KNSAN REVIEWS
CONCERTS: Blood, Sweat & Tears
By MIKE SHEARER
By MIKE SHEARER Arts & Reviews Editor
Somewhere between reckless abandon and timidity, somewhere between ultimate passion and sobriety, lies the successful Blood, Sweat & Tears.
In concert at Hoch Tuesday night, Blood, Sweat & Tears unleashed its talents, its talents which have made it easily one of the five best groups of the 1960's. The effect was exciting entertainment, sparkled with moments of near genius.
It took the group a while to get to the audience. The audience had been "warmed up" for their concert by a desperately poor Canadian group which reached its peak in a little song about a wandering cat, sung in tune with the flogging of what sounded like a tin can.
But Blood, Sweat & Tears finally got to the audience through their hits such as "God Bless The Child," "Spinning Wheel" and "You've Made Me So Very Happy." They got to the audience most fully by doing what they always do so well.
The performance was not without low points. The brass was sometimes overpowering, some of the brass solos didn't have the enthralling tone of Blood, Sweat & Tears' totality; David Clayton-Thomas, singer and star of the group, was not always audible above the thunder from behind; some of the planned improvisations didn't carry the well-timed vigor which makes Blood, Sweat & Tears great.
That reckless abandon which makes so many great musicians great is not what makes Blood, Sweat & Tears great. Blood Sweat & Tears has a certain flavorful tameness in its songs, and it is when the group nurtures that quality that it most succeeds.
The performance was excellent, precise and engaging. The group succeeds in making us so very, very happy.
Dec. 3
1969 KANSAN 5
"Battle of Britain"
A Harry Saltzman Production
COLOR BY Technicolor*
FILMED IN Panavision*
United Artists
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"Leslie Turnage," a book of cartoons and offbeat humor, has been published by Coronado Press. Coronado Press is a publishing enterprise owned by John Longhurst, professor of history.
Cartoon book published here
The book was drawn and written by David Brune, a life-long Lawrence resident and former KU student. Brune has two other books to his credit: "Why Green?" and "Why Not?" All three books were done in limited editions.
7:15-9:30
An informal signing party with David Brune at the Tansy book-store is planned for the first or second week in December.
When asked for an explanation of the title of his book, Brune's only comment was: "Five years I lived that way, and all in the same beer can."
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NEW DEHLI (UPI)—A Malaysian firm has plans to import from India the latest machinery for producing sarongs. The proposed factory would turn out 500 sarongs per day.
BOOKS
THE COMMITTEE, by Walter Goodman (Pelican, $2.95)—When it appeared a year or so ago this history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities received great praise. For, even though its tone is critical, it is never a vicious polemic, such as the committee might have prepared about someone or some organization. Goodman begins the story back in the Roosevelt administration when the committee was headed by Martin Dies of
Texas, and he carries it up through the grim period of Communist-hunting, when heresy was being ferreted out everywhere in the land. Numerous personalities of historic significance walk these pages: Nixon, the Roosevelts, Hiss and Chambers, and the many who have come before the committee.
The speaking vocabulary of the average well-educated American is about 5,000 words.
Persons under 18 not admitted
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