Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, March 12, 1968 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY 'The Who': Don't Knock the Rock By BOB WINSHALL To br Shades of McLuhan - last weekend, The Who, whose medium developed is rock-and-roll and whose message is violence, played to a capa- a good on city audience at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit. Apparently, but only people are really appreciating the message, or are too rich to care; have close the Grande was filled to capacity at $4.50 a head. with a goo Reflecting the vagaries of the rock world, The Who in many Their ways are innovators who somehow have become overshadowed by spoof on the psychedelic'groups, the blues groups and the soul groups. In the first i fact, Th'e Who are supposed to have been the first group to use and discii feedback, and they are the pioneers in the type of instrument- traditiona destruction later popularized by the Yardbirds in "Blow-Up." and so for The group is more than just violence, however, although this more tha seemed the primary reason why many of the people came to see The r them. Their music is clear and clean, with a heavy beat and ex- crowd has ceptionally good vocals, both solo and harmony. Their repertoire will be th was essentially straight rock, although they did include their en masse multi-song operetta, "A Quick One While He's Away." to play " Unlike many new groups, which only play their own compo- the song, sitions or borrow only the latest pieces, The Who played "Shakin' lence that All Over" and "Summertime Blues" - two oldies. "Can't Ex- As th plain", "Boris the Spider" and "Happy Jack" were some of the to really u original compositions. toward th They really do make the audience want to groove with the air and cE music. Peter Townshend, the- lead guitarist, and Roger Daltry, bounces. Z vocal, move around the stage, with Townshend characteristically Daltry pu hit-strumming his guitar and contorting his body, then straight- against th ening up. His pitcher's-windup strum, a gesture familiar to fol- mike thro lowers of Jimi Hendrix, is a particularly dynamic gambit. Keith in a bassc Moon, the drummer, flashily twirls his sticks, raising high our of his seat for dramatic emphasis. Nears The general feeling that you get from The Who is thathis bass of s this is a group that really enjoys and is involved in what they are doing (or they are pretty good actors). This attitude is Was it Daily-Andy sacks contagious, making the audience -more receptive and causing them Was it a3 to become more involved in listening, or dancing, or however they destruction Peter Townshend: Hot Damn!!! choose to appreciate The Who. worth $4.5 -- Smash It eak the bubble of any misconceptions which may have from this article so far, The Who are a rock group - e, in terms of musical quality and dramatic impact - a rock group. Listening to them Saturday night, I could ed my eyes and imagined myself at a TG or mixer' d local group. newest album. "The Who Sell Out," is an enjoyable commercial radio, and their operetta may be one of n a wave of attempts to adapt rock to new techniques Alines such as drama (e.g., "Hair"), Eastern music and J church music (The Electric Prunes' "Mass in F Minor") rth. Nevertheless, in person they came across as nothing a good, flashy rock band - with a show. real show starts when Daltry gives the cue that the been waiting for, informing us that the next number e last. Like conditioned animals, the crowd stands up" to try to catch a glimpse of the act. The Who begins My Generation," their usual finale. Midway through smoke bursts appear on stage, foreshadowing the vio- t is soon to come. e song enters the instrumental break, Townshend starts work out his guitar, hitting it against his knee, running e amps for feedback, throwing the instrument into the ,tching it - except once, when it hits the floor and The light' show and the smoke add to the confusion. ts his mike beneath a bass drum and then rubs it he cymbals; Townshend nudges his guitar against the ws it into the air, and swings it like a club; Moon kicks drum, knocks over his remaining drums and stands up. the stage, the crowd, which has been repeatedly warned h the stage, rushes the stage. Finally, Entwhistle takes f of his neck, throws it down and the show ends. t music? Yes. Was it good music? Yes, for straight rock. good show? Well, if you were -close and could see the n or were far away and could dance, yes. But was it 0? No. r " r r Thompsons PIZZA THIS cOUPON IS GOOD FOR O C 0. r r -off 50c off-I 1 - ON A MEDIUM OR LARGE ONE ITEM (Ok MOR E) PIZZA COUPON Is Good Only Monday thru Thursday, u March 11 thru 14 -- the emu players series THE PLOUGH AND THE, STARS A revolt of Irish Humor and Hatred march 13-17 all seats $1.50 quirk auditorium reservations: 482-3453 Am + 4 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS... Film Festival 'A Moving Success' 3020 Washtenaw. Ph. 434-1782 BETWEEN ANN ARBOR Show Time: Wednesday & Saturday & Sunday 1 :00-3:00-5:00-7:00-9:00 Monday-Tuesday; Thursday-Friday 7 & 9 AND YPSILANTI ONNIEWA IWIM r %am , B E IS*N vd RERT 5 TO5 P d eby ow Narr y I D ecwfry ct'ARt W PEfMI ** TECINICOLOROF+ROM WARNER BROS.-SEVEN ARTS See Feature at f 1 :00-3:00-5:00-7:05-9:10 wednesday Afternoon Dial NO 2-6264 isL DIES' DAY om 1P.M. to 6 P.M. Dial NO 2-6264 Coming Next: "COP-OUT" - 4, By BARBARA HOCHMAN First of Two Parts The "announcement of the win- ners' and showings of some win- ning films brought the Sixth An- nual. Ann- Arbor Film Super-Fes- tival to a moving close Sunday night. A record number of over 200 films were received . by festival director Prof. George Manupelli, and over 100 were shown to the judges and swarms of audiences during a four-day period. $910 was distributed to the makers of the :wnnilng films, including lo- cally sponsored awards to Uni- versity students Andrew Lugg (for "The Billard Slum"), Bill Clark and Hillary Hicks (for "Opus 1"), Alan Wurtzel and Lynn Brown (for "What's It About"), Alan Finnera'n (for "Areas: A Theatre Piece"). The judges' unanimous choice for the $300 first prize went to San Franciscan William Hindle's "Chinese Firedrill," a 24-minute color film very difficult to de-, scribe With words. -Beside the official ."winners, about 40 .select films will travel the route of the ."festival tour," making 15 stops for further judg- ing and awards. With the help of film distributing manager Mike Getz, they will .be screened at 17 Art Theatres throughout the country. They will also be broad- cast on television station KQED, San Francisco (where prizewinner Hindle is film director), and those which survive the Yale University judging will be presented at the Museum of Modern Art. In total, the awards and payments to these independent film-makers ap- proaches $16,000, making the Ann Arbor Festival the world's rich- est film competition. - The festival was first conceived and organized by Prof. Manupelli to encourage and to help, or re- ward financially, the small-time film maker. Now, with the in- creasing use of the film medium as an artistic expression, the fes- tival has grown in many aspects. The judges themselves claim that the quality of submitted films was much better than ever before. New film-makers dis- played hopeful potential, while those more, established, who had entered the festival previously, maintained their creativity. What kind of films are shown at such a demonstration, and how are they appraised? All films en- tered were 16mm, ranging from 50 seconds to 30 minutes long; averaging about six minutes. They were in color as well as black and white, and were generally accom- panied by sound tracks. They were made mostly by young peo- ple, some of whom are film stu- dents, and they derived primarily from San Francisco and New York. (Twelve Ann Arbor people submitted films.) There is no doubt but that the whole festival not only represent- ed, but was, a significant art era. Further, as it is said film festi- vals tend to do, this one played a theme, and in doing so, became h i s t o r i c a I11 y significant. That theme was man - the personal, subjective, perplexed individual. To say this may ring of a hack- neyed sound, but yet the mood and means of expression of al- most every film shown was some kind of turning inward to look at ourselves. There were some outright "doc- umentaries" of how people are living today, and there were little; plots which played with time and space distortion. Many films showed people "doing their thing," whatever it might be, nude, with the audience-accepted under- standing of "yes, this is how peo- ple really are, underneath it all." The judges say that they were looking for accomplishment, orig- inality, for innovation in the use of picture and sound, for the ger- minating artist. And they were impressed by the techniques and the "nowness," the sense of "this is the present day portrayed" in what they saw. Tomorrow: A Look at Some of the Films O4 low, THE ALL-NEW AND MOST EXCITING TRUE-LIFE 3 h'. . 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" BEST PICTURE 0 BEST ACTOR DUSTIN HOFFMAN " BEST ACTRESS ANNE BANCROFT JOSEPHELEVINE * BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS MIKE NICHOLS KATHERINE ROSS LAWRENCE TURMAN,.' v 0"BEST DIRECTOR " BESTSCREEN PLAY / , OBEST "CINEMA- TOGRAPHY THECIM GRADUATE AINNE BANCROFLNODUSTIN HOFFMAN -KATHARINE ROSS PAI'nrDIAIII I IKIr-UAIAR I irv Li NIDV DtARill -QlAM Starting Thursday We Will Proudly Present "Perhaps the most beautiful movie in history."- Brendan Gill, The 'New Yorker: e"Exquisite is only the first word that surges in my mind as an appropriate description of this exceptional film. Its color is abso- lutely gorgeous. The use of .music and, equally elo- quent, of silences and sounds is beyond verbal descrip- tion. The performances are perfect -that is the only word" Bosley Crowther, New York Times."AMay well be the most beautiful film ever made."-Newsweek. } :' -N.Y. Post 4 ) r e s e i t JUDE KIDS' BENEFIT (ONCERT-'68 TUESDAY, March 26-8:30 P.M. 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