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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1976)
REVIEW The monster is not asleep The Dead are on vacation, but the monster is not asleep. Jerry Garcia's new album Re flections is probably a good ex ample of what the Dead would sound like if they were called the Jerry Garcia Review. By GLEN OZONEWOOD The entire band joins Garcia on most of the songs on Reflec tions. Add the likes of Nicky Hop kins. John Kahn, and Mickey Hart and that s a lot of talent squeezed Into the grooves of a polyvinyl disk. Reflections" is a lot slower than Garcia's first album, and a lot more Garcia than his second. Robert Hunter and Garcia wrote four of the eight songs, and Garcia adapts the remaining tunes so well to his own style that they sound like his alone. The best song on the first side is "They Love Each Other." Anyone who's heard Garcia and his new band has probably heard this tune performed. It's a loose-knit song where one keeps expecting the band to take off on a 20-minute jam; a song that performed live leaves the audience straining to remember where the hell the music started from, and how it got to where it ended. Garcia s guitar work takes over the nervous sys tem and the listener finds his or her body swaying and moving to and fro quite independently of any conscious effort. The second side starts off with a new interpretation of Hunter's "It Must Have Been the Roses. Garcia does the song a lot faster and a lot lighter than the Dead do it in concert. I think it’s better done slowly, but Garcia s version is an interesting approach worth listen ing to. Roses is followed by a Hank Ballard tune, Tore Up Over You. " This is a real rocker that s liable to pull you out of your seat and push you into motion. Garcia has a way of producing riffs that shoot through your body and make your heart beat a half a count faster The beauty of it is that he does it without a bass line volume close to 10 and some strong-arm drummer beating a bass drum as hard as he can. In general the album is a good one and worth the purchase price. If you'd like to hear it before mak ing up your mind to buy it, tune to 91.1 on the F.M. dial Monday at midnight when KWAX-II brings you an evening with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. )(c CLOSER THAN HOME... and Night Owl Specials Too 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. OMELETTE SURPRISE - 2 eggs, cheese, onion and chili. Served with toast, jelly and a glass of orange juice. BLUEBERRY HOTCAKES - 2 blueberry hotcakes with fruit syrup. Served with 2 pieces of bacon or 2 sausages, and a a glass of orange juice. EGGS-CELLENT - 2 farm fresh eggs cooked as you like them. 2 pieces of bacon or sausage, toast, jelly, and a glass of orange juice. FRENCH TOAST - 2 halves French Toast, 2 pieces of bacon or sausage, and a glass of orange juice. Just $1.45 each! I RESTAURANT OPEN 24 HOURS 12th & Oak Phone 686-8846 Arlo Guthrie Guthrie to appear here In his first Eugene appearance in five years, Arlo Guthrie will per form at the Lane County Fair grounds Auditorium (with chairs) on Friday, Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. Tick ets are $5 in advance and $5.50 at the door. By JOHN HARTMAN Guthrie, son of the renowned Depression-era folk singer Keepsake Registered Diamond Kings Fine Watches, v-v Jewelry & Gifts L/OHA Jewelers kcqiYikc Corner Valley River Center Give the perfect gift of love A brilliant perfect permanently registered Keepsake diamond Guaranteed in writing P need trom $200 Credit Terms wnter-poet Woody Guthrie, is best known for his twenty-minute clas sic, ‘ Alice s Restaurant Massac ree. the definitive rendition of City of New Orleans and his finely crafted album Hobo s Lul laby. Arlo s first album, Alice s Re staurant was made into an academy award winning movie in 1969. Since then he has released eight albums, the most recent being a double live set with folk performer Pete Seeger Arlos first concert in Eugene was at McArthur Court in De cember, 1971, and is well remem bered for a variety of reasons, among them being his fine per formance, the introduction of then unknown Ry Cooder, and the fact that concerts in Mac Court had been banned for four years due to violations of the fire code (That story alone made the front page of the Emerald) Guthrie has recently appeared on National Educational Television s Soundstage series, and briefly performed with Bob Dylan s Rolling Thunder Review His country-folk-rock sound is complimented by his dry sense of humor, and no one holds an audi ence better than he does with his between-song banter Along with his three-piece band, Shenandoah, Arlo will per form a choice selection of ballads, rags, and rockers written by him self, his father, Bob Dylan, Hoyt Axton, and Jimmy Rodgers, to name just a few Tickets are available at the EMU Mam Desk, Chrystalship, Sunshop, and Everybody's Re cords. #
