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Ampersand
November, 1979
Long Journey to Purdue
Regarding Purdue University'* * recent
complaint that their free Journey
concert never materialized (Sep-
tember .-tm/vruim/), Jim Hernandez of
Journey’s management company,
Nightmare Productions, said they arc
working with Jeff Chamber lain on the
Purdue University Student Concert
Committee attempting to schedule
the concert during Journey’s 1980
tour — which starts next June. *'Wi*'re
actively pursuing this, stardom ha*
not taken its toll, we intend to fulfill
our obligation and we salute Purdue
for winning the contest," Hernandez
said. He also noted that Nightmare
had received a considerable quantity
of mail f rom disgruntled Purdue stu
dents. Hang in there; by June, 1980,
2VY years will have passed since the
contest.
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.Vru' Contributors
JAMES Anger (On Due) Poet, novelist, »orld
traveler, raconteur and t*on vivaut, none ol these
word* adequately describe - or even relate to—
|ames Auuei. a hie long rock id toll enthusiast with
pel hap* the country's latgest collection ol Nash.
Hudson. Kaiser and Studebaker dashboard clock*
SAL Manna (On Screen) says he's "a short, wimpy
*uy" whose hero is Woody Allen Manna graduated
Northwestern University and now treelances lor Osi.
the La* Angeles Times and others.
W iy don’t you give* any ethnic music a I
review? Where* are all the blacks,
latinos, etc.? Sports? Where's classi
cal music represented? Look how you in-
ler viewed John Klein met — you askt*d him
if he listens to rexk <5 loll! Hell, can't you
guys sli»p trying to be Rolling Stone} Shape i
up vour magazine. There are other college |
reatlers lx*sidcs white, mindlt*ss. unheal- |
thy la*tl Zeppelin fans. I he “power" lies in
the rest of the world, which you’ve ig
nored. Asians and other minority folks
ought to take ewer your crummy office.
f Chin
San Francisco,CA
I'm sure Toshiba Akiyoshi (June Ampersand
feature) will he surprised to learn she's not
Asian; as Jor classical, jazz, etc have you
actually reaef this rag?
I n the September review of New Values,
Alison Wickwirc reports from the "in
side’’ that "Angel” is a re-make of an old,
unreleased Stooges song called “Johanna."
"Johanna" was co-written by Iggy l\>p and
James Williamson, and u appeared on
their 1977 collaboration, Kill City. Sc ott
Thurston, at well as limy and Hunt Sides,
appear* on this album wInc h was released
on the Homp label (BI.R 4001).
Thomas Stanbfrry
Ausi in TX
I n the October "In Both Kars" Martin
writes about recording records. How
about a story on the newest idea, using a
computei numbering system to ’*label'' eac h
note then reproduce it later on the record?
Second, page 23, that ad on birth control.
How .tlrout a story on how and what c1ik*s
and does not work? That ad is dangerous in
it’s "simplified" view of the subject,
lake Care. Keep Up the (hmkI Work.
James Talbert
Indiana I'nivfrsi i y
I have recently moved, and to my chagrin,
have louncl that I've thrown out my
favorite issue of Ampersand. Rather than
have fits, I have determined to remain
calm and ask if you sell hac k copies of your
magazine. I haven’t the vaguest idea how
much this will cost.
Miss Debbie Pryor
Iowa Ci i y. 1A
We do indeed sell hack issues (except u<e're out of
Volume /, Mo. I). Just send $1.00 for each issue,
including mailing; be sure to specify which is
sues you want — tj you can't remember the
number, tell us who's on the cover.
O n page 27 of Ampersand (Sept. ’79) you
incorrectly referred to Herman
Brood as a German, and to Nina
Hagen as a Dutch punk star. I he reverse
happens to lx* the case; rectification would
be appreciated.
Peter Lfvfnbach
Boston University
Y our ill-considered comments on the I
movie Crtuwng (Vol. HI, No. I)suggest
that protests against it violate the First
Amendment. Come now. Of all the pious,
art-for-art’s sake defenses I have read of
this particular piece of exploitation, yours
is the most ludicrous. I he First Amend
ment protects citizens from the govern
ment. not Hollywood from the citizens,
gay or otherwise.
If Friedkin had decided to re-make
Rirth of a Xatmn on 125th Street, blacks
would have lx*en outraged. Any distinc tion
you perceive between that and filming a
movie that w ill lead to gays being lx*aten (at
the least) in the streets of Greenwich Vil
lage must spring from your own lack of
concern for the lives of gays.
Every version of the script disc ussed
thus far makes it clear that the movie score
w ill lx* violent attacks on gays. Every re
sponsible gay group in New Ybrk (includ
ing the National Gay Task Force) fears that
such a movie w ill only serve to increase the
already alarming assaults on gays. Yet you
would have the gay community sit quietly
by while Pacino and company use the
streets of gay neighborhoods to put gay
lives in jeopardy.
F. C. Rim h. Jr
Law Studfn is for Human Rights
University of Texas Law School
Austin. TX
I wonder if you w ill print this rebuttal to
your editorial condemning the gay
community's outrage against William
Ftiedkin’s filming of Cruising.
Do you lend support to the making and
showing of a film that depicts the destruc
tion of human lx ings as self-inflic ted and
deserved, as Cruising does? As writer-
activist Doug Ireland has stated. “iCruising
is a snuff film." Your free speech argument
does not stand up any more than did
claims that Nazis had a constitutional
guarantee to march through Skokie cal
ling for the gassing of Jews. Cruising is an
incitement to murder and beat gays — as was
Anita Bryant's hate campaign, which re
sulted in a nation-wide wave of brutal at
tacks on gay men. Finally, you cannot
rationalize by quoting the producers of the
film about the nature of their prcxluct; I
have read the script printed in a major gay
magazine, which is absolute evidence that
Cruising is a Vomit-bag glorification of kil
lings of gays.
Cruising has no right to be supported by
public protection - the New York City
police, who have severely beaten protest-
ing gays — nor docs it have a right to exist
and lx* shown public ly. An outraged gay
community will see to it that this threat to
our lives will never lx* shown.
In gay pride,
Steve Keller
The editor replies *7 do not laid (or withhold)
my support to any film until I have seen the film;
I don't condemn any hook until I have read it, /
damn no music until I have heard it. That nuts
sound pious to you, l think it's practical and just.
The Rill of Rights guarantees certain freedoms
to all of u.t, not just to those we like and apprcn>e.
The Nazis had a right to march in Skokie, Wil
liam Friedkin has a right to make Cruising.
Films cannot he judged by published scripts h,
cause words cm paper are not the same as images
on a screen. I he film may he better, worse or sim
ply different; ur u<on't knew until we see it."
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Harry Crews
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Bede Midlet
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DmRIMENTS
In One Ear
Letters
4
id Out the Other
.Yru's ti Cosup
6
On Screen
Quadropkenia, Nosferatu, etc.
9
On Disc
New Win*, Morrison, etc.
16
On Tour
Kinks (4 Cars, etc.
18
In Print
Jailbird, Best Sci Fi, etc.
20
In Both Flan
Direct & reverberant sound
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Our Cover
The Ihvtne One takes hold during her recent
performance at ihe Creek Theater in Los
Angeles, as photographed by the peripatetic
Netl Uounoer