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Nebraska Union Ballroom
National Student Antiwar Con
ference Feb. 14 & 15
Flick: "The Threepenny Op
era" Thurs., Feb. 12, 7 p.m.
Nebraska Union Auditorium
Dr. Dana Farnsworth, Direc
tor Harvard University Health
Center, Convocation on drug
use.
Weds., Feb. 18, 3:30 p.m.
Case Western Resrve Universi
ty, Cleveland, Ohio
All Tower To The People Con
ference Fri., Feb. 13, 1:30 p.m.
Nebraska Union Lounge
Roy Innls, National Director
CORE
Thurs., Feb. 12, 3:30 p.m.
Nebraska Union Ballroom
Dance
to the
Sound
of the
Mysod
February 14
9-12 p.m.
Union Baiiroom
(Boms J I
sStamps
Actually, it's not
(CPS) The publicity come-on says "only once In a
lifetime does an album like this appear." That may be true.
Very seldom in the past has promotion of a record gone
to such lengths to make the public believe it was recorded
by persons other than those who actually cut it. In other
words, Reprise Records' The Masked Marauders is a fraud.
(The label reads Deity-Reprise records, so people will blame
Deity instead of Reprise. )
If pressed, the record company might admit the record
was made in jest, as a piece of satire, an advance April
fool. But rock music freaks who have been convinced to spend
five bucks or more in hopes of hearing the "super session"
of all time probably will not find it very funny.
The Masked Marauders supposedly wa3 made at a secret
recording session featuring Beatles John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, and George Harrison; Stone Mick Jagger and, to
top it all off, Bob Dylan.
Obviously, the record promoters maintained, the groups
and individuals could not identify themselves because of their
legal commitments to other record companies. Realistically,
the people accused of making this ugly album would not want
their names connected with it.
With the exception of a few instrumental bits, the music
is poor throughout. Perhaps it is supposed to be poor as
that makes the joke all the funnier in the eyes of those
who are cleaning up financially from it.
Highlights include an imitation of Mick Jagger doing "I
Can't Get No Nookie" which is a mock of what is apparently
one of Jagger's problems in "I Can't Get No Satisfaction."
There is also an imitation of Bob Dylan singing Donovan's
"Season of the Witch." Dylan doing Donovan is supposed to
be cute, too.
Unfortunately the impersonations are over-done so that the
Masked Marauder Dylan sounds far more like Dylan than the
real Dylan; the same goes for the Marauder version Jagger.
Most of the lead singing is by the imitation Dylan. None
is by any of the Beatles as their voices are far more difficult
to imitate.
As one reviewer put it, the best thing that can be said
.about the album is that it creates "a delightful bit of instant
mythology." However, the mythology is shattered by the
anonymous pop-blues musicians who actually recorded the thing
when, in their last number, they laugh hysterically at the
record buyer and say:
"I paid $5.86 for a record that has (all the stars previously
mentioned) . . . and what do I get? This piece of shit.
When I get through with Deity Records, I'll have every damn
one of them running out of the building. I am so mad that I will
personally tear that building down . . . what a piece of shit."
They're right.
Dance to the
Sound of the Music
Thursday, February 12
from 7:30-8:30 p.m.
HIGH CHAPPARAL
Bowling Lak.
Lincoln Air Park West
HEART FUND DANCE
(all proceeds go to Heart Fund)
$1.50
COLLEGE RMG DAY
COME SEE THE FINEST
COLLEGE RINGS
by Jostcn's
at CAMPUS BOOKSTORE'S
COLLEGE RING DAY, FEBRUARY 12TH
Select the fittest -Wear the fittest forever
Order your Jostctfs college ring
Jostcn Rep will he here on the 12th
CMTO:
THE DAILY NEB R ASK AN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1970