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Page 4 University Daily Kansan, October 17, 1980
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils will perform the Homecoming concert tomorrow night in Hech Auditorium.
Daredevils retain Ozark sound, homes
By DAN TORCHIA
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils truly is a band that has not let success change its style. Most members of the band, which was formed in Mount Fio, Mo., in the early 1970s, still live there.
The Daredevils, who will perform in the homecoming concert at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium, have made a comeback of sorts with the new "Daredevil" album and "Daredevil," their first for Columbia Records.
The band's management is in Kansas City, Mo. The Daredevil's main tour is the Midwinter, from November to March.
After six albums on A&M Records, four of which did not sell well, the Daredevils have colaborated to produce a cohesive sound without sacrificing their eclecticism.
THEIR CONTRACT with Columbia completes a circle started when they first began seeking a record contract. Columbia was the first company interested in the group.
Larry Lee, who plays drums, keyboards and guitar, said guitarist and drummer Steve Curran. He also played with him a tape of the band. Canada managed to play the tape for John Hammond, the legendary producer who discovered Billie Holiday,
Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan.
Hammond turned the tape over to Epic Records, a subsidiary of Columbia. Epic sent a producer to hear the band and gave the Daredevil $500 to make a tape.
"When the producer came down he said, ' really like you guys but you don't have a lawyer or manager or anything. Record companies are not happy with that.' We suggested that we find a manager." said Lee
Band members noticed on the back of a Brewer and Shipley album that the duo was managed by Good Karma Productions in Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City was fairly close to Springfield, Lee said, and Good Karma understood the band's goals.
IN EARLY 1972 Good Karma began to manage the Daredevils. They released their first album on A&M in 1973. Producing the album were David Anderle and Glyn Johns. Johns has produced such groups as the Rolling Stones and the Eagles.
"They came to listen to us at a show at the Cowtown Ballroom in Kansas City," Lee said. Afterward, Johns was straightforward. He almost like you all, but I really didn't hear it onstage.
"Our management suggested that we go to the office with a couple of acoustic guitars and play
Spencer exhibit follows Japanese road to art
there. We tuned up and played a song. He said,
"That's all I need to hear. Let's do it."
Titled "The Ozark Mountain Daredevil," the album contained the Top 20 single "If You Want To Get To Heaven." The album eventually went gold.
The adventures of 19th-century travel on the Tokaloid路 in eastern Japan will be recreated in an exhibit that opens Sunday in the Kress museum of the Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art.
Their second album, "It'll Shine When It Shines," recorded in Springfield, featured "Jackie Blue," their first song to hit No. 1 on the charts.
By JANE NEUFELD Staff Reporter
After releasing "It's Alive," a concert collection featuring the Daredevil's best-known songs, A&M had the option of continuing to record the band. A&M didn't pick up the option, and in October 1979 the Daredevil signed with Columbia.
"Tokaido: Adventures on the Road in Old Japan," displays about 85 wood block prints by 19th-century aristid Hiroshige travelers who traveled from Kyoto to Tokyo. What that connected the cities of Tokyo and Kovito.
THEIR NEXT THREE albums did not sell well. Lee said that the group was partly to blame but that A&M did not promote the albums as well as it could have.
Staff Reporter
Stephen Addiss, associate professor of art history and the curator of the exhibit, said the prints were displayed on the walls in an arrangement that would take people along a path, giving them the impression of actually being on a road.
"Most exhibitions are open, and you can go anywhere in them," she added. "This one has a few exhibitions."
He said the museum bad one of the world's largest collections of Hiroshige prints of the Tokaido, including some that even print experts hadn't seen.
Hiroshima traveled the Tokida in 1832, Addiss said, and his first series of prints about the road and its travelers was so successful that he did about a dozen more series.
Llee said there were some problems associated with being based in the Midwest. The Daredevils don't get as much recognition as they could if they were based on the West Coast, he said.
"You are out of the industry's eyes," he said. There is a lot to be said about moving to Los Angeles.
"I think I am lucky, considering a lot of good friends I know who are musicians. I was with the musician today," he said.
Addiss said the exhibition used prints from eight or nine of the series. The prints are arranged according to theme, such as the pleasures and dangers of the road, the politics and economics on the road, humour on the road and the religion and folk beliefs of travelers.
The last two categories show the influence of Japanese artistic traditions on Hiroshige and his imitation.
The prints show travelers walking along the road, relaxing in roadside irons and enjoying the scenery.
"It's the most beautiful show of Japanese prints I've ever seen," Addiss said. "I've seen prints as beautiful as ours, but I’ve never seen an installation like this."
A number of activities at the museum have been scheduled in conjunction with the exhibition, including weekly Wednesday night classes on Japanese culture, a reading of Japanese folk tales on Oct. 22 and a demonstration of Oriental massage and acupuncture on Dec. 3.
In addition to the prints, the exhibition has a stage area where Japanese plays and tea ceremonies will be performed, a film room that will be used for a slide and tape show about the Tokaidio inns and a reconstruction of a room in a roadside inn.
This Sunday, a short film, "The Japanese," will be shown in the museum auditorium at 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. and a festival of traditional music will be held from 3:04 p.m. in the Kress Gallery.
Addiss will discuss the prints at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Kress Gallery.
Five films on travel, including Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" and John Ford's "Stagecoach," will be shown Sundays in November in the museum auditorium.
The Tokaido exhibition will be on display until
Dec. 17. It is financed by a $44,000 grant from the
National Park Service.
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MUSIC J. T. Cooke, 8 p.m. at G.P. Loyd's vault. MUSIC K. T. Cooke, 10 a.m. at the Michael House. THEATER: "The Fool," a world premier of Michael Dorn.
MOVIES: "Being There," 3:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m. at the Kansas Union
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"Union The Laughmakers/The Magic Christian," midnight at the Union
Blue Ridium Band, 9 p.m. at the Lawrence Opera House
THEATER: "The Fool," 8 p.m., University Theatre
MUSIC: Ozark Mountain Daredevel, with David Frye; Homecom-
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"A Gypsy Melody," presented by the Seem-To-Be-Players, 1:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center
SUNDAY
ART: "Tokaido: Adventures on the Road in Old Japan." Kress Gallery, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art
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