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Wednesday, February 16. 1972
University Daily Kansan
Records:
Iron Butterfly 'Evolves?'
By RON DANHAUS Kansan Reviewer
Myth has it that an iron ironyhist is pretty to behold, but when it tries to fly to earth to catch a falling ball (or dollars, as the case may be). However, I can remember and I am about to blow up a ball on impaling on the down way.
That is exactly what ATCO
Records is trying to accomplish in "Evolution: The Best of the Iron Butterfly." The Iron Butterfly are once the artists in sales on the Atlantic label, but the album form sold in excess of five million copies, not to mention several million singles, making it one of the best-selling records of all time. Here
it is again, along with 10 other singles, for one last go-around
sings, for one last go-around.
This is an embarrassing
challenge. They were
was probably the golden age of
rock. At the same time most of
jimi Hendrix, Jamaica, Joplin,
Airplane and Cream were
reaching the peak of their careers.
'Dear Friends' Explores Early Firesign Theater
By RON SANDHAUS Kansan Reviewer
An insight into the inner-workings of the Firesign Theater in schizophrenic sound, sound effects and colourful records. It is a special two-record documentary (at a special price for the economy minded) of real recorded music.
In 1966, a group of four young men sold their shares in corporate sanity and invested heavily in the improvisational comedy troupe, which they called the FireSight (Sagittarius, Leo and Aries) theater. The group owns its own interiors and mimicking every conceivable radio format, they have the most potent forces in American entertainment. An annual occurrence since 1968 has the release of a new FireSight Theater album. Before that, only these albums, they also produced a series of radio shows that were syndicated in the San Francisco area. *Dear Friends* is an anthology of these albums taken from these shows.
However, there are no “Bozos” on this album. Don’t expect an elaborate production in 18- to 26-sound soundffects. In fact, sound quality varies greatly from cut to cut because the segments were compiled from so many different sources; however, are enough “wipe-out punice hamburgers,” “radioactive chorus girls,” “antivirus designers” and “synthetic chinillas” to fill four sides of an L.P. Not to mention the cast of thousands with Rev W. Bill D. Bonen, who played the role of Time and of course J. Edgar Beaver, sponsored by Balliol Bros. Drug Store, Giant Toad Supermasters and the T.B.
Many of the segments fall flat
Seats Available For Festival, Friday Concert
Student Union Activities student union, approximately 2,000 jects have reserved sold for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Festival at 8 p.m. Friday in Hotel Orange.
Well over 50 per cent of the auditorium's 3,700 seats are already filled. There are still a few seats open on the main floor back, and both balconies are only sparsely fitted at this point.
if a refund on a ticket package is desired, it must be requested in the SUA office before February 18th. Attendees will receive refunds will be granted. During spring enrollment, about 4,100 ticket packages for the Fine Arts Festival were sold. According to the deadline set forth by the claimed by Tuesday afternoon.
but the album is Firesign Theater in the purest form. These radio shows were all live, with much of the material ad-libbed. We can at
as an introduction to the FireSign Theater, but for those already indoctrinated it will be a welcome addition. Now the
KANSAN reviews
last hear the Fireign Theater as they really are and gain an insight into how these people function.
I don't recommend this album
Firesign Theater has after all these years, bequeathed us with "a salt-filled panecake to lay upon an apolitic of this great nation."
A New Look of Elegance
If you were or still are a fan of the "Heavy" Iron Butterfly you might want to add this to your collection. You should have their previous albums. Doug Ingle, leader and composer of the group, is a master of the soft, melodic songs; timey sounding vox-organ. 2-beat complete with single stroke rolls and countless fuzz notes that sound psychedelic noises that when played at the proper volume, will produce a bitter, spicy metal bottle.
The album offers a sample of Butterfly hits in chronological order, from the "Butterfly Theme" and ends with "Slower Than Guns." But within the half-hour aural journey, your eyes are drawn to the shameful titles as "Unconscious Power," "'Soul Experience' and 'Flowers and Beads' (had
"Evolution" shows how a group with a mass following and this group can become a lasting musical influence. Instead, as you can easily witness by listening to this group's music, your opportunity only to evolve into thousands of other groups before they shattered and were forgotten.
March 11—Gordon Lightfoot (reserved seat) $3.50 Each
March 8—Herbie Mann (reserved seat) $2.50 Each
March 10—Tom Wolfe $1.50 Each
March 6—The National Players $1.00 Each
March 9—Portable Circus $1.00 Each
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