Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 14, 1986 4 England's Damned gets set for Detroit By Rob Michaels FINALLY, for the first time in say about three or four years (don't press my feeble memory for exac- titude), England's legendary Damned will haul their well-honed rock and roll chops into the Detroit area for a performance tomorrow night at the lovely St. Andrews Hall. Doors will open at 10p.m. Certainly, the combo has come a long way since its 1976 archetypal punk-rock inception. Loud, sloppy, and not without a sense of humor, the outrageously dressed quartet churned out many a classic track of snotty and minimalist Stooges/New York Dolls style R&R, the bulk of which were captured on their debut LP, the seminal Nick Lowe-produced Dam- ned, Damned, Damned, arguably the first bona-fide full length p-rock album. Beneath the exhilirating racket, however, there lurked a recessive penchant for strong pop hooks, as a second listen to early hits like "New Rose" and "Neat, Neat, Neat" will undeniably reveal. 1977 saw the release of the second Damned LP, the aptly titled Music For Pleasure, possibly the band's most ignored vinyl to date. Produced by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason, the album's material cofirmed the band's pop-ish tendencies, but the charging guitars, cascading drums and am- phetamine paced tempo of the Dam- ned's sound were all fairly suppressed by Mason's dull and flattening production. The departure of guitarist/tunesmith Brian James in the following year could have marked the end of the ol' Damned experience, but the resourcefulness of the remaining members prevented it from coming true. Rumors of disin- tegration were finally proved false by the 1979 release of Machine Gun Etiquette, a highly charged collection of ultra-power pop (with emphasis on the power) penned by the re-arranged quartet which now featured ex-bassist Captain Sensible on guitar (and sort of "musical leadership") and newcomer Algy Ward (ex of Australia's The Saints) assisting drummer extraordinaire Rat Scabies in the rhythm section. Although the band was never genuine media darlings, the album received its fair share of praise in the papers and was also quite successful on the charts, particularly the fine singles "Smash it Up" and "Love Song" (in all of their infinite incarnations). Although the album's intensity at least matched that of the first LP, there was a major increase in musical depth and maturity, with Dave Vanian's Jim Morrison/Vegas nightclub of the dead vocals displaying a new confidence above the now richer instrumental textures of the rest of the band. But nothing could have prepared audiences for the major musical and conceptual developments displayed on what is perhaps the Damned's finest release, 1980's double-record set The Black Album. With newcomer Paul Grey on bass, the band continued its movement into what could be ter- med the "energized gothic-pop" field of tuneage. Songs were no longer limited in length (hell, side three is comprised solely of "Curtain Call") and keyboards smoothly blended into the picture. Hardly a betrayal of original p-rock ideals, The Black Album demonstrated (among other things) the necessity of punk's irreverant and destructive fury for the creation of vital more standard style rock and roll. The Damned continued to pursue this melodic direction on the excellent Friday the 13th EP and, to a markedly greater extent, 1982's Strawberries. Hot and inspiring as it was, the album followed by a long silence, sometimes punctuated by successful Captain Sensible solo projects, including the zany rap fave "Wot". When the news of the Sensible's departure reached the States, a re-organized Damned was already preparing product, the culmination of which was last year's Phantasmagoria LP. Armed with a brand new MCA record deal, the band cultivated the "gothic thang" originally begun with The BlacR Album and chocked Phantasmagoria full of rich, haunting, and darkl polished music which met with many a thumbs up cry of "kick ass" from old and new fans alike. The swank American album hence the swank American tour. But seriously, I've seen the band in past incarnations and they did not disappoint. With a new line-up, new enthusiasm and a hogshead of groovy new material, Saturday's performan- ce should no doubt continue th tradition. Michigan Daily ARTS 763-0379 . ,. Doc Watson's cure (Continued from Page 7) pearance suggested, Kamalay looks as if he'll carve a name for himself if he keeps up what seems to come easily to him. *s******* Anne Hills got the mid-week off to a strong start on Tuesday when she played a single set at the Ark. Describing her show as similar to an art gallery, she proceeded to sing pairs of songs by such young songwriters as Tim Henderson, Eileen Weiss, Greg Brown, and An- drew Calhoun. Gifted with a beautiful soprano reminiscent of Joan Baez', Hills seemed daunted by the disappoin- tingly small turnout. 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This last discovery wiped me out, as I'd heard the piano intro on Byrd and Gryce's "Over the Rainbow" hun- dreds of times without realizing it was Flanagan. Then I noticed it: the cheesey reissue of these wondrous 1957 recordings neglected to specify which tunes featured Tommy and which had instead Wade Legge. Quandary. It sounded like Flanagan, but how was I to know for sure? Anyone who's intimately involved with the music knows what I was going through. It's especially worrisome when one is planning to trundle out the record on the radio and offer it up as an example of early Flanagan. I didn't want to goof. After telling nearly everyone who would listen to my drivel about Post-Bop reissuing, I pinned Michael G. Nastos, mighty keystone of WEMU. He was equally unable to solve the riddle, but went on to offer a bright notion: why not call Flanagan? He might know. I thought he was joking, but found NG Imes w pm~ ATg HERB DAVID Guitar Studio 302 E. 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