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Root Boy's t RHLJU Thi By James Rokosny ] Assistant Entertainment Editor Beware! Root Boy Slim and the bex Change Band, with the Rootettes, are coming to USC. This crazy, gross, rock 'n' roll band from the Washington, D.C. area might do strange things to your sanity. The leader of this offthe-wall band, Root Boy Slim, was raised in D C and is a graduate of Yale (believe it or not). He is listed as contributing vocals, harmonica, and special defecks. His band nl) <*. * ft k consists of: E. Sex-Ray Lancaster, guitar: Rattlesnake Rattles, bass; W. Lounge Lizard Kelly IV, Esq., keyboards; and Kung Fu "Albert" Bashor, drums; The Jones Boys Horns (Ron Holloway and Marshall Keys); and the Rootettes, Krash Kaka and Cherie Anita Fixx. Root Boy can often be seen wearing huge pairs of glasses saying 'Root' or 'Stoned' on his face. He is gross, funny and definitely unlike any other performer traveling the alleyways in America. Gary Katz (of Steeley Dan fame), producer of Root Boy's first album, has said, "When I first listened to his music, I thought it was the worst thing I had ever heard. I couldn't even get halfway through the first song, 'Boogie 'Til You Puke.' I couldn't listen to the ?u? u ? T 1i cai ui me uctdusc 1 never beyond the puking." The song HALLC y^-s \ Peanuts - Popcorn - Coti CROMER'S 1235 Assembly Street, Coii sj Very Colorful ? Something special at this beautiful rest The menu is different. Man' new ? old favorites come rasre. Flavor ond decor c Open for Lunch. Dinner 6 Coc ?-v or rhe Woodhill Moll Columbio ? 5exchange in irsday night 'Boogie 'Til You Puke' contains the lyrics : 'Put a quarter in the juke And boogie 'til you puke Pop that Locker Room Let's really zoom Shootin' and a-tootin' All nioht tnnO The party lasts 'Til your brains cells gone. Some other favorite Root Boy songs are: "You Can't Beat Death," "My Wig Fell Off," "Heartbreak of Psoriasis," "Sex with a Capital X" and "Christmas at K-Mart." A DJ at WHFS-FM named Josh Brooks, who left his job to accompany Root Boy on his first nauonai lour, once saia, Kanay Newman listened to his tape and said, This guy's a genius. Sign him up.' " In the Aug. 25, 1975 edition of "New Musical Express" a headline read, "The Most Disgusting Man In the World," fnllAiimrl Ktr f Vin fi r?of rvn??orf*?orvK iviivyyv/u kjj nit in 01 pai agi a^n reading: "Coarse, corrupt and crude. Repulsive and repugnant. Loathsome. Debased, depraved, degenerate and disgusting. Not nice at all."?Paul Dunoyer. Root Boy has also made his antinuke statement is a song called "Do the Meltdown," which is obviously influenced by the Three Mile Island accident. He also made an appearance in a production known as Mr Mikf?\?; MnnHn for Saturday Night Live, which was banned from the air. I wonder why? Contemporary Sounds can be thanked for bringing USC yet another unique musical experience. Root Boy Slim and his crew will put you in the proper spirit for Halloween this year in the Russell House Ballroom on Thursday evening. Come out and go crazy with some of the most insane people in the universe, Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change RanH Thpv havp n hio fnllnu/inn J . v. v. and are one of the most entertaining acts in America. They are Strange, but they are a great rock 'n' roll band. i )WEEN Carv^V \^"?nes ^ ton Candv - Candv Annies > P-NUTS, INC. umbia, S.C., Phone 779-2290 Very Delicious y dishes are refreshingly with on exciting new ire both femprinq. Kfoils on Sumrer Highwoy ? 763-4211 'Exp re for Ri By DavkJ Baker Gamacock FHm Critic Considering the facts the producer-director Mark Robso died during filming and that sta Robert Shaw died before con pleting the soundtrack, it' amazing that Avalanche Expres ever made it to the screen. It's taken more than a year fo the picture to do so and evidently orpnt Hpal r?f nnst-nrnHnctinn uinr was done on it, for the film is ver impressive technically. Th special effects during th avalanche scene ? which, by th way, comes fairly early in the fill ? are especially noteworthy. If th end credits did not mention th< Apogee did the miniatures, I wou) have been hard nresspd to te whether or not miniatures wer indeed used in the movie. The photography, by Jac Cardiff, is also nice, though a fe shots are a bit underexposed, only its plot had been worked 01 as thoroughly as its productic values, Avalanche Express coul have been a truly excellent motic picture. Abraham Polonsky's scrip based on the novel by Colin Forbe is riddled with cliched dialogt and doesn't manage to meld any < the film's rather disjointed pl< angles into an engrossing whole. Most of the angles concern th defection of a high-ranking Sovi< official, Marenkov (Shaw), and th subsequent attempts by Russia agents (led by Maximillian Schel to kill him before he spills th beans about Russia's top secrets l officials in Washington. Assigned to protect Marenkc are a handful of American agen (played by Lee Marvin, Line Evans, Mike Connors and J< Namath) who decide that, instez of putting the Russian on an ai plane and getting him out danger quickly, they'll put him < the Atlantic Express and let hi draw out Russian deep cov< agents across Europe. The final two-thirds of the fil: exposes the lengths to which tho: dirty Russian agents will go laSBM8amiA*jA3^^^^^^^^^^ n^m itTW '? > -- .y-?v kMHIWW ?'\ 'r ss' is sw c>bson anc order to stop the train. (For those interested, they fill it with bullet it holes, blow up portions of it, and n attempt to bury it under the r aforementioned avalanche.) l- Shaw, Conners, and particularly s Evans give performances that rise s above the banalities of the plot, but Marvin and the rest (including ]{ Lee Marvin, Linda Ev 1A et ^ ? 10 i CHRISTIAN 9CI )V 'e Friday, < M. __.... r_ II ax your v.am w Union Stal 1 JRL whiie Su| i Ag?~; I B^< ^^BBE8flfiwfk. ^WHIr iMp^ r. ' ? ansong i Shaw Schell, who is uncharacteristically wooden) do nothing to distinguish themselves from the scenery. It's unfortunate that a film so pedestrian as Avalanche Express should mark the end of the careers of both Robson and Shaw. They were talented men and both will be missed. ans and Mike Connors !ee :mcg monitor )ctober 26 pus Newstand, | ion, RHUU ffj PPhf ^sts 1 ^ BBIMBBBSVF| B iii * J kl ?f-fr HflninnK^ sp^^s^to? ;> v("^R^p-:t$^5 -t:^-:v^;i'- pMjBara