Page Two, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, October 1.8, 1968 P~e Two.~ THE MICHIGAN DAILY -Ida, Ocobe.1. 1968 music Brother: Too much for the Grande kids Cal protests support Cleaver, grape strike (Continued from Page l At about the same time about by Peter Townsend, a black stu- 800 students rallied at the Berk- dent, Regent Philip Boyd resumed eley campus in support of the the meeting without discussion re- Mexican American Student Con- ferring to Townsend as "boy" federation's (MASC) proposed I nce b tt By W. REXFORD BENOIT Hundreds of kids went to the Grande Ballroom in Detroit Tuesday. Why? An original famous good-, time-dope-blues-juice west coast band - that's breaking up soon was there to play a concert, but few present ;seemed:.to.care. Come on, people. Your clothes were really beautiful, but you didn't listen to the music. Janis Joplin, Peter Gurley, and the rest of Big Brother make magical moments all the time, and you probably cooled yourselves right .out of some real fun. At 9:17, Janis sang the first words of Big Brother's "Final Concert Together in the Motor City.", "COOOOMMME AWN," she yelled, two full tones sharp. "Yea," the crowd said, half- heartedly. My wife, ever attuned to such things, noticed (by leaning per- ilously around a big speaker on" the stage) that Janis was wear- ing baggy pants, a thin chain link belt, a frilly crepe blouse, and l'ots of her famous bracelets. It's all part of the magic. I didn't see Janis at all. It was too crowded and so hot where we were pressed into a corner that my glasses fogged. Three songs later, Peter Gur- ley had made it clear why he'll be famous too when Janis leaves Big Brother by playing some well-chosen notes on his guitar. Z tried to get onto the stage,, figuring that total sensory in- volvement also reliedeonbeing able to see, but the heat had shortened tempers and who wants to see a press pass in the middle of Joplin's rendition of "Summertime?" If ever people could get blast- ed on a personal appearance, this was the night. Of all the directions the blues took when dope rock grew up in America, the poly-everything Cream, ' the austere Siegel-Sch- wall, the later effuse - though skilled-Butterfield and Bloom- field, and Big Brother develop- ed closest to the people. You've done better, Yo '- n Baroque Trio . By JIM PETEkS I was hoping that the old locker-room pep talk at half-time would once again be successful, would once ,again turn a not-so-good performance into an excellent one. But last night at the Rackham Aud. the Michigan Baroque Trio 'needed more than intermission- time encouragement, needed something which they never got. Their program featured various trio sonatas by German, Italian, and French composers-music which demands not only expert playing to keep its form intact, but also keenly sensitive interpretation to prevent it from sounding like chunks of chords under flimsy solo lines. The thing which surprised me most is that the Trio was lacking in both areas last night. Oboist Florian i Mueller has had better evenings, to be sure. Throughout the first half of the concert, his playing, seemed tense and unsure. Not only his unsteady technique, but also his very cold sound tended to weaken each piece. This aura of uninspiration crept even into the continuo line. Lawrence. hurst played the bass line on double bass, while Charles Fisher provided the accompaniment on harpsichord. But how tight and academic the continuo line was; the proces- sion of chords was hardly elaborated upon by Fisher. The continuo line needs to move freely and improvisationally to keep these Baroque miniatures alive. ' Sonde of the missing sparkle appeared in the minuet and gigue of the Handel "Trio Sonata in G major," as well as in the E minor sonata of Loeillet, but it wasn't until the final piece that the musi- cians finally got together and began to make music, in Niccolo Jom- melli's "Trio Sonata in D major." However,the- second half of the concert offered some pretty capable. singing from bass Willias Patterson. Performing arias from two German cantatas, Patterson got things moving with "Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch" from Bach's "Cantata No. 56," although his first. selection by George Benda just plodded along due to the un- delineated instrurnental lines. The fast novements had little punch and, often; poor ensemble; the slow movement lacked coherence. This mediocrity was amazing; to me, especially since in the last selection the bright strong sound of the Trio reappeared-something I had expected all along. If you had a choice between taking 'Janis Joplin or Gracie Slick to a. party, you k n o w you'd take Janis. Remember, Big Brother played background music for 'Frisco chapter Hell's4 Angel's parties, and that's about as close to the earth as you can get. Many groovers today are tir-' ed of people singing about nightmares, good trips, bad trips, Greek heroes, colored haz- es and are completely turned off by electronic overkill. (Silver Apples; a band from New York, has lost its personnel and replaced all but two with 'switches' and amps. Now, it's' down to a drummer and a pedal pusher.) So that's what's exciting about Janis and Peter Gurley. Some-y times they're so blasted they hardly make it onto the'stage. But they play and s i n g like they're glad they got there.Y We tried to stay until theyw quit. But it was depressing that no one cheered. So we began to work our way out, antagonizing d u 11 people sitting on the floor with vapid faces by stepping on their fin- gers and toes. Smallrevenge. On the way out, we passed Uncle Russ' office, which re- minded me to bitch t h a t he charged five dollars for the scene. If you went, and laid out the bread, you might have preferred to dig t h e storefront revival meeting a block a w a y where people did a lot of responding to the man up in front. If you didn't make the trek, you might have five surplus dol- lars with which to buy their al- Daily-Andysacs bum, "Cheap Thrills." It means Earth-jowei-: Joplncomes oil what it says. /1 Toigt:WAY DOWN iT 7 :00 & 9 :05 75c Maode in 1920 by D. W. Griffith, "the macn wh nvented Hlyood." Starng ARCHITECTURE Lilion Gish, who "risked her life and AUDITRo IUM foze her hand" to mnake the dr aati Fifth night of he ice scenes in "Way Down East," D. W. Griffith Festival H tF Students immediately began chanting "Now!" and "Change!" until it became obvious the regents' did not intend to deal with the re- solutions. About 200 students walk- ed out. As they left, one black student shrugged, "You just hung; yourself, baby. Good luck, man." One girl was pushed through the only dining hall door still open as campus police guarded the other entrances. She went in, the regents recessed, asking her to leave. When she asked, "Why?" Chancel- lor Dean McHenry told her she was suspended and had one hour to get off campus. Cops then hust- led her out. Hitch told the committee, "On later reflection I have decided it would be wrong to amend that ac- tion (denial of credit for Cleav- er's course and the one-lecture' limit) before I have had a chance to explore this matter more fully with the academic senate." By the time Hitch had finished talking about the Cleaver case, about 500 students were outside. As the regents went into a closed executive session, students chant- ed, "F Reagan, F Reagan, F Reagan." s ycoc . The Berkeley student govern- ernment supported the class boy- cott last night in an 11-0 vote with two abstentions. Whether the regents will con- sider the Mexican American stu- dents, demands tomorrow is ques- tionable. But the Cleaver course credit will certainly come up. And when it does no one really expects them to change their ear- lier position since only three re- gents have demonstrated support for giving the _course credit. As Thursday's meeting broke up, a few regents got away quick- ly. But about a half-dozen others were caught up in the crowd of students who tried to ask them questions. Most regents spoke briefly with the 'students and politely tried to slip away. But one 30-year vete-} ran, regent Edwin Pauley, walked away grumpling about hecklers.y "I'm not heckling," a student .implored; trailing behind him. "I'm just trying to talk to you, Mr. Pauley. Will you please talk to me?" DIAL 5-6290 4th and FINAL WEEK WINNER BEST PICTURE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL SE4 . . . l. dii JOUR with CATHERINE DENEUVE, Next: "Inadmissable Evidence" 9 "An Exuberant Comic Fantasy .. 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