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Casualty and the Seconal Drift you have to discussing garage bands they have known. stage, while the second is more “produced. ”
Either one ' ll do, although I prefer the first.
expect some problems with readjustment. ” Of course, one of the primary features of
Hb voice trailed off and he went into some punk rock b that those selfsame critics who Fast Bay Grease.
kind of supra-conscious trance. are so into it today derided it when it was Zipping across to the other coast, we have
a ponk hand with a great tradition to uphold
Maybe the Doctor is right, I thought;so I
felt inside the album cover for a record. around. And so, I sez to myself, I sez, what b - Johnny Maestro ' s Brooklyn Bridge.
that
will
be
around
there
days
these
Instead I found cards. These guys have really qualifying in a couple of years as punk rock? I Originally the worst "jazz-rock” band in the
gone off the deep end. I held the package think part of the answer is these two discs. BSAT tradition, the Bridge has mellowed. Led
upside down and shook it till all the cards and Punk rock is, of course, performed and by Johnny Maestro (whose voice sparked the
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finally the shiny black disc spilled out onto listened to primarily by punks. Therefore, a Crests ’ hit of " Sixteen Candles” yea those
the floor. So there is a record somewhere in band like. say. Malo would qualify. But Malo many years ago), the Bridge b now doing
here after all. b almost totally an artificial creation, a band get this - big-band versions of Loudon
But oh, those cards. A real celebration of made up of a given number out of a large Wainwright Ill’ s amazing songs! AND DOING
inunity. The first one features a tall floating mass of Bay Area Latino musicians. THEM WELL! ! . Yeah, for those of you who
becloaked figure sinisterly slid between the What I ’ m talking about b a real band, a single find Loudon’ s piercing voice and simple guitar
gleaming silver spikes of an upright coffin. musical unit that never changes. And Tower too hard to listen to. The Bridge In Blue has
And look at that velvet-swathed and Of Power, in the San Francisco area anyway, some nice versions of " Bruno ’s Place,”
star-flecked popster furiously pedalling a qualifies. Everybody I know hates them, " School Days,” " Glad To See You Got
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tricycle five feet tall; I would suspect primarily through massive overexposure. Religion. " Uptown.” and "Hospital Lady,"
regression. And what about the fuchsia fiamc When they were managed by the Fillmore along with a socko seven-minute big- band "I
costumed character, whose card when turned concern, they managed to get stuck at the Feel Free” (the Cream hit) and band member
upside down reveals an almost perfect Jeckyll bottom of every decent bill Bill presented, Jimmy Rosica ' s own 11:21 opus, " Man In A
and Hyde dichotomy in the two prints of his including Aretha Franklin, where they put on Band. ” Almost ail the arrangements are
pasty face? Schizophrenia. I ’ d uy. one of the most bonecrushingly boring sets of identical, but anybody who denies this album
b fun in the grand old New York tradition -
Unfortunately, their bizarre malady does their career.
the Good Rats, the Vanilla Fudge, and all that
not extend to their music. Seven Separate -
Fools is depressmgly predictable and needs to have a bottle of Lime Rock wine
overproduced. All of the madness b wasted. poured down his throat. I 'm even looking
Gone is the playfulness of their other albums forward to their next one.
As long as there arc punk ears to lbten to
- not a bullfrog in sight Instead the boys it, there will be punk rock, and as long as
have become terribly concerned with there are critics who hate it, it’ll be healthy.
Important Contemporary Topics. Just guess
what "Black and White” is about. Or "Writing Ed Ward
on the Wall.”
In fact, after a long convalescence and a FULL CIRCLE
THE DOORS
brief vacation in limbo, it b rumored that
Three Dog Night have become cured to the ELEKTRA
point of being insufferable. Their next project An optimbtic Doors album? Full circle
will be a series of anti- smoking commercials.
from what, in other words? Is Jim Morrison
Jann Uhelszki really dead? Who b Bernard Wolfe and why?
BUMP CITY - • "Good Rockin • *• (Tonitc)? And what the
fuck b a verdilac (pronounced voodeelac,
TOWER OF POWER ' N V >s » ' mother)? Indeed, a rhetorical mishmash like
WARNER BROTHERS \ i 7 ' - thb should prime some kinda pump. So let ' s
THE BRIDGE IN BLUE hump ’em:
BUDDAH On records, though, they are quite a ABSOLUTELY FACTUAL INFORMA-
different matter. Tower Of Power is a hand TION: LA. Woman was a perfect album,
There seems to be a great revival of that has mastered evey single cliche in the literature and boogie, mind dorking escape
interest amongst rock cognoscenti these days book of Soul, and while that may sound like a holes twixt cerebral dirties, with more than
in a type of music that has been branded putdown, it’s not intended that way. Soul apt attention to our old friend production
"punk rock.” This music is coming into favor music, like blues, b a matter of cliches, set values. Fact is, every single one of the Doors’
because it represents the primitive, basic phrases. Ticks.” And these guys have ’ em albums was optimistic: make me smile
foundations from which the rather more down. They’re seldom as exciting as any great anyway. If they haven’t been a comfort to my
complex ruminations of the Golden Age soul act you could name, but they also avoid mom and dad, at least they ' ve been a comfort
to me. LA. Woman and its predecessors, well.
sprung. So you’ll find yer top rock critics the egregious "Unh, unh, git dawn, mah
gathered around some mouldy Ron Cobb beh- bch, got- ta, " bullshit that so many white Other Voices was simply a fuzzier version of
production (Standells, Chocolate Watch would- be- soul acts employ. Of their two the same damned thing. Loved it If you
Band), loving every minute of it and records, the first is most like the band on couldn ' t hack the other voices, then you' ve
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