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Monday, February 16, 1976
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Nugent, Head East need variety
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Noisy Nugent
"King of feedback music!" Ted Nugent struts as he bombards the KU audience with rapid, ear-pounding music. Nugent performed in concert Friday in Hoechst
By GREG HACK
Associate Campus Editor
The breeze was fresh Saturday night. It even kicked up a quick, cool shower. In inside Hoch Auditrium, things became hot and stale quickly. Ted Nugent and Head East gave a capacity crowd some good food. There were here were few surprises and little variety.
Nugent proved that he may well be "the king of feedback guitar," and those who enjoy having their ears pounded by fast, jamming music probably enjoyed Nugent's show. From the time he hit the stage until the show closed, Nugent was a stringy-
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haired, strutting manish with a guitar. He played fast and he played one and another. He played well.
But his heavy style created problems. As good as his rapid riffs and screeching feedback were, some relief was needed, and Nugent couldn't give it. He ran, slid and wound the stage, and occasionally slowed the crowd to keep the crowd interested.
"Where Have You Been All My Life?" was a good example of the strengths and weaknesses of Nuget and his Ambony Dukes. Nugent manipulated his guitar well during the beginning. He and St. Holmes played, together and Rob Grange's bass drove hard.
ALSO, NUGENT'S music was devoid of emotion. Each song had a few lyricals that expressed the intensity whose voice is raw but unexpressive, or by his rhythm guitar player, Derek St. Holmes, whose voice was a bit better. The music was both melancholy and pushy, but neither artist nor moving.
But it just wasnt enough. Too much of Nugent's music just pounded away at the crowd's senses, and when he tried to slow down, it became apparent that he was a very imprecise guitarist—maybe sloppy is a better word.
However, the number was boring toward the middle and the end, the vocals may as well have been left out, and a low interlude may be present. I didn't know how to play slowly or clearly.
There was also the problem of a set beat
to keep the songs together, because there seldom was one. Grange and drummist Cliff Davies were more than competent, but they had a tough time keeping with the rhythm of a song, having a rhythm that was almost always fast and driving, but could change without notice.
THE BEST NUMBER was "Hey Baby," which bore little resemblance to the rest of the set. It was good old rock and roll, with a warm Davies kept going. The tune was also an amazing bass line by Grange, who for once wasn't drowned out by the guitars.
St. Holmes belted out a decent rock and roll vocal, and Nugent was at his best. His work was as fluid and as wild as on any other number, but for once it also had some merit. He decided to keep it from sounding like any other song he played in guitarist backed by a wall of amplifiers.
Nugent is great at what he does, but what he does isn't difficult enough, varied enough, or enjoyable enough to make him a great musician.
The opening band, Head East, was a good example of an above average top 40 band. They were competent and east to listen to, but not flashy or particularly exciting
LEAD VOCALIST John Schmitt was vex good and drummer Steve Huston did an especially good job of keeping the group's snappy numbers moving.
The group was on fairly short, up tempo songs, which was mostly what was played (its 12 song set took only 45 minutes). The group's best number was its big hit, "Never Been Any Reason," on which the vocals by Schultz and Huston were great.
The song showed that none of the musicians were exceptional, but that the way they helped each other and kept together was. Keyboard man Roger Boyd was complemented well by Mike Somerville on guitar and Dan Binyon on bass.
Surprisingly, the group's other hit, "Love me Tonight," was sluggish and the vocals did not.
Besides the quick numbers, the band played two long numbers that didn't make it and two that did. On the longer songs that failed, "Brother Jacob" and "Jefftwon" in the rhythms were repetitive and the instrument work was good enough to compensate.
Head East, scheduled to put out another album in April, is a good enough band to stay popular for a few years. But judging from Saturday night, the group isn't instrumentally sound enough or adventurous enough to take the lead among top 40 artists.
Trio netted after chase, shoot-out
After a shootout and a short car chase, a Lawrence policeman singlehandedly captured three Leavenworth men accused of killing an 8-year-old, Mart, 466 Illinois, early Saturday morning.
One of the accused, Marion N. Redmond,
43, was wounded in the wound by Cpl.
Wayne Othick, who captured the trio.
Redmond was listed in good condition
Sunday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital with
a gunshot wound in the left ankle.
Redmond and his companions, James L. Simmons, 36, and James E. Costello, 47, were charged with aggravated battery and beheld in Douglas County Jail. Simmons also was charged with five counts of assault. Bail for Simmons and Costello was at $30,000.
Two University of Kansas students were in the store when the robbery occurred about 1 a.m. Marshall Eakin, Lawrence graduate student, was working at the food
mart when two men walked in with pistols and ordered him to give them the money for his bounty.
University Daily Kansas
A LOCAL WOMAN and William Herring,
Lawrence graduate student, were ordered to
lie on the floor while Eakin handed the
money to the robbers. They said one of the
robbers had a gun and shot seven shots immediately before they fled. No one was harmed by the shots fired in the store.
Othick said he was driving east on Sixth when the getaway car drove in front of him with its lights off at Sixth and Florida. As he passed through, he stopped for him through the rear window of their car.
The trio then turned into a dead-end parking lot at an apartment complex at 255 N. Michigan and struck a parked car with occupants, none of whom were仁ured.
man shot at Othick again and then attempted to hide behind a trash container. Othick said that when the man attempted to fire, he fleed and hit him in the ankle. The man remained in the back seat of the car during the shooting.
OTHICK SAID that the driver of the ear rolled out and put his hand under the bridge to stop. Another
By the time other officers had arrived, Othick had already arrested the three men. An undetermined amount of bills from the police in 1983 in change were recovered, police said.
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