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Colonel Bruce Hampton’s music inspires
Late Bronze Age puts the roll £ J
back into old-fashioned rock
By Kaymund Valley
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In history classes teachers like to
discuss innovators — people who
dared to do something new and be
cause they had no one to learn from
and no one to influence them
In the history of Southern rock 'n’
roll, Bruce Hampton is this sort of
man. he started in 1965 playing elec
tronic music that was sort of rock'n'
roll, sort of something else or, well,
nobody was very sure. But he had
no teachers, he did it on his own,
With his band the Late Bronze
Age, Hampton projects his wild,
weird personality onto the world
and plays music at the same time
But the band is concerned with
music not style or genre
“We play country music I’m just
not sure what country it's from,"
Hampton said.
“We get Many nationalities in
there and we try to use it all at
once," he said.
The Hampton Grease Band,
where Hampton became a legend,
tore up Atlanta's counterculture
clubs from 1965 to 1973 building a
somewhat fanatical but small fol
lowing. They even released an
album on CBS records called
“Music to Eat." It may have been
the least-selling record in the his
tory of the CBS catalog, a myth that
Hampton likes to play up. "Music to
Eat” is now a treasured collector's
Item
Recognition of Hampton's Influ
ence on rock 'n' roll's recent under
ground revival has just started to
come, though. His band has been se
curing a lot of dates lately, And al
though Hampton’s role as
godfather to many of today's bands
is one that should be respected, he
hardly seems to relish it. It seems
that he wants to forget the past
sometimes.
The band's newest album is called
"Arkansas” and it contains the typ
ical perversity that one expects
from the band. It features musi
cians like Paul Brewer (Little
Feat), T. Lavitsch and Sonny
Embry.
“ Arkansas' has a little of every
thing from opera to jazz to a touch
pf folk to a touch of swing,"
Hampton said.
"I guess if you had to categorize it
you'd say it was avant-rock but I
don’t know what that means. Actu
ally, I guess if you were going to say
anything it's that the blues seem to
run through the album."
Yes, but is it rock ’n' roll?
"It has elements of rdck 'n' roll,
but it seems like everything I hear
on the radio is just rock," Hampton
said "They’ve taken the roll out of
it. We (Late Bronze Age) try to
roll."
Hampton wants his music to flow
a little so you can't pin it down and
The Late Bronze Age maintain steady eye contact
call it anything but music. Putting
the roll back into rock Vi' roll means
that you can rock hard, and yet
your music can still be subtle
enough to nudge the brain. It also
swings like the breeze.
Hampton's music is experimental
in a sense that he wants to chal
lenge his listener into the sounds he
creates and pulling out something
that was hidden in them or maybe
wasn't even there. It tries to encom
pass everything but ends up encom
passing nothing.
“When I listen to music I listen
for the silence in between the
sounds,” Hampton said.
“If people put the silence in the
right place then I like it more than
the actual notes. Noise, even hard
noise is like silence in that way
Both can be incorporated into the
music to create something that
maybe goes beyond mere chords
and singing," he said
His music has a certain life to it
— something that is lacking in a lot
of contemporary music. Hampton
sees this as an assault on a the crea
tive senses and impulses.
"They (CD players) are so clear
that they've taken the life out of the
music. It's so sterile. Whatever I
hear on the radio is sterile. It
sounds too good."
Late Bronze Age makes music
that’s also too good but in a dif
ferent way. Its so good that it can
inspire you to think of things you
never thought of or just to believe in
creativity again.
Late Bronze Age will play the 40
Watt Uptown tonight.
UQA Today
EAG meeting
The Epilepsy Association of Georgia, Inc,, will hold Its annual
statewide membership meeting on Jan IB at 10 a m. at the Holiday Inn.
2024 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins, Ga,
All EAG members are Invited and their luncheon Is free Stale offi
cers and directors will be elected during this meeting. For more Infor
mation call the EAG office at t -800-342-2823
Weekly Canteen
Every Friday night from 8 to 11 Christians gather for the Weekly
Canteen at Yogurt's Last Stand The Weekly Canteen Is an evening of
praise, slng-alongs and fellowship featuring Athens' own Christian re
cording artists, the Steven Rhett Shrlver Group
There is no charge for admission. For more information call 353-
2917.
Frisbee practice
Intimate Frisbee practice will be held every Tuesday and Thursday
at 4 p m and eVery Sunday at 1 p.m. at the intramural fields There is
also practice every Wednesday night from 10:30 p m. to midnight at
Stegeman Hall.
There will be a special tournament on Monday, Jan 19 to celebrate
the Rev Martin Luther King Jr Everyone is welcome
Open house
The Athens Rape Crisis Line, which has worked against sexual as
sault for 12 years, is sponsoring an open house at the Bluebird Cafe (on
the corner of Washington and Hull streets) Friday, Jan 16 from 5:30 to
8 p.m. For more information call 353-1912 after 5 p.m.
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