14—The Daily Collegian Monday, Nov. 3, 1980
Rundgren's Utopia no paradise
By STEFANIE PLEET
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A review of Saturday night’s Utopia
cannot be based on quality versus quan
tity. Although Utopia played 20 songs
(previous shows had fewer songs), this
concert was hours shorter. That’s what
happens when the new LP you produce
has 12 short songs and you do eight of
them.
Time wasn’t the only thing Utopia fell
short on. For one, they, all fell short on
hair. Realizing this is extremely
judgemental, I would never mention this
except for how ridiculous the mod hair
cuts with brown suits, white shirts and
skinny black ties looked on a band nam
ed Utopia.
Changing your act is one thing, but co
pying and mocking someone else’s is
another. “I have always thought that it’s
a cri-i-i-i-ime, so I will ask you once
again” (Beatles). Change is great, but
shouldn’t it be a progression with some
sort of forward motion, taking a good
thing and building on it?
Utopia has always been visually
'Blue Bandorama' a spirited show
By REBECCA CLARK
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The music of such greats as Duke Ellington, Leonard
Bernstein and Kenny Rogers reigned as the Symphonic
Blue Band, the Jazz Blue Band and the Marching Blue Band
performed in the Blue Bandorama Saturday night in
Eisenhower Auditorium.
The concert also featured the Band Silks, Blue Sapphire
twirler Lori Bowers, and Touch of Blue (Penn State
Majorettes).
These talented groups performed a professional and
beautiful concert for an appreciative, enthusiastic au
dience. Both the Symphonic Blue Band and the Marching
Blue Band were conducted by Blue Band Director Ned C.
Deihl, with guest director Richard Bundy featured for the
tune “Glory de Spainard.”
The Symphonic Blue Band began the concert with the
“Nittany Lion Special.” Played with ease and free-flowing,
professional style, the piece set the mood for the evening.
The band performed this Sousa-like tune with the sparkling
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oriented and at present owns a $2 million
state-of-the-art video .studio, so why no
stage show? They couldn’t come up with
anything better than a Beatles stage (ex
cept Roger Powell’s keyboards) in
cluding a Lennon-style Rickenbacker
guitar that Todd played. The ultimate
was John “Willie” Wilcox’s Ludwig
drum kit complete with Utopia painted
on the bass in black. Who needs color TV
since Ed Sullivan died?
And Rundgren, who, according to a
press release, “has always advanced the
idea that his followers are more impor
tant to him than mere consumers,”
shows up at a local record store to sign
autographs rather than appearing
somewhere on campus where the
students who supported Utopia at six
bucks a shot could engage in discourse
within a comfortable (i.e. no pressure to
buy) atmosphere.
Enough of this moral crap. On to the
music, which is more of the same,
deleting “moral.”
At least the band was consistent with
their visual image. Never have I seen so
of fine
style of the Boston Pops. This lighthearted pace was con
tinued with a medley of Broadway tunes, featuring songs by
Anthony Newley and the popular “What Kind of Fool Am
The Jazz Blue Band, conducted by Larry Fisher, began
its portion of the concert with the snappy and spirited
“Willie’s Minor Blues.” This 19-piece student group per
formed the moving tune in the grand style of Duke Ell
ington. The brass section definitely stood out as the best in
the group; they are truly Louis Armstrong material.
In their traditional manner the Marching Blue Band mar
ched down the aisles of the auditorium as if they were enter
ing Beaver Stadium on a home football Saturday. Drum
major Rich Gorodesky lead the band in performing “Fight
On State.”
In all, the Blue Bandorama was truly an excellent and en
joyable concert that was well worth listening to on a Satur
day night. Moreover, Deihl’s light-hearted manner added to
the enjoyment and warmth of the concert.
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much be-bop pop in one place. The four
opening songs, all from “Deface the
Music,” were “I Just Want To Touch
You,” “Where Does the World Go to
Hide,” “Feel Too Good,” and "Silly
Boy.” Silly is right!
Rundgren transgressed the bounds of
balance by playing old pop material.
There was an incredible distinction
between the old and new material, which
was alternated throughout the show. The
old material sounded newer.
“Caravan,” “On the Road to Utopia”
and “Set Me Free” from last year’s
“Adventures in Utopia” had substance
which set them apart from the dwindling
new tunes. Also played from that release
were “Shot in the Dark” and “The Very
Last Time.”
Hearing “Crazy Lady Blue,” “Back on
the Street” and “Love In Action” from
the ’77 “Oops! Wrong Planet” was a
welcome change, but still Utopia re
mained in the commercial vein.
The concert, which appeared to be a
sell-out, was just that in more ways than
one.
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| just looking at her, one would not guess she
v?as;a famed author about to give a public reading to
! more than 50 people.
I But, standing behind the lectern in Kern Thursday
i twining was Ann Beattie, author of two novels (“Chilly
\ Series of Winter” and “Falling in Place”) and two
\ shrirt story collections (“Distortions” and “Secrets
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ItSattie was a guest of the English Department, the
! American Studies Program, and the Institute for the
• A£§ and Humanistic Studies, and made her stay pro
| j?t3*ble by visiting four classes in addition to speaking
j a£the English Colloquium.
< -Ifiaking the introduction, Emily Toth told the au
- iftetjce Beattie’s stories have been described as both
: “wierdly depressing” and “strangely hilarious.”
\ in red, baggy pants, black sweater and
i green seqpined socks under clunky shoes, casually
; powered, “My guess is there’s not a laugh in these
1 (stories) but you tell me.”
* '‘.She proceeded to read aloud her latest, yet un
published,■ literary attempt, a short story titled “Runn
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J-he year was 1975. Rock ’n’ roll had
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| IttinH about better times
;T{iere was one last hope, though. A guy
whose picture was on the cover of two na-
rags this week. He’d been tearing
f op pur coast for a couple of years now and
we;l<new he was THE man who could save
Kick ’n’ roll.
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pinstriped hood. I’d juice up the tape
deck and, with quarts in hand, we’d all
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tf we’re, gunna get to that, place where we
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A keenly sensitive account of four troubled people,
“Running Dreams” successfully mixed serious con
flict with light humor proven by the involved
listeners who quietly chuckled at times.
The second story, “Barn Dancing,” was written as a
sequel to “Running Dreams.” Here the same four
characters emerged again in their same ruts with little
if any visible change from their past attitudes.
In both stories, Beattie’s characters are made
passive, unmotivated to actively attempt im
provements in theit* life. The stories are more like
showcases of four people’s mixed-up lives than
parables to instruct readers.
In a recent New York Times Book Review, Beattie is
described as “a prodigiously gifted and developing
writer who has started to come of age.” The article
also added that her most recent novel, “Falling in
Place,” is “the most impressive American novel of the
season.”
Yet Beattie, a graduate of American University and
the University of Connecticut, claimed, "I hate to write
novels. I don’t know how to do it. . . I can’t see how peo
ple are novelists.”
Identifying herself as a short story writer and not a
novelist, Bepttie said she “doesn’t feel at ease” writing
ingsteen or you hated him. There was no
middle ground. In retrospect, it’s easy to
see why everybody wasn’t knocked out
by “The Boss” at first.
Songs like “Mary Queen of Arkansas”
from “Greetings from Asbury Park,” or
“Wild Billy’s Circus Story” from
“.. .The E Street Shuffle” just weren’t
the world’s most melodic and commer
cially accessible tunes. And, lyrically,
Springsteen left much of the country out
in the cold. What did suburban or Mid-
Western kids know about cruising up and
down the New Jersey shoreline, or
Eastern working class values?
The concept behind “The River,” Spr
ingsteen’s latest LP, can be taken on
several levels. In one sense, the album
loosely tells the story of a marriage that
goes sour. The back cover sports cut-out
paper wedding decorations, an
American flag, and other emblems of
“The American Dream,” which Springs
teen metaphorically renounces in songs
such as “The Price You Pay,” “Stolen
Car,” and the title track.
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But in another, and possibly even
more important sense, there’s nothing
symbolic or intellectual about “The
River” at all. From its bittersweet
ballads to its all-out screamers, this new
double-record is about one thing: pas
sionate, pure rock ’n’ roll!
Whereas “Born To Run” was lyrically
novels, adding that she doesn’t “find pleasure in typing
day after day.”
Beattie told the audience she writes a story in a cou
ple of sittings with a very minimal ammount of revis
ing. She said her first drafts are “90 to 98 percent” the
way she wants the final manuscript.
Regardless of how much revising was done, Beattie’s
novel, “Chilly Scenes of Winter,” has been made into a
movie that will be out in January.
Claiming this novel (written in three weeks) is now
“entertaining but not important,” Beattie commended
the movie version. “It’s a great improvement over the
book!”
When asked at the end of the reading about her con
sistently banal subject matters that feature depressed
people, Beattie shrugged and said, “I’m neurotic and a
nut.”
Whatever the case, Beattie has a low key voice in her
writing that isn’t didactical. She said her stories con
tain “anguish that doesn’t lend (itself) to
verbalization.”
A neurotic nut? Some may agree. A talented writer?
Critics and devoted readers are saying Ann Beattie is
definitely that.
Bruce Springsteen
similar to Peter Towhshend’s epics
about British Mods and Rockers
(“Quadrophenia”) and Bob Dylan’s
“Blonde On Blonde” style of rock
poetry, Springsteen here goes back to an
even earlier source for inspiration: He
drops the tales of operas on the turnpike
and ballets being fought in the alleys in
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In a reading and talk at Kern last week, novelist and short-story writer Ann
Beattie confessed, “I hale to write novels. . . I can’t see how people are
novelists.” But her latest novel, “Falling in Place,” has been hailed “the most
impressive American novel of the season."
favor of teen-oriented lyrics in the style
of a Chuck Berry or Brian Wilson.
“Cadillac Ranch,” “I’m a Rocker,” and
“Ramrod” are devastating rock ’n’ roll
classics; having unsurpassed amounts
of dancable energy, the songs seem like
they could have been written by Berry
himself.
And in reverting back to this older
style of rock, ’n’ roll lyricism, Springs
teen has actually progressed. This isn’t
an album with poetry you’ve got to wade
though. There’s no drawn-out, or
chestrated songs like “Jungle Land” or
mood pieces.
There’s a bit of that style on this LP on
cuts such as “Independence Day” and
“Point Blank,” but for the most part,
this album’s dirty, street-legal language
is not complex. Instead of the album
revolving around a specific lifestyle or
regionalism, these songs of romance and
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“Hungry Heart,” “Crush on You,”
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youth celebrations having a unique
quality of simple sophistication so rarely
found in contemporary music. Even
though his lyrics have become more sim
ple, none of Springsteen’s old flare has
been sacrificed. These songs grab, bite
and punch with more passion and power
heard on vinyl in ages.
“The River” has proven that Bruce
Springsteen is not “the new Dylan.” The
E Street Band are not “the new
Beatles.” Springsteen is, though, our
new leader, our new pop spokesman.
Despite the greater mass appeal
generated by this LP and The E Street
Band’s current whirlwind tour, Springs
teen has proven that he need not fluff out
the quality of his material or style to
gain greater national popularity.
It’s been a long 2 1 /z years since his last
release, but entirely well worth the wait.
Six months ago, Mick Jagger said he
thought rock ’n’ roll was dead as a
musical medium. I agreed with him
then, but not any more. “The Boss” is
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