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The Red and Black. Wednesday. May 10. 1972
JIM PETTIGREW, JR.
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by moralistic tone
About How Fascism Could
Even Come To This Country:
You probably know by now
that the Great Speckled Bird
office in Atlanta was totally
destroyed last week by arson.
What this has to do with
Musical Iruckin’s is that the
'Bird offers some lucid rock
and roll journalism many times
and serves as a very good music
information service in addition
to being an invaluable
alternative publication in the
South.
Often their editorial stances
and mine are divergent but that
doesn’t matter here What does
matter is the fact that Gestapo
tactics such as arson as a means
of repression don’t take us
forward at all. As distasteful as
it may be to some, we still
operate under the tenets of
freedom of expression and of
the press.
The Birdpcople said that
they are undaunted and will
not miss an issue. If you feel
strongly enough about this to
help in some manner you may
contact them at Box 7847
Station C, Atlanta 30309 or
call Gene Guerrero at
876-1361 until the ’Bird office
number (874-1658) is replaced.
There is a special Hell for
censors and those who would
thwart individual or group
expression.
★ ★ ★ ★
Jeff Beck’s second album
since his terrible accident some
time back is out now, entitled
simply ‘‘Jeff Beck Group.”
Jeff’s group remains unchanged
since “Rough and Ready,” the
first post-wreck k^'fjjth the
rhythm section of ^Ciive
Chaman on bass jAfjEozy
Powell on dniiat, <Max
Middleton supplyinfffiybpyds
and lead vocals by B^V Tench.
THERE’S LITTLE material
difference between the two
albums; listening to them back
to back, it is difficult to
distinguish one from the other.
Uie music is loose, easy
goitifc, ptnsive stuff that goes
over well but is hardly
antstiny*
It may sound trite to say
Beck's guitar work has
mellowed some after his long
semi-retirement but it has His
Unes are now precise, a lot less
frantic than in the ripping
Yardbird days, and melodic,
much like Peter GfceiA vflth
Fleetwood Mac -y
There is a decided
improvement in tht: producing
on the new Ip over that on
“’Ready.” Steve Cropper has
done an excellent job with
“Jeff Beck Group,” giving
them a clean, restrained sound
and dispensing with the buried
vocals and sometimes muddy
mixes that Jeff came up with
on the prior album, which he
produced himself.
Max Middleton, whose
keyboards especially suffered
on "Rough and Ready,” is
allowed to shine on “’Group.”
His piano riffs and Jeff’s lead
and slide guitar projections
make for the exciting aspects
of this latest album. The
album’s muscle is mostly
confined to side two. “Coin’
Down,” a 6:50 minute version
of the Jimmy Reed classic, has
to be the focal point of the
disc.
The lead team of
Beck/Middleton forge off into
the stratosphere while Chaman
and Powell offer a relentless
rhythm. Bob Tench, who is
merely an adequate vocalist,
does not stand up here to the
heights attained by the other
members. He simply does not
have an emotionally-developed
voice for the blues and should
stick to the rockers, which he
does fairly well.
THE MOST memorable part
of the entire album comes in
this song when Tench repeats a
chorus line and Beck answers
him with a scries of stiletto-like
slide runs. It would surely be
nice to hear Jimmy Hall or
Don Covay supply the vocals
on this same session of “Goin*
Down,” ’cause t he
instrumentalists are sure ’nuff
cookin'.
Jeff beck’s guitar on
"Definitely Maybe,” a
five-minute wispy
instrumental, shows what taste
in rock really is if that term
can be applied at all to the
music.
This is an all-right rock Ip
from an imaginative guitarist
with competent bandinembers;
disregard the vocals and look
back to “Truth,” with Rod
Stewart singing, for a Jeff Beck
group with a vocalist who fits
in. (Jeff Beck Group; Epic KE
31331)
★ ★ ★ ★
Absurdities nonpareil Our
nice library has a complete
collection of Playboy magazine
but not issue one of Rolling
Stone. I need Volumes I and II
(1967-68 issues) badly for
research purposes.
They will not be available
from Rolling Stone for quite a
while and I need ’em now. If
you know where I can locate
these complete - or
incomplete vols., I’ll make it
worth your time. Write the
R&B office or call 546-5246,
pleez.
★ ★ ★ ★
When WDOL-FM
announced the “Electric
Circles” show I thought “Aha,
progressive radio in our town.”
This was true for a time a year
or so ago but then the program
sank into a morass of dum-dum
teenyrock and many of us
began searching the faint
Atlanta stations for solid
music.
Then not long back the
word came in that another
change had, lo, come about.
Dick Blackman has taken
over “’Circles” and has
successfully pulled a radio
Phoenix. Now, beginning at
midnight on weeknights, you
can once again hear the
raunchy jive that real
progressive radio is made of:
Stones, Z Z Top, Allmans,
Crabby Appleton, & Clapton
for a few.
Dick is a friendly guy with
a merciful wah-wah
pedals! conversational air
voice and he knows his way
around a record bin. You
might give him a try.
COMING: Muddy Waters,
Tom Rash, & new New Riders.
TONIGHT: University Jazz
Ensemble at Legion Field.
By PHIL SANDERLIN
The way an idea is handled
makes all the difference. Take
this plot for a film: a young,
shy boy is asked by a girl he’s
had a crush on for years to
help her get an abortion.
Because of their youth and
naivety, there are many comic
complications.
If this plot were handled in
a sentimental manner, with the
frightened young girl crying
every two minutes, it would be
a maudlin mess If the comic
aspects of the kids’ sexual
ignorance were overplayed, it
would be just another bawdy,
bad taste comedy.
BUT THE PLOT in “To
Find A Man” is neither, and it
is much to director Buzz
Kulik’s credit that it’s not. “To
Find A Man” is an intelligent,
moving film, an excellent
handling of a difficult subject.
For one thing, the girl
(Pamela Sue Marin) is not a
sweet young frightened kid.
She is a selfish, stupid little
tease who has absolutely no
appreciation of the trouble the
young man (Darren O’Conner)
goes through for her.
Even though this film has
some very funny scenes, it does
not take a light-hearted
Movie review
approach to the question of
abortion. In fact, there is a
strong moralistic tone which
gives the entire film a definite
base. At the last scene, the sign
that the young girl is standing
by in the park, saying
‘‘Deposit Litter In basket” is
not just a sick joke.
BESIDES THE FINE
performances of Ms. Martin
and O’Conner in their film
debut, there are several good
performances. Phyllis Newman
is effective as the girl’s phony
plastic mom and Lloyd Bridges
is good as her boozy
ineffectual dad. Tom Bosley is
funny as the harried
neighborhood druggist. Old
actor Tom Fwell makes one of
the biggest impressions as a
tired stolid abortionist. His
sleepy boredom during the
painful abortion scene is
beautifully underplayed.
In a time when so few
movies really reach you, I
think that “To Find A Man”
does. It can make you laugh, it
can make you cry, it can scare
the hell out of you. It makes a
statement subtly and well, and
is worth seeing.
Job deadline
The d eadline for
applications for membership in
the Recreation Division of the
Union is this Friday.
The Recreation Division
handles tournaments, picnics,
Bacchus, Legion Pool Activities
anything that could be called
recreation.
Any student may apply for
membership, and the number
chosen is flexible.
Applications should be
turned into room 229
Memorial Hall.
A COOK'S TOUR OF ATHENS
Three hundred Southern
recipes and many scenes
of historical Athens.
Available at Belks, Davisons,
Lawn & Garden, Greers,
Womens Exchange, &. most
bookstores.
Published by the Athens Jr Assembly
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