Pa~e 10 - TJ.IE AQUINAS -,Tuesday, Oct. 10, 1978 Dylan: The Times They Are UFO Lands Good Review - A-Changing . BY PAT FOLEY the Wind" and'it is a very strange tpe y had played together for When one goes to a Bob Dylan experience to hear that song sung years instead of months.'"All concert and finds $6 official in an almost gospel manner. The AIQug the Watch Tower" is a T-shirts and $3 programs, he same can be saidabout songs like . Dylan song that has traveled the begins to worry. When the Dylan "It's Alright Ma," "Masters of rock circuit, being done with back-up band comes on stage War," and "Ballad of a Thin much success by the likes of Jimi with a crowd of electric guitars, a Man." All were delivered with Hendrix and Dave Mason. But no' saxophone, and a three-member driving rock beats backed up by a one does it like the master and "soul" chorus, he begins to Clarence Clemons-like saxo­ Dylan proved that without a wonder. And finally, when Dylan phone and the ever present Mo­ doubt. It should be mentioned strolls on stage and launches into town R&B singers. that a great portion of the show a set ::llmost exclusively devoted On the positive side, the Dylan was devoted to the new Street Legal album. 'These selections came off very well, mainly, because the album features the same band that is now on the road with Dylan. The best of the lot would have to be "Changing of the Guards." Dylan did this song as the only encore of the show and it was charged up version to which the crowd responded UFO was outofthis world despitethe sparse crowd. warmly. Perhaps the greatest BY STEVE WATSON (vocals), Michael Schenker (gui­ moment of the evening came, It must be hard to get your­ lars), Pete Way (bass), Paul however, when Dylan stepped up self psyched for a show when it's Raymond (keyboards), and Andy to the mike and said, "I've played in a small theatre in an insig­ Parker (drums). This band this one with The Band. Now I nificant town somewhere in remained relatively obscure in want to play it for you." With that northeastern Pennsylvania. It the States until last year when he launched into an inspired must be especially hard when rendition of "Forever Young." It only 200 people show up at that was an intense feeling that small theatre. When you scan the crossed between Dylan and the audience and see lo-year-old kids crowd at that point and, if nothing with their mothers, and old town else mattered all night, this drunks along with the regular single song made it all worth­ freak parade that accompanies a while. rock show, you must really Bob Dylan In summing up the experI­ wonder what kind of future you to poimding hard rock, he knows. show has many high points where ence, I guess that when we go to have in the music business. But if He knows that the classic Bob one could envision the Dylan of see Bob Dylan today, we really Molly Hatchet and UFO were Dylan of the sixties is gone. That old. Most of these came during shouldn'texpect the Bob Dylan of having second thoughts about the is not to say that the nearly three songs which could embrace the the sixties. M.aybe he feels that situation, they didn't show it. hour show Dylan and his crew put hard rock motiff. Very memor­ . all those 4nportant songs he used On September 29, in the Para­ on is unenjoyable. able was a tremendous version of to sing <Ion't matter anymore. mount Theatre in Wilkes-Barre, their LP, "Lights Out," cli~bed I must confess, as a child of the the classic "Like a Rolling But, he's wrong. In a world Molly Hatchet, from Jackson­ seventies, I listened to Bob Dylan Stone." The band seemed to dominated by the likes of Donna into prominence in the American ville, Florida, opened a night of charts. But the popullirity of UFO sing about the social ills of the integrate on this nnmOOr like Summer, Kiss, and Shaun rock n' roll that may have been a sixties in songs like "Elowin in Cassidy, men like Dylan should in foreign lands (Japan and lit.tle raw for the faint of heart. Germany) has been estab­ come out as prophets of doom. The good ole' boys from down Then again, maybe he's tired of lished for years. In the case of south played about a 45 minute UFO it is simply a situation of a sending messages that. never get set in which they featured a lot of received. talented band not getting its due (lriginal material off their debut respect (par~icularly in Wilkes­ album. I must admit I was Barre). HOTLINE impressed, especially by their UFO was very good. 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