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Friday, November 19, 1982


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Albert Collins screams with his guitar at the Soup Kitchen tonight and
tomorrow.
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to Maxwell Street

Don Henley-'I Can't Stand
Still' (Elektra/Asylum
Records)
Don Henley made a name for him-
self as a pioneer- of the "California
Sound" by co-founding and singing lead
vocals for the now-disbanded Eagles.
Henley's throaty, high-pitched twang
has been the standard of the genre since
the release of "Desperado" in the mid-
seventies.
As a writer, Henley's music has
always boiled with anger and cynicism
with an unmistakable undercurrent of
hope. All of Henley's hatred and op-
timism shine through on his first solo
album, I Can't Stand Still, a dark and
deeply personal statement.
To understand the album, a brief
recap of the demise of the Eagles is ap-
propriate. Life in the fast lane caught
up with them in 1980 when the police
ascended Henley's Hollywood hilltop
hideaway to find a drugged, naked,
adolescenttfemale and a cache of
cocaine and qualludes in his closet. His
arrest followed, and the gossip-minded
media seemed to eat it up.
The Eagles, not entirely happy with
their leader, called it quits, and
suggested that Henley hire a good
lawyer ,and let the whole thing blow
over. Henley compromised by hiring
the lawyer (he never served time), and
penning an album hissing back at his
detractors-of which there were many.
It is this unsettling story that makes I
Can't Stand Still so difficult to assess.
The album's centerpiece is "Dirty
Laundry"-an amusing and brutually
accurate attack on television news:
"We can do the Innuendo!/We can
dance and sing!When it's said and
done we haven't told you a
thing/We all know that Crap is
King/Give us dirty laundry!"
The song hits home, but taken in the
revengeful context in which it was writ-
ten, Henley's criticism is almost im-
possible to accept.
Alont the same lines, "Nobody's
Business," co-written with Bob Seger
and J.D. Souther, Henley asks the
audience, jealous of his previous suc-
cess, to leave him alone: "What a
price for a victimless crime/when it
was nobody's business (but mine)."
In spite of the ambivalence one must
feel listening to songs that fail to admit
obvious guilt, Henley's credibility is
somewhat restored by some of the most
fierce and sensitive compositions he
has ever written.
"Johnny Can't Read" is a no-holds-
barred farfisa attack on the gettin'
down, throwin' up lifestyle of today's
youth.
"Them and Us" approaches nuclear
incineration with a violent resen-
tfulness. Put simply, Henley doesn't
want to leave the decision to someone
with "one finger on the trigger and one
finger up his nose."
Some above average love songs
round out I Can't Stand Still, com-

plemented nicely with optimistic, if
watery, ballads about clear days and
being a child again. But Henley's at his
best when he's moving head-on, the
direction he's headed on most of the
album.
In spite of his problems, Henley has
delivered one of the most thoughtful
mainstream albums of the year. It's
nice to see that at least one of the ex-
Eagles is writing about something
more substantial than a party town.
-James Harris
Scandal-'Scandal' (Columbia)
Vocals-Patty Smyth. Has rock's
poet priestess lost her i's and stumbled
blindly into the musical middle of the
road-only to be run down by the ar-
mored truck of rampantbcommer-
cialism?
No. Patti Smith is still in retirement.
Patty Smyth is a totally autonomous
entity vocalizing for Scandal, a main-
stream rock and roll band whose stance
is somewhere between Foreigner and
The Cars. (Record cover and MTV
video show "new wave" posturing.)
Group leader and lead guitar Zack
Smith describes their music as "real
straight ahead, I guess you'd call it
power pop." It's a nice opinion, but he
should say "Our music is basically the
same old ground out chords, but we're
'different' because we've got a girl
singer."
Other band members are Ivan Elias
on bass, Benjie King on keyboards,
Keith Mack on guitar, and Frankie
LaRocka on drums. They're musically
competent.
Scandal's record (can you call
something with 6 songs an LP?) is
fairly safe commercially. They never
do anything that could be construed as
"daring." Smyth's vocals are a little
less than Pat Benatar, a little more
than Steve Perry.
Scandal has the basic rock and roll
titles; "Win Some, Lose Some,''
"Love's Got a Line on You," "She Can't
Say No"...
Scandal's main contribution to a
market already glutted with its kind of
music is having a female sing the same
old male-oriented crotch rock without
any exploitation of her own sexuality
(ala Bow Wow Wow and then-16-year-
old Annabella LuWin). -Joe Hoppe

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T HEY DON'T CALL him "Fast
Fingers" for nothing. Jimmy
Dawkins, who is appearing at the Blind
Pig Cafe (208 S. First) tonight and
tomorrow, has developed a free-
wheeling guitar s:yle since his Maxwell
days in 1957.
Bluesmen tenid to be immediately
classified as "fhicago," or "urban,"
and Dawkins has been so labelled and
more. As Luther Allison explained
during his recent Ann Arbor appearan-
ce, such classifications only serve to
limit audience expectations. Dawkins'
talent goes beyond geography,
however, as evidenced by his myriad
awards.
Both performances begin at 9:30 p.m.
Admission is $3.75.
iAlso tonight, the Trinidad Tripoli
Steel Band performs at the Michigan
Theatre. This reggae/calypso/jazz

group has played for Ed Sullivan, two
presidents, the Queen of England, and
several Milwaukee Summerfests. I
heard them about two years ago in
Chicago, and they were good then. The
8 p.m. concert benefits both the United
Way and University Hospitals. $7.
Finally, the Soup Kitchen (1585
Franklin, Ypsilanti) hosts yet another
fine blues guitarist, Albert Collins,
tonight and tomorrow night.
The man plays a highly reputed 1957
Telecaster, uses a 200-foot guitar cord,
and generally wows anyone within
aural distance. Let's see: Collins,
Dawkins, Allison, Blind Jim Brewer
(another Maxwell Street vet and recent
Ann Arbor performer). Anyone who
claims the blues is dead hasn't been
getting out and enjoying themselves
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T HE MOST unusual musical event
to hit' Ann Arbor in years takes
place Saturday night at the Michigan
Theatre. Kapelye, a group with
growing popularity, will perform in a
genre that originated in small Eastern
European villages, was influenced by
Balkan styles, updated by marching
bands in the thirties, and re-routed by
American jazz trends.
Having recently completed the soun-
dtrack to the new movie The Chosen,
Kapelye will stop by town in passing on
their trip to Chicago. The new revival of
folk music and jazz has provided an
important medium through which the
group can entertain. They have been
brought to the city by the B'nai Brith
Hillel Foundation, the University of
Michigan, and the community as part
of a large scale effort.
The program itself is the first part of
the three-step second annual

n Theatre
Celebration of the Jewish Arts. The
next featured entertainer, Geula Gil, is
a world renowned Israel folk singer
who will demonstrate her talents on
January 29. The series will conclude
with the appearance of Sy Kleinman, a
very funny and original humorist who
will be presented on March 26.
Known commonly as Klezmer
music, this Yiddish genre has been
modified extensively to include English
lyrics and more traditional instrumen-
tation. The songs range from stirring
vocal ballads to complex instrumen-
tals, to lively dance numbers. There
will be a small brass section, flutes,
violins, a tuba, an accordian, and other
interesting combinations of non-
electrical instruments that produce
unusually effective timbres.
The event promises to be a valuable
experience for those who appreciate a
wide range of musical styles.
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