10 Fridav. May 2,1980
University Daily Kansan
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Grass Roots satisfy loyal crowd
By KEVIN MILLS Staff Reporter
The Grass Roots, presented at Off the Wall Hall. Featuring Mark Hamilton, drums, Rick Alexander, guitar, Tony Scalino, keyboard, keyboards, Sound by Frank Biggs.
About 75 people were let in on a well-kept secret Wednesday night—the Grass Roots concert at the Off the Wall Halt. For those with a wealth of evening proved a worthwhile expenditure.
The Grass Roots, formed in 1863, captured the nation in the ensuing years with songs such as "Temptation Eyes," "Bella Linda," and "Midnight Confessions."
These and other late 06 standards were played with album-like precision in the first set. In fact, the songs were a bit too precise—no deviations, and no solos.
But it was, after all, the Grass Roots, and the minimal crowd ate it up. The band launched into "Temptation Eyes" at the outset, and that established the pattern for the first set. Only one new rock, *Rockin' with the Flow* of the group greatest old hits.
"Rock Sugar" was more uptempo and appealed to the hard rock howlers in the crowd. It will be to the group's new album, or to be released sometime this summer.
The band members quickly won the crowd over with their humorous stage antics. They poked at the spat at the audience to stop light shining on the stage") and after a brief confrent introduction to a song, the group stopped while they continued. "You never said, 'Wait a minute, let's get serious.'"
The group closed the first set with The Dirters, who created their younger members through a K-Tel smash hits advertisements, and "Sooner or Later," which was played three times.
“Sooner or Later” opened the second set, and the band finally unleashed the one missing element of the first set—a guitar solo, blazing licks and all. With this improved rendition of their standard they could be more to than mimic their album cuts.
"Bella Linda," another second set session, instead the second use of the record version. The four-part instrumentation and studio refinery, minding a classic hit.
The second set finale, "Wait a Million"
Years," easily made the concert worth the price of admission. Rick Alexander played a guitar solo in perfuency fashion, oblivious to the crowd's response, but it was good nevertheless. His twelve years with the band resulted in his zombie-like perfect nickname.
Hervé followered with a bass sone that borrowed from Stanley Clarke's 'School of Jazz.' And the band then Mark Hamill pounded out what was probably the best drum solo the Hall has ever done.
Despite the faulty placement of his drums by a new ridea, his rhythm was on target with the original drummer and then wired his键盘s with the waning moments of Hamilton's solo, and then the entire group wrapped up "Million Years" with a flourish that left the crowd begging
For the encore, the Grass Roots repeated "Midnight Confessions" and "Tempation Eyes," and as far as the crow was concerned, it wasn't a case of saturation.
"We were just having a good time tonight," said Hoover, clearing his throat. "Wow, I'm losing my voice. There weren't even us here, but it was a good crowd response."
The group is in the final swing of a 14-week tour, and after the show their exhaustion showed.
"There's a lot of young people who don't remember us, and that's why we're playing in dink places like this," he said.
Hoover has been with the Roots since 1974. He was only 13 when the original band was formed in 1965.
Guitarist Alexander, who dates back to 1968 with the Roots, said the group kept up with the grueling play by "burning" few before the show. Sandalwood incense, that
"Our new album was going to be called 'Pigs in Bondage,' with Miss Piggy tied up with ropes on the cover, but we ran into copyright problems," he joked.
Drummer Mark Hamilton, who has been with the group since 1969, will be retiring soon.
"I'm going to quit in January," he said. "I've finally got enough money saved. There is truth to the rumor that I might be going to Molly Hatch until then."
When Hamilton leaves, Alexander will be the group's only link to the 60s, the decade that saw the group rise to the top. But Alexander's not quitting.
"I plan to keep playing, oh, another 30 or 40 years," he said.
"Sacrifice," an all-women play, is not a feminist play although it may be interpreted as just that, Cindy Levin, director, said yesterday.
By JUDITH LYNN HOWARD
'Sacrifice' not feminist
Staff Reporter
Levin said the play might be seen as colored by feminism "probably because of the fact that women are shown in positive roles."
"People will see it as a feminist play for the lack of a better word," she said.
The play, collectively authored by the Lilith theater company in San Francisco, is set in a community where a dragon is revered.
"Sacrifice," sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women, will be at 8:30 p.m. May 3 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and Vermont streets.
Levin said that the dragon, perhaps similarly perceived by the people as a god or Mother Nature, was a cause for celebration for the people.
However, the symbolic meaning of the dragon was changed, Levin said.
"The men turned (the symbolic sacrifice) around, to weed out the women troublemakers in the society," she said.
Instead of sacrificial symbols, women were actually sacrificed to the dragon.
were actually face to the dragon.
The dragon is perceived with fear and is
no longer a benevolent figure to give the people cause for celebration and those women who remain in the community now live in fear, Levin said.
But "Sacrifice" then unfolds to show that the sacrificed women are not dead, but have started a community on their own. The dragon, and the sacrifices were a facade.
Women, like the character of Lilith, are the most vulnerable to certain women in the community. Lilith and the other women band together to return to the community to set the record straight.
"Sacrifice" shows how leadership and unity can be attained by women in the midst of diversity. Levi said.
"It shows every aspect of a woman's character—those who have power, those who fight, those who want to organize," she said.
The women work together as a group, and unlike the feminist movement, they do not bellittle other women for being different, Levin said.
The play's intention is also not to be disparaging toward men, Levin said, "but to show the kind of rituals that have held women down."
"It also shows a whole reorganization of the politics of power," she said.
Book predicts 80s
By DAN TORCHIA Staff Reporter
Judging from the events that have happened in the first four months of this decade, it is likely that the situation is so volatile that it is impossible to guess what will happen in a few months, or months.
If you want a guide to what this decade will offer, "The 80's: A Look back" is for you. Edited by Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerd and Peter Elbang, featuring over 30 contributors, this suture collection is set in the 1980s and reviews the big events of the 1980s.
It doesn't look very promising. There is going to be a meat shortage. NBC will go bankrupt and will be taken over by U.S. Marshals, England, Scotland and Wales will be bought by Disney, Inc. and turned into a king called the United Magic Kingdom.
That is just for starters. In the White House, we will see the rise of Chelle II, as the Kennedy-Carter campaign narrowly wins the 1980 presidential election.
But complications arise. On his inauguration on Jan. 20, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson sent a letter to Sen Russell Long (D-LA), who needs a liver transplant to save his life. Kennedy's personal physician, Alan Bakey, said the patient be a success, since everyone has two livers.
"Now I remember," Bakke sobs on nationwide television. It's two kidneys, one liver."
Kennedy resigns on Jan. 30, 1981, and Vice-President Jimmy Carter is chief executive again. Historians refer to Camalol II as "The Ten days."
There are also some light moments. The movie "Balloon Boy," by the movie the decade, "1844" by the movie the decade, "2013" by obscure English writer," the movie stars Marlen Bardon as big Brother and features a young balloon boy.
The country's infatuation with "1984"
spurs sales of the Big Brother Cuddy Dall.
Overalls become the fashion rage and the
rat is the decade's most popular mascot.
There is one problem with this type of book. There is a great temptation to compare the book's events with what is happening in Afghanistan, the orders all foreign clocks in Iran to have their hands cut off) and Afghanistan ("Afghan War is Hold Over" for 4th Big Week") screams a Variety of stories that are funny, considering the problems there.
But the humor works most of the time. The book is deliberately outlandish designed to make people laugh rather than to mirror any semblance of reality. It is entertaining history on its own, it happens. But God helps us if it really runs out that way.
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