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y Lennon's 'Rock n' Roll' mm soass sobs mi n -.-s--!. . Bsrrsakw Jf i. m fc) tr, warn These Chicago Dudes want you to meet a very Rice "Lady"!! Festival Rock Concert extra guest stars PAVWtf'S BOO State Basketball Tournament Special SAT. MAR. 15 at 8 PM Purchase tickets in advance $4.00 at Dirt Cheap records, Student Union, Ben Simons Down town, Gateway, Omaha Westroads, Miller & Paine Downtown - Gateway. Daisy Lincoln -Omaha. Homers Old Town - Plaza. Auditorium Boxoffice Recorded rehashes of old material are often depressing exercises in forced nostalgic yearnings that the artist was obviously enjoying immensely at one point, then decided to finish up in order to get an album out at an opportune moment. Some are not worth the price of admission, a fine example of this being Neil Young's Journey Through the Past. Others meet with general acceptance and assume a position of respect, dove wore strike up iho bond such as the Who's Live at Leeds, or. more recently, Joni Mitchell's Miles of Aisles. John Lennon has released a rehash album, but of a slightly different color. Entitled Rock 'n' Roll, it is a compendium of fifties and sixties rock music written by such luminaries as Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Del Shannon, and Little Richard. Lennon explains in an accompanying sheet that these songs were among the seminal influences on the early Beatles music, and goes on to add a few details of his early musicianship, revealing that he first learned one of the included songs on the banjo. Lennon's commentary is one thing; the music is another. Produced by another leftover from the Golden Age, Phil Spector, the album has a floaty, overworked sound that lends an eerie cadence to the simple-minded lyrics. Lennon has been accused of often singing Hrin hie fnonf Iff f w a away his myriad psychological twists and turns, but on Rock 'n' Roll, he is limited to the works of others. Be this as it may, he nonetheless manages to place his unmistakable stamp on the proceedings. His piercing voice refrains from its habitual quasi-primal-scream mode, and confines itself to a moderately raving delivery that the lyrics truly deserve. His guitar treatment is unambitious, if not to say respectful. Leaving behind the sloppy basic chording that was the hallmark of early rock' giants, he instead forges an acceptable synthesis of old-line and modem rock stylet. This mutation does not always fall comfortably upon the senses, but it is a credit to Lennon that it works as well as it does. Lennon's finest hour comes with his rendition of Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue". A juvenile, insipid song by any estimate, Lennon nevertheless plays it straight and somehow manages to make the listener take it seriously, at least until five seconds after the final chord. The album is flawed only by the poverty of its material. There was little musical merit in the majority of those songs revered today as being the high points of rock's halcyon days, yet Lennon has seen fit to treat them Mia measure of respect that they do not deserve. He may give them all the affection he wishes, much as one may treasure a ragdoll long after childhood's end, but one ought to take exception to a legitimate lyric genius like Lennon wasting his talents on others' inferior material. It is a shining example of an artist working beneath himself, which should always be noted with regret. ill i 11 U ft 0 1 . w from Hew York City . lit ' El 11 W 7 A r1 if . KIMBALL HALL ntnanaireois Collegiate band to perform thursday The Collegiate Band's spring concert Thursday at 8 p.m. in Kimball Hall will feature special guests from the Nebraska Bandmasters Association. One of three bands in the department, the Collegiate Band is composed of marching band members, according to director Robert Fought, associate professor of saxophone and band. The band will perform "The Mercenaries" by Robert Beadell, professor of theory and composition. Selections from Gershwin's fold opera "Porgy and Bess" and a collection of familiar Irish folktunes also wiir be played. A quintet of freshman music majors and the band will perform a sonate for brass quintet and concert band. C ! . J ft-"": M in 1 in 4 C.4 i i Lm-. Tues., Mar. 18 8 p.m. THE THREE SISTERS by Anton Chekhov A unique and controversial production. Chekhov with humor and laughter. Wed. Mar 19 2:30 & 8 p.m.Tues. Mar. 25 8 p.m. THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE by William Saroyan Gleeful, hearbreaking, tender and hilarious ' Wed. Mar. 26 8 p.m. SHE STOOPS TO GOI.'Q'JER by Oliver Goldsmith Has kept audiences laughing for 200 years. TOFTS' Kimball Box Offic Room 113 Music Bidg. 1 ivftk 1 a. 11th & R Streets 472 3375, 472 2506 UNL Students $2 Regular S3 This residency is supported in part by grants from tfc National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, and the Nebraska Arts Council. lyumniMnini IB OJ f '',, ) ' ' ' " ';, " , '" ' f ''" :' .'. ' ' ' a .-. " .v. ii y, ' , ',,"' ,-4, -, Scenes From A Marriage IHi 1' it am i nii'eivVii 'pi'i ii ' ir-tfi- page 16 daily nebraskan Wednesday, march 12, 1975
