monday, august 25, 1975'
daily nebraskan
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Dr. Hook: drunk remedy
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By Deb Gray
The band apparently had been priming
before the gig.
"How is it down there?" Dr. Hook
asked the 1,500 persons attending the
Golden County Festival at Midwest
Speedway Saturday evening. His voice
sounded as if it was sieved through gravel.
With an eye patch and feathered hat, he
looked like a Long John Silver anyone
could love, reminiscent of a pirate who
cohosted a cartoon carnival show a few
years ago. "It's pretty drunk up here," he
said.
It was not much different down there -
down on the dirt, of the rar trarlr which
winds had changed into dust.
Drunk people
There were quite a few drunk people -the
most visible were pubescent, such as a
12-year-old towhead who had started
drinking beer and smoking dope four hours
earlier when the sun was shining and
Straight was on tho stage.
His stamina couldn't last. When Dr.
Hook came on, he. was
stagger-halt-lurch-wheel-staggering his way
through the audience.
Two other girls were giggling by the
entrance. "I'm really junked out," one
said.
But as a whole, the crowd was
well-behaved. They were there to get of
on the music, to take in one of those
shine-on-August-moon nights that brings
back memories of good times, of thousands
of other mellow summer nights.
Golden Country Festival
The Golden Country Festival was the
first rock concert sponsored by Season's
Best Promotions, a new Lincoln company.
The music started about 6:30 p.m. with
' the Lincoln rock band Straight followed by
Spirit, Barefoot Jerry and Dr. Hook and
the Medicine Show.
The music was down home and
refreshing. Barefoot Jerry won over the
audience not only with its relaxed stage
manner-sprinkled with "y,alls"-but also
with its musican unusual but successful
marriage of country and funk.
About 10:30 p.m. came the final
equipment change. The wind had picked
up, giving the roadies fits.
Hippiedom national anthem
Somo of the boogie people crowding the
fence grew impatient. They broke into a
rhnrus of Jerrv Jeff Walker's "Ud Aeainst
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The crowd was up for Dr. Hook and the
band gave the audience just what it wanted
-sheer zooiness. They started off with
"Alabama Yodel," which featured Dr.
Hook triple-tonguing yodel passages. He
followed up with a burlesque
shirt-stripping version of Bing Crosby's hit
"Or Would You Rather Be a Mule." Except
he sang it, "Would You Rather Be a Pig?"
And, of course, the group did its hit
"The Cover of the Rolling Stone," a song
which describes the group on the verge of
making it big.
Must have changed
Things must have changed since then.
They sang one of the new songs,
"Everyone's Making It But Me."
One group member tore apart their new
album entitled Bankrupt sticking the jacket
on his head.
"You can buy this album at the record
stores now," he said. "Or you can wait a
couple of weeks and pick it up for $1 .99 in
the racks at the drug stores."
Dr. Hook's band brought into Lincoln
something not seen too often in big-name
rock entertainment-a band that obviously
has fun playing its music and which still
has the spontaneity to laugh at itself.
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Saturday night.
Brautigan's latest typifies past efforts
Book Review by Bill Roberts
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic
Western is Richard Brautigan's latest novel,
and it's a good, typically Brautigan book.
As the subtitle implies, the author mixes
things you don't normally expect to be
mixed. He does it well, and the book
couldn't be better classified.
A description of the sound of the
entrapped Hawkline Monster is typical of
his style: "It sounds like the combination
of water being poured into a glass," Miss
Hawkline said. "A dog barking and the
muttering of a drunk parrot. And very,
very loud." It's for passages like that that
Brautigan's books are read.
But Brautigan is also a writer with a
purpose. The American Dream, the
Twentieth Century Predicament, Finding
Love and Avoiding Dehumanization, these
seem to be his grand themes and the
impetus for his work.
Well, fine. If that's what it takes to get
books from him, it's a small price. In
Hawkline Monster the reader doesn't have
to worry about all that until the very end,
and there the messages may be as easily
ignored as they are facilely attached.
Trout Fishing in America, written in the
early 1960's, remains Brautigan's best
book. His talent for blending wide-eyed
innocence and bleary-eyed experience is
best displayed in that loosely structured
scries of sketches.
Althouiih Trout Fishing in America is
Brautigan's best book, The Hawkline
Monster is good, and worth reading. We
only wish that Brautigan would accelerate
Jus prose output-he seems to have left off
his poetry lately, and that's all to the good.
There simply is no other writer who can
portray so well the Incongruities of likable
hired killers, a frozed Victorian mansion in
the hot Dead Hills of eastern Oregon, and,
what is sure to be the model for all
forthcoming gothic westerns, Tfie
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