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Stevie Kicks
Bewitching us again
Hi R Anxiety
Special stereo section
Timothy Hutton
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The Dead require no defense. Anyone
who's been there knows there's noth
ing like a Graiefui Dead concert And
to date. Dead Set is the next best thing to
being there
Congratulations on your mention of
Community Jobs magazine in the
November issue (Off-Beat Maga
zines). As a long-time fan of this one-of-a
kind resource, it's great to see it start get
ting some of the attention it deserves, there
aren t many places these days where you
can find people offering solutions to this
country's problems, instead of merely list
ing them
I only hope you don t start going the way
of some other publications — giving public
ity to a good cause without letting people
know how to get in touch. How about print
ing their address? Any help this magazine
gets is a help for all of us.
Forgive our oversight In answer to many
requests, the address for Community Jobs is
1520 Sixteenth Street ATT, W ashington DC
20036
f-p he plural of opus is OPERA
For your information, the plural of
opus ("The Future of the Spent Forces.
p.6) is opera. The article on The Pris
oner [Nov. issue] was terrific — now how
about one on doctor Who?
Rosalie McFall
Isla Vtsta. CA
Robert Wbtm
Torrance. CA
Bill OBnen
Unaersm of Wisconsin Miluaukee
(P.S.: Who5 Yes—Who!)
Arne Collins
.Vo Address
I am extremeh offended by the Jensen
Audio ad that you ran in the December
issue (on page 8). .As a male, 1 cannot
sa^ that 1 know whai it is like to be treated
as a sex object," but 1 do feel that such ads
not only demean women, but also men, too,
because they portray us as lustful, sex
obsessed. and selfish
I really like your magazine, and I feel that
bands such as the Go-Go's, X and the Pre
tenders show that women have a lot to con
tribute to rock. It would be a shame for as
piring women artists to be discouraged by
the attitude that is expressed in the Jensen
ad.
Christopher Herlihy
Camhndge MA
Seu Contributors
L. R. (Lori) Higa (hi Prtru) was bom in
Hawaii (her stationery has a picture of
young L. R with the caption Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Wahine") and now
lives and writes in Los Angeles
Wnw L Rosch (Stereo Section) is a law
student, a frequent contributor to the
Cleveland Platn Itealer and — mat Zeus
have mercy on his pocketbook—owner of
two Morgan Plus Fours. Morgans are
British and unchanged in design since
1954 Rosch is Ohioan and changes design
frequently
Donna Ross (On Oiscj has red hair, writes
songs, and is currently working part time
in our mail room. It’s a living, right?
R. Sue Smith (In Print) lives in Bowling
Green, Ohio, where she teaches some
thing called Popular Literature Mysteries,
among others
So "nobody can quite account for Fri
days finding its audience among
' young teens and even children, and
it's the musical acts that may be responsible
for tffc hoots and whcxips ai the slightest
mention of drugs and sex 5 A more likely
explanation for both phenomena is that
Fndcns juvenile humor appeals to luvemle
viewers .An elderly 26, I find the show con
sistently unfunny and a poor third to satur
day Sight Live and Second Cit\ among the
late-night comedy shows
.As for Mark Blankfield's soon-to-be first
movie. 1 don t blame producer John Moffra
for forgetting Incredible Sbrtnktng tf oman
Chuck Pearson
Eugene. Or
I would like to express some of my
thoughts on the articles in your Nov 81
issue about the Rolling Stones, particu
lark the review of Tattoo You On page 6
you repeatedly mention Jagger s spent
force statement and critics blast every
album as not saying anything 1 say the press
is rehashing, the Stones said years ago that
it was only Rixic and Roll in their opinion.
At its simplest, it’s a danceahle backbeat, re
petitious chord work, and an R&R attitude
Tattoo more than fits this criterion And
comparing the old guard to the new wave is
as fruitless as comparing pre 66 rock to
post '67. VThat did the new wave do' They
returned to the roots of rtxk, a simplistic
driving rebellious sound Others like the
Specials. Selector, the Beat returned to the
root of reggae ska' And how about the
heavy metal renaissance' And rxiw Lvdon,
the Clash, Heads and others have expand
ed into a poly-rhythmic, spaces, jungle
(OMIGod! Psychedelic1') sound You know
that sounds like whai the Beatles, the Stones
and others did in the Sixties Like a recy
cling, so it seems Mick is in tune to the real
deal, telling it like it is Open your minds'
The SV63 stars made competent rock while
the 64-'S upstarts broke new ground Now
the throne is again being passed on Tattoo
You is Rtxk and Roll, pure and simple
I kmald A S/ttUer
Lexmiprjn K)
QUT "pHE QTHER
Can They' Handle It?
tjridays hopes to come to the big screen
.£ producer John Muffin says that, should
the first draft script be approved by ABC
Motion Pictures, they should go into pro
duction tn spring or, at the latest, summer
The film may not be titled Fridays, but the
word Fridays will appear somewhere
Moffin said He added that it will be a
caper adventure, hopefully, in die nature of
Raiders of the Lost Ark The show's regular
performers will ' play themselves and some
of their characters." although the film will
have a complete story, not a collection of
sketches.
Hou Many Pirates Does It Take
to Scuttle a Good Thing?
rHE pirate movie starring Kristy McNichol
and Christopher Atkins (who’s put on a
couple of years since Blue Lay,<xjnaccord
ing to our favorite flack) is now filming in
Australia. Sure enough, it's The Pxrates of
Penzance sort of. It’s a contemporary
youth picture with lots of music — some of
it from the Gilbert & Sullivan plav The new
songs are by Terry Britten, who has worked
with Cliff Richard (writing Devil Woman
for him, among others) Meanwhile, The Pi
rates of Penzance, the one starring Linda
Ronstadt and Kevin Kline, is now rolling in
London and is cleaving unto the original
G&S version And there is yet a third ver
sion scheduled for BBC-TV, written by
Monty Python’s Eric Idle Avast1 Belav this!
Joy of Lampooning
•RATIONAL LAMPOONS FILM FEATURES have
1 V had nothing but problems lately, first
Satvjnal Lamfxxjn Goes to the Movies was
deemed unreleasable and dreadful, now
National Lamfxxjn’s Joy of Sex has been de
laved because the director, Bill Norton Jr
(Cisco Pike. Mrjre American Graffiti) was
fired — "creative differences,” naturally Di
rector Joe Dante is the presumed replace
ment. Meanwhile, though, over at ABC Mo
tion Pictures, Satumal lamfxxm .v Class Re
urttfiri was announced with a suitably tacky
trade ad Sample characters Delores Salk
Formerly gripped by polio, news possessed
b\ the devil Anne Marie Spaniel Savaged
by wolves and now a howler herself at each
full moon Egon Von Stoker Responsible
for Bordens most successful blood drive
now president of the local Red Cross Give
us a break
Sue Me, Sue You
IT * as announced in a few trade papers
recently that Raul McCartney and Yoko
Ono would probably be jointly filing a
lawsuit agaiast ATV Music Co (owners of
Northern Songs, which holds the early Beat
les copyrights) for breach of trust over
royalty payments No word on how much
money is invoked, or even if tfie suit has
really been filed No one connected (ie . at
torneys) would even confirm the basics.
Waxing
X whose two IT'S on the independent
jSlash Label had finally drawn respect
from as far away as New York for the LA
punk scene, signed with Elektra — home of
simpering singer/songwriters and Urban
Cowboys hxene. Billy Zoom and company
are inked for a reported five albums, one of
which ought to come out in April
Suggested titles for that release include
Hunmnn rjri Malice Songs /or ftenpunk
and IxUe for the Riot
Butch Hancock. w'ho writes some of Joe
Ely's best songs ("West Texas VC alt/.,
Standin at a Big Hotel”), has two new al
bums being simultaneously released on
Kainlight Records — V)H1 A Spare Odysse)'
and firewater (Seeks Its Oiwri ljet elJ
Still elated over shajuno a bill with the
Rolling Stones (Keith Richards requested
their presence), the Fabulous Thunderbirds
— jovial masters of die blues idiom — are at
work on a new LR Production is by Craig
Leon, known for his past work with die
Ramones and Blondie