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ON TOUR
by Nick Anastasio
The Who Winds down their farawell tour with two shows at
Shea Stadium, October 15 & 16. Opening both shows will be The
Clash. Top Roger Daltrey of The Who. Bottom: Joe Strummer
of The Clash.
Photo by Steve Geary
THE WHO (Shea Stadium,
New York, October 15-16)
— Yes, this really is the last
tour for the world’s greatest
rock and roll band. And what
a tour it’s been! So far, San-
tana, The Clash, Jethro Tull,
David Johannsen, and
Loverboy have opened for
The Who.
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THE GO-GOs and A
FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
(The Spectrum, October 11)
— An interesting combina-
tion. The Go-Go's ‘‘Vaca-
tion” album is too commer-
cial, almost bubblegum). As
for a Flock of Seagulls, well,
they sound okay, but they
look ridiculous.
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VAN HALEN (The Spec-
trum, October 19 - 20) — If
you see Judas Priest and
Iron Maiden, don’t bother:
seeing Van Halen. They
‘have butchered such songs
ras ‘Pretty Woman,’
“You've Really Got Me,”
“Dancing in the Streets,”
and ‘‘Happy Trails;”’ Eddie
Van Halen is the world’s
most overrated guitarist;
and David Lee Roth ad-
vocates stupidity. It’s a
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wonder these guys are so
popular.
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- JUDAS PRIEST and
TRON MAIDEN (The Spec-
‘trum, October 12) — Two of
the best heavy metal bands
with the same line-up (two
guitarists, bassist, drum-:
mer, singer). both bands
feature beter-than-average'
lyrics. This shapes up as the’
heavy metal concert of the
year.
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HEART and JOHN,
COUGAR (The Spectrum,
October 15) — Another in-|
teresting combination.
Cougar is riding high with
“Jack and Diane’ while
Heart’s ‘Private Auditions”
album hasn't gotten the
airplay it deserves. J
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JOE JACKSON (Tower
Theater, some time this
month) — The date has not"
been set yet, but the man
who has gone from new wave
(‘Look Sharp,” ‘I'm the
Man,”) to swing (‘“‘Jumpin’!
Jive”) to no guitars (‘Night |
and Day’) wil be at he
Tower.
“ER GE TT AE TE EE NE
Poets’ Prattle
Drawing by Adrienne Del Vecchio :
Searching
A vision from childhood’s past,
with love I thought would last.
But you were cold, and out to sea you cast
my love, and now I'm sinking fast.
But like a good swimmer I stayed afloat,
Just hanging around in love’s morbid moat.
And now I'm neither here nor there,
searching for someone, anyone who might care.
Frank Mitchell 11
Black Finger
I have just seen a beautiful thing
5 Slim and still
%® Against a blue, blue sky,
A straight cypress
A black finger
Pointing upward
Sensitive
Exquisite
Why, beautiful, still fingers are you black?
And why are you pointing upwards?
John David Smith
‘Dreamer’
by Christine Curcio
Collegian Staff Writer
Special to the Lion’s Eye
Pink Floyd has set a new ar-
tistic premise for rock movies.
Along with The Who's “Tom-
my,” “The Wall” represents
the end of the days of grainy on-
stage films of a live band. The
movie is visually and emo-
tionally powerful, enough to
leave anyone shaken.
Much has already been said
of the album, which sold 12
million copies worldwide;
what's important is how the Ip
translates onto celluloid. The
transference fron one medium
to another is usually disap-
pointing, but Roger Waters,
who wrote the album, has suc-
cessfully authored the film.
“The Wall,” both the album
and the movie, is not so much
the story of the mental
breakdown of a rock star, but
portrays a deeper theme of the
suppression of free thought in
our society. Religion, educa-
tion, politics and family all
build a wall around our hero
Pink, who represents all of us.
That wall is too high to climb,
too strong to break — and Pink
considers suicide. Pink’s inner
conflict comes to a head when
he is tried by a jury and told to
tear down the wall.
The movie is Pink's life story.
Pink, played by the Boomtown
Rats’ Bob Geldof, is plagued all
his life by the death of his
father during the war. A
touching scene in the beginning
shows little Pink in the park
asking someone else’s father to
put him on the merry-go-round.
The father complies and later
Pink goes over to him and takes
hold of his sleeve. The father
pushes him away. The lyrics of
the song in the background say,
“Daddy, what'd you leave
behind for me?/All in all, it’s
just another brick in the wall.”
* The lp’s lyrics comprise the
great majority of the film's
dialogue, but no other words
are needed.
Standout
scenes are
‘“‘Another Brick in the Wall
Part 2” or, “We Don’t Need No
Education,” with school kids
marching through a maze wear-
ing identical masks. ‘‘Comfor-
tably Numb’ is also chillingly
presented.
With the exception of The
Trial scene at the end, the few
animated sequences are distinc-
tive but out of place. This
movie is so real, so painfully
real, that animation just
doesn’t fit.
Bob Geldof stars as Pink, Jenny Wright portrays the young ‘‘groupie”’ who visits his hotel room in
MGM’s “Pink Floyd — The Wall” ©
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Currents
by Helen Cohen
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Hi! My name is Helen, and
this is the punky-new wave
review. I'll be bringing you the
best and worst of the new music
scene here and abroad. You will
also be able to find the hottest
material for college students
throughout the nation through
the “College Top Ten’’ and the
“Best Bets.”” So read on and en-
Oy...
BEST BETS
ABC ‘‘Lexicon of Love”
(Polygram) — this is the best
synth-pop band yet to come out
of the UK. Their tight horn sec-
tion and catchy hooks make it
irresistable. The songs ‘‘Look of
Love” and ‘Poison Arrow’
have good potential to make it
big in the USA. ****
BANANARAMA (Polygram)
. — What a great EP! This trio
started out as the . backup
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singers for Fun Boy Three, and
they continue to impress with
their unique style. “He Was
Really Something” is already a
huge club hit. ****
WALL OF VOODOO “Call of
the West”. (IRS) — Wall of
Voodoo has gone western and
who has ever heard of a western
punk? Well, if you like chewing
tobacco, Roy Rogers, and spik-
ed wristbands, then this is for
you. 2* :
SLOW CHILDREN ‘Mad
About Town” (RCA) — 1 knew
a dance band would come along
that didn’t rely on synthesizers
and this is it. Pal Shazar’s voice
adds a new wave twist to the
songs. *¥**
BILL NELSON “The Love
That Whirls” (PVC) — This is
the most significant release
Nelson has issued since his
| Pink Floyd's Surreal Wall
+ The power of ‘“The Wall” lies
in its visuals — they are
unrelentingly graphic. After all,
it is about a person’s lifelong
journey into insanity, and all
things aren’t pretty. One scene
that’s particularly startling is
when young Pink walks into an
abandoned asylum and sees a
gibbering man in pajamas in
corner. He touches the man’s
shoulder and finds that he’s
looking at himself 15 years
later. The surreal, disjointed at-
mosphere in the movie enables
us to look at different stages of
Pink's life at once.
An interesting - twist SW
Pink not so much the rock star
but an Adolf Hitler-type leader
whose insignia is two crossed
hammers. This scene was lost
to me, but the Nazi Germany
scenes were interestingly
staged.
“The Wall” isn’t as confusing
as it seems. Those who are the
least bit familiar with the lp will
understand its basic ideas and
appreciate the way in which
they are presented. ;
The success of “The Wall”
lies in its ability to illustrate at
length the profound ideas that
went into the lp, without losing
them in the shuffle.
1982 MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
departure from Be Bop Deluxe.
His voice is as smug as ever and
the lyrics are even better. It’s a
shame that he didn’t make this
a single album; it would have
been much more solid. ***
COLLEGE TOP TEN
1. X “Under the Big Black
Sun” (Elektra)
2. Lords of the New Church
(IRS).
3. ABC “The Lexicon of Love”
(Polygram)
4. XTC “English Settlement”
(Epic)
5. Haircut 100 “Pelican West”
(Arista)
6. Duran Duran (Capitol)
7. Bananarama (Polygram)
8. Romeo Void (415)
9. A Flock of Seagulls (Jive)
10. Bow Wow Wow ‘‘Last of the
Mohicans” (RCA)
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