eves Futur or John Collier's Gestalt therapist Anne Teachworth on - • famous short story Evening Primrose. Struggling with Creativity. Saenger Theatre Tues.12: ~City, this 1945 Rossellini film Toxaallualo Ylcloo Seminar, Sat.23 at -- about the last days of the German Occupa­ the Dallas Communications Complex in Ir­ Saturday, June 23-8 pm tion in Rome still has the power-thanks ving, Texas. Top execs from major labels! to its calculatedly raw imagery and the Programming outlet and artist management over-underplaying of Magnani and Michi firms! Music video and vo-de-oh-do produc­ and Fabrizi-to move one. The Nazis are tion companies! all address the Burning --- Tickets on sale at all. cliche conceptions, but the picture's gaze Issues dealing with music-related film and - into the abyss of wartime motivation and video productions, plus a special screen­ - Ticketmaster locations expediency is remarkably forthright. ing of the Freebirds' Bad Street USA video Wed.13: The Wrong Box, an excessively recently premiered on World Class Wrestl­ confectionary 1966 film by Bryan Forbes of ing, and some warnings to the curious from - Charge by phone- the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson Pat Berry, this latter unconfirmed at press (written with his son-in-law Lloyd Osbourne) time. Information at 214-869-0700. - Visa or Mastercard about a tontine between relatives and the mordant antics to recover the inheritance; the cast is large and famous, and the open­ - Ticketmaster-58 7-3072 ing scenes of the various relatives in the - succession being bumped off in outre ways - is Iunny, but the picture is soggy pastry; Antlor•a, 555 Jefferson, Lafayette, with Michael caine, Nanette Newman, • 318-234-8877. Peter Sellers, Irene Handl, Dudley Moore ... a benefit for the family of Tho Bl8 Applo, Highway 1, Larose, - and Peter Cook, Tony Hancock, Cicely 693-8688. Seats 20001 - Courtneidge, the marvelously decrepit PROFESSOR LONGHAIR Bookor•a, 1040 Texas Ave., Shreveport. Wilfred Lawson, and as the two siblings, 318-425-2292. John Mills and Ralph Richardson-as a Clrclo In Tho Square, Shreve Square, - The Tipitina's Benefit Poster for the Byrd furiously garrulous old toll, he steals the - Shreveport. 31 8-222-2216. show. Thurs. 14: Paisan, Rossellini's 1946 Family Clanor'• Yndl... and Brick Stroot will be on sale for $50.00 at the show. episode film about partisans was-consid­ Tavern, Shreve Square, Shreveport, ering its deliberately scratchy look-the -- 318-227-9611. most expensive Italian film of its year; often Doaporado Saloon, Highway 90, - overshadowed by Open City, but as power­ Raceland, 1-537-3647. ful in spots. With Dot Johnson as the black Emporium, 2183 Highland Road, Baton Maria Michi as the Gl, Roman streetwalker, Rouge, 387-9538. Harriet White as the American nurse in Enoch'a-A C•fo, 5202 Desiard Street, Florence. Photography by the great Otello Monroe, 318-343-9950. Martelli. Thurs.21 : The Member of the Wed­ Frod'a, Mamou, 318-468-5411 . ding, Fred Zinnemann's 1953 film of the Glbaon Stroot Loun••• Covington, Carson McCullers play is static and burden­ 1-892-7057. ed wtlh Alex North music, but Ethel Wate rs Grant Str-t Danco Hall, 113 Grant and Brandon DeWilde are marvelous as is Street, Lafayette, 318-537-8513. what 1S left of McCullers' dialogue; Julie Harrr'• Club, 517 Parkway, Breaux Harns is the androgynou s Frankie, the role Bridge, 318-332-9569. FRI. 8th-Gatemouth Brown that made her famous. Admission is by H- Haw, 822 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, REGULAR FEATURES either season subscription ($15) or by $1 SAT. 9th- Rockin' Sidney .50 361 -9321 . acin1ssion; they are shown MONDAYS- Wabash Co. in Bobet Hall, Humphroo'a Shreve Square FRI . 15th- Radiators , , Shreveport, SUNDAYS-Endangered Species Room 332 318-227-9611 . ._Orteena TUESDAYS- li'l Queenie SAT. 16th-Beausoleil Mu-um of Art, City Park, Iron Horao, 403 Phillip, Thibodaux, 488-2631 . Films FRI. 22nd & about Western art on 1-447-9991 . WEDNESDAYS-Mason Ruffner - Rockin' Dopsie Fndays, Saturdays The Twisters and Sundays 1n con]unc- Jofforaon Stroot Cafo, 209 Jefferson, THURSDAYS- Bourre 11011 w1th current exhibitions; also a senes SAT. 23rd-Exuma Lafayette, 318-234-9647. FRI. 1st­ of class1c westerns. Sun.17: My Darling Mulato•a, Breaux Bridge Highway, Breaux Radiators FRI. 29th-Allison & The Clementine, John Ford's lyrical 1946 Bridge, 318-332-4648. ATTRACTIONS- · restagmg of the Distractions gunfight at the O.K. Cor­ Tho 01' Corner Bar, 221 Poydras, SAT. 2nd­ ral, for once without too much Irish low Breaux Bridge, 318-332-951 2. Exuma SAT. 30th- les Bon a Rien comedy and tear jerking-although you Pam'• Placo, Old Town, Slidell. 8316 may hnd it hard Oak Street 866-9359 to keep a straight face Pappa Joo'a, 12375 Florida Blvd., Baton when Linda Darnell announces, " I yam Chi­ Rouge, 1-273-2376. Hua-Hua I " With Henry Fonda as Wyatt Par•dlao Club, 121 S. Buchanan. Earp, VICtor Mature as Doc Holliday, Walter Lafayette, 318-232-5313. Brennan as the leader of the Clanton gang. Partr Town, Military Road, Slidell, Sun.24. Sea of Grass, directed by Elia 1-649-3867. Kazan of all people, with Tracy and Hep­ PoppJ'•· 4365 Perkins Rd., Baton Rouge, burn, he as a cattle baron and she as an 388-9884. Easterner, the whole being an overextend­ Rubr'• Rondoz-Youa, Highway 190 in ed dynastic saga, not much recommend­ Mandeville, 1-626-9933. ed; with Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas, Rubr'• Road Houao, 840 Lamarque, the ever-lovely Edgar Buchanan . Admission Mandeville, 1-626-3001 . hlms is to free with admission to the Ruatr Nail, 540 E. King's Highway, TUESDAYS: LADIES NIGHT museum. Shreveport. 8:00-12:00 PM Two Free Prrtanla, 5339 Prytania, 895-4513. 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It was 20 years ago today that Sergeant- wait a minute! It was 20 years ago this month that New Orleans' own Dixie Cups (later to change their name to the Dixie­ Kups) had the Number One song in the land for three consecutive weeks. The song was "Chapel of Love" and its competition on the charts included hot entries from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Mary Wells. So much for 20 years ago. As recently as last month, our capable friend Ed Ward, music critic for the Austin American-Statesman, arrived in New Orleans for his first extended visit (during the mid­ '70s, Ward was in town briefly­ for an hour or two-to confer with funk theorist George Clinton). Returning to Texas, Ward com­ posed an article entitled "Dream City Sets Music Heritage in Deep Freeze" that we rate second only to the wry observations of Brian Cullman as far as telling it like it is in New Orleans. "The thing about New Orleans CHEAP EATS: is that it is dedicated to its heri­ tage," Wan.l writes. "This is ad­ rock 'n' roll artist irom New The red beans and rice mirable, especially considering Orleans has been signed by a that most of America is so ready to major label. 'People here don't in PETE FOUNTAIN'S jump into a sort of shopping-mall even notice you until you turn 50,' Reunion Hall at the conformity when it comes to one local said. Meanwhile, the music, and that this nation as a dream of a major music capital world's Fair are a whole has a way of forgetting its lives on in New Orleans. Dreams bonariza for culinary musical past nearly as soon as it of the past." happens." T hey're dreaming in Liege, bargain-hunters. One of the problems with Belgium, as well. At the University dreamy New Orleans, as Ward cor­ De Liege, Robert Sacre, of the rectly notes, is that the m usic philosophy department ("Faculte her to dial is 41-26-90-22 ... sounds rave review from, among other listened to by the majority-the de Philosophie et Lettres" has a like the vital statistics of a b lues places, the English music weekly, black majority-is not music that's nicer ring), is teaching a course singer we once knew. Echoes. Tony Monson, com­ being produced in New Orleans. called "La musique noire ameri­ WAIL, that bastion of hard paring Jordan to George Zamfir, Very little music is being produced caine." In a recent dispatch, the funk, is now WLHS, a bastion of concludes: "A real goodie-and a in New Orleans. professor asks: "current, easy-listening hits." Dr . long term seller." Sure-people make tapes, they "Do you know that 'The Music John, that bastion of hoodoo, has True Faith, a new trio featuring cut demos, you read about it in this of Black Americans-A History' is released a 12-inch single titled that hard-drivin' man, former Red journal all the time. If it's jazz an academic matter in Belgium? "Jet Set," which was co-produced Rockers lead guitarist James and/or recorded by someone 300 I'm in charge of the lessons and I by Ed Fletcher, who previously Singletary, and two former Limit years old, Vincent Fumar might made several field-trips, especially brought you Grand Master members-vocalist/bassist Chris­ write about it our daily newspaper. in Louisiana (I lived several weeks Flash's "The Message." Availa­ tian Serpas and drummer Jeff If it's silly and he thinks it's what's in Henry Gray's home in Baton ble on Streetwise, the New York Oteri, will debut at Jimmy's on happening at C.Y.O. dances, Rock Rouge and I'm a specialist of rap/hip-hop label, "Jet Set" is a June 16. "Faith," according to the Adam can be counted on for a few Zydeco music, Swamp blues and modern reprise of Dr. John's 1968 "Maryknoll Catholic Dictionary," paragraphs of glorious misinform­ white Cajun music). We have an "Night Tripper" style. As D.J. is "a gift of God, a share in his Di­ ation in that weekly newspaper International Meeting here in once sang, "What goes around, vine vision by which the person that keeps getting tossed into your Liege in September about 'Delta comes around." exercising it has the virtue or caladium beds. Blues' (and this includes the music The most torrid new commodity strength to believe what God re­ How much of this local music is of Louisiana) with some specialists out of Japan is Junko Yagami, veals because of God's authority in aired on the radio? How much of it of the matter." singing her Oriental smash, "I revealing truth." has an effect on Billboard's "Hot The specialists will include Wanna Make a Hit Wit-Choo." Our Saint of the Month is St. 100?" Need we answer such ob­ blues-ologists Dick Shurman and Junko's middle name, incidentally, Sauve, also known as St. Salvius, vious questions? Dr. David Evans (might we inter­ is not "Partner." whose feast day is June 26. St. "New Orleans is indeed protect­ ject that these are serious blues On June 23 at the Dallas Com­ Sauve, a sharp dresser as are many ing its heritage, but it isn't going scholars-the sort of guys who munications Complex (also known religious people, was murdered in forward," Ward writes. "That's argue over exactly what brand of as The Studio at Las Colinas), 768 by the son of an official of the impression I got from reading poison Robert Johnson swal­ there will be a day-long music Valenciennes who wanted his fine the local media and talking to lowed). The Belgian blues ses­ video seminar, followed that clothes. people. There seems to be very sions, which will be conducted in evening by the Texas Music Video Our living Saint of the Month is little unity among the bands, very French, English and German, will Awards. Speakers and panelists Pete Fountain, who is only little cooperation owing to the in­ commence September 15, 1984 in will, we assume, explain the im­ charging $1.75 for the red beans, tensely competitive nature of the Liege. Anyone interested in at­ portance of garter belts in music rice and sausage served at his scene. With the exception of a tending (or lecturing) should con­ videos. For more information, call Reunion Hall on the World's Fair boring hard-rock trio called Zebra tact Robert Sacre, chaussee de Mickey Stuart (214-869-0700). site. That's almost as cheap as (Ward must've forgot about the Tongres 117, B-4420 Liege, Kent Jordan's "No Question eating on the outside. Red Rockers), no contemporary Belgium. The transoceanic num- About It" album has received a • June 1984/Wavelength 38

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