The Writers-in-Residence Program at the
Residential College presents:
A READING BY
ANNE WALDMAN
Poet, Recording Artist
Author of Baby Breakdown, Fast Speaking Woman, and Cabin
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
8:00 P.M.
Benzinger Library/East Quad
(East.University between Hill and Willard)
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED
Ms. Waldman will also be the guest at the Hopwood Tea, Thursday, October 27,
3:30 P.M. at the Hopwood Room, 1006 Angell Hall
The Writers-in-Residence Program at the Residential College is make possible in
part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Refusal
when it works
By Larry Dean
T'O REFUSE... and refusal, the act
of. A very stringent and daring art,
one that earns the refuser either ac-
colades-aplenty, or the hatred of an an-
tagonist, defied in the refusing. And
when it comes down to some genuine
display of force - well, "to refuse" lifts
itself out of the dictionary or
philosophical essay and stiffens with a
livid life of its own, prepared to do
harm.
The Bongos have refused on a num-
ber of different levels, and a number of
different times. The way that refusal
affects us is contingent with certain
moments, but I'll get to that soon
enough in my own exploitation of the
dreaded ticker, Mr. Time.
Richard Barone writes and sings
most of the songs for the Bongos. He
has also tried his hand at production
lately, helming both the Beat Rodea EP
with Steve Almaas, and another EP
from New Jersey's Phosphenes. He and
most-recent-addition to the Bongos
ranks, James Mastro - who used to be
in Richard Lloyd (ex of Television)'s
solo band - did an LP called Nuts and
Bolts a short while back at Mitch
Easter's Drive-In Studio in Winston-
Salem, North Carolina. This acts as a
neat bridge between the first Bongos
LP, Drums Along the Hudson, and their
latest, an EP on RCA called Numbers
With Wings.
Barone and crew - the rest being
bassist Rob Norris and drummer Frank
Gianinni - have refused much in their
"career" so far as Bongos. For instance,
they refused to dwell in that cultural
bastion-of-bastions, New York City,
around inception-time of the band -
1977 or so - because of high rents. A
smart move, you might say...a "Good
refusal." Regardless, a profitable one,
as our heroes made their rehearsing-
ground at a place called Maxwells in
Hoboken, NJ, then a restaurant and
bar.
Soon they were paying back the
owner's generosity by pounding out
early Bongos tunes for the inevitably-
hip clientele coming to Maxwell's,
now a "new music" showplace. Of this
clientele was included one fan, Rod Pear-
ce, owner of fledgling Brit indi-label
Fetish Records. Here they refused to
conform to social norms by not seeking
out a "big deal" with a conglomerate,
and signing with Fetish. Again, they
were lucky: "Telephoto Lens" b/w
"Glow In the Dark" elicited many oohs
and aahs from in-the-know folk, and the
Bongos were launched. They followed it
up with the In the Congo EP, thereby
refusing to do an album and satisfy the
Bongos-hungry fans waiting in the
proverbial-wings.
Which, for the most part, brings us to
now, and Joe's Star Lounge, Thursday
night, October 20, 1983: The Bongos
play Ann Arbor.
Not that they refused to play
Detroit... the guys are gonna do both, to
make happy the unfortunate carless;
call it refusing to monopolize a locale.
Or call it another smart move.
The Bongos bring us a tour based
upon Numbers With Wings, their latest,
an EP of five new songs. It is not quite
the joy Drums Along the Hudson was -
the former being a cryptic, melodic,
hit-and-run disc of two-minute-plus pop
songs which refused to be pigeonholed.
Instead we have - frustration - lack-
of-direction - and most of the songs
running over four minutes! Decidedly
an alternative path.
The Bongos refused to stay with a
producer who was closer to home, and
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