The Daily Collegian Wednesday, July 28,1976
Band lacks own style
ByGEORGE OSGOOD
Collegian Arts Writer
“Two for the Show” Trooper; Legend:
MCA22I-T
Until this album came in the mail, I had
never heard Trooper. After listening to
them play, I realized that I hadn’t been
missing a thing.
It’s not that “Two for the Show” is
totally bad; it’s just that it really isn’t
much good at all. It’s the kind of album
that should be played before a concert
while the audien'ce is filling the
auditorium; it’s nondescript and would
certainly make the concert-goer ap
preciate what follows. Even Bobby
Sherman.
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It turns out that Trooper is a Canadian
group out of Vancouver. They’re produced
by Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner
Overdrive, but even he can’t get blood
from a stone.
The title cut, the first song on the album,
is not too bad. Bachman plays the lead
guitar line and his efforts save the song '
from total oblivion. Drums are purely
Ringo Starr, plunk-plunk, blam-blam stuff
The tune is catchy, though, and Bach
man’s riffs come through sweet and clear
“Two for the Show” provides a faint
glimmer of light on an otherwise dismal
album.
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The group seems captivated by the
lyrics of each song. They must be, because.
on every song, each line is repeated at
least twice. On two songs, each line is
repeated four times. If the lyrics were
excellent, this would only be very
dangerous, but with lyrics like these (from
“Loretta”
She’s got a phoney I.D. but it’s plain to
see
She’s not quite 17 goin’ on 23
The boys at her school all leave her alone
’Cause a night with Loretta means you
won’t make it home. '
it’s quickly and unconditionally fatal,
especially when you realize the band is
playing it for straight.
At least, I think they’re playing it
straight. I was given some doubts, though,
by “Santa Maria,” a fairly smooth rocker
with a “Ride, Captain, Ride” theme and
melody line. Unfortunately, the song’s
setting is a sardine boat, which somehow
destroys the mood.
The album is full of James Gang and
Grand Funk riffs that haven’t been heard
in America in four or five years. Maybe
they’re big in Canada in 1976. “Ready,” a
Doobie Brothers imitation, comes off
pretty well, with decent congas from
Barry Keene and a good keyboard lead by
Frank Ludwig that is reminiscent of
ELP’s “Nutrocker.”
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Collegian Arts Writer
New York actors are
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enigmas can be chilling for a
reporter.
Fortunately, the thaw was
fast. T. Richard Mason and
Richard Greene are humans,
made from the same stuff as
a Penn State student. The
difference is not that they are
necessarily more sophisti
cated, but that for the next
two weeks Mason and
Greene will be two characters
in Jason Miller’s award
winning play, “That Cham
pionship Season.” The play
opens ' Thursday at the
Playhouse, the- final
production of the Festival of
American Theatre.
The plot centers on five has
beens who relive the only
triumph of their lives: a
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basketball game. No matter
that it was a championship 20
years ago; the characters live
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day. Mason plays Tom Daley,
an alcoholic degenerate who
travels from one' city to ,
another, ending up in
hospitals and skids. His
brother, James, played by
Greene, picks Tom up, dries
him out and sends him off
. clean. This loyalty is im
pressive, if not fanatical.
In order to play the part of ,
the alcoholic brother, Mason
spent two weeks in New
York’s Bowery. Mason says
he also draws on his Irish
heritage: a “long line of
drinkers.”
James is not so typical a
character. “There is a James
in every man,” Green says.
“An actor draws on his
complications on his possi
bilities. I understand James’
desperation.”
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characters, Mason says,
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are usually bad.”
- Neither of those premises
seems true for Mason or for
Greene.
Acting for them runs the
gamut from Shakespeare to
soap opera. “Range,” Greene
says, “is a challenge. You are
your own instrument. When
you become proficient at
something, go on to another.”
“That Championship
Season,” according to Greene
and Mason, is an “actor’s
dream.” Mason says it is
Chekhovian because all the
characters are in
terdependent. -It requires a
good team performance,
Greene says. If one character
loses concentration, it is
everyone’s loss.
There are cannibal roles,
like Othello, Hamlet and
Lear, that can consume an
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actor; Green says,
paraphrasing Sir Lawrence
Olivier.
Season” is similar. “It’s a
total experience, ” Greene
says. “We are all drained.”
Green’s and Olivier’s notion
about Shakespearian roles is
that the roles must consume
the actor because the actor
can never be as strong as they
are. “You learn humility by
playing those roles.”
Green trained for acting at
Wayne State University. It
was a rigorous experience. If.
he got more than four hours
sleep a night, he was lucky,
Greene says. “It was won
derful training,” he adds.
' Mason grew up in New
York City near a family “full
of creative energy.” One of
the children, in fact, became
a concert pianist. Mason says
he wanted “to be connected to
a creative process.” That
connection was acting. He
first studied acting at a school
in Maine. Alter three years,
the school was axed and he
headed back to New York,
where he studied at the H.B.
Studio.
H.B. is for Herbert Bergoff,
an influential acting teacher.
Later he studied with Uta
Hagen. Mime, dance, voice,
speech and Shakespeare, of
course, were all part of his
could be comeback i.
By MARGARET HERRING
Collegian Arts Writer
With the Beatles’ new album, “Rock and Roll Music,” on the
market,.their single, “Got to Get You into My Life,” a current
hit and sporadic talk of their regrouping in the news, the
question is who is interested in the Beatles? .»
Sales of Beatle’s albums in State College haven’t fluctuated
much since 1970, the year the group disbanded. Capitol
Records, however, is currently trying to promote more sales.
The company recently gave The Record Ranch a mirror
decorated with the picture from the “Rubber Soul” album
cover, for which 600 persons registered to win. According tq
The Record Ranch, Capitol is making Beatle records
available at a good price. Although the company may not be A'
seriously promoting a Beatles comeback, according to The
Record Ranch, they are nevertheless making a good profit by
re-releasing old material.
In England, many of the singles from Capitol’s “Rock and
Roll Music” are reaching the top 20. Most of the hit songs are
the old material which created “Beatlemania”, music with no
message save ‘ ‘good time rock and roll’ ’.
Super Max of WRSC feels that the Beatles are not making p
comeback but their music is. Their early music, which
pealed to 13-year-olds in 1963, no longer appeals to the 26-year
old of 1976.
“There’s a wholenew batch of 13-year-olds who still don’t
know who the Beatles are, were ... except as oldies,” says
Super Max. “All these poor 13-year-olds don’t know that this
brand-new group has been around for 13 years.”
Requests at WRSC usually come from college students and*!
housewives who still remember the Beatles when they were
together. The younger kids are not requesting any Beatles
music. “Most people who call on the Hitline ask for the later
stuff, pre-“Abbey Road,” but post-“ Sergeant Pepper.” I’ve
never had anyone call me up and ask for ‘I Wanna Hold Your
Hand’ ever, ’ ’ Super Max says
Will the Beatles regroup? Probably not is the genera]
opinion. But their music will remain. As teens grow out of the'
rock-and-roll style of early Beatles music and into other
areas, new 13-year-olds will just be discovering them. Of the
Beatles’ music, the post-“ Sergeant Pepper” material will,
probably survive as reminiscent of the 60’s and as a tribute to
the multiple talents of John, Paul, Ringo and George.
Backstage preview set
A Behind-the-Scenes look at
“That Championship Season”
will be held at 3 p.m. Friday
in the Playhouse. Free tickets
are available at the
Playhouse box office and at
the University Auditorium
box office.
A special student preview
of “That Championship
Season” is scheduled for 8
tonight in # the Playhouse.
Tickets for *sl go on sale at 10
this morning at the Playhouse
box office.
The magazihe club will
meet at 8 tonight in 324 HUB.
-The Metropolitan Com- Homophiles of Penn State
munity Church will hold a will hold a general meeting at
Bible study at 8 tomorrow 8 tonight in 365 Willard.
Festival of American Theatre
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Both men act not 'only in
New York but also in the
“provincial - theatre,” in
cluding Penn State’s Festival
Theatre. The drama in
provincial theatres is a strong
force in American theatre.
“There’s'not a lot of op
portunity in New York,”
Greene says. “Over
commercialization has_
consumed any- room for
mistakes and sticking your
head out,” Mason saysA
“There are a lot of pimps in
this business,” Greene-said,
referring to New York. “You
have to learn to get around
them.”
Actors must also learn to
get around other
such as type-casting. Greene
says Hollywood is the pur
veyor of the myth: “he makes
good faces. It’s cheap arid
external,” adds Mason. Both
men feel that the casting of
actors solely on the basis of
looks is a perversion.“Hte
makes faces,” is a standard
joke among actors. Charles
Bronson fits the mold per
fectly. One person who has
started a new movement and
broken the mold is Dustin
Hoffman. Hoffman can be
anything, from the Little Big
Man to Benjamin the
graduate. “Bronson will
always play BronsonJ’ Green
Eisenhower
night in
Chapel.
The Free U class on sexist
ideologies will discuss
“Women and Psychology” at
7 tonight in 211 Eisenhower
Chapel.
Collegian notes 4
The U.S.G. gayline will be
open from 7 to 11 p.m.
tomorrow and Friday. For
information, call 863-0588.