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Hancock
reveals
his
Sec ret
blend
By KEITH TOSOLT
THE HERBIE Hancock group
brought their unique blend
of jaz and synthesizer to
E.M.U.'s Pease Auditorium for
a concert Tuesday night,
Despite a small turnout of less
than 700 people, the five mu-
sicians of the group gave an'
inspired and interesting per-
formance.
The leader of the group is, of
course, Herbie Hancock. He
plays a Fender Rhodes electric
piano as well as Moog and ARP
synthesizers. His guitarist is
Melvin Ragin, otherwise known
as Wah Wah Watson, a Motown song about what goes on in the
session-man with credits ranging heads of gentle people," Han-
from the Temptations to the cock said. It was a laid-back
Jackson Five. song which features Bennie
OTHER members of the group Maupin on saxello,
include Bennie Maupin (sax), HANCOCK then left the stage
Paul Jackson (bass) and James and Wah Wah Watson played
Levi (drums). "Goo Goo Wah Wah," a funky.
The concert started with the tune from his first album
jazz rock tune "Hang Up Your Elementary.
Hangups" from the album Watson relies heavily on his
Manchild. It was made livelier wah wah pedal, voice bag, phase
by Hancock's fine work on the shifter and echoplex to create
keyboards. sounds with his semi-acoustic
The next song was "Gentle Gibson guitar. His set featured
Thoughts" from Hancock's lat- an extended solo with impres-
est album Secrets. "This is a sive licks and interesting syn-
y: ,:::1::.":::; <<.
thesized sounds. HE CONTINUED to play to attest to his musical ability.
Hancock rejoined the quintet "Chameleon," improvising with Among his achievements are 17
for "Let's Get It Together," a Watson. Hancock would play a solo albums, two movie scores,
tune written by Watson, which series of notes and Watson credits on 98 other albums and
brought good audience participa- would try to recreate them. seven Grammy Award nomina-
tion in the small crowd. Hancock's prowess with the tions.
HERBIE played another selec- synthesizer was too hard for When asked, in an interview,
tion from his Secrets album Watson to match on his guitar. the reason for the addition of
called "People Music," a light He finally gave up and said, Watson to his group on his last
and pleasant song. "Lay offa that shit will you?" two albums, Hergie said, "I was
Paul Jackson then began plav- to Herbie while shaking his head the only rhythm player on the
ing the funky bass line to "Cha- in laughter. other albums and I had to pro-
meeon," Hancock's smash hit "Chameleon" was the last vide rhythm for myself. rhe
from his very successful 1974 song and highlight of the con- guitar adds input to play off of
album Headhunters. cert. It was a display of Herbie and takes over more of the re-
The song fizzled out half-way Hancock's great improvisational sponsibility to play the rhythm,
through, bit was applauded talent that makes him one of the so that I can add more colors."
strongly anyway. ,Hancock then best jazz pianists around. r Hancock added electronics to
brought a little ARP synthesizer A .w. lancocK nas amassed his music in 1971. "I've liked
to the front of the stage. a discography and list of awards gadgets all my life and being
into sound I wanted to make my
music more complex," he said.
He began with devices such as
the wah wah and echoplex. "I
wanted to get more sounds out
of my instruments and synthe-
sizer was the natural conclu-
sion," Hancock added.
He says he gets his inspira-
tions from "just living and
travelling.
"I won't write a song on a
one-to-one relationship about
something that happened iii a
place," he explains.
cintema iveeketid
Friday -- Adrift, Aud. A, Angell, 7, 9; Bananas, Aud. 3,
MLB, 7, 8:45, 10:30; Hollywood Cartoon Night, Old Arch.
Aud., 7, 9:05; Three Days of the Condor, Nat. Sci. Aud., 7,
9:45; Take the Money and Run Aud. 4 MLB, 7, 8:45, 10:30;
The Twelve Chairs, Couzens Cafeteria, 8, 10:00.
Saturday - The Killing, 7, 10:30, and Killer's Kiss, 8:45
only, MLB And. 4; Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Aud. A, An-
gell, 7, 9; Pat and Mike, Old Arch. And., 7, 9:05; Rose-
mary's Baby, Aud. 3 MLB, 7, 9:30; The Twelve Chairs,
Couzens Cafteria, 8, 10:00; Three Days of the Condor, Nat.
Sci. Aud., 7, 9:45.
Sunday - Gain' Down The Road, 7 only, Mon Oncle
Antoine, 9 only, Aud. 4 MLB; The Target, Old Arch. Aud.,
7, 9:05; Experimental Films Aud. A, Angell, 8.
All weekend - Swept Away, Burnt Offerings, Silent
Movie, Bittersweet Love, The Movies, Briarwood '(769-8780);
Norman, Is That You?, Fifth Forum (761-9700); The Front,
Campus (668-6416); The Ritz, (662-6264); Marathon Man,
Michigan, (665-6290); Alice in Wonderland, Fox Village
(769-1300).
3150 Carpenter Hpaa*Ann
A Modern Oedipus
Judy Wilson and Barrie Rutter of the Young Vic Aacting Company stage a scene from
W. B. Yeats' play, "Oedipus The King," presented this evening and tomorrow at 8:30
in the Power Center. The Young Vic will also perform "The Taming Of The Shrew"
on Sunday at 2 and 8.
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Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG
litI cu')ck
Everything is
going this weekepd
20 game machines,
7 lanes of bowling, &
22 billiard tables
at the
busy UNION
open till 1 o m, tonight
TICKETS GO ON SALE OCT. 28
'Studio
Theatre
trivial
By CHRIS DYADALO
WHAT would you say aboutM
a policeman who was car-
rying on clandestine meetings
with a married woman in a
cheap hotel? Well, the most re-
cent Studio Theater production,
written by Benjamin Bradford,
attempted to take the lighter
side of the matter into its
hands.
Aptly named "Rendezvous",
which could mean clandestine
meetings in cheap hotels, this
one act comedy was mildly,
amusing and at best, mediocre.
The play concerns itself with
a married police officer who
finds true love during one of his
calls. Immediately he begins
saving his 75 cent a week al-
lowance for a night of lust with
the "other woman". ,
The officer with the hot date
in Howard Andress, a comical
caricature of the inexperienced
seducer: Stumbling about in a
slapstick fashion around thel
bare motel room, Andress typic-
ally rearranges furntiure andf
practices his lines.f
rHis partner in crime is
Verna Snell, played by Georg-
ette Fleischer. A married wo-
man herself, Verna is planning3
on having as good a time as
anyone else. After she tries sev-
eral seductive poses on the bed,
she soon realizes that the eve-
ning is going to be less than she
expected. Fleischer unfortunate-
ly tended to run off her lines too
quickly for the audience to ap-
preciate some of the clever
word plays created by the sit-
uatien.
The big complication arises
when in a fit of mission, the po-
liceman handcuffs the woman
to himself in order to kee, them
together forever. Naturally, the
key is lost. Who should come
knocking at the door but the
officer's brother - in - law? He
just happened to be hanging
around the place and recogniz-
ed the officer's car.
The street - wise bro'her. - in-
law, played by Andrew Zerma",
was a strong b rl of sbtl-tlv
and alofness. 7 rn i'='s fino
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FRIDAY, NOV. 5
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN
(Woody Alen, 1969) MLB 4-7, 8:45 & 10:30
In his direcing debut, Alien plays virgil, produictiresult of an
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to win a girl by stealing money. HIs downfall comes when he
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