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By LITTLE SHERRI FUNN
Rock 'n' Roll Expert
relevel of musical profi-
ciency on the averagearock al-
bum has risen considerably
over the last year or so. The
music industry is providing
better a & r personnel, more
knowledgeable production peo-
ple, and more sympathetic
studios for their artists to work
in.
Balding executives, who se-
cretly used to think long hair
was creepy and that Johnny
Ferguson was where it was all
at, are now favorably disposed
towards allowing u n p r o v e n
groups to spend upwards of
$25,000 on an album.
But there are so few, few, few
people with vision around these
days to really take advantage of
engineering progress that con-
sequently the record market
has been flooded with mediocre
rock, i.e., technically nearly be-
yond reproach, but creatively
sterile.
But, thank the god of two
inch magnetic tape, once in a
while somebody comes through
with something so good you
want to write all your friends.
, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts and
their subsidiary Reprise have
just released two albums that
exemplify the most mediocre
rock on one turntable, and the
most exciting on the other.
Reprise came up with The
West Coast Pop Art Experi-
mental Band Vol. III, A Child's
Guide to Good and Evil. It's al-
most as bland as volumes I and
II. As you listen to the album
you quickly discover that the
\group spent a lot of time fool-
ing around with neat little ef-
fects and gimmicky crap and
that they had a really 'good
man on the recording board.
But artistically, 'and I use
that word at my own risk, they
stink. There is neither unity
nor theme to the album and it
-even lacks that saving grace
of so many rock efforts: hum-
ability. After all, if you can
hum a tune later while you're
walking to the malt shoppe,
the album hasn't quite been a
total loss.
The album is rotten and let's,
let that suffice. We have more
important things to explore.
The Collectors by the Collec-
tors. Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
WS 1746. A' Canadian group.
Made it in California.
They have created the best
album of the' year. The most
personal, moving, .eloquent, re-

warding, flawless album of the
year.
This is a tricky album, a
subtle album. It sneaks up on
you from behind; that is, you
really don't know how tightly
they've got you by the throat
until you get to the third band
on the album. Then it's all over
but the screaming.
The opening cut is called
} "What Is Love". This tune (I
call it a tune but that's hardly
adequate) begins with the
sweetest, purest waterfall of
sound I've ever heard. It's sort
of the kind of thing Buffalo
Springfield tries on "Expect-
ing to Fly" but couldn't quite
bring off. An organ peeks
through the mist playing a
simple little pattern, a soft sofa,
guitar plays one long note to
let you know they're being ser-
ious, and WHAM! The Collec-
tors gotcha.
The second cut, "Shie (Will-
0-the-Wind)" transpires and
you're aware of the beauty of
the Collectors. I'm not talking
about the tinseled beauty of
Joanie Baez, but the kind of
gutsy compelling sensual beau-
ty that closes in like honey,
You're also aware now that the
Collectors can use their voices
as instruments, not in the sy-
rupy "baa baa baa baa" tradi-
tion of the Association but as
relevant additions to the songs.
Now we're into "Howard
Christman's Older" and what
can you say about genius.
"Lydia Purple" is the fourth
band, the only one on the al-
bum not composed by the Col-
lectors, and the only one that
could be considered for a single
release. Very very well done, ty-
ing together the personalities of
a black Eleanor Rigby and a
Martha Lorraine next door.
The first side closes with the
most powerful recording I've
ever heard, "One Act Play."
This work captures a human
ernotion in fine lace, and then
smashes it over our heads. As
Ben said in The Graduate, "Oh
Jesus God!"
THE SECOND SIDE: When i
first read the stuff on the back
of the album I was 1) excited
to see that Dave Hassinger had
produced the, album send 2)~
nauseated because they tried a
20 minute "suite" that occupied
the whole second side. Wht
was more disgusting to me was
that they had the gall to call it
"What Love' (Suite) ".
I listened to it for the first
time with a closed mind, but
gradually this monstrous thing

tore it open. This "suite" makes
"The End" and "When the Mu-
sic's Over" sound like Sunday
school choir rehearsals. There
simply isn't space to go into
this song-prayer-suite-insane-
saxophone machine in any
depth. Emotionally crushing.
"The Collectors" is possibly
comparable to the first Doors'
album. The lead vocalist sounds
a little like Morrison and there
is some of the Doors' ideas of
unity. .Like The Doors, this
could be the sleeper of the year.
Remembering Time's review
of "War and Peace," The Col-
lectors is worth many more
than two trips to the movie
house.
Florence Ballard, of Supreme

fame, has just released her first
single for ABC records. It's
called "It Doesn't Matter. How
I Say It." Florence is managed
by Whiplash Harry from De-
troit.
Ann Arbor's Bob Seger Sys-
tem signed with Capitol last
week. Their first release will be
"2 Plus 2."
The Monkees were awarded
their eleventh gold record for
The Birds, The Bees, and the
Monkees. Keen-o.
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How many drummers have the
Beatles had? Call 764-0552 and
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Like the weather, the Univer- Paradiso, by George Feydeau and
sity of Michigan Players are Maurice Desvallieres, will play
warming up and preparing to July 24-27. Under the direction of
perform their Spring-Summer Robert McGill, a teacning fellow,
Playbill of three comedies and the French farce is a complicat-
two dramas. -ed, fast-paced comedy, packed
George Bernard Shaw's irrev- with "double entendres."
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tion Army and the Church- of Summer season will be Ben 'Jon-
England, Major Barbara, will op-en son's The Alchemist, a near per-
the summer season June 5-9. The fect comedy of mystic pretensions.
play, under the direction of Prof The production is under the di-
James Coakley, has become a rection of Roy Knight, of the
mainstay of English comedy since College of the Venerable Bede,
it first opened in 1905. University of Durham, England,
William Shakespeare's Troilus and will play August 7-11.
and Cressida will open as the first Season tickets for the Spring
play of the Summer Festival. A and Summer Playbill 1968 are
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unique among Shakespeare's The Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
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