. a.:a A- ARTS The Michigan Daily Friday, September 30, 1983 Page 5 Cooper makes Fred By C.E. Krell 1 ONSIDER, if you m dollars (all in paper perhaps in coinage). Then, think about fifty cents. May think about fifty cents too here we will throw it into th the aforementioned four d what we have here is four fifty cents. What are we going to do w dollars and fifty cents? Fi give it a shorter name. P "Fred." Fred is our friend, demands our attention. T because we like Fred. Fre guy. Yay Fred. To spend Fred foolishly grave error in judgement insomuch as there are just n Freds around. There are a ways to keep ourselves hap waste the power of the following study of Fredolog have been found, in the past worthwhile (well, a lot anyway) appealing. I know this will be hard, but we are going to give Fred away for a measley would, four piece of paper. It's tough, but you can r money, or do it. Go ahead. Carefully place it in the if you would, persons hand. It's okay to cry. There. be you don't Breath deeply. You've done it! much, but Take the piece of paper, and read it. 1e context of Conceptualize the characters, the num- ollars. Now bers. "Eclipse Jazz presents Jerome dollars and Cooper. Saturday, October 1, 9 p.m. Univesity Club. vith this four In order to understand any piece of rst, we will literature, we must place it in the con- We'll call it text in which it was written, i.e. under and now he what circumstances was it written, and hat's okay, when (history). It is also of key im- d is a great portance (redundant) to select which is the most importantly keyed part of that would be a piece of literature. Owing to the fact on our part, that our minds are intensely analytical, iot too many we obviously deduce that the most plethora of salient point in the piece of literature ppy and not that we are studying are the words Fred. The "Jerome Cooper." gy is one to Jerome Cooper will be performing all , to be most by himself at the U-club. But it is more, Records Gwen Guthrie - 'Portrait' (Island) The second Gwen Guthrie album is produced once again by Sly and Robbie of Reggae session fame, and it main- tains the funk-meets-reggae bliss of her debut. If anything, Portrait is more interesting and cohesive, not to mention more funky than its predecessor. Each side begins with a top-notch Compass Point funk jam - "Peanut Butter" (on side one) and "Hopscotch" (on side two), and continues in a varied, though always danceable, vein. Of course, the rhythm section is tremendous, and the choice of songs makes this a real win- ner. "Padlock," "Seventh Heaven," and a cover of Sly Stone's "Family Af- fair" are other highlights. Temptations - 'Surface Thrills' (Motown) Even when reunited with former lead singers Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin on last year's Reunion, the Tempts sounded out of touch. This record lacks that one's novelty, and ad- ds to its basic formula. "Love On My Mind Tonight" stiffed as a single, and most of the other cuts seem uninspired and offhanded. Only "The Seeker," a silly, naive, yet loveable narrativo about being a veteran of the '60$. upheavels, redeems this one. -- Leizer Goldsmith' Jerome Cooper brings down the house Saturday night at the U-Club. Changing Bodies never the same By Bob King R ICK'S WASN'T seething with ska- crazed students Wednesday night; in fact you might even have found a table. But it wasn't a weekend, and SLK wasn't featured. The band was Changing Bodies, a new-wave foursome currently based in Detroit, that has found a new way to mix reggae .and new-wave music. Listening to Changing Bodies is like keeping an open ear at the diag; you hear some mellow stuff, and then you get hit with something really wild. Of course the diag's barrage is never coherent - Changing Bodies sometimes is. Songs like "Curiosity," for example, begin with a mellow Marleyan rhythm, which doesn't last long before t l t f or actually promises to be more, than a man, a chair, a pornographic magazine, and a rag to clean up with. Hopefully, Jerome Cooper, per- cussionist, composer, et al, will create a pleasing noise. I use noise here in or- der not to unnecessarily give what he does a stupid label. Though names like Roland Kirk, Anthony Braxton, Art En- semble, Revolutinary Ensemble run through his past association like so becoming an Elvis-like bop around. Then it switches back. Frankly, the music gets a little confusing, and almost all the songs flow back and forth in the same manner. Their clothing follows the pattern of their music - as exemplified by China, their keyboardist-vocalist, who wore a camoflage toga over black Danskin tights. China's voice is grabbing, ranging from the high-pitched vertigo of Berlin's Terry Nunn to the harsh monotone recently made human by Exene Cervanka of X. On stage she looks like a cross between the girl-next- door and David Bowie. The other band members - Tim Bolong bassist, Skeeto on drums, and China's husband, Bradd Ryan on guitar - are all talented, and generate a much gold leaf, Cooper's music tran- scends even global distinctions; if one listens to his records, one hears all or nothing. A challenging method of Fred spending, then. A man, and a bunch of things to hit. Or more? I hope this con- sideration and rumination of four dollars and fifty cents will really be the Big (percussive) Bang Theory in disguise. clean, professional sound. Unlike many Detroit area bands, Changing Bodies sounds as artistic as it does energetic. Some songs to look for on their next stint to Ann Arbor are "Lost on Planet Earth," an earlier-reggae-ska song that got the crowd dancing, and "I Sur- vive," a newer title with a more sublime influence from the islands. Both songs have real dance potential and intriguing lyrics. The discrepancies of Changing Bodies makes their sound hard to categorize, but then this ambiguity is what made Men At Work the most popular Australians since kangaroos. To try to make sense of this disarray, I'll pass on Tim Bolon's remark that the major influences on Changing Bodies are Miles Davis and Spiderman. ," Drink and swing at pub sing HrEE 'QODY I p ILIJESI 8pm Oct. 29 Crisler Arena . By Deborah Robinson A ND NOW for something completely ' different - this weekend you can get drunk at The Ark. Under a big-top on the front lawn of this Hill St. club, Guinness Breweries will be co- sponsoring the first annual Ark Pub Sing. In efforts to emulate the atmosphere of a British Isles' sing-along, bottled Guinness Stout, Bass Ale, and Harp Lager will be featured along with the musical entertainment. There will be two groups performing both Friday and Saturday nights. John Roberts and Tony Barrand form the English contingent, and Gerry O'Kane sings ballads from the Shamrock shore. Also, Gerry O'Kane is backed up by three young men from Detroit, who play in a traditional band called Tanis. They are Brendan and Terrance McKinney, on flute and Irish pipes, and Jim O'Callaghan on bazouki. Roberts and Barrand are old acquaintances of Ann Arbor folk audiences. Having released one entire album of drinking songs, and included countless baudelin rants on other discs, they are a logical pair to be introducing a new chapter in programming at the folk coffeehouse. Though alcohol has been available at several Ark events, including the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, the Pub sing will be a first at their Hill St. location. Dave Siglin, manager of the coffeehouse, hopes it will not be the last. Siglin thinks people will enjoy being able to have a drink while listening to this kind of music. Serving alcohol was brought up last spring during discussions about the Ark's future. The club faced possible eviction from the church-owned and supported building - one alternative was to move into a place with a liquor license. An agreement was reached with the church, and the Ark did not have to move. But new ideas were not cast away, and the new board of directors came up with the Pub Sing. Shows will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5. And don't worry if it's a little cold, Irish Coffee will also be available. °:r °, '¢: g E,{ E -~ ' }:., ' . R e 4 4X , } 5 ;1 k x . ,f k $ F ' p n t $13 12 11 On sale September 30 at the Michigan Union Ticket Office, San Francisco video festival comes to town By Byron Bull F or those of you who think Ann Arbor is a little "different," think again. After you sample a little bit of San Francisco video art, you may think Ann Arbor is Boringville, U.S.A. Tonight the Performance Network begins its fall season with some par- ticularly interesting fare, the first midwest showing of the 1982 San Fran- cisco Video Festival Traveling Show. San Francisco is one of the country's leading centers of video experimentation and the annual festival, one of the coun- try's first, is an important showcase for this most recent but rapidly developing art form. The Performance Network's selec- tion of eight pieces from the show is meant to be a representative show case of the varying stylistic aproaches to the medium and the technical and aesthetic grounds that are being borken. Witty and unconventional, they are often am- biguous but always compelling. N, a tape by Cuban Tony Labat, is a challenging series of flowing images. At times mystical, then brutally harsh and then just as quickly quiet and tender, they are a personal and idiosyncratic commentary of American culture through the eyes of an immigrant. N is a complex and multi-layered piece not easily forgotten. More approachable is Jason Danielson's electronically animated political cartoon called Get That Strike! The title itself is a sly pun and the film a short commentary, reducing the political strife in Poland to a fast, painfully hilarious video game. The tape is pointed satire at its streamlined best, Most likeable of the pieces is a tongue-in-cheek documentary by Ilene Segalove titled What IsBusiness? Here Segalove attempts to dissect not so much the nature of business as our many different attitudes about business. She wonders what happened to her own generation, when "MBA's replaced LSD." "Business is something you get into to get out of..." is the an- swer she gets from the man on the street. Corporate presidents offer one view, a dress-for-success clothing mer- chant another, and an old retired black See SAN, Page 6 CTC Outlets. 763-2071 EIL C 4: J48 Tailgatfring. STOP INTO VILLAGE CORNER AND FILL UP YOUR COOLER WITH OUT GREAT WEEK- END SPECIALS. ALSO DON'T MISS OUT ON OUR NEW LOW PRICES ON BEER, KEGS, AND POP. f October 20 1983 Hill Auditorium 8:OOpm Tickets are $9.50 and $8.50. 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