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— Griffin Daily News Monday, December 20,1976
Sounds
Poetry under a fascist facade
By Stan Mieses
Any guy who claims to be a
poet and goes out and makes a
whole-hearted rock album is
really asking for it. Anyone
who presents such a package
wrapped in crypto-fascist
overtones — that is, entitling
the album “New Nation” and
portraying a young man in a
short haircut, long boots, a
raised, leather-gloved fist,
and an appropriately steely in
signia of a wing-draped falcon
standing on top of the world —
well, that person’s begging for
attention
That’s how Roderick
Falconer (a k a. Rod Taylor)
has made his big splash in the
marketplace. It will be in
teresting to see if he can dis
place his own weight on the
pop charted sea, or sink
Interesting because Rod
Falconer is, in fact, a pretty
smart guy who’s trying to ad
vance lyrical rock —a poet
whose concern with images
and the metaphysical makes
for a very ambitious debut.
Fortunately, the music has
turned out well enough on
“New Nation’’ that
Falconer’s private Byzantine
strategies will have a chance
to prove or disprove
themselves
For instance, once you open
the record, you discover
there’s little evidence of the
steeliness and arty decadence
advertised in the cover’s
graphics. Why the cover?
"New Nation,” explained
Rod, “is a metaphysical
habitation, not political or
geographical Our new fron
tier is definitely the media,
not space We can't go there.
The media, that's the mythic
land, our Oz
"Now. our Odyssey takes
place not in a faraway land
but between scan lines and
lines of type I wanted to enter
that land, past the keeper of
the gate, where you have to
have a name to defeat the
spectre of anonymity. The
media accepts an image, not a
lengthy explanation, you see
And 1 don’t believe in didactic
art — I'm a poet, and I believe
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STEEL-EYED SEVERITY is the look Roderick Falconer
affects here and on his debut album, "New Nation."
Falconer says his image represents "austerity, discipline,
order, power and purity.”
in images. I feel I represent
austerity, discipline, order,
power, and purity, and I
wanted a graphic representa
tion of those things. Maybe I
believed that’s what people
wanted, then again, I'm such
a powerful ego to myself that
I believe that's what people
wanted anyway A statement
that's pure. That's why they
responded to the obelisk in
2001 But I don’t believe that
taken as a whole, new Nation’
is sinister."
Hardly It’s a cross between
Bowie and old Proco) Harum,
if 'sounds like’ is a good
reference point, and the lyrics
are, in fact, fun to toy with
Falconer has promise that
surely will out when he dis
covers how few gimmicks
work in rock and roll Now
he’s working on a second
album, and a stage show
which "will synthesize the
Admiral Rickover speaks out
— Opinion —
By VIRGIL PINKLEY
Copley News Service
WASHINGTON - In addi
tion to being the world’s lead
ing expert on nuclear naval
matters, and especially sub
marines, Adm. Hyman Rick
over is one of the best read
and informed men in Amer
ica.
He has an amazing intel
lect.
When President
Eisenhower was in the White
House he insisted on keeping
Rickover in charge of our
nuclear naval matters
despite retirement age rules.
He said that he and the nation
Nuremburg Rally with
‘Footlight Parade’.’’ What
hath Hollywood wrought?
An answer from a different
quarter: Venus and the
Razorblades. Much has been
written of the advent of "punk
rock,” New York style, which
is about a lot of young skinny
guys who sneer when they
play guitar and all wish they
were Kiss with a big, fat con
tract. Now L A. has its punks,
and they also are allowed out
at night, though there are
times you have to wonder
why.
Venus and the Razorblades
are the brain! ? (children of a
Kim Fowley, who is the noted
West Coast Punk Impressario,
having put together the teen
aged girl group, The
Runaways, and another
youngsters group. The Quick,
needed the admiral’s know
how and that he did not want
to be commander in chief
without Rickover at his right
hand.
In recent months the
admiral, who is extremely
outspoken and blunt, has
spoken and written on a num
ber of nonnaval matters, such
as education, the purpose of
education and our profes
sions.
In courageous remarks de
livered when the Distin
guished American Award
was bestowed upon him by
the Bar Association of Balti
more City, Md., he said,
"Lawyers were seen as
learned men, officers of the
court, whose function it was
and secured recording con
tracts for both of them. (In
New York, The Ramones, and
a ‘Live at CBGB’s’ album
represent punks on the racks).
Now Fowley is showcasing
Venus and the Razorblades,
featuring a very blonde girl,
blue-black haired girl, and a
long blond skinny boy with
round sunglasses and a sneer,
straight out of some late fif
ties mad teenager film.
The girls are dressed in the
tightest black, and the blonde
has a suggestive train of but
tons to boot. Neither is old
enough to order drinks at the
Whiskey A Go Go. They sing
songs like: "Some like it hot,
some like it cold, But I like it
bold,” a little opening gem;
"Gay boy, I’m not your sister,
I’m not your brother, I’m gon
na try to make a man out of
you” and their rousing “I
want your body and I always
will.” All this in front of a
tinseled backdrop, a drummer
with a cigarette appendage,
and tables full of hooting boys
and 12-year-old girls with
cruel mouths. I asked a
woman at the club who the
long-haired boy with the
shades and the sneer was. “I
think that’s Venus,” she said.
And from the stage he hissed:
“This is punkorama. ”
Top 10 Albums
(Week of Dec 18)
1 Sonqs in the Key
of Life
(Stevie Wonder)
2. A Night on the Town
(Rod Stewart)
3. Boston
4 Spirit
(Earth, Wind and Fire)
5 The Pretender
(Jackson Browne)
6 The Song Remains
the Same/Soundtrack
(Led Zeppelin)
7. A New World Record
(Electric Light Orchestra)
8 Blue Moves
(Elton John)
9 The Best of the Doobies
(Doobie Brothers)
10 Frampton Comes Alive
(Peter Frampton)
(c) 1976 Billboard
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to see that justice was done so
that society could function
smoothly. They provided a
civilized way to resolve dis
putes.”
Continuing his address he
said, "... You must be aware
of the public’s opinion of your
profession.
"The 1973 Harris poll found
only 18 per cent to have confi
dence in law firms. This rated
you lower than businessmen,
police or garbage collectors.”
Speaking of some of the
nation’s woes, he declared,
“Look at some of the revela
tions since Watergate. Does
anyone believe that corpora
tion lawyers know nothing of
their companies’ wrongful
acts? And in government,
lawyers have more positions
of power than any other pro
fession.”
He quoted Vermont C.
Royster, in an editorial in the
Wall Street Journal, when he
wrote, “Among recent
scandals is the revelation of a
lack of a sense of ethics dis
played by so many lawyers.
"Yet the shock was not so
much that some lawyers
deliberately violate the law.
Their behavior was not that
of the intentionally dishonest
man.
“Rather it arose from a
moral myopia that led them
to do things without seeing
any ethical consideration at
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Putting the issue on a per
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lawyer in this room should be
distressed by the failures of
our judicial system. Our
courts and jails are over
crowded and criminals go un
punished. Ninety per cent of
the criminals brought to trial
are acquitted. How many of
you feel a personal responsi
bility to put these things
right?
“Every lawyer who sees
these wrongs and takes no
action — either with his
brother lawyer, with his bar
association, or with his legis
lature — contributes by his
acquiescence to the decline of
America. Remember that
‘silence gives consent.’”
Answering a question
which many listeners had in
mind, he said, “You may
wonder why I appear to be so
ungracious as to accept an
award from your group, yet
take the occasion to criticize
your profession. As a student
in history, I have been con
cerned with the moral cli
mate of our country. I am
concerned that some of the
values held by our people are
in the process of disintegra
tion. Ancient wisdom has told
us that it is necessary for
most of us to be periodically
reinstructed in moral values.
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Legislator seeks
CB changes
A California congressman has proposed legislation that
would bring about the most dramatic change in CBing since
the band was established 19 years ago.
U.S. Rep. Burt Talcott, a Republican, introduced a bill in
the last session that directed the Federal Communications
Commission to allocate six new CB channels in a higher, skip
free frequency range. The bill made no headway in the ses
sion, but he expects to introduce a revised version in the up
coming session.
Skip is a form of interference caused by signals bouncing off
the atmosphere and landing hundreds of miles past their nor
mal range. CBers face a skip crisis because sunspot activity
will begin increasing in 1978, and sunspots make skip worse.
Sunspots, which are eruptions on the sun’s surface, send out
ultraviolet rays, and the rays give the atmosphere additional
electrical energy The added energy makes the ionosphere
reflective, and it bounces radio waves just as a mirror reflects
light.
The last increase was in the middle and late 19605, a time
when few people had CBs. Sunspots grow active every 11
years, with the increase lasting three to five years. In the next
active period, 20 times as many people will have CBs as there
were 11 years before.
Confusion and a breakdown in CB communications are
predicted by two government-financed studies.
Talcott’s bill would direct the FCC to set up six channels
well above the 27-megahurtz area where CB is now located.
The present range is one of the worst places to be in a sunspot
peak, and higher frequencies are not as susceptible to the in
terference.
"We’ve got to have more channels and we’ve got to have
them in an area not as hard hit by skip interference,” says
Tom Esterly, an aide to Talcott. “Otherwise, we ll have a
mess.”
Esterly says that the bill is designed to put pressure on the
FCC and prompt action from the agency before the sunspots
get out of hand
The FCC earlier this year expanded the band from 23 to 40
channels, but it allocated the new channels in the 27-
megahurtz area.
Neither this year’s bill nor the one planned for the next ses
sion will say where the new channels should be. Carving out
six new channels would not be an easy task. The FCC would
have to take the channels from existing radio systems, and no
other group of radio operators would freely give up a chunk of
electronic real estate.
And the FCC would also face international problems If six
new channels were allocated, it would be best if the Canadian
government also expanded its CB to the same area Mexico
has nothing comparable to CB.
Expanding to a higher frequency area would not solve the
skip problem, only ease it a little. Most CBers probably
couldn't afford the move because the new radios would cost
more
Electronic gear needed to hit the higher mark would boost
the prices, perhaps as much as 400 per cent Mass production
and technical breakthroughs could knock down the price But
one of the new generation CBs would have to cost more
Some CBers will be stuck with skip, no matter what happens
in Washington The Talcott bill is a good idea, and CBers
should make their U.S. senators and representatives aware of
it. New channels should be allocated, whether through
legislative mandate or on the FCC’s own initiative