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Conne .0VBabCr&t Canned Heat, the blues band, has a new album out. Actually, it's not a new album, it's been out for over two months and if you have missed it, then you have missed a real treat. The New Age really does signify a new age for Canned Heat, a band that I always found quite inao cessible. Their cut, for example, on Woodstock i, was the only one that I consistently skip over. However, Canned Heat is still the band that recorded with John Lee Hooker, toured with him, too. So you can't say too many bad things about them. The Allman Brothers Band, for quite some time, yes, even now in my heart, were the top blues rock band anywhere, unfortunately, two of the top members of the group were killed on motorcycles, Duane Allman and Barry Oakley. How can one have a blues band, one asks, without a top lead guitar ist who makes his guitar scream like a woman in orgasm and a bass play er that lays down consistently rugged, competent, and rhythmically correct bass patterns. The Allmans have recouped and only their new album, Brothers and Sisters will tell if they are anywhere near their former stature. As you probably all know by now, the first side of Eat a Peach was much defi dent compared to the three sides with Brother Duane on it. Even more apparent was the ob vious loss when the Allman Broth ers Band. appeared on In Concert with only Dicky Betts playing lead guitar. Something was missing, the heart was cut out. Canned Heat, however, has no such problems. Their members do not show a penchant for motorcy cles nor do they seem to flaunt Death by them. The New Age is the new LP by Canned Heat and it shows a lot of things. The most obvious is the break in texture. Canned Heat does not roll one song in right after the other each one sounding the same. EVERYTHING FOR MACRAME' DECOUPA(E CANDIE MAKING All Kinds of Crafts Five Points- Handicrafts 610 Harden Street Phone 254-6122 -SALE kM I%ICE INNER CITY QLA ADRAQS S2016 GREEN STREET ,M (AT FIVE POINTS) d Heat Bli Oh no, each cut is distinguishable in and of itself. That seems ridiculously obvious, but you would be surprised how many albums do not live up to that simple criterion. The cut that stands out most in my mind is the talking blues song, "'Framed." It talks about a guy who is simply walking down the street one day and is suddenly ar rested. The song is funny although musically speaking, I would have much preferred seeing a much Easy To Open Gamecock Charge Account *199 . ( Limit ) BRITTON It.utor I782-@972 jes Easily stronger bass line and the drun brought up fuller. The last criticism to the son "Framed", is one that I would hay for the entire album. It is not roo ed to the ground solidly enough There is not enough rhythm sec tion in it to make it stand out as really blues album. Blues are rooted in this sort c soil and when the music is not give this sort of treatment, then it seen to wilt, no matter how good seems to be. "DAI 5Igi BUYSONE * 40Aros fero USCROUDHUSE Distinguisi s Blues is Music of the Earth, mus ic that grew up around the Black g man as he sweated over the sout e hern fields. It is music that is close to the ground and if it doesn't stay close to the ground, then It loses its potency, its drive. f Canned Heat has been around n for a long time. And I think that l they should know better. I would t have thought they had studied their blues better and that they FREI QUEENM" IDAE4 3ET ONE FREE GOOD ist 2-16w iable should have known all this. Sweating, sexy, slaving, hope in spite of despair'music, that is what blues is, talking about troubles, get ting them out into the open music, telling people your problems, so that they won't seem so rough. Canned Heat has let the hard core blues listeners down with this one, but it is not really a bad al bum, in fact, I kind of dig it. Free Lessons On Riding Motorcycles Yamaha Motorcycles will be of fering a free learn-to-ride safety program August 11-12 at Midlands TEC with the cooperation of the S. C. Safety-Council, Columbia Police Department, and the S. C. Highway Patrol. All equipment will be provided free. Persons attending will be giv en a brief orientation session on motorcycling and then taken to an area for continued riding. There they will be allowed to sit on the motorcycle and given in structions concerning the controls and safety features. Under super vision, each person will be allowed to ride a motocycle through a spec ially designed familiarization course. Certification material will be given following the Yamaha Learn To Ride Safety Program. Entire families are urged to at tend and separate courses will be available for children and parents. The program is open to every one and will last from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day. Only one day's attendance is required. El 0 I . Across from USC ROUNnnaOUAR