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Cornstock XI draws crowd, cranes
Ideal summer-like temperatures and a large, responsive crowd combined to make The only times the bands were upstaged were when a flock of migrating sandhill
Cornstock XI one of the most successful in recent years. cranes hovered over the proceedings and when a masked streaker drew considerable
Frisbees, shorts and coolers were brought out of winter storage as thousands applause. Campus police officers described the crowd as generally well-behaved,
converged on East Campus to hear Pride of the Plains, Footloose and Cricket in an Cornstock was organized by the University Program Council,
outdoor setting.
Group to take music nationwide
By Pat Higgins
Charlie Burton and the Cutouts," one of this area's
most critically acclaimed rock and roll bands, are planning
on a move to take their act nationwide in the near future.
According to leader Burton, the band will be playing
Club 57 on a weekend in July and are trying to line up an
appearance at the Mudd Club and a few other places in
New York.
Club 57 and the Mudd Club are considered to be tres
chic by the 21st century mutants of the Big Apple.
profile
actually do it. But as far as the music goes, you can see
it infiltrating places like American Bandstand now," he
said.
Burton fervently believes in the cause. "Rock and roll
will never die. It's like those insects that .evolve against
DDT-rock and rollers have to keep coming up with
devious ways to fight the conspracy against it. After all,
rock and roll is the folk myth of our culture."
Burton does not feel self-conscious about his long haul.
"I just want to keep plugging on. If the Rolling Stones
can keep going on, it gives everybody else license to keep
doing it," he said. "I'll never give up on the hope. I'm
kind of like a Cuban refugee dreaming of returning to
Havana and oppressing the peasants. Hope springs eternal
in a rock and roll heart."
"I have nodelusions that New York is going to crumble
to my feet but it appears to be the move one should make
right now. I'm beyond naive fantasies but ultimately I do
believe in myself," he said.
Burton and company have attracted considerable
national attention for a band operating out of Lincoln.
Most recently Oui magazine proclaimed them to be
among the finest rockabilly bands in the country
although that is a label of which Burton is not necessarily
fond.
As long as three years ago, Burton was highly rated in
the prestigious Village Voice critics poll, not inappropri
ately ahead of Neil Young and behind Elvis Costello. But
the desired major record contract remains elusive.
"Sure I'd like to sign with somebody. After all, I'm
going the traditional showbiz kid route," said Burton.
"The closest we came was the time that a company called
and said that a contract would come within the week but
then we never heard from them again. In the past I prob
ably could have hustled more and been more overtly
aggressive which is rather uncharacteristic."
In addition to being the headquarters for the record
industry, New York is well known as .the media center
of the country.
"I just would like to get a toehold there basically. It's
just like Frank Sinatra says, If you can make it there you
can make it anywhere.' On the other hand, if nothing
comes of it I'll come back and tell my grandchildren that
I went there once."
Burton harbors no bitterness about remaining tanta
lizingly close to fame and fortune.
"At times you have to wonder if there is any artistic
justice. Look at someone as great as Iggy Pop who can't
even find a label to put out his new record Here's Iggy"
said Burton.
He also mentioned another Motor City favorite in
passing. "I have an Irish setter just like Ted Nugent does,
and I would be interested in corresponding with any
other rockers who own setters," said Burton.
The obituary for New Wave may have been written
prematurely.
"As a movement the sooner it croaks, the better,
because then the media wfll let the people being creative
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Photo by Jon S. Natvig
Charlie Burton
ABC's thrilled by
its own victories
during self-tribute
By Pat Clark
ABC television network treated a prime-time Saturday
night audience to 90 minutes of self-promotion this past
weekend with its salute to the first 20 years of ABC Wide
World of Sports.
It was all very pleasant, with athletes in tuxedos and
floor-length gowns taking turns applauding each other as
host Jim McKay talked about their glory days. The whole
evening reminded me of the Academy Awards show,
except that ABC made sure that ABC got all of the
awards.
review
The salute contained all of the strengths and weak
nesses of the Wide World format itself. The main strength
of the show is the athletic smorgasbord it can present, and
that variety was evident during the salute. Black-and-white
film footage of Arnold Palmer almost getting mauled by
his fans at the British Open, Jim Ryan running the first
sub-four-minute indoor mile, Peggy Fleming winning her
first national championship in figure skating (was there
figure skating before Peggy Fleming?) and the career of
Muhammad Ali from way back when it was the career of
Cassius Clay" could only be combined in the Wide World
format. The producers of the show even went so far as to
hunt down the world famous Vinko Bogataj. For those
few of you who don't know about Bogotaj, he is the ski
jumper who is shown nearly killing himself in the opening
credit footage of Wide World each week. It was a nice
gesture to bring him to the show, and probably the high
light of the evening.
But the glaring weakness of the salute to Wide World
was also the glaring weakness of Wide World itself; a lack
of defined purpose. Wide World has at various times
acted the part of a sports entertainment show and a sports
journalism show, but in its 20 years has never seemed to
decide which facet of its operation deserves priority.
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