" Tuesdcy, April 10, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Tuesday, April 10, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three FILM FOCUS:* r Pathe Panchali Indian film director Satyajit Ray is, to my mind, one of the world's ranking movie artists. His films constantly re- ceive great critical acclaim. Well the History Department is giving us a chance to see Pather Panchali (The Song of the Road), Ray's first film, a third of his brilliant Apu Trilogy, and a masterpiece in its own right. The showing, by the way, is free. The movie combines an almost Neo-Realist approach to rural Indian village life at the beginning of this century with lyric, stun- ning visuals, Ravi Shankar's richly evocative score, and, most importantly, a poignant, marvelously complex under- standing of human personality and experience. Ray's con- cerns here are quite different from those of most films we are used to: he is not interested in contrived action, but rather attempts (with utter success) to convey an expansive sense of the meanings of everyday events to a vividly three- dimensional. Indian family. Witness, for instance, the en- thralling sense of wonder Ray manages to wring from the seemingly minor event of his young hero's seeing for the first time, a train race through a neighboring meadow. Ray uses for the most part non-professional actors (he dredged up an opium-addicted old woman on the verge of death to play the part of his central character's decript aunt -which she does beautifully) and actual location settings; yet he uses these elements to achieve a truly profound and haunting vision of human life caught in the midst of a violently changing India. -RICHARD GLATZER rAL0'e di tr ics w ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DEN ISOVICH 7 & 9:30 p.m. Saturday & Sunday Not. Sci. Aud. Only 75c Tickets on sale at 6 p.m. r Some By MIKE HARPER "Hiya boys and girls Remember the 'late' sixties? Yeah man, remember HIGH ENERGY? Yeah bro', dig: KICK OUT THE JAMS? 'Oh-my,' the 'Five'? Third Power? The 'Wheels'? Dick Wagner and the Frost? The 'Station'? Seger? Savage Grace? . . . ESS-AR- CEE? Yeah. Hey, remember me? My name's 'Pop' Stooge and I did a lil' thing called 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'- . . . So MESSED UP-I won- cha here- In MY ROOM-I won-cha HERE- NOW we're gonna be.. .. FACE-TA-FACE Ana LAY RIGHT DOWN in muh FAY-VO-RITE PLACE.. .. An' now I wanna ... BE YOUR DAWG! An' now I wanna ... BE YOUR DAWG! An' now I wanna ... BE YOUR DAWG! ... Wwwwwell C'MON! Yeah, right.kBut it could happen though, y'know? Some- day, K-Tel or some other quick $$ outfit just may throw together and market a "The 'Motor City's Burning' With Rock 'n' Roll" tov. tonight 6:00 2 4 7 News 9 Courtship of Eddie's Father 50 Fintstone~s 56 Operation second Chance 6:30 2 CBS News 4 NBC News 7 ABC News 9 1IDream of Jeannie 50 Gilligan's Island 56 How Do Your Children Grow? 7:00 2 Truth or Consequences 4 News 7 To Tell the Truth 9 Beverly Hillbillies 50 I Love Lucy 56 French Chef 7 30 2 What's My Line? 4 You Asked for It 7 Price Is Right 9 Bobby Goldsboro 50 Hogan's Heroes 56 Earthkeepng 8:00 2 Maude 4 Movie "Cool Million." (1972) 7 Temperatures Rising 9 HUFO 50 Dragnet 56 Threatened Paradise 8:30 2 Hawaii Five-O 7 Movie 56 Bill Moyer' Journal 50 Merv Griffin 9:00 9 News 11214's uivrsity Theatre Phone 668-616 3RD HIT WEEK! Today at 7 & 9 p.m.; Wed. at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 p.m. INGMAR BERGMAN'S "CRIES & WHISPERS" really two- or three-record set, call it Kick Out the Jams, Brothers and Sisters! after the MCS's "killer" anthem of almost-the-same name,. and sell it for the mere pittance of $4.95 suggested retail price PLUS if you send NOW we'll give you ABSOLUTELY FREE the Up's Greatest Hits, Great Moments With Who-Knows-Who, Something-or-Other's Whatever and ... YOU NAME IT. . . . Okay, if such a 'dynamic record offer' whets your appetite, then the return of "A-Squared's" famed Stooges in the guise of a new album called Raw Power (Columbia KC 32111) should just about kick out your jams brother or sister. The title track itself opens with a belch, as the rhythm section stays stuck in a very basic riff with the guitar following suit; thus allowing Iggy to play the trump with his chunky words- Raw power got a healin' hand Raw power can de-stroy a man Raw power is the boilin' soul Got a son called rock 'n' roll ... "Search and Destroy" is an offhandedly schizoid tune, as Iggy sings "I'm the world's forgotten boy/The one who searches and destroys," lashing out at the people who could have saved him if the world would have only 56 Common Ground 9:30 To Be Announced 56 Black Journal 10:00 4 America 7 Marcus Welby, M.D. 50 Perry Mason 56 Detroit Black Journal 10:30 56 360 Degrees 11:00 2 47 News 9 CBC News 50 One Step Beyond 11:20 9 News 11:30 2 Movie "Cry of the Banshee" (1970) 4 Johnny Carson 7 Haunting of Rosalind 50 Movie "Carson City." (1952) 12:00 9 Movie "The Chase" (1966) 1:00 4 7 News 1:15 2 Movie "Up in Smoke" (1957) 2:45 2 TV High School 3:15 2 News wcbn 89.5 fm 9:00 Morning Show 12:00 Progressive Rock 4:00 Folk IRaw paid him some 'oh-mind.' Musi- cally, the drums are furstratingly simple while the bass alternates between trite and traumatic, the guitar rightly taking its place in minor league riffdom circles as Iggy pouts, shouts and clouts back with his always-memorable street vocals. A loud and ugly guitar charge leads the musical pack into "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell," a track that shows signs of the 'old' Iggy, as he growls his way through the lyrics in that most-familiar rasp of his. Guitar- ist James Williamson's notes fly off the frets every which way, interfering with the dogged sim- plicity of the bass and drums, and for that matter, Iggy's vo- cals, which somehow do remain atop the Stooges' wall of sound. "Gimme Danger" sounds slow- er, a John Wayned rocker that has Iggy playing the part of a dried-up western stud, an old cowboy movie star whose water- ing hole has gone sour. The gui- tar s o m e h o w remains light throughout, though it is heavy- handed nonetheles, played over a basically blase rhythm pattern. "I Need Somebody" is the al- bum's lone ballad, as 'Pop' adds his best, semi-sweet vocals to a simple, re-worked light blues number. The music remains sleepy-sounding even in its most inspired moments, the guitar laz- ily filling holes while the broth- ers Asheton-Ron and Scott- fulfill their bass and drums duties respectively. An electric-"Woodstock"-ish in- tro begins "Penetration," another laid-back cut in which the band is able to maintain their raw- edged feeling without much if any show of effort.The drums sigh, breaking into a heartbeat rhythm with the bass, as the guitar 'then plays on' in a cau- tious yet callous manner. Iggy's vocals are breathless and ex- aggerated, each repeat of the word 'penetration' drawn almost- painfully out until there is 'noth- ing' left in any case. Following another dead-serious riff, Iggy is bouncing into some- thing appropriately 1 a b e I e d "Shake Appeal," an early-sixties mindwar? of infintesimal charm and grace that chugs right along, ever the oh-mindless child. Iggy is loud, raunchy or indifferent depending on the moment-no matter, he always has the sup- port of his 'boogie' men to fall back on, so it's ever-'on with the show *- The guitar leaps, the bass and drums work off their frustrations with a new riff, and it's off on a Bowie-inspired "Death Trip," a long and vamping tune that ower' proves to be the 'clincher' of this, the Stooges' third album. The music meanders nicely along, Iggy gets his vocal licks in, mumbling almost-incoherently in his now-ice-cold, directing voice, and then it's on into oblivion, "going down in history" on his 'death trip.' ... If and when that 'someday' comes for K-Tel to do their dirty work and, in turn, cause a little more of that ever-popular 'panic in Detroit," Iggy & the Stooges' Raw Power should prove to be the sesence of that album, for it is indeed the essence of street music, Motor City rock 'n' roll. Loud, raw and powerful, the Stooges' third captures perfectly the , simple and riff-conscious sound that makes Detroit more than 'just' Motown, U.S.A. . . And even if it's high energy, 'getting high, getting naked and getting down' as one Ann Arbor prophet once said, De- troit's music culture is more-- it is an ugly and deformed child, raised from the diseased bowels of 'gasoline alley,' a broken-but- never-beaten child best heard and felt in the malevolent music of Raw Power, the first high energy album of the 'late seven- ties. Ata By HARRY HAMMITT Friday night Detroit was giv- en a first taste of the newest phase in British music with the performance of Wishbone Ash, backed up by Vinegar Joe. Ex-James Gang guitarist Joe Walsh and Barnstormin', a last- minute addition to the bill, came on first. I got the impression from the emcee that the band originated from the Detroit area and their musical ambitions seemed to bear this out. The band, consisting of bass, key- boards, drums, and Walsh on guitar and vocals, plodded through a fortunately short set of uninspired heavy-handed rock which seemed to delight in its banality. Walsh's vocals were indistinct, and undistinguished. The rhythm section was rather mediocre; the bass always seem- ed to _be a dull thud, and the drummer's thrashing often cau- sed him to lose the beat. Noth- ing can be said against the key- board player, but nothing can be said in his favor either. The mu- sic was consistently dull, al- though there wasa fairly nice in- tense riff which appeared in sev- eral songs, and was so super- ficial that at least two songs sounded exactly alike. Story Theatre Magical folk rock fables in song, dance and mime from Paul Sills' STORY THEATRE will be presented this weekend as the final Professional Theatre Program presentation this season. ste *of Bri~tish 7:00 8:00 11:00 ;3:00; Sports Rhythm and Blues Progressive Rock Sign Off cable tv channel 3 3:30 Pixanne 4:00 Today's Woman - "Tragedy Kins Christophe" 4:30 Something Else 5:00 Stratosphere Playhouse 5:30 Local News 6:00 Love and the Law - (advan- tages of cideotaped testimony), 6:30 NCAA Super Sports 7:00 Community Dialogue - (Rev. Dan Burke, a specialist in medical ethics, and David Blanchard of Project Row are guests.) 8:00 Monday's Ann Arbor City Council Meeting * tO NI TE * El Teatro Cam pesino to perform here After moving the equipment around onstage for twenty mm- utes, Vinegar Joe came on and were immediately plagued by equ were immediately plagued by equipment problems which started with a cut in the electric- ity and continued throughout their set with several inoperable microphones. Even with these problems, singer Elkie Brooks showed herself to be an experi- enced performer as. she joked with the audience and sang a song backed only by organ. The band finally got going and did several of the numbers from their new album, including the title song, "Rick 'n' Roll Gyp- sies," which they said was their single in this country. All their music was simple, tastefully done, and hard-hitting. They were pressedhfor timenand ended their shortened set with Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shak- in"' which was one of the best rock 'n' roll performances I've seen. Even though they were really getting into it, theaudi- ence declined to join in with the typical call-response gimmick used in many rock concerts. The next equipment change was handled with a minimum of time, and Wishbone Ash came out onstage. The band is a four- piece, bass, drums, and two gui- tars, and very tight. Their mu- sic is very much blues-based, but more recently they have been doing songs with a wider range of melodic themes. They played through most of the songs on Argus, their most recently re- leased album, and did two new songs, one which featured gui- tarist Ted Turner on Hawaiian guitar and vocals called "Rock 'n' Roll Widow." Their set reached its climax during their extended rendition of their brilliant instrumental "Phoenix" which builds slowly and then really takes off with some fine guitar. The song fea- tured Ted Turner on lead and his work was admirable although perhaps a bit too long and over- indulgent. The band then left but came back a little later to do two encore numbers, ending with the long uptemoo blues rocker "Where Were You Tomorrow" whichrfeatured Andy Powell on lead. The basis of the entire band lies in the virtuosity of Powell and Turner on guitar. The band does use their own variation of the Allman Brothers' twin lead concept, but they used it sparing- ly on Friday, preferring to let one guitarist take the entire song while the other played rhythm. On the blues rocks "Jail Bait" the two guitarists traded off riffs and their interplay provid- ed some nice sounds. The rhy- thm section of Martin Turner on bass and Steve Upton is very tight Upton in particular is a tasteful drummer while not be- ing overly flashy. The weakness of the band is in their vocals which are obviously understated; on Friday the vocals were han- dled mainly by Martin Turner and in several places he was joined by Andy Powell in some unmistakably shoddy harmoniz- ing. The band doesn't try to -be flashy, but just plays some real- ly fine music with the guitar dominating; there was a slight tendency to be over-indulgent, but it wasn't particularly both- ersome. air w A yve s LED ZEPPELIN BUDDY MILES <>~ frN NEW AT BIMBO'fS NO COVER CHARGE MILO HIS GUITAR AND HEAD FULL OF COUNTRY MUSIC BIMBO'S 114 E. WASHINGTON BEER, WINE & COCKTAILS El Teatro Campesino, an al- most slap-stick approach to the struggle of the Chicano, will be presented on Saturday, April 14th, at Hill Auditorium. El Tea- tro Campesino - The Farmwork- ers' Theatre is a Chicano thea- trical group which grew out of the 1 9 6 5 Delano, California Grape Strike. The group uses a self-developed kind of dramatic form, the Acto. These 10 to 15 minute skits are performed with no scenery and only an occa- sional costume or prop. Instead, the members hang signs around their necks, indicating the stock characters: the patron, the con- tractor, the scab, etc. Through the use of improvisations, each Acto is intended to make one specific point about Chicano life, stemming from the members' own real life incidents. During its existence, El Teatro Campesino has travelled exten- sively and has accumulated sev- eral acclaimed awards, including an Obie for its off-Broadway per- formance in New York. El Tea- tro's April 14th performance at Hill will be presented at 8 p.m. Admission is free. I -i1 Buddy Miles from "Band of Gypsies" STEPHEN STILLS j ERIC CLAPTON >, JACK BRUCE and the < MODERN JAZZ QUINTET in "SUPER SHOW" Directed by JOHN CRONE SUPER SHOW has the largest number of superstars performing together than any other concert. The show has everything from rock to jazz to blues and is sure to appeal to almost everyone. Some of the groups and musicians are Led Zeppelin, Buddy Miles, Stephen Stills, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Modern Jazz Quartet. Led Zeppelin performs "Dazed" and "Confused" and allows you to see some of Jimmy Page's guitar virtuoso. Stephen Stills joins up with Buddy Miles' group to perform "Black Queen," one of Stills' compositions probably never heard before. There is also one of the most far-out jams ever heard with Eric Clopton, Miles, Bruce and many other "Superstars." Modern Languages Building-Aud. 3 "OPENS TOMORROW!" The University Players proudly present AI ME CESAI RE'S S"THE TRAGEDY OF KING CHRISTOPHE" (The black ex-slave and cook who became the King of Haiti) APRIL 1114 TRUEBLOOD THEATRE (FRIEZE BUILDING) 9jMediatrics FRIDAY THE 13TH SPECIAL WI LLARD 7 & 9:30 p.m. Nat. Sci. Aud. only 75c lickets on sale at 6 p.m. NEW WORLD FILM CO-OP Nine men who came too late and stayed too long. By the WABX Air Aces Alice Cooper's pet boa con- strictor, which vanished eight months ago from Alice's motel room in Nashville, Tennessee, was found dead recently in the' hotel's plumbing; it had been clogging up pipes in the drain system since December. Alice had already replaced the boa with another. (Hopefully, a thicker one.) CBS-TV has cancelled "Wood- stock", which was scheduled to air April 19th; it had already been cut to three hours. A CBS vice - president said the can- cellation was because of editing and production difficulties creat- ed by a broadcast technician's strike. However, four months ago CBS reported that "Wood- stock" had been fully edited for TV. The Allman Brothers are plan- ning a series of benefit concerts, the proceeds of, which will be used to set up a North Ameri- can Indian fund for the preser- vation of their culture and way of life. The group expects to raise more than two million dol- lars from the benefits. The main concert is scheduled for May 6 in Boulder, Colorado. Artists who've been approached for help include Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Alice Cooper, the Grateful Dead, Dick Gregory and Leon Russell. If record prices get you down, the varience between median prices and what you pay won't make you feel any better. $4.98, $5.98 and $7.98 albums have ap- proximate distributor prices of $2.14, $2.52 and $3.43 respective- ly. And there's a record - indus- try move to raise album pri- ces another fifty cents or so. UPCOMING C O N C E R T S: Procul Harum's at Ford the 10th; Leon Russell at U. of D., April 14; Steve Miller at Ford the 20th; Siegal - Schwall & It's a Beautiful Day at Masonic 4/21; and Roy Buchanan at Ford the same day. 19189 i r Local Poets- The Michigan D~aily Arts Page is now accepting poetry for publication. Submit work 4-U A.+ Ad +-.ULO 1 } {. ti" ;{ :{ h ti. to Arts Editor c/o The Daily. cULiURF CA LI EINDA A FHu. L LUiVMN .irnUDUUI