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Help Your BY BOB CRAFT Wipard's Brew Wood's Wizzard Unite Artists UA-LA042-F Roy Wood is one of those people in the rock music world who does a little I everything and does it quite well. H was the guiding light of The Move and the Electric Light Orchestra. He tired of both of those and moved on to form something called Roy Wood's Wizzard, an experimental group de voted to rock and roll while finding ways to expand the form. This expansion of form is quite evi dent in the Electric Light Orchestra which experimented with the idea of Classical/Rock fusions.. So we have now Wizzard, a band which does more -than simply fuse classical and rock. It fuses jazz; En glish music hall, hymnp, as well as class ical. Sound like an unusual mixture? It is. I like the second side of the album much better than the first. The sec ond side opens with Buffalo Station/ Going Down to Memphis. To tell you the truth, the lyrics on this album are harder to understand than the ones on Exile on Main Street, which I thought was the all time winner in that cate Volunteers Needed VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR READING TUTORING FOR BLIND STUDENTS-Ist SESSION. CONTACT JOHN ELKINS 2780, Office of Volunteer Services. BLOOD DONORS Now paying donors $10 CASH or You may give for yourself or others Opn Monday= thru Saturdays. JOH L t BLOOD ASNK, INC. "A riown-0rfit oroainzatIon" 17cs main St.,. clumia, S.C. I d PH. 254+1654 Acceptable ages 184S. N CCRT IWAR SPECIAL GUEST WET WILLIE Sunday June 24th 8 p.m. Tickets: $6 *$5 *$4 On Sale. ColiseumJ Easy To Open Gamecock *Charge Account, * 100' (Limit) EBRITTONS elf To The V gory. It doesn't matter though. The lyrics that I have been able to decipher are, with a few exceptions, silly and inconsequential. The music's the thing. 7he music Is a drunk redneck mak ing a pass at your -date. Its coarse, loud and belching. Buffalo Station/ Memphis tries to convey the message of a tour through the South. The next cut is a fifties' genre rock 'dr called Got A Crush About You. I "Roy Wood's tic is like a drunk redneck maing a pass at your date. is coarse, loud and belching.' don't know whether Wood means by crush, a giggling blushing form of ador ation aimed at a member ot the op posite sex or crush as In Alex and his droogs kicking the crap out of a dev otchka then raping her. The music that goes with the lyrics belies the fact that the singer has a crush on anyone. He comes across more like the leering Lee Jackson of the Nice grunting out "One Of Those People." And no one really believed all those cute Beatles wanted was to hold hands. Tbe last cut is Wear a Fast Gun, my favorite. Wood here has used brass re miniscent of Telemann's Overture in D a unique MarilynHorn gJaesMcCrack .ntteMetopoiapea Aodukcki ~Leonard Bernst THE PLANETS SMETANA Muc VSmi ~ Duc Squ0 Vizzard's Bres Mao for Trinipet, boe and strings and Continuo. Here is another of Wood's clasieil/rock fitsions and if he had .otgotten to p*t in the lead yocal it wquld haebe even better.tThe pleeb ends In i wAsh of strings and flutes and a slightly reeling version of Abide With Me. 'Ie first side is much harder to lis ten to, the main offender being Meet Me at the Jaihouse-which indulges in the sort of nonsense that killed jazz and now threAtens 466k. T.e first se eu& Olwth the marve los little giftile oilr.Cbp of Tea which sounds e wasnatched from a Londeh Music hail stae. Al in all, this album is a tribute to the. coftmanship of Roy Wood and his wealth of ideas on the Rock genre. 'Uhke this one home before you buy Led Zeppelin's newest. It rocks, belches and crawls on its belly like a reptile. Beware the Shadow el Yourself. SUnftd Artists UA-LA079-F I'm getting tired of groups putting out albums when they don't have an album's worth of material. I don't mean weak cuts, I'm talking about stuff that shouldit have even been through a microphone. ecording of e by the Metropolitan 1 Listed at $26.94, Now on sale for $1 'One only need spend an afterno other 'Carmen' recordings to conclud effectively captures and projects a si a real blood and guts performance love, and singers, conductor and gether to make your living. room a these characters move.' SI RichardStrauss:AlsosprachZarathustra @*stu SPRGRYon rbestra WiNISM Stewbf ~ Gran omm.AnerBoff4 rec 1 are Mall LLE[ Take Help Yourself's new album for example. It has two of these cuts on it. One is Moly Baked Bean and It sounds like the result of eating too many of them and Calapso which Is not as good as the Trinidad Steel Band or even Follow Your Daughter Home. I take time to do this because the rest of the stuff is so good that you want to punch the band for letting this garbage get through. The band Iss't so much of the Springfield copy that was Indicated with the first album. While there are still sounds of the Springfield in this album, they have been muted some what. And I think that it is good. 'Trying to replace the Springfield is a little like being cast as Superman and we all know what happened to George Reeves. The album rocks more than did the first album. The music is still mellow but it is not lethargic as it was In some places of the first album. This album tends to be boring in spots, i.e. the jam In the middle of Reaffirmation, but if you liked the first album you won't go wrong. How ever, If you can't stand CSN&Y, Amer Ica or any of that bunch, better stay away from this one, they still have a lot of Springfield to get out of their system. carmen Opera 1.97 ! on with this and a group of le that no other version so )nse of the theater. This is c)f a- tragedy of passionate engineers are working to convincing stage on which iowcase/Chicago Sun-Times BERNSTEIN WEST SIDE STORY" DANCES WILLIAM RUSSO 3 PIECES FOR BLUES BAND AND'ORCHESTRA . SEIJI OZAWA SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY DG 1ii other Deutsche 'mophone classical >rdings are on sale :his week too. record bar I remords & tapes