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IN SID E — Hot and Spicy Music in L.A. 3A — Cuddling Up With Rick Astley 3A — Fresh Baked Femmes 4A — Tooting Toots’ Horn 5A rts — S.B. Stylin' Symphony 5A — Body Art With Fish 6A — Fine Touch Up Work 7A & entertainment — Layin’ Out With Babs and Bette 7A Everybody’s heard about the big rack icons — Lennon, Presley, Dylan, mm. m i 1 i 1 ■ lili ..... 1 i Astley and all the rest. Y ft, there have S i ® i « been many other people tn rock's history whose deeds have gone unthanked, and whose music has been untairb’ overlooked. in an attempt to remedy the situation. AAE brings you the “Pock n* Roll icons that You Probably Haven’t Heard of!” Although H should not be considered an all-encompassing list ^ K p h e choice-making was harder than to lick a$ the way to the cea&foV ■ ooi§j©-F|n without biting), i t ' i f * i You Probably Never Heard Of CAROLE KING MUDDY WATERS NEW YORK DOLLS CURTIS MAYFIELD ^ARTHUR LEE LARRY WILLIAMS 2A Thursday, January 26,1989 Daily Nexus Em anuil Sheynkman, mandolin and balalaika In Residence... Next Monday, January 30 A&L's artist- in-residence program heats up with Soviet emigre Emanuil Sheynkman master mandolin and balalaika player. This means there is a whole slew of lecture-demonstrations, mini performances, master classes and dialogues with Sheynkman and other visiting artists coming up. Sheynkman will be performing in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on Friday, February 3 (so you'll hear more about it next week). His residency activities begin at 2 PM on Wednesday, February 1 in Phelps n vening with 2524 with a class visit to History 131F, A E AND NOT ONLY THAT "Anti-Semite and Jew in Modern Manuel Puig Europe and America." Sheynkman In association with the lecture and as left the Soviet Union in 1978 when he A&L's International Cinema series realized his opportunities for artistic continues, Kiss of the Spider Woman exploration were dwindling 'because will screen in Campbell Hall on he and his family are Jewish. Thursday, January 26 at 8 P M . At 3:30 that day in Music Room 2224, Kiss of the Spider Woman is the resonant Sheynkman will give a lecture- story of a love that bridges a chasm of demonstration about the use of difference between two cellmates in an mandolin and balalaika in classical An Argentine native who now lives unnamed Latin American prison. In and folk music and will talk about the order to make their shared hell more in Brazil, Manuel Puig is most widely similarities between Russian music bearable, Molina, an apolitical noted for his brilliant authorship of and language. His residency will homosexual and incurable romantic, Kiss of the Spider Woman, w hich was continue the following two days so weaves stories of glamor, intrigue and made into die Academy Award watch for announcements in next romance for Valentin, the macho, winning Brazilian film in 1985. The week's paper for details. inventive literary style associated with political activist prisoner. his work was defined in his first book Residency activities are always free, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. William Hurt won an Academy and all of these are open to the public Award for his portrayal of Molina and so take these opportunities to become sultry Sonia Braga plays the Spider Puig's witty ironic writing speaks of acquainted with A&L artists in a less people who are isolated from the Woman, star of the film-within-the- formal (and less expensive!) forum film . mainstream, either by incarceration or than the concert hall. by alienation by the destructive forces of contemporary life. An independent socialist, Puig had to leave his home Tickets for the film and Manuel Puig's country and thus has an inherent lecture are $3 each for UCSB students. understanding of such isolation. Tickets to the lecture are available in S o Sorry advance at the A&L Ticket Office Manuel Puig's lecture was originally (charge 'em by phone: 961-3535, The upcoming Limón and Jubilation! scheduled for Tuesday, January 31 in minimum order $10), any remaining Dance Co. performances have both Campbell Hall but has been changed to tickets will be sold at the door. Single already sold out! Monday, January 30 at 8 PM in the tickets for Kiss of the Spider Woman w ill UCen Pavilion. He will read and only be sold at Campbell Hall the night discuss his work. of the film. UCSB M onday Tuesday W ednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 26 27 28 29 Rosemary Radford Ruether 4 PM /Girvetz 1004 K iss o f the Spider Woman 8 PM/Campbell Hall 30 31 i 2 3 4 5 Limón Dance Co. A&L Emanuil Sheynkman 8 PM/Campbell Hall A World Apart House of Games 8 PM/Lotte Lehmann 8 PM /Campbell Hall' 8 PM/Campbell Hall Manuel Puig Concert Hall ARTS & LECTURES 8 PM/UCcn Pavilion Charge tickets by phone: 961-3535. 400, wmi. ... AJwr ............... .......... ü ü * r m m — " T " _ . > -, i l r ¿ ^ . W- .... ü.^’" «• s.- ^ -----------MP ! — ............................. ......... =? T* 2 6 % 89 ... — ......-------- ....... .... ...j— HOT KROSSED I WANNA HOLD YOUR RICK! SONIC DANISH Okay. So I haven't listened to the new Rick Astley -record yet. And I’m not gonna. But I’ll sure as heck Critically acclaimed bands in Bozo masks and Pippy- review it for you. Yeah, I sure will. Longstocking coifs, Chili Peppers doing trumpet solos, Rick Astley would really like for you to hold him in and off-the-wall tributes to Tracy Chapman and your arms. Probably so you could look deeply into his Sammy Hagar ... back to back. In what is sure to go dog-brown eyes and run your hands through the thick down as the insider's party of the year, headlining rivers of mousse that control his nifty neo-'50s-style Thelonius Monster, second-billed Mary's Danish, an hairpiece. You could fawn over Rick, if you were unannounced set from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and holding him in your arms, and marvel at the spectacle Tusk — the “new-wave cover band" — featuring of his immovable, intractable skin. members of Sonic Youth, Red Kross, the Love Dolls Maybe, if you were holding Rick in your arms, that and maybe even Black Flag, blew out a jam-packed is, you could peer into the bulbous cavern of his nose, Roxy last Sunday night in Hollywood. investigating, of course, the suffocating morass of Tusk, leading off in masks and multi-colored nosehair that somehow helps to make Rick an in CRAWFISH headgear, with'two drummers on one drum set, took ventive, searching-but-never-finding, danceabilly, off on Cheech and Chong’s "Earache my Eye,” before love-pop crooner. But, however, the experience of pelting the dumbfounded crowd with "We Got the holding Rick in your arms would not be complete Beat,” "Sweet Home Alabama,” and "Ant Music” sung without Rick’s voice, obviously. If you had Rick in your over the lead line of “Back in Black.” arms, wouldn't you want to hear that love organ, those As amusing as that was, the V IP’s had turned out to sex-enthused pipes of peace, the commitment-callers, see the budding Mary's Danish, who seem to be the baritone of bulge, throatily whispering, pleading, climbing up the coattails of buddies Thelonious “Never Gonna Give You U p ?" Indeed. Monster and The Red Hot Chili Peppers to become the Oh, Ricky-wicky-icky. Turn me on. Turn me over. most talked-a bout of L.A.'s club hoppers. With a sound And baby, I ¿to want to dance with you. as powerful as the glory days of X, and with voices as Rick does it all on the new record, which, in gloriously twangy as Fetchin' Bones, Mary's Danish cidentally, has the vague title, “Hold Me in Your lived up to its L.A. Times billing as the Number-one Arms." Busting loose with “She Wants to Dance With J a n 2 ' 6 t h club band of 1988. With drummer of six days Pam Me,” the album charts a surreal, stark emotional doing a tremendous pounding job, the band blazed landscape. Rick wants you to "Take Me to Your through mega-smash “Don’t Crash the Car Tonight." Heart." He’ll “Never Let You Down," but, he adds, "I ßvoAirc Mary's Danish will be on campus Feb. 23 in the Pub Don't Want to Be Your Lover." But then again, he W e s t v a is j for free, and you can bet they’ll have a big money “Ain’t too Proud to Beg." Nonetheless, Rick is “Giving _ OoTMes contract by then. Up on Love," yet “I Don't Want to Lose Her,” he in The Red Hot Chili Peppers showed up in time to play sists. Still, he commands, “Dial My Number.” And C'm o m /n P C * s p e c i a l * L o n u C o o « s 4 four songs to try out a new drummer on the same then, finally, Rick would really like for you to "Hold Me &ovlM A B6CA „s <* unfamiliar tunes that dragged the Peppers into their in Your Arms»" I'm hopeful. I'm jilted. I'm in love. Resede. w h isk st hardcore mode. “Fuck the funk, look ma, we're punk,” Yes, it's all very nice, very nice indeed, except for A n d A n o l ' F A S H IO N might have been the title of any of them as Anthony one terrible fact: Rick, as was earlier reported in the and newly outgrown Flea (I’m talkin’ hair) whipped major media, is in fact Howdy Doody, and has illegally the crowd into the usual body-tossing frenzy.