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debut will now be at theIsle of Wight Festival at
the end of August.
And Joni Mitchell,Free, the Moody Blues,
Family and Taste havealso been added to thebill.
Also appearing will be
the Voices of East Harlem,' a choir of coloured
New York children who
shared the bill with
Jímí Hendrix at the Fillmore East last New
Year's Eve.
Hendrix will be at thefestival with his newExperience, which consists of Billy Cox (bassguitar) from the Band of
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man's switch
by RICHARD WILLIAMSROBERT WYATT, drummer with the Soft Machine,
is joining Kevin Ayers' band, The Whole Worldbut he will not be leaving the Softs.

-" The Soft Machine is a lovely group, and it will becarrying on," Robert told the MM on Monday. " But thefact is that the others don't like life on the road, and that's
what I exist on.
" They're perfectly happy sitting at home and writing
music, and they don't like to play one piece of music night
after night. Being on the road brings them down.
" That's what gets me going, the whole trip of playing
the same music night after night, so I'm going to play
regularly with some mates, and the most convenient matehappens to be Kevin."
Ayers was a member of the Soft Machine until last year.
" I don't want to do anything very ambitious: just little
gigs that the Softs are too
big to do now.
" I'm not killing off theSofts
I'm just letting thegroup breathe, and this is
the next stage in the development."
Robert makes his debutwith The Whole World inthis Saturday's free concert
in London's Hyde Park, andhe will next be seen with
the Soft Machine in theirProms concert next month.

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Mitchell(drums) fromhis original group.
Emerson, Lake andPalmer will NOT be appearing at the National
Jazz, Blues and Pop
Festival at Plumpton.
Explained Keith Emerson, the ex -Nice organist: " It appeared that if
we did Plumpton, we'dbe in a bill topping position and we're not into
that. We want to earnthat position by themusic we're playing andnot on the strength of
the names of the groups
we were in before."
They spent two daysrecording at the Advision
Studios last week.
Recorded was theGreg Lake song " Take
A Pebble," an instrumental written by thegroup
titled" Bar-

barian," and a new version of " Rondo."
The Isle of Wight
Festival line up has now
been re -jigged, and is asfollows:
FRIDAY:
Chicago,Family, Taste, James
Taylor,ArrivalandLighthouse, a 13 -piece
American rock band.

SATURDAY: Doors,
Joni Mitchell, the Who,
Sly and the Family
Stone, Cat Mother andthe All -Night Newsboys,
Free, John Sebastian,Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Mungo Jerry andSpirit.

SUNDAY: Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Leonard
Cohen,
RichieHavens, Moody Blues,
Pentangle
and GoodNews.

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Kensington; 7 Intone; B Davray/Carlin; 9 Keith Prowse; 10 Warner Bros;
11 Harrisongs; 12 Valley; 13 Fleetwood;
14 Freshwater; 15 Jobete/Carlin; 166Carpenters, A & M
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Freda Payne, Invictus
LAY DOWN(CANDLES IN
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Various Artists, Island
Who, Track
Nice, Charisma
DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK
HarvestDEJA VU
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McCARTNEYPaul McCartney, AppleSELF PORTRAITBob Dylan, CBS
EASY RIDER
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Sunbury; 29 April Music; 30 Welbeck
Music.

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RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE
Blues Image, Atco(7) GIMME DAT DING
Pipkins, Capitol
8 (10) 0-0-H CHILD
Five Stairsteps, Buddah
9(4) THE LOVE YOU SAVE
Jackson Five, Motown
10 (23) MAKE IT WITH YOU
Bread. Elektra

25 (23)26 (24)27 (40)728 (25)29 (27)30 (39)PAINT YOUR WAGON
Soundtrack, Paramount
ANDY WILLIAMS' GREATEST HITSCBS
CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE
Andy Williams, CBS
LADIES OF THE CANYON
Joni Mitchell, Reprise
JIM REEVES GOLDEN RECORDSRCA International
FILL YOUR HEAD WITH ROCK
Various Artists, CBS-WOODSTOCKLET IT BE

McCARTNEYPaul McCartney, AppleLIVE AT LEEDSSELF' PORTRAITThe Who, Decca
Bob Dylan, Columbia

ABC
Jackson 5, Motown
DEJA VU
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Atlantic
CHICAGO
ColumbiaCANDLES IN THE RAIN
Melanie, Buddah
ON STAGEFEBRUARY 1970
Elvis Presley, RCA
FIFTH DIMENSION'S GREATEST HITS
Soul CityIT AIN'T EASY
Three Dog Night, Dunhill
BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS 3
Columbia.
THE BEST OF PETER, PAUL & MARY
Warner Bros
CLOSER to HOME
Grand Funks, Capitol-.

GET READY

Rare Earth, Rare EarthHENDRIX BAND OF GYPSYS
Jimi Hendrix, Capitol
AMERICAN WOMANThe Guess Who, RCA'STEPPENWOLF LIVEDunhill'
THE ISAAC HAYES MOVEMENTEnterprise'
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
Simon & Garfunkel, Columbia
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP
Four Tops, Motown'
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
Mountain, Windfall
TOM
Tom Jones, Parrot
BENEFIT
Jethro Tull, Reprise.
LIVE CREAM
Atco
WE MADE IT HAPPEN
Engelbert Humperdinck, Parrot
HEY JUDE
Beatles, Apple:
THE DEVIL MADE ME BUY THIS DRESS
Flip Wilson, Little DavidGASOLINE ALLEY
Rod Stewart, Mercuryo
GINGER BAKER: Jensen in pieces

GINGER BAKER'S Airforce's next British appearance will be at theYorkshire Pop Festival
at Krumlin, near Halifax, on August 14. 15
and 16.
'Ginger is currently in
Ghana after wrecking his
Jensen car in Nigeria. He is
staying with an African
drummer called Guy Warren, nursing a scratchedwrist
his only injury inthe crash.

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back to Britain in pieces.
Other names for the Krumlin Festival are the Who, Manfred Mann Chapter III, Pentangle, Fairport Convention.
Fotheringay,
Elton
John,
Taste, Yes, Edgar Broughton,
Pretty Things, Mungo Jerry
and Quintessence.
"Ours will be the only Festival to run non-stop for threedays," the organiser, Brian-

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Hyde Park concert thisyear, said Barbara Scott, his
publicist; this week.

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The Newcastle singer willbring over his multi -racial
group War for the gig, which
will probably take place on
September 12.
Burdon was in England last
week to see his parents, wholive in Norfolk, and because" England is good for myhead."Miss Scott added that otherartists booked for the concert
included Canned Heat andJohn, Sebastian.

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Sussex, youth club on Saturday at the Parkfield, Balcombe Village from 8 pm tomidnight.
Deejay Steve Maxted will
be on - handand groups

include Purple Broom. There
will be go-go girls, a barbecue
and light shows. Tickets costlOs and proceeds
go toBalcombe Parish Church.

TOE FAT ILLNESSFAT, the latest new
British group to go to
America, got off to an
unfortunate start to the tourat the Whisky -A -Go -Go in Los
TOE

festivalline-upHighley, of Northern Enter
tainments, told MM.
" We have the biggest British bill ever got together
Krumlin is in the centre othe big six Yorkshire citiewith 11,000,000 people withi
an hour's drive of the site."

ISLAND record stars wil
be appearing in two con
certs at Liverpool Stadiun

is the probable title of the new Mothers

released within the next twomonths. It is one of several
tracks that the Mothers havebeen cutting at the Trident
studios in London during
their recent stay in England.
The record is described as" very catchy and commercial,with a lot of harmonies in it."
The
group'salbum," Weasels Rip My Flesh," will
be out next month.

in Autumn.
Free,
Fotheringay,
Stevens and Bronco will doCa
concert on September 19, anTraffic, Mott The Hoopli
Quintessance and If will pla
on October 10.
Bothconcerts will b
televised by Granada Telvision.
On September 13
Fre
and Mott The Hoople play th
Fairfield Hall. Croydon, an
the show wil he recorded fo
a live album featuring botgroups.
Traffic, Free and Bronco ar
off to Holland this weeken
for dates at The Hague
Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Free are at High Wycomb
Town Hali on July 23.

IVANHOE COMINGBURNIN'Angeles ' when
Cliff
Bennett

lead
wassingertaken

seriously ill just before they
opened the'show.
Cliff was told by a doctorthat he was suffering from anunidentified
virus infection
and would not be able towork for at least a week.
The group did perform,
however, but Cliff could
hardly sing. In the end thegroup were booked for an
extra four days.

COUNTRY JOE ON TV
COUNTRY Joe McDonald
is appearing on Top Of The
Pops tonight (Thursday),where he will be performing
his " I -Feel -Like -I'm -Fixing To -Die."
Tomorrow he leaves England for Chile, where he has
a part in Sol Landau's film,"The Ghost Of Che," forKrumlin" CHARLENA "of Invention single, due to be

Hyde Park?
ERIC BURDON is "almost
certain" to be one of theheads

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FOTHERINGAY
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Groundhogs, Liberty
HERB ALPERT'S GREATEST HITS
A&M
(26) CRICKLEWOOD GREEN
Ten Years After Deram
26
WORLD -OF VAL DOONICAN Vol 1
Decca-27 (19)
IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDONKing Crimson, Island
LET'S BE FRIENDS
Elvis Presley, RCA International
29 (21) BUDDY HOLLY'S GREATEST HITS Vol 2
Coral(29) TAMLA MOTOWN CHARTBUSTERS Vol 3
Various Artists, Tamla Motown
Two albums tied for 24th, 27th and 29th positions

Leeds Music; 17 Gale; 18 Mellin; 19
RAK, 20 Essex; 21
Chris -a -Lee; 22Peter Maurice; 23
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MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO
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BALL OF CONFUSION
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6 (11)
7(5)
8 (3)Creedence Clearwater Revival, Liberty
4(6) GROOVIN' WITH MR. BLOE
Mr. Bloe, DJM
5(9) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE
Nicky Thomas, Trojan
6(4) COTTONFIELDS
Beach Boys, Capitol
7(3) GOODBYE SAM, HELLO SAMANTHA
Cliff Richard, Columbia
8 (18) LOLA
Kinks, Pye
9(5) SALLY
Gerry Monroe, Chapter One
10 (7) IT'S ALL IN THE GAME
Four Tops, Tamla Motown
11 (14) SOMETHING
Shirley Bassey, United Artists
12 (10) DOWN THE DUSTPIPE
Status Quo, Pye
13 (11) GREEN MANALISHI
Fleetwood Mac, Reprise
14 (21) LADY D'ARBANVILLECat Stevens, Island
15 (12) HONEY COME BACK ... Glen Campbell, Capitol
16 (28) THE WONDER OF YOU
Elvis Presley, RCA
17 (13) YELLOW RIVER
Christie, CBS
18 (15) ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN
Marvin Gaye, Tamla Motown
19(17) GROUPY GIRL
Tony Joe White, Monument
20 (16) I WILL SURVIVE
Arrival, Decca
21LOVE LIKE A MAN
Ten Years After, Deram
22 (19) EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL Ray Stevens, CBS
23 (27) BIG YELLOW TAXIJoni Mitchell, Reprise
24 (30) (IT'S LIKE A) SAD OLD KINDA MOVIE'
Pickerttywitch, Pye
25 (20) UP THE LADDER TO THE ROOF
Supremes, Tamla Motown
26
I'LL SAY FOREVER MY LOVE
Jimmy Ruffin, Tamla Motown
27
NEANDERTHAL MAN
Hot Legs, Fontana
28 (22) AMERICAN WOMAN
Guess Who, RCA
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WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO MY LOVE
Brotherhood of Man, Deram
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SONG OF JOY
Miguel Rios, A & M
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Free, Islandowhich he also wrote all themusic.
McDonald was recording
last week at de Lanelea
studios in
London with,among others, Spencer Davis,
Peter
Green,
andAlex
Dmchowski, for a double
album called" LastFive

Years."He has written about
tracks for the album,

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Red Ivanhoe, thgroup from Den
mark, fly into Britain for th
first time on Monday.
Dates
bookedincludeLyceum, London (July 24)
Top Gear (27); 100 Club
London (28); Chez, Waltham
stow .(31); Torrington, Finchley (August 2); Country Clu'(4); Speakeasy, London (5and probably the Plumptor
Festival on August 6.
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The festival alreadyhas a huge line-up of all British talent, and is totake plaee on August 6,
7, 8 and 9 despite thethreat from Tory MP
Martin Madden.

EDITORIAL -,Max Jones
Laurie Henshaw
Chris Hayes
Michael Watts
Mark Plummer
Neil Roberts'
Andrew Means

ADVERTISEMENTMANAGER "John Jones_DESPITE the threat of a High
Court injunction, the National
Jazz Federation is to go ahead
with its plans- to hold its tenthannual festival, this year at
Plumpton race course, Sussex.

FEATURES EDITOR
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NEWS. EDITOR
Chris Charlesworth
CHIEF SUB EDITOR' Alan Lewis -PHOTOGRAPHER
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Groups approachedtotake part so far include
Family, Groundhogs, Steam
Hammer, Third Ear Band,
Quatermass, Patto, Clark
Hutchinson, Fairport Convention,
Strawbs,
Elton
John, Granny's New Intentions, Daddy Longlegs,
Chicago Climax Blues Band,
Gracious, Da Da, Edgar
Broughton, Black Sabbath,Jackson Heights, Hardin York, Hard Meat, East ofEden, Audience, Incredible
String Band, Matthews Southern Comfort, Brian Davison's Every Which Way,
Vandergraaf Generator, Pink
Fairies,
Wishbone
Ash,
Slade, Colosseum, Humble
Pie, Yes, Juicy Lucy, Chris

CHICAGO plan to record
their performance at the Isleof Wight Festival on August28
and the recording
could be their next album.
Their recording manager,
Jim Guercio, and business
manager, Larry Fitzgerald,
are flying to this country at
the beginning of next month
to fix the arrangements forthe recording.
They will also investigate-

Barber, Caravan,
Magna
Carta
and
Stone
The
Crows.
The injunction being sought
by Mr. Madden has been transferred to the High Court,a ea

Chicago to

cut live
LP herepossibility of filming
Chicago's performance forthemixingthe1

States.
The band comprises Eric,
Bobby
Whitlock,
formerlywith Delaney and Bonnie, onorgan, Carl Radle, another
American of " Friends " fame,on

The sessions are now at thestage, and will beresumed shortly.
The musicians involved have been Eric
Clapton, Ringo Starr, Billy
Preston, Klaus VOorman, Gary
Brooker,. and steel -guitarist
Pete Drake, who was flown in
specially from Nashville.
Drake also had a major
hand in Ringo's second solo
album, recently completed in

Nashvilleandconsisting

6)

The

Pavilion,
Bournemouth (18); Town Hall,
Swindon (20); Town Flail,
Torquay (21) and Van Dyke
Club, Plymouth (22).
Septemberdates
are:Fairfield Hall, Croydon (20);
De Montfort Hall, Leicester(21); Guildhall,Portsmouth(22); The Dome, Brighton(23); Philharmonic, Liverpool
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BLOE ALBUM
MR. BLOE, whose hit single," Groovin' With Mr. Bloe " iscoming up to the quarter -million mark, has just completed his first album.

A
newsingle, as yet
unchosen, should be released
the first week in September.

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Zeppelinsplitdenieddrummer Jim

andDates fixed are: Roundhouse, Dagenham (August 1);
The Place, Hanley (2); Marquee, London (4); Penthouse,
Scarborough (6); Mecca, Newcastle (7); California, Dunstable (8); Mothers, Birmingham (9); Sherwood Rooms,
Nottingham (11); Speakeasy,
London (12); Winter Gardens,
Malvern (14); Tofts, FOlkstone(15); Black Prince, Bexley

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Harrison halts
solo
album

injunction to stop future
festivals being held at therace course, and not ,necessarily this year's event.

seekingTheobjectofplaying
smaller venues is that thegroup want an opportunity to
get close to an audience.
In mid -October they will
leave for a tour of the United-

following a hearing at County
Court last week.
Mr Madden and six of his
are

October.

possible showing in theStates.
The group's second album
has now sold over 1,000,000
copies in the States.
Impresario Arthur Howes
told the MM on Tuesday that
Chicago will be touring
Britain in November. They
open on Sunday, November
29, at a London venue yet
to be fixed. They will makea 21 -day tour ofEurope,spending four days in Britain.

GEORGE HARRISON has
suspended sessions for his
new solo album following
the death of his mother in
Liverpool on Saturday.

neighbours

DEREK and the Dominoes
Eric Clapton's new bandcommence an extraordinary tour of British
clubs and ballrooms on
August 1.
They open at the Roundhouse, Dagenham, and forthree weeks travel almost
nightly to clubs and towns
more used
to semi -probands than musicians ofClapton's calibre.
After three weeks touring,
the group come off the roadfor a fortnight to record analbum in Miami and then go
back again for another fortnight's touring which tapers
off with a handful of dates inuP.,..oes-14'-{://--ELTON JOHN/GROUNDHOGS/INCIjEDIBLES/HUMBLE PIE: for Plumpton

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John Bonham was contemplating a spilt with Led
Zeppelinbecausedisagreement" another member "

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were
emphatically denied by his
agents, Rak, this week.

A
spokesman said there
had been a number of stories
about group members leaving
recently. " Last week it was
Robert Plant" but there wasno truth at all in suggestions
about a rift in the group. " Infact, the relationship could
not be better," It was stated.
Stories that Bonham has
not been getting on with oneof the other three have been
circulating for some time in
Birmingham, where the drummer lives in a new house in
the suburb of Hagley.
His wife, Pat, said on
Monday: " There have beenno disagreements, really. If
there was anything in it, hewould have told me."(24); Green's Playhouse, Glasgow (25); Colston Hall, Bristol(27) and Free Trade Hall,
Manchester (28).
October dates are: Gala
Ballroom, Norwich (3); Jazz
Club, Redcar (4); Town Hall,
Birmingham(5);
Winter
Gardens,
Bournemouth (9);Leeds
University (10 and
Lyceum, London (11).

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WORLD sales of the Mungo
Jerry chart -topper, " In The
Summertime "arenow
approaching the two million
mark, In Britain alone, sales
have hit half -a -million.
" We are applying for a
Gold Disc," Elliott Cohen

American charts.
Tracks by Mungo Jerry will
be included on the Dawnlabel's double-album of therecent Hollywood Music Festival, due for release at theend of August.
Also on the album with be
Dawn artists Demon Fuzz,
Wildmouth and, Titus Groan.

told the MM on Tuesday.
Red Bus chief Ellis Elias
flew to America on Sundaynight to arrange a Statesidetour for Mungo Jerry.

It will take place around-October" In The
period. Already,
Summertime " is climbing the- the Septemberof the Red' Bus organisation

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and flute), AlanJohn
(bass),
Hedleyguitar) and(lead
Davison (drums). The group's
first LP is almost completed
and will be released on theCharisma label in September.
They
to concentrate
plan
mainly on concert appearances.
Lee Jackson's new group,

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BLINKY'S NEW BAND
Briandrummer
Davison's new group is called
Every Which Way and is due
to make its debut appearance
at the 10th annual Plumpton
Festival in August.
includesThe
line-up
Graham Bell (vocals), Geoff

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Nash and Young single which
is currently high in the US
charts in the next few weeks.
The record, a protest song
about the Kent State University scents who were shotby »Ja tonal Guardsmen, willbe/released "sometime during
next
the
three
or
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weeks," said a spokesman for
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Hall, Leicester (December 1).

ELTON JOHN has won the
Knokke Carousel TV Festival.
A half-hour TV show, titledPortrait of Elton John, wasentered by
Belgium,
andwalked away with the firstprize. Other countries taking
part Included Czechoslovakia,
Spain, Belgium, Holland andFrance.
Elton John., accompanied by
Nigel Olsson (drums) and Dee
Murray (bass) will be touring
America in September. They
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BBC-TV
special. The show, a 50 minute one -woman special,
will be screened within thenext two months on BBC -2's
" Show of the Week " spot.
Shirley will also appear on" Top of the Pops ' tonight(Thursday) singing her latest
hit " Something."
While she is in London she

will also record a single tofollow-up to her latest hit.

deter Franks fans

SINATRA admirers are
already rushing to buy
tickets for Frank's twocharity shows at London's Royal Festival
Hall in November.

HERMAN OPENSHERMAN'S
Hermitsalongwith the Beverley Sisters and
Kenny Lynch opened the 1970
concert season at the opera
house, Blackpool on Sunday- -The singer, plus Bob
Hope and Noel Coward
who is compering
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turns to the Festival Hall
on Monday, November 16.

which Lord Louis Mountbatten is president of the International
Councilandnegotiations for Frank Sinatra are handled by impresario Harold Davison.
Harold told the MM on
Tuesday that Sinatra would
be bringing over his own
MD, Bill Miller, and that anorchestra of some 40 British
musicians will be formed toaccompany the singer.
Tickets are available fromthe Night of Nights office, 23
Grafton Street, London, W.I.
Seats at £5 for the first
performancehavealreadysold out. A spokesman for theoffice told the MM on Tuesday: " The only tickets left arethose from £20 and upwards."
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new film
with Kirk Douglas
titledThe Gunfighter.
Meanwhile, his film, Johnny Cash, The Man,
His World, His Music, continues its showings
around Britain.
July screenings are: ABC, Gloucester (tomorrow, Friday), Odeon, Hammersmith, London(19), Odeon, Ilford, London (21), ABC, Exeter(22), ABC, Bath (23), ABC, Harrogate (24),Regal, Barnstaple and Allan Park Cinema, Stirling (26), and ABC, Hereford and ABC, Huddersfield (29).
Negotiations are still proceeding for Johnny
Cash to tour Britain early next year.

ELTON WINS20); Bournemouth (November
21);
Guildhall, Portsmouth(November 23); City Hall, Plymouth (November 24); Town

ember 30), and deTrain."CREEDENCE Clearwater Revival are hoping to tour
Britain and the Continent
early next year. " They are
expected over from the Statesin. April, but dates have yet
to be arranged," saidaspokesman for the group.

the 26th.
A British tour starts at Newcastle City Hall on November 15. Other dates are: Manchester Free Trade Hall (November 16); Cardiff Sophia
Gardens (November 19); Bristol Colston Hall (November

which was on the
FamilyEntertainment " album, -and thesecond side is taken up
with " Strange Band," a
new cut, lasting four
minutes, and " Hung Up
Down," a new three anda half minute version of
the number on the second album.

ltd. Titles include " Delia's Gone,""Busted," " John Henry's Hammer,"" Casey Jones," and " Waiting For A

Creedence tour plans

tingham on July 25, followed
by a concert at Croydon on

FAMILY have a maxi single out on July 31.
The first side is a fiveminute version of " The-

Jackson Heights, has temporarily halted work until its
next
atappearancethePlumpton Festival in August.

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CBS RECORDS are releasing a double
album on July 31 featuring 20 tracks
by Johnny Cash. The LP titled " TheWorld Of Johnny Cash " sells at 49s.

of them."Buta spokesman for
Warner -Reprise, who release
the group's material, said thatthe record had no reference
to drugs at all.
" But I suppose you cananything into it. The
record just says in the chorus
high again 'meaninghigh in the context of happy."
This is the sixth time infive years a record has beenbanned for this reason.
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HERE'S a heavy load if ever there was one! Eleven British
The groups on board were Status Quo, Hard Meat, Mighty
groups, pictured below, left Gatwick last week to fly to Munich Baby, Jody Grind. Taste, Brinsley Schwartz, East of Eden,
Steam Hammer, Atomic Rooster, Black Widow and the Van
fsi for the pop festival there.
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Manchester -based trio,
Hotlegs, has denied thatthey plan to avoid live
appearances.
The
group's single, " Neanderthal Man " is atnumber 27 in MM
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to come out and do anything," said group managerlHarvey Lisberg.
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nice offers, but they want toprove themselves first. They
would like another hit single,
and possibly an album, before
they start doing club dates."
The group is Eric Stewart(lead
guitar,piano),
Lol
Creme (bass, rhythm guitar,
piano) and Kevin
Godley(drums, flute, guitar).
Lol and Kevin used to be
art students, and have recently designed a two foot highmodel of Cromwell to promote the new film " Oliver
Cromwell." Eric was a studioengineeratStrawberry
Studios, Manchester, and it
was here that the three met
andformedHotlegssix
months ago.
There is a possibility thatthe group will play on " Topof the Pops " this week.

ENGELBERT'S BACKENGEL.BERT HUMPERDINCK
flew home to Britain from theStates on Tuesday for a 4,enday holiday, half -way throughhis American tour. While heis here, he will record a new
single, and discuss plans totour Britain later this yearwith his manager.

ATetha show a se -out

ARETHA FRANKLIN'S
two performances at
London's Odeon, Hammersmith, on August 1,
already look like beinga Sell-out.

The box-office opened only
on Tuesday.
But
impresario
ArthurHowes told the MM on Monday: " Since your announcement last week of the switchfrom the Royal Albert Hall to
Hammersmith, the Odeon boxoffice has already been inundated with applications fortickets."- -As front-paged in the M,Mlast week, Aretha
because
Di illness
was forced tocancel the Albert' Hall dateast Thursday.

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She has now arrived in
Spain, however, and winds up
her short European tour with
the Odeon concerts.

VINCENT TOURVINCENT will tour
Britain at the end of thisyear. The first date booked so
far is at Cambridge CornGENE

YES COME -BACK©

MAKE their come-backfrom extensive rehearsal withYES

new guitarist Steve Howe, atLondon's Lyceum Ballroom
tomorrow (Friday). They kickoff a new series of Marquee Martin Friday night promotions there.
Also on the bill are Black
Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Clark
Hutchirson, and Big Lil. Next
week, on July 24 the billfeatures Juicy Lucy, Steam
Hammer and Burnin' Red
Ivanhoe from Denmark.
John Martin of Marquee-

James Brown

the Who, Traffic, andEmersor, Lake and Palmer.
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officeExchange on November 14,
when Vincent will be backed
by the Houseshakers, a five piece from South London.
The
Houseshakers,
whohave been going in various
forms since 1955, are: Jimmy
Walls (bass); Terry Clemson(lead guitar); Billy Williams(drums); Freddie Ling (bassguitar), and Christian Senton

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America where he approachedthe Beach Boys, Byrds andBurrito Bros for Autumn
appearances at the Lyceum.
Also planned are appearances(vocalist).
Vincent and the group will
be doing mainly college anduniversity dates, with possible
television fixtures.

concert off.
NOW looks as
though James Brown's
projected concert inBritain in September
will have to be postponed: Reason: Lackof a suitable venue.

AmericanProgram Bureau,
promoters of James Brown,
told the MM on Tuesday:"The Stadium has been modernised, and the soundproofing now makes it unsuitable
for this project.
" The Royal Albert Hall, theFestival Hall, Olympia andEarls Court are also bookedat this time.
" We have a 100 per centcommitment to present James
Brown, but we may now haveto present him at anothervenue in Europe."

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NEW YORK NEWS BY VICKI WICKHAMTHIS WEEK I saw a " sneak " preview of Richard Pennebaker's (he madeBob Dylan's " Don't Look Back " and " Monterey ") coverage of the Peace
Festival in Toronto, Canada, last year. But the festival took place in
September and the film won't get shown until this September.

That's a long wait. It's actually worth waiting for, but that's not the point. Twenty
or so artists appeared on the show, but Pennebaker has taken only five acts forthefilm. He kept in and topped the film with the first " live " appearance of John Lennon
and The Plastic Ono Band, and added four of the most exciting performers in theworld, the perennial " oldie but goldies " of rock 'n' roll, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry,
Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.
Pennebaker took the hundreds of hours of film shot,edited it and came up with 2hours and 20 minutes of notjustanother Festival ofstoned kids digging underground music in the open-air,
but an historical piece oftheatrical film, which will be
as valid in 50 years time as
the performers have been overthe past 15 years.
The four golden greats
haven't changed that much,it's just that nobody else hascome close to rivalling themas performers and entertainers.
The film opens with inter cut angles
if shots ofCanada's " Hooligans " (Hells
number, with him on guitar,
Richard's shirt and on came
Angels) on their bikes escortbacked up by his band and a" The black man's Liberace."
ing John Lennon's entourageprominent fiddle player. NiceHe strutted across in his
in their limousines from thesound,
nice
guitar work.
extravagant $1,500 worth of
airport to the stadium. The
Then
Jerry
switchestojewelled -sequined pants andphotography on this alone
piano. Out come two Presley
shirt. He didn't have to say
makes
Easy Rider " looknumbers, "Hound Do " and" I am the prettiest "like Mickey Mouse. Pennebahe
"
Be
Don't
Cruel," followed
was.
ker cuts from the bikes, to
by
his
"
I
Gotta
"
Woman
and
at
Sitting
the piano hethe view from the back of thethe fantastic " Whole Lotta
went straight into " Goodbike, through the cars, along
Shakin'" (which he says Golly Miss Molly." The lights
the road, back to the bikes.
a few records! ")blazed, Pennebaker picked up
It's very exciting and " sold
The audience are cooking,the back and forth movement
there's a great sense of speed
so is he. He stands up, stillof his two sax players.
He cuts straight from thisplaying the piano. He gets
Richard turned into theinto Bo Diddley on stage
on
to
and
the piano,
at thecamera. He looked 30. (Howsinging a duet with his girlend
of
the
old
is he?) There was anumbercasually
singer, " Love Is Strange." Bo
throws the microphone overdetermined, fierce, fighting
follows with his " rocking "his shoulder and starts comglint in his eyes. It was
numbers, with some greatbing his hair! He's beautiful.
obvious he was out to proveshots on " Hey Bo Diddley "just
who was the star of theof Bo's guitar, his finger Chuck Berry followed. On
show. The number ended, andwork, and the dance -routine
his first number ' Rock andhe insisted on all the lights
across stage between him, theRoll Music " the band fell
girl and his bass player.
apart. He'd picked. them up except one spotlight on him
being
turned off.
Bo doesn't change. It's still
locally that afternoon, andIt was a picture of colours
the shiney mohair suit, the they obviously had no idea
sharp pointed shoes and thewhat key or even what and shapes. Sweat was pouring down his face, over hisgreased hair, but there's nonumber, but he made it to
doubt about the validity andthe end of the number, and bare torso, the lights trickled
authenticity of the music riffs then they started to get into over him. He became one
huge
many -coloured
light.
it. His ' Sweet Sixteen " wasand rhythms, that influenced
You'd see -his face, his body,and paved theappropriately intercut withway for
his
hand,
then
and
only
an
shots of girls in the audience,
everyone from the Stones
outlight or a shadow. It wasand the music got hotter anddown.
fascinating as you strained to
Then there's Jerry Lee
hotter with
` Maybelline,"see more. And with his final" Too Much Monkey
Lewis. The guy who caused a
BusiLong Tall Sally," the lookness "
andscandal by bringing his 13 B.
" Johnny
originally in his eyes was
year-old bride to England, andGoode."
fulfilled. He was still the starTime -wise, it was getting
then went from avid rock androll music, to acceptabledark now and the cameras he always said he was.
The sequence that followed
picked out fire -crackers in the
country -style, and the hits
this two-hour non-stop, up sky cutting to the flashinghave never stopped coming.
glass which made up Little tempo, rock 'n roll section
He starts with a country
was, and is, history. Straight
into a close up of a bearded,
long-haired, Messiah, a prophet from the hills, a pageout of the bible
John
Lennon.
' We're going to do somenumbers we know because
it's the first time we've
played together," he announced, and the music fromDo yourself a favour. And your audience. Equip yourself
Alan on drums, Klaus Voorwith a microphone that lets you be heard the way you shouldman, Eric Clapton and, ofbe heard. With every word faithfully reproduced. Every note.
Yoko, backed him up.
course,Every subtle shade of sound. Take your own Shure" Give Me Money," he sang
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and then the sensitive " Cold
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I just wrote it," he said.
boons' reverb and pick-up of audiencein higher -priced models). Superb antiHe never sounded better.
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They followed with a dishand. and there's built-in On -Off
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Complete m carrying caseis a Unisphere through and through'of the Revolution. " We've
Complete in carrying caseforgotten some of the bitsthat go in between," heexplains. Eric, Yoko and theaudience join in, but it isweak. And then John introduced Yoko "to do her
thing." Yoko wails into themike,sounds,vibrations,noises come out.
You hate or love it, but it's'spellbinding. How can anything be that awful? Close-upsof Yoko, then John nervously
walking behind her, fiddlingwith his guitar. Eric, guitar
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Alan and Klaus look unsure.
John puts his guitar down
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THE ATLANTA Pop Festival proved even larger
than Woodstock; a three-day event that had thepolice running for cover. Law officers turned theirbacks, stating, " We just can't do anything out
there. We've been completely helpless to enforce
laws concerning highway safety, public nudity,
drug abuse and the protection of private proThe sponsors lost, too, as
only 40,000 of the morethan 350,000 spectators

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to an extra attraction, amulti -coloured pressing of therecord. Done in pale pinks
and yellows which run together like oil designs inwater, it is a truly beautiful
addition to recording packag-

film

If it's worth
putting across it's worth
a Shure Microphone

Biggeractually bought tickets.
However, financial backers
are refusing to divulge
losses pending film sales of
the Festival.

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her thing " and she continues.
He kisses her again and joins
the rest of the band who
have left' the 'stage and arelighting up cigarettes. Eventually
she comes off.
It's dark except for a lighton John's guitar propped
against the amp. The only
sound is loud, and very
distorted coming from theguitar. The crowd are booing
and cheering, they're divided.
The sound from the guitar ispiercing your ear drums, but
it doesn't cease. It's been
dramatic, a theatrical staging,a happening, an event, and it
is history. The sound is still
there, but the picture's ended.
You won't forget " Sweet
Toronto." Here are four rockgreats today, and here Is an
account
of
where
John
Lennon'a head was at -in
September, and you draw
your own conclusions about
the girl that put it there.

JAZZ.
MILES

DAVIS took
pictures and was photographed with The Band
before their sold -out
concert in N.Y.'s Central Park. Miles is still
telling friends that hewill. not play in the
Randall's Isand jam sessession with Eric Clap ton, Jack Bruce andTony Williams Lifetime.

tickets)

like even money if thestanding audience would rush
the stage in a riot for an
encore, but Steve Winwood
Jim Capaldi and Chris Woods
re -appeared for a final unscheduled number, " Dear Mt
Fantasy " and quelled thepent-up emotions.
Backstage was almost as
crowded as out front withphotographers, girls, friend:and Leon Russell haunting thecorridors. A goodly portion of
Joe Cocker's former Mad
Dogs and Englishmen werealso in tow, including producer
Denny Cordell's two young
children.
The Santa Monica date wasafter a day of rest, but the
Friday night concert in Sar
Bernadino, played just hour:
after their flight from Sar
Francisco, suffered from thelocation and probable exhaus
tion. The crowd was receptive
and demanding an encorewith a 10 -minute standing
ovation, but the firecracker!
(concert was the day before
July
4,
AmericanIndependence Day) and police
guards dampened the proceedings considerably.
Mott the Hoople, anothei
English group on tour, played
LA's Whisky A Go Go to
excellent reviews and happy
audiences. The group itself
was less than happy over theclub
the Whisky is small
crowded and generally uncom
fortable.
But Mott accepted theplace with as much good
grace as possible and did an
excellent show. Being on thegroup's first tour of theStates, Ian Hunter found thewhole thing a little awe.
'inspiring adding that they
were scared to come toAmerica after seeing " Easy
Rider," an opinion generally
held by Europeansuponseeing that film.

By JEFF .ATTERTON in' New '.Yorkand LEONARD FEATHER 'in ' Hollywood
Larry Ridley bass and Lenny
McBrowne drums.
THE 1970 Longhorn Jazz
Festival, produced by George
Wein, which is set to takeplace In Austin, Houston and
Dallas, Texas, will feature
Jimmy Smith, Cannonball Adderley, Les McCann, Eddie
Harris, Roberta Flack andformer Dave Brubeck drummer Joe Morello who will
perform with the Universityof Texas Jazz Ensemble.
Corky Siegel's Blues Band

Miles says he won't play
unless the Randall's Island
promoters book a set for
him with his own band. 'The
promoters say they don't
have a time slot available
end there is no money left
in the budget.

A gold honorary life membership card was recently
presented to Dick Gibson by
Herman Kenin, president of
the American Federation ofmusicians at. theunion's
73rd convention 5n Houston,
Texas. Gibson, who has spent£250,000 to support jazz, isthe patron behind the World's
Greatest Jazz Band of Yank
Lawson and Bob Haggart
which
performed
at theannual convention.
Back in New York for the
first time in 24 years, Don
Byas played a surprise weekend engagement at the Village
Vanguard and filled the clubon both nights. The great
expatriate
tenorsaxistfronted Roland Hanna pno,
Wilbur Ware bass and Jo
Jones (Drums).
Trumpeter Max Kaminsky's
band with Bobby Pratt trombone, Joe Muranyi clarinet,
Claude Hopkins piano andJake Hanna drums are packing them in nightly at N.Y.'s
gimmy Ryan's which Is stillgoing strong after 31 years.
Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall and
Attila Zoller recently returnedto the US after a successful
two-week guitar workshop
tour of Japan. They wereaccompanied on the trip byboughtfficials at Blue Thumb,Mason's
Americanlabel,
stated that they went frompressing company to pressing
company before they could
find one capable of doing thisunusual effect. Columbia was
the only firm which was notprohibitively automated.
Blue Thumb has an extensive contract with Mason
which will probably result in
the American rights to Eric
Clapton's
Band,
Enoch's
Delight, first recording.
Traffic ended their UnitedStates tour amid rumours that
Dave Mason would re -join thegroup this despite reports
from England that Mason issecurely and happily ensconced
with Eric Clapton's new band.
The two sold -out concerts
at the Santa Monica Civic
Auditorium left little doubtthat Traffic is one of the most
exceptional groups ever tograce a stage.
Theirmusicianshipisbeyond question and thecrowd response pushed Traffic
into even finer moments thanusual. For a while it 'looked

tet are making

a rare andpopular appearance at N.Y.'s
Rainbow Grill where they
have just begun a three-weekengagement.
Trumpeter Russell Jacquet,brother of the great Illinois,
was a consultant for a special
course devoted
tojazz
recently held at Grambling
College, La.
during Negro
History Week. Jacquet is asenior music theory major at
the college.
Herb Sanford, writer -director -producer of the Tommy
Dorsey radio show from 19361940, -is writing a biographyof the famous trombonist leader and his brother Jimmy
under the title of ' Tommyand Jimmy' The Dorsey
Years, Arlington House will
publish the book in November

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black Cadillac

ALONG
draws up at London's

Talk of the Town stage
door, and out of it steps
a blind black boy supported
by his fiance. But that's as
far as it goes, he finds thedoor himself, opens it,
walks down a short passage, up a flight of stairs
and into his dressing room.
Not
only
is
StevieWonder physically independent, he has a mind of
his own, and knows what
he wants to do with it.
" Even before
heard thecritics' remarks I realised I had
1

made a mistake in doing otherpeople's numbers. I talked topeople back stage and they said
they would have preferred tohave heard my songs," said
Stevie, referring to his firstnight at the Talk of the Town.

New styleHe then explained why hechose other people's songs forhis opening night. " I wasn't

aware of the clientele, the sortof people who came to see thecabaret. 1 didn't realise thepeople coming to the show werecoming to listen to my songs.
" In the States its different, you

My next album deals with social problems

have to do tunes with name value,
Like " Walk A Mile In My Shoes,"which
guess wasn't all that big
over here."
As long as a song has soul
Stevie enjoys sirging it. " Ita long time, but this is the firstdoesn't matter who. wrote it. if ittime Motown have giver me thewas me or someone else, as long 'chance to do it. You know I wrote
as I can feel it, and it gets over to' My Cherie Amour' when I wasthepeople. That's
sixteen; and this
the
most
album
will
important thing."
express my true thoughts, it's not
The problems of the world Piave
Motown, it's me, and Syreeta
affected Stevie's song writing, andWright, my fiancee, who helped
his next album will boast a newwith the lyrics."
style of sorgwriting.
Stevie would like to do free
A lot of the things on my new
concerts. " I really would like to
album
deal
with the social
do something like Woodstock. andproblems, it's completely different,
I think with the new album 1 will
it's more me than anything I have
get the chance to do so.
done
before.
I
havebeen" Unforturately artists get put
influenced by the things that haveir. a bag, which I disagree with,happened in the world.
but with this LP I will get the
I've been writing like this forchance to do different things."
1

It's more me than anything I've done
Discrimination against anyone isthing with which Stevie disagrees,
and athing he canunderstand. " Bein' black," he says
with pride, " is rot so bad now.
The problem is not as great as it
used to be in the States.
aDiscrimination"But black people aren't the
only people discriminated against.
Young people, because they wear
their hair long have drawbacks.
Unfortunately
peoplewill bediscriminatedagainstbecausesome people canot take the timeto understand particular persons or

people.
".,When a persor. says ' I don't
like you,' it's usually because they
don't understand the person involved, therefore they are afraid ofthem, and because of that they.

don't like'them."
What about politics? " I believe
in a better tomorrow," says Stevie.
" or at least I hope for a better
tomorrow. I believe that the only
thing, I can do to help' is toexpress my ideals. This is why my
new album is dealing from a
political standpoint, so people willknow where I am, where I stand.

before" I just hope when people hear
the album they don't say that's
not
StevieWonder.
Becausethey've never heard that side ofme before, it doesn't mean it's notme."
Does it worry him that people
seem to forget he has grown up?
" No, I just think I'm me. What
I've got to say is me and if you
dig it, it's cool, if you don't that's
cool too, because I'm not here to
make you do things you don't
want to do, or like things you
don't want to like.
." I'm here to give you a
combination of both sides withwhat I say in a lyric."

What happened to the jazzalbum he recorded some time ago?
"The album was called ' Eivets
Rednow,' which was a completely
different thing for me. I had
written some things on it for thelate Wes Montgomery, but he died
before he could record them.
" But I must say Motown did
not push it."Why can't he play in places
where your younger fans canafford to see him? " It wasn't mydecision to play this club. I don't
care where I play, it doesn't makeany difference to me, but I do
want to be seen by people who
understand me, and who feel me.
"But even more, it's the oldpeople I want to understand me. if
I am to carry the ideals of theyoung to the old then this is agood way to do it. At this club
you have to listen because I am
the particular artist, and if I havelong hair, that's not the point. The
point is if I have something to say
they have to listen because they
have paid their money to comeand see me."Is Tamla still one bíg happy
family? "The thing is Tamla used
to be just a company, but now it'sa corporation, so there are more
people involved, one has less time
to be friends with everyone. Alsoa lot of people have moved to theWest Coast, for instance. So of- coursea
lot of the family
atmosphere has gone.
"This, I think, happens in any
business when it grows from acompany to a corporation. I expect
when Henry Ford started makingcars, he sat around and grooved
andchatted, but
then
more
became involved, and the atmosphere is lost.
And in a business like therecordingindustry you can't
always have a family relationshipwith everyone, although you would
love to. You have people involved
who are just interested in doing
their job, making their money andgetting home.

" But as long as you are treatedcool, and respected by otherpeople, it's nice. For those who
can still be close and intimate
and still do their jobs that's out ofsight."

Then the loud -speaker in the
dressing room gave out Stevie's
name, and asked him to be onstage in five minutes, so off hewentwith his fiancee nearby.

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MARK PLUMMER

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STRANGE story of the week.
The Free Radio Association
phone was disconnected thisweek. The Post Office say
they were cut of last May.
Strange because we 'phoned
them last week. Problems," Pomps

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Ulp.
Bob Wallis wheezing up a
stOrm at 100 Club last week .
Awful miming by Polly
Brown of. Pickettywitch on
Top Of The Pops
Madeline
Bell deserves a hit with her
newie
We SAID that
" Neanderthal Man " would be

not join the Ukelele International
Circle c/o Glyn Hughes, 26 Lusitania Road, Walton, Liverpool 4.
Eric Burdon and Alan Price sat
in with Mike Carr's Pendulum at
Ronnie's.
Mighty Baby thankthe " fan " who cut theirbrake hose after 1Vtidlands
moving office to Leeds.
gig. Fortunately their van
Congratulations to John
just avoided a crash.
Stevens, whose wife gave
Ginger Baker escaped withbirth to a daughter just asa scratched wrist when hislast week's amazing thunderJensen crashed in the desert
storm was ending.
Album covers get betterThey read 1920s issues ofbut there are still a few
the MM on London Weekend
horrors.
TV's " The Patty's Moving

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You like the ukelele? Then why

On "

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problems, problems.

Now Dr. John has finishedleaping about perhaps therain will stop and Annie Ivilwill stop her early hours'phone marathon. We've beengetting out of baths, beds andboozers darlingat 3 am.
Own up!
Get your act
together! WHAT?
Seen loathing every minuteof Jiving K. Boots at theMarquee
Pete Townshend,
Cary Grant and Sam Costa.
Record crowd at the Little
Theatre Club on Saturday tohear Han Bennink, Evan
Parker and Derek Bailey
Manager
Danny
Pollock
moving to LondonMM-

and prisstitutes inhe was blotto at
the time
Is Manfred
Mann after violinist Gerry
Field? .. Is Susan Drone after
Claude Sniggles
Leonard Cohen currently
recording new
album
inNashville
Heavy starloading for Isle Of Wight
another Bath in the making?

Soho"

...

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New group Grizelda nego-tiating for Harvest dealPeter Frampton resembling a
Dutch painter in new moustache and beard
Queen
ElizabethHalljobsworths
first tried to bar MM's Mark
Plummer and Andrew Meansfrom the backstage barthen wouldn't let them ,,ut,
when they broke through.
"Outrageous " say MM staff.
Lummy
Engelbert
Humperdinck is back for a 12
day holiday off his US tour.RINGO was 30 last week
uncool?
Tony
Blackburn on holiday. Now.

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smiled and looked dazed.
MM's Barrie Wentzell complained to the police about.

biggie .

aJohn Anderson,.

Bill Bruford and Cat Stevens
seen digging Genesis at Mar-

quee.

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Zeppelin split
rumours almost denied before
they are started!
Deejay Mike Quinn compered and organised " Miss
Model Girl 1970" contest at
La Valbonne Club, London
last week. Winner was Rachel
Storm, daughter of chaplain to
the Queen, Canon Peter
Gillingham. She won £100.
Judges included Mike Pinderof the Moodies, Alan Whitehead, of Marmalade, Larry
Taylor, Michael D'Abo, Zoot
Money, Cat Stevens, Andy
Newman, Sheila White, Malcolm Roberts and Tom Charrington of beer fame.
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we can all sleep easy

Scores of hairy blues freaks
surrounded Son House in his
dressing room at Mothers on
Saturday, where the Mississippi guitarist was appearing. A few knelt at his feet
and asked what he thought
about mini -skirts. Son justRaver's guide to the week
TYRANNOSAURUS

REX
rattle their pots with woodland boppery at the Lyceum,
London on Sunday and will
unveil material from theirforthcoming LP called just T.
Rex
Pendulum and Annie
Ross grooving at Ronnie's,
well worth falling in for
Watch out for BBC 2's "Jazz
Scene At The Ronnie Scott
Club" today (Thursday). It
feaures the Albert Nicholas
Quartet, Mlles Davis Quintet,
Albert King
Blues
Band,
Sarah Vaughan and her trio.
Yes make their come-backat London's Lyceum tomorrow(Friday) with Black
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Sabbath. Stand by for their
new guitarist
Steve Howe.
Popping off to Rome on
Saturday? Then watch out for
the Duke Ellington Orchestra
nearing the end of their
European tour .
But if you
are stuck in Leeds at the timeCochise are giving a free
concertOr if you are
jugging it up in Perranporth,Cornwall, the Famous Jug
Band will be at the New Folk
Cottage, Rose.
That "Neanderthal Man "group, Hot Legs, likely to be
grunting on Top Of The Pops
today (Thursday).

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT
to make an audience smile areslightly unfair.

ree music
or e se!
move

with theLane
SS

MELVILLE
GRALLEY(Trapeze)C'LEM

OtEMPSON(Colosseum)

TONY

I(BOMlack
SabbathI )BOOSEY & HAWKES(Sales) Ltd.

WORST thing -that ever"THE
1happened to this area ofthe country "" the pro-- justmoterswerecommercialising on the young."
Two quotes from Mayor Ed
Green of Byron, a small town
ten miles outside of Macon,
Georgia, former home of Otis
Redding; now famed as Woodstock the second. The three day
Atlanta Music festival had all
the now well-known ingredients
Hendrix, Havens, etc, nudeswimming, gate crashers, rain,
bad trip warnings and half amillion heads were all there to
make this an instant replay ofthat " once in a lifetime"
Woodstock happening.

At 9.30 Friday night a thousand strong chant of " FREE
FREE FREE." " Music is for thepeople "
could
be
heard
at
the
gates.
Imminent
violence virtually forced thepromoters
todeclarethefestival free and by Saturday the numbers swelled from1.00,000 to an estimated 300,000,
and Richie Havens and Johnny
Winter to quit in case they
weren't paid. We surely can't
have the jam on both sides.
Better the whole thing be free,with whatever musicians would
play for just joy, or we attend
a commercial big name venture
and pay at the door. From themoney to the music and theword used around was " disappointing." Friday featured
the much loved John Seli"astfafl
and blues orginal B. B. Kingbut it was definitely Allman
BrothersdayinGeorgia.

Duane, young brother Greg andrest defy categorisation,
employing all that's good incountry, rock and gospel.
Hendrix, Cat Mother, Lee
Michaels were Saturday's men.
His now virtual anthem " Star
Spangled Banner " concluded
the Hendrix set which was thehit of the day. Cactus, a four piece including Carmine AppiceandTim Bogert (ex -Vanilla
Fudge) impressed the ears andeyes with their early but now
mature Fudge sound and vitalstage presence.
Early Sunday morning was
the

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LONNIE DONEGAN
T the Blackpool Stardust Gar-AT den's

Mondayopening,
Lonnie Donegan, fresh from thesophisticated nightspots of theNorth American continent, took
his audience by the scruff of theneck with a hearty gagging,handclapping, swingalong act
bringing out most of the " Have
A Little Drink," " Putting On
The Style," " My Old Man's A
Dustman " favourites in true
holiday style.
Two bands led by Cyril Stapleton (15 -piece) and Bob Miller(12 piece), are part of the floor
show followed an hour later byDonegan, who is there for 10
JERRY DAWSON.

STRAWBSOUT for Rick WakeWATCH
man.
He
has a
near

You

need
e1rcác cJ

Deansbrook Road
Edgware, Middx.

'Make it with you'
LJ

prime example.
At Cesars Palace, Dunstable,
last week,
Bilk
made
no
compromise
but proved that
his naturally hip humour allied
to finemusic is a goodcombination for any sit -down and -eat crowd out for a goodnight.
Acker's lucid clarinet work is
beautifully complemented by
Colin Smith's stout trumpet
andJohnMortimer's lusty
trombone. That's a lively frontline, and the rhythm section is
nicelyflexiblewith Johnny
Richardson's drums a busy,
driving power.

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Johnny Jenkins, who once employed Otis Redding as a
vocalist, had to share his spotwith a young black guy whose
determination to get on stage tosing and dance kept everyone
busy right through the set. He
was finally persuaded that his
time would come, but not at
Byron .
There was a lot to laugh andbe happy about. Security courtesy of the New Orleans Galloping Ghost Squad, roaring trade"in Mickey Mouse T shirts,
plastic marijuana plants (!)
one day they'll be free withcornflakes-! ! and yo yo's thatglow in the dark. There weremiddle
aged
Mr
and
Mrs
Averages motoring down Highway GA 49 giving free rides tolong hairs on the bonnets and-boots, likewise were the police.
At Byron half a million ofAmerica's young drank their
way through a million cokes.
and left not just a whole lot oflitter, but the question of
future festivals and how muchtheir three day effort at peaceful community
livingwill
influence theirs and our futuresociety as tomorrow's elders.
JANET MARTIN.

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masteryof the keyboard, andhas joined the Strawbs straightfrom music college. Along withother new members John Ford(bass,
vocals) andRichardHudson (percussion, sitar andvocals), Rick gave his London
debut at Queen Elizabeth Hallon Saturday.
The capacity audience sat
motionless as he wrestled withthe organ, flooding the hallwith a torrent of sound. Whenhe turned his attention to the
piano, it was equally effective.
Finally he produced some of
the best harpsichord rock I
have yet heard.
John
Ford
and
RichardHudson also took their chances
to show

their capabilities withsuperb duet, Richard playing
the sitar.
ahowever,

to bridge thegap
between creating jazz and entertaining an audience. Acker
Bilk's Paramount Jazzband is a

" Sweet Georgia Brown " wasthe opener, followed by " Lover
Come Back To Me " (good solos
by Bilk and Smith), " Jazz Me
Blues," " Caravan " and " I
Shall Not Be Moved." Plus theinevitable" but still melodic andprettyStrangerOn
The

for Goose Greek, á country rockband with a bowler -hatted guitarist and a great fiddle player.

weeks.

musicians,SomemanageShore."

The
Londonaires,
resident
band and Cesars, are versatileand sound fresh.
RAY COLEMAN.

-MARY HOPKIN
THE FIRST time I saw MaryHENDRIX
hit -of Atlanta
Dave Cousins

announced the" last number " three times
before the audience were satisfied with this first London
appearance of the five. A recording of the concert will be released in October.
ANDREW-MEANS

WITHERSPOONJIMMY WITHERSPOON,
thedevil's ambassador to theblues, lives in Los Angeles andhas played long engagements atnight clubs in black neighbourhoods, but rarely- works in
Hollywood. Last week he madea welcome appearance at the
Ash Grove, heading the bill for
week.
Despiteoneadisappointingly

small opening night crowd, his
impact was devastating. His
from" Stormy Monday,"ranged" Confessin'
the Blues " and" In The
Evenin' " to the pristine blues
lament " Going Down Slow." Asusual he included one or twotunes that reflected the feeling
if not the form of the blues,
notably " Please Send Me Someone To Love " and " Nobody
Knows You When You're Down

repertoire

and Out."
He wasaccompanied by aquartet under the direction of
Mel Brown. Born and raised In
Jackson,Mississippi,
Brown
emigratedto
California a
decade or so ago and has
backed T-BoneWalker andmany other singers around
town,
His
amplified guitar
speaks with a feverish fluency
well matched to Witherspoon's
style. The other participants,
heard also in instrumental setswith Brown, were Clifford Coulter, organ; Clifford Solomon,
tenor saxophone and Edward
Mosely, a drummer who will
neverbeaccusedof
Inaudibility. Solomon played along solo on " Misty " in a soulbag, during which he wandered
off inexplicably into excerpts of" Round Midnight " and " MY

Favourite

Things,"NARD FEATHER

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LEO-

Hopkin on stage she wassimple unaffected Welsh girlsinging in a simple homely
style.
In the Tommy Steele Showwhich
openedat theABC
Theatre, Blackpool last Friday
she was exactly the same. Twoyears of record, pantomime andEurovision success just haven't
changed Mary one little bit.
But Tommy Steele took over
the whole of the second half
and was the opposite.
Three other Blackpool shows
opened: In the Central Pier's AI
Read Show, Lena Martell (veryprofessional) and Josef Locke(hestill has the showbiz
magic !) provide the singing,backed by a the small but
outstanding'Eric
WinstoneShowband directed by Leslie
Douglas.
At
theQueensTheatre,DonaldPeers
provesthat
though styles may change hisfans remember him.
Freddie and the Dreamers
clowned their way hilariously
through the Big Star Show at
the South Pier with Susan
Maughan providing the vocal
sophistication
andglamour.
a" WILL the prisoner explain the meaning of
the expression ' cool man.' " Thus spake aHigh Court judge in the case of the Phantom
Jazz Murders of 1947..

Actually, there was no such case, but this fictitious
anecdote serves to illustrate the kind of confusion
engendered by the liberal use of jive talk.
" Cool" has cropped up in countless contexts
the years. In Jazz it was supposed to mean the overantithesis of " hot." For example
Stan Getz was cool,Henry Red Allen hot.
But it was never that easy. Bebop, the hardest
form of modern jazz, was often called cool. For along time it became incredibly corny to even use theword. Then it was revived
by rockers and today's
generation of heads.

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Apart from musical connotations it can also be
used to describe a situation.
" Is it cool? " means " is it safe?" But cool has now
spread to mean approval by those who areoraware. It does not necessarily mean the best,hipor mostsuccessful. Cool can be an understated triumph for good
taste.
Strangely, the actual pronunciation candifficulties. Unless it is spoken with exactly cause
the right
tones, it can sound dreadful.
A young cockney chap from the East End of
London,for example, might say: " Er, well the way I see
it, like,
it's cool man, you know what I mean like?" Thisdoes
not quite have the panache of Buddy Rich, when stomping along on brushes with Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Herb Ellis on " Blues For Norman,"
As Oscar and Hamp traded choruses, on
Columbia Clef classic, Mr. Rich was heard to say:this"COOL."
And by jove ft was.
And now for a little game. The cool andtest.
Applying the principal of " does it knockuncool
man " here is our selection of juxtapositions. one out,

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Cool
Kensington Antique Market

Neil Young

Robert Plant
Chilled Montrachet
Radio Geronimo
Thursday night
faded jeans
John Peel
Lotus
All Our Yesterdays
Clangers
Frank Zappa

UncoolPortobello Road
Tony Joe WhiteJohn Kay
Newcastle Brown AleRadio Luxembourg
Friday nightleather trousers
Tony Brandon
Rolls Royce
Nationwide
H.R. Puf'n'stuf

Edgar Broughton
James Bondclothed ladies
Golden Shot
Robert Robinson
Bob Monkhouse
Patrick Moore
David Coleman
Radio FourRadio One
HenleyEast Ham
W. C. Fields and Mae West posters
Eric Clapton
posters
Greenland
Congo
Brown ricewhite rice
GitaneSovereignBill Cosby
Murray Roman
Elton Hayes
Elton John
Bert Weedon
Wout Steenhuis
steam traction engine rallies
open air pop festivals
five-star hotel suites
sleeping bags and tents
Pele
Georgie Best'Oxfam shops
boutiquescolour TV
suburban cinemas
Frith Street
WardourCallanNude ladies
Doom Watch

StreetStrawberry Statement

Woodstock

KGB

CIA

hamsters

Afghan hounds
1939
hands
feet
straw boaters
trilby hats
Andre Previn
Andy Warhol
water colour landscapes
pop art
Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
Bob Kerr's WhoopeeBandboogie woogie
folk rockstomach pumps
take -away Chinese meals
1938

RAVER READERS must have firm ideas of what's
cool and uncool. The best three received eachwill be published and the writers will receive week
a freealbum. Send your Cool and Uncool ideas
on apostcard, pleaseto The Raver, Melody Maker, 161
Fleet Street, London EC4.

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ANNIE ROSSA NNIEROSS may have lost.C1 some of her voice,but shehasn't lost her professionalism.
At Ronnie Scott's Club in
London on Monday night, her
whit and sparkle just about
triumphed over certain musicaldeficiencies.

Her tone is not, by any means,the sharp weapon it once was.
The twists and turns of themore demanding vocalese items
in her repertoire now seem tobe laboured, as opposed to theeffortless. Cruising quality she
once possessed.
Pendulum are held over toshare the bill and their very
average set was'enlivened for a
few minutes by the addition ofvisitor John Surman, who blewa fiery blues solo on soprano.
The volume of applause for
Surman should have persuaded
Mike Carr and Tony Crombie tokeep him on stage for the restofthenight.
RICHARDWILLIAMS.

-THE

JAZZMAN in cabaret isoften an uneasy sight: heis essentially non -showbiz, andthe demands placed upon him

uncool?

-JERRY DAWSON.

ACKER BILK

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WHO: " Summertime Blues " (Track).
Following hard on the heels of thestudio-produced " Seeker " comes a" live " version of the old Eddie

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It should be a hit, and note should be takenof the John Entwistle composition on thereverse" Heaven And Hell." It has
typical Entwistle changes
weirdly
strange. Listen for Pete's guitar passage,
underpinnedbyKeith'savalanchingdrums, and John's 'highly personat bass-

Blaikley's more cunningly- commercial tunes, although
they are capable of more
serious stuff these days. The
Pebbleschant cheerfully
and the general effect isstrongly American pop '65.
If one recalls the days of
Len Barry, then one will
get my drift. Sorry to ap-

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Dee production, with acatchy--tune, occasional use of French hornand most acceptable vocal harmonies. Funny
name for a group though
can't see anybody called Boots becoming TOO popular.
FI.AMING YOUTH: " Man, Woman And Child"(Fontana). Noisy drumming marks the introduction. I wonder who it is making all thatflaming row?
probably a flaming youth.
4nThey sing well, and the tune is' unusual,
without being distinctive, or perhaps one
should say distinctive, without being un/
usual. Listen for the 12 -string guitar passage.
k
Listen also for an express train and the soundof a man imitating a wild herring. But it isunlikely you will hear these latter items, as
they are not included.
CRISPIAN ST. PETERS: "So Long" (Decca).
So long since his last hit
I can't remember
what it was called. Reminders on post cards' WHO: Then and now
please. A gentle, but beaty
country tinged number, thisting naked apart from ashould bring back the man,that beat. I had all mypair of white pants, as good
who reminds me of a Westsingles stolen last week,
a reason as arty for making
and the van failed its MoT,
country -tinged number, thisapurchase. Vocals. Oh yes
to the chart. " All change,so I
need something to
she
sings
well.
as
Quite
Crispian St. Peter!"cheer me up." Yes it canpleasant
excuse me I
be. tough running a mobile
CLIFFORD
DAVIS
AND
can't keep my eyes off those
discotheque. Not that I
FRIENDS: "Come On Down
white pants. can't wattknow anything about such
And Follow Me" (Reprise).
for the follow up
things. My experience runs
Clifford is a singer, turned.can't wait .
.
tails off
only to operating a mobile
pop group manager, turned
lamely for fear of being
abbatoir.
singer. He is backed bybanned in Ireland, Albania,
heavy friends who could
STRAWBS: " Forever " (A&M).
Greeves,
Spain,South
easily be Fleetwood Mac.
They are really coming on
Africa and Australia.
Cliff certainly has a conin the record stakes, after
O'JAYS:"Don'tYou
Know Avincing voice and the band
establishing themselves onTrue Love " (Now!), Nowgroove easily, but it's not
the concert platform. A
here's a faboulous soundwildly interesting.
most moving performance.
groovy drums and soulful
How unlike the Raspbs
SYLVIA McNEIL: " It's Too
vocals. Ideal for your next
an uncouth band of East
Good, Good " (RCA), Eachslipper dance or whist drive.
End poets, who frequently
copy is being sold with aOver to deejay Ricky Mann:emit offensive noises bycover picture of Sylvia sit " Cool mate. It's really got
expelling air twixt tongue

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WITH DR. WEST'S MEDICINE SHOW AND JUNK
BAND: "Gondoliers (Shake-,r.
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pear so damned obscuresometimes. It's the heat,
the flies, drink, food, poor
environment
and
cheap
smokeless fuel.
A nastybusiness.
THREE DOG NIGHT: " Mama
Told Me Not To Come"(Stateside). I used to likethem as a brilliant, talented
group, until I read in aheavy pop mag, that, like,they were uncool. At any rate, this cooks happily but
it doesn't sound like a hit.

and teeth.
BEDROCKS:t,

1" Stonespeares, Overseers, Playboys And Bums) " (Page
One). Recorded some timeago, when Norman " Spirit
In The Sky " Puddenface,
wasthe above orchestra. It was some kindof dreadful follow up to" The Egg Plant That Ate
Chicago," and Page One
have probably been wondering what to do with. it
all the boring old tapes eversince.
Now
comes
the
heaven sent opportunity tounload it on an unsuspecting public. This is slow,
laboured, and tedious in
the extreme.
ANDY WILLIAMS: " It's So
Easy " (CBS). Over to Susan Drone, a keen MM reader, for her view: "Fabthe King had better watch
out, or Andy will be stealing his crown." Interrupts
Claud Sniggles: "Nonsense.
In my view the LP market
is becoming much more important, and groups such as
Ten Years After and Taste
will take over. Wake up
British Rail
let's hear

with

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Dead In The Market" (Col-umbia).

Returning with abright and -bubbling blue beat, the lads bring sunshine joy and cheer to- all
our lives. Whoopee, I'm so

happy
I
could
weep.
WHOOP! HOLLER! Comedance with me, brush away
your cares and woe, keep
smiling, button up yourovercoat, chin up, knock
knees and link arms in aspontaneous
outburstofmerriment and blithe spirit.

Then booker off you
miserable bunch.
PEBBLES: " Stand Up And Be
Counted " (Deram). One of
Ken
Howard and
Alan
No?

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more of these groups on
the telephone."" Andy at faster tempo thanusual but the tune is not
too rnemorable. Now thenClaudestop trying to remove
Susan'sknickers.
That kind of behaviour ishands. How about a spotof peace and quiet as well.
On the Great Day the hells
angels, hippies, skinheads,
bus conductors protestants,
catholics,
andmilkmen,sausage manufacturers travelled by bicycle, cart andbarge to a huge field near
Salisbury Plain. There they
were addressed by The Wise
One, through a megaphone.

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not tolerated in these columns. If you wish to throw
inked darts
that is fine.
But knicker removal is definitely not on.
PETULA CLARK: " Melody
Man" (Pye). Pet in infectious mood, and possibly ahit. Incidentally, some typesof infectious tune can be
dangerous. Scientists warn
they leave severe scars thattake many years to clear

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exposed to the" PEACE"hedeclared.
" Let's make each otherhappy." He smiled, the multiude turned to one anotherwept.
shamefaced.
Some
Others danced. And thatnight there was feasting,and much beer and sausage
was consumed. Ah 'tis awild dream. But at least
Illusion may enjoy a spellin the chart with this fast paced jiver.

sun-light. Owch
who threwthat inked dart?
ERROLL SOBERS: "Sugar
Shaker " (Beacon). Moving
along at a perfect up -tempo
dance pace, " Sugar Shak-BASKIN AND COPPERFIELD:" The Long And Winding
Road " (Decca).

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feel which is today's soundit's near bubblegum, butthere is something more toit than that, with a soulful
girlie chorus and clever orchestration, providing perfect support
for Errol's
vocal. For further information and photographs, contact Miss Brenda Pidduck,press officer.
TONY
NEWMAN:"Soul
Thing" (Decca). You likerock? Or maybe you like alittle soul
Huh? Okay,then let's groove baby. Put
one foot in front of theother arch your back, givealittle at the knees, sag
inthe loins, loll yourtongue, get them eyes rolling, and let most of it hangout. Now you're doing theSoulThing baby. Ooh.
Keep it up. That's nice.
Having done all thatreport to the MO. There's far
too much of that sort ofthing going on.
ILLUSION: " Let's Make Each
Other Happy " (Paramount).
Good idea
let's all shake

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says" reasonable," onedoes not wish to soundpatronising, but put it thiser" has that country -rock

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the Beatles are tops

ain't they? I mean
they
may be a bit daft like, withall that LCC and Maharajah, but they still write agood tune.
ROSKO: " Al Capone" (Trojan). Al Capone was one of
the classic West Indian hitsof all time, but this version
is not quite up to standard,
although the use of bass
drdm and scratchophone iseffective.
Incidentallyascratchophone is an unusual
instrument built from certain items of underclothing
and a length of lead piping.
It is scraped, or boiled, andproduces that " Illzankoipoidlunkreern " sound, so
typical of modern European
If you think thatmusic.
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MELODY MAKER, July 18,

1970-Page 11" IT'S NICE to have a hit record," said John Gorton, bass

guitarist with the Kinks. It's
been a long time since theKinks, who were comparedto the Stones in their earlydays, have been in the hit
parade. But " Lola " is selling

fast.
" The last one, ' Victoria,'
didn't catch on at all, andneither did the LP Arthur. I
think the trouble was people
thought we we're trying totake off the Who by doing an
opera but we weren't. Ray
had been writing it for atleast two years before it was
released," said John.
John was in London for a
few days' rest, taking a breakfrom a hectic tour of theStates which finished soon.
" I came over for a breakfrom American food really.
They eat such garbage overthere. The trouble is they
don't know how to eat, that's
why most of them are fat."
The Kinks' tour of the Statesis going well, and they havebeen luckier than most groups
in being able to play at all.
" At one place we played,
they had cancelled a Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young concert, but they allowed us toplay. I suppose it was because
we are not in the States too

often."John

said

the Kinks now
had a fuller sound with theaddition of John Gosling on
piano and organ. " John the
Baptist, as we have nicknamed
him, has added a lot to thegroup, we are more together
now, and more of a band.
Also it gives Ray more time
to sing and play guitar, andmore freedom for Dave to dowhat he wants. When Ray had
to play pianoonsomenumbers it took quite a lot oftime, taking off his guitar
and all that."
John joined the Kinks In
March last year, while Pete
Quaife was in hospital. " Pete
was Injured in a car crashand I was asked to fill in for
him until he came out of hospital. Then he decided toleave the group full time, andI
stayed on."American audiences are toJohn's liking. " Over there weare classed as an undergroundgroup, and the audience we
get Is more mature, we seevery few 15 -year-olds in thecrowd. Most of them are aged
from 17 to their thirties.
" Also they join in anddance and generally have agood time, not at all like English audiences who are very

subdued."Looking slightly ashamed
John admitted that he had
only just played the Kinks'
second to last album "Village
Green," " I never listen towhat Pete played. I prefer to

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lashed down on LonDIDY

JOHN GORTON

A word

from
Kink
John
do my own style of bass playing to the old numbers like
' You Really Got Me,' it's hard
work copying."
Two of the things the Kinks
miss in the States are British
pubs and beer. "This time wehave been lucky in finding two
British bars, one in New Yorkand one in San Francisco.
They sell Red Barrel at bothof them, but it costs ten bob
a pint, which is not too badreally. At one hotel I went
Into the restaurant and ordered a cheeseburger and a cupof tea; that came to about 50

bob."

The other thing they missfootball. " We went to see
the Brazil -England match at
Madison Square Gardens. It
was quite funny watching thegame with about 100,000 Brazilians! I think we were theonly British people there. Even
after the game we went toqueue up for tickets for the
final, we were so sure England would get into the final.
Then we had to sit through a
final played by two lousy
teams," said John.
When the Kinks come backfrom the States they will finish recording their next album
and do occasional dates inisthis country. " We have recorded four songs so far, but

it is a double album itwill take some time before ítasis finished. Most of the songs
have beenwritten by Ray, but

think a couple of Dave's
might be recorded for it."I

Exclusive-don?
Dr John Creaux, theNight Tripper, brought
it with him.
Because at exactly
the time that the storm
began, Dr John wasstarting a series of predawn sessions in London's Trident Studios.

I arrived there too late tohear them recording thefirst session, with Victor
Bros on organ, Steve Yorkon bass, and Kenneth Terroade on flute, but the playbacks were something else.
They cut one number, " ZuZu Woman," which was acomplete gas, way out inthe good doctor's voodoo
bag, with a lot of funky
call-and-response between
himself and singer Joni
Jones.

But the second session,
which I managed to drag myself out of bed for, was thekiller. Held between 3 and 8
am on Thursday, it featured
the following friends:
Eric
Clapton (guitar), Mick Jagger,
Bobby Whitlock, Pat Arnold,
Shirley Goodman, and Joni
Jones (back-up vocals), Bobby
Keys (tenor), Ray Draper(tuba, euphonium, bells), Walter Davis (piano), Carl Radie(bass), Fred Stahle (drums).
and Jim Gordon (congas).
plus of course Dr John, otherwise known as Mack Rebannack, on piano, guitar, andlead vocals.
The personnel alone madeit extraordinary. There was
Jagger, the pop superstar,
Clapton the guitar hero, Míss
Goodman the soul singer (shewas half of Shirley and Lee,who had a hit with " Let The

an incredible
sessionfeaturing,
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Jagger,-at the piano with (from left): Walter Davis (organ), Ray(tuba), Bobby
Whitlock, Pat Arnold, Joni Jones, Shirley Goodman, Mick Jagger Draper(vocals), Jim Gordon(congas), Carl Radle (bass), Tommy Faromi (guitar), Eric Clapton (guitar).
DR JOHN

Good Times Roll "), Ray Drap-

Jagger appeared to enjoy
himself throughly in the context, concentrating hard. on
learning the exact timing of
hit phrases and taking tips
from the band's regular singers, Shirley and Joni, who also
gave Whitlock a lot cf coaching.
The new, more withdrawn
Clapton was also in evidence,quietly sitting down to play
his Telecaster with a steel
bottleneck. What came out
was the most satisfying Clapton I've ever heard, very reticent but adding a whole lot
to the ensemble sound withsweet, sliding fills and brief
glistening solos.
Draper and Davis, the two
experienced jazz musicians,
also made valued contributions, particularly in the intro
to "The Sun," where Davis
added little flutters and runs
behind the euphonium's hard

er the avant-garde jazz tubaist, Davis the fine jazz pianist, and the rhythm section
from Delaney and Bonnie's
old Friends now with Clapton.
Rebannack was the catalyst
and that night all the musicians were brothers and sisters in soul, regardless of theirstylistic differences and widely
diverging experience.
They laid down a couple of
Dr John's songs, which he told
me later were called "TheMoon" and " The Sun" (Ithink he was putting me on,
but maybe not), both of themgreasy chants reeking withthe swamp flavour of Cajun
music.
The rhythms were loose andrelaxed, and the five - voicechoir was the main element,
repeating the riffs over andover again to build a harshexotic atmosphere.

fanfares.
After Dr John had taught
the newcomers " The Sun,"he told them: "I want you toplay this like children.. Get
out of your adult bags, andinto a child thing." It's an extraordinary song, with achorus that goes " Chickoma
chickoma chikoma chickoma.
chickomacrannigrows /salt and pepper. she can't
go-go." Over it, Rebannacksings some of that freaky
Creole stuff which has suchlovely- word -shapes, and it
ends with the singers whispering the chorus.
It was a very relaxed session, with all kinds of beautiful ladies hovering round thecontrol box and handing
drinks to the musicians, andto get a really sweaty, funky
atmosphere Dr John had mostof the lights and all the airconditioning switched off:.

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Clapton and
P. P. Arnold...
The leader was obviously
very much in charge, but his
openness is such that you
could imagine Miles Davis,
Son House, Pablo Casals. or
Segovia walking in and being
able to find a place for themselves in what was going on.
Truly, It was Open Music.
The session came to end atjust about the time the earlycommuters were thundering
along beneath the ground, but
no-one was bleary-eyed asthey went their various
ways.
I ain't slept for two daysand I don't feel like it now,"
said Charlie Greene, Rebannack's manager and the session's producer.
That's a baaaaad tam,"said Dr John. eyeing Mick
Jagger's elegant peaked cap.
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SIZZ SCENE
ARCHIE SHEPP, that tire-less propagandist for
black pride and polemics,
was talking about the socios y stem
logicalthat
nurtured jazz:" Take a man like Stravinsky, a total man," hesuggested. " I'm sure hecould talk to you about
Russian music and Russian
history and you wouldn't
be offended by that, yet I
always get the feeling thatwhites are a little bit
frightened
or offended
when I start to include myhistory.".

I've got news for you, Archie,of them can't stand' it!
That quote comes from myrecent book, " Jazz People" andthe fact that it was exclusively
devoted to the words, opinions
and ideas of black musicians
upset a lot of people.
A couple of reviews suggested
that it was a pity I had notseen fit to include any whitemusicians in order to give amore comprehensive picture of
the jazz scene, but why should
P Don't white musicians get
publicity out of all proportion
to their contribution to themusic's development?
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rating soars concurrently withhis bank balance and thevoices in the ghetto growincreasingly angrier.
And can you blame them?
When will whites learn
when will they ever learn
that jazz is Black Music? Ohsure, music has no colour.
And of course there are andhave been many exceptionallycreative white players
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many could have heard it
from European professionals.
And so they reacted as I
had reacted, three years ago,
when I first heard American
student bands in action at theIntercollegiate Jazz Festivalat Miami Beach. They justabout fell out of their chairs.
It must seem paradoxicalthat big band jazz should beflourishing on the American
university campus precisely ata time when it is apparently
languishing everywhere else.
But the appearance is deceiving.
The professional big band is
no longer the paying proposition it was at the heightofthe swingera.
The
surviving touring bands canbe counted on the fingers of
two hands.

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Wee andbuttheinfacts are written
Pee

Djangodisputableon the wall for all to see.
The creative source of themusic, its emotional content
and frame of reference, every
damn thing right down to theunorthodox techniques
themen from New Orleans applied to European -manufactured Instruments has comefrom black culture.
And some whites can't stand
it! Some of the older enthusiasts who follow
theDuke Ellington band everywhere
like
a
gang
of

schoolboys know where it's
at, but if the truth were
known, even their wide-eyedadmiration for the cats stems
from paternalistic, " loveable
old nigger " thinking.
What is more dangerous isa thing going on here now
among local musicians who
think that Europe's contribution to the New Music is
more revolutionary from anaestheticthanstandpoint
what ís happening in America
today. But how can they saythat when people like Chicago's AACM, people like-

Clifford Thornton
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musicians

themselves
for discrimination on a personallevel, white people do not asarule like to admit thatblacks have " got it "either here or in the States.
Funny, isn't it, how people
laughed at old Hugues Panassié when he brought out a"Dictionary of Jazz " which
listed musicians by race? His
background suggests that heprobably came to jazz with alittlebrief-paternalistic attitude, but thisis mere surmising. The fact
remains that Panassié dug theBlackness of jazz and was notafraid to say so.
But he was also one of thefirst to pigeonhole the jazzers
and boppers, a fault of whichwhite critics have always
been guilty. No black musician thinks in categories; tohim it's all music, be it Fred
McDowell, the Ink Spots,
Albert Ayler, Jelly
Roll
Morton or the Temptations.
With a mixture of prideand desperation, the AACM
of Chicago have re -christened
their baby; and Fontella Bass
put it into words at one of
their concerts: " Hey! This iswhat you call Free -Jazz -Blues And so be it. It's abouttime somebody told the truth,and musicians like the AACM
are living it
every day.
Trumpeter
LesterBowie
wrote me from France: " Wemiss the stimulation of theGhetto," and his words are so
right. The Ghetto spawned it,
the Ghetto people are themusic.

jazz

news

Amsterdam

to play
at theParadisoClub on July 22.
McGregor's
BrotherhoodofBreath big band will play at
the Country Club, Hampsteadon August 2, inaugurating a
new policy of jazz on Sundays
at the club.

ALAN

THE

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BAND

plays at The Whittington,
Pinner, tonight (Thursday) andat the II Rondo, Leicester, on
Saturday. The band's Music For
Pleasure album will be released

September.

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Johnny Hodges."

THREE albums fromBlue Note, released thisweekend, are Stan Turrentine's

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11of money and convenience.
Big bands cost too much, andthe players quickly get fed up
with the incessant travel.
Studio workand now
teaching
is more attractive. And that's where theunversities come in. They
have the money. They havetime and facilities for rehear-- -sal and experimentation. And
they travel just enough tokeep everyone on his toes.

Until very recently, most of
the bands have functioned as
an extra -curricular activity.
North Texas State, for many

years, was the only school togive credit for playing in theband; it was the first, and is
still one of the very few, togive a degree in jazz.
But things are changing
fast. Degree credit is now
common if hardly universal.
Composer=arranger
coursesare being introduced into theschools of music
including
traditional conservatories suchas the New England Conservatory,
Peabody
Conservatory and the Philadelphia
Musical Academy. And theresults are spectacular.
Among the leaders havebeen
North Texas
State,
Indiana University, the University of Illinois, the University of Miami, the Universityof Utah and San Fernando
Valley and Cerritos state
universities in California.
Of these only the North
Texas State band, under the
direction of Leon Breeden,
was at Montreaux and it waspredictably the best of thethree appearing there, offering-.

West Dorset this Friday .
.
Dave Hancock's Spinky Duk Big

Band debuts

at the Downbeat
Club,
Manor
House,
thisSunday, featuring trombonist
David Horler and reedmen Jim
Hastings, Barry Robinson, andAndy McDevitt
all membersof the BBC Radio Orchestra.
Opposite them will be theresident Les Cdndon Quintet.
KEITH TiPPETT GroupandIndo -Jazz
Fusions
in a concert at theThomas Bennett School, Crawley, next Monday .
HarryStrutters, the Brighton -based
jazz and comedy band, is backin action after a three-monthlay-off with free Friday sessions
at the Gay Highlander, Peace haven.

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followed by Rod Mason's bandon August 1.5. .
. Doug
Dobellrecently recorded a mainstream" supersession " for his 77 label
which he describes as " thebest ever for the label." Theband was the Brian Lemon All Stars, and with pianist Lemon
were
Ray Crant (trumpet),
Bruce Turner(alto, tenor),
Tony Coe (tenor), Sandy Brown(clarinet), John Picard (trombone), Dave Green (bass), andBobby Orr (drums). Among thenumbers was a " Blues For

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by Valerie Wilmer

Teagarden,

THIS WAS the year of theAmerican University big
jazz band at Montreux. The
Fourth International Jazz
Festival featured three ofthem
the MIT Festival
Jazz Ensemble, the Kent
State University Lab Bandand the North Texas StateLab Bandand they were
the sensation and talk of
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my lifescored three recent" Down Beat " pages while
no-one even bothers to go
and interview James Moody.
They all call him " the mostunder -rated reedman/flautist
around " but make no attempt
to up his ratingdig?
Meanwhile, Herbie Mann's-e:.
-" Another Story,"
Jones,

with

Thad
BusterRoker;

Cedar Walton,
and Mickey
Kenny Cox's " Multidirection ";andBrother Jack McDuff's" Moon Rappin'," which features trumpeter Danny Moore
and Richard Davis on Fender

Williams

bass.

yIBIST

Bobby
Hutcherson
and tenorist Harold Land
appear in the highly -rated newfilm They Shoot Horses, Don't
They. Hutcherson conducts thedance band In the movie, Land
plays in it. the quartet of
trumpeter
Dave
Holdsworth
play the 100 Club on Monday..

with Chris. Francis's Naima.

THE ALAN HAVEN Trio is at
the Bull Hotel, Bridport,

Jazz Circle were
due to hold their firstsession yesterday (Wednesday)in the Crawley Library. The
club meets monthly and future

recitals include talks

on Brubeck, Biz, and Charlie Parker.

'THE- MICHAELGARRICK
Septet will take part In a
special music course for school
teachers at Rolle College, Exmouth, Devon, on July 22.

varsitybig

bands

astonishing example emusicianship, individual ansectional virtuosity, and en
semble discipline.
In one way, however, th
MIT Band directed by Her
Pomeroy, oftheBerkleCollege of Music, was th
most remarkable. Whereas thNorth Texas State and Ken
State bands were compose(with few exceptions, of musi
majors, the MIT band wa
made up exclusively of futur
engineers.
It was this characteristic c
the dedicated an.d accom
plished amateur which lent t
their performance an irresis
tibie charm.
Not being burdened, more
over, with aspiring studen
composers, the band als
offered the most attractiv
repertoire, drawing upon succanny professional composerarrangers as Quincy Joneand Mike Gibbs.
Kent State's repertoire walargely the work of theistudent director, Bill Dobbins
and North Texas State's wa
almost exclusively the wortof various members of tin
an.

band.
There is much to be salt

for

this,

particularly

as

means
of letting
studencomposers try their wings ant
learn their trade. And theiaccomplishment was, goodness knows, impressive.

- -But young jazz composer:
not only the young
have a tendency tc
overcompose,
particularly
when they have at theirdisposition bands of suchcapabilities.
And the result, as a concer
diet, tends to be more busy
andingenious
composition
than entrancing music. The
writers are all accomplishec
and adventurous harmonists
and orchestrators, but they
are not good melodists.
There was much they coula
have learned throughout thefestival about the virtues ofsimplicity and
the
artfu
elaboration of melody fromsuch
old pros as Benny
Bailey, Dexter Gordon, Gerry
Mulligan, Yusef Lateef ana
Tony Scott.
And
they
could
have
learned much from the JuniorMance Trio which, with theinfinitely accomplished Oliver
Jackson on drums and theequally
versatile
MartinRiveraon
bass,
backedGordon, Mulligan and Scott inhour-long sets in a variety ofstyles that will remain in mymemory as examples of allthat is best in jazz.
and
ones

'CHRIS'-' showcomes toBARBER,thelatespecialist when it
takingjazz
toEdinburgh, will play the city's
largest cinema, the Playhouse,_withthe band and Ottilie
Patterson in a CommonwealthGameslate show tomorrow(Friday, July 17).
ROY HOBSON of Manchester
is now the proud possessor of every American andEnglish LP ever madeby
Maynard Ferguson.
TOURS of Germany are lined
up for Ken Colyer's Jazzmen
and
Monty
Sunshine's
Jazz Band
names which
have, perhaps an even more
magical attraction In Europe
than they have in Britain!
COLYER band will be in
THE Germany
from October 20
to November 4. The MontY
Sunshine Band has three visits-arranged: from September 24 toOctober 9;
January 12 toJanuary

27, 1971,

to May 4, 1971.

andApril 25

PROMOTER of the tour, Herr
Karsten Jahnke, of Ham
burg, is also to bring out a new
LP of Monty Sunshine. This it
scheduled for September, presumably on WAN label, whichis the record company on which
Ken Colyer's recent live Ham
burg recording was issued.

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¡ving K. BootsMONDAY: At the crackof midday, the telephone shrilled dramatically. " Hello Jiving,
this is your recording
manager,
HumphreyLardgood news."/TEri_RX,BAby,R PArHMFLAKyO,R FooR
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WEag 1i;1f R E 17 %pNP 1)t1TRl T 'VI ING-I1YOU-^"That's a curious name,"I
stammered, " Humi hrev
Lard Goodnews. Are you N
box of chocolates?"\" No dolt. I have beenchosen as your recording
manager by Metro Brothers
and my name is Lard. For
years you have blithered on
the scene, wasting vast sumsof money in promotion. From
now on you start working.
The plan is
an LP. Get it-

TUESDAY: Went to the El
Crisp Bread restaurant on atalent -spotting expedition. But
the place was full of musicians. And there he was
Shouting Duke 'Smiththekind of early British rock.
" Hi Boots," said Smith,checking in his antlers in thelobby. " How can I helpyou.?" As we broached a cup
of Bovril, I explained the
plan.

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WEDNESDAY: Up at thecrack of dawn, and breakfasted lightly on soya beans
and freshly turned earth.
Dawn, my girl friend, washeda pair of socks, and I bicycled
to the Steel Needle recording
studios. Duke Smith was
already there, and as promised he had gathered His
Heavy Friends for a session.
" Now who have we got?" I
demanded with eager anticipation. " Eric Clapton, Peter
Frampton and Jimmy Page?
Or is it merely Les Paul, Jeff
Beck and Alvin Lee? And
what about Baker, Moon andBonham for the percussionsection. Let's hope Jack could
make it an bass
and haveyou got Madeline Bell for the
vocal backing chorus?"" Practically," said Duke,
beckoning me from the control room, into the studio,
Casting my one good eye
about the room my heart
fluttered. Page and Moon-

SATURDAY:" Great,"I
smiled. nodding my feet tothe beat and tapping my

DRAWING BY BARRY FANTONI

head.

SUNDAY:. The

The" adventures ofa loser musician
were-

nowhere to be seen.
Insteada sea of unknown,and basically moronic faces,
peered at me with vacant
expressions. One of them,
picked his nose, and let his
guitar fall to the floor with aclatter. He swore in blind
confusion and started to cry.
" My God
who are they?"I
choked.
" Yourheavy
friends," said Duke, backing
away and smiling nervously.
" They are all we could get intime. Jimmy was in LA, Eric
was in DC and Peter was in
Peckham. But don't panic man
they can play. It's cool."

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Heavy

we decided to use them. " When I was in LO," hedroned, " I was with uric,Keith and Jack. Man we all

got busted three times over.
But I had the last laugh. Ibeat up 15 cops, or pigs as
we call them, and threw
petrol bombs into the City
Hall. Them rednecks didn't
know what hit them. The way
I see it, stoodent protest isreally going to take over,drone, drone, bleat, bleat."-" Bloody uncool if you ask
me," I ejaculated.

ProtestThe songs were all in the
Easy Rider, Time
Magazine, Tit -bits and Sunny
Stories bag, and weren't bad
actually, although a bit hard
to read, ''s the ink had run on
the cig; ette papers.

protest,THURSDAY: Midnight andthe group were still tuning
up after five hours. The
engineer was stoned out of
his mind and laughing unnaturally. The commissionaire
had tried to get a balance but
gave up, laughing naturally.
There had already been
complaints from the studio
below about the noise wewere making. The Who were
trying to get an acoustic
album together and could nothear each other.
An American road manager
had offered me a " wholemess of new songs," he'dwritten, and in desperation_-

WOODFALL presents

FRIDAY: The band woke up

MONDAY: At
the crackof midday, the telephone

shrilled dramatically: " Hello,
this
is
Metro
Brothers
records. Thanks for a great
album, we just heard thetapes. It will be released as
Jiving K. Boots and His
Heavy Friends. The cover
pictures are of Jimmy Page
and Jeff Beck. It will be soldin a brown paper bag at
tuppence. And you owe us£16,000."
NEXT WEEK: Jiving K.
Boots gets stoned out of his
mind.

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FAIRPORT'S DAVE SWARBRICK and SIMON NICOL: strength of character.

'Fairport's

woundshave healed
TOGETHER with theJohn Mayall band,
Fairport Convention
have rung enoughchanges to keep eventhe most ardent campanologist happy.

Since the group's inception three years ago
stability has taken knocks
through the loss of Judy
Dyble to Trader Home,
Ian Matthews to Southern
Comfort, Sandy Denny toFotheringay and, most recently, Tyger Hutchings to
Steeleye Span.

The parallel with Mayall
has consistently run true,
however, because the band's
althoughexperiencing changes in musical shape at each turn, has
survived the alterations inpersonnel to emerge withincreased solidity and espritde corps. The successful
outcome can be heard to
great effect on their latest
album, " Full House," where
they perfectly reveal theirtalents of depth, sensitivity
andsureness of touch,placed within the context ofEnglish folk-rock.
The key to their survival,
explains
guitarist Simon
Nicol, has been the strengthof character within thegroup. " Everyone who has
left has
had a strong
personality, but depth ofcharacter has always remained and the spirit within
the band has not changed.
Obviously there will come atime when the spirit willdie, but it is certainly notentity,9s. 6d.

TONY RICHARDSON
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back tracks
completed, I began to sing,For hours I drawled, droned,
bellowed,screamed,
andwailed.
" Ghastly," said the producer, with grim satisfaction.
" Any more of this and the
GLC will close us down. Then
I will retire to Kent and open
a ,pig farm. Or maybe a few
chickens. Eggs are popular.
People like eggs. Perhaps I
can sell a few and scratch aliving. Life need not be
entirely without hope."
He began to weep silently.
My reaction was to plunge
into a fury of drinking in a
low diveto drown mysorrows.

and began to lay down thebacking track. " Where's mypick man. What key Is it in?
I'm having trouble with my
Yoy-Yoy pedal. Why doesn't
this
amplifier work?
" Hey I'm not in tune. God
this Lebanese is nice. What
happened to that chick. Can
the roadie get me a Wimpy
and a glass of milk? Whattime does this session finish?

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The band eventually began
to blow. They were quite
heavy, if a little ragged. They
reminded me of a crossbetween Spooky Tooth, theBand and Griffin. I was ofcourse, by this time, wholly
drunk and my ears were solidwith wax.

Value

An LP
yes, a novel idea.
After all, with my name aby-word on the rock andvegetarian scene, the publicshould be given value formoney andapermanent
record of my art. Live gigs
are not enough.

-Ragged-together."

The studio iscrap, theengineer hasn't got it together, where's that joint, isthere any champagne? At
Olympic we always get champagne
hold onI brokea string."
I listened to the guitarist's
mumbling in fatal fascination.
The drummer was underneathhis bass drum ferreting about
with a small hammer. Suddenly there
was a loud crack.
' Great,"heemergedtriumphantly.
"I've been
trying to get that ferret allnight."

Polydorrecently
in-creased their singles pricefrom Ss 6d to 9s 3d. A
spokesman for EMI told
the MM: " The price ofEMI records has remained
unchanged
since
1966
apart from Purchase Tax
increases."
Mr Phillip Brodie, chairman of EMI, comments:" It is remarkable that theprice of singles has, apartfrom tax, remained unchanged for four years.
Meanwhile, wages and salaries have risen 30 per
cent and royalties substantially. The change wearemakingrepresents
three per cent per year
over the four years andstill leaves the price of
singles in this country oneof the cheapest in theworld."
Other labels may wellfollow suit. Decca refused
to comment as to whether
their prices were going up,
as did a spokesman forPye. CBS said they had noplans to make an increase,
but Island said discussions
had been going on forabout a week.
" Our price willdefinitely not go higher
than 9s and the West
Indian label, like Trojan,
will not be affected "added the Island spokes-

man.

around the corner.
"At present, of course,
the major personalities are
Richard (Thompson) and
Swarb (Dave Swarbrick)because they write most ofthematerial.
Obviously,
those who write the songs
have more influence thanthose who do not, although
we all contribute ideas. But
nobody thinks of themselves
as the dominant member.
" The various departures
affected our style for a time
but the wounds quickly
healed.
Ultimately,
thechanges have always been
for the best. The format haschanged every time but notin all aspects. Really, it islike billiard balls hitting
each other. The shape of thepack changes as some fly
off, but the same billiard
balls are still there."
The group returned about
two months ago from theirfirst American tour. What
had the reception been like?
" Very good on the whole.
The people who came to see
us knew what to expect.
But we have been lucky
our audience will accept us
for what we are on stage,
despite the fact that wehave had so many changes.
It is a good system. I would
recommend it to any othergroup. The motto is, do not
lose heart if someone leaves.
" The point is that it has
never been down to one
person to dominate the
band's whole style. If someone leaves it is only the-approach that changes."
Of all the English folkrock bands
to use aninvidious term
the Fair ports have been the mostmusically successful because
they were quick to divorce
themselves from American
influences and revert insteadto the traditional English
folk songs. Nicol states that
their style, with its emphasis on
thistraditional
format, has not been the
result of any conscious
effort.
"We do very little research for this material. We
are not consciously trying to
put over a traditional song.
We want to write our own
numbersusing
Englishmusic as a base lather than
American. We are using
English themes but it is in
no sense a crusade topromote these old English
songs.
" The material is in ourown minds, or else in thememories of people whom
we tap. Occasionally, should
we need to use a certain
traditional song, we roundup all the versions and use
them as a basis for trying tocompose our own impression removing archaic bitsfrom the final text.
"We have to do thisbecause it would not beright for us to sing in a
Northumbrian dialect, forinstance; it would be dishonest.
It would be on a par with
us
doing
a
Supremes'
number. The result would
sound so odd to people used
to us.- Swarb and Richard
Thompson, our writers, havecreated a distinctive line
between themneitherdefinitively traditional nor
poppy. Some of them, in
fact, are a bit abstract andrequire one's own personal
definition."
Has
their
audiencechanged as they have progressed? " No, most of
those who buy our records
have known us for a longtime and we do not makeany new converts. I doubt if
we have managed to convert
any old folk fans, though
the Bob Dylan fans, whosematerial we used to do,have probably stayed with

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us."

The conversation
withSimon took place in thebasement of a small film
company. Director
TonyPalmer was editing film of aconcert he shot last weekend at Maidstone, where the
Fairport
Convention andMatthews' Southern Comfort
were taking part in a minor
pop festival. The final version, which will run toabout 35 minutes, will goround the circuits as support for a major feature.
The whole festival was
set up for the purposes ofthe film, apparently. "Theyknew the kids would comealong so they had a readymade
audience.
About
10,000 people turned up,
and this is really the
optimum size for festivals,
otherwise it becomes a-

refugee ordeal.
Everybody is getting tiredof festivals, anyway. I would

never go to them, not even
if an American band wereon. They should not last for
more than two days and I
do not think more than
10,000 people should be
involved. They can become
bad for a band, you know.
A bad set can ruin a band.
If someone in a group plays
a bad set in front of all
those people it is bad forinternal relations within thegroup.
"And then again, when
there are over 10,000 people
the crowd loses its senseof identity, it becomes sofaceless; and I like to see
people's faces at a gig."
At this juncture in theconversation Dave Mattacks,
the band's drummer, came
down for a rap. The talk,understandably,
revolvedaround drumming, and I
asked if playing with the
Fairports, whose music involves quick switches inrhythm and pace and calls
for subtlety of texture and a
special kind of heaviness in
the rhythm section, imposed
any problems.
No, I would not say so.
The time signatures are notreally all that complicated.
There are guys doing far
more intricate things.
What sort of drummers
did he admire? " Those at
the top of their own field,
such as Sonny Murray, Tony
Williams and Buddy Rich.
There are few pop drummers I like, actually. I dig
Keef Hartley and Levon
Holm of The Band because
they play tastefully. They
are the sort of guys who
have the technique but canhold back, playing the rightthings at the right time
uncluttered, simply drumming.
" Somebody I really likeis Ringo because he lays it
down and gets a good fillingsound. He's the best hi -hat
drummer in the world. The
drum sounds on Sgt. Pepper
were great,
really distinctive. I hear that to getthat special effect theyslacken the skins; in thatway you get more depth.
His drums ring for about 18
bars afterwards; it's a veryloose, gongy sound, something that I try to aim formyself."What were his impressions of the American tour?
" The trip made us much
more solid. America either
breaks you or makes you
better. It helped us to get
to know each other wellmusically. Before we went
to the States were were notentirely familiar with the-present line-up."

The group, he declares,
are now back to the usualround of English gigs andcomposing a new repertoire
for an album to be recordedin August.
Hopefully, no more splits
are imminent in the band.
Even so, on their pastrecord they would doubtlessride out the problem. And
that's the hallmark of agood band, after all.

MICHAEL WATTS

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1970-Page 13

success comes t o him who seeks it undeniably rings true
THEfor Family, who,that
in Pied Piper fashi on, have gathered in
OLD ADAGE

their

wake a streamof devoted follows in their progress through clubs, colleges and festivals.
Their hallmark-an amalgam of rock rhythms,
by Roger Chapman's crazily teetering vocals (he is to vibrato what Maria Callas circumscribedis to soprano)-has given them considerable success in terms of the three albums they have so far released.
in the commercial single market-they have bee n consistently On another level, however-successfrustrated. Their last single, "Today," died the death in chart terms, and their m ost successful release, "No Mule's Fool," wasonly a very minor hit.
Conspiracy seems to be afoot to keep the ban d's music off the airwaves and theirfaces off TV.
This appears to be the reason for their compara tive failure on 45 r.p.m. atalbums, needing less promotion, are selling in droves. Rob Townsend, the same time as their
their
drummer, certainly
believes that " Today," for instance, did not get enough coverage.
" It sold fairly well, I suppose, but very
IY, so that ultimately it lost theslow
initial impact.
sot really behind it. I don't think they thought
The trouble was that the radio and TV wereit was very commercial, partly
it wasabout four minutes long, so it didbecause
not get much
airplay.

They've still not
had a hit single-but does itmatter much?

It's a pity, really, because the band liked
ita lot and were anxious to
put it out. But thishas generally been the attitude
toour singles releases. Although we have done TV
like
Disco Two, we have never once beenshowstoappear on Top Of The Pops. The situationaskedisevenmore extraordinary when you consider thevastamount of television we have had on thecontinent.
"Our popularity does not seem to have suffered,however. In a Newcastle poll not
long ago wewere voted top, with the Beatles second
and theStones third. Our success has
been through hard work. We
have made it honestly, by going round the clubs. This isreflected in our album sales.
by MICHAEL" WATTS" A Song For Me" is still
selling, and " Entertainment "has just taken off again."
Since their national tour
two months ago, the Leicester " Hamburg was incredible "originated band have been out
says Townsend. " We couldof the country, doing a host of
not believe it. Before we went
festivals in Rotterdam, Bruswe thought we would be a bitsels, Dusseldorf and Hamof an unknown quantity overburg. Their reception was
there, but they knew all thesuitably ecstatic.
tracks of our album. They

loved

Roger.

At one gig

a

I

wq5",

respect for Chapman, whom
he first knew back in the olddays in Leicester when hedrummed with Gipsy. According to Rob, the vocalist experiences some form of selfinduced trance whenever hestagehand was going roundbackstage swearing that Rog
was a madman."To
Britishaudiences
weaned on Chapman's brandof instant insanity. that will
come as no surprise. There
are few finer sights in British
pop than Chapman in full
flight, arms whirling like adervish and head rocking on
his shoulders like a souped up metronome.
Rob has great affection andgets out on stage.

He c.ln't believe it whenpeople tell him what he does.
He saw a film of himself on
stage

recently and he wasastonished and embarrassed.canremember he was doing

his

usual

act

at

Coventry

once and he fell off stage andcut his head open. Blood wasstreaming from it and he did
notknow what he had done

until he got in the dressing
room. " in a way, though,it's the same with most musicians. You forget everything

when you are on stage but forthe playing. 1 think, though.
that Roger drove himself too
hard. He went to the doctor a
few weeks ago and he told
him he was completely exhausted and to take a holi-

COMING SOON: JEFF BECK'S NEW

THE SAGA of Jeff Beckhas always been about

as easy to follow as an.
avant-garde

Frenchmovie, and the recent

period of silence following his car accident has
been full of rumours,
mainly centring on his
putativeassociation
with various membersof Vanilla Fudge.

rNow, at last, he seems tobesurfacingagain,

andin a most unexpected way.
A couple of weeks ago his
producer, Mickie Most, took

him to the Tamla Motown
studios in Detroit and recorded an album.

JEFF BECK:

session in Detroitti "Not only were they the firstoutsiders " ever to record in
the hallowed premises of Hitsville USA, but they also work -TAMLA MOTOWN SOUND
with Motown's staff musi-

ed

la

"The

bass -players,

who

have

have

the

lead guitarists, because that's

best

how they started before theyswitched to bass, and they'rerhythm sections in the world,"
Most asserts. " They have acouple of bass -players who arecompletely out of sight, andthe company keeps all themusicians on retainers. Theirpercussionists are terrific, too,
and

have

they can dig in better andget a deeper feeling. So manyrock bassists are frustrated

to give the company's records
that inimitable " feel."" Tamlabass -players

fabulous techniques. They always try, to play near thebottom of the fingerboard, so

done .so much over the years

alwaystryingtoplay

up in the top frets.

solos

Among the songs Jeff re-corded were a couple of Motown classics, the Four Tops'" Reach Out, I'll Be There"

weused a guy called
Bongo Eddie on some tracks.
" We also used brass andsome of their singers, but I
didn't use the strings because that would possibly be

..

and

the

Rita

Wright's

Temptations'"(IKnow) I'm Losing You," plus
Back The Love

"Can'tGet

Feel "

andI

severalothers written by
Tamla staff composers Pam

Sawyer and Joe Hinton.
Of the motivation behind"Wethe sessions, Most said:
to the States with thewentintention of making somethingother than the old blues groupthing,and the best source ofmaterial in the world is Motown.
" Jeff's putting a new band

together at the moment, with
Cosy on drums, and he'll tellthem all to play like the stuff
we've just recorded.

" The Fudge thing blew out
they were all withbecausedifferent

records

companies,

and it reached stalemate. Anyway it would be difficult for
Jeff to work on a permanent
basis with America because
he likes it here and they'dwant to be working every
week

of

the

year."

day, which he is doing now.
Chapman, together withlead guitarist John Whitney,
is the group's main songwriter. His lyrics, though occasionally bland, and sometimes naive, generally havesomething interesting to say.
" A Good Friend Of Mine,"
for instance, the flip of "No
Mule's Fool " but released
purely in instrumental form
His " Summer '67 " on the" Entertainment " album, isilluminating about his earlylife and associations.
Townsend states that Chap man's lyrics are very personal
and private to him; that henever discloses what they
really mean for him. He is,apparently, an
instinctive
composer, rather than a writer
who disciplines himself to sit
down for a certain time andknock out a number.
"Constantly he will get up
in the middle of the nightwith an idea for a song. With
" Songs For Sinking Lovers "he woke up at night with thisphrase in his head. When therest of us got up in the morning he had completed thewhole song."
Since vibist Poli Palmer
joined the group, Family devotees claim they can detecta strong jazz feel in thegroup. How true was this?
" Not at all, really. Po i
has brought a jazz influence
into the band only insofar as
he has got us interested inpeople like Cannonball Adder ley. He has opened our eyes
to such jazzmen as Gary
Burton and Herbie Hancock,that's all.
" Everyone of us has got
his own bag. Weider likes
country music; for instance.

r-

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I was brought up on Chuck
Berry. None of us can play
any jazz. We all have ourown interests and I suppose
these come out in our playing.
" Anyhow, the music barriers are coming down generally. It's great that a jazz
drummer like Tony Williams
is getting more into pop,
using group rhythms and thensoloing over the top. I mean,
Zappa now has a guy fromthe Turtles."Family are on holiday now.
Their next date is at Croydon
on July 26. Rob says theymight record some live tracks
there for a new album, which
they are already halfway
through.
A new maxi -single will also
be shortly released, combining a brand new cut called" Strange Band " with rem ix e sof" Weaver's
Answer" and " Hung Up
Down."
A further LP, out on July
31, will be a sampler of all
their recorded work, incorporating " Strange
Band,"" Hung Up Down," "Today.""Observations From A Hill,"" GoodFriend of Mine,"" Weaver's Answer," "TheCat And The Rat," "Hey Mr.
Policeman _' and " Peace Of
Mind." All the original tracks
have been re -mixed for thealbum, which will be called"Old Songs, New Songs."
Both albums will doubtless find their way to innumerable record players in Britain and abroad. Family are
just hoping the mass media
will let the single do thesame.

-LaneyDiaarnondoAjaxfiarmory-aNwhat he Is.

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18,

1970

" THE LITTLE RICHARD STORY "

w

-2

(Joy
LPs). Selling at tuppence under two quid, this must be one of the
year's bargains.
The material comes from the now -defunct
Vee-Jay catalogue, and includes all Mr
Penniman's best songs, with the notable

exception of the gospelly " I Don't Know
What You Got But It's Got Me," which Joy
should put out on a single as soon as possible.
But I digress, because "The Little Richard
Story " contains everything else: " Miss Molly,""Long Tall Sall," " Rip It Up," "Tutti
Frutti," and the magnificent " She's Got It (I
Can't Do Without It)" from "The Girl Can't

Li

is bigvalue

1oforgetting

LITTLE RICHARD: Honking tenors, thrashing drums-

DOWNES:"Electric

City" (Vertigo). Bob Downes

excellent, adventurous
jazz flautist who likes todiversify, and this is his
attempt at writing, playing,and singing rock. It's prettymuch as you'd expect, because most jazz musiciansseem to think that playing
rock consists of being as
sloppy as possible and merely
letting it all hang out. It justain't so, as they'd soon findout if they listened to Neil
Young, Van Morrison, theGrateful Dead, or Booker T
and the MGs. I find " ElectricCity " an extremely unsatisfying experience when compared with those just named,isanall-rounder

Sid

Buckman. Ray Noble fronts asmooth, polished, swinging
band of star sessioneers, plus
the velvet
voiceof theinimitable Al Bowlly. The

but which pleasantly interprets some decent material:
Neil
Diamond's touchingly
sensitive " Girl You'll Be A
Woman Soon " is a finechoicehere. Other tracks
include " A Taste Of Honey,"" All My Love," "Shout " andtheinevitable" Congratulations." Excellent value
at 19s 11d.
R.C.
BOB

Club SH 118/9). A
nostalgic double album whichtransported me thoughtfullyback to the days when bands
were easily distinguished bytheir individual styles. Harry

Roy's band jogs along in acrisp, relaxed and exuberant
manner, reflecting the personality of its breezy leader,with his strangulated vocals.
Lew Stone's Bandisnotreally heard to advantage,
becausetheemphasisisplaced on versatility, overlooking the excitement it
generated in jazz vehicles,with its sparkling soloists.
Roy
Fox's
Band
is
soft,
mellow and stylish, featuring
the sturdy voice of Denny
Dennis andthebubbling
appeal of Mary Lee, not

Ri hard

Help It."The backings, with honking tenors andthrashing drums, have dated, but Richard's
void remains that same visceral instrument
which can tear your guts to shreds in seconds.
His control was always stunning, in fact he'sa virtuoso, and he makes most current singers
look pretty sick.
Whatever your tastes in rock and roll,think you have to own up and buy this one.
It's a sheerly joyful blastfrom the days when everyalbum. Lead guitarist Mickthing was a little simpler andseven - minute
Grabham's
world was easier tothe" Painted Lady " also has
groove in. R.W.
stunning
two -guitar
work,burning with effortless power,
Artists).
(United
COCHISEand mention must also be
Very much a New Wave band,
made of the solid rock ofin the sense that they soundbassist Ricky Wills and drumas it they don't need a stack
mer John Wilson, both admir100 -wattofMarshalls toably reticent but always there.
make their music, Cochise disAnd I can't finish without
play many different internal
mentioning
Grabham's
directions inside their music.
"China," which conjures up
For a start there's a strongtheatmosphereof
NeilCountry thing, manifesting
Young's first album in an
itself in the quietly relaxed
extraordinarily exact
way,
atmosphere of several songs
with Cole on cello. I'm notand also in Brian Cole's finesure about the value of suchsteel guitar, and then there's
an exercise, but there area rather heavier thing which
enough really good things ofcomes over in the best version
the album to make it worth
a:f Paul Simon's " 59th Street
buying for anyone with his
Bridge Song " that I've heard.
head in this general direction.
Perhaps the best cut Is singer
R.W.
StewartBrown's" Past I
Loves," a slowish, sad song
"CLIFF RICHARD: Live At
with aching guitars which
The
Talk of the Town"
conjure up visions of Jerry(Regal Starline): You know
Garcia and Bob Weir sliding
precisely what to expect fromalong together.
It's a taut
Cliff, and he never deviates
piece with a contained, selffrom a highly polished persufficient quality which setsformance: a voice that's not
it apart from the rest of thebrilliantly original or rangy,

Recordand far below the standard of

Downes'" Dreamprevious
Journey,"

album,
whichgave him far more scope.
Here he uses a big band witha lot of good faces (Kenny

Wheeler, Harry Beckett, Chris
Spedding, Harry Miller, Ray
Russell), and most of thescoring sounds pretty harsh
and angry. Downes' unfailingself-confidence surges throughhis singing, which is amateurish and uncontrolled, and theodd spots of alto, tenor, andvarioushisflutesaren'tenough to make it worthwhile. It's easy to see what
he's trying to do: make somemoney and have some fun, inthat order, but to me the only
parts which come off are thefreaky sound -trips on the
final track, " Gonna Take A
Journey," and even that lacks
real emotion. I really don't
see the point of a man who
could make animportantcontribution to music bothering to descend to this level.

-

R.W.

HORSE:"Horse "(RCA

Victor). Stodgy, heavy sounds
from a four -piece band that,musically, sounds like a paleimitation of Black Sabbathand,lyrically, bears a resent-

toSabbath.
Black
two attributes figure
prominently -on the first track,"The Sacrifice," which has
somethump -thump
guitarfrom Rod Loach and a touchof the tiresome back magic
expressed in spoken phrases
about blood dripping down
the armand some foullaughter that might, perforce,compel Granny to drop a
stitch in her knitting. Furthermore, it is poorly recorded byblanceThese

who in several instances should have bought
the voices further forward
for the sake of audibility. The
best track is " And I Have
Loved You," which features
some tasteful mandolin playing
a glimmer of light in
the overall darkness.
M.W.
Loach,

-

-

-THE
AGE
GOLDENOF
BRITISH DANCEBANDS:
Harry Roy, Lew Stone, Royrox, Ray Noble. (World

descriptive sleeve notes by
Brian Rust are biographicallyinformative, but lack personnels, which is a pity.
C.H.

-

BLOODROCK:" Bloodrock "(Capitol):' This album

isanexample of where rock musicin the '70s is not. The nine
tracks, all written by thegroup, are for thé most partboring and repetitive, butthey do have a beat thatwould go downwell atparties.
Leadandsingerdrummer Jim Rutledge puts
little emotion into any of thesongs, but that's
probably
because the lyrics are banal.
Lee Pickens on lead guitarsoundslikeany
averageguitarist, and the keyboards
by Stevie Hill are nothing
special. The only thing thatgives this album any credit is
the bass work by Eddie
Grundy. The last track side
two " Melvin laid an egg," isquite nice, and features someclever guitar and voice harmony.
M.P.

-

NAVA
"NIA
ZINDAGI,
Records).
JEEWAN " (BBClot of
The
has
a
BBC
wonderful ethnic material in
its tape library, and with thereleaseof

their" Archive Thing," and now
this, it may be hoped thatthey are waking up to thetact. The album under review
is of music from India andPakistan. Much of it is considerably more " popular " intone than the classical playingof Ravi Shankar ur Akhbar
Khan, with whom we are
more familiar, and so it isslightly less rewarding. It isof just as much interest

though, because of its non elitist origins and its extremefolk
feel_ The well-known
sitarist Dewan Motihar isfeatured, and the Pakistani
Ghazals on the second side
are notable for their soft.
lyrical feel, and the long,swirling melody lines. This
really is worth hearing foranyone who can't quite get to
Shankar' yet.
R.W.

-

"SHIRLEY BASSEY Live At

Talk of the Town "(United Artists): Showbiz personified, Miss Bassey pounds
out in irrespressible stylesuch cabaret songs as " As I
Love You," " You Can Hive
Him," "The Lady Is A
Tramp," "Funny Girl " and" Big Spender." An audience
like this is already convinced
before the singer does a note
but this one is especiallyon her side. The result is afine album for Bassey fans,capturing her at her peak:
perfectly at home among the

The

.

.

.

applause.

-

R.C.

MILLER:"RogerMiller 1970" (Mercury): He
has a warm, resonant voice,and clearly deserves better
songs. The arrangements here
are gooey, the songs
apartfrom " Everybody's Talkin'"and " Jody And The Kid " (byKristoffoson)rather weak.
But nothing can detract from
Roger Miller's style. It isbased in country music, but
it's never maudlin, always
tuneful. A good singer on an
ROGER

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-LOYD PRICE: "The Best Of(RegalStarline).
temember "Stagger Lee?" It
vas a huge hit ten years ago,andthe (then)incredible:ombination of roaring saxes,
houting girlie chorus and'rice'sthroaty,bellowing

the just sings beautifully, andThree -album set from Woodstock.

-

SMOKEY ROBINSON AND
THE MIRACLES: "Four In
Blue" (Tamla Motown). Miracles fans will know by now
that Smokey seems to put his
best
work
into
makingsingles. By comparison, hisalbums are usually rather--

was theaimon

man who set

Nilson Pickett on a solo
:aree: when he first recorded
his

old

Double L
abel. This is an unexpected
5ut welcome chunk of nos-algia.

-- -vocalistDavid
McAnally,
never
get
too
deep
!yrically or musicallyand-ave a very strung country
reel. David takes most of thelead vocals, and it's a pity alittle more of Pegge Ann
May's voice can't be heard.
She has a very good voice,and puts a lot into the few
songs she sings. John Allair,
keyboards, plays nice honky
Look piano, and flowing vibeson" Too Scared to Go."' The Lord's Prayer,"a musical version of the well-known
prayer is very strong, and it
fitting that it should he thelast track on side two, as the
songs get stronger as thealbum winds on. The
LP
grows on one after a coupleof plays.
M.P.

-

VARIOUS ARTISTS: "HowBlue Can We Get" (Blue
Horizon). Over the years,
Blue Horizon has become aby - word
for an unusualmusic form
British Blues.
This
hasmeant fortheistening public, a rich store
louse
of
slow,
dragging
tempos, earthy, unconvincing
vocals, cliche -locked, derivative guitar
playing,
flat,
lifeless drumming, and dull
recording sounds. This twovolume set includes American
artists, like Elmore James,
Arthur Cradup, Magic Sam,
Otis Spann and other blues
artists. Blue Horizon have
howeverfully
encouraged
their British counterparts whotheir British counterparts who
emergedinthe" bluesboom."
Undoubtedly there
have been some good bands
and artists
Chicken Shack,
Jellybread,Top
Topham,Christine Perfect, Fleetwood
Mac etc. All are represented
here. The tempos either dragor choogle, and the sincerity
sparkles like newly sprinkled
Vim. It is not that ,one isdiametrically opposed to British bands playing blues, or
any other form of Americanmusic. But why does it all
have to sound so depressingly
dull or desperately unconvincing?
C.W..

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at £7 10s a timeI

To clear up any possible
misconceptions
straight
away, all the tracks on thethree albums were recorded
live at the festival, and also
featured are stage
announcements
and
crowd
noises, including the very
emotional episode of therain storm, with thunderrolling in the backgroundas announcers
franticallytried to persuade people toclimb down from the scaffolding.
The quality of the record-

ing is sometimes excellent,
sometimes flawed, but that's
only a minor matter because
the overall atmosphere is what
it's all about. For me, thehighlights are 13 minutes ofHendrix, including that incredible solo " Star Spangled
Banner " which suggests that
one day Jimi might make anincredible
unaccompanied
guitar album: Santa's surging
drum -filled " Soul Sacrifice:"
Sly's apocalyptic "1 Want To
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album) Atlantic aren't doing
you any favours, and basicallyit's an album for those whowant to get some vicarious
love -generation kicks. Frankly
there isn't enough good music
to justify the pricebut
Hendrix and Sly are priceless,so who's to. say? A lot of
people have made a lot ofmoney out of the birth ofWoodstock Nation
hear
this album, definitely, but it's
not an essential purchase by.

-takes their fancy. The hardrock passages are no lessconvincing than the jollity of
hoe-down or the swing ofjazz that pervades the different compositions. The instrumentation includes violin,
in
the
hands
of
David

Laflamme,

Good

Smokeytradition

with

who

particularly

shines on the riffy " Don And
Dewe
french horn (Fred
Webb), and clarinet courtesyof guest Richard Olsen. Pattie
Santossings inmaidenly
fashion, and also taking partareVal
Fuentes(vocals,
drums),
MitchellHolman(vocals, bass, moutharp), Hal
Wagenet (vocals, guitar), andJerry Garcia(pedalsteel
guitar, and banjo). It was abeautiful
day
when
they
decided to get together.
C.W.

-

BARBARALEWIS:"The
Many
GroovesOf(Stax). One of the things that
distinguishes Soul from Pop isthat a good soul singer neverreally fades away. Just as you
start to wonder " What ever
happened to...."
theycome bouncing back with a
new thing. Barbara
Lewis'
1963 hit " Hello Stranger "was one of THE soul classics
and has sustained her reputation among believers throughyears of subsequent obscurity.

-

Now she's back
with
album
which, despiteastunning arrangement. There's
another stunner in " Wish I
Knew," an un -typical songs
which features some of thebest harmonies the Miracles
have ever put down. A pity
though, they couldn't resist
theapparently
obligatory" Hey Jude" and yet moreversions' You'veof
Lost
That , Lovin'Feelin'" and" My World Is Empty Without You."-A.L.

-

WOODSTOCK (Atlantic
3LPs). If you've seen themovie, you'll. want ¿his album
that's for sure. Everyone
will have his or her favourite
performance from the film of
the 1969 Woodstock Musicand Arts Fair, and mostapparently went
well atof the songs in the film Bath. There aredowndrawbacks,
if
like
want
you
Crosby,are reproduced here,
and Nash's "Suite: Judynotable exceptions be- Stills,
Blue Eyes" it is done much
ing John Sebastian's
better on their first album,
ditto the Who's " Tommy "" Younger Generation " finale.
Of the cuts which
and Joan Baez's "Sweet
weren't in the film,
particulike Jefferson Airplane's
Chariot," the latter of larly" Volunteers," with its toughwhich was ghastly any- pseudo-revolutionary fervour.
At £7 lOs (ie 50s for each
way.

Your

Lovin
"Tomorrow
Is
Another Day " and in particular "A Legend In Its Own
Time," a great ballad in true

Peace, love and music

---

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.

With

an

its
excruciating title, is a solid
delight. It's really great tohearthat silky,
sinuous,-oulful vibrator walling andfloating above the rhythm likesfemale Smokey Robinson.
she doesn't shout or scream,

JUNIOR WALKER AND THE
ALL STARS: "Live" (Tamla
Motown). One of those " is it
or isn't it?" albums. There's acertain shallowness about therecording quality
especially on the drum soundwhich leads you to believethat it might
indeed he" live." But the playing itself
sounds r little too tight to hetrue and the " audience "don't sound too convincing.
The
sleevenote
offersno
information as to when or.
where it was recorded. Still,
live or not, it belts along like
mad and conveys quite a hitof atmosphere, with Juniorscreeching away on his harsh,
unsubtle sax and even Moreunsubtle vocals. The drummer
crashes along splendidly andthe bass-player bulldozes his
riffs through " Hip City "" SweetSoul,""Home
Cocido' ," " What Does It
Take" and other hits. Its
great stuff for a party
but-

superb songs: " You Send MeRICHIE HAVENS/SLY/JOE COCKER: Woodstock stars

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PURE LOVE AND PLEASURE: Pure Love and Pleasure (Stateside). This is analbum of great pop songs foreducated teenyboppers. The
songs written by either lead
guitarist Bob Bohanna or--

unsatisfying, containing one
or two good, new tracks,
padded out
with Motown
standards. This one follows
the pattern, but is slightly
better than some of his recent
albums, thanks to some reallytime .te was slightly)bscured bra the inevitable':over versions. Incidentally,'riceRich and it shows,
especially in his drum solo on" Norwegian
Wood."
The
album includes three Hardin
compositions recorded withstrings
or
congaaccompaniment, followed by several
live in the studio" cuts of arock and roll medley and a" Northern " medley.
"The
Pike" is the only freaky
tráck, with Pete obviously
enjoying himself. " Swinging
like :he clappers" is not a
title
but it sums up their
work.
C.W.

songs and arrangements,:hough soulful, are out of the-ut and well away from theisualMuscle Shoals
soul.hing.
A.L.

,oice was the most exciting
found we'd heard in many anoon. It still sounds pretty
food today
as do most of
he other 13 tracks on this+aluable collection. In retro+pect, Price was an interssting figure
he wrote rockstandards Ike " Lawdy Miss
2lawdy," ".I.:st Because" and' Personality "although at
he

Buddy

:he

HARDIN AND YORK: "TheWorld's Smallest Blg Band "(Bell). When Pete York andEddie Hardin decided to forma two piece band, based on
the minimal line-up of organ
and drums, many heads shookand there was much mutter-

ing
of:
"One
scarcelyimagines such a small band
will be of great interest tothelistening
public, andneither are they likely toachieve a sufficiently varied
sound." Yet, since they split
fromtheSpencerDavisgroup, the duo have gonefrom strength to strength andhave confounded the unbelievers. Both are enthusiasts,
and this shines through theirwork. While not revolutionary, the sound they produce
has roots in jazz and rock. It
swings, and engenders excitement. Eddie has long been
noted for his vocal talents,

and ability as an organist andcomposer. Peter is a Craftsman on drums, playing withcare and precision. His idol is

then

so

was

REDBONE(CBS).
Presenting.... the first Red Indianrock hand. You were waiting
for that, weren't you? Actuallythisisprettygood,
although there's nothing distinctively Red Indian about it.
It's our old friend Swamprock, with touches of Creedence, Dr. John, Tony Joe
White, Cajun music, et al.
heir thing is rhythm, andthe guitar, bass. and drums
get a tremendously tight andsurging sound going while thelead guitar wah-wahs, chatters a ,d bubbles along hypnotically. They play with asense of style, but vocallythey are nothing special andoverall,- they're saying nothing
new. But as they'd probably
tell you: " White man speakwith forked tongue."
A.L.

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Until last year, Ike Hayes
was a leading pianist, arranger and producer with the
Stax funk. factory, and theman who co -wrote hits for
Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas
and others. Then he made analbum called " Hot ButteredSoul " and became somethingof a living legend. The album
was somewhat over -rated by

critics, apparently ignorant ofgospel music traditions, who
seemed-IT'SA" Marrying

BEAUTIFULDAY:

Malden " (CBS).
The scope and variety of thisperformance is breathtaking
Their taste is impeccable andtheir ability taultless.
Theterm " rock group" simply
does not apply. With deceptive ease they flow from moodto snood and any style that

Releae:17Julyon Deccá 'F13048

recent"Greatest
Hits"
album.
which is a much better buy.

ISAAC HAYES: "The Isaac
Hayes
Movement "(Stax).

by Peter Collins-

his

ary means. R.W.

to regard his 10 minute spoken introduction toasong as a striking inYet
novation.
itremains
possibly the best Soul albumof 1969, and this second
album is. even better. Quite
simply, Hayes has brought a
new kind of dignity andinventiveness to Soul, and has
opened up new directions foramusic which looked like
grinding into a rut of ersatz
funk i n e s s and sterile,mechanicalbrass
arrangements. His arrangements fororchestra and chorus standcomparison with the work of
Bacharach, Webb and Spector,
andhisversion here ofGeorge Harrison's" Something " justhas to he themost stunning interpretation
if a Beatles song ever. Yet,eneath all the drama andtrandeur is a basic soulful less,mainly to hisduespare. simple keyboard work
ind his voice, which is black
Ind gritty and powerful witha kind of inner warmth andenderness. The other songs
m here are Jerry Butler's:lassie " I Stand Accused"vith a long, apparently improvised,spokenintro;)usty's " I Just Know What
lo Do With Myself " and thesardonic "One Big Unhappy
Family.
A.L.

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MELODY MAKER, July 18, 1970-Page 19

HIGH UP on the sixth
floor of the plush
Londonderry Hotel, Mayfair, Eric Burdon was
sitting with his feet, cladinpumps, tucked
beneath him; looking for
all the world like anurchin guru.
Chrissie Shrimpton once
referred to him as "that sexylittle singer," but we needn'togo into all that.

Certainly,
Burdon himself doesn't givea damn -anymore about pop
stardom. Like he's serious
now, man, but serious. In
an age of pop politicos heis right up there with theCountry Joes, the Lennons
and the rest of the hot political gospellers. If the world
has not changed appreciably
by 1984 it will assuredly not
be for want of trying on thepart of Mr. Burdon.
Once upon a time he used
to sing with the Animals, and

on

ar
ac

he

could knockback theNewcastle Brown with thebest of 'em. Then, as thehippie philosophy of flower
power embraced thepop
Establishment with its overpowering scent, he turned toacid, and the image of thehard -boozing
blues
singerslipped. Simply, he went soft.
Well, it's all changed again
now, apparently. He has spent
the past two years in theStates, trying unsuccessfully
to break into the movies and,

ove
and

almost incidentally, forming a
new band.

--

Which he has called
wait for it
WAR.
Burdon does not see thetitle as implying a contradiction to all his paststatements on love and peace.
The way he sees it, they gohand in hand, like love andmarriage.
" I believe in war andhatred, too, you see?" hedeclared" You
earnestly
cannot go to war unless you
know what peace is as well.
spent the first half of my life
learning about one thing, now
I am back and can judge bothsides objectively. I would
agree that acid softened me,
but I was a drunken egotist
and I'm still egotisticalwhen I get drunk.
"Sure I have changed. You
know, there is a term that is
disappearing and that's theword" gentleman,"whichmeans to be gentle and to bea man at the same time."
So flower power was notjust a media -inspired trend on
the lines of reggae, say? "Oh,to those who did not drop thedope it was, but to those who
did it was a new life. It
enabled me to separate mymind from my body, which I
shall continue to do. It was
an invaluable learning period
for me and for many people."His view is that those
whose.minds became involvedin a losing battle with acidduring that period were partof a process of sorting thewheat from the chaff. "There
are strong people and there
are weak people," he explained firmly, " and some ofthem did not make it throughto the other side. That is thecrux of the game. It is sad,but war and life are sad, too;
there
are
casualties
andpeople die.
" Look at it' like this. Your
father and mine were involved in wars and 1 look at
my psychedelic period as mywar, a war with myself."

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America,although he admits It
has not been entirely happy,
has been exciting because of
the element of uncertainty inlife there. Violence interests
him deeply, to the extent that
he has a collection of guns
and weapons. This aspect ofAmerican society fascinates
him, but he is quick to pointout that also it exists here.
"It's a different violence inEngland. Look at the Establishment here, it split up the
Beatles.
suspect it hasforced Lennon to withdraw
into his own thing because he
was not getting the rightunderstanding and help, andMcCartney has become totally
Establishment.
"They could have become
this generation's Rodgers andHart, but Rodgers wanted it
andHart did not. Their
personalities were reflected in
the Establishment. To me,that is violence; that is thesame as a pig cop hitting a
black over the head."He
intends
tovisually
realise his viewsinthemonths ahead through several
movies he has planned. He
hassix" treatment,"or
loosely -written scripts, prepared so far, all of whichsound highly complicated, tosay the least. In Burdon's
words,
thefirst to be
produced, from a script by
Steve Gold, a former vicepresident of Universal Productions, concerns
twomen" who are one man, brothers,
really, but not realising it."
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One is a cop, representing
the straight
Establishment,
and the other is conversely arock and roller in the States,
a pillar of the young, pop -orientated Establishment,

which is composed of " thosekids who take the right dope,
wear the right clothes andhang out with the rightchicks."The dramatic incident revolves around the subsequent
clash
of their respective
personalities. The essence ofthe movie, he declares, is" finding the edge of thecoin."" American society does notallow a man to make a

mistake. When he does, he isjudged and put down for that
mistake, although he has
already been put in theposition of having to makeit" The movie, he adds, tries
to make this point.
If all this sounds involved,
his
subsequentifflicks,realised, will pale in comparison. He envisages a seriesof audio-visual trips, or hallucinations, of an even greater
plotless nature. Burdon is nofool, though, however obscure. He realises that you
just cannot commandeer themovie business with a snap of
your fingers. He has, he says,
thousands of things to learn
about films from the people
with the skills before he canstart making them himself.
And not everybody is rooting
for him, apparently.
" A lot of people do notwant me to get to sayanything because I threaten
what they are and stand for."
Originally,hedeclares,
MGM offered him a part in" Blow Up " as a beginning infilms, but he could not do it
because he was more interested in his music at the time
and the vibes were not rightbetween Antonioni and himself.
When the two did finally
get to grips with each other's
beliefs he was asked to playin " Zabriskie
Point." By
then, however, Eric díd not
like what he was understanding, so that was that.
Then again there was thesad saga of Peter Watkins'
movie, "Privilege," in which

was first considered forthe role of the tame political
pop star. Alas, states Burdon,
Watkins wanted someone tall,
slim and handsome, " notshort, fat and ugly." Enter
Paul Jones, who got the part.
At least he knows what helikes, though
Ken Russell's"Women In Love," for instance. "That movie is really
where I am at," he said
flatl y.
is a total statement of every experience of
he

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love.

"1 realised after seeing themovie why I had never read aD. H. Lawrence book: it's
because I already knew what
he was saying. I could feel in
my fingers the texture ofwhat the director was putting
together. I knew those faces
in the film; they were thefaces of the people where I
was born and raisedinNewcastle
the people whowork all the year round fromnine to five with two weeks
at the sea
virtually pit-

ponies.

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1"The pity is that they still
exist. When you have escapedfrom that scene, like me, youfeel you want to pass onwhat you have learned."
He feels that through his

projected movies he can dohis bit for these people andhelp to knock down the
Establishment. Certainly, hesays, politicians can do nothing. " Not as they are now. I
mean, look at Timothy Leary,
whom the kids started off byidolising. What happened tohim? He got involved in his
own performance, and wentand ran for the governorshipof California."
With all this talk of the'iniquitous Establishment still
hovering in the air, I left
Burdon, to be collared as I
got out of the lift on the
ground floor by two of thehotel's liveried flunkeys, who
promptly subjected me todetailed questioning about
who I was and what did
think I was doing using their,.

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As they face the Tory promise -or threat-ófWell, the Tories won. And oneof the True Blue pledges was thatthey would support commercial
radio.
Tony Blackburn was one of thefirst of the professionals to throw
their hats in the air. " Thank God
Labour are out," shrilled Tony.
" Commercial radio can only raise
the standards of Radio One justas commercial television raised thestandard of BBC television."
But is this view shared by
Tony's Radio One colleagues? Arethey indulging in wild revelries ofexultation at the thought of Free

Frée. Radio,

111iRadio?

To find out, the MELODY
MAKER asked a selection of the
top Radío One deejays. The questions: How did they. view theprospect of commercial radio
stations, what's wrong and what's
right with the BBC's Radio One
and how did they see their futurewhen the all-out radio war breaks
out?

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JOHN PEEL: What's wrong with
Radio One? The fact that you
can listen to it for an entire weekt

without learning anything that relates
to what's going on.
I don't know whether it originatesfrom the producers or where, butthere does seem to be a tendency thatthe programme should be irrelevant
if possible. Which is sad.
This is why 1 got into
radio in the first place, because it does have a potential to'be immediate, whichnewspapers don't have andtelevision doesn't have yet,because everything seems tobe so planned.
But you should be able todiscuss things as they happen,
even on the level of Free
Concerts and letting people
know about events that are
occurring. But 1 suppose theadvertising thing comes into
that. But you feel they don't
allow you enough freedom,
really, to talk about what you=1M

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broadcastthings as

more pop

9

they happen

want to talk about.
I wrote a thing recently
about Free Radio and got a
lot of abusive letters about it
because a lot of people arestill of the opinion that freeRadioequalscommercial
radio. But it's like saying
black is white or yes is no.
Commercial radio cannot
under any circumstaces con-ceivably be called Free Radio.
The two things are diametrical.y opposed. If you work
away at the BBC in your own
quiet corner and don't cause
any trouble, just get everything done, you can do somevery good thingssomevery interesting things.
But on commercial radio
there's not a hope in hell that-you'd ever be able to have
the Soft Machine on and havethem do a 25 -minute number,or half-hour' set. Or Imrat
Kahn on to do two 26 -minutelong pieces as he did on one
Top Gear. You'd never beable to do that on commercial
radio; not in a million years.
But even within the present
limitations on Radio One,
there's no doubt you get much
more freedom than you wouldwith commercial radio.
There are lots of things
wrong with Radio One; there
should be alternatives to it.
I'm
not
a
advocating
monopoly; I think that's appalling. Ideally, everyone shouldhave their own radio station.
But for people to say-as they
constantly dothat Free
radio is commercial radio,well, that's a load of
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are on`Top of the Pops' tonight wit.
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EVERETT:
If
you're going to haveout-and-out pop, you can'tbeat commercial radio. You
just can't have " respectable" pop on the BBC, however much they try by bringing in jingles.

So I'm going to have myown studio where I can
produce singles for commercial radio when it comes
and be a happy deejay
jingling away.
The BBC won't mind. I
have my ITV thing going.
BBC's Radio One is awful
really revolting. It's only thepeople who are so nicegentle tea -drinking chaps allvery civilised, ex -Air Forceand so on. They serve tea
every half-hour. But that's all1
really like about the Radio.
One
programmes. Nothingelse is really good about the
programmes.
Very
good
people to work with. Just-

in stereo-

Carolines and Radio Lon dons
just local radio
stations with a transmitting
radius of about 50 miles andtherefore a very limited
audience.

Whether or not the system
work depends
whether something like auponTV
set-up could be establishedwhereby programmes produced by a local station
insay Manchester
could betransmitted over a nationwide
network.
One advantage for Radio
One is that they will have anally in negotiations with theMusicians' Union I can't
really see commercial stations
having blanket Needle Time.
They will have to employ live
musicians. But the advent ofcommercial radio may mean
both the employment of moremusicians and more Needle
Time.
Radio One can't be a total
pop
stationbyplayingrecords 100 per cent Of thetime; they obviously have tocater for the majority duping
the daytime
and this ismainly an older audience. But
young people's music is very
important to them at thisstage in their life. I would
like to see Radio One
tramitting up at 2 a.m. in themorning.
As far as I personally feel
about my work,
regardmyself as a radio broadcaster,and I try to do the best withwhatever spot I am given.
But I would prefer a show inthe evening where I could
play more of the music I
particularly enjoy
thingsthat are more my cup of tea.
But -ny job is to entertain
an audience, and you can't
have jam on both sides of thebread. I'm very happy to havea daily programme and I
don't really see that local
commercial radio stations will
have that much effectespecially if they are limited
in transmitting range.
What I would really like to
see is two or three nationalcommercial
radio stations.
Then there would be a reallycompetitive situation.
will

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The Radio One people
themselves agree that it's amess. They try to do pop
programmes, but it wasdoomedbeforeitreallystarted. The programmes are
all in very good taste, butthey all add up to a large
percentage
ofhonor
except for a few exceptions.
Where the BBC are concerned, they should concentrate on Radio Two, Threeand Four and leave Radio One
to the commercials.
My future? Oh God, noI
won't carry on as a deejay
forever. I'd like to retire to alittle village in Cornwall andknit raffia mats. Doing pop
once a week is quite enough.
I've no other plans at the
momentexcept for this TV
series for London Weekend.

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Tories have been leapradio
without really stopping tothink about it. We're notgoing to have a lot of Radioing about with free

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DRUMMOND: Com-

mercial radio could bebad; it could be good. If it
is the commercial radio format of the Top 40, likeRadio London and Caroline,
then it could help RadioOne by providing extra competition.

And it would probably
mean that the MU would
have to Teach an agreementon providing more Needle
Time for those extra stations.
Radio One is pretty bad,but then commercial radio iseven worse. People are persuaded to buy more goods
whether they want them or not
the music is incidental.
My future?
That's likeasking a person who digs
roads whether he'll be digging
roads tomorrow. If I were outof the profession tomorrow, I
would have to do somethingelse. I never had any ambition to work in radio until I
worked in front of a mike; I'dno desire to be a deejay.
But I worked for commercial radio stations in theStates, and then for Radio
London, and I nave seen theway these stations operate.
The people who work on
the music side are interested
in music, but the people who
control the stations just can'ttell whether a 45 is a record
or a very good game of golf!
That Radio London proved
beneficial for records was-just an accident;
behind it were ju
make money.
I am notincommercial radic
would be nice 41
have a series of s
were just free of e
stations that coulported by the rate

MIKE RAVEN:

that the rac
should be offeredpossible choicegrammes andmonopoly in thement world tends
flexible and slow
new trend] in pu
Also, the advenmercial radio show
" Beeb " the sombarrassing necessit
tinuing its struggl
make-believeCa
London. In fact,
make it easierCorporation to con
its true ': special
maison "quality-

TONY BRANDC

music service
have a virtually
job on their hands
network to be attc
satisfy musical topotentialaudie-

54,000,000
that
on.
But I reserve ms
on commercial rac
thing I hear abot
free radio is comi
it is in fact goingcommercial en.terpri
thing it's going toIt's going to be theagainrather like--commercial TV
ball shows, you
OpportunityKnoquizzes and thoseMichael Miles abolour games and thin
But I'm all for aup to the BBC.
monopoly in any
form. I think there
stron.g feeling amon
who actually work
certainly among thteam of producers
there's no sense
petition at the moir
There's no yar
work to. Everyone

little complacent.
Commercial
radgive people morenities by virtue ofthat there will begoing; there areopportunities for al

start now.

But, where work
cians is concerned,
this is the trickiest
is anybody going tc
short measure in m
paperwork w
enormous, but posscould be some anwherebymusicia
appear on. record g<
percentage basis.
If you've foundplaying on a recc
sold750,000
anc
getting a piece of tthat seems quit
way of doing it: Bu
are terribly worriedtea-shop orchestras,
cordion players anc
bands. But I would
if commercial radi
there's going tomore opportunity
musicians. For loce
and bands, too.
I would
be allpop network that jrecords all day. I wa
a little bit of creativon.

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MELODY MAKER, July 18, 1970-Page 21

IT MAY be several weeks

IL before the record buying
public can obtain a copy ofthe latest album by the Rolling Stones entitled "GetYour Ya-Yas Out "butthis week Melody Maker
heard an acetate of the newalbum for review.
It is not known on whichlabel the album will appear,or when it will be released.

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What is certain, though, isthat when the album isreleased it will be a smash
hit. Recorded at Madison
Square Garden, New York, it
captures the excitement of aStones' live performance in asimilar way to the Who's

Live Stones album
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'AVID SYMONDS: Commercial radio is someng the BBC has needed
ages, because it's over, bloated andcomplacent.
at's the pro side of theestion.

he con side of commercial
lo depends upon how it is
up. I rather feel thenservatives have gone into

nmercial

radio
without
rking it all out beforehand.
.ether, for example, themsors will interfere with
programmes;
whether
ords are paid for to beyed.

)ne thing can be said in
BBC's favour: this type ofig
doesn't happen. Prommes compiled with total
testy, -though albeit they
very often sub -standard.

think Tony Blackburn said

iewhere thataradio:ion should have a promme compiled from discs

alone. That there should be
no live music at all.
I'm against this. The BBC
doesn't have nearly enough
Needle Time, but I would not
like to see a total disappearance of live sessions;they very often can turn out
to be a prestigious part of the

programme content.
For example, on Sounds ofthe 70's, which I'm now
doing, we have had a session
with the Nice where theymo.c or less played what
they' wanted to play. And theriail response was fantastic.
This is good for any groupcoming on to the programme.
The BBC needs more Needle
Time,
but
not the total
disappearanceof all live
sessions.

What

would like to seeaseries of FM
broadcastingin.
stereo. This would give far
better reproduction of music.
As far as my personal
position as a deejay issetup

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Stones' live show just had to

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The copy i heard had an
Apple label in the middle,
indicating where the acetate
was made. The label gave noclue as to what songs were
contained; it merely said
"The Rolling Stones
GetYour Ya Yas Out
Stereo "on each side.
Contained on the album are
ten songs, seven of which will

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I Am A Walrus " followed
by a Radio One jingle. Then
there came a time when I felt
I could compromise no longer.

Because of this, they took all
my programmes away fromme leaving me with one a
week instead of the five I had
two years ago.
But it is a case of six -to one and half-a -dozen to theother. There was the refusal
to compromise my standards
on my part, and on theirs arefusal to be dictated to by acomparatively junior memberof the staff.
So the set-up at present isthat I have Sound of the 70's
once a week and lotoffreedom to do what -I want.
This probably suits them to acertain extent and it keeps
me happy and on the air.

LAURIE RENSHAW

familiar to Stones'fans.
Side one kicks off with arousing ovation for the groupfrom what sounds like thousands of fans, and a DJ
repeating the announcement"Rolling Stones " many manytimes.

The audience gets deafen-

ing as the group break into a
very
tight
versionof" Jumpin' Jack Flash"anatural gas if ever there wasone. It's a longer version than
the single
and twice as
exciting.
Without
hesitation
thegroup move into the old
Chuck Berry number "Oh
Carol " from their first everlong player. They play thesong slower than their original version and there's some
nice honky tonk piano workfrom Nicky Hopkins.
A couple of bluesy, lessfamiliar
Stonesnumbers
follow.
"Love In Vain "features some very heavy
guitar backing and the slower"Stray Cat Blues" features
Keith Richard on acoustic
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trousers. " You don't want
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Devil.""Live With," another r andb rocker, sounds like vintage
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feeling in a studio.
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time we were playing Monk
tunes and blowing do the melody _ rather than thechords.
" Eventually we evolved
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was to make it happen in
the physical sense. Lots ofmusicians dropped out because they didn't like it, but
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was able to improvise rightfrom the beginning, with nothematic material, exceptthat sometimes we'd workfrom pictures or any visual
stimulation.
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to a company. Eventually hegave up and gave it to us,
and after a year we got
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.JAZZ SCEME-Such presentation as the band
may boast comes, they insist, fromspontaneous feelings rather thanKnow your Onions!
RED ONIONS? To British
ears the name may not
be all that familiar._If not. I
dare say it is going to be.
The Red Onions are Australians, but they have spent afair bit of time in the
Mother country of late years. And they are notdone yet.

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ca,, ,:The band, originally and perhaps officially .tiIl known as the
Red Onion Jazz Band, first sailed
to Europe in June of '67. That

trip took them to Poland andmany points west,' including

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ours.

They returned home to Melbourne in '68 satisfied with thewelcome and again set out for
Europein the Sitmar line's
Fairstarin March of this year.
Since then they have been touring,in Britain, Denmark, Germany andHungary. Italy and Switzerland--

are to come.
By now, they
good name withhave

prettyclub promotersthat hook them and the crowds
that listen. Says Roger Horton of
London's 100 Club:"On their first tour, which lasted
many months, I always found they
did very well for me. I would
expect them to do as well thistime, and they have been doing
good business."
In Australia the Onions are
considered to be one of thebusiest and most professional ofjazz groups.
" We've made six LPs overthere so far, so we're fairly wellknown," said trumpet player BrettIggulden. " We average about fivenights' work a week at home,mostly in residencies. The people
come to see a band that's beenaround for nine years and thatthey've seen on the box.'
On the evidence of what I've
heard, on their Swaggie LP and inperson, the Onions are enthusiastic
and painstaking interpreters of al:kinds of pre -bop music.
awith Brett Iggulden in front. Béhind hím are (left to right): Bill Howard, Dick Miller,
Allan Browne, Rowan Smith, John Scurry and Con rad Joyce.
R ED .ONIONS,Max Jones talks to Australia's Red Onions
Their repertoire ranges from theRussell and Ellington orchestras
and Ellington -Hodges small groupmaterial through Don Redman("Miss Hannah," for example) andEarl Hines (" Rosetta ") to the
New Orleans staples and forward
as far as, say, "Tenderly " or acontemporary popular song.
They take in Benny Goodman,
Armstrong,
Lunceford
and,strangely some may think, theBoswell Sisters repertoire(" Heebie Jeebles " and '' When I
Take My Sugar To Tea "). But
more than anything -elsetheyreinterpret Luis Russell jazz.
" We do about 80 per cent ofthenumbers

Russellrecorded,"
explained drummer Allan Browne.
" We love the music and it seems
just right for us. partly because
it's a small big band.
" We found
we
hat'
more
trouble doing those Beaman and
McKinney things. Likewise with
Jimmy Lunceford. We like some ofthe stuff but we find mostly that
there are too many parts for us torearrange satisfactorily."
The Onions, from the little I
know
of
their
performances,mingle an appreciable measure ofhumour and showmanship with
their music.
To begin with, they go in forsinging in quite a large way (anAustralian habit this, in myexperience) and in addition they
feature instnimental doubling in amanner which keeps, at times like
"Creole Rhapsody," a musicalchairs effect going on.
Iggulden plays alto as well as
trumpet (and voice or course),
Dick Miller doubles clarinet andtenor and also sings, John Scurry
plays banjo and guitar and the
pianist, Rowan Smith, besides
doing the odd vocal, adds a fourtafront-line voice on alto when themusic demands it. Now there is awashboard, too, wielded by Sally
Browne, wife of the drummer.

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which he hangs round the backof his kit.
He played this for the firsttime in a recording of Howard
Riley'sfor"Convolution "Radio 3, and will be using it
more in the future.
TONY'S own group broadcasts Radio 3's Jazz In Britain
on July 26. and on August 10
he takes part in the Harrogate
Festival, playing in a suite by

Wilfred Mellers called "TheWord -Unborn." Mellors it willremembered, used Howard
Riley In his " Yeibichei " at theproms last year.
The new suite will include
two choirs plus Instrumentalists, and Tony says that hewill be required to improvise
all the way through the work,
which is in five movements.
His second LP, again for
CBS, will be out in August, andisthenearingcompletion
composition for which he wasan
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of characteristic, which applies tothe musicians as well as thelisteners I suppose.
For instance, in Germany they
seem to go off their heads; they
just seem to love hot music. Now
the Communist countries, they
seem to enjoy every kindavant-garde as much as the earlier
jazz. Denmark? It's hard to say
because we've mostly done thedancing clubs."
And what of Britain?
" Youraudiences?
They'rebeaut," was Allan Browne's verdict. "The trouble's been getting
enough of them lately, what with
the World Cup and tennis andeverything. But I'd say the British
like to keep their divisions inmusic.
"The musicians here? I'd say
it's a national characteristic of the
British that they are nearly all
good readers."" In Poland, where we played
for a ten-day tour with Roland
Kirk and others, we did a concert
with Roland, Charles Lloyd andGeorgie Fame. Kirk told us that heloved ít all, all the different styles.
'That's about how we feel, andwe like Roland Kirk. Taking theband as a whole, I'd say he's
probably our favourite present-day
musician.
" And we liked the ClarkeBoland band, one of the first big
bands we heard in Europe. Well -it
plays hot. That's what we admired. and the freshness. The way
it's organised, as an occasional
ensemble, is why it sounds so
fresh."
I wondered how long the Red
Onions expected to remain in
Europe this time. They said maybe
until November, but that was up
to the bookings.
" We do Italy in early November, then who knows? When we
finally get home to Melbourne
we'll have spent 20 weeks on the
Sitmar boats in all. Over the two
tours, that is. Five weeks eachway each trip. But we think it's
been worth it."

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the audience.
I'll tell you one thing. we havenoticedthe different audience
reaction in the countries we'vebeen in. Each country has a kind

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Convention have stimulated keeninterest in the subtle variety ofsounds obtainable from theacoustic guitar.
Famous TV teacher John
Pearse, in fact, thinks that Pentangle has been a major force inmaking people aware of thepossibilities of acoustic music.
" Pentangle have done a great
deal to show people that it's notnecessary to drive an audience
into the ground with huge walls

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PENTANGLEJOHN PEARSE

major force

TV teacherof sound from massed banks ofamplifiers and speakers," saysJohn.
" They've shown that an
audience can be attracted bysubtlety and true musicianship.
Pentangle have definitely beenprime movers in this.
" One result of their influenceis that we're now beginning to
get a large number of very goodquality acoustic guitars available
inBritainwhich has notalways been the case.
" Many are being imported, but
we're also getting some very fine
guitar makers in Britain. One is
Tony Zamaites, who, I believe,
made a beautiful acoustic guitar
for Eric Clayton.
" Another maker, John Bailey,has made some great guitars, so
have Dick Knight and Peter
Abnett.
" That's' a small firm, Heritage, who turn out some beauti--

wrote Elvis Presley's "Guitar
Man."
PAUL SIMON: Quite adifferent field, but I rate Paul
Simon, of Simon and Garfunkel, very highly
especiallyfor his work as an accompanist. He has a fine sense of
dynamics and harmony and isa very sympathetic player.
PACO PENA: He is a
Flamenco player who now
lives in this country. He's areally tremendous technician
and
plays
fantastically" clean." guitar; his runs,
trills and hammering areIamazingly
crisp.
don't
profess to be an expert on
Flamenco guitar playing, but
I'm told that Paco Pena is
one of the ten top players inthis idiom. It wouldn't surprise me to find him at thevery top before long. He also
has a wonderful sense ofrhythmand,unlike some

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influence
ful acoustic instruments.
much along these lines; and one" Also, because of the interestof the most original sounds I've
in acoustic sounds, dulcimers areheard is Steeleye Span, featuring
being used by many people now.
Martin Carthy, Tim Hart andThis is three -string, zither -type
Maddy Prior.
instrument which produces a very
" Tim plays dulcimer in thebeautiful acoustic sound. A lotgroup beautifully. Peter Knightof people are now making them.
is playing mandolin with themGroups using them include Fairnow. The group is really brilliant,port Convention and Steeleye
and so original.
Span. Heritage turn out some
" Crosby, Stills, Nash andbeautiful dulcimers.
Young have this very eclectic"Fotheringay are working very scene, but they are using
some

3RRY REED: He records for
net Atkins and is a mar'Iious finger -style player. He
ts a wonderful rhythmicalose and is a fine player incountry and bluely style.
e gets a really funky feel
id plays some marvellous
uff. incidentally, he's a goodnger and songwriter, too. Hee-Flamenco players, keeps amarvellous tempo
which isessential
for
Flamenco
dancers. Paco Pena reallysells Flamenco music to his
listeners.

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instrumentalists to break acrossthe colour barrier to record
with
Louis
Armstrong and

Lonnie Johnson.

Although he recorded somepretty but non -Jazz solo pieces,

ANDRES SEGOVIA (born 1893):
Several guitarists have tried tochange the course of history,
from Henry VIII to Napoleon,
but the one man who has mostchangedthestatusoftheguitar is Segovia. Without his

activities

it's

unlikely there'dhave been a John Williams, a
Julian Bream, dozens of ProfessorsofGuitar, or 500,000
guitarists in Japan alone, when
there were but a handful on his
first visit over 40 years ago.
Segovia

took

up

the

women! "If that part hasn't Changed,
still has on his own raised
the guitar to concert statusthroughout the world. Music
critics in the 1920's and '30's
slammed his repertoire as consisting of transcriptions fromother
instruments
plus
few lightweight guitar pieces.a
Like grocers and some rockgroups, they thought to measure quality by volume orheaviness.
Nowadays there's a sizeable
amount of guitar music, mostof
it written specially for
Segovia
or hisThe
guitar Is acceptedpupils.
in mostAcademies
andCollegesofheGuitarStrings_

to give the guitar a big newrole in popular music as anaccompanying instrument
Inthe Paul Whiteman Orchestra,behind soloists like BIx and Joe
Venuti, and singers like young

parents did not approve, andthere were no local teachers inAndalusia. " It was only played
In rough cafes among loose

Folka brief vogue
do-it-yourself serenading
guitar was used inEurope in accompanying songs
from drawing -rooms to beer cellars, and in America behinditinerant blues singers On situ
they used pianos!) But Eddie
Lang drew together these styles

Instrument near the beginningof this century, it had long
been taught to young aristrocratic ladies as suitably genteel
and refined (along with embroidery), and it had long beenafolk instrument In Europe
and America for accompanying
songs. As Segovia told me, hisJohn
Peerseakit. The

J

When

the

as

Sykora.

Tt1E COMTEf1PORARY CIVITAM1PLER

The ukelele had

Ken

rr:

very expensive acoustic guitars.
" The Pentangle's John Renbourn was greatly influenced by
Davy Graham, but I now personally think John has surpassed even Davy in inventiveness. To me, Renbourn is theking.
" Apart from Pentangle, othergroups have proved a big influence too. A group that cameup about a year-ago-Tinder Box-influenced a lot of people.
" And I've heard a great groupcalled Tudor Lodge. They're using
two giutars and an incredible
girl flautist. They've won quitea
big following on the club
scene."
Adds John Pearse: " In fact,
there's such a growing and enduring interest in the acoustic
guitar that I'm still getting around
40 to- 50 letters a week on
acoustic guitar from my TV
series, Hold Down A Chord
and that ended about a year ago.
" Now I'm starting a newseries-for ATV-on Sunday,
September 27. This is a 30 minute colour programme dealing
with many kinds of musicians
and their music. Guests will include Tom Paley and the New
Deal String Band, Robin andBarry Drans'.ield, Steeleye Span,
Bill LeSage, Danny Thompson,
Terry Cox, Paco Pena and theLondon Balalaika Ensemble.
" In the latter part of eachprogramme I will be making a
dulcimer and teaching two enthusiasts how to play it."-three top guitarists choose their greatsi.

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MusicEDDIE LANG (1904-33):
In
the dance music and jazz of the
1920's, the banjo provided theplonk in the rhythm section.

his main importance was indeveloping the accompanimentrole of the guitar, with moving
chord patterns, fast fill-in runs,
arpeggios
and passing
bass
notes. Though Lang died In
1933 at the age of 29, he laid
the foundations for the subsequent retreat of the pianoand Its replacement by theguitar as we now find In 90 per
cent of popular music.
DJANGOREINHARDT (191053):
The
first great guitar
soloist in jazz was Django, theFrench gypsy. He was also theoriginal
one-man.
punching
rhythm section.
He and pianist Art Tatum
both had rrighllening techniques
and both explored advanced
chord progressions some years
before other jazzmen. Django's
jazz approach stemmed from anadmiration for Louis Armstrong
combined with his own fiery
gypsy romanticism, his primitif
genius for music and a fascinating natural dexterity.
He became the first memberof his race to achieve world
fame, the first white soloist tobefeatured with the Duke
Ellington Orchestra, the firstnon -Americantoinfluence
American jazzmen, the first
European to prove that jazz
could be exported from theStates.
His
techniqueand
ideas
were so individual they cannot
besuccessfully copied. But
Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, andothers, learnt his solos note fornote so they might understandsomething of his approach.
Whether Django played fastand hot, or lyrical and melancholy, his solos were always
full of passion and sensitivity.
His technique remained theslave of his intensely personal
imagination. His style may not
fit the current fashions, but his
qualities are timeless.

IT'S ALMOST impossible topick out just three guitarists
especially acoustic guitar.
There are so many different
fields you can go into withacoustic guitar
many morethan electric. You can go into
folk, classical, country andwesterq and glues...
But if
had to make achoice, it would be:

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GUITARS-JERRY REED: I've got two
featuring him
playing guitar and singing. He
plays a bluesy-country styleand technically and ideaswise
he's a phenomenal guitarist.
A lot of the time he plays
guitarwith 'open
chordtuning, and from a guitar
point of view some of his
stuff is incredible. I understand he's coming over toguest on one of Lulu's TVshows and I shall try to see
LPs of his

String along with Gibson

him.

Improve the sound of every guitar(not just Gibsons!) with Gibson strings.
Try the new Sonumatic Light Gauge
and Rock 'n' Roll Strings by Gibson.

BERT JANSCH and JOHN
RENBOURN:$oth are inPentangle and both play somereally fine things in the folkyblues vein. With John, hedoes some almost medieval
thingshe sounds really-'Please send me

beautiful.

In the classicalguitar field,
prefer JOHN

for technique I
WILLIAMS. ' He is really
incredible; a very "clean
player. JULIAN BREAM is
another wonderful player, andthink he plays with a bit
more heart than John. But it's
onlyahair-splitting
difference, for both are out-of this-world players. it wouldn't
he fair to John Williams
tosay he's got no feeling!
I

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acoustic
guitars
BACK -ROOM guitar -making is becoming a profitable pastime
for artistic amateurs allover the country who
make a steady spare time income in attics,
garden sheds, garages
and other makeshift
workshops.

Chris Hayes on the back -room
thesults sufficient to satisfy
themselves
and
their
friends, but others show exceptional talent in producing instruments of outstanding quality which fetch
high prices and are boughtby star performers.
An established fretted instrument expert known toeveryone in the musical profession. is 34 -year -old John
Bailey, who teaches woodwork at a school in Hampstead and was one of the'first three instructors to introduce guitar making into
London schools, resulting
in
the
LCC
launchingspecial courses for pupils
genuinely interested in thescale to John, who isturning down orders because
he is overwhelmed, are two
newcomers who would beglad to break into the scene
as he has done and become as
successful.
Chris Eccleshall, aged 22, isa violin restorer at a music
shop in Ealing, where he isfortunate enough to be able
to make his own instrumentsin the evening, 'finishing themat his roof-garden nearby.
He taught himself to make,I

guitars, dulcimers, mandolins
and banjos by reading books,
studying catalogues and pic-tures and carefully scrutinising, comparing and sketchingdifferent models.
His instruments are ex-quisitely -made because he is aperfectionist. Nothing is toomuch trouble and everything
must be just right. His
standard six -string acoustic
guitar has pine or spruce
front, mahogany neck, mahogany or rosewood back andcraft.

He has now remedied thelack of written instruction by
producing a descriptive booktitled Making A Folk Guitar,which is published by the
English Folk and Dance andSong
Society.
Fromhisstumbling
start
with
inadequate tools, he has now
become an expert at making
any kind of fretted instrument.
Hemakes,
repairs andrestoresinstrumentsforclients ranging over the whole
field of popular music. They

folk

includefavourites Bert
Jansch, Roy Harper and Al
Stewart, plus Dave Swarbrickand Richard Thompson (Fair-

port Convention), Tim Hart
(SteeleyeSpan),Ralph

Deny e r
members
Blonde.

of(Aquilla)andonBlondeHe has awell-equipped
workshop of his own construction attached to his small

JOHN BAILEY
teaches woodwork
semi-detached house at Wembley and he has gathered over
the years a remarkable collection of tools numbering about
300.

Wood is becoming difficult
to obtain and one has.to turnto salvage timber, especiallyold furniture, which is often

better than freshly -imported
supplies, as it is thoroughly
dry and beautifully seasoned.
For his 6 and 12 string
acoustic guitars John chiefly
uses rosewood or maple forthe back and sides, finequality spruce for the front,
maple or mahogany for theneck and ebony for the bridge
andfingerboard. He's notreally fussy what he uses forsolids, as long as it is a goodwell -seasoned hardwood. He
likes to sculpture and decorate all his instruments inindividual style.
Right on the other end of

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S/H HARMONY Jumbo£45
S/H SHELTON 12 -string£25
S/H GIBSON L4........ ........... £160
S/H MARTIN 0018G£55.
S/H J. RAMIERZ flamenco IA £140
S/H ALHAMBRA Concert£60
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Six Bagatelles
Three Rhythmic Dances
Six Progressive Pieces
Travel Suite
Air on the G string. Bach(arr. Mairants)

in ebony. All his orders havebeen from close friends andhe charges around £80.
He has no workshop andfew tools, but is a master of
improvisation,
inspired bylack of funds. " If you'rereasonably good at carpentry
and you've got a
lot ofclamps, you're in business,"
asserts
philosophically.
"I've even used a step ladder
as a work bench and found it
satisfactory for what I washedoing."
Quite a contrast to John
Bailey, but who knows, hemight become famous and as
busy one day, building instruments for the pop idols henow views with envy fromafar.

WHAT make of guitar andstrings,
wah - wahpedal and echo unit did
Hank Marvin use on his firstsolo LP, " Hank Marvin
M. CONDON, Shard End,"?-to make a guitar and hecharges £50-E80. Most of his
instruments are entirely his
own design, but he gladly

string

It takes him 30 to 50 hours

builds to individual requirements, a good example beinga solid electric stick guitar,which he

Both

one

my guitars are six Baldwin Moovin. On

I
use Fender Rock 'n
Roll
for
the
1st,
2nd
and 3rd strings, with a 5thfor the 4th 'string, and a
medium -gauge Gibson Sonomatics for the 5th and 6th.
On the other guitar
haveused medium-guage
strings,
usually Gibson, but lately I'vechanged to light -gauge Gibson
Sonomatic, except for the 5th
and 6th strings, which arestill tnedium-gauge. My echounit is a Binson Echorec, but

despairingly desa plank with two
pick-ups," made for Patrick
Campbell -Lyons of the pop
group Nirvana.
The other amateur with hiseyes on professionalism is 23 year -old Chris George, who ís
I don't use a wah-wah now.
currently a schoolteacher at
You are obviously referring to
Biggin Hill but finishes next
my De Armond Foot Tone
year and iritends to devote all
and Volume Pedal, which
his energies to making guitars
gives almost a wah-wah effect.
and promoting the rising folk
but not quite so obvious.
group to which be belongs,
HANK MARVIN.
Hunter Muskett.
Chris becamea
CAN you please tell me theguitarfanatic when he attended a
guitarstrings
andfolk festival and saw atunings used. by
Michaeldisplay of fretted instruments
Chapman on "Rabbitt Hills "made by John Bailey. Aidedand "You Say "?
D. M.
by tips and a supply of wood
Hendry, Sunbury.
fromaviolin -makerheTuning for "Rabbitt Hills "struggled with a 12 -string andis straight D, like D A DG
eventually completed it with
A D and for "You Say" it ispromising results.
flat EADG BD.ItrytouseHe gets his timber from aeither the new Gibson Sonoquaint old shop
in
the
matic
light -gauge
strings,
Midlands and basically uses
which are nicely balanced, orrosewood for the back andIvor Mairants medium bronze
sides of his acoustic guitars,
4th, 5th and 6th with his
mainly spruce for the front,
light-gauge 1st, 2nd and 3rd,stained maple for the neckwhich last a bit longer, but
and ebony for the fingerboard
don't have theattackingand bridge. So far he hassound of the others. On stage
made about a dozen acoustics,
I use a Gibson J200 custom
all six -string, except one nine guitar which I've doctored astring, which is his pride and - bit by scraping the varnish off
joy! His " den " is the lounge
the table to make it give aof his home.at Welling.
stronger sound. I also have a

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not so simply
it is the thinnest
string; it may not be quite
suitable for the tension ofyour guitar neck. Today theguitarist is very well cateredfor in this respect and any
string troubles can be remedied by using custom gaugeisbecausestrings.
Plain steel
strings are
obtainable from .008 inches
thickness to .026 and wound
strings from .017 to .065
inches. A
suitablestringbreaks less frequently, sounds
better andiseasiertomanipuate than one of in-

on 6, 7, 12
and 15 -string

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6(.055w) 5 (.040w)(.030(v) 3 (.025w) 2 (0.16(.012).
The best brands of str
are usually well gauged
sets, but the player may some particularprefere
The
.007
gauge
can
obtained but is seldom tru
pitch
over
the
w

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correct thickness.
The 12 -string guitar can betuned either in concert pitchof e (12) E (11) a (10) A (9) d(8) D (7) g (6) G (5) b (4) b(3) e (2) e (1) or in semitones
right down to C. Here is atable of gauges suitable tothese tunings:
1. Light gauge suitable forEtuning. 12 (023w) 11(.050w) 10 (.014) 9 (.040w) 8(.011) 7 (.030w) 6 (.011) 5(.023w) 4 and 3 (.011) 2 and(.010).

1

2. Medium gauge suitable
for E Eb or D tuning. 12(.030w)(.058w) 10 (.023w)
9 (.046w) 8 (0.016) 7 (.032w)
6 (.009) 5 (.025w) 4 and 3ll(.016) 2 and 1 (.013).
3. Heavy gauge suitable forD, Db or C tuning. 12 (.034w)
11(.070w) 10 (.025w) 9(.056w) 8 (,018) 7 (.044) 6(.010) 5 (.032w) 4 and 3 (.019)
2and1(.016). Gauges
marked w indicate wound
strings, of course. Others are

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MIKE CHAPMAN

Martin Cl and a 1932
Clifford Essex Paragon, with a1935

double body shell and echo.
chamber, which is a bit
weird. but very nice.

MICHAEL CHAPMAN.

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did Blonde on
Blondegettheirdouble -neck guitars?
IAN
HARRISON, Rainham, Kent.
These were specially designed and made for thegroup by fretted -instrument
maker
John
Bailey,who
scultured individual designs
into the bodies. One has asix -string neck with an 18 string n.eck set in threes, andthe other, which is a bass
guitar, has a six -string neckwith a fretless four-string.neck.
WHERE-

CAN you tell me something

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about
the
15 -string
contraguitar?
BERT
BRADFIELD, Hove.
It has a standard Spanish
guitar neck with the usual six
strings, plus nine strings on
the bass neck, which is set
considerably more
forwardthan the treble neck, giving amore explosive bass. The bassneck has no frets, so you gain
the tonal advantage of a very
high action, somewhat. acutefrom the bridge. These guitars
aremade in Austria andGermany and there are probably only about eight ornine in the country I've
played one for 17 years andhave featured it on many film
sessions, notably in an alpine

COULD you tell me if the
Gibson Les Paul Standard is more suitable for jazz

fingerboard.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
famousblues andgosinger, usesaC
tut
consisting of C (6) G (5) E
(3)

G

C

(2)

(1),

E

w

brings the 6th string d
two ton.es from E. The
time I met Rosetta Thar;
mentioned 'that I liked
deep, throaty sound of
guitar and she replied tha
was due to the low C tun
she had always adopted.
In some parts of Germand Austria you may see

guitarist playing on an ins
ment with 15 strings, wl
is known, as a contra gu
Its main purpose is to pro,the oom-ching or oom-chthing of the bass first !
the guitar off -beat,andsecondandwaltzes.

third

beats

usually played
combination with violin,
cordion and drums inkellers for " Schimell " mt.
The contra guitar has
normally fretted neck t
six strings and another r
without frets over which
fitted 9 bass strings todiatonically below thestring and played as ois-tunings

B(9) C (8(7).

A.

The only person I kr
who plays a .contra guita
Geoff Sisley, andonce t-part in a " Schimell " recing sessioninwhich
played one. By a stra
coincidence
thereisdisplayed right now inwindow of my Musicentre.
In many parts of the U1
the seven -string guitar isnational folk instrument
when I was in Moscow
1

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WHAT

A (10)

G (11)

andgeneralappearance.
Gibson thought the Les Paul
guitar had outlived its popularity, so they stopped making
it, but when Eric Clapton
shattered the pop/jazz world
with his individual style and.Gibsondiscoveredthat
second-hand Les Pauls werebeing bought up at a premium, they began to produce
them again.
Session guitarist and dealer IVOR MAIRANTS.

1957

I

had

the pleasure

hearing Russia's two lea(players give a virtuoso
formance in my hotel I
room. Their techniqueincredible and their repert
ranged from dance musicclassical.
I do not expect ever totreated to a repeat perfo
ance, so I am not likely

forget that occasion.
tuning of the seven-st
guitar is D (7) G (6) B (5(4) G (3) B (2) D (I), wl
enables the player to so
the tonic and dominant
their correct order on thelowest strings.

are-favouredby
DaveCousins, of the Strawbs?

JOSEPHINE
Newport.

MAYNARD,

about 10 different
tunings altogether. I started
my career on banjo andthought it would be a goodidea to adapt some banjo
iunings to guitar. First I triedabanjo modal tuning andwrote several songs on it. It
gradually developed and I findI write two or three songsforeach new tuning. The chords
vary between open major
open
minor
and
severalmodal. In one song called" The Antique Suite,". I use
three different tunings, starting in open B minor, returning to a modal chord andback to an open B Major forthe last section of the song. I
got one of my hest tunings
from Joni Mitchell when I
played for her on a television
programme. You tune the 2nd
string down to G, the 3rd
string down to F-sharp andthe bass string down to D. 1
used it on a song called "I'll
Show You Where To Sleep."
DAVE COUSINS.
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Both produce major chords
the open strings, or IS
barring straight acrossbass notes. The notes are:C (15) D (14) E (13) F

Provided you're a jazz
player, you can play jazz on
any old electric guitar. Naturally, the more suitable thefingerboard and the moresensitive the pick-ups, theeasier your task will be. The
fact that Eric Clapton plays
one guitar or another makes
no difference to the final
result. The difference between
the two models is choice ofmaterials, finish, fingerboard.

E (4) G -sharp

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afingerboard.
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pla
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Open G tuning: D (6) G (E(4) G (3) B (2) D (I) or
to E Major tuning: E (6) B

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acoustic
guitars-..

.at a packet
f raw jellyday
nys Ralph
ERE'S a tip for budng finger style acou--

ic guitarists
eat a
icket of raw jelly-ice a day for six
eeks and watch yourlger nails grow long
Id strong.
The
tlph

tip comes from
McTell, one ofitains's most sought
ter folk singers anditanists, who has the un viable task of appearing
lo before thousands of
ns at the Isle of Wight

Longer finger nails are
essential and I would advise
anybody starting to play not

to bother with finger clips,"
hesays.
" There is no
substitute for being able tofeel the strings at the endof your fingers.
"Eating solid jelly makes
the bones much stronger. If
you eat a packet a day for
six weeks you can notice
the difference even thoughyou
may - getstomachtroubles. The solid gelatine
isvery good for thefingertips, and keep them
filed, too," he added.
Ralph has been. guitaring
with amazing success forcan get thousands of sounds
from a guitar. It is one of-Iukelelemade it
1931, a Martin Treblo 18,
and two Gibson 345'sanew one and an old -one.
He uses the new J45 forrecords and the old one forandthoughtsix
strings on a guitar was
more than, I could copewith. I paid £4 lOs for myfirst guitar and didn't realise
you had to change thestrings. The strings got
rusty and I cut my finger
sliding down them.
" I really got Interested inplaying after hearing Jack
Elliott, an American blues
musician, playing Woodie
Guthrie songs. I learned toplay a few things aroundthree chords and taught
myself all the time.
" When I was busking in
Paris I met an American
who played ragtime musicon the piano and I learned
the parts for the guitar.
" If I was advising anybody to play finger style,they should try to play theguitar like a piano, with thebass end for the right-hand
thumb and the top stringwith the right-hand fingers.
You should try to get awayfrom repeating patterns likefolk singers.

' I
amvery much a
Gibsonman," hesays.
" They are the most versatile guitars. You can playanything
onthem fromblues and country styles to
the kind of things Donovan
plays.
" When i was 17 1 had amore interesting by breaking up the bass line on theguitar. These folk singers
who publish books on how
to play the guitar have nevergot around to teaching anything about music. Beginners should try to develop
their own style and that is

McTELLPop Festival.

the simplest of instruments,
to take up
but thehardest to master.
shall feature the six string plectrum guitar, the
12 -string,
and
also
the
nylon -strung' classical'
guitar.

eight years, having started
at the comparatively late
age of 17. He admits toowning loads of guitars but
his favourite four are an old
Gibson Kalamazoo

-

gigs.

^,

enoughor.

"We won't just be featur-

-

will

be a controlled heaviness. The volume won't beplayed at all one level. We
shall be able to play down toark-istinction
MARK,

N

who

was

th John Mayall's newnd for over a year, iswing a band of his own.

.d It

)usticwill feature Jon's

guitar blending
th two horns (doubling

tor, alto, soprano saxes,. flute family,
trumpet,ncli horn and flugeln), plus bass doubling
110, piano and electricno.
the aim is to produce aietyof
harmonious

indspayingwhisper if we want to. I
think a lot of groups today
have forgotten how to playwith subtlety. If you play at
one level of volume all thetime, it's difficult to makepeople aware of all levels of
emotionto be able tobring them down to a sad
and wistful mood, or takethem up to a climax. You
can't throw pure violence,sex or one particular emotion at an audience all thetime.
"Artists like Miles Davis,
Joni Mitchell and 'Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young havebrought all types of emotion
to their audiences
they'regoing through the wholething.
They're not justgetting up on stage andprojecting just one big ego.'
It is because Jon admiresthe subtle musical approachthat he cites Laurindo
Almeida as his favourite
guitarist. "So many players
have influenced me," hea

IN MARK

particularention to tone colours
dynamics. Sounds, int, that echo the variety
tone colours that can be:alned on Jon's first love

the acoustic guitar.

'I was attracted to therustic guitar in the firstce, because of the variety
sounds you can get fromsays Jon. " It has a far
rater range thantheno, for instance. "You

-

says,

"but

I

think

of

Laurindo as a superlative,
sensitive player.
here, 'i admire
Davy Graham and John
McLaughlin. John mostly
plays electric guitar, but heis also a wonderful acoustic
player.

"Over"As a youngster, I
thought of Eddie Lang as anincredible player
also
Django Reinhardt, of course.

-

He

was

a

genius. But hisof music isinterpretation
not mine."

can

be

made

ing.

" I started with a plectrum and went on to finger
style, but there are some
nice players around who use
a pick. With finger style theimportant thing is to exercise the ring finger whichis the weakest of the lot.
The movement is not justcoming from the wrist but
right back from the elbow.
" You should practice atleast half an hour a day and_spend at least £30 on a
guitar. If you really want toplay well you should be
prepared to buy a good
guitar; under £30 there is a
lot of rubbish.
" Some of the Japanese
guitars are very good, but if
you can afford .it, one of thebest buys is a Harmony
Sovereign which is around£50. A secondhand one canbe got for around £35 andthis 'is a very well tried
American model. Too mucheconomy is a bad thing.
" As far as practice goesyou should play on until
you lose your patience. It'sno good going on and hating
every minute of it, anythingfrom an hour onwards isbest.
And don't practicethings you can already do,
try to do things you can't dountil you can do them."

to him. But it'sdifficult for the au-

FREDDIE GREEN

Basie's

guitarman
FREDDIE GREEN, guitarist with Count Bastesays:
I am often asked why, inthese days of amplified
instruments, I stick to theacoustic guitar. Well, I've
been playing this type ofguitar all these years, so
why change now?
Seriously, though, I use it
as a rhythm guitar and I
prefer it to one wired forsound. I'm sure the Basieband wouldn't be the same

without an acoustic guitar.
I
am
- not
againstamplificationin jazz.
Itdepends on what is being
amplified. It's OK for the
guitar when it's matter ofhelping to bring the soloist
out better, particularly withsingle string work.

The musicians can appreciate a guitarist taking asolo without amplification
because
they
are
close

playing an acoustic instrument.
I think I have something
to contribute as far as thesound of theband
isconcerned. I feel that if I
left, that sound, or at least
some part of it, would be
lost.
What about acoustic guitarists I have admired most?
Well, the one that I
enjoyed for years was thelate Johnny Trueheart. He
was one of my first idols
among acoustic guitarists.
i have no particularcomment to make about
Eddie Lang; I rate Django
Reinhardt
butnotrhythmically; I admire Dick
McDonough solo -wise; and I
respect Lonnie Johnson as ablues guitarist.
Teddy Bunn impressed mein the earlier days. I liked
his solo - style because he
was one of the first to playthat type of guitar that I-

came across.
It has been a long timesince I saw or even heard ofhim. In fact, the first time
his name was mentioned tomerecently was

here

in

England, not in, the States.
Of themore
modernguitarists, the most impressive in my opinion has been
the late Wes Montgomery.
I play . a Gretsch guitar,using Gibson strings andstandard tortoise -shell plectrum.

I do a lot of chord
changes but there is noquestion of working themout beforehand with thebass player. I
don't doanything in advance. It's
always on the spur of the
moment.
Ruby Braff has said that
real jazz is really an old
man's music and that it
takes years to play goodjazz. I disagree because
there are some very goodyoung jazzmen, around.

STRINGSNYLONPICATONEWNMICK DOLAN

Getting
down tothe Meat
NICK

DOLAN, lead guitarist
Hard
Meat,
doubles
acoustic with electric guitar.
But ask him which he prefers,
and he'll say: " I find the two
are really complementary."
But Mick does admit that,when he wants to pick up a
guitar to play over a phrase
or work out an arrangement,
he instinctively goes to theacoustic model.
" It has the tonal qualitythat is ideal for when you
just want to sit along andplay," says Mick. " Whereas,
with electric, you often comeup
againstall sorts ofamplification hassles.
" Of course, if you're playing in a big hall before large
audiences, then you have to
use amplification; but in more
intimate surroundings, thenthe acoustic Instrument isideal. The electric guitar cannever equal the tonal properties
Oftheacousticwithmodel."On the acoustic guitar, Mick
names
as
his
particularfavourites Davy Graham, John
Renbourne and Bert Jansch.
" I also like Richie Havens'
style of open tuning andchord work," he says.
Of
theAmericans, Mick
favours Leadbelly
on 12 string guitar
Big
Joe
Williams (who features anine -string guitar of his own
design)plus Grant Greenand Joe Pass. The last two
are better-known for theirelectric -guitar work, but Passis also an accomplished performer on the acoustic instrument.
Mick feels that, to get areally good acoustic instrument these days, it is necessary to have one hand -made.
" But if you're out on theroad a lot, you don't want to-

STRINGS

instrument.
"And I don't
think you can learn morethan the basics from books,"

ON CLASSICAL GUITAR

says. " The best way to
is to play with otherpeople as much as possible. If
you have any talent, then thisis the best way to give it
expression
anddevelop astyle. The only other alternative is to lock yourself away
for about 50 years and thencome out and play!
he

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haul
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" There's too much risk of its
being damaged in transit."
Mick admits he never had
any formal teaching on his

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NOT EVEN his most ardentadmirers could claim that
Davy Graham is a popular
household name.

To define him as such,indeed, would be missing thepoint. Graham's importance tothe general music scene is asa pioneer
and an influencerather than a populariser. Hisrole as innovator of the" modern " acoustic guitar
approach has paved the way
for such contemporary groups
as Fairport Convention, Steel Eye Span, Pentangle and John
Mayall's drummerless band.
Long before the current
vogue for Oriental music
Graham was experimenting
with unusual rhythms andharmonies whichhehadbrought back from his travels
in the East, trying to combine
them with blues, the traditional English folk song andmodern jazz patterns. His
contribution, essentially, hasbeen of an eclectic nature: toopen the eyes of modernmusicians to the infinite
possibilities of combining diverse musical forms.
Acclaim has come, consequently, from a hard coreof musicians acquainted withhis work. Jon Mark, acoustic
guitarist with John Mayall,
who experimented on modal
tunings with Davy Graham at
one time, calls him " thefinest progressive guitarist in
England."
Unlike Mark, Davy does notpick with his nails. The topsof his fingers developed hardskin, and this factor allows
him to use a very attacking,percussive style, resulting inatwangy sound. On occasions, however, he does use
a plectrum.
His opinions on bands andguitarists who have been
influenced, directly and indirectly, by him, are lukewarm. Pentangle, which includes two of Britain's top
acoustic guitarists in Bert-

Jansch and John Renbourn,
he regards with indifference,but admits that he might likethem better live than onrecord, which has been his
only acquaintance with theband.
But I quite .like a few ofRenbourn's solo pieces, and I

am particularly fond of two ofBert's things. 'Black Waterside' is a masterpiece of its
kind, and I do not use thatword loosely. Then there is' The First Time I Saw Her

Face,'

out."

which

reallystands01
othercontemporarygroups of that ilk he appreciates Fotheringay, Fairport
Convention
andSteeleyeSpan. He believes that they
have " picked up where theBeatles left off." By this hemeans that they possess aquality which is attractive toyoung children; and writing

for children is something to which Davy attaches
songs

great importance personally.
This belief represents achange in both his musicalandprivateoutlook. " I
always thought that the blues
was like being fast and loose
and dangerous. But since I

a-

DAVY GRAHAM
travelled East

Davy

Graham,acoustic
pioneerhave married i feel more likesinging for children."This
attitudeprobably
stems from his increased

maturity as a person andguitarist. Maturity, he thinks,
is the keyword when talkingof great guitarists.
" Maturity can only beachieved by being dearlybought. Young and brilliant
people do not exist in myworld.

--"I would like to put onrecord that Segovia
who isnot a young man
plays

guitar so perfectly that if you
had to define all that a
guitarist should be it would
be him.

" Speaking personally, however, I would say I prefer
Julian Bream, because he hasachieved the difficult task ofaugmenting classical guitar
and modern music."
He is convinced that acoustic guitar is generally comingback into its own, and hecites the names of several
interesting young guitarists,such as John Pearse and Keith
Christmas. " They are namesthat are fairly unknown atpresent to the general public.
Pearse is a teacher, but awidely acknowledged authority on guitar. Christmas has avery flash, but most interesting, technique; he has agreat ear for drum music, andhe does a kind of rhythmic
tapping while he is playing,
and this acts as a sort offoil."

Graham is now working on
two new albums of his own.
On these he will play bothacoustic and electric. The
news that he is recording
again after deciding threemonths ago to retire, at least
partially, from the musicscene, will please his initiates,
to whom he is still the
guv'nor of them all.

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REVIEWERS:

WILLIAMSuANDM
MAXXAJONES

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(t)

li

quintet withstring quartet.

THE way Atlantic are
pushing Herbie Mann's
product out, he'll soon havemore albums in the catalogues than Mantovani. And,
come to think of it, that's
not such a bad parallel,because most of Mann's
music is very functional: it'sa sound for doing somethingelse to.

0

CANNONBALL-He's been involved in somepretentious projects in the

ADDERLEY

past (his flirtations with ahundred and one different
ethnic musics, for instance),
but this surely beats the lot.
The album's raison d'etre is
the title track, which lasts for
27 minutes and 39 seconds.
There's been nothing like it
sinceHowardBrubeck's"Dialogues For Jazz Combo1

aikfitJbl

CANNONBALL ADDERLEYQUINTET: " Country Preacher."
Walk Tall; Country Preacher;
Hummin': Oh Babe; Afro -Spanish
Omlette (Umbakwen; Soli Tomba; Oiga: Marabi); The Scene.
(Capitol E -ST 404).
Adderley (soprano, alto), Nat
Adderley (cornet), Joe Zawinul(keyboards).
WalterBookerf

DEVOTION(bass), Roy McCurdy (drums).

atRecordedtheSouthern
Christian Leadership Conference.
Chicagolate 1969.

-

IT'S easy to bemoan thedemise of the man who
played such quicksilver altoon " Kind Of Blue " and"Milestones," and it
wouldn't be dishonest either.
Adderley hasn't done any
real inventing in years,
which is a shame because
a decade ago he appeared
to have all the techniqueand imagination necessary
to make a near -great soloist.

Ire

ELVIN JONES:"PolyCurrents."(a)
Agenda;(a) Agappe Love; (a) Mr
Jones; (b) Yes; (a) Whew.
(Blue Note BST 84331).
(a)
Jones (drums),
Joe Farrell (tenor, flute,bass flute, cor anglais),
George Coleman (tenor),Pepper Adams (baritone),
Wilbur
Little(bass),
Candido Camero (conga).
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; 26/9/69.
(b)
add Fred Tompkins(flute),Coleman,Adams out.

--kins, a young composer fromSt Louis who wrote " Yes,"
the only track on which heappears.

"Agenda"themoststunning track, a duet between Candido and the leader
for most of its 14 minutes,
and a worthy companion to
Elvin's classic appearances on"Africa " andThe DrumThing " with Coltrane. The
issuppose now that everyone knows that Elvin is outof Trane's shadow. His own
trio is a fine unit, and here
it's augmented by Coleman,
Adams, Candido, and TompI

-

ing.

"AgappeLove "
isbyFarrell, who has some gorgeous flute moments before
he gives way to an almost
ethereal Coleman solo, out of
tempo and backed by Little's
thrumming.
Elvin's lovely wife Keikowrote " Mr Jones," a swinging unison theme booted
along by Candido's smacks
and Elvin's smooth cymbals.
Farrell solos beautifully on
tenor, and it's noticeable how
as the solo progresses Elvineases further and further into

point. His last chorus before
the theme returns is bluesy
and swinging, and a perfectrelease.
Yes "

is

a

fragment forthe composer and Farrell on
flutes (the latter playing bass
flute), while Little's ' Whew "reminds one of Monk's " Justice "; a series of staccato
notes with plenty of space
between and a brief release.
Farrell, Coleman and Little
are the soloists, the latterplucking double -stops with adark, heavy tone.
Pretty well any of Elvin's
albums are worth having for

HUMPHREY" non -denominational"

LYTTELTONHUMPHREY LYTTELTON: " 21Years On." Record One: Fidgety
Feet; Mezz's Tune; Beale Street

Blues; Cakewalkin' Babies: Gone
With The Wind; Snake Rag.
(Polydor 583069).
Record Two: Blues For An
Unknown
Gypsy;Blue
For
Waterloo; Suffolk Air; Bucket's
Got A Hole In It; Ce Monsieur
Qui Parle;
Panama Rag; I'll
Close My Eyes; The Old Grey
Mare (l.olydor 583070). Sold in
double album Polydor 2661001.

Lyttelton (trumpet, clarinet),
Wally Fawkes (clarinet), 'Keith
Christie (trombone), Mike Pyne
(piano), Dave Green (bass),
Charley Bentley (banjo), Peter
Staples (drums). Recorded liveat the1969.

ConwayHall.

London.

IT is a long while since I

saw Humph's band with
Wally Fawkes, Bruce Turnerand Johnny Parker at the
Conway Hall for a " Humphradió,,: jazz
British Standard TimeFRIDAY (1.7) 8.5 p.m. J; Jazz
Unlimited(Fri, Mon. Tues,
Thurs). 10.30 Q: Jazz -studioFrankfurt. 10.3C J: Big Bands.
11.30
T:
Big Bands (Clark
Terry). 12.15 a.m. T: Jazz Records.
SATURDAY (18) 1.35 p.m. 83:
Jazz Record Requests (SteveRace). 2.0 E: Louis Armstrong's
Classics, 1931-1933. 11.30 Al:
Antibes JF. 12.3 a.m. Al: Jazz
Scene. 12.15 T: Tal Farlow. 2.5
3: Jazz.
SUNDAY (19) 12.15 p.m. J:
Finch Bandwagon. 6.45 A3: Don
Byas (Hagues Panassie, Jazz
Panorama). 7.32 81: Mike Raven's R and B Show. 8.0 U:(1) Ginger Baker's Air Force(2) Frank Zappa and Mothersof Invention. 11.1 B1 and 2:
Peter Clayton's Jazznotes (33stereo at 11.35). 12.5 a.m. 81
and 2: Jazz Club.
MONDAY (20) 10.0 p.m. V:
Single Singers. 10.30 J: Dixieland. 11.0 83: Jazz in Britain.
11.15 A3: Free Jazz. 11.30 T:
Big Bands (Tommy Dorsey).
12.15 a.m. T: New Jazz Records.
TUESDAY (21) 8.30 E: (1)NDR Orb, Tony Scott, Gary Burton Quartet (4) Humphrey Lyttelton Band (8) Rob Franken
Quartet, City Preachers. 10.30
J: C and W. 10.30 0: Jazz Journal. 10.30 V: Jazz Corner. 11.0
U: Louis Armstrong (Boston
Concert, 1947). 11.30 T; Big
Bands (Pat William Ork). 12.15
a.m. T: Modern Jazz Quartet.
WEDNESDAY (22) 7.2 p.m.
81 and 2: Best of Jazz on Records (Humhp). 8.50 E: Jazz
Version of Songs from " Fiddler
On The Roof." 1.0.20 E: (1)Acker Bilk (3) Oscar Peterson(4) Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell (5) Ray Anthony. 10.30 Q:
Jazz Club (Those Adderleys).
10.30 J: L -A. 11.30 T: Big Bands(Jan Savitt, 1938-41). 12.15 a.m.
E: Jazz, 12.15 T: Bill Holman.
THURSDAY (23) 7.2 p.m. 131
and 2: Big Band Sound (AlanDell). 9.30 Q: Big Band Serenade. 10.30 J: Soul. 11.30 T: Big
Bands(ArtieShaw,

1940's).

T: Illinois Jacquet.
...Programmes
subject
to12.15 a.m.

change.
KEY
TO
STATIONSAND
WAVELENGTHS IN METRES. A:
RTF France 1-1829, 2-343, 3-848.
B: BBC 1-247, 2-1500/VHF,
188/194/464/VHF. E: NPR Hamam burg 309/189. J: AFN 547/344/
271. 0: BR Munich 375/137. Q:
HRFrankfurt

506.

T: VOA

U: Radio Bremen 221.

Eireann

530.

At The Conway " live recording. That one was madein September of '54, with
George Martin in charge of
production.
Now we have a return to
the Conway " live " session
which is not 21 years on fromthe former but that many
years on from the start of the
Lyttelton band. Only Fawkes
and the leader play on both,though trombonist Christie
goes back to a pre -'54 Humphlineup.
The music is different frommost of what Lyttelton has
been playing in late years. It
is a lusty kind of
traditional
jazz, 'fairly
describedby
Humph in his album note as

intensity is almost frighten-

RIGHT from the firstbar, you know
whose album this isgoing to be.
Everyone should respect Elvin Ray Jones,
not only for his technithe driving seat.
cal innovations but for
Adams, whose
reputation
the fire, passsion, and has been overlookedin thepast decade, contributes a
devotion he's put into
typically
courageous
improvihis playing over the ' sation, ingenious
fromtheharmonic and rhythmic standpast 15 years.

Elvin has more emotion
in his playing than any
other jazz drummer, and
more
than
most
horn
players. It's an emotional
committment which ctn't
help but sweep you up andcarry you in its grasp aslong as he's playing, andfor a long time afterwards.

his genius alone. This one hassome of his finest playing
plus a clutch of excellent
soloists, and that should be
more than enough.
R.W.

251.

y: Radio-afact
made clear
by therhythmsectionof
Pyne,
Green, Staples and Bentley.
While the banjo lends acertainbonhomieand" period " lift to items suchas "Cakewalkin' "a track
which is remindful of the oldband's spirit and blowing
power
it seems an unlikely
sort of accompaniment for
present-day LytteltonorFawkes or Christie for thatmatter. I could have donewith it on fewer tracks.
Anyhow, the Lyttelton New
Orleans style lives again on" Snake Rag," "Panama,""Fidgety,"
Bucket's " andelsewhere, though not quite
up to the hilt.

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Lyttelton's lead is full andrelaxed on " Bucket,"forexample, and there is a lot ofinteresting
ensemblehere(plus some muted solo trumpet) and on " Beale Street "and " Mezz's Tune." Fawkes,
Christie and Pyne are theother featured soloists.
What seems to me chiefly
amiss is the matter of balance
and microphone placing. On
such a live recording, balanceis bound to be a problem.
But the clarinet is too often
distant and sometimes uncha-

supposethedeclinestarted with " This Here,"and once it's understood thatjazz/rock is but a slight
modification of Soul jazz, it's
obvious why the Adderleys
are doing so wellcommercially, at leastin their
I

.

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hall

,

n

P,fir

Jesse Jackson and the amiable

Cannon himself.

The band itself now resembles Louis Jordan's Tympany

r

JOE

Five

more than ever, mosttracesofexperimentation
having been exorcisedinfavour of comfortable gospel
cliches. Nat even sings theblues on "Oh Babe," parodying the 103 -year -old Delta
singers in a cracked voice andslurred delivery.

HENDERSONJOE HENDERSON: " Power To
The People." (b) Black Narcissus; (a) Afro -Centric: (c) Opus
One -Point -Five; (c) Isotope; (a)Power To The People; (t) Lazy

"Omelette " is extremely
four pieces of music
introduced by a Cannonballhomily on black music. Nat
plays some tricksy cornet on
the first section, backed by
Zawinul's asymmetrical comping (shades of " Bitches
Brew "), and " Tontba " is aodd:

Afternoon; (d) Foresight And
Afterthought.
(CBS
Milestone-

64068).
(a)Henderson (tenor),Mike Lawrence (trumpet), Herbie Hancock (electric piano),
Ron Carter (electric bass), Jack
DeJohnette(drums). 23/5/69.
NYC.
(b)
Henderson (tenor),
Hancock (electric piano), Carter(bass). DeJohnette(drums).
29/5/69. NYC.
(c)same as (b), but Han
cock plays piano. Same date.
(d)Henderson (tenor),
Carter (bass). D e J o h n e t t e(drums). Same date.

-solo feature for the excellent,
unflambuoyant Booker.
"Oiga " is Zawinul's, andpossibly
the most serious
piece on the album, and theleader plays. Highlife alto on
his own " Marabi."
Like most of the album, it's

pretty inconsequential. It's
also difficult to believe thatmany people in Britain buy
Adderley's albums any more.

WHEN

Joe
Henderson
played his recent season
at Ronnie Scott's Club, I
consistently
received the
feeling that he wasn't being
appreciated.
Night
after
night he played sets containing .the most wondrously
complex inventions, but heseemed to get through tovery few people.
That's probably
becausehe's such an uncompromising
player. He comes on thestand, puts his horn to his
lips, and for the next hour
it's heads -down -and -let's -play something - we -haven't --played
before. Which is not to saythat he's a seeker after

R.W.

HERBIEin
Without doubt Carme
McRae is one of the big feyof the jazz -influenced popula
singers. Her voice is special

flexible but witha metalliit, and heexcellent control is matcher
byher
diction. On THI

toughness about

SJUND OF SILENCE (Atlanti
2465007)
arranged and conducted i1y Shorty Rogers am
Jimmy Jones, we can enjo
all these attributes and several more. The swing of hephrasing is exemplified o
My Heart Reminds Me " anacouple more,
and he(technical) capabilities ardemonstrated
on the sombr
Gloomy Sunday," a drama
tic treatment but then it isdrama; on a versefess " Poo
Butterfly " and perhaps o" Stardust," complete with it

attractive verse. Also on th
set are songs of rather
different nature: Paul Simon'" Sound Of Silence " and Jin
Webb's " MacArthur Park 'are among them. I deriverless satisfaction
from thilatter. Hard to say why, bu

the singer's technique ant
personality seem at times ti
swamp the material. Banc
backings are efficient withou
being in any way exciting tc
jazz -minded listeners. In fact
this is not the jazz Carmen stmuchas" fringe 'theCarmen. But she is always

interesting.

-M.J

get anything of consequence.
R.W.

f

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round off the concert
atmosphere.
M.J.

And Symphony Orchestra,"which is to say that it's anawful mish-mash of triteclassical elements and blowing jazz. Mann's flute is as
stilted and banal as ever, but
fortunately Ayers, Sharrock
and Carter get a chancetomake their weightier statements, although I doubt thatany of them took it too
seriously.
Nowhere on the album does
Fischer's writing approach hiswork on Mann's last effort," Stone Flute," which wasreally surprisingly interesting
and appeared
to promise
something better. But I suppose
one shouldn't expect
anything from Mann, and here
at least one certainly doesn't--

current bag.
" Country Preacher " wasrecorded live at "Operation
Breadbasket," the economicarm of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, and iscompletewith yells, exhortations to " go ahead," andintroductions by the Reverend

racteristically shrill. Christie

showcased on " Wind "sounds a bit muffled here andthere, and the impression
much of the time is of a onemike setup with only trumpet
on-mike. This ruins the ensemble on several tracks.
Anyhow, it's an up-anddown set which appeals moreas you get to know it anddiscount the many flaws.
" Mare" has some vocalising(uncredited) by Humph andcrew; " Eyes " is good fortrumpet and piano, while theopening three titles on Record
Two bring on clarinet duets.
The second of them, uncredited, is Lyttelton. Spots ofannouncing
andapplause

doublenovelty, but to him jazz
about working hard to dif
cover new facets of music anpersonalities.
For him, there are no frillor " embellishments " to detract from the improvisatio
and that's why a lot of peopl
find him hard to take. It'
also why Howard Riley, whdepped at the piano one nighfor John Taylor, told me theit was one of the tougher
and most instructive muscal experiences he'd had.
I must say that I'd reall
like an album of that banswith Taylor, Ron Matthewsor
and Tony Oxley spurring thtenor giant on, but "Powe
To The People" is great t
be going on with. It's rathe
more worked -out and routine
than hislast effort
fa
Milestone, but loses little b
comparison. Naturally, witthat rhythm section there arechoes of Miles' approach, bu
Joe's own strength of personality ensures that the flavou
is mostly his: strong, slight)
jagged, and very masculine.
One pleasing feature is th
mixing of electric and acou:
tic basses and rhythm. Th
way he uses them makecertain that there's none c
the feeling of " sameness
which sometimes comes fror
the all -electric combinatio
spread over a whole 'albuteand the acoustic tracks gain
new freshness from the cornparison.
The title track Is a har
charger, with a wild, cor
voluted tenor solo andpoised passage from Law
rence,
who has a warn flaring tone and sounds lik
one to watch. "Foresight " ia spontaneous trio thing, vermuch like some of the set
we heard at Ronnie's, and Joy
rages through it with con
trolled passion
andthaincredible feel for up-tempos
I should also mention "Opu

One -Point-Five,"a
Rot
Carter ballad given a tender

heartfelt reading whichis thother, and equally attractiveside of Henderson.
Anybody who likes thei
jazz
meaty
and
withoutrimmings will get to this.
R.W.

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MANN

No. 1 in RECORD RETAILINGHERBIEMANN:" Concerto
Grosso In D Blues." (a) Con
cerio Grosso In D Blues; (b)Sense Of No Return; (c) Wailing Wall; (c) My Little Ones.

-(Atlantic

2465 005).
(a)Mann (flute), RoyAyers (vibes), Sonny Sharrock(guitar), Ron Carter (bass),
Bruno Carr (drums), plus large
symphonic orchestra conductedby William Fischer.
(b)quintet with brassensemble.

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RECORDu'

SHOPS '

BRANCHES THROUGHOUT LONDON,MELODY MAKER, July 18,-Léonard Feather reports from Los Angeles
NOBODY who was awitness to the 70thbirthday celebrations
arranged for Louis
Armstrong in California
is ever likely to forget
the experience
leastof all Satchmo himself.

-He
arrived
at
Los
Angeles airport on theevening of June 30 andfound, to his surprise, a big
brass band there to salutehim, and a crowd of hundreds of fans jamming thearrival area. It was thekind of scene to whichLouis has long been accustomed in other countries,
but it rarely happens to him
in his native land.
Friday evening, July 3, aconcert was staged at Los
Angeles' Shrine Auditorium.
It was the product of almosta year of planning by acoalition of California Dixieland jazz clubs. Under the
careful guidance of producer
Floyd Levin, 46 traditionalist
musicians were rounded up to
represent various phases of
the Satchmo story.
To enhance the thoughtful
production of the show,

Hoagy Carmichael was one of
the Masters of Ceremonies.
As Carmichael brought hisguest of honour on stage, thenear capacity 6,000 crowdrose to its feet.
in front of a New Orleans
FrenchQuarter
backdrop,
Louis sat in a rocking chairand joined Hoagy in an
unaccompanied duet. Theirsong was, of course, "Rockin'
Chair," which they recorded

together in 1929.
Carmichael then introduced
a series of slides, showing thewoodenbackyardbuilding
where Louis was born; a 13 year -old Louis playing in the
Waif's Home band; the 1918
riverboat ensemble, and King
Oliver's Creole Band in 1923,
with Louis on second cornet.
Watching these reminders
flashed on the screen, Satchreminisced freely; then one of
the small combos on the stage
would amplify his stories withmusic.
The riverboat band fittingly
included mostly men who
have been playing for years
in a boat on the simulated
Mississippi at Disneyland.
Mike Delay played a pure toned trumpet lead, aided by
Joe Darensbourg on clarinet;
Sammy Lee on tenor saxophone; Roy Brewer, trombone;
Alton Purnell at the piano;
Alton Redd on drums and the
75 -year -old
Ed
(Montudie)
Garland on bass.
Benson Curtis, Los Angeles'
leading dixieland disc jockey,
then introduced a recreationof the Oliver band. Andy
Blakeney, who replaced Louis
with Oliver in 1924, split the

LOUIS'

birthdayparty
trumpet duties with

GeorgeOrendorff. Rounding out thegroup, which did justice to" Dippermouth Blues "and" High Society," were Warren
Smith, trombone; Matty Matlock, clarinet; Billy Mitchell,
piano; Billy Hadnott, bass andSylvester Rice on drums. Joe
Marsala, one of the many
white musicians who used toidolise Louis and hang around
him in the early Chicago
days, sat in, with this bandfor some heated, fluent blowing on " Canal Street Blues."
The Armstrong Hot Five
was represented by Teddy
Buckner's group, which isactually seven strong: Buckner,trumpet;Caughey
Roberts, clarinet; John Ewing,
trombone;
ChesterLane,piano; Art Edwards, bass;
Jessie Sailes, drums andNappy Lamare, banjo. Buckner, unfortunately hadasevere blister on his lip, wasextremely nervous because of
Louis' presence, and failed inan effort to do his usual lifelike duplication of the Armstrong solo on " West End
Blues." In fact, the high pointof this set was the guest
appearance of clarinetist Bob
McCracken. This lean, gnarled
65 -year -old white Texan, whotoured Europe and Africawith Satchmo in 1952, drew

%1such hefty applause with his
featurenumber" After
You've Gone" that he wastoobligedcome back for an
encore, "I Found a New
Baby."
Maxim Saury, who had
flown in from France tocelebrate this night withLouis, took part in a rather
indifferent set by a grouploosely indentified as The Ail
Stars. Generally speaking,their entire set did very little
but delay the arrival of a far
superior group, which becauseof the tight schedule, only got
a chance to do one instrumental number.
Billed as the " Ambassador
Satch Band," they comprised
Clark Terry, trumpet; Barfly
Bigard, clarinet; Benny Carter,
alto sax; Tyree Glenn, trombone; Ray Sherman, followed
by Joe Bushkin, piano; Red
Callender, bass and LouisBellsonon
drums. They
played an elongated versionof " Mack the Knife " andwere about to go into a
Barny Bigard feature number
when, at 11.45 pm, Louisreappeared to croak `Sleepy
Time Down South," followed
by " Blueberry Hill."Thenas
the midnightdeadline closed in, on him, hehypnotised the happy crowd
into a sing -along, clap-along" Hello Dolly!" with Tyree
Glenn up front playing theobligato for his ex -boss.
(Bushkin,
Callender
andBigard are all, of course,
Armstrong alumni).
The evening was climaxedby the wheeling on stage of asix tier, 800lb cake, lift high.
Satchmo had to climb up
seven steps to take a slice off
the top.
In all, it was a night filledwith joys and love, in which
the only missing element was
the sound of Satchmo's horn.
Will he ever play again? " I
still practise an hour a day.
every evening before dinner,"he told me. " Dr Schiff says
maybe I will be ready in acouple of months."
Ready or not, he has aworld-wide army of fans forwhom his mere presencemeans
instant
nostalgia.
Everyone at the Shrine had
his private memory of Louis:
perhaps a long forgotten
dance ín a depression era
ballroom; the inspiration of a
40 -year -old Hot Five recordthat may have triggered acareer; the recollection of
departed giants who havenow become part of the
Armstrong legend
Joe
Oliver,Jack
Teagarden,
Edmond Hall, Billy Kyle.
The next afternoon, on his
actual birthday, Louis relaxed
quietly with Tyree Glenn,
Barney and Dorothy Bigard,
Floyd Levin and a small
group of friends, in the' big
penthouseapartmentof
Bobby Phillips of AssociatedBooking Corpn., which Joe
Glaser headed until his death.
Looking back at the unforgettable events of the previous evening, Louis turned to
Floyd Levin and said: " Man,
I've had a lot of wonderful
honours in my life, but lastnight was the biggest thrill ofall." So it was for many of us
who were there. We can. only
hope that Louis will be intown with horn in hand tocelebrate his 71st.

ONE of the pleasant surprisesof the unique Louis Armstrong
70th birthday concert in Los
Angeles was the long set ofwarm-up music played In thepit of the Shrine Auditorium byBarry Martyn's band.
The 20 -year-old London born
drummer had flown here withhis group to take part in thecelebrations.
Producer Floyd
Levin assigned Martyn to keep
early arrivals from getting
restless. They started playing
almost an hour before thecurtain went up.
Through an accident thatproved lucky for them, they
played twice. Because Sarah
Vanghan's
dress
failedarrive, Levin asked them totoresume playing until the concert finally got under way, ahalf hour late.

Barry Martyn sang on " Just
A Closer Walk With Thee." Theband achieved a good spirit
and infectious rhythmic feelingon suchnumbers as A. J.
Piron's " Red Man Blues," andother evergreens such as " St
Louis
Blues "
and" ApexBlues."With

Martynwere
Clive
Wilson, trumpet; Dick Douthwaite, clarinet; John Marks,
piano; Derek Took bass andFreddy John, trombone, John,

who is Swedish and had been
living in New Orleans, joined
the band just a couple of weeks
ago.
It was one of the thrills ofalifetime,"
said
Martyn," meeting Louis on thisoccasion and being on the same
programme with him. It happened because Floyd Levin, theproducer, heard us in New

KEEF HARTLEY

in Blind Date.--

Martyn's greatest gig
Orleans in 1969. I played a party

at Floyd's house the other nightwith
BarneyBigard, Tyree
Glenn, Alton Purnell, Claude
Luter and Maxim Saury. Bigard
sounded fantastic. Floyd taped
the whole thing and I hope tohave a copy as a souvenir."This was the ninth time in
America for Marlyn and thethird time for the band; they

appeared at the New Orleans
Jazz Festival in both 1968 and1969. From Los Angeles they
are leaving to play a gig in
Dallas, after which they will
spend three weeks inNewOrleans dedicated as Marlyn
put it, to " looking, listening
and learning."
Armstrong, who stood in thewings listening earnestly to
Martyn's band, said: "Those
guys sure can play them tunes.
They got the right feeling."o,o{-""::...

áQ)largeKeefAlsatian
Hartley, with his
dog by his

feet, sat through Blind
Date smiling and tapping
his feet. He seemed toenjoy most of the records from the bubble gum of the Pipkins to thefreaky guitar work of
Jimi Hendrix. " Sorry I'm
not very good at guessing names," he said.

DON

COVAY:" Everything I Do
Gonna Be Funky "(Atlantic).
That's known within
our organisation asa Gary Thain record
he's our bass
player. Yeah definitely funky
it's
got a good start.' I
haven't got a clue
who it isSouthern American
Memphis probably.

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It's

an averagesoulrecord, the sort ofthing they used to playat the Flamingo when
Georgie Fame played
there, I enjoyed the feel,
you can tell it's American
they don't doctor
the feel.

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HANK MARVIN: "Break

Everything IS beautiful for
Ray Stevens
IT WOULD be hard to find a more modest
character than Ray Stevens
or a morecasual one.
Lounging in a sports shirt and slacks with
ice-cold drink at his hand in his London
Hilton hotel suite, he looks the picture ofcontentment. An American
Val Doonican, or a twin
brother of Andy Williams.
It's not surprising when
you consider that Don Williams, Andy's brother, isRay's manager. And Ray had
been a regular guest on the
Andy Williams spectacularsince it hit this country.
Soon, though, Ray will beseen in his own show in thiscountry.
Ray can afford to sit backcontented. He must be one of
the few complete musicians in
the pop singing business.
There is hardly an instrument
played that
;4Ray
cannothandle with a certain degreeof skill.

MajoredHe had music lessons. at
the age of six and majored atmusic college. But he preferred pop to classics
andpop is undoubtedly the betterfor his choice.
Ray was in London thisweek for seven days topromote his latest chart
successis"Everything
Beautiful " and make films forpromoting tl.e next one off
the production line, called"Come Around.""I am doing a lot of TV
shows while in London," heout in about a month and I

have made some films tocoincide with its release.
"It must be a year -and -a
half since I was last in Britain, but I'm not sure because
i have the world's worst
memory. But I know i havebeen working very hard in
America during that time.
"I have been writing a lotof songs for concerts anddone a lot of television workin the States. I have also
spent a lot of time inrecording studios and, ofcourse, in airports and aeroplanes.

Sessions" Making records takes melong time because I take a
lot of pains over getting
things absolutely right. I
often spend three to four
sessions in a studio doing just
one song and each session
lasts three hours.
"I have a new album
released this week called
a

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LULU

on all Ray's shows...

said. "i have done the Lulu
show, Top of the Pops acidthe Morecambe and Wiseshow and I have done a lot ofradio interviews as well.
" The new single will be'Everything

Is

Beautiful'which has taken a long timeto get together.
" They are showing the Ray
Stevens show now in theStates on NBC and that will
start a lot of activity for me.
The near future looks likebeing pretty much like the1970-Page 29

Another
Dawn"(Columbia).
Is it Tony Joe White? If
it's not him it's a well made English record.
The song doesn't doanything for me. Who
is it? Yeah, well done,yeah well done-you've
got to give it to him forstaying on the ball.

CiSSY HOUSTON: "TheLong And Winding

Road" (Major Minor).
Yeah, great-yeah. Is it
Dionne Warwick? It's agreat song, a great arrangement and well
sung.

ITS

A
BEAUTIFUL
DAY: " Let A Woman

Flow " and " It Comes
Right Down To You"
from the LP Marrying
Maiden (CBS).
I don't know who it is,but can we take it off?
It's a bit Chinese Restaurant, the sort ofthing they play in the
background. Who is it?
(MM, " It's A BeautifulDay.") Oh my god. Can
you play another track,
something a bit representative of their sound?

HARDIN AND YORK:"I Can't Find My
Way Home" from the
LP 'The World's Smallest
Big Band (Bell).
I don't know who it is
the beginning was a bit
Randy Newmanish.
Ihaven't a clue who it is.
It would have been
great if it was heavier,especially on the build--up.

PRETTY

THINGS:" Grass " from the
LP Parachute (Harvest).
That didn't do much. Definitely British, but I
don't know who. Really,
I have nothing to say
about that one.

PIPKINS: " Yakety Yak "(Columbia).
(Keef laughs). Yeh, it's

great. Is it King Crimson? I think it's an old
song

done

by

the
ago.

Coasters years
Yeah, great.

LITTLE"LawdyRICHARD:Miss

Clawdy " from the LP
The Little Richard Story(Joy).
Definitely Little Richardit's got to be. It sounds
like a new recording
is it a new album? Yeah,
it would go great withyour new motorbike.
Really it's the sort ofthing Paul McCartney
would buy, or someone
who wanted to catchthe old days. It's funnywhen these old 1959
things were released wethought they were soheavy, but listening to
it ten years later and it
doesn't really stand up.

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TIMI HENDRIX: " Star
SpangledBanner"and "Purple Haze "from the LP Woodstock(Atlantic).
He's just incredible, he's
the king of guitar. The
two most relevant points
about Hendrix this LP
shows are: One, he's the
only guitarist who canfreak out and make itsound something, allthat weird stuff he plays
really means something.
Two, he's the only
guitarist that plays in athree-piece, and makes
it sound like a band. I
think it's unfortunatethat so many three-piecebands try to do what hedoes. Perhaps he is the
only guitarist with any
originality.

present with more cabaretand quite a bit more tele-vision. " I think the show willprobably come over here.
Negotiations are going on andI think they are on the vergeof clinching the deal. If it
does come it will probably beshown in the fall.
" Lulu is on every show
and I think she's great. She'sa very nice person and very
talented too. She's very easy
to work with and very
likeable. The group GuessWho and Mama Cass Elliott
are also on the shows.
"I would like to do someconcerts in this country thenext time we come. This is
the third time I have beenover here and each time it
has mainly been for businessreasons. People must want tohear you singing and I am
hoping that the next time wecome it will be to do actual
live performances."
Who are Ray's favourite
artists?
" My number one all time
favourite act is the Beatles,"he replied without hesitation.
"They are absolutely unique.
"But I like a lot of artists
in the music world. In fact
most of the artists that arearound I can get into and digthem.
"I have recorded about.

half-a -dozen Beatles songs;
there are two on the new
album'Something' and'She Came In Through The
Bathroom Window.' I havealso done ' Help," Hey Jude'and 'Fool On The Hill.'"I am basically a piano
player, or organist, because I
learned to 'play keyboard
instruments from a very earlyage. But I have taught myself
a little of everything. I am
certainly no virtuoso on allthese instruments.
"I enjoy playing différent
instruments and on some of
my records 1 have goneover them and dubbed on
extra sounds.
"From a technical point ofview my favourite song has
been ' Mr Businessman,' and I
played lots of instruments on
that. But my favourite recordof all the ones i have done isdefinitely'Everything
Is
Beautiful' and also Gitarzan'."
Ray describes his next
single as a " folk flavoured
song." "I didn't write it. It
was written by a friend ofmine called Bentley Smith.
You have to hear it to findout what it's like. I thinkpeople will like it," he said.

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GHOST

T

FOR THE 70s

WHEN YOU'RE DEAD
ONE SECOND-ON GEMINI RECORDSG M E 1004
UNIVERSITY
OF SURREY UNION
Guildford

Surrey Telephone Guildford 6 501 7 / 651 31
From The Entertainments Chairman
8 June, 1970

I. as Entertainments Chairman of the
University of Surrey in Guildford,
am writing to let you know, officially, how good westudents think
your group, Ghost, isthey played fantastically well when they were
here, and went down really well. In fact, we want to bookthem againfor. next term, and are looking forward to that time,and until then
may we wish them all the best with their new L.P. and single.

-

Yours
Chris Sheldon

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1970

NO REST FOR THE 'SMALLEST BIG BAND'r.

WITH THEIR second album" The World's Smallest
Big Band " recently released, Eddie Hardin andPeter York have by -nomeans slowed down theirwork rate, let alone paused
for breath.

October will coincide with atour of the United States.
" We are not entirely happy with
our second album," said Eddie, thekeyboard half of the band, lastweek.
" There will be some im-provements on the production sidefor our next one. The tracks aregoing to be quite a bit shorter,with more actual songs and moreorchestral arrangements."" We are using more and morepercussion," drummer, Peter York
intervened.
" I have always
thought of using percussion in a

Already the ex -Spencer Davisduo are forging ahead with their
third album. It's release in

YORK: Forging ahead

symphony context, where it has
some greater justification, and can
blend in and drift out when it'sneeded, instead of going on regardless. We are making the entries inour music more meaningful by cutting out pauses for instrumentchanges."Peter has strong opinions aboutsome of the long drum solos thatare in vogue.
' I don't see the point of theselong drum solos.
It is difficult
enough to play anything musicallyvalid, without risking a solo thatwent to it and 1 should
know.
Frank Zappa decided tocommercialise on us so wewrote a bunch of songs tosing. It took us over a year
to get the album out becauseof the censor but it sold pretty well in Los Angeles. We
are recording another one next
month. It's very. very, very
bizarre.
" I am going back to theStates next week because weare starting a three monthtour. There are only four of
us now. One of the girls has
just got pregnant and she isstaying at home.
think the album has
sold two and a half thousand
copies here ín England. Theremay become monotonous.
' You
can
play
something
showy, and there is no doubt that
it will get people going. But I
don't like doing it. When solos
start boring me then they must be

boring other people."
In spite of Eddie's excellent
organ playing on the second
album, he has a firm preference
for the piano, and plans to introduce a harpsichord on to the next
recording.
He is also deep into voice
experimentation.
Having tried arock-and-roll' voice, Eddie
introducing a new style intoact.
Christened the " good ti
music " voice, it could turn out'

be an H & Y secret weapon!
Peter is not quite so forthri

about his voice. He only sings
private, but if studio work g
well he might break his silence
the October release.
In September the duo start
tour in Germany, where they hachieved á good measure of po
larity. A quick visit to Italy, athen they begin their travels
America, which
they ' havt
visited since Spencer Davis days
If record sales go well
Britain, there could be a t<
later
year.

tls

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Miss Pamela: 'W

aren't groupies'.SHE DOESN'T smoke
and she doesn't drink.
She has an infectious
giggle and a mass of
blonde hair that occasionally hides a facethat's a cross between
Hayley Mills and Marianne Faithfull.

"Ie!

are seven songs on it and werecite a lot of poetry and doa lot of talking. We weretalking about pop groups andsexual things but the censor
has taken all the meat out of

tt

it.

She loves pop stars anddoesn't wear a bra despite
wearingasee-throughcrochet blouse. And when
she smiles she looks veryw

pretty.

But more important than
all this she insists that whatever people may think she isnot, repeat not, a groupie.
The young lady in questionis called Pamela. Miss Pamela to give her full title. Miss
Pamela, proud member of abunch of fun -loving girls whocome under the collective titleof the GTO's. And GTO
in case you don't know
stands for Girls Together Outrageously.
The GTO's could be calleda singing group, or even a
comedy act.
They were formed two anda half years ago by Frank
Zappa, leader of the Mothersof Invention, to make a rather
odd album. The girls on therecord wereand still arefriends of Frank and otherWest Coast groups in theStates.

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MISS PAMELA: Girlfriends married
The original take for thealbum was censored about
half a dozen times to cut out
bits and pieces that would
offend the Establishment.
It sold quite a lot of copies
but by no stroke of theimagination could it be called a hit
Pamela, in London for thelast few weeks on holiday,
spoke to MM about herself

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a

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each otherand the GTOs and their repu-

tation in a West End hotel
last week. -" We were formed about,,"I

am also writing a bookwhich is called ' Groupie Capers.' It's really just my diaryfrom about eight years old
and we are going to make afilm from the book.
" My favourite group at the
moment is the Flying Burrito
Brothers because I just love
country music. I have always
loved the Byrds as well.
"People tend to think that
the
GTOs
are
pervertedgroupies. I don't know why.
It doesn't make any sense tome why we have this image
in the States.
" It all started when I wasa teenager and I just loved
the Byrds. I used to follow
them around and eventually
got to know them. Then I met
Frank and got to know loads
of other people in the pop
world.
" I don't really think the
GTO's are groupies.
" I really hate the tag because it signifies a really very
low class chick who beds
down with everybody. It's notreally like that at all."two and a half years ago andat first there were seven of
us but now there are five. Twoof the girls left to get married --- to each other," twenty -one -year -old Pamela said in
all seriousness.
" It was a lovely wedding.

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Does
Alan Haven findproblems in recording theorgan with a large orchestra?
HaroldHunter,Cowes, Isle of Wight.
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As the recording oforgans is so habitual in all
studiosthese days, theproblems are not so muchtechnical as musical 'and thephysical side is best left tothe recording engineer. If
the record is intended tofeature the organist, heshould work in close contact
with the arranging in theplanning stages, as I dowith my own producer andarranger, Keith Mansfield.
When involved
with anorchestra of 50, as we wereon my album, Haven For
Sale, the organist must not
get in the way of theorchestra, or vice versa.
Musical ideas and sounds
are the essential ingredientsand the more economical
theorganist
keeps
his
playing the better it is. In
the final analysis, the deciding factor is the tact andtaste of the player, which is

ALAN HAVEN.

ALAN JACKSON: Take it slowly

Finger-Picking

Bs

Method, published by F

man at 7s.

Alan
Jacksontalks

The repertoire of nlocal groups
playing
public consists of pop so
some of them high incharts. What is the posi
regarding copyright?
J
Rudger, Exeter.
Local groups will
malty be playing In prem.
already holding a " blanklicence from the Perform
Right Society, to whom t
arerequired
to subthrough the proprietor
the hall, a complete list
titles of the numbers plal
From these lists, thecredit the composers
authors of the works
formed. Anyone in doshouldcontact theforming Right Society, 2f
Berners
Street,
Lone

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drums
after such a long time?
William Ranks, Bow.

-

Personnel on "Country
L ne Special " and "Chicago
Calling " was Cyril Davies(harmonica, vocals), Nicky
Hopkins (organ, ele. piano),
Ricky Brown (bass guitar),
Carlo Little (drums), andBernie Watson (lead guitar).
"Preaching The Blues" and" Sweet Mary " was thesame, except for Keith Scotton piano.

-

Where did the word fan
originate?
Trevor Banks,
Leeds.

III

From the name oftemple worshippers in ancientRome,
who wereroused to religious frenzy,or
fanums. They
were
known as fanatics and theword became shortened tofan.

Can you advise on the useof the capo for playing folk
banjo?
Arnold Betters wick, Sheffield.

-

The capo is a mechanidevice for raising thepitch of all four " playing "strings uniformly. For example, if you are playing asong in the key of C andyou find that the key is too
low for you to sing in
comfort, you simply attach
the capo to the finger -board
just behind the first fret,play in C chords and thesound produced will. be in
the key of C -sharp. If you
put the capo on at the 2nd
fret, you will be playing in
the key of D . . and so on.
Full details of the use of acapo, types and tuningsof
capo, types and tunings offive -string banjos, conditionof the finger -nails for playing, and other valuableadvice is given by John
Pearse in his Old Timey
cal

W.I.

Exactly what is the cposition of maracas?
Douglas Beedy. Southend
Q
Maracas are rhyt
instruments from Cuba
other parts of South A
rica. They consist of a Iof gourds filled withseeds which give a swish
sound when shaken
rotated.
Peter Gamm
and Peter Clayton in A Gt
To Popular Music (PhotHouse).

-

Are Led Zeppelin mallany public performances

this country during
summer months andthey going to issue anol
LP soon?

-Nottingham.

P. A.

Hearfiw
No appearances
planned in Britain beca
they
are
due
to t
Americain August
September. They are
rentlyworking on

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Atlantic and will be
Led Zeppelin 3.

ti

album, which will be iss
in the late summer

I seem to recall readini
the MM that there iscentral list of rehea
bands which has been c
piled by an enthusiast-

want to contact
Essex.

Benfleet.

B.

a

band

J.

Wh

Multi - instruments
George Wards runs anganisation
called " Mi
Where," which operates
rehearsal bands four nig
aweek in South
London for musicians a
15 to 65 and provides
information
service
where
to
get
a
b
anywhere in London. F
turing music ranging o
the past 30 years, the ba
have produced such talen
instrumentalistsasM
Westbrook and Jon Hiserand have been praised
JohnnyDankworth.
details are available ft
George Ward, 52 Dar'

1,1,`!`.-'

Harvest (EMI), who
distributes Blue Thumb in
Britain, have scheduled thealbum for release in September, but there is a goodchance that
it will beavailable sooner than that.

i have an old EP by Cyril
Davies on Pye International
NEP 44025, titled "TheSound of Cyril
Davies."Would you know the line-up

forcectutesh

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Is there any intention torelease David Mason's Blue
Thumb album, " Alone Together," in Britain?
M. J.
Searle, Worcester Park.

Enniskillen, N. Ireland.
So farthese strings
have not been obtainable on
this side of the Atlantic, butthey will shortly be imported by the Ivor Malrants
Musicentre, 56 Rathbone
Place,
OxfordStreet,London, W.1, who noticed
the big demand for themand have arranged exclusive
distribution in Great Britain.
First supplies are due in a

eunpataUub,c/S not°b°oky°
Srbep,bereo£that.

--studl° inert.

áa°everything slowly. Listen tomusic of every kind. Buddy
Rich's snare drum book isgood for a beginner, being
simply laid out and easy tounderstand.
ALAN JACKSON, Mike Westbrook Band.

Is it possible to obtain
Ernie Ball Super Slinky
guitar strings in Britain? Ibought some in the States
and they're beautiful, but
now I need some more andcan't find a source of
supply.
Pete Cresswell,tecordo d egva4be theb,gg
heti
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visia1b1.

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I started quite late,when i was 20, and took
lessons from Tony Kinsey,
who taught me to read;
Alan Ganley; and two years
ago, Philly Joe Jones, plus
part-timestudy
in perctission at the Guildhall
SchoolofMusic.
it's
definitely best to havepersonal tuition and to takemusic.

tes,of 5adta4es41`s-virtually true of anything inF s't só
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DIJES'TION$.'

WHEN did Alan Jackson
begin to play ,drums andcan he offer any usefultips?
Robert Shaw, Torquay.

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Streestafot,gt 223.

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Avenue,Catft
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who will be able to put
in touch with a band 'Romford.
Is it possible to get
LP,
Hey Judwhich
wasreleased
America but is apparen
not obtainable in Britain?
K. J. Murray, Birmingham

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ROY HARPER is a sort ofGerald Scarfe of music. Like thecartoonist, what he does isn't
always pretty, it isn't always
enjoyable, but by God his workRoy

is impossible to ignore.

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AGNA CARTA: Gentle reactionaries

2.hrisSimpson, Glen Stuart and Lyell
inter are three resounding personalities,

combine to produce an acoustic soundis notable for :its rich harmonies andfile melodies.
'heir quiet sound is momentarily surprisingen the strength of purpose behind it iso.tsidered.
In a gentle way our music is reactionary,"i Chris, when I met the group in a Wardour
eet pub last week.
ed and people" Everythingiscompli-are reacting against this."
Magna Carta getting up and singing about
utiful things is not everybody's cup of tea.

hink the album will probably be slated byto people, but I don't care.
We are easily labelled as twee if we arecareful. If people start singing about dew
flowers they take that risk. The world hasnine hardened."lad they thought of writing any more epics" Seasons'.

From the writing point ofI prefer to tackle a big
lect," said Chris, who
Les the group's lyrics. "Butmust have a change. Other e people start saying thatnext album will be an-"Seasons.".tr

The next album is in its,ryonic -stages at the mot," Lyell broke in to ex n.

conversation
turnedc
to Chris.
You can say it will bet more root. Having heard'asons," I think people will
he

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Magna
Carta

accept epics. But we would
like to get back to form simp-

ler things."" I think you are always
going to go back to simpler
music forms," ventured Glen.
" People cannot share heavymusic. Everyone can join inwith the Mungo Jerry thing."" It is not a fashion. It isa feeling that is there thewhole time," said Chris. " Allof a sudden the kids realisethat they have got complex
and turn back to simpler
things again."Great ggs
The group had completed aneight -hour drive back from a
tour of Cornwall earlier inthe day. How had the WestCountry reacted to them?
" Theywere
absolutely
great,"' said Chris. " We only
did a couple of gigs, but it
was the first time we had been
down there.
" We find that since we
did Disco 2 on television far

flung places we had neverheard of before are packed
for our gigs.
" There are the inevitablecomparisons with Simon andGarfunkel, and I thing it iswrong to do this.
"When they see our equipment going in at some clubs
they are a bit taken back,but once we start it is okay."
Chris was about to be ordained as a priest, after studying at Kings College in London, when he turned in the
direction of music and Magna
Carta. Was he still a strong
Christian?
"If' you say you are a
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Bored" I don't equate morallywith Christianity. I think thebasic concepts are relevant today, but if people want tolive together or anything i
don't see anything wrong withthat.
" I don't go to church because it bores me stiff, andI don't have the time anyway.
If a lot is chopped away, thenit is very relevant. I am notcapable of living up to what
it really is about"

Although they will always
do gigs at clubs, Magna Carta
are playing predominantly atconcerts. Lyell explained thatthey felt audiences had a better chance to appreciate theirmusic

at concerts.

Continent
At the end of the monththey play in Stockholm, Sweden. They have already been
to France and Belgium, andI asked if they had beenpleased with their previous
visits to the Continent.
"The reaction over there
was very good," said Lyell.
" It depended on where weplayed, but the right venues

Harper:,LII"on-off,

Harvest album at EMI's Abbey Road
studios. Was it the same man? The songs
were
the same, the dry downbeat
northern humour of the remarks heinterjected before the songs was thesame, his Magic Roundabout haircut andsparse grizzle of beard was thebut there the resemblance stopped. same,
In the recording studio I stood very
close that that rare, intangible thingcalled genius.
This is what people find so infuriating
about Roy Harper, the apparent inconsistency of the man. One night incredibly
in touch with his audience, drawing
them into the nightmare world he seesaround us. Dulling out great shimmerIng cascades of notes from his guitar
like a man with 12 fingers, iflustrating
to us why the Cuban peasants took him
so readily to their hearts though they
couldn't understand a word he said orr

EASONS," their new album is reIsed at the end of the week, tele ;ion and radio shows have been
ranged, and Magna Carta are set
r an extremely busy future.

Last week I heard him on two consecutive nights. The first night, atLondon's Royal Festival Hall, waspossibly the worst gig he has ever
performed. One national newspaper
called it a ",brilliant disaster," andit's a fair description.
The following night I sat in thecontrol booth while he recorded his next

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just not listening!

sang.
The next night: nothing.
It's easy to blame the circumstances
for the difference, and Roy himself
obviously feels far less at ease with his

audiences below that imaginary line from
Bristol and the Wash.
" The beginning of this last tour wasincredible," he told me between takes.
" At Liverpool they cheered, literally
cheered after every song. But it began, togo sour as I came south. Portsmouth wasboring. Fairfield Hall was terrible. And
you were at the Festival Hall last night.
"The audiences down here are so
blasé. They put you on trial all the timeand if things don't go right from the
beginning, then they find you guilty. And
the worst thing is they never, neverreact. It wouldn't be so bad if they
threw things.
Of course at the Festival Hall I saw
a lot of obvious American tourists in thehall and I'm afraid they got me a bit
uptight. They looked like people who
voted for Reagan or Nixon."
i wonder if that is the real reason. If
Roy needs feedback from his audience toreally get it on, how in the name of Phil
Spector and Brian Wilson, does he do it
so readily in the recording studio? OK,
the control room was full of friends,
James
Kelly looning around withimitations of the Thunderbird puppets
making a pornographic movie, Peter
Jenner discussing plans to organise amedieval craft festival somewhere like
Glastonbury, an American chick whorubbed Roy's back between takes while
he swigged down bottles of tomato juice,genius ?

ROY HARPER: Blasé audiences
but when he was out there in the studiowith only his own voice in the earphones
as company, he was getting no feedback
at all from us. We were behind asoundproof glass screen.
People who lump him in the bag withthe shamateurs who lope on to stage andshare their hang-ups with an audiencethat takes vicarious pleasure in the self exposure should have been there as Roy
patiently tried to.get the essence of hissong down on, tape so that the hero wasshown not as a villain, not as an angry
old .man about to get his revenge onsociety, but a rather plaintive has-been
who could turn his experience to goodaccount, if only he could get it together.
A slow versior was rejected. A fasterone, too"Too choppy," said Roy,
It's becoming too much of a rocker."
Two more takes later we were getting
there, though Roy was still critical of theguitar work.
" Getting too tricky. The guitar istaking me away from the song.'
This man is a communicator andanyone who can't receive his message is-

In fact, the ups and downs of Roy
Harper's public appearances, which will
no doubt continue as long as concerts
represent a small, arbitrary selected (bymoney) section of the population, whohave come to get value in return or
they'll tear up the seats.
Most artists know the feeling. They
come out on stage, sing one number, andthe dread realisation sinks over themlike a London pea-soup fog that it just
isn't going to happen. This would be OK
if they were singing from the floor of afolk club. They could shrug theirshoulders,say" Sorryfolks" andsurrender the floor to someone else.
You can't do that when the rent of a
big concert hall has to be paid for, andthe normally accepted definition of a
" good trouper " is of a guy who can
carry on regardless, triumphing over his
own inner feelings, projecting an often
quite false sense of self-assurance
and bonhomie.
This superstar technique is one of thethings Roy Harper is most against, partof what he sees as the falsity of theposing and carping and criticising that is
an essential part of showbiz
with theemphasis on the business.
The theme crops up in many of hissongs, for instance his viciously accuratedissection of the critic's role, "The
Judge," which always make me squirm
at its accuracy every time I hear it.
Though Roy assures me I'm not its
specific target, the cap fits sufficiently
well to be uncomfortable.
Why should we be so surprised that
Roy Harper actually practices what he-preaches?

KARL DALLAS

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were incredible."

" It

is

rather like opera,"1mood."
The

group also have thedistinction of playing in theInternational Festival of Youth
Orchestras, at St. Moritz, atthe end of August.
They were heard by the organisers of the festival when

they played at London's Lyceum. Backed by a 150 -pieceorchestra, they will play
"Seasons " and half - an hour of new material. The occasion is being recorded foran album.

to
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added Glen. "They cannot always understand the words,
but they are on the same level.
They can capture the

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All the group have individual projects on hand. Chris is
working on a series of religious programmes for Radios 2
and 4. Lyell is writing the
instrumental score for a newfilm," Dulcimer,"'astarring

Carol White and John Mills.
Glen goes back to his old
profession of acting.
He iscast, together with Madeline
Bell of Blue Mink, in " Wingout Pussycat," which opens in
Coventry and arrives in London three days later, on September 13.
With a couple of televisiondates lined up for September,and numerous radio shows, including " Sounds of the Seventies " on July 28 and" Country Meets Folk " onAugust 5, the sound of Magna Carta will not escape many
this summer.

ANDREW MEANSor-

On "Top of thePops" tonightI.

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THE MIDDLESEX FOLK CLUB'hosts
THE TIPPEN FAMILYTHE
LCS
PRESENTS
THE
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THE APOSTROPHETHE PEELERS, Kings Stores.
Wide Gate Street, off Middlesex
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guestsThe Target, Nurtholt Roundabout.

THREE TUNS, Beckenham. (01-L

tonight with

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7.30-11.30

p.m.

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Sharp
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Cecil
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shop.

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ON THAMES,

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phant

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Saturday, July 25th: FOLK
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Friday, July 24th to Sunday, July 26th, 1970
CEILIDHS, SINGAROUNDS, WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES
CONCERTS and FOLK CRAFTSWith The Yetties. Eric Winter, Leon Rosselson, Ian Stewart, Christina Hole,
Harry Boardman, Stan Huglll, John Foreman, Dorita y Pepe, Charlie Bote,
Clare Clayton, Li.oie Higgins, Prey Webb, Fred Jordan, Harry Ogden, Daveand Toni Arthur, The Spinner. Louis Killen, Doe. Cooper, Dirk Hewitt,
Martin Byrne, Sam Sherry, Ally Bain, Mik Whellans, Barnsley Sword
Dancers, Leyland Morris Men, Orante and Blue, etc., etc,
FOLK FESTIVAL CEILIDH, Loughborough Town Hall

Saturday, July 25th, 8 p.m. Tickets 7'6

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Details and tics eh for Fe,twol and the Ceilidh from Keele folk
Festival
Cecil Shorp House 2 Regents Pork Rood, London. N W I. (01-405 22061

artists at this year's
Keele Festival, actually
taking place at LoughOther new names are theSpinners, John Foreman,
Harry Ogden, Sam Sherry,the Leyland Morris Men,
Dick Hewitt, Terry Masterson,
Dave
Cooper,theOrange. and Blue, Martin
Byrnes, Fred Jordan andAlle Bain -Mire Whellans.
I actually caught Louis at
his first gig since his recent
illness, at the very excellent
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paid to their weekly rehearsal
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excursion into what might becalled audio verite, giving
valuable
information aboutsuch technicalities as bowing
techniques.
Kathakali Dance Company
from India are featured inthis Thursday's BBC -I folk
show,
formerly billedas"Commonwealth Folk" but
now to be known as "Commonwealth Carnival."
Mike Artef is rejoining
Orange Blossom Sound, after
leaving to play in " Down In
The Flood," with Nock Pick-at the New House,
Nottingham, last Friday.

He was in great. voice,though the strain of his
recent illness was still somewhat evident. He is moving
hack
into
singing
fairlyslowly. in addition to Keele,
he will he at Sidmouth, theBromyard Festival on September 19, Malvern on September
20, Bodmin on September 25,
Plymouth Tech on September
27, and Liskeard on OctoberPentangle return from holiday on July 26 to play a solo
concert at th'e Chichester
Festival
Theatre.
Afterappearing at Cambridge, they
have a solo concert at theRoyal Theatre, Harrogate, aspart of the Harrogate Festival.
They are at the Yorkshire
Folk Blues and Ja7z Festival
on August 15 and on August
30 they play the isle ofWight.
Their autumn tour starts on
September 26 at the Royal
Albert Nall.
Magna
Carta's
secondalbum " Seasons,' is released

Vertigo thisFriday. On

Sunday Frances Line is producing a radio performance of
the work,
Guest on this Friday's Folk
on Friday is Ewan MacColl,with club group the Beggar men
fromManchester insupport. This broadcast will
be something of a farewellappearance since the group isbreaking up at the end of themonth.
Shlrlie Collins is at the
Cecil Sharp House ceilidh thisSaturday, and 'rim Hart andMaddy Prior share the billwith the Rakes on August 15,
with Harry Boardman coming
down from Owdh-tin on September 19.
Why is it no other areas
can match Scottish radio in
their coverage of local folk?
Next Thursday BBC Scotland
features a programme on the
ShetlandFiddlers'
Societybased nn a visit James Hunter

Clutterbuck

play

Hempstead

YoCentre on Sunday.
A rare sight made its w
into MM offices last we
Buddy Bohn 'is one of a dy
breed of individuals
heatroubadour. After gra
sting from Illinois Princi
College he has wandered
earth, his songs as his ocurrency. He has played
royalty and peasantry al.
and is now in London.
wants to travel this counandiswilling to s
anywhere for his supper. E
offers?
Leeds singer Dave Abrais going to the US to starsix -week tour in December
January. A five-piece b,
called Trellis are going ahim. Both Dave and the grt

ett recently. Bass player Jerry
Web, who he replaces, isreturning to England.
The
band
are
touring
Norway at present, and word
has It that they are meetingwith a great response, in
Septemberthey returntoplay the Coventry Festival at
Islington Town Hall.
The Spinners are releasing
a new album, " The Spinners
Are In Town," to coincidewith the launching of theirseven week television series
on Monday, August 3.
Now in their twelfth year,
theLiverpool -based
group
have a top line-up of guests
Esther Ofarim (twice),
Judith Durham (twice), Julie
Felix (twice), Derek Guyler
andGeorgeChisholm(twice).
The series, produced by
Nicolas Hunter, will be filmed
live at the Octagon Theatre,
Bolton, with inserts of thegroup in the Lake District.
The Hanging Lamp Folk
Club Richmond, sees a new
dawn on Monday, when John
James is guest artist. The
club gave substantial support
to up-and-coming singers, including Ralph McTell, before
closing for alterations to thechurch crypt in which it washoused, in October last year.

hope to have albums
before the tour. Songs
penned by Dave, and magers Sue Elliston and B

Shevian.

As he was so popular
year at East Coker, Somer
Ralph Barreet has been as
back for this year's festi'
which ends on Saturday.'festival has been organised
Richard Fox, an expert insculpture, and landlord ofancient Helyer Arms.
Incidentally,
Ralph
t
again
be
teachingIn
mediate folk guitar, in fin
and plectrum styles, at R
mond Adult College, K
Road, this autumn.

1

Mick Groves, Cliff H
Tony Davis and Hugh Jo
have also been hooked to p
in the Keele Folk Festi
from July 24 to 26.
PeterColins,iR-yearorganiser of a Brighton clhas signed for Decca. His fi
single is called "Get in
Boat." He
is
a
train
classical guitarist, andstarted work on an album.
John Isherwood is org
ising Portsmouth's first o
air festival, at Portsmo
Stadium, on July 25 Gut
includethe Settlers,Disley and Pat Nelson.

caught in the act extra

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LOUIS KILLEN is a lateaddition to the roster of

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Of TheWingreleased
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at the beginning of Octob
Both are nn B&C Records.
The Johnstons play at t
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this Thursday, and on Tu
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On
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Mau(

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is

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HOUSE

and

of EddieTHE "PERFORMANCE
Son "
House
at Bir-mingham's Mothers on Saturday
hadsomething to do withmusic but a great deal more todowith nostalgia and an
audiences affection for a blue-

sman
whose
influence
andgenerous spirit has immeasurably enriched the idiom.
After his appearance young
blueshounds packed the dressingroom and literally knelt at
the feet of the old man, who at
75 has announced this will be
his last trip to Britain.
His extreme age was obviously a signficant factor in his act.
which lasted Just half an hourand Included only four numbers
the famous " Levee Camp
Moan," " Death Letter Blues,"" Grinning In Your Face " and" Let The Light In." Yet,despite off-key guitar playing In
parts, missed notes and aslurred vocal delivery, the timeless quality of the blues shone
through In his performance likea rich vein of ore. Some songs
of
speak
old
sorrows andwounds, never quite healed;others have an infectious joy
andhappiness about them,which had the audience clapping along with him at the close.
For those who went along,they were being treated to a
final showing by one of the last
survivors of the Mississippi tra-dition.

It was fitting that heshould leave Britain amid such
spontaneous acclaim, with the

roar

of

-

crowd's call for
encores ringing in his ears.
a

MICHAEL WATTS

MIKE GIBBS
JAZZ

f

came

Cathedral

tofor

Canterbury
the first

on-

Thursday (July 9)
to
win
some

seemedconverts.
The musicof the brilliant
Mike
Gibbs
was grudgingly
received at the beginning. In
fact the first piece ' Tanglewood 63 " passed without asingle handclap of acknowledge-

ment from the audience.
But by the end of the evening
the 14 -strong ensemble that
included Kenny Wheeler andHenry Lowther (trumpets andflugelhorns), Chris Pyne (tbn),
Chris Spedding (gtr), John
Marshall (drums), Tony Roberts
andAlan
Skidmore(reeds)received the accolade due to Itastanding ovation anddemands for an encore.
Spedding-was .the outstanding
soloist with spikily brittle runs
cutting
throughtheensemble, especially in the piece
specially written for Canterbury's Becket Festival " In
Search of 7"
Gibbs used the Cathedral as
an

added

voice to the orches-tra, the haunting piece opening
with a single bass note on theCathedralorgan and sustainedby the twin bowed basses of
Ron Mathewson and Roy Babbington, echoing among thelofty columns of the Nave.
As
thenote reverberated
round

the Cathedral, echoing
re-echoing,
four flutes
the melody and Frank
Ricotti's percussion work added
tothe Cathedral -like atmosphere the piece established.
Alan Skidmore's soprano solo
was sheer delight and as theelectrifying tension built up thecreak of a chair became an
explosion.
andstatedThe second -half featured thefirst performance of new music
written by Gibbs with the aidof an Arts Council bursary andit consisted of several pieces

and fragments of various moand textures, using jazz
pop rhythms and building

frenetic finale with A
Skidmore almost exploding
soprano.
MALCOLM
h
CHELL
a

-

AUDIENCE
GEMMELL creates
KEITH
new
dimension inappeal. His gyrating instrum
seemed to assume a personaof its own, at the Farnh
Centreof theWest Sur
College of Art and Design,

Friday.

Initially the group'snasake seemed reluctant to acc
the particular brand of r

that

Audience
offered,slowly they got more intoandlistened
attentively
Howard Werth's guitar solo.
Werth's rasping voice
cutting guitar style combi
well with a neat rhythm sect--

Trevor Williams (bass)

Tony Connor (drums)ay
ing many of the cliches tgroupswithwoodwind/br
sections tend to fall into.
For" Priestess,"Kchanged to flute and procee
to extract music that sounlike something from the " tof 2001. A Space Odyssey."
The group switched the ter
and
mood
of
their soskilfully, featuring a tightslon of " I Put A Spell
You."" House On The Hill " wafitting climax totheincluding a bare-handed drsolo from Tony Connor. Pec
had no chance to recover fi
the pounding percussion be
Keith split the air withsaxophone.
ANDREW MEd-

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1970-Page

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Sunday, July 19th (7.30 m'night)

BAND
MO60S JAZZ PIOOUCf1ONS

plus

CANA -VARIETY AGENCY
154 Fox Lane, London, N.13

Tuesday, July 21st (7.30-11.00)* DEEP JOY* DREAM POLICE *GRANNY'S* D.J. Bob HarrisNEW

KENNY WHEELER

ALAN -GOWN

SPINKY DUK BIG BAND

FROM* LOVE AFFAIR* KEY LARGO

Wed., July 22nd (7.30-11.0)

MIKE WESTBROOKTHE BLACK BOTTOM
STOMPERS

JAllMEN

JAMES ROYAL

HANCOCKSATISFACTION*HEAD HANDS & FEET

Disco/Dance Nightthrill of a lifetime debut of
THE DAVE

Friday, July 17th (7.30-1 1.00)

Saturday, July 18th (7.45-m'night)

W,1-

Wednesday, July 22nd

THE NEW ERA JAZZ BANDDAVE ELLISBLACKBOTTOM
r STOMPERS,LES CONDON QUINTET Greenman.
Blackheath.
'

8811

°

SAM MITCHELLONIONS.

DOWNBEAT
CLUB,
Manor
House, opp tube. Don't miss the

BOOK
Tel. 01-677

ea.

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1 1'

Thurs., July 16th KATHY STOBART withUGLY ROOM

Lane.

FILTHY McNASTY
STACKHOUSE
PLUS DUTCH HENRY BROWN
BIRD CURTIS QN1 Next
week: ADONAI.
HALF MOON, Putney.
HARRY STONEHAM TRIO
7s 6d. Come early for a seat.

.

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15

Resident: Fri., Sat., Sun. Lunch andEvening

STATION
HOTEL(adjacentSidcup Station), Sidcup, Kent. 5s.

BOTTLENECK

Railwaya.m.

!PLASMA!

ANGEL ROAD,

BLACKBOTTOM STOMPERS,Club.

Hotel, Hurnchurch,
Fabulous New Era

MERTON, 7PM.
HEAVY
ROCK

BOOZE DROOP,ACTON.

TERRY SEYMOURBIG BANDELM
Essex.

Road,

ONIONS.

AT PLOUGH, STOCKWELL, S.W.9

FAIRIES

Lunch

Monday. July 20th (7.30-1 1.00'.
Pass/Erroll de Silva presents

BLACK PRINCE Hotel, Bexley.
Kent. FROM AUSTRALIA, RED

Bridge Road, Walthamstow.
Next to station.

Next week Atomic Rooster.

1

Pop Special,MONDAY

1832 WINDSOR 1832

Commencing 12
Admission free.

7.30 p.m. to

ALEX WELSH AND HIS -Tuesday, 21stLiles.

SUNDAY

Lea

KINGS HEAD,
BY
DEMAND,SKID ROW

GREYHOUNDURIAH HEEP !

FROMROCK FESTIVAL, July 25, 5-11
pm, 5s. Priory Youth Centre.
Petersfield Rd, Acton, W.3. 207
bus to Acton Town Hall from
Shepherd's Bush Tube. Enquiries

WIGHTHAWKSSaturday, 18th

PLUS GUESTS PATIO
Monday, 20111
HEMS 7s, TWO BARS, GUESTS 8s
DAVE HOLDSWORTH
Thank you Wishbone Ash forguesting last Sunday with Skid
QUINTET
Row.
NEXT SUNDAY
NAIMA

KEITH SMITH Band, Madingley
Club, Richmond, Sundaynight.
Free, all welcome.

TOFTS, FOLKESTONE

NAG'S HEAD, HIGH WYCOMBE

MAY BLITZ.!

JAZZ MOVEMENT 70's.
time.
Angel. Uxbridge
Hayes End, Middx.

QUINTESSENCEBURGUNDY.

JOHNNY DYANI 4

WAKE ARMS, EPPING
Epping New Road, Essex. (All)!

WILD WALLYUGLY ROOMof

Heath.

MONTY SUNSHINE'S
JAZZ BANDGROOVESVILLE

BRUNEL UXBRIDGE.

5s.

PLUS

Lord Napier,Free. Coaches

SOCIETY,

W
W

Sunday, 19th

! THUNDER

MIKE DANIELS Big Band, Half
'ZONE I
Moon, Putney.
(The World's Heaviest 3 -piece)
LYN" WHITTINGTON,"PINNER: PIONEER PLUS
CLUB,
Harpenden
ALAN ELSDON.
Road, St Albans.

FRIDAY

THE MAYNARD

Friday, 17th

PHIL SEAMAN QRT

01-437 2375

Thursday, July 16th (7.30-1 1.00)**BLACK WIDOW* KRIPPLE VISION* ERIC LEESE

Thursday, 16th

FERGUSON BIG BAND

GREYHOUND REDHILL
BRIGHTON RD, FROM 8.

PAVILIONWILD WALLY

MOGLYHOGG !

Lord

90 Wardour St., W.1

W

7.30 till km

GOTHICJAZZBAND,
Ranelagh. Lunch-time.

minutes Liverpool Street tube.

CAFE DES ARTISTE, FULHAM,

SUNDAY cont.

-PEANUTS, 213 Bisltopsgate.
LOUIS MOHOLA GROUPWEYMOUTHWILD WALLY

21

F

100 OXFORD A.
W.1

THURSDAY!

,.man unozoW

SHELLEY_-MANNE SEXTET_ELAINE DELMAR

July 22nd-- and MISS

pols

It,

WEB
MIRRORS
Sat., July 18th MIRRORS
it
Tues., July 21st MUCKLE
Wed., July 22nd DEMON FUZZ
(Ladies' Free Night every W'edneod
Thurs., July 16th
Fri., July 17the'eRonnie Scott's are now exclusively booking --NUCLEUS,Page 34-MELODY MAKER, July 18, 1970c

THE NORTMCOR ARMS, NORTMCOTEAVENUE - ,OFF SOUTHALL BROADWAY (UXBRIDGE ROAD1_SOUTHALL, MIDDLESEX\ELITISM RAIL SOUTHALL-POTTERS BAR:

ELM COURT YOUTH CENTRE, MUTTON LANE,

POTTfRs RAIL HERTS.-

BUSES. 232, 120, 207, 103 OR\Rmfs RAIL POTTERS SAX. MUSES: 19\. 301, 3OSA. 104, 313, 350,
3801,,174, 1411114

SUNDAY, JULY 19th, 7.30 p.m.

`

THE BEST CLUB IN LONDONFOR FNIBKTAINMENI,'

Saturday, July 18th. 7.30 p.m.

SA PRAED STREET, PADDINGTON, W.2.
TEL. PAD 5274

r

Dick Jordan invites all his old Members, Friends,
Heads, Locners, Tourists, Curios(in fact, everyone" to the Lyceum

OPENING NIGHT
THIS FRIDAY, JULY 17thand every Friday

7.30 p.m. to 1.00 a.m.

LYCEUM GOES TOPLESS !
First official cpening of sliding roof!

1

OF EDEN JUDAS JU-Sunday, ;July 26th: IF,.

THURSDAY HORSESHOE HOTEL (Downstairs)"

DREAM POLICESELBORNE HALL (THE CHERRY TREE)Food
LYCEUM, STRAND, W.C.2

The welcome return of

EDDIE THOMPSON

We are oróuc to announce wehave no agency reQresentationI

THEE INFORMATION(Lovely to see you)

THE KENSINGTONSUNDAY, JULY 26th at 7.30 p.m.

.Sunday,FLOOR SHOW
Saturday, My 25th
The Fantastic TV Personality

DAVID
H A M Í LTON..

iaRsed Bar for Members-'

Seats: 20/-, 17/-, 15/-, 13/-, 10/Bookable in advance from Fairfield Hall Box Ottice, Park
Lane, CROYDON. Tel. 688 9291. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

-

Have a night out at theGolden Star Club
Buses and tube to Caledonian Rd.,,

AQUILAsea

KEVIN AYERS

14.7

.

MI bookings foe the Golden Star
Club picae phone Cyril Wayne
935 6811/2-

THAMES VALLEYGRAMMAR SCHOOL

Fifth Cross Road, Twickenham

Sat., July 18th, 7.30-11 P.m-

AND THE WHOLE WORLD-GARY FARRCURVED AIR

01-599 8205

THE FICKLE =PICKLE CLUBThe Cricketers Inn, London Road, Southend

AQUILA + DAVID BOWIEGRACIOUSJEFF DEXTER*LIGHTSFILMS
AMPLIFICATIONSTALLSHI -WATTCHARITY CONCERT
Thursday, 23rd July, 7-11 p.m.

Friday. July 17th

Next week: STATUS QUO

Records from Musicland, 44 Berwick St., W.1
3oBooked through Asgard

PINK FAIRIESALL NIGHT

659 0048

Lights & Disco
Adm. 7/Refreshments

DAVID KNIGHTS MANAGEMENT
01-272 8581

LITTLE FREE ROCK

Lights by Colored Rain

SUN., 19 JULY--

and others
Adm. 5/ Bowes Lyon, Stevenage, Herts

7.30-11

cloud nine ARGENTWENTWORTH:STREETPETERBOROUGH
Telephone 69589

HIGH TIDE
BROCKEN WINGSLITESSOUNDS
BAR
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Management, Agency, Recording,Publishing, Sound Equipment
G & P Music Ltd., Dover Road

Northfleet, Kent, Gravesend 66290

3137_Wardour.S t

MELODY MAKER-1Lordón_W.1.,,.,

Friday, July 17th, 9-6 a.m. 'Dusk till Dawn'

MAY BLITZ-

BRAM STOKERTOP D.J. SHOW

Fri., July 17
Fickle Pickle
Southend

EMILY MUFF

BuffetLight Shows

LADIES' FREE NIGHTS MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY"FLOOR SHOWwithplus GREEN MANGOES
9 p.m. - 5 a.m.

EfM

proudly present
Every Tws. and Wed.

Fri., Sat. and Sun.

IN CONCERT

9 p.m. -6 a.m.

The-

Buses : 63, 134, 137, 214or
Kentish Town Tube Sto'ion '-46 WESTBOURNE ROAD-

OFF MACKENZIE RD., LONDON, N.7

DANCE TO THE
LATEST RECORDSFAMILYwith AFRICAN DRUMMERS plus GREEN MANGOES+I

FORTESS ROAD, KENTISH TOWNManager T. J Pyper. M.I M Ent

THE JAMAICA JUBILEE STOMPERS-

THE, TALLY' HO!

N.W.S
-

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THE GOLDEN"STAR CLUBFAIRFIELD HALL, CROYDONFriday, July 17thz

Licensed Bar

PLEASE APPLY FOR MLMR\RSHIEvery Thurs.

JOHN ív TONY SMITH PRESENT/ ANGEL(Tottenham
Court Rd. Tube)
JUNE

580 2499

Club open 6 nights e week

Sole representation:

1117
Z"AFRO"

Ladies' Free Night

Management -Head Records 629/6391/2

THE PRETTY THINGS

21 Hanway St. W.1

Saturday. July 18th

Adm. 3/ -8'

THE FALCONS BAND

and Sunday lunchtime, 12-2 p.m.,

Buses: -27, 73, 31, 9 (Olympia)

ROUNDHOUSE, CHALK FARM_SUNDAY, JULY 19th, 3.30-11.30 p.m. 8/-

Licensed
Bar till 1 a.m.
ALL NIGHT

Sunday, July 19th

MUSIC EVERY -NIGHTIMPLOSION\SHOW with"
COUNT PRINCE MILLER

EVERY WEDNESDAYWISHBONE ASH

NIGHT

Saturday, July 18th
From Jamaica

Adm. 5/-KENSINGTON, W.14

Agency: JOHN SHERRY ENTS. 01-734 3984

THE DAVE DAVANINASHVILLE TEENSBOBBY ORR
HOT SNACKSRUSSEL( GARDENS, HOLLAND ROAD

Phone Dave Hook 01-229 8228

Friday, July 17th

DANNY RAY.

LE A WY...t.,THE JACKIE EDWARDS

Adm. 5/-"See 'em at the Lyceum!"

are handled by:

SW2
Food

THURSDAY, JULY 23rd°

HAWKWIND

RUDIES BLUES BAND
Jau, Blues, Gospel & Folk MusicSWINGING BLUE JEANS

01-734 7464

COCHISESKIN ALLEY
HIGH TIDEFREDDIE NOTE 8 THE°

THURSDAY, JULY 16th

TOMMY WHITTLEFULLY LICENSEDBRIXTONTELEGRAPHGEORGE CHISHOLMDAVE GREEN.

BLUES BAND

886 0248. (Near Southgate Tube Station)
Friday, July T7th, 8-11.45

Bars

Tickets 20/- from Lyceum, Computicket, Harlequin Records, British. Relay Showrooms andSolent Travel.
SOLELY BOOKED BY MARQUEE MARTIN

Wednesday, .July 22r.d, 8 p.m.

The Green, Southgate, N.14.

DON RENDELL QUINTET

D.J. Andy DunkleyFirst Lite Light Show

1at26 High AS`eett,, Barnet, Herts.

:

YES
CLARK HUTCHINSON
URIAH HEEP
BIG LILRESURRECTION
CLUBBuses:

LIGHTSSONIC SOUNDSHEADS.VIBESBOOZE-Bar Lights :,Sounds by MICK CLARK : Enquiries Crayford 26876'

LADIES' FREE NIGHT.

Wednesday

FAIRPORT CONVENTION_.

AY. BLITI

COMUS+ MANDRAGON

Sat., Aug, 1st:134, 84, 104, 261; 107, 716 IS 398. Northern Une: Nigh hornet

TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, W.1°.
(next to Dominion Cinema; 10 yds. from Underground)
Thursday, July 16th, 8 p.m.
Thursday, July 23rd, 8 p.m.

SCENE

BLACK
SABBATHFirst
London appearance of the newtext week: ARGENT

Tuesday
GNIDROLOG

GNIDROLOG

SaturdayJuly 18th

BLONDE ON BLONDEFORREST- MY CAKE -KNOCKER JUNGLE
Each night - Mystic Sounds by Jerry Floyd
Mystic lights by Ron Henderson
All bookings by Nucleus Productions: 01-437 4080

17th July-ThéTerinple LONDON W1
19th
20th

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The Greyhound CROYDON'The Old Grannary BRISTOLPICKETTYWITCH
Sole Agent: JOHN HOLE -GALE
HOLE -GALE MANAGEMENT is AGENCY11

Meyrick Avenue etherby, Yorkshire
Tel. (09371 3429

Friday, July 17thDADDY LONGLEGSSaturday, .July 18th FAIRPORT CONVENTION
Friday, July 24th WRITING ON THE WAIL
PlymouthSaturday, July 25th ALAN BOWN
eerono.w.ae,v....uu.
31st YES
JulyGENERATOR
Saturday, Aug. 1st VAN DER GRAM

511283Friday.

1970 FEATURES g

Send fog details to:Advertisement Manager
Melody Maker, 161-166
Fleet Street, E.C.4

IT WILL ALL WORKOUT IN BOOM -LAND

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News..ifl

brief

EXCLUSIVE ARTISTS

Tues., July 21

Love andin association with1:

100 ClubOxford Street'NI

ACORN ARTISTS
are pleased to announce SOLE REPRESENTATION :(Alice for'119";,;

Britain

MAlIlLAMANFRED MANNCHRISTI& CHAPTER THREE
LOVE AFFAIR
STATUS QUOHARMONY GRASSGUNDREAM POLICEULTIMATE AGENCY &_MANAGEMENT_LIMITED
42 Sloane Stroeet-S.W.1, 01-235 7182
Announces exclusive agency representation of

,

THE
ra -

,

(Rod Stewart. Ronnie Wood, Ronnie Lane; Kenny'o,

LOVES Arthur Lee

AMERICA's Love and Alice
Kooper are coming to
Britain from September' 25
to October 12 for a cluband ballroom tour. Impresario Arthur Howesiscurrently fixing dates.

The Maynard Ferguson Big
Band, plus jazz singer Salena
Jones open on Monday for aweek at the Golden Garter,
Manchester. Long John Baldry
will follow for a week from
July 27 with the Hollies
starring from August 3.
Nancy Sinatra, Tiny Tim,
comedian Bob Newhart and
Kenny Rogers and the First
Edition, join, Andy Williams inthe second showing of one of
the most popular of his recent
BBC -1 TV shows on July 21.
150 Radio Luxembourg fansare being taken for a six
hour trip down the River
Thames, on August 1, to
publicise a new Walt Disneyfilm called " The Boatniks."
Among the boat crew will be
American actress, StephaniePowers, and Radio Lux deejay
Tony Prince.
David Jacobs, who madethe transition from chairmanof Juke Box Jury to question
master in Any Questions, will
be seen in the comedy title
role as an actor in the Brian
Rix farce, Clutterbuck, next
Wednesday (22), on BBC -1
TV.

Tony Macarthur left Radio
Luxembourg
on
4,
July
after nearly two years as programme manager Geoffrey
Everitt, 208 general manager,
said last week that certain
internal reorganisation was
taking place at the station.
The Pama Records Soul
Festival is back in Lancashire
this weekend. Appearing at
the Casino Club, Bolton, andthe Casino Club, Wigan,
tomorrow (Friday 17) will be
the Mohawks, the Marvels,
Derek Morgan, and Winston
Groovy.
Joe Brown, whose London
Weekend Television show," Joe " started last Sunday,
has his wife Vicki in theresident girl backing group,
The
Breakaways.
Guestsbooked to appear in the halfhour shows are: Long John
Baldry (July 19), Hank Marvinand Lois Lane (26), Judith
Durham (August 2), Kenny
Lynch (9), Clodagh Rodgers(16), Julie Rogers (23), Gene
Pitney (30), Dave Dee (September 6) and George Chisholm (13).
London. Weekend Television
are recording a concert at the
Queen Elizabeth Hall on July
28,
called" Southbank
Summer." The line up has
been altered since it wasannounced in the MM three
weeks ago. Artists booked toappear- on the programme
which is being screened on.
September 6 are: Peter Straker, Richard Barnes, the Mud,the Settlers, Continuum andBlue Mink.
Next free concert to bestaged at
Weston Park,
Sheffield, on Sunday, July 26
willfeatureStackwaddy,
McCloskey's
Apocalypse,
George Gill's Farm, Blue
Condition, the Payre, and Le
Trombone Nolr. Starting time
2

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01-235 2295.

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Enquiries to' Pául Griffiths and Colin Huntley'-::'01.235 7182--

Telephone: Keith RossiterJohn Lyons
Chris Morrison
Colin Johnson
John Salter
Niels Wenkens
15 Grosvenor Crescent Mews, London, S.W.1

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THIZ ZUNDAY, JULY 19

IF- TRANSYLVANIAN BLOOD BAND
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REALLYHEAR

WITH SHELTER

Next week July 26: Blonde on Blonde

Eastwoodbury Lane, Southend-on-Sea, Essex(North of Southend Arterial Road"

PRESS TIME

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1st, 2 pm -10 pm

for all advertisement copy is 1 p.m.
on the Monday preceding publication. All advertisements should be

EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND
MAY BLITZ
Formerly Fat Harry, Mike Chapman Band
Roger Spears and his Giant Kinetic Wardrobe

accompanied by a remittance covering the cost of insertion. Advertisement rates available, on application.

DEPT.

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MR. PEGGOTTY'S
St. Ives, Cornwall
SOUNDS LIGHTS-PEOPLEHall Rd., N:W.8 _ 286.8774
Wednesday, July 15thO

I

PETER KING
Wednesday, July 22nd, 8.30 p.m.

SANDY BROWN J

on CBSThe SHOWCASE of

NATI O NALBRITISH MUSIC

JAZZ POP BALLADS &-is again at beautiful

Previously at Windsor and Sunbury

GNIDROLOGIS JULY 31st

MARQUEE, MONDAY, JULY 20th
Tel.: 437 2375

RACECOURSEAn NJFMARQUEE presentation

For Bookings:
Phone 01-530 2376

BOOM -LAND

7.8.9 AUGUST

near LEWES, SUSSEXTRAVEL: By road 45 miles from London on A23 or A22(A275). Turn off at 82116. LATE TRAINS after shows.
CAMP SITE opens on Monday (3rd). Special Compere
Show on Thursday Night (6th).

FAMILY, GROUNDHOGS, STEAMHAMMER, Third
Ear Band, Quatermass,
Patio, Clark Hutchinson (Friday), FAIRPORTCONVENTION, STRAWBS,ELTON JOHN, GRANNY'S NEW INTENTIONS,
Daddy Longlegs, Chicago
Climax Blues Band, Gracious Da Da, TASTE, EDGARBROUGHTON, BLACKSABBATH, JACKSON HEIGHTS, HARDIN YORK, HARD
MEAT, EAST OF
EDEN, AUDIENCE, JIVING K. BOOTS(Saturday), INCREDIBLE STRINGBAND, MATTHEW'S SOUTHERN COMFORT, Brian
Davison's EVERY WHICH
WAY, Van der-Graaf Generator, Pink Fairies,
Wishbone Ashe, Slade, Jon
Hiseman's COLOSSEUM, DEEP PURPLE, YESI, CARAVAN,CHRIS BARBER,JUICY LUCY, STONE THE CROWS, MAGNA CARTA,TREVOR BILLMUSS(Sunday) .

KrippleHeads Hands
Vision and and Feet
RAW RHYTHM ROCK 'N' BLUES
featuring John Squires, Jerome Lucas,
Oscar de Zilva and Mark Hammet
our new drummer
Free photo souvenir programme-lBLUES FESTIVAL

BOB EFFORD
Sunday (Lunchtime), July 19thTM

ALL SUMMER
1

90 Wardour Street, London, W.I.

AT THE MARQUEEFRIDAY JULY 17 730-11.00

TICKETS:
Dave Lawrence, 1 1 7 Elmsleigh Drive, Leigh -on -Sea
N.U.S. 7/6d. Advance 10/-. On day 12/6d.

161-166 Fleet Street, London, E.C.4
GROVE' HALL'
COURT CLUBLOVE AFFAIR

Surly Bird... AND OTHER POP PERSONALITIES

Address your correspondence to:
MELODY MAKER ADVERTISEMENT

pm.

Representing Kenya, where
he was born and bred, Roger
Whittaker recorded his two
songs for BBC -TV's 50 -minuteCommonwealthGames -night
folk programme, on Calton
Hill, an Edinburgh beauty
spot. Roger is now on a 40 town tour of France that willkeep him across the channel
for two months.
He starts recording a newseries of 13 one -hour programmes of his own for Radio
2 when he returns to London
in September.

.

PLAYGROUND

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and

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part exchanges accepted.
Contact:
Desmond snare,
ALL GOOD quality sound equip- cluded.
Bargain£195.
Bone, Tel.. 01-748 J321, or
01-2184813.
01-748ment purchased for cash will 1402.
ALL DRUMS and accessories
call.
Orange, 01-836 7811.
purchased.
FINESTBest
prices paid.
DISC
CUTTING,AMPLIFIER£6,000 Phone
REPAIRS, cheap, lathe,anytime.
from
Dennis Chap- 8976 after 6.30.
25s.
Fender, Gibson specialists.
SAE list.
748 Multi -track Studio,
7409.
f3 per hour. pell, 01-228 4813/01-223 2050.
NEW SAXOPHONES, clarinets,
Deroy,
ALL
AMPS, CABINETS, columns, for
Highbank Studios,
GOOD quality drums / trumpets, half price.
Tel 01-459
Carnforth, Lancashire. Carnforth accessories purchased forsale cheap.
2543.
cash.
Mike 422 5191.
2273.
Will call.
AS
NEW,
SG COPY, beautiful, quick sale,
Orange, 01-836 7811.
Wem
Dominator
guitar or bass amplifier. BRC
J. & B. RECORDING Group£55.
A LUDWIG, Gretsch or premierDick, 01-567 0383, evenstereo amplifier, fully integrated, recording,Hammondorgan, kit wanted for cash.
Top Gear, ings.
6 watts each channel.
multitracking,
SITAR
£50.
48 Railhigh level discs.
Tablas £20. Prelimi01-240 2347.
way Approach, East Grinstead,01 -648 9952
nary three lessons free with
01.542 2066.
A
PREMIER
KIT, cymbals, instrument.
Sussex.
Only enrolment fee
NEW INEXPENSIVE RECORD- stands, fibre cases. Part exchange
BASS PLAYERS, 18in., speaker ING! Semi
£1charged.
(Tophome studio using accepted. Bargain £75.
01-228 floor), 8 Great Saraswati
cabinet, 30 watt amp. Perfect. Ferrograph-pro
Russell Street,
recorder and Binson 4813.
£50.
672 0209.
London, WC1. 637 1998 (from 4
echo will shortly be availablefor
ASK FOR Dennis
LESLIE CABINET, 30 watts, 2 recording vocalists
for pm to 8 pm) or by appointment.
and small secondhand bargains.Chappellmonths old, £240 new, accept groups. First
Good selecTOP SUZUKI concert guitar.
classbacking
trio
tion
of
£190.
kits
from
HP
£20.
welcome.
Also £35.
01-368 6426.
Phone available if required. RequireAshford Kent 21055.
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WURLITZER
ments to and details from Box cymbals,
planos,pedals, case's, etc. Part exchanges out of stock, ELECTRIC
MARSHALL/FENDER and all 9318.
try later in theaccepted.
good amps wanted.
01-2284813/01-223
Secondhand
Day 385
organs,ONLY £3 10 0 per hour.
2050.
4630. evening 736 4586.
10
amplifiers, guitars, Hammond,
MARSHALL 4X12 bass cabinet, channel mixer, EMI recorders,
AUTOCRAT KIT, part exchange M102, £550. HP. Part exchnage.
songwriters and newcomers wel- accepted..
brand new condition, £75.
Leyton 01-539 1551.
Bargain.
Bill£60
01-228
comed.
Tape
to disc.
935 9636.
Music 4813.
MARSHALL 100 watt super P.A., publishing facilities available.
DRUM
KITS.
Stuartclearance
prices,Johnson Productions, 01£60 o.n.o.
Hertford 2127.
also cymbals, all makes, accesINSTRUMENT REPAIRSPAIR of giant EMI speakers. 573 8744 (West London).
PROGRESSIVE SOUND for pro- sories, cases, etc, always in stock
Cost £250 each. Sell £100 pa
1/6 per word
terms
fessional-exchanges.
Vic
demo
O'Brien,discs.
Suit record studio.
Ring for 68 New Oxford
Leyton 01- details 539 5263.
Street. W.C.1. 01'
A BEAUTIFUL JOB. Overhauls,
539 1551.
580 8316.
STUDIO
SOUND
Rclacqueting, 5.7 days by apSELMER STEREOMASTER, 100
Full studio facilities,(HITCHIN),
watt,
PREMIER, LUDWIG or similar pointment.
f70
up to 6
ono.
Saxophones / wood904
5273 tracks.
Tape
to
disc,
drum
f5
kit
Wembley.
per hour.
wanted for cash. Phone winds / brass.
KEN TOOTELL,
Tel 0462 3925.
LESLIEUNUSED SHURE mikes, must
2661 Day, or 907 0653
EVANS,
Riverside
275
ColneyVENUS RECORDING. Full faci- evening.
sell, band breaking.
Hatch Lane, London, Nil, EnterTel 01-985 lities.
Top quality recordings.
prise
6971.
4137.
SLINGERLAND silver kit, zylSensible
VOX AC30, £34.
ALL AMPLIFIERS and organs,
85 Whitechapel djians,
Tunbridge Road, El.rates.
cases, £150 offers. Also electric
247 5929, 639 6062.
Wells 30503.
planes, repaired while
AmericanRogersTom,bass.
VOX 75 -WATT Conqueror withyou wait.
Leyton, 01-989 3731.
499 2881.
built-in fuzz, tremelo, reverb,
ALL GUITAR Repairs, refretTYMPANI, AVEDIS cymbals.
with separate 2 x 12ín speakerSing
new necks,
fingerboards,
Watford 26060.
EDEN STUDIOS
cabinet, chrome stands. Beautiful
repolishing.
Grimshaw Guitars,
ZYLDJIAN BARGAINS.
condition, £90. No offers please.
01-228 37 Great Poulteney Street, WI.
Recording Studios and4813.
Box 9431.
REGent 3751.
Fast Tope to Disc Service
2 SOUND City PA columns, £85
pair. 1 Sound City 4 x 12 cabinet,
11 Eden Street£45. 1 Marshall 50 watt amplifier,Kingston -on -Thames, Surrey£45.
Phone 01-229-8228.
01-546 5577
200 -WATT stack(plus fuzz),
SS'JCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL
complete. Genuine. Hardly used,
RECORDINGSTUDIOS£165 ono.
Basingstoke 3892.

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Box 9426.
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BURNS Sonic Bass, immaculate BURNS Bison floss

INSTRUMENTS FOR SALE
1/2 per word
(Trade 1/6)

ALL GOOD quality equipment
dition, £45.
purchased for cash. Will call.
Orange, 01-836 7811.
CASH PAID for P.A. units and

1/2 per word
(Trade 1/6)

IT'S APHILIPSMICROPHONE.,nylon grille. 32" n 33" s 18" overall.

65 gns.
Professional Light Show Oil Slide Pro-'
jector
100 gns.
Professional Light Show Oil Slide Projector with Polaroid attachment.
125 gns¿

A FENDER, Gibson guitar, leadbass, urgently required for cash,
Top Gear, 01-240 2118.
ALL GOOD Group equipment
bought for cash.
748 2661.

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£14.10.0
Frequency -controlled£45.
Three -channel Frequency-controlled
Rhythmlite with Dimmers£60
Three -channel
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INSTRUMENTS WANTED
1/2 per word
(Trade 1/6)

C.R.I. Record Club
18 Crawford Street, W.1

covered with heavy gauge
grained PVC and fined with special acoustic£1£;

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HOFNER Violin boss
MATON 12 -string Jumbo
LEVIN Goliath Jumbo

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Impedances: 8 or 15 ohms. All units arebrand new and power rated at Relish£1

EPIPHONE Rival bass soiled only.. £1
GUILD T100, soiled onl/.
£:

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MARGATE
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RECORDS

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Complete range in stock
FENDER Stratocaster, immaculate

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Goodmons 10.P lO" 15w£7. 0.0
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Goodmons 12-P 12" 50w£12.10.0
Goodmons 15-P 15" 50 w
£18.10.0
Celesnon GI8-C 18" 100w
£28. 0.0
Goodmons 91/100 I B" 100w
£30. 0.0
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Selmer 30 Boss, with Cob£30
Selmer T&B50, 2x12" Cab., Cs
new£75
Selmer TV8 Cols. Pr.
E35
18" Speaker in Cabinet£15
Burns 60 Orbit 3x10" Speakers £55.AUDIOTRONICSOUND SUPPLIESTROMBONES

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now with YAMAHA
tronic organs -LAVIA, etc? Then try TANDY'S
famous mail order export service
and get all your records quickly
and cheaply.
Details and freelists of new releases fromTANDY'S (M) 20 Wolverhampton
Road, Warley, Worcestershire.
DYLAN G.W.W., Stealin, John
Birch Society Blues, 10,000 Miles
Behind, Isle of Wight, Live parts
I and II. STONES, . Liver thanyou'll ever be. Stoned in HydePark. BEATLES, Get Back to
Toronto. Offers over £5 with SAE
to Box 9433.
OVERSEAS customers supplied
free of British Purchase Tax.
Orders over £10 are Post Free. All
British orders supplied Post Free.
Ron's Music Shop Ltd, Pioneer
Market, Ilford Lane, Ilford, Essex.
SOUL, R/B, cheap imported
singles. (James Brown, B. B.
King, Temptations, etc). Sae to
Killick, 21 Vale Avenue, Brighton
6.

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£50
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BESSON NEW CREATIONDULCET FLUGEL HORN

CONN, SOH, Bb/F, new,_'YAMAHA, Boss, Bb/F, new
YAMAHA, Large Bore, new...
YAMAHA, Med./Large bore, new(Trade 1/6)

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SWEDEN,NORWAY, FINLAND, DENMARK,GERMANY, HOLLAND, YUGOS-

finish£65
George Heyman, Silver, new E203
Carlsbro Strobe Lights, new£30
Rotosound Rhythm Lights, S/H £45
Rotosound Rhythm Lights, new £73
Ludwig 400 Snore Drum, new £70
Dearman Tenor Sax, perfect£65
All top quality Group Equipment
purchased for cash. H.P. debts settled
Excellent Repair Service on all makes of Amplifiers

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CONN, 105, Copper bell
SELMER PAPIS, reconditioned

RECORDS FOR SALE
1/2 per word

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THE DOC'S EASY TERMSDRUMS AND OLD GEAR BOUGHTFOR CASH

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ORGANIST AND electric pianist

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unusualacoustic band. No comparisons
but the music is far removed
from blues progressive dead ends.
Bread negligible but confidence
abounds. If interested don't hang
about.
Phone 462 6645,
BASS AND plano required forestablished traditional jazz band.
Tel 989 8049.
BASS GUITARIST for harmony
group.
LAB 3582 (evenings).

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organist andwanted.
London.

vocalist

After 7 (274 5996) or (828 1368).

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undecided
progressive
band. N.W. London.
Bob 722
BASS

7485.

WANTED
to complete
heavy 3 -piece. Top class musician
only. Must dig soul and Hendrix.
BASS-

720 3062.
& W, Rock-'n' roll, pop,
harmony trios and quartets.
C-

PRESS DATES. Every effort will be mode to include. classified advertisements received after
5 p.m. on the Friday previous to week of publication.

ORGANIST/PIANISTCLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS BROUGHT INTO THE OFFICE WILL BE ACCEPTED UP TO
AND NO LATER THAN 1.00 p.m. ON THE MONDAY PREVIOUS TO DAY OF-

Organ supplied. Must be good
reader, pop/soul/Latin, etc., resident London 6 nights, also must beable to sing. £30, plus evening
meal. Young, good image, norubbish.
Box No 9441, c/o Melody Maker,
161-166 Fleet St., London, E.C.4.

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(Music Head)GUITAR - VOCALS(Mark Bolan style)

Bistiopagate

wood Rd, Leeds 6.

Hall, Pontefracs.
The Hall, which is suitable for dancing,includes a stage with dressing rooms andthere is seating accommodation for 484
people.
Kitchen and bar toadies are also available.
Further information, including scale ofcharges and conditions of use, con be obtained from the Borough Treasurer, Muni-

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group.

GUITARIST SEEKS
Phone 959 6369.

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experienced, versatile, seeks semipro working scene.
Ken 733

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9d. per word
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A ABLE pianist.

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8904290.
DEAN ANTHONY ORGAN DUO
including vocals, top class pros,
require good lounge, club, restaurant, gigs.
01-777 8830 or 01-769

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who can represent and promote top -class British artistes
Box 9443, c/o Melody Maker, 161-166 Fleet Street,
London, E..4

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seeks position in good pro band.
Phone 01-731 0490.

GUITARIST,
highstandard.
Expert soloist. Versatile, available
lounge Friday, Saturday, Sunday
lunch
Sunday night.
Restaurant, club, etc. Musician.

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NOTICE

Semi -name pop group with good date sheet, recording
contract and rapidly increasing popularity, are open tosensible offers of management/agency. Write Box
9434, Melody Maker, 161-166 Fleet Street, London,
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Tel. 837 1818.

- management artistes (male and female) pop - jazz. Recording contract
new talent for recording
publishing.

Songwriters- groups -24 hours

FOR HIRE

DJs
solo
progressive

17/35 cwt. Vans and12/15 -seater Buses

avoiloble

NOWIll Only those who are dedicated to

All new Transits

becoming top flight professionals needapply. All correspondence answered. Send
tapes, discs, pie, Wogs, to, BOX No. 9444,
c/o Melody Maker, 161-166 Fleet Street,
London, E.C.4.

242 0496

ATTRACTIVESPECIAL NOTICES
1/6 per word

GO-GO DANCERS
WANTEDfor Spain, Germany and
Tel Aviv. Salary after qualifications. Please ring Mr.
Wenkens 01-235 2298
immediately as client fromabroad wants to audition
soonest possible.

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ACKNOWLEDGED
TINE
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FINGERSTYLE GUITAR. Largest
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cotheque work in London area.
Tel Mr James 769 3065 4.30 pm to
6 pm only.
SUPPORT GROUPS wanted for
Eel
Pie
Island,phone calls
accepted Fridays only 11 am to 6
pm. No calls accepted outsidethese times.
Tel 995 3311.
VISUAL, PROGRESSIVE grouprequiredbymanagement/
recording partnership. Own material an advantage.
Phone 889

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WANTED. All kinds of groups
for recording contracts with newrecording company.
Phone 229
1379.

1/6 per word
STONEHALL HOUSE HOTEL (20minutes West End). First-classroom and breakfast hotel. Terms
from 25/- daily. Hot and cold.
fully centrally heated all rooms.
Showers/bath Inclusive. TV/Radiolounge, AA/RAC recommended.
37 Westcombe Park Road, Blackheath, London, SE3, 01-858 1595.

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1/6 per word

" GUITAR PLAYER " is themagazinefor guitar
players.
Flown in from the States. Specimen copy 6s 6d.
From Tofts &Woolf, 64a Landsdowne Road,
London, EIS 2BD.
ATONAL MUSIC? What's it
about? See article and speciallycomposed example in' KEY--

URGENTLY WANTED

4/5 -PIECEGROUPBOARD "

for residency n ear
Southend. 8 sessions a
week. Top money. Mustbe all-round vocal harmony group with theabilitytoentertain.
Average age around 26.
Pleasecontact Peter
Sills, 01-527 4653.

July/August issue,

From Tofts & Woolf,Lansdowne Road, London,
2BD.

6s.
64a
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CAR FOR SALE

1/2 per word
ALFA

ROMEO
GiuliaG.T.
1964. Dark blue, Webasto
roof, radio, new clutch, recon.
gearbox,newshockers,
andoverhauled suspension. Company
car forces quick sale. £640 o.n.o.
-- 01-242 4507 (day) or 01-237 2432
(evenings).

Sprint,WANTEDTOP FLIGHT
BALANCE ENGINEERS
George Martin's brand new Air London Studios,conveniently located at Oxford Circus, andcarrying all recording facilities up to 16 -trackurgently need highly experienced Balance
Engineers
used to handling underground andpop group recording.

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MUSICENTRE, 56 Rathbone Place,
London. WI.P-IAB.
COMPOSER WANTED by lyricist. Immediate work. London.
Box 9435.
for
EXCELLENT
BUSINESS
sale, suitable for young progressive persons.
Phone before 10
am 570 6876.

GROUPS WANTED

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seeksinterestingwork. Played with John Handy.
87i 1566 anytime.

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split fee basis.
Phone Disco Directory, 01-868 0453.

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01-437 9149
01-437 0723

ROADIESEQUIPMENTLIGHT SHOWSDISCOS

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Box 9432.

port.

876

Have 12 & 15 -seater Transit Buses
and 17/35cwt. Transit Vans available for any period required.

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LEAD AND bass join semi pro
blues band. Have Marshall, trans-

FOR HIRE
KING CANWORTH LTD-

LEAD GUITARIST. Fender/Marshall gear, own transport, jazzPIANIST, SAXOPHONE
876 4542.
rock influenced, also fingerpicking and classical guitar and play
DRUMMER / COMPERE / Vocals,
ACCORDION / TRUMPET.
and CLARINET players
a meanregular, 4 nights. Start 'mined.
592 6030.
recorder. Seeks goodHe -enlistments welcome. Apply to:for all types of Groups,
original band.
88fs 0864.
Tel Derek 703
A DRUMMER with empty fort- 7247
Mr. M. S. Hennis, A.R.C.M., The
anytime.
Bands, DJs, etc.
DRUMMER, lead and bass guinight from July 20, Anyone need
Queen's
Own Hussars, B.F.P.O. 30
tarist, organist without instruLEAD
GUITARIST seeks pro
dep for summer season or show?
group.
ments for semi -pro group, within
Marshall/Fender.
Will travel anywhere.
Pete
Harlow 672 3131
reach of Peckham.
daytime.
31744.
639 6167.
01-647 6104, 01-686 3086
SAXES
DRUMMER FOR N London semineeded
to complete
LIMA, is bass guitarist, seeking
ALTO/TENOR
Clar.
CLI
4811.
pro group (Buffalo, Jefferson, jazz/blues band.
603 8078 after
pro working group. S. London,
AMPLIFIED VIOLIN / Bass.
6
CSN&Y). Willing to rehearse.
p.m.
Croydonarea.
Mac
Cream,
444 0976. 7-8 pm.
SONGWRITERS seek flute and PUT 5146.
Influenced, don't read.
GUN BAND. Weddings, parties,
642 6864.
DRUMMER WANTED for band rhythm/lead guitar
BASS/B/GTR/GIGS.
01-449531 0791.
for
NOW
electric
AVAILABLE. Buck Owens dances. etc.
working continent from August 1. acoustic group forming,
3221.
HOWARD BAKER Bands.
CaN.W.
haggard, Twitty type country leadLine up piano, sax/flute, lead, London area. Workers
baret.
BASS GUITARIST coupling lead, vocalist,
anywhere.
69 Glenwood
only.
rhythm/picking guitar- Gardens,
bass In Chicago/Santana, style. Day Colin 353 9451,
seeks London residency. Pro.
Ilford01-550 4043.
Ext.
318/eve,
ist,
powerful
vocals,broadcasting
10 Hayward Avenue, Snedshill,
Bob 428 6546.
LOU
Tel. 01-370 3300, Kris, Flat 8.
PREAGER'SPRESENTAstandard. Personality showman,
Telford, Shropshire.
BASS GUITARIST/vocalist seeks excellent
TENOR/FLUTE/singer and Guiartist, genuine talent TIONS. Bands and Cabaret. -69
DRUMMER WANTED. Pro har- tarist/Singer,
work
Glenwoodfrom
Augustnot
Gardens,
Ilford01-55010-24.
Daverubbish,jazz
experienced front 4043.
andmony group, Hornchurch-based,
comman, passport.
King, 84 Ashleyminded for progressive 673 2661.
require high natural -falsetto sing- mercially
ORGAN
BASS
TRIO
GUITAR,
good
St,
available
sextetgear,
fromBilston,Staffs,
in
read,
Tel.
44970.
Switzerland, £40 plus
ing drummer, with good image weekly.
September anywhere.
444 8406.
01-574 4967.
Permanent. Tape and tor experience, 26.
ORGANIST SEEKS work abroad,and no ties.
Box 9419.
SWINGINGBASSTRIOGUITAR
pro
with
work
girl
photo
to
Dave Lee, c/o Fam
Box 9437.
DRUMMER' WANTED. Tlffanys,
singer, requires pub/club residenwanted.
Pete
Sapsard, 38
Manchester, good money, broad- Frick, Hoffeld 37, 8057 Zurich, Kelvin Road, Highbury,
PIANIST AVAILABLE,cy.
season,
286
3680.
N.5.
casts, auditions, Tuesday July 21. Switzerland.
041-771 5057.
THE SYSTEM is available rock/
BASS
GUITAR/vets,
ex- read, busk.
3 p.m. -5 p.m. Drums supplied.
TENOR required, must read perienced.
673 7403.
pop/standards/dance.
PIANIST, Dixieland/dance.
01-539ENVIRONMENTAL DRUMMING and busk for 7 piece, flute and
0073.
BASS/VOCALS (35). 435-9437.
Burgh
Heath
56298.
needed, 100 voluntary drummers vocals asset must be reliable and
BLUES ORGANIST seeks proTOP
CLASS
DUO.
Organ,
drumPIANIST, EXPERIENCED, club/ mer/vocalist(any type) to participate in new willing to travel. Regular bread gressive pop group.
require good lounge,
Paul 743 lounge/restaurant.
997, 6311.
experience. Trafalgar Square July for the right person:
Tel Kings 4653.
club, restaurant.
505-0679 any25.
Tenmillion tons sugar Lynn 5209.
PIANIST. Experienced, trans- time, evening 864-3236.
COLOURED outstanding Tenorcelebrations (Cuba).
port,
Leopoldo
seeks
gigs,
North
London
TENOR
Sax
TRIO,
showman
SAX
Hawaiianstyle.
availableforses01-570
Mater 722 8175 or FRO 1434 leave wanted for semi -pro (doubling?) sions, shows, gigs etc,
804 3142.
5400.
group formplays area.
details.
ing. Original material.
PIANIST, JUST finished West
TRIO.
Phone 402 6709 ask
Phone 622 6831.
Brack- anything.
EX -NAME bass, drums and girl nell 23869 after
for Rupert.
End residency. Read, busk, acVERSATILE TRIO.
six.
452 3722.
vocalist seek guitarist and organCONSCIENTIOUS
PROFES- company, first class.
89 31201.
TRUMPET. Semi -pro. Reader.
ist. Must rehearse.
229 4722.
SIONAL name drummer wasting
Dress
suit.
Transport.
PIANISTORGANIST
band work.
Established away, have gear, transport, hair,
FRIENDLYDRUMMER,
keyBANDS WANTED
Cuffley 2672.
board
player,and attractive Dance Quartet. North London.
still looking for right job withchick vocalist wanted for young Box 9430.
PIANIST/ORGANIST (own Vox)
1/2 per word
right
band.
Pete
370 2253, after
progressive band. West Coast
URGENTLY REQD. Drummer of 6.
pro, experienced, seeks residencyLIVE WIRE vocal
trio ortype. No breadheads.
(no6382. groups).
Jack
Rob, 24 pro standard.
May
01-894
Chris 928 1614
quartetfor
CONGA/BONGOS/DRUMS.
nightclub, SouthampMeadowhill Crescent, Redditch, until 10.30 pm.
242 5855.
ton
9 p.m. to 1.45. 6 evenings.
Worcs.
VOCALIST (female) and DrumPIANIST PRO.
Write details and previous clubs
DEDICATED769
DRUMMER
1634/
GUITARIST/BANJOIST
wanted mer for immediate work
(Streatham/.
of employment, etc, to:abroad. Vocals, good gear, image, etc.
Proto form amateur Folk Duo.
Luton 52483.
552-8443.
prietor, 4/5, St Michael's Square,
PIANO.
01-690-0210.
Box 9425.
DOUBLE-NECK
Southampton.
GUITAR
reVOCALIST/ORGANIST
for quires work.
PIANISTGUITARIST -SINGER wanted for734 2040.
01-373 5433.
VERSATILE 4-6 piece band, forsemi -pro group forming original semi -pro, heavy group,
Epsom
PROFESSIONAL DRUMS. Latin known pro singer. Work waiting.
DRUMMER,
ABLE
and exEpsom 27205,
material.
Bracknell 23869 after area.
specialist,
doubling
top classperienced.
673 2163 John.
570-7362.
six.
WANTEDPIANIST, drummer
bongos, available all time or
DRUMMER ABLE gigs, etc.
GUITARIST, vocals, good equip- andcompere.
Weekends,
weekends. Permanency.
3
550 5218.
Stanment and versatility essential. sessions lounge work.
254 1815,
Sawyer 0202-58376.
VOCALISTS
DRUMMER ABLE, Jazz/Dance.
Working group.
01-556 6522 or E.8
PROGRESSIVE SOUL and pop
reader, transport.
01-542 6078.
1/2 per word
Harlow 25539 anytime.
YOUNG
bands, steel bands available.
VERSATILE organist
DRUMMERALL
STYLES.
ATTRACTIVE FEMALE vocalist
GUITA R IS T/VOCALIST re- required for discotheque/night Derek 286 3680.
01-677 8811.
requiresworkfrom October.
quired.
01 644 0184.
club work immediately.
DRUMMER, all styles, gigs/sesTel 937
Brackleshgnr Bay 376.
GUITARIST with gear and ideas 7387 evening; 560 5451 day.
sions/residency, London/Surrey. Soul, SPECTROMATIC
EXCELLENT
wanted for group.
COUNTRY vocalblues, reggae, band. - 995
385-0575, 6
Downland (71) 52131.
ist -guitarist. See " Engagements
3156 after 6 p.m.
pm -10 pm.
DRUMMERAVAILABLEforwanted:"-King
Bilston.
TENOR
FLUTE, clt,
young,
gigs/rehearsal band.
946 8598.
SITUATIONS VACANT
GIRL DUO seek work or group.
all fields. Read,
HOLIDAY CAMPDRUMMER AVAILABLE. -Phone experienced,
Box 9440.
busk, etc.
01-886 7315.
478-1338.
in Jersey requires
MALE VOCALIST/acoustic gui1/2 per word
TENOR / SOPRANO / congas,
tarist(Martin), seeks join/form
gigs,
recordings, home/abroad.
EUROPEANS interested in pop
Mike,
Carl " Grog " Griffith. Tel. BAY folk/country rock outfit.
music required to Introduce
top
969
5278.
1812, Room 12, after 6 p.m.
Until end of season.
English acts into clubs, radio, TV
Ex -name, 20 years, Ludwig,
MALE
VOCALIST
just
comTROMBONE.
Tenor
and
bass.
Tel: Bournemouth 24784
and festivals, etc., on commission
Young experienced. Pop, Soul, pleted 3 years residency with 8knows how to SWING at
basis.
Box 7914.
Or write Entertainment Dept.
piece showband seeks similar or
and orchestral.
Dance
97-38820.
PONTINS Ltd., Pine Grange
INTERNATIONAL DISC high volume. Looking for
650 good class lounge work. ballads,
TROMBONE/TRUMPET.
JOCKEYS, male and female rebeat, pop, semi -pro. London area.
4632.
Bath Road, Bournemouthband with Jazz/Blues basis.
quired for Continental work from
Box 9439.
TROMBONE valvo/slide seeks
Phone: Richard Thomas
August. Must have large mixed
work home or abroad.
WelwynLEAD GUITARIST for pro heavy record collection. Equipment unGarden 27203.
VOCALISTS WANTED
229 8228
trio.
necessary. Salaries from £200-350
Salisbury 5367.
VOCALIST.
Gigs,
Standards,
DRUMMER, EXPERIENCED, re - Pop Oldies,
JOHN WALKER requires ex- monthly. 6 months work guaran1/2 per wordballads.
etc.
642 9631.
perienced guitarist over 21, avail- teed for those selected. Profes- :liable.
Melvin Mooney, available 609-2477,
AMATEUR
FEMALE
vocalist
DRUMMER, EXPERIENCED.
able travel, read music, tele- sionals and comedians only need607-8721.
(alto)/guitarist required for lightphone
for audition mornings apply.
Write detail (photo and 807 2778.
YOUNG GOOD skinhead type folk.
JEN 722 3243.
DRUMMER, FREELANCE,
press cuttings)
before 12.
01-874 8767.
age drummer, seeks young good skinto: Alan
EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL
International Disc Jockey 24, ex pro Ludwig,' transport, head type group.
LEAD
Phone versatile singer for pro group,
guitarist, professional, Lawrie,
Agency,reliable.
01-556Landskronagade
9455.
41, CoLenny, W 523097.
tasteful with drive wanted for penhagenmust
compose. All equipment
DRUMMER. Gigs, London area.
2100. Denmark. Tel. (01)YOUNG SIGHTLESS drummer, supplied.
progressive group.
Tel. Paul,542 5378 S.W. London.
Telephone Hoddesdon (46) jazz, Latin, pop.
946 0742, 997 4365, Nick, after 6 23 23 29.
01-622 6859.
GIRL SINGER required mainlyp.
SEMI -PRO GROUP original, pro- 69811.
DRUMMER,
gigs.
pops,
Tel
young,
good mover, resi01-648
LEAD GUITARIST / vocals for gressive, melodic, seek manager/ 7800.
dency.
Write Allen Paul, Ritz,
T. Haselden, 12
INSURANCE
semi -pro pop group, intention of agency/dates.
DRUMMER/HEAVY pro,Manchester.
hair,
CliftonRoad,
Coulsdon,Surrey.
going pro.
01-954 4413, Northseeks original heavy band with
1/6 per word
GOOD VOCALIST.
Roy 673
London.
work.
731 0490.
A. SPECIALISTSERVICE in 0624.
DRUMMER,
PRO,
22.
LEAD OR bass guitar for
WILL immediate
INTELLIGENT
motor
VOCALIST
insurance
cover
reTRAVEL.
01467
4377.
Newquay
Hotel
with
SITUATIONS WANTED
Londonwinter season to follow. Vocals
DRUMMER requires gig in Ma- for all artists connected with the quired for London based groupwithbrilliantentertainment
potential.
Writing
profession.
Conjorcaorwith
an asset.
cabaret band/artist. tact Ron
Newquay 2864.
1/2 per word
Enquiries York 71119.
Hart, Hart, Griffith - an asset.
Experience Includes
MUSICIAN SHOWMEN required
AM 21, seeking Interesting work cabaret, records, radio, concerts,
Jones and Co. 8 St George's
MALE
VOCALIST
for international comedy show for hardTV.
Place,
anywhere,
Brighton, BNI 4GB. Tel working group.
can drive and travel. Box 9436.
band. Box No 9410.
85G 8625.
DRUMME R/VOCALIST. Ex- Brighton 681007 or 01-686 1010.
ORGANISTS and Bass Guitarists worked for BBC last year. No
VOCALIST
for
gigs
in
London,p/timejobs.
Ring Ottershaw cellent, 28, all styles, reader, gigs
wanted for Coloured group.
FREDERICKSINSURANCE must be attractive, experienced
2203 (Malcolm).
or residency.
692 8737.
505 0679 anytime.
Brokers. Cars, vans, instruments, or advanced.
Box 9424.
ROAD MANAGER seeks work.
DRUMMER YOUNG energetic, mortgages, etc.
01-866 1833, 01VOCALIST or vocal guitarist
Continental experience. Driving accomplished.
863 1345, 557 Pinner Road. North
41-272 3280.
required for 'recording
group
DRUMMER,licence,
25,
hard
all
styles,Harrow,
gigs,
Middx.
worker.
01-459FOR HIRE(pop
harmony style). Work Waitpub
residency.
5957, Higgy, anytime.
Mike, 828 1472
INSTRUMENT
INSURANCE. ing Including radio.
0272
after
6 p.m.
1/6 per word
TOP CLUB D -J available in
Swing along safely with the best 293291.
DUO.
Phone 622 6831.
London area.
rates.
Contact: Hart, Griffith 677-0856.
ELECTRONICVOCALISTHAMMOND M102 for sale or
URGENTLY
neededACCORDIONIST
Jones & Co.,
Insur- to form five piece blues and
YOUNG
MAN,
23,
hire.
London doubling on rhythm
Leyton, 01-539 1551.
guitar / ance Brokers, Associated8
based, with experience in agency vocals, seeks gigs,
heavy rock band, must have own
expert, trans- Place, Brighton 681007St.or George's
THE
BEST
MOBILE
DIS- management, production,
Croydongear and ready to rehearse.
adver- port.
01-995 2705 evenings or 1010.
COTHEQUE EQUIPMENT for hire using, public
relations,531 0995.
major
message.
orpurchase
from
NEWHAM festival org. radio seeks new and
EX-NAME LEAD guitarist seeks
AUDIO
534-4064.
challenging position in entertain- working group.
422
5191
ments industry.
Box 9442.
mornings.
EXPERIENCED
Jazz
Cellist

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Details,i.S.D., 313 Raitton Road, S.E.24.
DISC
JOCKEYS
wanted forwork in London area. Equipment
not required. Details in writing
to:
Dee Jay Enterprises 181a
BANDS
Streatham High Road, London.
1/2 per word
SW16. No phone calls accepted.
SOUL dancers required
A
ABLE
ACCOMPLISHED to DOLLY
work with top mobile disco.
BAND.
876 4542.
Disco -Directory, , 01-868
A ABLE Band, pop group. Phone
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GO-GO DANCERS and strippers.
anytime / anywhere.
01-96501-677 8811.
2826 / 2991.
GO GO Dancers for pub circuit.
ABOUT 100 top groups and969 2315/6 (day time).
dance bands immediately availGO-GO DANCERS wanted forable. Travel anywhere. Reasonin London area. Dee -Jayable prices.
Clayman Agency. work
Enterprises
Discotheques.
7-8 High Street, E.C.3. Tel BIS
Phone Mr James, ,69 3085 4 pm
5531 (10 am-6pm).
5.30
to
pm
only.
APOLLO SOUND, featuring Bob
WE HAVE complete high power
Barter and Julie Stevens.
01- mobile
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INDIAN JAZZ/PIANIST/VOCALChannel Islands, requires
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Town with good rhythm section. 8130.
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bread for right man.
807-3929.
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472-9460.
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anybody think ofsmaller bands striving
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The name musicians havealready made enough breadto buy their gear outrightand for people to sit up andtake notice whatever theydo, so they can afford to dotheir own thing.

We have spent years ofhard slog, trying to get ourmessage across, only for ourmanagement to turn aroundand inform us, after six
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PROTEST SONGS, for which
Dylan is renowned, have now
become a gimmick, Everybody
ís singing them and they aremeaningless
tome.
Dylan has said all there is
to saythere's no need torepeat it!
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POP IN THE sixties
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groups flogged thisworn theme
todeath.

,.., ,l.. [':illustrated brochure of the Beyer

Then the good Lord
managed to inspire a
few musicians to moveaway from this subject
and at last groups began composing material
based on the more realistic issues of this-world.

Protest songs came In
the form of the "new"Johnny Cash and Simonand Garfunkel. Drugs andthe associatedIdea ofpeace and happiness cameand finally religion comes
into the fore.
Gospel music had been
lying very dormant but
now it is experiencing arevival under the leadership of Norman Greenbaum's rock hit "Spirit in
the Sky." All forms of
religion are being exploitedHare Krishna,
Come to the Sabbat, etc.

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Dylan generally, have been
taking quite a knocking. OK,
he

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more.
' Self Portrait " as the title
suggests, is Bob showing us
where he's at right now, as
all his albums have done. So
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choruses, great! There are
wonderful
songs
on
the
album, "Belle Isle " is exceptional, as is " Days of '49 "and he's always been into thegospel?

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A Summer Evening with

The major examples of this
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death
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Crimson, never to be seen
live again; having heard very
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Grunt" and " Legs" Larry
Smith's "Topo De Bill," onemay also assume that the
Saga of the Dog is over andlikeable Rhino Rod is never tobe heard of again. And lastly,
the Nice split has really
shaken the foundations ofclassical rock.

name for themselves very
quickly.
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Brothers and one other band
which I think should be more
highly rated, Writing on theWall, a really exciting andentertaining
group.
ROBERT BURNS, 37 Leverstock Green Road, Adyfield,
Hemel Hempstead, Herts.

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LYNE, 14 Manor Crescent,
Manor
Road,
Guildford,

Surrey.

PEOPLE
WOULD
criticise
Dylan even, if he gave hisalbums away.
P. BRITTON,
13
Llanon Road, Llanishen
Cardiff.

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WHAT'S
HAPPENED
toTaste? Don't do what others

have done (Ten Years After,
Led Zeppelin) and give up clubconcerts. Stay as you are andcareful with the polish.
N.
P. MACKIE, 30 Douglas Road,
Harependen Herts.

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,

and

complain.
Black
Widow's "Come to the
Sabbat." was rather too
obviously just beatnoreal words only a chantwhich only magnifies thefact that there was nothing to the record whatsoever. Surely a goodrecord employs
honestwords as well as honest
music.
Let's kill pseudo -words,
kil pseudo -music. Let's
have more of the truththat this generation ofours is shouting about.
PETER
NISBET,
Balknerieff, off Charters Road,
Sunningdale, Berks.
LP WINNER.

Nice, Crimson disastersa.

STRING BANG

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THE FIRST six months of1970 are the worst the musicworld has had to go throughfor many years.

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getting old! So is Presley, so
are the Beatles, they just
can't do those things any

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FAMOUS FOR MICROPHONES' AND HEADSETSFOR 40 YEARS
To: BEYER DYNAMIC (G.B.)

TONY" RollingiQ

BEER CyNAN9IC
rm,of selling out justbecause they have a monster
hit. I saw them live at theMarquee nearly 18 months
ago and their record has thesame musical content as the
stuff they featured then andon their first and second LPs.

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sound, typical of them, withRodgers' own vocal style andKossoff's exciting guitar.
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US T1..10 HEAVIES GRIND
THE CITY TO DUST--

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cian's 'first love, but without
money there would be nomusicians. (Long live Brian
Auger).
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154 High Street, Lakenheath,
Suffolk.
ONCE AGAIN the knockers
start because Free are in, thechart. Why? It is a brilliant

Ireland.
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4.7.70)thewaveryvoices of Marc Bolan and
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