The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, June 21, 1973, Page page ten, Image 11
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
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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
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THE PLANETS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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