February 13, 1970 "Chrst You Know It Ain't Easy" There comes a time to your ears when all the heavy music you hear begins to sound •alike, until You can hardly tell whether that's -a new song by Led Zepplin. Jeff Beck, Frigid Pink, or Ten Y?i r TS After. I'm speaking here as a former heavy music freak and a somewhat dissillusioned one at that. Is the Led Zepplin II al bum any better than the first Not really. I like it better, but only because it is consistent whereas the first wasn't sure whether it wanted to be hard rock or blues rock (with Black Moun tairPs side thrown in for what's left of the raga people). At any rate heavy music is still up there, but I don't think its going to last. The main force that is driving a lot of people from heavy excess is the "let's go back"to-.the old stuff and sit around the back porch picking. Witness the sud den popularity of Credence Clear watfo,,r Revival. The Band, and the Youngbloods. John Mayall has stated that the heavy lead guitar approach to blues rock doesn't mean much- anymore, and the Rolling Stones do a bit of. semi acoustic and simple stuff on Let It Bleed. This is all very nice, ex cept everyone I've named has made, it. Delany and Bonnie Branlett haven't ;quite made it theragh, which is a shame. Their group, Delany, Bonnie & Friends, has .been an underground supergroup for the last year, they're- superstars in Europe, where George Harrison joined them for a tour last fall. When the group played England Eric Clapton left Blind Faith and is currently- touring the U. S. with , that - pianist Leon R us seli has written and played on ...roe Cockers hit, Delta Lgdy, Bonnie :under the name of Mary Clay WOULD YOU LIKE TO START YOUR: OWN CHURCH We will furnish yiiu with a Church Charter and you can start your ownchurch. 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If you lean toward management .after proving yourself in sales, the doOr is open for you: If you are interested in the good life . if you want a top in come limited only .by. your own ability . . . if you want a career that offers you real personal satisfaction with the opportunity to grow, call or write today. We would like to tell you of our unique plan for training you for a career iii finance—at no cost to you. ton), is the chick .4inger who up stages IGinnee Shelter from Mick Jagger on Let It Bleed. and Delany does a lot of L. A. stu•do work. DB&F have had an album out on Elektra since last July, AC CEPT NO SUBSTITUTES, Elek tra EKS 74039, which has been pretty much ignored. I bought the albums in September and 'hated it, it had no solos to speak of. there was, nothing spectacularly innovating on it, and it was too short (34 minutes 39 seconds to be exact). . I was listening to it around Christmas and one song, Some day, stuck in my ,head. It started out with a great guitar lick that lid into a very soft. horn chorus, aim cst like a salvation army band with balls. The song is shared vocally by Delany and Bonnie. then Bonnie starts to sing pro gressively louder (Although she never sings as loud on this al bum as she does on Let It Bleed) until the spirit of Otis Redding dueting with Aretha Franklin comes to mind, then the tempo changes and the entire band riffs until the song fades into the next number, Ghetto. I •started running around hum ing the horn riffs, then the guitar licks, then I listened to the al bum again, and since he 21st of January I've been listening to the album about twice a day.- The amazing thing about the group is that it seems like a fam ily thing, with Delany as the father, Bonnie as the mother, Leon- Russel as the uncle, and everyone else sitting in there all together. -There is always some thing to hear. One minute Bon nie will solo•, then she and Delany duet, meanwhile you can listen to Leon Thissel's piano and Jim WAN - TED 22-30 year olds REWARDS Terrance R., Rueter. Divisional Sales .MGR. Investors Diversified' Services 452-2207 _ 1702 - West, Bth .Street Erie, . Pa. 16505 THE NITTANY CUB Keltner's drums on the other channel. It fits together like a Jigsaw puzzle, yet there's no reg imentation. Delany is from Mississippi, and he played lead guitar with the house band of the old ABC TV show, Shindig, the Shin Dogs (They all wore black greaser clothes and sang in accents). The Shin Dogs sound like a pretty lame group, but they weren't, I dug them . . . they had a certain "king-harv i tst will surely come" earthiness to them that I thought could only be achieved with a four piece group. As it is Delany and Leon Russell are getting the same feel with a ten piece band. The group's music is southern to the core, not blues or hillbilly, but southern, in the manner of Tony Joe White and Bobbie Gentry. There's a lot of gospel feeling in it, mainly because they work themselves up to a near religious fervor, and Bonnie can reach! notes with her voice that would; make any chick singer but Tracy! Nelson jealous. As a result, it's like a stoned revival meeting. While all this frenetic wailing is going on, the horns drift around in a languid manner (It's not like Gil Evans arrangements for Miles Davis, but that's what the effect reminds me of, sort of putting you into an exotic lethargy). I can't really say I've got any favorite song here, the album is one of those rare discs without any really BAD tracks on it, but since Delany and Bonnie are just homefolk they like to be polite. The album is just too short, De lany and Bonnie could go on for hours without boring anyone, but I suppose Elektra figures you en joy things in small doses maybe that's why DB&F are recording for Atlantic now. I always like big does anyway. "Nobody ever went broke un derestimating the American pub lic" Department. Atlantic records announced in the December 13th. 1969 issue of Billboard that Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gada-Da-Vida has become Tickets Here For Impressions' Show Tile veteran, pop-soul group', the Impressions, will appear at the Edinboro State College Audi torium at 7:00 p. m., Saturday, February 15. The Impressions have a string of hits a mile long, including "People Get !Ready", "Keep On Pushin' ", and ".AIyIEN" (from the !movie Lilies of the Field). Tickets are available to 13eh _ rend students for $2.00 in advance at the Rec desk. Tickets at the door will be $3.00, but Behrend students with IDs will be !able to purchase them at the door for $2.00. 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