THE MICHIGAN DA11_1 Wednesday, Jan THE ICHIAN DILYWednsday Ja Leary proselytizes at Hill... sciousness. People now, through "natural biological means" can change what they are. They can be anything they want to be. They can do anything they choose. The great American dream fulfilled - perfect free choice. Although Leary does not be- lieve that everyone should take ,acid regularly (everyone should take it at least once) he sees the ability of it and other psy- chedelic drugs to change reality as a powerful motive force for change. Indeed he envisions a great youth revolution forming around that truth. Drugs, along with the other "keys to revolu- tion," sex and rock and roll, will .bring a change in this country in the next decade. 'But the other side of the revo- lution, the power generation, has its own drug culture. Hark- ening to the motto "for God's sake feel bad," the holders of power have been on a bad trip since the evil of God of the Old Testament "exiled Adam and Eve to northern Michigan." The older generation a drug culture? You bet ! The world is filled with establishmentarians strung out on booze. And that drug, says Leary, fits them per- fectly. "It makes you feel so bad the next day for being such a bad boy." But this ethic, the Judeo- Christian desire to be unhappy will die, says Leary, in the face of a new joy. "For God's sake feel good" reads the new for- mula. And, much as it may shock the sensibilities of the power generation, "You can't overdraw your ecstasy bank ac- count." Unfortunately the influence of that other side of the revolu- tion which feels worse when- ever they hear anyone else feels good, was not entirely unfelt. There was not the joy of years past. Everyone was subtley aware of the specter of repres- sion. John Sinclair is in jail. The crowd could laugh with Leary about getting high but the knowledge of struggle and hard times was with them. They could see the truth of Leary's visi6ii but to face the meaning of the revolution is more diffi- cult.. But, as Timothy Leary ex- plains, "Dope is the greatest revolutionary instrument of all time." He is even passing out Kim Agnew medals to kids who turn their parents on. This time around in the spin- ning of many lifetimes you can be anything ,you warnt. "Why don't we free John Sinclair this time around. Why don't we all make it, this time around." *0 as the bands born bout A mu"" BILLY By BERT STRATTON The John Sinclair benefit con- cert last night at Hill Aud. was painful. There must be more pleasant ways of extracting donations for the Sinclair de- ferse fund than by subjecting a crowd to the Up, Teegarden- and Van Winkle, and the Stooges. Of course, it's doubtful that these music groups attracted the sizeable crowd, considering that the ever popular "high priest" of psychedelics, Timothy Leary, was also on the bill. Leary is a visionary, always perceptive, and always joyfully entertaining in his eccentricity. The Up are not visionary, in fact they are blindly untalented., What they can do proficiently is turn the dials on their amps up to 10, play three chords LOUDLY, and screech haphaz- ardly throughout their songs. The Up's lack of creativity is reflected in their repertoire. What else could one expect but a looking backward" approach, into their rock 'n' roll roots. They tried Little Richard's "Lu- cille," which in the original ver- sion features Little Richard's amazingly controlled shouts and the inevitable, raspy tenor sax break. I've heard that when Paul McCartney wanted to learn how to shout, he asked Little Richard to teach him. Well, the Up's lead singer should make an appointment with Little Richard too, but then again why bother because nobody can un- derstand what he's singing any- way, over the prickling, jabber- ish noise of the two guitars, and the labored smash-bash de- livery of the drummer. (There's no sax.) OK, the Up's sound is admit- tedly out of the.realm of normal music criticism. Their latest hit is titled "Just Like an Abori- gine," which is about the most accurate description there is of where they're at. Somehow they come on more belligerently than I ever imagined any ape could. Leary followed the Up, which was a vital hiatus for most of the crowd. A few jokes, a little philosophizing on the generation gap, a couple visions of future life, and we were all primed up again for some more music. The duet of Teegarden and Van Winkle provided the as- sault. With, I believe, Teegarden on drums and Van Winkle doing vocals and organ, they jumped into an elementary jazz-blues riff, and for about the next twenty minutes they stayed right there, the vocalist running together a series of tunes over the same blues pattern, plodding back and" forth on the organ between two or three notes, and the drummer following along. It takes a lot of nerve to try to work out in a jazz-blues framework with only two musi- cians, because the song can get very boring if there isn't enough soloing. Well, the drummer didn't do a single solo, and the organist stuck close to home, conscientiously avoiding any of the million possible variations a talented organist would have chosen from. How do they get away with this junk? They're very tricky, and they're very talented "rock" evangelists. Direct from the farm in Muskogee, Okla- homa, Southern drawls intact, they make the now common "authenticity" pitch. They're big on audience handclapping and "Are you ready?" appeals to the crowd. They are groovy, and they smoke dope and are high on stage. All things considered they're quite "beautiful" and really bad musicians. (The drum- mer finally did a solo on their last song, another extended blues-he did about ten minutes of nothing, hardly even touching his cymbals.) The Stooges were to be on next. I left. C+-- -Daly--Jim Judhis CINEMA GUILD American Studies Program Jan. 13, 14-lues.;, Wed. BIRtTH OF A NATION IDir. d. W. Griffit~h, 1 91 5 VANAVER Electra-Recording Artist Griffith built a ment to the noble 7 & 9 75c 662-8871 monu- South. Arch. Aud. Superb guitar, banjo, tamboura S uperb sense ~of humor Great performer Funny as hell! NOW 4TH WEEK, l 1 Shows at 1,3,5,7,9 William Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel "The Reivers" is now a film! "'The Reivers' fills one with a joyous sense of life and laugh- ter. A marvelous time is had by al."-New York Magazine Steve McQueen The Reivers{ witsh SHARON FARRELL and WILL LEER DIAL 5-6290 W0 p~ ~ Nu&41w ~I ' W~ Order Your Daily Now- Phone 764-0558 THURSDAY, FRIDAY-JANUARY 15, 16I RED RIVER Dir. HOWARD HAWKS, 1948 Montgomery Clift ploys the son of a ruthless cattle baron, John Wayne. The legend of the west as only Hawks can portray it. "John Wayne's all right, but why did they give it that name?" -1. McCarthy 7 &9 759ARCHITECTURE 662-8871 5C AUDITORIUM r u JM@ UD I PANAVSION°-TECKNICOLOR6 United Artists SHOWS A7 1:60, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 P.M. I CLASSES BEGIN THURSDAY JANUVARY 15, 1 970 AT 7:30 P.M. IN THE IM WRESTLING ROOM All Interested Players are Welcome to Attend COEDUCATIONAL i BACH CLUB presents DR. RICHARD CRAWFORD speaking on "BEETHOVEN'S EROICA SYMPHONY" Refreshments and FUN afterwards Everyone welcome! (No musical knowledge needed) WEDNESDAY!, Jan. 14-8 P.M. 1236 Washtenaw (at S. Forest, near S. Univ.) TRANSPORTATION provided to and from meeting For transportation call: 665-6806, 761-7/356, 769-2033, 663-6221 Further info: 663-2827,7674-983, 764-9887 (Jenny), 764-1671-Doug) THE DEPARTMENT OF URBAN PLANNING PresentsZ MEL RAVITZ I I iii U1 President of the Common Council, City of Detroit, Professor of Sociology, Wayne State University U NO CLASSES Thursday, January 15 MORATORIUM Strike Against Imperialism and Racism SPEAKING ON "THE RELATIONSHIP OF CENTRAL CITIES TO THEIR SUBURBS" I DATE: PLACE: THURSDAY 15th, JAN. 1970 ARCHITECTURE AUD.-A. & D. BLDG. I . TIME: 4 P.M. Ali Members of the Public Are Very Welcome WEDNESDAY HOUSE FORUM EAST QUAD-NOON to 5:30 7:30 to MIDNiTE -U 1 "A OF NEWSREEL FILMS (including Vietnam North) SPEAKERS/DISCUSSION/DISPLAYS 1 I 1I Fight for the "Right To Live" WELFARE DINNER to benefit Michigan Welfare Rights Organization Thursday. January 15 THE SELF AND THE NON-SELF: MYSTICISM, DRUGS AND THE OCCULT DR. JOHN POLLARD, Dept. of Neuropsychology, U. of M. 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