Page 4 by Michel Argento Hermit of Mink Hollow Todd Rundgren A man would have to be as mad as a hatter, To try and change the world with a plastic platter. Todd Rundgren wrote that back in 1972, and he is finally believing it. Todd's newest re lease, Hermit of Mink Hollow, doesn't advocate change or point out social injustice as his previous solo efforts have. It isn't even a challenge anymore for Todd. Writing and arran ging all of the tunes, playing all instruments, and producing and engineering the album is sec ond nature to Todd, but being a pop success is not Todd Rund gren. After ten years in the music business, he has seen many artists sacrifice good music just to be a "success". Pop music, according to Todd, has been too emotionally drain ing. "When I made those early records, I was very insecure and unstable. If you're concer: ned with pop success, you're always worried with keeping on Jazz Concert October 12,1978 Gallery Lounge 12:15 PM.- DUKE ELLINGTON WORKSHOP 8:15 P.M. -FORMAL CONCERT students,facu FREE DlSCussioßs the charts. You would never quite get there. I would take it too hard." "The reasons I got in the record business are no longer valid. I used to think records had this great importance, that people would someday be able to have a picture of the world through those records. Records have become too homogenized. If entertainment is the act of the Seventies ... at least more people will be attuned to video." Todd has geared his creat ive drive toward the video arts. He has just completed a tele vision pilot and is working on a film titled Simon which is a view of life through the eyes of an acid casualty. Live! in the Air Age Drastic Plastic Be Bop Deluxe Bill Nelson is a man pos sessed by the terrors of modern society. Other than that, he is one of the finest rock'n'roll guitarists I've heard for a long time. Live! in the Air Age as Nelson puts it, is a great trans ition for the band. It's hard to translate the energy of a live FEATURING. THE C.C. Reader e Arts performance on to a lifeless plastic waffle, but Be Bop De luxe's competency makes the transformation. Live! in the Air Age opens with "Life in the Air Age", a poem about a man that is caught in a time warp and finds himself in the "air age". This age is the age of technology in which man's fate is pre-deter mined. The band provides tight back-up to Nelson's blazing "logical/illogical" guitar solos. Putting Nelson's Jean Cocteau inspired lyrics aside, Be Bop Deluxe is an exitingly original rock band. Nelson's fear of modern technology shows through clearly on Drastic Plastic. How else could you explain a song title like "Superenigmatix (Lethal Appliances for the House That Has Everything)"? Despite this fear, Bill Nelson uses modern technology to his favor. Electronic effects grace the hard-driving rock that Be Bop Deluxe is so good at. For those that thought all good rock has gone the way of the assembly line, Be Bop De luxe should make you believe that there is still one human rock band in the world today ty, staff- Cultural Events Oct. 13--Mr. Skeffington-Rose Lehrman Arts Center HACC at 8 p.m. Oct. 17-Nov. 26--My Fair Lady, Reservations, 939-7841, Host Inn, Hbg. Oct. 18--The Romero's, Hershey Community Theatre, 8:15, Tickets 534-3405. Oct. 12--Concert Of American Folklore Music, Strphen Wade, 8 pm. HACC Rose Lehrman Arts Center. Info and Reservations 234-7592. Oct. 6-29--Surrealist Paintings and Drawings, HACC Rose Lehrman Arts Center, Lawrence von Baran. Donee Concert The Harrisburg Performing Arts Dance Division's second annual concert, "Celebrate," will be presented at 8 P.M., Saturday, October 28, and at 2 P.M., Sunday, October 29 at the Harrisburg Jewish Community Center, Front & Vaughn Sts. The dance division, now en tering its fifth year under the direction of Richard Wilson, was mentioned in the May issue of this year's Dance Magazine as..."a group that has found its own identity," as a result of its performance in the Philadel phia Dance Alliance Festival. It was chosen from among 21 dance ensembles to perform October 12, 1978 Theatre Music Exhibits with the Penna. Ballet concert group. The concert will follow last fall's premiere performance of newly choreographed work un der the artistic direction of dancer/choreographer, Andrea Minnick Llewellyn. She former ly danced with the Philadelphia Ballet Co., the Wolftrap Dance group in Virginia, and with Luigi in New York. In addition to Wilson, cho reographers will include Robert Kimmel, assistant director, Llewellyn, and members of the performing group. Guest art ists from the divisions alumni also will be featured.
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