Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, November 4, 1970 P_ eTTH IHGA AL records 11 1. 1 1,200 rally in Detroit Big Brother smooths 'to support auto criI if jr DO/IiPd b1l A c GAG ,I U tvJ2WI UNritv A cohesive, group feeling pervades Be A Brother (Colum- bia 30222) by Big Brother and the Holding Co. Still around is James Gurley and Sam Andrew switches off with Nick Grave- nites for lead vocal. Among the "friends" listed is Janis Joplin', but she wails in noticeably only for a few seconds on one cut.' Brother brings back the Frisco 1968 sound, a little fuller and with 'some rough, junky edges smoothed off. There are no de- perate attempts at innovation, no super-star performance trips and in this case the result is a goodly amount of pleasing music and a few mistakes. "Keep On (Keeping On)" is what the boys are about, doing music .about. the scene, e.g. "Heartache People," "Sunshine Baby," "Mr. Natural," and "Be a Brother (Be a Sister, Yes),." During "Keep On" and most of the goings on, you just feel good to hear these guys who definite- ly are here to do some playing. A lilting country violin number salutes the performer of "Okie From Muskogee" with the words: "You're a honky I know/ but Merle you .got soul/So I'll change your. flat tire, Merle." Andrew and Gravenites both do honest, unencumbered vocals. The group does plenty of good guitars; "Home on the Strange" is a spiffy be-bop rock instru- mental along with some average moments. "Heartache People" complains about those mournful souls laying out their bum trips at 4 :15 in the morning; ;ittis saved from insipidness with the help of two fiddles, but is still worth about four minutes .less than the six and a half it is al- loted. "Funkie Jim" drags on a bit too. We'll give it anr83. --Fargo Berman A Zappin' cover They split up, they reformed on Mother's Day, who knows if the Mothers will record again. Their newest album, Weasels_ Rip My Flesh (Bizarre-Reprise), features a conglomeration of pieces recorded between 1967- 69,- both live and in the studio. "It represents different aspects of our work," according to the jacket. When the Mothers settle down for incoherent numbers (there are about three of them on the album) they outclass almost any other group today in originality and pure musicianship. They ruin it with satiric grunting, screeching and laugh- ing, which aren't particularly inovative but very annoying. Some of the tracks sound like Coltrane, with a trumpet and sax flirting with each other, or honking saxes warbling all over the scale. On "Directly From My Heart to You,"a fantastic electric vio- lin spins over a traditional blues bass line; it sounds like Eric Clapton on a fiddle.Zappa's lead guitar never sounds like a usual lead guitar, but talks and says something new. Zappa has written an out- standing song called "Oh No," in 7/4, which goes soaring over the staff, and would make a great title song for an off- Broadway musical I wish Zappa would write someday. Perhaps the best part of the album is the cover: a pop art cartoon of a slick-haired, all- white-teeth man holding an plugged-in electric w e a s e 1, to his face. It's ripping bloody grooves in his cheeks and the man is going RZZZZZZZ! Most of Zappa's music is as bewilder-, ing. --Daniel Zwerdlingj A Pyrrhic victory In "No Shoestrings on Louise," Elton John tries to sound like Jagger, in "Take Me To The Pilot" he gets into a Joe Cocker styling. For the most part Elton John (UNI 73090) does contain a sound unique to the singer and pianist of the same name, but it just ain't fine music. Some guy named Bernie Taupin who looks very hip among the hip pictures on the album's back cover has tried much too hard on the lyrics which he wrote (he apparently does not perform musically) to be semi-esoterical- ly heavy. Such as in "The Cage": Well I pray while you bathe in bad water Sing songs that I learnt as a boy Then break all the bones in my body On the bars you can never destroy. Elton John sings with a stun- ningly dualistic voice-a com- bination of a plaintive, mature sorrow with a childlike quality- but he too tries too hard to be resplendent. Like Lee Michaels and Blood, Sweat, and Tears, John has incredible capabilities but they .are channeled into an ultimately "manufactured" sound and' not music. The intros to several pieces are gauche, blatantly meaning- ful over-orchestration. There is a lot of switching off of musi- cians and a resulting blaring studio quality despite the aim of the effort to bring off an in- tensely emotional effect. --Fargo Berman By MARK DILLEN and ART LERNER Special To The Daily DETROIT - Drawn by a na- tional call for a "worker-stu- dent alliance," over 1,000 de- monstrators rallied and march- ed in support of striking auto workers yesterday afternoon. The disciplined,. chanting crowd gathered on the Wayne State University Mall for a rally and then walked the mile route to the General Motors Bldg. which looms over the north end of the WSU campus. Throughout the day, which was without incident, "student- worker unity" was stressed as a means of combating "GM boss- es." These "bosses" were blamed for many of the nation's social ills. Speeches and chants charg- ed that GM's "capitalistic" pol- icies are allegedly w a r - oriented and racist. Numerous banners demanded the nation turn to socialism. The crowd, which grew as it moved toward the GM Bldg., was preceded by Detroit police who detoured approaching traf- fic. Tension mounted as t h e crowd gathered outside the hea- I vily guarded building and* in- terrupted traffic on W. Grand Blvd. After two speakers addressed the crowd, calling for a "fight- ing worker-student alliance," ,demonstration marshals direct- Daily Official Bulletin WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Day Calendar Natural Resources Lecture: Dr. A. Carpenter, Library of Congress, "Per- spectives on Environmental Policy - View from the Top," 1040 Nat. Res. Bldg. 3:10 p.m. Statistics Seminar: Prof. R. Brown, "Assessing the Accuracy of Estimates - a Personalist Approach," 4205 Angell Hall, 4 p.m. Physics Colloquium: E. Taylor. M.I.T. "A Strategy for Introductory Quantum Physics," P&A polloq. Rm., 4 pm. f E duc a t i o n Lecture: Educational Change Team, "Crisis, Conflict and (Continued on Page 7) 0 $1.50.m ed the throng back to the Wayne campus.I The marchers included con- tingents from Georgia, Minne- sota, Chicago, Cleveland a n d New York, although most of the demonstrators were from the Detroit area. At the rally preceding t h e march, one radical said "we're not the-mad bombers, and we've got a lot more important stuff to discuss than the Weather- men," distinguishing between the Weatherman faction- of SDS and his own. Naomi Parker, a Detroit wel- fare mother, proclaimed, "if you are black, white, green, blue or even little purple people eaters let's get together and get the bosses." As was the custom throughout the day, her speech was follow- ed by chants: "Same enemy, same fight, workers and stu- dents must unite." Other speakers, representing radical groups from across the country, exhorted the crowd to "Smash GM" and "Smash rac- ism." "Workers need good commun- ist ideas," said Ken Stills repre- senting the Canadian party of labor. "A boss is a boss is a boss is a boss," he said. As the rally ended, the pro- testers formed contingents ac- cording to states. As the last workers speaker called for "some really good chanting," the group fol- lowed a Dodge stationwagon equipped with a sound system down Cass Ave. Media personnel accompanied the marchers along the route as the protefters shouted to office workers in the surrounding buildings, "Elections are a pack of lies, don't vote, organize." Bomb threat eloses UGHI The Undergraduate Library (UGLI) was shut down for about an hour last night in re- sponse to the sixth UGLI bomb scare this week. Rose Grace Faucher, head li- brarian, ordered the closing af- ter a caller told her t h a t a bomb would go off at 6:15 p.m. A search by Ann Arbor police and Sanford Security guards re- vealed no bomb, and the library was reopened at 6:30 p.m. Previous bomb threats! receiv-j ed at the UGLI this week in- clude three calls on Sunday and two on Monday. Faucher said last night that if another bomb threat is re- ceived t h e library would close for the entire night. CAN-CAN is NOW Th at 8 Fri. at 7 & 10 Sat. at 7 & 10 The Place to Meet INTERESTING People BACH 'CLUB "Some Puzzles About Music" CARL COHEN Assoc. Dir. of Res. College & Assoc. Prof of Philosophy THURS., NOV. 5, 8 P.M. S. QUAD W. LOUNGE EVERYONE WELCOME (no musical knowledge required) DIAL 8-6416 Endina Wednesday 4 V '( THIS FRIDAY! NOV. 6! T.G.i. 4 to 6 p.m. RECORDS COKES & DONUTS SOFT TALK 'V j AT- SHALOM HOUSE-1429 Hill St, nf -_____ --__ "'JOE' is not merely an extraordinary film; it is a' small artistic miracle. 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