ecords (Continued from Page 8) ew records before attempting to roaden the musical scope beyond in- ividual songs. D.C. 3 has somehow anaged to bypass its first few ecords, and move directly to ex- rimentation and conceptualization. onsequently Dream is a whole roduct replete with linkage, echoes, nd continuity. gThe album opens with a tumbling coustic guitar riff which gives way n mid-phrase to a heavy distorted alectric guitar. Crinkly chimes join n. Jangle. And then the assault. ladena on guitar and vocals, backed y Paul Roessler (the brother of Blac- Flag's bassist Kira) on keyboards and Kurt Markham on thunderous lashing drums. Cadena is the focus. His guitar is onstantly in motion. Sonic snarls em to flow relentlessly from it. But is only because his guitar work is errific that he ultimately steals the ocus from Roessler and Markham. Roessler handles the basslines with lis synthesizer, a concept which I ejected completely before I listened o the record. I am not above Drejudice. Generally I think basses should be basses, just as horn sections should be horn sections and strings ould be strings. gut Roessler is unobtrusive and subtle. His bass keyboard work does not announce it- self as such, it merely provides the (' The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, July 10, 1985 - Page 9 footing the music needs. Cadena's songwriting is terrific. On high keyboards Roessler is daz- The album opener "We Feel the Sky" zling. He manages to capture the has a monumental-gigantor chorus cheesy sound of the '60s organ, and he We feel the sky / and we wonder scrabbles over the keys like he why. The song feels big and belongs in Arthur Brown's band. He mighty . . . almost anthemic, but was, in fact, the keyboardist in a late Cadena undermines the song's cer- incarnation of Iron Butterfly. tainty. He turns it into a balancing act Markham is a classic slasher- between art-metal and mash. The title song closes side one by picking up the opening bit from "We Feel the Sky" and extending it. "Dream" is also somewhat anthemic, but this time a country feel is thrown into the mix. Again elements are juggled deftly. Disparity becomes - wholeness. "Twisted and Turning" mixes rockabilly in similarly. "Dance of the Imbeciles" throws in a grandiloquent piano, before degenerating to Dez alone over a Lennon-esque piano. "This is the Dream" in a real achievement. From the opening acoustic jaunt to the final electric Cadena presents music with unity and continuity, yet still manages to main- tain the freedom to occasionally move in right angles and surprise the listener. .Dez Dez's Black Flag days are long gone, but they have given him a sen- . .. hums a different tune sibility that serves him well. D.C. 3 is basher His drumming tumbles for- ; y BERRR ERRY WI S0W 100 100 ITTLE R CARD \ BILL Y L ; HALEY 'PR LY \100 ward as breakneck speed. His work is betrayed somewhat by a typically tinny SST pressing, but it's still meaty. TENT ER TAINMENT FOR E x OUR LAST NUD STAPLED NUDE Issu N iEA powerful, innovative, and watchable. and the white big band influence of far more than the bulk of '50s rock -John Logie Bill Haley's "Rock Around The collections. Clock" both tug in the same direction, -Byron L. Bull Various Artists - Rock and if by far different routes. Hello -- s that right? Roll: The Early Years (RCA) One could toss in minor quibbles, TeDaily? First off, one cannot seriously be that "Mannish Boy" would have ser- expected to find fault with a record ved as a better representation then The Michigan Daily? that lists Carl Perkins, Elvis, Chuck "I'm Your Hoochie-Coochie Man"-- Carries Bloom County ... Berry, and Muddy Waters - among a too obvious choice - and even if many others - for company. Secon- "That's All Right Mama" was Elvis' THE BLOOM COUNTY? dly, how do you knock any collection first single, others that soon followed that puts "Tutti-Frutti," - like "Don't Be Cruel" - define his "Mabelline," "I'm Your Hoochie- essence more fully. On the other hand Coochie Man," and "Great Balls of "Blue Suede Shoes" sums up Carl Fire" - among plenty of others - back Perkins better than probably any to back? other song he cut. "Great Balls of Rock and Roll: The Early Years Fire" pretty much wraps everything compiles twelve artists and their of Jerry Lee Lewis up into one hot songs together in celebration of what ball, and what one song does Bo Did- RCA claims is, "Give or take a year dley more service than "Bo Did- or so," the 30th birthday of rock. Ac- dley"? tually the real reason is for a vinyl tie- in with a newly released video tape Rock and Roll: the Early Years is a compilation of the same name, but good, fast, joyful history lesson, worth one can't ignore any record that goes to the trouble - and I'm sure con- siderable expense - of putting together so thoughtfully a dozen of the UE VF h 1 more influential songs from the RALPH'S MARKET seminal days of rock. Purists will haggle over missed details, over artists and songs 709 Packard (Near State) overlooked, over the merely cursory liner notes, and shrug the record off as just one more hits compilation in a THIS WEEK'S SPECIALS sea of cheap slapped-together efforts. But despite what may be commercial motives for this record's release, it does a surprisingly smart job of Bologna Baked Ham the genre and its more influential ar- tists. $1.99 lb. $1.S9 1b The album pays equal credit to white and black performers, and nicely exemplifies how seemingly irreconcilable styles meshed together Ground Beef so magically. On one side of the coin is the Chords' elegantly gentle "Sh lb Boom" while on the other Jerry Lee Lewis' hillbilly revelry in "Great Balls of Fire," and the connection, if Hours: Sunday-Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. intangible and invisible, somehow holds, just as the R&B fire of Stanley Friday & Saturday 10:00 am. - 2:00 am. Turner's Shake, Rattle and- Roll" Double exposure Associated Press Playboy magazine released the cover of its September issue Tuesday in O icago which features rock singer Madonna. A Playboy spokesman says the issue will hit newsstands in major U.S. markets next week. Pen- thouse Magazine previously announced a forthcoming pictorial feature on Madonna.