~~~KC PITCtI~~ September1982 Issue21 CK..gnsas (itl's Music ani qJnttrtainmtnt ~wsfaftr ~\~ 1[)11~~I~Il2 l\\'lllrlti A\~I[)Il2I~ OO[1j]@OO~[I ~ ________________--,Winfield ................... p.8 ................... p. 7 Abbie Hoffman & Whatever Became of the Beat Generation? directed Louis Malle. It plays at the Bijou August 27 - September 23. Don't Be a Sheep To make this film it would almost appear After several missed phone calls from Donna Trussell Isn't it amazing how often a that Wally and Andre just went to a London and LA., I was finally able to con­ doctor will live up to our ex­ restaurant and proceeded to chat, but that nect with the Lords of the New Church in 1\10 spaceships, no blood, no sex, no one pectation of how a doctor was not the case. In an interview with The LA., just before the beginning of their first singing "Tomorrow" and no Texas chic­ should look. and when you Boston Globe, Andre said, "We worked for American tour. The Lords consist of former just Wallace Shawn, playwright, and Andre 18 months on the script and spent six Dead Boy member Stiv Bator (vocals), Gregory, theater dropout, sitting in a New see ·0 terrorist on television months in·rehearsal. Everyone thinks we just former member of The Damned, Brian York restaurant and talking about living their he. looks just. like a terrorist? I play ourselves but, if we just played James (guitar), Dave Tregunna (bass) and lives. mean, we live in a world in ourselves, no one would come, We play Nicky Turner (drums). The follOWing is a You start off in Wally's shoes. He's an ar­ characters ... characters who are inSightful which fathers or single peo- ' conversation I had with Turner, who was the tistic but realistic man riding the subway to and stupid and warm and cold." final addition to what promises to be one of meet a friend he hasn't seen in ten years. In a 'f:Attis~ are all trying to Despite the fact that My Dinner With An­ the driving forces of rock in the 1980's voice-over Wally says, "When I had known ~ne~fantasy dre is based on actual, taped conversations The Lords of the New Church. Leroi® Andre, he'd been at the height of his career 0/ ffllW a JlJth({ro,~.Qi$ingle between Wally and Andre, writing the screenplay was no easy task. In LA Weekly" as a theater director. But then ... person or an . artist should LEROI: How did you end up getting with something had happened to Andre. No one Wally said of reading the 4,000 pages of the band? It says here that they just found knew quite what. He had dropped out of the :fOoh and behave. And so transcripts, "It was just an incredibly dull you in a club. theater. .. You would occasionally hear that efJ~rYone acts as if, they chaos to me! Which was actually meaning­ NICKY: I was running a psychedelic club he'd been seen following around at the heels know . exactly how they less and had no structure that just leapt to in London and I was playing in a band called of some Buddhist monk or else that some­ mind at all! ... So in one way I sort of spend ought tqconduct.thftmselves The Barracudas and they asked me if I one had seen him at a party, and he'd been a lot of time just cataloguing, sort of like would mind coming down to drum. There telling people that he'd talked to trees or at every single moment. and sentence by sentence, really - into cate­ was some gig in Paris. We used to play three something like that ... The whole idea of they' all seem totally self­ gories, because certain things are in eight dif­ numbers and fly first class to Paris - cham­ meeting him made me very nervous." confident. Of course, prE­ ferent subjects at the same time." pagne all the way. We said, ifthe Barracudas After the two hours of dialogue that As to how much of the film is true, Andre uately, people are very can do it, why can't we do it. We had to follow, one still doesn't know for sure if An­ is quoted in LA Weekly as saying, "There learn three numbers. So we went over there dre is a visionary or is just a little crazy. One mixed up about themselves, are only two fictions in the film: one is that and did it, and had a ball. minute he's making some bizarre statement you. know, and don't know we never had dinner together! We didn't LEROI: Well that's great. I think you guys about a flag that makes people throw up what they should be doing in have the money. We just had coffee and work together real well. because it has the devil in it, and the next doughnuts. The other fiction was that he NICKY: Yeah? Well, I'm quite surprised. It minute he says something so piercingly true, their. lives, and they're hadn't seen me in ten years. We saw each evolved quite nicely. it gives you chills. The viewer walks a fine reading. all these self·help other all the time." LEROI: It says here that you all produced line between skepticism and enchantment. &ookS~. The script of My Dinner With Andre found the record. Do you get pretty involved in In the end, no answers have been given, on­ its way into the hands of director Louis Malle that? ly questions raised. What Annie Hall and .... .~.6r~* Jf, Dinner with (Pretty Baby, Atlantic City) when a mutual by perm_lOft NICKY: Yes, of course. We had a good many other Woody Allen films did on the .~;~ friend sent Malle the script without Wally's or .. .' otGl'OVCi Pres$. ©1981 by engineer and he'd get the sounds, but we subject of romantic illUSion, My Dinner With Andre's knowledge. In LA Weekly Andre ·.,w..uac.~ and Andre had a few fights. All that tension opened our Andre does for artistic and spiritual pomposi­ . Gregory. said, "Louis called me up, and I think he was eyes, actually. 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I saw the creature E.T. as being do all that nursey jazz to them. like this. His having telepathy with Elliot is as I have few worries here except that the first a soul occupying a human body. Monday of every month a test siren goes off. In psychology as in some religions, self It's the official tidal wave siren-you can hear realization is the main goal: to see your it all over the island. If you hear it any other potential divinity . To become aware of your - time than that first Monday, then you're sup­ feelings and emotions and to learn to express posed to drive up to the mountains. My only them clearly is psychology's main goal. E.T. concern is that a tidal wave will come on displayed his emotions directly (fear, anxie­ some first Monday. I asked one of the local ty, happiness) and were transmitted to Elliot people here about that. "What are we sup­ just as our feelings are transmitted from our posed to do if a tidal wave decides to come unconscious core to our superego + ego. some Monday?" He looked at me like I was Also in some works the key to making it really stupid or something and said, "Well, through life is to become aware of a higher then we would change the test siren to intelligence that can help you see and feel another day, like Thursday or Friday." clearly. Spielberg doesn't call them Jews or Yeah, I didn't really understand that ra­ Krishna nd so on-just the extra terrestrial.