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^mmMM 1 I I ' ?W3???OBWM?OWE?M?^ ft . ffifi pf * i^aJUB By TOM "ED" CLYDE Gamecock Staff Writer Darryi Rhoades and the HaHavishnu Orchestra will be in town tonight. When they hit the stage at 8 p.m. in the Russell House Ballroom, nr^narpH fnr anything. Rhoades satirizes music of all types. Nothing is sacred-not even Helen Reddy. "I am'woman, hear me bitch...buy my songs and make me rich," say the lyrics to one song. Rhoades' songs include "Surfin' Shark" ("Well when I woke up I was all alone. I went to scratch my legs and they were gone"), "Leprosy Queen," a song about a girl who literally "falls apart at the seams," "This Song is Boring," "Neuter is Neither," and "Think 'V/? Tt_J ?? v?? I A mm UI mt v Tf IICII X UU I C UllUCr Jtlim. > RHOADES AND HIS 12-MEMBEIl BAND will make you laugh, possibly offend you once or twice, and make you think a little bit about life. Background vocals \ Lofaren f By WAYNE DOLESKI So close to disc Gamecock Staff Writer Came To Dance' middle-class Am The new Nils Lofgren album, to increase Lofgi "Night After Night," is a double- The album sold i record live set that was probably talent of Lofgren released due to the response to last mess. \rno?^'o ni.iL ' ? ' o ouliiui i/.ea Jive bootleg So here we cat album, "Back It Up." Those lucky attempts to ac enough to own or hear "Back It mercial success Up" know what a high quality lowering himsel recording it is. average Americ Many people were surprised After Night" is \ A&M decided not to release "Back album throwing It Up," but instead wanted Lofgren mercial mess ar to do another studio album. That sides of straight album, "I Came To Dance," was a rock 'n roll. It sh turkey so now we get a live album, isn't. "Night After Night" is far from 9ne maior rea masterful, but "Frampton Comes Night" falls shor Alive" was nothing special and have been is be look where cute little Peter is. many wanderii Nils was one of America's which are not al\ original punks when it was not impressive. Gra fashionable to be so. He played in one of America's Grin for four years and they guitarists but hi! recorded the "One plus One" shown in a tight< album, but Grin never achieved the excess. tho pnmmnr/iiol ? ' -r? ? ? v,?t4i auctcss lxngren m me penorm thought they deserved. to get bored with | Lofgren then did some fine but on the album session work with Neil Young and scorching. ' Grin disbanded around 1973. SEVERAL SO! i I.OFGREN WENT SOLO and his threaten to take I first album, "Nils Lofgren" was a back for varic Klinprh offArf Di/? * u: ?. ~ -? - ' ?,? ? v..u. v. ui^ were aiouin s sirongc i expected from Ix>fgren but the Back," is very n follow-up album, "Cry Tough," is hindered bj was merely average though it did background voci achieve small commercial sue- vocals are infra cess. The live bootleg followed and as a whole is sti then the disastrous "I Came To The album's l Dance," which was nearly a total You To The Mo' cop-out by Lofgren in his effort to old Grin tune, le achieve commercial success. hopefully be a pppp^ - pH^^B ^ f< % As i I - j| m According to Rolling Stone, "one of the hotte bands in the South these days is a 12 piece, two danc< aggregation called the HaHavishnu Orchestra th. backs a satirist named Darryl Rhoades." One famed critic from the North, going by the nan of "Mr. Ed," has been quoted as saying, "I've nev? seen them, but I'm sure I'll go if they come to USt After all, if yuu can't laugh at yourself, you probab aren't too funny." THE CRITICS and everybody who has somethir to say about them agree it is worth the effort to s< Darryl Rhoades and the HaHavishnu Orchestra. Otherwise, Rhoades might write a song about yo The opening act tonight will be Tall Dogs, progressive rock sextet with pmnhacic _ ? _ .. .vaii|/llUU10 V/1 II provisation and heavy jazz flavorings. They ha also received rave reviews, such as "...mc promising new group to come along in five years.. Contemporary Sounds Committee is sponsoring tl concert. Admission is $1.00. weak nile WIB IUH :o it was scary, "I Up," but the song is not as effecti " attempted to hit as it should be due to Lofgre erica in an effort talking rather than singing of I 'en's album sales, lyrics. fairlv Wpll hut thn InchMimnnUII.. 1 " inoviuinciiiaiiy, nuwever, i was hidden in the song is one of the album's strong tracks featuring some high ener ch Lofgren in his + :hieve the com- igjjfr ? while not totally refo .A* * f to the pits of T5T > 'an rock. "Night r, kitfliH /ery much a rock * ' { out the com- Va id producing four :$9 forward no frills ould be great, but son "Night After 't of what it r?nnM Bi cause it contains ig guitar solos B vays necessary or nted, I^ofgren is j i premier electric > talents are best ;r context without K;: ance it is difficult Ixjfgren's guitar, ^K' it if. nnt c" gasSSs^teS._'-:*$ - " NJGS on the album 1 off, but are held k i >us causes. The 1 ist track, "Goin ' early brilliant but "The Omen," the motion p , mucuus rise ol the anti-christ, will Us. Luckily these Friday and Saturday nights ? ^uent so the song Russell House Theatre. 11 very fine. r.ratfnpu c>*vr?i? * ? n ? v?a v^wi J M V/V A (III U liCC I\fIU ead track, "Take of raising a demon poss< vies Tonight," an suspenseful and terror-filled c ads into what will setting in Home, moves to Loi single, "Back It fj| Novel re1 I much pul Ij "Shall We Tell the President?" j Jeffrey Archer !| Viking Press, $8.95 j . By BARBARA MATHEWS I Gamecock Staff Writer f ; Jackie Kennedy Onassii I resigned her position as consulting editor at Viking Press over it. I New York Times critic Johr (Leonard labeled it "trash." Whj all the fuss about an innocuous j little political thriller? j "Shall We Tell the President?' chronicles seven riavs in th*? lifo u< an FBI agent who has learned of ? L plot to assassinate the President ol the United States-Edward M 1 Kennedy. The year is 1983, Jimmy Carter |j has been sent back to his peanut E farm by an unhappy electorate anc President Ted Kennedy is pushing st a rather recalcitrant Congress for er gun control legislation. at | INVOLVED IN THE PLOT tc re kill EMK arp a cmntAr ? M wvilWbVl ) OCVC1 ai sr petty thugs and a mysterious !. "chairman" with a vested interest ly in maintaining the status quo ol small arms availability. So why all the publicity? Arig cher's book, though intriguing and ie written with a political astuteness rather surprising for a British u! novelist, is nothing more than a a dime-a-dozen thriller. TTie action n- is fast-paced but predictable; the ve characters are more caricatures ?st than flesh-and-blood personalities. "Shall We Tell the President?" is uueresiing lor its speciUativeness I but serves best as merely a pleasant way to spend a few hours. est albu ive guitar work by Lofgren in a more n's controlled format. the Another nrnhlpm r- ?(imi uiu uiuuill is that almost without exception he the songs on the album are inferior *er * versions of the original studio gy work. I is obviously easier to get a *? B /"JB ticture depicting the the Alps and th be shown tonight, England where it 7 and 9:30 p.m. in "The Omen," filled with actus lick assume the task events in the li issed child. The ambition to des lrama take its initial close contact wii idon, then travels to musical sfnro * ceives II* . SliciTy I SS?&BHn9B^B8EB59S83?^Breil JACKIE O'S RESIGNATION over the novel is nothing short of ? absurd. Ted Kennedy is painted in I a benevolent light, and figures in '? the plot only slightly. Mention of JFK's assassination is offhand-the inclusion of a Kennedy in the novel is made onlv to exDlain th?? president's intense desire for gun 1 control. "Shall We Tell the President? " will probably sell very well, thanks to all the publicity, adverse and ,, otherwise, surrounding its publication. "Shall We Tell the President?" is a second-class suspense novel: light, fun and interesting but unlikely to join the ranks of our best literary works. m cleaner more professional sound in the studio but in Lofgren's case that should not be very meaningful as he relies more on an energy and toughness to create his THIS ENERGY simply does not See LOFGREN, page 19 \ T' - e Middle East and finally back to thp Hrnmntin s?I;?v>r>?, _i ? viiiiictA iukcs piace. a 20th Century Fox production is il Biblical accounts and traces the ife of the demonic child and his troy all individuals who come in th him. Jerry Goldsmith's chilling 9 von a 1976 Oscar. . ^