By KOVill Corr/say
Callegiam Staff Writer
The Basement Tapes- Bab Dylan
and The Band
The twenty-four songs on this
double album were recorded
eight years ago in the basement
of Big Pink, a house in upper New
York State which the Band was
living in and recording at. Neither
Dylan nore the Band ever in
tended to release these songs
when they recorded them, but
fifteen of the sixteen Dylan songs
were bootlegged and the quality
of those bootleg albums was so
poor that they probably decided
that it would be best to release
quality recordings of the songs.
The eight songs recorded by the
Band were originally for their
First album, Music From Big
Pink, but none of them were used.
There are three especially good
songs by the Band, "Katie's Bee
Gone," "Orange Juice Blues,"
and "Bessie Smith," a song about
"going down the road" to see a
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By Janet Mazur
Colkgian Staff Writer
Sugar Bear, a folk guitar-baiJo
duo, performed at last Friday
evening's coffee house. The duo
consists of lead guitarist and
vocalist, Sugar Bear - a native
Californian, "drawn to the Erie
area by gravity" - and Lee
Forrest, a back up banjoist from
Edinboro. The two provided a
relaxing evening of folk, blue
grass, or as Sugar Bear classified
it, "good times" music.
Sugar Bear's repertoire in
cluded such classics as the
I= Waylon Jennings tune,
t Rider, several Grateful
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
fir—Overture To School For Scandal
Respeghi—The Pines Of Rome
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long lost lover. (Bessie was more
than just a friend of mine, we
shared the good times with the
bad, now many a year has passed
me by, I still remember the best
thing I ever had.")
Changin'," etc.) Later he became
None of the Band's eight songs
were ever bootlegged, and there
s , story teller who just wanted to
is only one song by Dylan and the tell" you his story. (And the
Band which was never stories he told were quite good:
bootlegged, and it is "Goin' to "Visions of Johanna," "Love
"
Acapulco." There are four songs minus Zero-No Limit," All
on this album that were released Along the Watchtower," "Lay
before in a different version. Two Lady Lay," "Knockin" on
of the songs, "Tears of Rage" an d Heaven's Door," etc.). To try and
"This Wheel's of Fire," were Pick out the best Dylan songs on
this album would be ridiculous,
released on their first album.
recorded by The Band and
one is as good as another, and you
"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" and find yourself liking each song
"Down In the Flood" were more everytime you hear it.
recorded by Dylan and Happy Don'tworry about the music
Traum and released on Bob
being eight years old, Dylan's
Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume 11. lyrics are timeless: "I'm goin'
down to Rose-Marie's she never
All four of the songs sound better
on the Basement Tapes. does me wrong, she puts it to me
plain as day, and gives it to me
This is the first album on which for a song. It's a wicked life, but
Dylan actually sings out. On his what the he 11..."
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early albums, Dylan "talks" a lot P.S. To Don; How's "Rocky"?
duo performs
Dead numbers, and a great deal
of original material. The most
memorable of the originals was
Service Station Pull-In-Fill Up
Blues a brief, "catchy" tune.
Each song was performed with
a consistent style; Sugar Bear
handling lead guitar and vocals,
Mr. Forrest harmonizing oc
casionally while providing
rhythm banjo.
Conveying much emotion,
engulfed totally in the music,
Sugar Bear performed a set
without his back-up man, proving
that he's able to entertain suc
cessfully alone.
A capacity crowd attended this
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Beveredge Webster
Pianist Performing
THE BEHREND COLLEGE
In cooperation with the National Endowment of the Arts
and The Pennsylvania Arts Council
Harold Bauer, Conductor
Mr. Webster will present an informal seminar
at Behrend on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 24.
Time and place to be announced.
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of his songs, just to get his
message across. At that time he
wrote "protest" songs that
became, "anthems" to many
people ("Blowing In the Wind,"
The Times They Are A-
event, and responded en
thusiastically to the more
familiar tunes - frequently ap
plauding and at times, stomping
with the music. This reinforces
the apparent success of Sugar
Bear's performance-who, in
cidentally, can regularly be seen
at the Plymouth Tavern of Erie.
Hopefully future coffee houses
will be as successful as this, the
second of the year. Gay Cantania,
a returning favorite, and a
Behrend student will perform at
the next coffee house, to be held
Friday, Sept. 26th. The coffee
house hosts a pleasant at
mosphere. Come and enjoy !
Proudly Presents
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By Ron Wayne
Monty Python is apparently the
king of black comedy. Humor of
this nature is somewhat un
familiar to the American movie
going crowd and probably enjoys
a greater popularity in Europe,
especially Great Britain. Yet
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
has been received well and is
doing fantastic business at the
box office. I do not think there has
been a change of Americans
preference of comedy style, but
that Monty Python has produced
a film of pure delight that does
not constantly use black comedy
to get laughs.
One must commend Mr. Python
for this, because the Medieval
Ages, the time at which the story
takes place, was certainly a dark
and macabre time when death
and violence were commonplace,
and he could have easily over
done it with some basis of
justification.
The story revolves around the
character King Arthur and his
attempt, commissioned by God
himself, to find the Holy Grail.
Attacking the assignment with
serious dedication but obvious
inadequacies, Arthur and his
knights face obstacle after ob
stacle in their attempt, such as
the knights who say "ni", a castle
filled with masochistic and lovely
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young women, and an innocent
appearing white rabbit known for
its carnivorous and ferocious
tendencies. The film is filled with
other incidents too numerous or
intricate to mention.
The actors, fairly unknown to
most Americans, are rather
good, especially two who appear
as guards of the young prince,
whom one of Arthur's knights
vainly attempts to rescue.
Technically, the film stands out
in the short animated sequences.
Here is where Mr. Python could
have let his imagination go
completely wild. The lack of
technical excellence in the
unanimated sections of the movie
was perhaps intentional in that
they are quite absurd and
therefore extremely funny. For
example when a certain
character's arm is chipped off, a
steady outward stream of blood
pours out. That is totally
unrealistic, but humorous in a
black comedy sense.
As I may repeat, Monty
Python's style of comedy, per
haps sometimes so changeable as
to defy definition, is not con
sistently humorous to the
average viewer, but the film will
be enjoyed by most. Don't expect
Woody Allen, and you'll feel
you've received your money's
worth.
Erie Hall
Thurs., Sept. 25
8 p.m.
Admission Free