ENTERTAINMENT
The University Daily KANSAN
March 23, 1984 Page 6
Jason and Scorcher are Perry Buggs, drums and vocals; Jason Ringenberg, guitar and harmonica; Jeff Johnson, bass
and guitar; and Warner Hodges, guitar, lap steel, and vocals. They will return to Lawrence Opera House, 624 Massachusetts St., tomorrow night.
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
Jason and the Scorchers to rock Lawrence again
Staff Reporter
Legend has it that Jason Ringenberg, lead vocalist and chief songwriter for Jason and the Scorches, was on a train taking his daddy's hogs to the Chicago stockyards, when a wreak accident changed his stature from the son of an egg farmer to a down home rock 'n' roller.
While riding on the Rock Island Railroad line, the train was hijacked to Cuba. But Jason was a survivor and survived.
Jason landed in the lap of a passed-out drunk named Jeff Johnson, who was lying on the side of
The two then decided to set out and become famous — thus marking the strange and untrue nature of their work.
Although Jason, Johnson and the Scorers have not achieved superstar status, their performance has been good.
The Scorchers' debut extended play record, "Reckless Country Soul," which was released in February 1982, has gained critical praise from Broadway. It starred New York Rocker and Billboard magazine.
Jason and the Scorchers consists of Jason, Johnson, bass and guitar; Warner Hedges, lead guitar; Neil Cain.
The most recent Scorcher release, "Fervor," was named the EP of the year by the New York
The group will travel to Lawrence, for the fifth time since 1981, to deliver their traditional hybrid of country and rock 'n' roll, tomarowz from Lawrence Opera House. 642 Massachusetts St.
"Lawrence is my favorite place in the whole country to play," Jason said. "The people have always been appreciative and understanding about what we are."
The Scorchers are a hot band locally. Kief's Discount Store, 2100 W. 25th St., reported that
"Rockless Country Soul" and "Fervor" were the store's top, independent release sellers of music.
The band also has made a music television video from the "Fervor" album in which they perform their version of the Bole Dylan song "Take the Plate." It has received much airplay on MTV
The songwriting was not strongly developed at the time, he said. "It was kind of like our
When Jason and the Scorchers recently signed a recording contract with EMI, the band was worried that old Scorcher fans would think the band had sold out. But, the Scorchers insists this
The Scorchers' first album, which was recorded live after the band was together only a week, gave the band a reputation as a spontaneous band with a great deal of energy.
If the premier album was the band's first kiss, "Fervor" was their first love, Jason said. The album contains the trademark Scorcher energy, but Jason is most proud of the songwriting.
"It's obvious that what we do is natural," he said.
Jason is happy with the band's success, but he said that there are two members of the band who always seem to be put unnecessarily into the background of the Scorcher success story.
"When I first met Perry in Nashville, he was working for $3 a week in a bowling alley," he said. "He said he would join the band if I guarantee he would make at least $3 a week."
Recording industry may erase rental business
"Perry and Jeff have become incredibly strong," he said. "They have the Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts combination of the Rolling Stones and Larry Starr. The Scorchers can't survive without them."
"Our first priority is to make uncompromising, American rock 'n' roll music," he said. "But, we aren't going to be a flash in the pan."
A new, full length album is due early next year and a U.S. and two British tours will keep the company moving.
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
Joe Unger fears the recording industry is going to put him out of business.
Unger, owner of C-90 Records, 1339 Massachusetts St., says he has been having trouble obtaining records because some record distributors will not sell records to him because of the stance against rental record stores.
Now he fears the recording giants will get their way with the blessing of
On June 28, 1983, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that could dispose of rental record stores and increase blank cassette tape prices.
This spring, the House of Representatives will vote on the bill. Leaders on both sides of the issue — the Recording Industry of America and the Audio Recording Rights Coalition — say they think the bill is going to pass.
THE BILL SAYS THAT "unless authorized by the copyright owners, the owner of a particular phonorecord may not, for purposes of direct or indirect commercial advantage, dispose of or authorize the disposal of the possession of that phonorecord by any activity or in the nature of rental, lease or lending."
"The large record companies said that the rental record stores were putting them out of business," said Unger. "They don't realize that there are very few rental places in the whole country."
IN 1976, CONGRESS rewrote the Copyright Act of 1909 to include the first-sale doctrine, which entitles the owner of a copy or phonorecord to sell. This rule does not allow that copy or phonorecord without the authority of the copyright owner.
Unless authorized by the copyright owner, the privileges do not extend to any person who has acquired possession of the loan without acquiring ownership of it.
"As long as a person own tape for his own personal use, everything is legal."
When Unger's store first opened, it averaged by 750 monthly rentals. Now he rents between 1,000 and 1,500 records a month at $1 or $2 a day. He about 15 percent of his customers bought the records they rented.
"People have been taping at home since cassettes came out in the '60s," he said. "The industry never complained before. The record companies are
HOW TO RENT-A-RECORD...
RENTAL PRICE IS ON TOP OF THE STICKER.
THE PRICE OF THE ALBUM, THE BOTTOM
PRICE, IS REQUIRED AS A DEPOSIT.
THIS WILL BE REFUNDED IF THE ALBUM
IS RETURNED IN PERFECT CONDITION
WITHIN 24 HOURS.
Wayman, who has already presented his findings to the Senate, is expected to announce his results at a hearing.
ACCORDING TO INDUSTRY ESTIMATES, more than 200 record rental stores.
But Jack Wayman, chairman of the Audio and Home Recording Rights Coalitions, said he did not agree with this number. He had a private company conduct another survey and found that the number of rental record stores in the United States was insignificant because the survey also found that 50 percent of all home taping was done from records that people already owned.
CHECKS MAY BE USED AS DEPOSIT. LATE FEE IS $1.00 PER DAY OR FRACTION ALL RECORDS ARE GUARANTEED TO BE IN PERFECT CONDITION.
trying to win after losing for such a long time"
However, Stanley Gortikov, president of the Recording Industry of America and the Coalition to Save America's Music, said that home music taping was a large problem for the industry because of the sales that taping displaced.
"Through an investigation by Audits and Surveys Incorporated in New York City, we found that last year 350 people were bought if someone didn't have home."
HE SAID THE RECORDING industry was a tightly knot group of about nine companies that were trying to dominate the music business.
"Home taping is a parasitical business that plays off of an individual's livelihood," he said. "The amount of people home taping today is astronomical. Dual cassette recorders and rental record stores are specifically designed to promote home taping."
EVEN THEHough THE RECORD industry was having its best year ever, Gortikov said home taping could not be overlooked any longer. He said the problem had been building up for several years and it had to be stopped.
"Just because the recording industry is in a prosperous condition, doesn't mean that the artists should have money taken away from them. It comes down to a respect for individual property," he said.
legislation for royalty placement on high quality blank cassette tapes to reimburse artists for money lost to home taming and rental record stores.
But Wayman thinks this royalty placement is only a tax to subsidize the rear-end
"IT IS ORIGINAL THAT the recording industry is seeking to capitalize on the copyright issue and make capographs of it," he said. "The American consumers." he said.
Instead of taxing the consumer, rental record stores or the tape and record buyer, the recording industry should enter after the radio stations. Wayman said.
Gortikov said his group was pushing
Unger said that home taping had become a hot issue because the record companies thought they were losing money.
The U.S. recording industry's fear lies in the success of Japan rental record stores. According to the bill, about 70% of rental record stores exist in Japan.
But Unger does not see a correlation between Japan and the United States because Japanese records are twice as expensive as American records. Therefore, people in Japan are more likely to rent and record than to buy.
TERRY DONOVAN. A record buyer for Lieberman Enterprises, a Kansas City, Kan., record distributor, said that he would purchase record stores would catch on nationwide.
Although rental record stores seem popular in college towns, Donovan said that rental record stores did not seem as popular in college towns; they were not a threat to the individual
artist or record company
Wayman said the record companies should have encouraged the public to home tape because it promoted newer artists and boosted publicity.
"People would home tape to create their own programs, to preserve their records and to get better quality recordings," pre-recorded tapes. "Wayman said."
HOME TAPING IS NOT the reason why the record industry fell into a slump in the 1970s, Wayman said. The record industry, population trends and competition for discretionary income was the true reason for the slump.
"Americans now spend more than $1.5 billion per year on video games," be said. "Records are flimzy and less expensive." The app stopped artist development and promotion.
Steve Wilson, manager of Kiel's Discount Records and Tapes, 2100 W 25th St. said that rental record stores clinically and legally on soft ground
"I'm very sensitive to the position the record industry has, because I work directly with them," he said. "In Kief's, we sell blank tapes, and in that case, our primary loyalties are to the record industry."
Unger hopes that the Supreme Courts 'Betamax decision' concerning copyright infringement on the home video recorder tanning will save his business.
the "metamax decision" was a big victory to me," Unger said. "Once the Supreme Court determined that home video taping wasn't illegal, chances are the record companies might leave us alone."
Group hopes X-rated film arouses interest
By MELISSA BAUMAN
Staff Reporter
An X-rated film conjures up images of an explosive film no quality with terrible acting and unpredictable dialogue.
One usually pictures a group of rowdy men crowding into a theater at midnight to see Linda play.
But the X-rated films shown by the University Film Society and Student Union Activities are relatively mild compared with the triple X-rated films, the theaters, members of both organizations said.
"It's one of the first in this genre of X-rated films, and it supposes has a plot to it," he said, describing the film as artsy, soft-core pornography.
"EMMANUELLE," THE FILM UFS is presenting this weekend, is a good example of a mild X-rated film, said Tim DePaepe, president of UFS.
DePaepe said that the film portrayed a young woman exploring herself in an attempt to become sexually fulfilled and that her character is statistically than characters in traditional X-rated films.
According to a Variety review of the 1974 French film, Emmanuelle goes to join her husband in Bangkok, where he is a wealthy French diplomat.
On the airplane, the woman is seduced by two male passengers. And upon her arrival in Bangkok she also tangles with a sultry teenage boy.
In the meantime, Emmanuelle falls in love with a lesbian anthropologist and is later raped in an opium den.
"This is still soft-core in its lack of deeper resonance of its characters, simulation, and a sort of coy 1940s type under the-counter affair in its own way, an outspoken hard-core pics." Variety reported
THE TEENAGER THEN INTRODUCES her to a
man old man who eventually reveals the
teenage grief.
Variety also described the direction as pompus and the film as lacking a sense of
'We know there's an audience out there that wants to see it, mostly because it's X-rated. We are appealing to the predominantly male audience out there that wants to get drunk and go to an X-rated film.'
-Tim DePaepe president UFS
humor. The review praised the movie's technical qualities and the acting of both Alain Cazay as the director and Leah Preston as the writer.
"WE KNOW THERE'S AN audience out there that wants to see it, mostly because it's X-rated," he said. "We are appealing to the youngest people." He wanted to get drunk and go on an X-rated film.
Even though UFS is showing a relatively mild X-rated film, DePeape said that UFS chose the film because it has fewer pixels.
lowering its standards because the film was closer to "an artistic endeavor."
SUA has shown several X-rated movies in the past year, such as Andy Warhol's "Frankenstein," "Dracula," and "Female Trouble," which all did well.
Jim Colson, chairman of the SUA film board, said that the films SUA showed were also
"Andy Warbel's stuff is mainly violence rather than physical material, but it not like this triple X stuff."
However, DePaepe said that UFS was not
Colson also said that these movies were shown to attract a certain audience. He said that SUA tries to appeal to as many people as possible and is rated films are an attempt to satisfy one group.
Colson said that this relaxed attitude to X-rated films could be attributed to the mild, soft-core approach of the films chosen. But he said that the University might object to SUA showing classic X-rated films such as "Deep Throat."
COLSON AND DEPEAEPE SAID that they had received no complaints about the showing of X-rated films on campus and that the University did not screen the films before they were shown.
DePaepe said that X-rated films were not shown often because few good quality soft-core films are available.
Colson, who acts as an editor of the movies chosen by the film board, said that he allowed X-rated films to be shown as a compromise with the film board.
“As far as I'm concerned, they're not shown more often because I am more interested in the artistic aspects of film. And for the most part, films and films aren't t too concerned with art,” he said.
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