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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, October 29, 1971
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records
Some talent, no hype
By HARRY HAMMITT
C h r i s Williamson (Ampex
A-10134) is a singer from Califor-
nia who also writes a lot of her
songs. She's got a good voice,
but she seems to be uncertain
as to the kind of material she
should sing. The record starts
out with soie songs in the vein
of James Taylor, but by the end
of the record, you have the feel-
ing that she is more at home
doing popular music a la Barbra
Streisand. Williamson definitely
has potential, as several of her
songs illustrate, but the record
as a whole falls far short of her
capabilities.
From New Mexico comes a
new rock band called Santa Fe
(Ampex A-10135). The band is
somewhat lopsided, leaning too
heavily on the guitar with three
guitarists, but this doesn't really
distract from the overall sound.
The band has been influenced
by the Beatles and particularly
Buffalo Springfield. The best
that can be said for the band is
that they are proficient imitators
of the Springfield sound, but on
a much lower level.
It's hard to rationalize the re-
lease of a record. like Reverend
Ether (Decca DL 75303) by Ron-
nie Barron. The album is a col-
lage of Memphis Soul-Leon Rus-
sell-Motown imitations that fail
miserably on all levels. Barron
sings something like a very low-
class Smokey Robinson with a
little Leon Russell thrown in.
The album certainly isn't worth
having for the music, but it
might come in handy as a pot-
holder or hubcap.
Some good solid folk-rock is to
be heard on Marc Ellington
(Ampex A-10131). Ellington has
written most of the songs and
plays rhythm guitar and sings
lead. He is very capably assisted
by Richard Thompson on guitar.
Dave Pegg and Dave Mattocks
of Fairport Convention on bass
and drums, and Sneaky Pete and
Chris Hillman of the Burrito
Brothers on steel guitar and
mandolin. The only faults of the
album lay in the overuse of the
steel guitar and the lack of range
in Ellington's voice. These are
Edo troupe
here tonight
A performance of Edo festival
music and pantomime will be
presented by Taneo Wakayama
and his famous troupe from
Tokyo, Japan, at 8:30 p.m. to-
night in Rackham Auditorium as
part of the University Musical
Society's new East Asian Series.
The troupe will also hold a
workshop this afternoon from
3:30 to 5 p.m. in Lane Hall,
Room 200.
Wakayama's group has sought
to preserve the serious and hu-
morous legends of Japan's past.
The masked dancers perform
comic dance stories presenting
farcical situations involving inept
servants, feudal lords and super-
natural animals, as well as the
more serious sacred dances,
"kagura," which recount the fas-
cinating tales of Japanese myth-
ology.
Don't let the glasses fool you!
DAVE
BROMBERG
performing
MAGICAL MYSTERIES
a FREE workshop
SAT., OCT. 30-2 p.m.
The ARK-1421 Hill
A Folklore. Society Production
really rather inconsequential in
terms of the whole. Not an ex-
ceptional album, but still, a very
.good one.
From Macon, Georgia, comes
Bethlehem Asylum (Ampex A-
10124). The band is basically a
light rock group with jazz over-
tones. They are proficient enough
musicians, but they have little
to say musically. They run the
gamut from Beatles harmonies,
Emerson moog runs, and Ian
Anderson flute solos without
coming up with anything original
or outstanding. The best song is
"Tales from the Citadel" which
is obviously influenced by the
Allman Brothers. The song is
marred by poor singing and trite
lyrics, but it still has some good
instrumental moments.
Chuck Mangione has worked
with a couple of big name jazz-
men and now he's got his own
record, Friends & Love (Mer-
cury SRM 2-800). which was re-
corded live in Rochester, New
York, *with the Rochester Phil-
harmonic and several supporting
soloists. One side features folk
guitarists and singers doing a
suite -like number. Otherwise,
the album consists of light jazz
with some popular music over-
tones. Not outstanding, but fair-
ly pleasant listening.
Another entry on the folk-rock
market is Ollie Moggus (Ampex
A-10128) by Bob Hinkle. His en-
tertaining folk-rock is possibly
comparable to Cat Stevens. Hin-
kle's voice isn't all that good,
but that has never stopped folk-
singers in the past. The musi-
cians are all pretty good, par-
ticularly on the country banjo-
fiddle instrumental "Roll in My
Sweet Baby's Arms." Some of
the songs are easily as good as
things by James Taylor or Cat
Stevens. Hinkle deserves recog-
nition, but will probably be over-
looked.
Finally we come to an album
by a British reedplayer named
Lol Coxhill, Ear of the Beholder
(Ampex C-10132). Coxhill has
been given complete freedom to
do what he wants and he has
used his freedom in an interest-
ing way to say the least. Much
of the album consists of solo
saxophone. passages and other
abstract jazz creations. Coxhill
also gets into some vaudeville
piano tunes and a few other in-
novative songs. His version of
"I Am the Walrus" is not to be
outdone and may well become
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re-invade on
'Halloween
On Oct. 30, 1938, Martian mon-
sters in flying saucers invaded
earth for the first time. The in-
vasion had to be discontinued,
however, because a lot of Ameri-
cans freaked out and the spon-
soring radio station was severely
denounced.
Now that Americans aren't
taking it so seriously, the Mar-
tians will be allowed to return
Halloween night.
Sunday night from 10 to 11
p.m. WABX of Detroit will be
broadcasting the original uncut{
verison of Orson Welles' radio
play "War of the Worlds" based
on the H. G. Wells novel A the
same name.
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MASS MEETING
7:30 p.m.
UGLI Multipurpose Room
Street of Shame
(Japan 1956 dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
A portrayal of four women in a Tokyo brothel
ThursdaOct. 289 m.
Friday, Oct. 29-7 & 9:30 pm.
Alice's Restaurant-Alice Lloyd Hall-75c
Saturday and Sunday October 30-31
ROD STEIGER as
The Pawnbroker,
". has brilliantly intercut flashes of the
horrors of the concentration camp with
equally shocking visualizations of imprison-
ment in a free society
-Bosley Crowther, N.Y. Times
-Daily-Jim Judkis
PINK FLOYD'S bizarre electric effects and high energy gong thrilled a Homecoming audience at Hill
Auditorium last night. A review will appear in tomorrow's Daily. Parliament Funkadelic will be per-
forming tonight at 9 p.m.
the definitive rendition of that
number. Of course no one can
fulfill the place vacated by the
demise of the Bonzo Dog Band,
but Coxhill can make a lif a
little bit more tolerable. Tne
record is quite well-rounded and
although it probably has no co:n-
mercial appeal, it is a very in-
teresting album.
These are but a handful of the
obscure albums that are now
coming out. The quality of the
records certainly isn't uniform,
but there is an appreciable
amount of talent here. I seriously
doubt that any of these people
will ever make it because of .he
lack of hype on the part of the
companies and the increasing
reluctance of the consumer to
pay out money for an unheard
of artist. Some of them are
worth the risk, some aren't. It's
your own choice.
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