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Thursday, April 11, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Addicts Get Fix on Discs
By DANIEL UYESATO
Kansan Reviewer
Depressed? Are you really down in the dumps and need something really stimulating? For the dedicated musician, it is only one panacckle; a new record album.
However, the music addict faces the same problem that his counterpart in the drug world faces: the rapidly increasing cost of his habit.
The Lawrence music addict must be watchful of his local "pushrs" and deserves a rundown on each dealer's service, selections and prices.
The best-known record dealer in Lawrence is Kief's in the Malls Shopping Center. As far as general selection goes, no other music store offers a popular music selection is impressive, and its jazz and blues selection is adequate. Kief's has the only large selection of classical music and carries every major country music youre in the wrong store.
KEEP'S PRICES, as a rule, are the best, too. It always has at least a few new albums for $2.99 and generally its $3.98 list price. Kiel's new album is priced at $4.99 (cost $7.48). However, unless the albums are marked (the $2.99, $3.99 and classical albums are marked), you should ask how much they are before you buy. Kiel's 1986 album is $5.98; the 1989 list album from the $6.98 albums.
The service at Kiel's is a little different story. Salesmen tend to be curt when you return an album because they are more likely to fall into a legitimate complaint, such as a warp or a bad pressing, but unless the defect is readily apparent, salesmen don't expect a new album.
ALSO EXPECT A SPEECH about the main type of record that the manufacturer specifies in your model
of turntable and cartridge and expect to be advised to increase your tracking weight
The problem with the new records is legitimate. The record companies are making the records a lot lessilar (allegedly because of the energy crisis), and, regardless of how angry you are at any particular moment, you load bad records, it is not the shop's fault.
get out." But don't let this scare you. Kief is a fair establishment. It comes down to whether getting the record you want at the price you want is not worth being smiled at. By the way, if you want a receipt, you had better ask for it.
But this problem is no excuse for being unfriendly. I get much the same feeling of curtness when I am buying a record at Kief's. The impression is one of "Buy and
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Its prices are a little higher than those of Kief's on the whole. The $5.98 list albums go for $4.44, and $5.98 list albums sell for $4.97. There are a few specials at either $3.99 or $3.97.
Jesse Young Extends Quality of Youngbloods
BETTER DAYS AT 743 Massachusetts St. has by far the best Jazz and blues selection in Lawrence. It also has a fine selection in Dallas and a small but troughed classical selection.
However, Better Days' fare isn't price, it's service. It salesmen are always ready to talk to people, and their knowledge is extensive. If you're not sure about a particular album, they are willing to discuss the prus on it. They'll even go to the album, that's all right, too. They are always friendly, and they always give you a sales slip.
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Jesse Colin Young, the driving force behind the Youngbloods from the band's inception to its end in 1972, has been one of the most consistently excellent musicians to emerge from the San Francisco music scene. It is further evidence of Youngs' excellence.
By JIM HUBBELL
The first side of the album consists of three songs grouped loosely under the title, "So Much for You." It is the first of the three tunes, captures the mood of the rest of the album. It is an unpretentious synthesis of folk-rock, jazz rhythm and blues, with mostly flatless vehicle for Young's vocals.
"Grey Day" is one of Young's more introspective tunes, lacking the power of the Youngbloods "Darkness, Darkness," but demonstrating that if anything, Young's vocals have improved since the break-up of the band.
Side two boasts two notable successes and one burner. "Motorcycle Blues" is a biker's plaint against a woman who "rides a big great greaser Harley" but spurs a small boy into danger in 1932. "Susan" is a beautiful ballad which may be Young's best love song ever.
Young's attempt at traditional blues, "The Cuckoo," is the real weakness of the album. Young's arrangement obscures the charm of more traditional renditions of the song and the result is an unconvincing attempt to recreate a blues standard.
The sidemen on the album demonstrate considerable competence and enthusiasm.
instrumentalist Jim Rothermel.
THEIR RETURN POLICY is basically the same as that of Kiefs, with the exception being that they're nice about explaining their position when they can't take back an album. If service is as important to them as it is to you, probably be more satisfied at Retter Days.
instrumentalist Jim Robermel.
Young's guitar playing isn't flashy, but
a great way to listen.
"Light Shine" should prove welcome news for hard-core Jesse Colin Young adherents and could easily serve to proselytize the ambivalent. Jesse Colin Young's music has lost none of its freshness but it has grown the Youngblood, but it has gained maturity.
Another major record dealer is Gibson Discount Center at 2525 Iowa. Gibson's is a large discount store, so records are in one of the centers. But the selection really isn't all that bad.
Gibson's has a fair selection of contemporary albums (mostly top 50 albums) and the only reasonable selection of albums. There are also other albums. It is also one of the few stores that sell 49 s.
its return policy is very loose. Gibson's motto is customer satisfaction, and salesmen go out of their way to see that you have a good music album and take back an album because the customer "just did Like." When I was in Gibson's, I saw the old big-heavy-over-cast with-the-skin-in-the-lining trick about to be used to rip the album from my ears, and isn't the only thing Gibson's is loose on.
ITS PRICES ARE reasonable.
Everything is marked, so you know exactly how much each record costs. The $5.98 list albums cost $3.97, and the $6.98 list albums cost $4.97. They also have a "bargain" section if you are looking for a bargain.
A FEW OTHER PLACES offers records in Lawrence, but their volume of sales doesn't compare with Kiel's Better Days Bookshop, has a small but nice Shopping Center, has a small but nice selection of records and a small but nice selection of books. The prices are a bit higher than in the other places, but the atmosphere is quiet and, the people
Woolworth's and TG&Y carry limited selections of various kinds of expensive goods, including fine wines and small sideline for them. Occasionally Woolworth's will have a sale with many records at really cheap prices. If you look long and hard enough, you may find a
Ray Audio has a better than average selection of used records, and the people there are really nice. But don't expect to make a fortune selling old records to them.
The point to keep in mind wherever you have a recording is to be judicious in your selection. Make sure you evaluate your favorite album, and make sure your main concern is the album and not the time spent in selecting it, it might be a good idea to check out more than one shop. Besides, who wants to study when you can find a piece of music, come home and enjoy?
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Japanese film about the struggle between the rich and powerful monasteries and the families of the Sanurai, the Japanese fighting class, in 1137 A.D. 7:30 tonight in Woodriff Auditorium.
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"PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID"-Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan star in Sand Pepakhnam's version of Billy the Kid and the friend who killed him, 7 and 9:30 p.m., tomorrow and Saturday, 2 and 4:30 p.m., Saturday in Wooldruff Auditorium.
"THE ABOMNABLE DR. PHIBES" and "VAMPIRE LOVERS") two horror films. In the first Vincent Price and Joseph Cotton star in a story about a man who devises tortuous ways of murdering the surgical team that be thinks let his wife die. In the second, a lady vampire kills some noblewoman in a series of lesbian entanglements, the deaths of her vampire family. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in David Audruft Academy.
"WORLD OF APU" - 1960 Indian film about the life of a man as a teacher, factory worker, husband, author and father 7:30 PM, Wednesday in Woodruff Auditorium
"PAPILLON""-Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman star as French convicts who escape from the Devil's Island penal in 15:30 and 10 p.m. at the Granada Theatre.
"THE SPIKE'S GANG"-Lee Marvin and Gary Grimes star in this adventure, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Varsity Theatre.
"GREAT GATSBY"-Robert Redford and Mi Fawr star in this F. Scott Fitzgerald film, 7:30 and 10 p.m., at the Hillcrest 1.
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"TALES OF HOFFMAN" - Offbesson a based on a French version of three stories by an oblacate German writer named Wolfgang Baldassari, published in April 19-20 in the University Theatre.
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