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Enterta Rrn\un By John K. Moey Staff Writer Three years have passed" since we've heard anything from Jackson Browne. The prolific, WIAA/li w nri/1 n ^ f r\/-l n i rt Vt r% n mwujr diiu ucvutaicu auigci nets contributed a great deal to popular music. Yet he has never done anything for gratuitous popularity. His music is superbly crafted and filled with mellifluous lyrics that hold an amazingly perceptive vision focused on modern America. Too often popular musicians seem content to string together merely adequate lyrics with familiar instrumentation. i Browne's recent release, Hold Out, is a striking accomplishment. Its intelligent and often beautiful songs are a welcome break from the clouded pool of "pretenders" (to steal one of Browne's terms) now grabbing the radio listening public's attention. Hold Out, Browne's sixth album, exhibits his continuing maturation as an artist. His last album, Running on Empty, was released in 1977 and was his first major commercial success. However, aficionados of this aesthetically sensitive musician have known of his unique blend of lyrical imagery and a rocker's razor edge and can understand where his present music has evolved from. From his earliest album, Saturate Before Using, he has carved his niche in the contemporary music scene. Browne's uncompromising apThe Fanai energy in By Mark Chevalier . cju ? tiiiviianiinoiu LUHUI The Fanatics, in case you haven't heard, are our local brand of the now defunct punk (which on the international level has already given way to the more commercially adaptable "new wave"). Yet.to Dunk or not to ounk is not the question, for punk never could sell ? not back in the late '60s or early '70s when Detroit was booming with pre-punk punk, or even in the post-punk period of late that flourished for a brief stay in New York and London. Punk can't sell because energy on vinyl can't hold a candle (or even a safety-pin) to energy in action. There is no doubt about it, punk has to be seen, to be heard. If you're a punk that sells records, you won't be for long. if uiv.il ui 11150 iu uativ vu a lauici rousing three-set performance last Wednesday and Thursday in the Golden Spur by regional punkers Nick Pagan, Mike Hoffman, R.B. Lander and Dennis "The Menace" Hasty ? collectively known as The Fanatics. Now whether or not these are their real names I have no way of knowing ? deception and confusion are punk principles ? and no matter how artificially they have come to apply here, they are something one has come to expect. In fact, much of what The The GAMECOCK it the student neiwspapar of the University of South Carolina and ia published thraa times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and ' Fridays during the fall and spring samastars and once weakly on Wadnasdays during both aummar sessions whh the exception of university holidays and exeminatlon periods. Opinions expressed in the GAMECOCK ' are those of the editors and not those of the University of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina Is an equal opportunity Institution. The Board of Student Publications and Convpunlcation* '? the publisher of the GAMECOCK. The Student Media Office Is * the parent orgsnliation of the GAMECOCK. Chang* of Morau forma, subscription , requests and other corrsspondece should be sent to the GAMECOCK, Box 88131, . Rueee* House, University of South CsruMs., Cotumbto, B.C. 29208. Sub f . scriffelon retee are $8.BO per semester and $ 2 for (He euMMvfer eoeslono> Third ofaee pastafs paM at Columbia, ' 9Xi. inmenti e's visi proach continues in Hold Out. The insightful, rather than taunting "Disco Apocolypse" (the album's first cut) exhibits Browne's keen understanding of his culture. "Where the days turn into the nights / People move into the sounds and the sights/ Like the moth is drawn into the lights/ Like the tight-rope walker into the heights/ It's in their hearts, it's in their hips,/ It's in their feet, it's on their lips.../ Dancing through the fire on the edge of time." The familiar background of David Lindley's lap steel guitar (which is especially stirring on the title cut) and Craig Doerge's string synthesizer and acoustic piano are more impressive than ever. Unlike a few of his previous albums, Browne's vocals soar above the background rather than getting muddled within it. The final two songs of the first side, "That Girl Acs: post-j 'New Wav Fanatics do, say, sing about an< act like are mere parodies of pas post-punk bands they hav< evidently seen or heard. Like other punkers, they ar< overtly pretentious, self-consciou! and arrogant. They have a ten dency to wander off stage durinj songs, jerk voluntary in-voluntan jerks, stand on chairs and mak< full use of off-color language. Theii songs tend to be the hard-driving "ork/?? ?l nnmmanfnmt" mitl gwiat wAiiiiiviiici& j ijrwiu phrases crammed into spaces to< short for normal dictation, wailinj guitar riffs and ? no matter hov chaotic the song may appear quick, snappy endings. But asid< from all the parody and support foi a stereotype, The Fanatics di create the one vital ingredient energy. Thursday night's show opene< with a "punk" rendition of th< "Impossible Dream," whicl became auite comical towards th end. They quickly moved into on< of their better songs of the evening a force-full rockin' theme son; called "We Are The Fanatics! ! j NOW SHOWING i 1 1. From Holly Wit i | 2. Kinky Tricks S l Stflrtc Frirls ISuperspy John (Macks UsH With His 6i?*ntic Key! THE SliitTII , IIWIT 2. Soft Places RATI ^1 on ncii Could Sing" and "Boulevard" (the first single released from the album), are particularly strong examples of Browne's newly refined vocals. These two songs rock true while containing some particularly fine lyrics. Although it is easy to simply expect Jackson Browne's songwriting to be meaningful and perceptive, it should be noted that he has not cut any corners. His craftsmanship is wonderful in "Of Missing Persons" and "Hold On Hold Out" in particular. Browne urtvciD uic ui uic iiiuiu, the heart and most importantly, the soul with his lyrics. Perhaps never have his lyrics , been more brilliant, his musical arrangements more diverse, his vocals more expressive. Browne has emerged through the eye of a cultural storm with an impressive and cutting musical achievement. It is as if he is speaking to something inside us. The 'gypsy soul' in "Of Missing Persons" is like the hidden father of our whole society. "Your brothers are all older/ And they'll take it in their stride/ The world's a little colder/ But manhood's on their side/ Now you're the little child-girl/ And you look so much like him/ And he's right there inside you/ Each time you want to sing..." Quite surprisingly, there isn't a song about the nuclear power issue. An eloquent spokesman for solar energy, Browne has spent the >unk e' era The show stealer for the first se though was clearly their swinginj rendition of "Spiderman," fron At r. i i me saiuraay morning cartoon Pagan's gestures of web-flingini were perfect pantomime of tto bygone comic hero, and may givi us some indication of what we cai expect from the minds of boob-tub* babies. "Bang A Gong," the T-Re: classic, and Alice Cooper's "I'm Piohfpon'' nnarxul tKia pjuiahc! w|/v??v\4 VAIV iJWVUVI OUI with Pagan claiming: "When I wa 14 I wanted to be Alice Cooper, mean really beee him...but I gues everybody did." The last set featured an origina 1 tune mai arew good audienc< response, a rather dramatic drivei called "Ignorance is Bliss." All ii all, The Fanatics provide for ai entertaining evening of music an< show. What they lack in originality they compensate with gall. Yoi may find yourself laughing undei your breath at The Fanatics, bu r my guess is, you're laughing wit! * The Fanatics. liMmiriinwii i n III iBHgwgHre - ADULTS ONLY X\ h Love j j y July 25th DX l * M. i in 'Hoi past few years doing benefits for i M.U.S.E. (Musicians United for i Safe Energy). He was a major I force, with Graham Nash, in 1 organizing the weeklong benefit at 4 Madison Square Garden from I which the M.U.S.E. album i emerged. Yet he is a diverse I person of many interests. His 1 songs are explorations of universal 1 themes: time, love, moral courage, death, to mention a few. < To an artist of Browne's stature, 1 life is a series of fragmented < images that one must at least 1 P SdoU k. Jazz on t\ An evening of jazz music by USC i on the Horseshoe at 6:30 Thursday University Union Summer Cultural uu ^ : r-iestrmeu in cunjunuuuii wiui a j Department of Music July 22-25, th music faculty members as John E Jim Mings and Doug Graham. Visit the workshop from around the S participate in the concert. The program is the last of three the USC summer series, "Music* cream will be sold. Audiences s blankets for seating. The concert v #-v 11 ? rt I rvf 1 w* Oct in uuiu in uic f vein wi i din. 'Enterprise9 On Sunday afternoon, July 27, 1 tinue its Star Trek film series as a Three" programs. A feature ler "Menagerie" stars William Sha Hunter and Susan Oliver...Kirk, S ?t discover that a former comman g Christopher Pike, is horribly scai (i movie-goers on Sunday afternoon i# "Menagerie" special. That's this J g Auditorium on Senate Street, at e mission is free. I Summer X Pinnl tv?rfnrmnnr??e nf Arthur i George Bernard Shaw's PygmalU Dr. Vanilla and the Short Tall-Tale s Repertory Theatre season Aug. 3 a I Miller's tragedy, which tells of s salesman who never realizes his j formed by the USC acting compan; j The last performance of Pygr 3 sformation of Cockney street gir r British lady, will be presented Aug i The children's Dlav. Dr. Vanilla \ performed at 10:30 Aug. 1 and j followers crusade to spread fun a humor-hating Gorilla MacNorml t Admission is $3.50 for the public military and senior citizens and $ for Dr. Vanilla are $1.50 each. For box office at 2551 weekdays noon-5 rEARNE MOP Urgently neede< ! 1V1UI1UI1UC1CU8I!> IO j I [Research. If you hav |! past 2 weeks Mono | | for $100.00 per we ;; your lime. Call 254 U formation. p Serologicals of < n Suite 105, 2711 Columbia, i d Out' attempt to piece together if neaning is to be found. He is out :here on the edge, daring to express the truth and a sense of hope. 'For the countless souls beaten by their goals/ Keep a hold on now/ \nd the ones betrayed by the deals they made/ Keep a hold on/ If you lold your ground it'll turn around/ Keep a hold somehow..." In Hold Out Jackson Browne continues in the tradition of nusical artistry he's built. It is one )f the most significant releases in a ong time. ights *) \e 'shoe' musicians will be presented free j , July 24, sponsored by the USC j Series. iazz music workshop at the USC ie concert will feature such USC mche, Dick Goodwin, Jim Hall, ting music instructors attending loutheast are also expected to informal concerts presented by il Flavors." Lemonade and ice j ihould bring folding chairs or ! vill be held in the Russell House at museum :he Columbia Museum will conpart of the summer "Sundays At igth film running 110 minutes, tner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey pock and McCoy are shocked to aer 01 uie unierprise, uapiam rred and totally paralyzed. Join j to discover what happens in this Sunday at the Columbia Museum 3. The public is invited and adtheatre Miller's Death of a Salesman, j m and Chris and Les Reynolds' s will conclude the USC Summer t Longstreet Theatre. the demise of Willy Loman, the dream of success, will be per- I y Aug. 1 and 3 at 8. j nation, which follows the tranI Eliza Doolittle into a cultured , 2 at 8. and the Short Tall-Tales, will be 2. Dr. Vanilla and his band of nd laughter, despite attempts of d stop the happy team. $2.50 for USC faculty and staff, 1.50 for USC students. All tickets reservations, call the Longstreet LXTRA I JEY ! \ people with ;; aid in Medical !] e or had within the I I >, you may qualify fj ek for 3 hours of j'.j -(5537 for more inColumbia, Inc. ) Middleburg | 5.C. 29204 !