w w w w w w w lwr_ w 7 w W w w IN MUSiC Miles will have you off your seat and on your feet Miles Davis Tutu Warner Bros. Yeoww! My-yillz! The baddest of them all is back with a truly fine album of powerful pop, slithery funk, and down-right jazz. Down. Right! This is Miles Davis' first LP for Warners after more than a quarter of a century with Columbia. Miles moves on (and on!), now ben- e'fitting from the production of bassist-buddy Marcus Miller and jazz-funkster George Duke. They both help to shape Davis' typically spare and sinewy compositions into some of the dance-nastiest tunes of the year. Can't sit still, no. Highlights (too many) include the topical title track, the opening power chords of which set the tone for the album. This is Davis at his best: salty, sweet, lean, and strong. Fluttering like a hummingbird and biting like a bat. "Portia" is a slower Third World lament with a resiliant backbone. "Splatch" is upbeat, bright, and bouncy. The pace is insistent, celebratory, and chatty with Davis cracking a few smiles and telling an inside joke or two. Big fun. "Backyard Ritual" jumps to chicka-pop time with Davis all over, hollering "Don't count me out!" And "Don't Lose Your Mind" moves to hopping rhythmic beats while Davis bleats and squeeks along with the phantom soprano sax (I'd swear to it). Overall, hey, I tell ya: you got more Miles Davis fer yer dollar here than any LP since Four and More- Live. He blows. Only the context has changed to incite the con- servative. But Miles delivers. He offers up the deepest lesson in homography that I've heard in some time. You'll squirm in your seat 'til you're up on your feet. What a blast! -Marc S. Taras Lawndale Beyond Barbecue Gone Gone II- But Never. Too Gone SST For those of you with more than a hankering for guitars, guitars, and more guitars, SST Records has recently released two strong LPs which will be just up your musical alley. Lawndale's Beyond Barbecue and the second album by Gone are two new discs which feature nothing but guitar-based, wirey instrumentals. Lawndale is a new four-piece combo from (where else?) Lawn- dale, California- home of SST Records. The successful independent label has even affectionately dubbed the place "Rock City.".Lawndale is also the last name (if you believe it) of one (Rick) of this band's three guitarists. Lawndale the band relies heavily on the surf-guitar thang the Ventures made famous; one can't help but keep thinking of that group. Lawndale play an updated version of that sound, with a bit of jazz and rock thrown in as well. "'Atta Boy Luther" is one of this record's most striking cuts, with some guest coronets and a finger snapping groove. It's based on the Don Knotts character of the same name from The Ghost and Mister Chicken. Yea, right fellows. Other snazzy songtitles include "The Story of Vanna White" and "The Days of Pup and Taco" (which really soars), and they also cover the Pink Floyd/Duke Ellington piece "Interstellar Caravan." But throughout Barbecue, Lawndale does a great job of keeping the mood light and the playing heavy. Gone's new record, Gone II- But Never Too Gone, is another fine collection of some truly heavy playing. Gone is a three-man jazz/rock/metal/whatever unit led by Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn, who during his 'spare time' away from that band (which this year played for 7 months straight on the road- Ginn must see vertical road lines in his sleep-land released a live LP, a single, and a cassette) takes time to also record and play numerous stints as Gone, on their own and with Black Flag. Whew. Gone also consists of Andrew Weiss on bass and bassosaurous and Simeon Cain on drums. Despite the exhausting schedule, Ginn and Gone are loaded with energy- in fact, maybe too loaded. The 16 tracks of this album often suffer from a tendency to merge together, repeating some musical themes and getting locked into, the over-driving sound of the trio. Thankfully, a few cuts are expecially memorable, such as the funky "Jungle Law." Here and there Gone goes for the metal (read Ozzy) and one really feels the absence of a singer to break the pace. But the band burns throughout. Both of these here records can become a bit tiring, and are much better in small (an album side's worth) doses to, uh, best savor the found. But oh, the joy of guitars... -Beth Fertig university subsidy. But some states have anti- discrimination laws of their own. Since 1976, the state of Michigan has had the Elliott-Larson Civil Rights Act. The act "prohibits discrimination by sex in public accomodations and it prohibits discrimination by sex in education. So there's two ways you can hit them," said Jean King, a local lawyer and a women's rights proponent. "It's just a handy-dandy tool-much more effective than Title IX." If there's any real bias in college athletics, however, its between maior sports and minor sports. About two-thirds of the Michigan Athletic Department's budget goes to football and basketball; the rest is scattered among the other 19 teams. "At Michigan it's obvious: football and basketball own the place," said an employee of the Athletic Department who requested anonymity. "You're kind of like a dog. You just get the scraps that come off the table. "If you don't play basketball, you don't play football, you don't play hockey, and you don't play baseball, then everything is just here because it has to be." The employee, who works with the minor sports's athletes, criticized their training facilities. At Michigan, football, basketball, and hockey each have their own training rooms. All the other sports except women's basketball share the Women's Training Room next to Ray Fisher (baseball) Stadium. "For both men and women, Fisher is not a very well-equipped room," he said. "In fact, it's a dump." The employee said the room is often "jammed pack." The training room contains both Nautilus equipment and free weights, but he said the free weights are falling apart. "The bars are bad and bent and breaking, 'and the plates are no good," he said. "There's not enough dumbells and the benches are all torn." The employee said the football team gets absolute priority for the Astro-turfed Indoor Fieldhouse. "If field hockey wanted to play a game from five to seven and football wanted to practice, field hockey would have to play before or after," he said. Women's softball used to practice ten to midnight." Athletic Department officials justify the preferential treatment of football and basketball because they are profitable. Football brought in $11 million in 1984-85, and basketball brought in $1.6 million. With the exception of hockey, no other sport could come close to supporting itself. "The revenue comes from football and basketball," said Michigan Associate Athletic Director Don Lund. "An without that, we're nothing. We can't exist." Funding notwithstanding, with the decline of the women's athletic associations, women have fewer chances to shape the sports world. For instance, women have little chance of instilling their philosophy into the NCAA. Most of the delegates sent to the NCAA annual convention are men. Ninety- nine percent of Division I athletic departments are led by men. Anj 60 percent of Division I women athletic directors, including Ocker, must report to the school's men's athletic director. According to Chris Shelton, formerly of the AIAW, the present system stunts the growth of women's athletics. "If we don't have the women in positions where they can be involved in the decision-making and the governance and the rule-making, then the rules are going to continue to be made to cover men's sports," she said. "And that means the major ones-football and basketball. "I don't think we have any control of what's happening to women's sports right now. And that really saddens me." Not only are the administrations dominated by men, but the coaching positions for women's teams are being filled by men, too, "The athletic director's network is a male network," said King. "So he picks people that he knows socially or that he trains." The plethora of male coaches causes females to drop out of sports, according to Shelton. "It' important for young people c ,-ii into anything as intense as sporn have role models," she saiu. When they have just male role models, after a certain time I don't think they can see any future for themselves. So I see a lot of young women dropping out at a very early age of 14, 15. "I talk to male students and they see a lot of opportunities for coaching. But I don't think women see that. It's a dead end for them; from player to another world." - The pressure for women to win is much greater today than it was in the '70s, said King. People now make their living coaching women's teams, and if they don't win, they could lose their jobs. An elitist structure is emerging in women's sports, as smaller universities are finding it tougher to compete with the larger schools. "In the next five to ten years we'll begin to see some powers begin to emerge that will stay at the forefront, whereas the others will be jockeying below them," said Ocker. At Michigan, the field hockey team has begun three-a-day workouts during pre-season practice. It is now videotaping its games and is employing more complex strategies. Throughout the country, women athletes are now training year-round to be ready for the season. And some women's teams, most recently the Uninversity of Nebraska softball team, are being put on NCAA probation for recruiting violations. At one time the women's movement hoped to achieve all the advantages of men's sports and to avoid all the evils. They've ended up with a little of both. Women's sports has become a replica-a small replica-of men's sports. N TOGETI IN CONCE CRISLER A FRIDAY, NOV. Tickets Available for $3.00 at Stein Revellie Hall, 764-058 Buy one Whopper® sandwich, get another Whopper® free Stadium Blvd. F C < Eisenhower h * , c Briarwood * Mall * o Victors Way I4 TT.U The University of Michigan Marching Band & The latest Miles Davis LP is a blast of powerful pop, jazz, and funk. TEST YOUR STRENGTH. N NON-STOP C Kinko's is open 24 h anytime for fast serv quality, and low, low Open 24 540 E.LII Across From The Mi 761-4 QUITTING. IT COULD BE THE TEST OF YOUR LIFE. Lavwndale,from left: drummer Sim Cain, guitarist Greg Ginn, and bassist Andrew Weiss. PAGE 4 WEEKEND/NOVEMBER 14, 1986 WEEKEND/NOVEMBER 14, 1,986