Thursday, October 31, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Thu rsdoy, October 31, 1 974 THE MICHIGAN DAiLY Page Five Steve By DOUG ZERNOW Although the name Stephen Stills has lost some of the magic of the CSNY days, it was still hard to believe that he was playing at a local bar for a practically unannounced bene- fit concert. But it was true, and Tuesday night he gave two short, but powerful perform- ances for the Reuther campaign at Chances Are saloon. Playing before crowd of about 400, at the 8:30 show,: most of whom had heard of the concert by w o r d of mouth, Stills appeared without his own. band, simply accompanying himself on the guitar for four acoustic numbers and a, short electric number with the surprisingly good opening act, Head East. Todd f ttlls rambles eu ther Although rom a long noticeably tired unfortunately louder crowd. He plane flight from played the same songs as the Denver, he still gave strong, first set (his vo highly blues-tinged renditions hoarse from wha of mostly older material, in- as "cheering for eluding "4 and 20", "Change This set, however Partners" and a unique ar- longer set of elec rangement of Lennon-McCart- Head East, includ ney's "Blackbird." version of "Black Between shows Stills went to Stills triumphant] Crisler Arena to see the Ali- guitar at the end Foreman fight, while the Stills spoke Chances Are management tried throughout the ev to get the crowd from the 8:30 sically affirmed h show to leave. Most felt cheat- things are "turni ed by the fact that he wouldn't government. Late come back for an encore. Stills although he didn said later he simply "hadn't John Reuther on had time to prepare anything points "we need more". will ask question Returning exuberant at the their mind if they outcome of the fight, he went he's not afraid to on at 11:30 to a larger and In his dressing Rundgren ice noticeably: t he described' my brother"). , did include a tric tunes with ding a raucous k Queen" with ly twirling his of the song. quite openly vening and ba- his feeling that' ng around" inI r he said that n't agree with quite a fewf someone who s and change{ 're wrong, and do it." g room after the show Stills was pensive and quiet, feeling the effects of tra- vel and liberal amounts of Johnny Walker Black scotch. He wasn't really interested in talking music, caring more to rant about Ali's knockout punch or talk about college football.j He did, however, want to talk politics. "Everything we've done is starting to work, he said. "We've definitely progressed. I mean look at Watergate - it's all a result of a lot of it." I asked him how he's changed since the days of "America's Children/49 Bye-byes". "Well, I've mellowed out a lot since then. Me and Neil (Young) both have families now, and I want to make surej my kid has a decent place to live in. Right now I'm in the ered all his songs in that famili- process of settling down." ar strained, blues style, each A voracions reader, Stills is word rolling off the next as his quite articulate (as rock stars voice slipped from a low growl go), and said "the biggest prob- to an almost crying falsetto. lem in this country is complac- His guitar work was particular- ency. We've got to get out and ly.excellent, both on some in- do something." spired open-tuned acoustic blues As far as music is concerned and electric soloing with.Head he has a solo (LP) almost fin- East. ished and then he'll go into the Even though politics fre- studio for a new album with quently creep into his songwrit- Crosby, Nash and Young. ing, Stills is more a musician There's also the possibility of than a campaigner. As he joked another short West Coast tour earlier Tuesday afternoon: "I'm with the group next year, but just a rock and roller who came nothing really definite. to a college campus to make a Although the audience at fool out of himself. But the raw both shows might have been musical strength of his unique- let down by the length of the musia. tr ofhsniue- concert, they couldn't have ask- ly itimate performance Tues- ed for a more sincerely enter- day night was anything but fool- taining performer. Stills deliv- ish. crowd-pleasing By RON LANGDON ventiveness with which Rundgren and Todd Rundgren, long time rock produ- cer-turned-performer, came to Ann Arbor with his band "Utopia" Tuesday night to play for a near capacity crowd of young admirers at Hill. Rundgren is a performer who makes few bones about liking his audience, and his audience likewise had few complaints about him. For his first tour since achieving near stardom Rundgren has put together a total experience for his audience, to the point of printing out a program, incor- porating a dazzling light show, and pre- recorded taped backgrounds which, for what it's worth, at some points kept the music going when the band was no longer even on stage. While on record, Rundgren has most often come across with gentleness and melody, for his performance, he and the group put on a concert that was electric down to its toenails. Two electric key- Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS Stephen Stills Unusual music opens festival Utopia" tackle their music and their show. Pausing to situate himself lotus style on a little cushion, while the band took a break, Rundgren said, "I'm going to try a little experiment. I'm going to try some- thing that I have never done before." He then proceeded to deliver a startling number a capella, while his naked vocal lines warbled off into time lag repeats and shimmering overtones. Rundgren came to use the highly amplified micro- phone through this number, as another part of synthesizer, laying over his vocal tones with gutteral groans and breath sounds. The audience was totally cap- tivated. Likewise, throughout the performance Rundgren and "Utopia" embraced their electronic equipment as a tool for ex- pression, rather than just a mode of amplification. Perched amidst the wires and plug- boards, amplifiers and speaker consoles, in their long white robes, Utopia was play- delivers H Over for the 114th Straight Week! display RFD BOE ing out of a virtual laboratory of sound. FINEST IN BLUEGRASS MUSIC But with the exception of their inattention at the to volume, the band made the technology their servant, where other groups have simply hid behind it a lack of talent. Rundgren is well known in the rock world particularly in his affection for his THURSDAY-9:30 fans. Throughout the concert, as he sang FR DAY & SATURDAY-i0:00 along, he went out to the stage's edge to receive gifts such as flowers, collages, and a sequin-embroidered pillow. He deposited COMING SOON each one on display amongst the neatly arranged amplifiers and speakers.t For his last number, Rundgren set down his guitar and took the microphone in hand. As if one cue, fans surged up toR B his. feet, and hundreds of arms stretched 1 out all along the stage front.__ Like a politician on the stump, Rundgren set to work grasping and shaking every one of them, and did, before the number v 3 'ithns aae was finished. Massive applause called the group out for three encores, and then the audience and the group retired to a recording of r P- Beeth6ven. ______.....____ I- By JOHN HART Outstanding artists perform- ing unusual works highlight the 1974 Contemporary Music Festival. David Burge, an internation- ally known pianist and record- ing artist, will open the four- concert series Saturday at 8:00 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium. Currently on his 19th Ameri- can tour, Burge is "one of the most remarkable pianists 'of. our time," according to Paul Hume of the Washington Star. "He illuminates frequently puzzling aspects of contem- porary piano writing and has a genius for finding new piano music that rises above the pure-' ly novel or 'stunt' level." Burge's performance will fea- ture George Crumb's Makrokos-: mos Volume I. The work, writ- ten for Burge, places an empha- sis on subtle tone colorings, which are achieved by drawing sounds from inside the piano and by amplifying the instru- ment. Crumb is a University graduate and wrote the score for The Exorcist. . Works by Lawrence Moss, C. Curtis Smith and Mario David- ovsky, winner of the 1971 Pulit- zer Prize in music, will also be on Burge's program. In these pieces, audiences will hear elec- tronically-generated s o u n d s, Chinese temple blocks, a musi- cal saw and Burge shouting into the piano, as well as the more traditional piano tones. On November 25, Professor Thomas Hilbish of the Music School will conduct the Univer- sity Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir in Arnold Scho- boards plus a moog and bass set the enberg's masterpiece Die Ja- background for Rundgren's throaty, but cobsleiter. The work has been extraordinarily well-controlled vocals. The performed only once in this lights functioned almost as a seventh in- country and is, according to Hil- strument, filling out the moods. bish, "one of the greatest works This level of electric intensity often of the century." came to run out of control, however. In its "A four-track stereo with a heavier moments, the volume was just separate orchestra coming out too much for Hill's cozy accoustics. In its of each track augments the exuberance, the group would blur into a symphony and choir," Hilbish deafening haze that sacrificed tone quality added. for excess volume. The concert, a tribute to the Unfortunately, Rundgren repeatedly 100th anniversary of Schoen- would abandon what he knows about guitar berg's birth, includes two other at these moments to simply reach down pieces by the German compos- for the highest notes on his G and B er. strings and manipulate them blindly for On November 11, School of measures on end. Music faculty members Leslie What was distinctively good about the Gunn, John McCollum and Donald Sinta will be soloistsain a world premiere performancek of Edward Diemente's Mirrors VI. The Contemporary Direc- tions Ensemble, conducted by Uri Mayer, will share this fac- ulty concert and will unveil a new work by Max Lifschitz. Charles Owen will conduct the Music School's Percussion En-1 semble in what he called "the best percussion piece ever] written" on November 13. The work - Ionization by Varase - uses sirens, stones, gongs and other strange noise makers as musical instruments. Owen described the develop- ment of percussion - orchestra pieces as "the emancipation of the percussion from the days of playing oom-pah and keeping time." The Percussion Ensemble will perform other pieces in the con- cert, including a new work by Xenakis. Also on the program will be the Wind Ensemble per- forming works by University composers. show, however, was the precision and excitement with which Rundgren arranged his tunes. At times, the group performed his past hits singly, but more often he incorporated familiar pieces as focal points on longer, flowing medleys. For instance, the concert included but two lines of "We Got to Get You a Women," as a parcel in the arrangement of some- thing much longer. Rundgren's more popular hit "Hello, It's Me" was bypassed altogether. Too What was also a pleasure was the in- It Pays to Advertise in Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS dd Rundgren FAN 1 Ab[AV STARTS TOMORROW! SThe most amazing outdoor adventure ever filmed! 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