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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
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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record business are no longer
valid.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
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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
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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.