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The Weary Weekly Waffle T N BRAZIL a robber declares love for J, Carmen Miranda, strong coffee, toucans, the long white gravelly reaches of the Copacabana . . . and fatherhood. Brazil’s long coastline sure picks up its share of flotsam and jetsam^ Every reporter with an expense account and an airline bag has dug himself into the press rooms o f Rio, plugged himself into the nearest available telex machine and chums, chums, churns. Austral­ ians gets a bonus: Biggs PLUS, JUST FOR YOU, OUR MOST NEFARIOUS BUSI­ NESSMAN, ALEXANDER BARTON. While Biggs and Barton are regarded by the public as romantic front page fodder, those behind bars are seen as Bad Eggs.

Prisoners are getting shot at Bathurst, beaten and boxed in at Long Bay, gassed and fired upon at Goulburn. And while this continues, the general public feeds its own sublimated criminal instincts with news of an English mail thief and a Hungarian who built an empire on pulverised opal and other peoples money.

If NSW justice minister Maddison was running a zoo in the manner he runs his prisons the RSPCA would have him strung up by his balls. The Australian gave you the information, Harry Gumboot (opposite) gives a gut reaction.

So organised society stinks. So you pack your swag and hit the highway. Where are you heading we ask. We’re going to Darwin you say. Where are you “ staying” we ask.

Why, you say, we have a tent and a dole cheque and we’U live on OUR beach and may the greedy landowning councillors get her­ nias trying to lift us off. Good luck, says Terry Maher, who lived at Lameroo, pre con­ crete jungle (p.4).

Maybe the people heading up to Darwin should come down to Melbourne. Thanks to ours and the Age's comments on the amount o f shit entering Port Phillip bay, St Kilda beach could be the haven! Why, last time we looked at it we saw vast unpopulated ex­ panses o f sand. The shit has emptied the beaches.

Colin Talbot stays in the city playing records. He lays himself bare and confesses why he has no Jagger, only Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt et al (p. 9).

Our spread this week reproduces Percy Leason’s The finish o f the old buffers race, an extraordinary example o f Australian black and white art which we recycle for your enjoyment.

Margaret MacIntyre swings in this week as editor o f our music pages. Contributions can be sent to Margaret at 42 Brunning street, Balaclava, Vic (91.3514), together with a list o f your favorite Top Ten numbers. As she explains, it gives readers an insight into the writer’s leanings, bias and blindspots.

While womens lib is cutting deep inroads into factories and homes in outer suburbia, the fashion and cosmetic houses along Van­ ity Fair are still exploiting women and laughing all the way to the bank, Margaret Smith reports on page 21.

Thanks to all the graphic oriented stu­ dents who answered our invitation to come up and see us sometime. Some have already spent a day with us; others will be contacted soon. Be patient. It takes time to give everyone a chance . . . we hope to use all the talent available.

Living delights will help sort out this week’s dead spots — it’s still the centre spread lift out . . . stick it on the wall and tell your friends about it. Gross omissions, if any, should be reported to the editors concerned.

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ot o n ly Br it a in s c r e w s T H IN G S UP: Proving th at we are •(as stupid as the m other nation, the ■(federal and New South Wales govern£ ments signal their punches so o ften and £ so loudly after the so called "discovery" £ of businessman Alexander Barton, in £ Rio de Janeiro, b u t n o t unnaturally he fled the city shouting th at he had done :( no wrong, th a t the collapse of his $20 :( million com pany was all a b it of a joke :( and th at the w hole series of allegations £ against him w ere th e w o rk of the £ present "socialist-com munist govern£ m ent". Barton has quite obviously been £ paid quite a tid y sum of m oney by the £ present federal government to make these allegations o f socialism and com■ munism against it. N e x t, he w ill allege ( th at W hitlam is the possessor o f workers : hands, and th a t good old Margaret is £ crocheting th e red flag. That w o n 't £ restore th e lost $ 2 0 m illion to the J creditors b u t it leads to a knockabout £ comedy scene th a t makes people forget £ the real issues involved. It is understood :j that the New South Wales government, ■: for instance, is extrem ely embarrassed j; by Barton's sudden reappearance — he £ was supposed to stay away and shut up.

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B O R R O W SO M E M O N E Y : Singa£ pore's prime minister Lee Kuan Yew j: buried a press inspired feud w ith out ■: dynam ic leader W hitlam , and doing the j: well known asian crawl, claimed th at j: during th e good Gough's visit his tin y j: fascist island state where leftist views ( are rewarded by a free g ift o f electricity : through the fingernails, th a t the Labor ■ government had left Australia: "stirring • w ith th e drama of fundam ental changes : carried o u t w ith great panache." He : carried on by telling W hitlam : "T h e : impression your policies have given : abroad is one o f vigor. T he optim ism : and enthusiasm in your dynam ic ap: proach to both dom estic and external ■ events and forces are w idely k n o w n ." : Harry Lee then th rew up.

E T S H E 'S A T E A S E R T H O U G H : T he "A ustralian sprint star", as the daily blahs call her, o th e r­ wise known as runner Raelene Boyle, said she would be to o busy to hop in and out of beds w h ile on a sprint mission in Canada. Ms Boyle's strange : announcem ent to reporters follow ed a : ruling by the Australian Womens ■A m ateur A th le tic Union th a t the hot : legged Miss Boyle could n o t run in • T o ro n to , W innipeg or the U S city of San : Diego unless she was accompanied by : a chaperone. N o t surprisingly Ms Boyle : reacted at this return o f victoriana in ; quite an obvious w ay. She said she : would not run in Australia again and ■ added th at she would now shop around : the world to find a country w illing to i pay her athletic expenses. It is believed • th at the A W A A U is glad o f this because ! it would rather retain its moral virtue : than have a runner w ho might w in.

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O P R IZ E S FO R G U E S S IN G T H A T T H E Y A L L M IG H T BE R IC H : A survey run by private schools in New South Wales, which attem pted to prove th a t children w ho attended the exclusive establishments were not neces­ sary the issue o f gilded (or a t least silvered) loins has failed because the parents questioned refused to reveal their income.

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ET T H E N IG G E R S Y E A R C O N ­ T IN U E S A PA C E: Aboriginal a f­ fairs minister senator Cavanagh w ho w ill be rewarded w ith the jo b o f plantation manager in the Spice islands when he quits his present jo b , made w hat is be­ coming his w eekly con tribu tion to racial understanding between aboriginals and w hites by announcing th a t the national aboriginal consultative com m ittee which changed its name to congress, could go fuck itself if it demanded control o f money spent on its own people. He said the black body had no right to change its name nor had it any right to a tte m p t to control its ow n peoples destiny.

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h an ks , te d , th a n k s a lo t: In an obvious effo rt to save Aus­ tralia the embarrassment o f a prolonged royal progress through the flooded nation, Britain's jovial (love • those miners) Ted Heath, called a general election fo r february 2 8 , claiming that the public record that his government's decision was threatened by a mob of blackeared Welsh coal diggers. In reality we all know th a t he was missing the dear queen Elizabeth w ho w ill now have to hasten home on february 2 8 after opening Australia's parliam ent instead of touring the land receiving gifts of diamonds cunningly fashioned into the shape o f gum leafs and w attle sprays.

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HO N E E D S T O B R E A T H E A N Y ­ W A Y : Alderm an D . Sutherland, a member o f the Sydney w ater board, was reported beaten to death by a group of whole earthers after he suggested that the board save money in landscaping a new sewage treatm en t works a t Shell

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harbor, south of the New South Wales city o f Wollongong, by using plastic instead o f real plants. In other delightful news on the ecological fro n t it has been announced in Sydney that gardeners have managed to develop a special plant that w ill actually grow in petrol fumes, thus making them useful fo r median strips on highways. The main roads departm ent gardeners adm it that the plants are not attractive and the flowers insignificant . . . but they are extrem ely tough. Thus mankind solves the problem o f the m otor car by once again worshipping it as a God. O U 'L L A L W A Y S BE M U M M Y 'S L IT T L E B O Y: T he minister re.sponsible fo r Papua New Guinea, senato r Morrison, said th at the tim ing on independence for the all black nation was a tw o sided affair and th a t Australia would have a say in it. Independence involved "a colonial government as well as a government" he said in Port Moresby and added that Australia was anxious th at the colony leave kindergarten as soon as possible. Surprisingly he then stated th at he thought the young black country had received a bum deal fro m the Bougainville Copper Com pany and th a t perhaps it might be a good idea if the contract was renegotiated. Obviously Bougainville copper has forgotten to replace senator Morrison's w ater pipes and guttering not to mention failing to take him out to lunch.

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1788-1974: 186 YEARS OF PENAL OUTRAGE As the tear gas and shot gun blasts \echo throughout NSW prisons a ro ya l commission has been set up to diffuse m ounting criticism o f the p ub lic service board. Here HARRY. GUM BO O T tells its members to go I and suck eggs.

HY are you bothering? The short history o f this country is redolent W with reports o f dignitaries in rooms in­ vestigating the rebellions o f incarcerated men. Commissions such as yours are ill advised to pontificate upon the roots o f a collective rage. With life’s roulette wheel loaded your way, what right have you to issue pompous moralisms on the motives of men born beyond your class — fetter­ ed, beaten and humiliated in a way you will never yourself experience.

The cost of the commission could be better spent recompensing the hapless, victims of the shootings. Not ten, as admitted by the taciturn authorities, but 20, mostly shot in the back, as revealed by the Australian. There is much blood on the ruins o f Bathurst jail. Some from recent times (the 1970 inquiry into bash­ ings heard chilling accounts).

Some o f the blood is from men so Idesperately impatient to be free, that last week they clawed at the bricks with their hands.

Typically, the NSW minister o f justice, I Maddison, has mourned not the misery, so dramatically exposed by the affair, but the cost. Millions o f dollars o f damage he cries. The familiar priority o f profit be­ fore people — that same instinct that framed the laws which put most o f the |prisoners behind bars in the first place.

There is no need for an inquiry into the razing o f Bathurst jail. Its cause is obvious. The system had pushed too far.

Have you seen the aerial photos o f the institution? In this Skylab, sensuous age, such is the domicile still accorded to offenders of the realm. Would you grow old in such a place?

What makes Maddison so despicable is not only his attitude of dumb intransi­ gence to the options o f penal reform. He has obligations beyond the ministers of justice o f other lands. For it should never be forgotten — despite its apparent cominess — that the white civilisation o f this country was beach-headed by men and women in chains. Indeed, they were the instrument o f its conception. If it wasnt for vagabonds who poached pheasants from stately acres, or women who fucked lords for money, then there may never have been a NSW, a ministry o f justice or a Mr Maddison.

One thing that shines out in the history books, is the uncanny cruelty with which the convicts were transported here and how they were treated. The cat o ’ nine tails sings through each page. (A relic is still proudly displayed by police at the Sydney easter show.)

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Yet surely our convict heritage leaves a dreadful obligation upon the shapers of public policy, the professional chauvin­ ists, the politicians. Australia was carried forth to life on the lacerated back o f men and women in irons. A debt is owed to these unwilling pioneers. All today’s af­ fected gabble about the quality o f life falls as hollow platitudes unless we can humanise the “ department o f corrective services” . It is rime to put an end to institutionalised revenge. Yes we are bet­ ter than some, as Maddison never fails to mention, but worse than plenty. The US is experimenting with relaxed coeduca­ tional jails; Holland has abolished womens prisons altogether; parts of Europe prefer weekend hostels, and con­ jugal visits are commonplace throughout

South America and Asia. Apart from the Victorian amenities o f Australian jails and the relentless thuggery o f the warders, there is a cruel stranglehold o f ancient bureaucratic prohibitions which this ad­ ministration has done nothing to relieve.

The NSW prisons are controlled by the public service board who, as Sydney barrister Jim Staples recently expressed it, manifests an unwarranted degree o f conservative political lawlessness. “ Not one single reform in the act or regulations or in the style of custodial behavior have occurred within the wall o f a single prison in the whole nine years o f the present administration,” he says. A Sydney in­ quiry into bashings at Long Bay prison got under way recently with the arbitrary disbarment of an overcurious solicitor.

The only possible relevance o f a royal commission at this time would be for it

to inquire into the scandalous machin­ ations and cover-upping o f the NSW public service board. “ Yes they’ve given us a flogging” , shouted one o f the Bathurst prisoners from the back o f a police van, “ and they’ve promised us another one when we get to the Bay.” And as for the miserable McGeechan, generalissimo of the department o f cor­ rective services: he flew into flights of poetic panic after Sunday’s Goulburn flareup. (Shall we have another commis­ sion into that?) Apart from understating (again) about the numbers shot, McGeech­ an claimed that his department would stand up to the most critical and analytical examination internationally. The NSW public service board wouldnt stand up to a casual examination through the wrong end of a telescope. That’s why it appoints its own employee hacks to masquerade as investigators . . . that’s why the prisons keep festering . . . that’s why all inmates are painted as violent psychopaths wield­ ing handmade bazookas . ..

And do not think that jail is packed with hardened fiends, like the ones who used to brawl with James Cagney; gangbangers, torturers, thugs and vampires.

Those who experience jail for the first time are amazed to find themselves sur­ rounded by mortals whose most out­ standing characteristic is ordinariness.

Whereas men o f the class and calibre of Maddison can fiddle expense accounts and tax returns with impunity, frolicking in that immunised zone of white collar crime, the convict in the cell next door is a victim of a tougher social scene. Jail merely aggravates the discontent. It is time to stop institutionalising revenge and to empty the prisons of all but the most viciously recalcitrant.

The NSW public service board consists! of liars, schemers and sadists. Certainly!

Maddison deserves — if anyone does — a| spell in his famous isolation box.

The blood on the bricks of Bathurst may have come from the former resi­ dents, but it has now symbolically trans­ ferred to the hands of Mr Maddison. He is to the administration o f justice what Cain was to the tradition of fraternity.

POSTSCRIPT If you want to help humanise jails, con­ tact Tony Green o f the Prisoners Action Group, Box 238 PO Cammeray, NSW. (Ask for a copy of Jim Staples’ recent speech to the ^ ^ ^ ^ A u stra lia party, where t h e ^ l l l l l l l l k shenanigans ' o f the Public Service Board are exposed in detail.)

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IT is at all possible to have an anti city in the m iddle o f a city then there is only one place in Australia where this has been achieved, Lameroo beach, D arw in. So it was w ith much grief and anger that thousands of form er residents heard the news o f its tem porary demise last week.

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T o those w ho spent evenings under its moon and the rainforest, Lameroo was more than a squatters city 150 yards from the G PO: It was an international intentional com m unity at the place where the Indian ocean meets the Pacific. It was a state o f mind much the same as N im b in and V ic to ria street can be considered states o f m ind and it was w hat it always claimed to be — a free beach.

For six years travelling people, nomads on the road and hippies on the tra il, have been using Lameroo to rest their weary heads. Because it was a free beach you could live as you liked and do as you liked.

T o some of the residents "doing as you lik ed " meant you were allowed to swim w ith o u t clothes in the Arafura sea. This latter activity was o ffic ia lly sanctioned when the city fathers deemed Lameroo to be a nudist beach — a free beach in the o fficial sense of the w ord. Now they are telling us th at "free beach" does not mean you can camp on it free. N o , it means th at you have to rent a fla t fro m the same city fathers at about $ 8 0 a week and com m ute to your "free beach".

It means you have to live w ith in the confines of a plastic city and suburbs th at produce the highest suicide rate in Australia. And you could hardly blame them . Avoid Darwin — camp at Lameroo.

A t Lameroo you can experience some o f the best sunsets and dope that Southeast Asia has to o ffer. Yes there are mosquitos and sandflies and rocks and m udflats b u t there are also little h erm it crabs w ho scratch on the side o f your ten t until you

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If people on the road and seasonal workers can't camp at Lameroo or anyother beach around our coastline: If they can't set up a tent in the fields beside our highways and byways when they get tired , w h a t are they to do? Is there no alternative to living in exploitive motels and caravan parks?

The only w ay the city fathers can stop people living on Lameroo is to p u t a giant fence around it and have it padlocked. And w hat a dog-in-themanger act th at w ould be.

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The taking o f Lameroo beach: (Above) w hat they co u ld n t break they b urnt. (Flight) beach dw ellers get the w ord to leave th e ir hom e on the hill. (Below left) D arw in c ity co u n cil o ffic e r (w hite socks) lends a hand a t urban renewal. (B o tto m rig h t) shifting house the D arw in way . . .

Old friends meet again AST thursday in Melbourne Michael Cahill was arrested by detective sergeant Michael Bell, o f the drug squad and charged with possession o f marijuana and driving a vehicle at more than 35 miles per hour. His car was also declared to be unroad worthy.

Bell and Cahill are old friends: last december Cahill was chief witness in a case where charges against Bell and Arthur Smith, JP, were unexpectedly dismissed.

Bell and Smith were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice and Cahill alleged Bell had blank search warrants in his possession signed

by Smith (TLD 1/9).

So on thursday, after the fuzz had gone completely over his car and body searched him, Cahill was whisked o ff to Russell street head­ quarters, frisked again three times and finally let out on $200 bail.

Cahill’s case comes up on feb­ ruary 26.

Keeping a close eye on the matter is Victorian treasurer o f the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties, Ed Flannery, the man who laid the charges against Bell and Smith and who now enjoys the attentions o f the Victoria police having his name, address, car make and registration number boldly chalked on the Russell street “ active list" blackboard.

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Adelaide probes its drug squad BRIAN JOHNSTONE SPECIAL two-man CIB team is investigating the af­ fairs o f Adelaide’s drug squad following allegations o f police brutality, dope peddling, and underworld connections.

Inspector H. D. Beath, the man in charge o f “ C” Division which covers most o f Adelaide’s south­ ern region, and sergeant Davey, culled from the suburban force, have been posted at Adelaide’s main city headquarters during the past week to conduct their investi­ gation.

The inquiry follows months of agitation by the Drug and Legal Protection Union in Adelaide. The union was set up as part of the alternative community centre which was to be housed in 281 Rundle street city. However con­ tinual police intimidation o f the centre’s inhabitants and the prop­ erty’s landlord soon saw the cen­ tre out on the street (TLD, 2/5).

Inspector Beath told me the inquiry would be strictly inter­ departmental and that it was de­ signed to either substantiate the DLPU’s claims or to clear the detectives involved.

Its success or failure would depend on information forthcom­ ing from the DLPU or individuals claiming to have suffered at the hands o f the squad.

Chief organiser o f the DLPU, Peter Carey, told me the union didnt trust the CIB. He claimed CIB personnel had been involved in many drug raids and bashings and the inquiry would get the same treatment as the Duncan case. (George Duncan, and Ade­ laide university lawyer, drowned in the River Torrens in 1972.

A homosexual and non-swimmer his death was alleged to be the work o f the local vice squad.

A subsequent inquiry led to the resignation o f a couple of detec­ tives who refused to give evi­ dence.)

Carey said the DLPU would not give the investigating team any information. He felt it too risky. Many peoples names would be placed on the mat and he is worried the police may do an about face and intensify their hassles.

The DLPU wants an open public inquiry and believes it has enough evidence to keep it busy for at least a few weeks.

Carey says the main charge laid against the drug squad would be brutality, but many pushers have told the DLPU that most o f their local supply comes from the busts stash at city police headquarters where dope is personally sold to the pushers by police.

Footnote: Another witness who appeared against Bell and Smith was recently hit with a summons for $200 o f back parking fines.

My, oh my, there’s nothing like a little court case to get those police up and about . . .

Activists prepare fora Green Christmas PIOTR OLSZEW SK I ELBOURNE marijuana activists are preparing for another year o f conflict with narcs, august authorities, and other assorted bodies.

The most ambitious plan is a marijuana vigil to be held in Melbourne’s city centre, early march. This action is being coordinated by the Dope Smokers Union at La Trobe university. To raise funds for the publicity o f this vigil and to set aside money for a bail fund, the DSU is planning to run a benefit concert at Ormond hall, Prahran (february 15, 8.00 pm-2 am, BYOD) bands to appear include Reuben Tice and Curried Breakfast.

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The DSU, highly optimistic that the “ straight” press would take a more responsible attitude to marijuana in the coming year, conducted a press night to announce details o f the vigil and concert to reporters.

Representatives o f the Melbourne Age and the Sunday press attended and took a sympathetic view (as well as a few tokes) but the result was that four days later the Age ran an anti-pot article rehashing the old pot-leads-toother-things rave. Needless to say, no mention o f the impending vigil appeared in print. So much for the “ straight” press.

M eanw hile, over at Melbourne’s Monash university, the dope action is taking more of rollicking “ crazed freak” front, with the first confrontations planned for orientation week.

Highlights include a joint rolling contest and a who-can-smoke-themost parody o f the chunder 'n' dirty jokes iron man boozing contests so “ popular” on the campuses. Also, a monumental

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chillum, eight feet tall, erected and displayed.

The Melbourne marijuana activists movement is still in its infancy, this being the second year o f its organised existence.

Basically the action groups evolved early in 1973 from the remnants o f the Draft Resisters Union.

The draft resisters, having won their battle following the election of the Labor party into government, were left without a cause. Success had whetted their appetite for action and so they turned their attention to the marijuana injustices.

A grass roots lobby was organised and led to the formation o f three main action groups — the dope smokers unions at La Trobe and Monash and the Marijuana Action Group.

During 1973 these groups were quite strong and active. At La Trobe the DSU ran dope

information pages in the campus paper, Rabelais, as well as a five page supplement on “ growing your own” .

B roadsh eets containing this information were also issued. La Trobe’s most successful activity was their Buyers Co-op. The union bought large deals o f good dope and sold it, at five percent profit, to students. The profit was used, to a small degree, on publicity, and to a large degree on free dope which was distributed at university union nights.

The highlight of the Monash dope unions activities was a forum on marijuana conducted in july last year. Speakers included Don Chipp and Bill Hartley who discussed the political possibilities o f legalisation; academics from Monash’ s botany department who discussed physical aspects o f the plant and dispensed informative titbits such as dope is best activated when heated to 250 °F.

etc, academics from the pharma­ cology department who discussed health aspects and effects o f smoking; and others including police surgeon Birrell.

There’ s some dissension among members o f the dope unions as to their ultimate goals and this tends to impede their growth.

Som e members advocate outright legalisation o f marijuana but the most popular policy is one o f being allowed to “ grow yer own, smoke yer own” . “ Smoke yer owners” fear that outright legalisation would provide an opening for other competitive drug manufacturers — such as the beer and tobacco merchants - to lay their grubby little profiteering hands on the weed and rip sm okers o f f at a more extortionate rate than the present dealers - if that is at all possible.

Other dope activists are interested solely in organising non-profit co-ops in an attempt to eradicate the odious dealer. This, o f course, is a fine aim. The character o f the average dealer is rapidly degenerating as heavies and criminals become lured in by big money. Carlton “ village” dealers, once considered “ cool” , now harass each other with knives and metal piping as they squabble over territorial rights. Recently two dealers violently confronted each other in busy Swanston street, ou tsid e Melbourne university.

Despite their problems, Melbourne marijuana activists seem determined to remain functional. There’ s a lot of smoking, a lot o f rapping and philosophying, and a lot of planning going on. Something’s bound to happen.

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'X PIOTR OLSZEW SKI a r i j u a n a has been b a n n e d at N i m b i n ’ s communal property, Tuntable falls. Nimbin representatives say this has been done following warnings from local authorities.

Word is that if anyone gets busted on the property, the place will be closed down.

Apart from this compromise to authoritarianism, the Nimbin! property is advancing healthily.

Luckily the region has not suffered too badly from the floods which have devastated nearby areas — the only adverse affects have been the inconveni­ ence o f swollen creeks which makes crossings hazardous at times, and the steady rains which have kept people indoors and off the land. Some activities, such as post hole digging, have been postponed.

The current rain is also making the erection o f dwellings more urgent. Nimbinites are striving to meet a self-imposed deadline of “ a dome a day” . But the wet conditions are obstructing the work and there is a shortage o f materials, especially for the construction o f “ skins", the outer covering o f the dome.

Plans are underway to organise pre fabricated construction of domes in the cities and then have them transported to the site.

Basically these domes are being built along the lines o f village, or tribal, communities. Each tribe will be a unit comprising one large dome and four smaller domes, each accommodating four persons.

It is hoped that individual tribes will cultivate their own vegetable patches, leaving the much larger communal vegetable patch free for other requirements such as barter.

Tuntable Falls villagers have already spent their budget allocation o f almost $3000 for tools and have also added another vehicle to their truck fleet. Trucks already owned are a two ton Dodge and a Toyota. The new vehicle, purchased for $500 is a Blitz, a four wheel, 3 ton, 6 cylinder unit, bigger and more powerful than a Landrover.

The Blitz is also equipped with a power take-off driven winch with lA ” steel cable. It should prove an invaluable work beast for the community - using the four wheel drive it should be able to tow building materials up to the village site on the mountain plateau; the winch will enable building logs o f up to 40 feet in length to be lowered from the forest; the power take-off can be adapted to drive a mobile saw bench. The Blitz will also be used to draw the many old, formerly horse drawn, farm implements owned by the community.

A large vegetable patch has already been established at Nimbin and heavy rains have ensured that seedlings are thriving.

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There is an abundance of food presently at' “ The Kiln” ,the communitie: food co-op in the sawmills. Contacts are being established with other growers In the area. So far, suppliers o f paw-paws, watermelon, honey, organic vegetables, macedonian nuts, and sweet corn have been found.

Residents from other local communities have already begun bartering for beans, zucchinis and cucumbers. A link-up is being established with the Wholefoods Co-op in Brisbane and hopefully a network o f communication and transport will be established along the entire east coast for organic growers and consumers.

A methane convertor is being built and will hopefully be in action before the communities second shithole is filled. Harry Tucker, Nimbinite, suggests, “ There is organic work to be done at Tuntables - want to get a little bit o f god on your hands?”

Alternative schooling is another Nimbin problem which requires an urgent solution.

Meetings have been held discussing the possibility o f starting on a Nimbin alternative school with the help o f Gordon Lang, who operates the Southern Cross alternate school at nearby Ballina.

Hopes for radical changes in the far from satisfactory Nimbin public school are also high. Seven o f last year’s nine public school staff have been replaced; a new, hopefully sympathetic headmaster from Sydney has applied for the position at Nimbon, and eight alternative school children have applied for admittance.

Down in Melbourne, a Nimbin Communications Centre, which was recently established, has moved into larger and more efficient premises at 161 Spring street, City.

The communications centre is playing an increasingly important role in Nimbin’s development. It acts as the last frontier o f the beautiful people in the wilderness o f the city jungle. Its prime motive is to recruit and supply information to suitable wouldbe Nimbin pilgrims. The centre advices people o f the conditions o f their pilgrimage, equipment they should take, and the problems they will encounter when making the transition from urban individualism to rural communalism.

The centre will also organise forages among M elbourne factories seeking out waste materials which could be useful at Nimbin. The centre carries out research for the community and supplies them with relevant city news and the latest alternative agriculture books. Picnics and gatherings are being planned to raise funds.; J |

I LOST MY MERCEDESBENZ, DOWN BYTHE RIVERSIDE W IL L Y Y O U N G

HE FLOOD in Brisbane was an amazing natural phenomena.

The river was allowed, by act o f God, a few days o f heady power and majestic, if not muddy, beauty; although few people saw it in this light. The witnessing o f a crashed barge lifting, in rising waters, a bridge o ff its pylons, and smaller craft being smashed in the river, was an anti social act, as authorities had pleaded with the population to stay at home and watch the floods on TV. Sightseers were described as “ ghouls” who fiendishly got their delight from the suffering of other people. "Animal” was a word much used by the press.

The Prince o f Darkness did not declare a state o f emergency, and the casual observer might well comment that this was inconsistent with his action o f declaring such a state of emergency for such lightweight hullabaloo as the Springbok tour o f 1972, when Bjelke-Petersen, the premier, called out the guard.

However, early in the piece, Houston, the leader o f the opposition, criticised the premier for not declaring a S o f E sooner, and the consequent omission to do so can be logically explained as a petty rebuff against Houston.

The premier spent most o f his time tplevising himself touring around in a helicopter, eruding paternal concern, issuing banal statements “ water as far as the eye can see” , and taking full advantage o f the fact that the Labor lord mayor, Clem Jones, was away in New Zealand at the empire games, and unable to get back to the city. (This situation is typical o f many disasters, those who want to get in cannot, likewise those who want to get out.)

When Jones finally returned, he made up for all the frustrations o f his absence by dramatically cl os i n g the gates of the Sommerset dam, against the advice o f his engineers. By this time most o f the flood waters had receded and his justification for flooding the small farms above the dam was that he wanted to hasten the fall o f receding waters to allow the citizens o f Brisbane an earlier return to their homes.

The local press, not content with two buffoons on the stage, angrily questioned why Gough Whitlam did not cut short his asian tour to visit the scene o f devastation.

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My engineering friend tells me that there are flood gauges all the way down the river valley, and it is possible to calculate the flood level 24 hours in advance. Despite a few mistakes (one calculation of the river level was 1.4 metres too low: a lot o f unexpected water) the actual service o f flood warning to the community was ratshit.

Expected levels were given as high tide readings at the port office, but for miles up the river the micro-geographical adjustments make this reading meaningless.

Householders needed direct, visual information: “ In 12 hours the river is expected to rise two metres above its present level, yes, up to that line below your window sill.”

Several radio stations abandoned their normal programs and offered their services to aid evacuation: they threw their microphones open to the public.

In the midst o f immensity, human response was quite banal. There were thousands o f telephone calls o f the variety: would A (and a description o f A ) at X please, contact B (and a description o f B’s relationship to A) at Y (which varied from Perth to New Zealand) because B is worried about you. Quick thinking ad-men whipped up a few commercials of the type: House destroyed?

Wondaful roofing will make your home more beautiful when you rebuild. A free translation o f my favorite announcement is as follows: Ms Smith at the church hall at Taringa has blankets 20 beds, milk (very scarce) and two bullocks (meat also very scarce

but no people . . . so all you needy folk get your arses over there quickly! In the early stages o f the flood, volunteers had to be beaten off with sharp sticks.

A news item about a motel owner in western Queensland who killed two o f his labrador dogs to feed his starving guests captured the imagination o f the English press, and the subsequent story about the floods in the colonies somehow implied that labrador dog was the staple food. Bunuel comes to the suburbs: a woman returning to her home after flood waters had receded, found a dead cow on the livingroom floor.

A householder removed all items o f furniture from his house to higher ground except the piano. The piano floated in the rising water and subsequently the honky-tonk smashed the windows, the walls and the ceilings o f his house.

Friends watching the waters from their veranda, saw a garden table adorned with four glasses (one of them half filled with beer), a packet o f cigarettes and a deck o f cards, float slowly by, followed by a garden chair.

A doctor found himself, his house and his Mercedes-Benz surrounded by rising water. With considerable difficulty he drove his car on to the patio o f his domicile. As the waters rose he jacked up his car and placed bricks beneath the wheels. He persisted in his efforts until the car was supported on columns o f bricks to a height o f four

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The car was last seen floating away. * *• *

THE FLOODS in Brisbane showed that the forces o f nature dwarfs man’s capacity to build permanent structures, and they were a moral lesson illustrating the anguish that is self-inflicted by an attachment to material possessions, although few people saw it in this light.

My experience o f the flood is a tale of one trapped in Graceville, the heart o f the suburbs, on an innocent visit to my parents house. The area is about half a mile from the river, and typical of the lacklustre of the suburbs, the area was deprived o f the glory of the eddies, and instead muddy waters of ominous stealth crept along the street, broke effortlessly into the houses, and receded, silendy leaving their signature of debris and mud.

Nonetheless, the event brought us all together. In the initial exciting stages I was quite happy to get to know all the people in the street who I had never really met before and previously shown no inclination to do so. The flood forced us to expose ourselves, it forced us into the street, it opened us up and we talked. I was happy to feel friendly and human and relate to the family o f man; at this stage the flood did not look as though it would touch us.

However, in the peak o f the flood, when it looked as though we were all going to go under, I felt the friendship had gone too far. I have already stated my attitude to material possessions, but, in the suburbs, this attitude made me feel like a pork chop in a synagogue.

The dynamics o f the situation were so strong I could not retain my set o f values and I was completely sucked in and saw the event from their point of view. It was the perfect time to deliver my sermon. “ This suffering is your

own fault. Look at me, I’ve never owned a car, and can carry my possessions in two sacks. And what are you really worried about, your lives are not in danger, only your possessions” .

However, under the circumstances, this sermon seemed tactless, and my attempts to regard the event as a marvel of nature faded as I began to worry about their fridges, their washing machines and their television sets.

Then as the hysteria mounted, I started to feel a real bastard for not feeling more concerned. I seemed really callous.

Community spirit was high, and everyone wanted confirmation that the action they were taking was justified. Some areas of consensus were watertight: the flood was awful, everyone felt dreadful about the threat to their houses, and e v e r y b o d y ’s neighbors were wonderful. The only conflict was in the division o f opinion between those who thought they should stay with their homes and those who thought they should evacuate. The suburb could have become Utopia, if everyone could have been evacuated in one big barge, or if everyone could have been persuaded to drown in their homes. As it turned out, those fleeing tried to persuade the remainders to leave, and vice versa. A lot o f tension was created.

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building by-law here that does not permit landowners to build closer than 2’6” o f their property boundaries: hence no terraced houses.) Since the roads were closed, they were able to spend their time walking down Coronation drive which became a huge park not only for them but for everyone in the district. She said: “ For three days people would look you in the face and talk to you, everybody (it was wonderful); but after that some of the guys took advantage o f the familiarity and they started goosing you in the tits, again (that was depressing).”

The police Were all over the place. Most people thought the police did a sterling job and their image in the public’s eye has never been higher. I must admit I talked to policemen for the first time, and even regarded them as ordinary people. The context was friendly, but there were still signs o f aggression and authoritarian­ ism. “ If I catch one o f those looters, I’ll be holding him under the water.” One man rang up the radio station on one o f those inane direct-talk-lines and was critical o f the police in the way he was evacuated. Immediately the station received a barrage o f calls rushing to the police’s defence.

"M y husband is a policeman and that louse who called does not realise what a service he is doing.

He’s been on continuous service for 72 hours and I havent seen him for three days.”

Flood waters came to within inches o f the floorboards of the Divine Light Mission building, and they were as usual, totally blissed out. “ Only one and a half inches to spare” , they smiled, “ Maharaj Ji has done it again!"

Some people were untouched.

The Kenmore ladies went to their hairdressers as usual, and the St Lucia ladies, inconvenienced by the shortage of consumer products, drove around looking for shops where they could buy 16 pounds o f butter.

I’ll mention Jindalee, the developers brick-veneer paradise, home o f the nouveau riche. The flood has the dubious distinction o f being the only act of nature to ever enter Jindalee. In contrast to the rest o f the suburbs, where the cleanup was done in groups and the m ood quite cheerful (despite a busload o f tourists being pelted with mud and an irate man turning the hoses o f his pump on to passing cars), the residents of Jindalee worked in isolated groups and hired big trucks and machinery. They were completely pissed o ff by the whole thing and bad vibes were in the air. A man with a loudspeaker in his car was driving through the area broadcasting to the householders that he was offering to replace their broken windows for free.

One immediately thought: what’ s the catch? One resident perched on the hill above his flooded home with a high-powered rifle, protecting it from looters who he desired to shoot in the neck.

Jindalee residents attacked TV cameramen, smashing the camera

o f one and tearing the shirt from another. These cameramen were really annoyed because they were shooting the film to advertise the Flood Relief Fund.

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IT WAS a big event — it completely disoriented the system, and most daily routines in the whole city have been affected.

Obviously this is a value judgment, but I think that few people have had their set o f values changed by this major upheaval, and few have come to willingly accept it. I only saw one couple w ho went back to their mudstained house and just sat on the veranda and did nothing, everyone else was quite frenzied.

Most people wanted to get back to their homes, clean them out, dry the carpets and repaint the walls. The most consistent sentiment that I heard expressed was: what a shame about so and so, they won’t be able to recover their losses (to the point they were at before the flood). Rather than transcend their former selves, mos t people became their quintessential former selves to an alarming degree. Nice people were nicer.

Pessimists were more pessimistic. Poor people were poorer. Rich people became more grasping. Opportunists had a field day. The flood has been an excuse to wipe o ff and close the old botanic gardens.

Here the floods have geographically made two worlds, the brown world o f the once submerged land, and the green world that was untouched. The dividing line is quite distinct. I can not stop thinking o f the line: “ He who enters the gateless gate, walks freely between heaven and earth.”

COLIN 'TALBOT N THE beginning there were no lady singers. But there came the blues & the jazz & Ma Rainey & Bessie Smith who sang it. And there came swing & big bands & the Andrew Sisters, more jazz & Billie Holiday. Broadway 8c Holly­ wood 8c Jeanette MacDonald.

And all this begat rock 8c roll which begat the Ronettes 8c Chiffons 8c Crystals, 8c all begat folk which begat Odetta 8c Joan Baez 8c Mary Travers 8c Janis Ian 8c Mimi Farina 8c LSD begat psychedelic rock out o f which were Grace Slick 8c Janis Joplin, 8c Bob Dylan, country music, wars, pestilence, drugs, expanding consciousness, all that was in the begin­ ning 8c more created the lady singers.

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THE ABILITY o f a lady singer to say she is a woman, better than a man can say he is a man (in song), and be more credible doing so, creates the genre of lady singer.

Distinct and valid. The basic difference between lady singers and others is their unique sensibility. Other differences to be noted are the physical characteristics and the timbre o f the voice, these mainly applying on a female/male basis. Qualities inherent in lady singers are the ability to sing (well), the ability to look physically good on record covers (relevant to men, too, in terms o f the ultimate getting there); an apparent general tallness, the ability to play musical instruments (most­ ly) and to write lyrics and compose music or at least to interpret lyrics with great sensitivity.

SUE Thompson who sang Norman was not a lady singer. The Ronettes were not lady singers, Suzie Quatro is not a lady singer, it is even in some dispute whether she is a singer. Bette Midler is not a lady singer, Billie Holiday was not, Helen Reddy is not, Grace Slick might be soon but it is unlikely, there are more who are not than who are.

The lady singers are Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt, Carol Hall,

Carol King, Carly Simon, Sandy Denny and more. Further down the list there is a penumbra. A little doubt. Who is and who is not. It will probably get down to the ones I like better, but this is the way o f getting to that.

Now take singers, in the Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, James Taylor, Van Morrison style. They talk/sing more of the universals and the old loner I'm heading for the highway, dont lay no claims on me sing another sad song I’ve seen fire and brimstone scene. They dont get down to the low level, for instance, like Joni Mitchell on the album Blue —the song My old man “ . . . the bed’s too big, the frying pan’s too wide” . They can’t it's too real.

Instead, they (the male singer song­ writers) cry o f (a) finding the old perfect love, Miss Right, girl in a million, heart of hearts; (b) having left such a woman to "hit the highway” because he had "things to d o ” ; (c) seeing such a goddess across the road each day; (d) wanting to return but feeling that “ urge for going” or having a mind to “ ramble” . Whereas a woman (that is the particular woman in the lady singers department) is into the nittygritty lowdown feeling. Gut level.

Got a feeling the old man’s splitting (geographical displacement), but having no hope o f stopping it, declaring what is with no shitpretty metaphors, and more or less just being there. They are more realistic, more constant (make that less inconstant), less ephemeral.

In maudlin songwriting terms it’s heart versus soul. Woman with the heart, which is riptearing, men with the soul - the old universality o f it all. And on the occa­ sions the lyrics dont convince this much o f the difference, then the ladies drag a drachma (or a ton) more feeling in from somewhere. Now this is hard to verify because it’s down to the individual ear, mind, heart, soul, and inadversion. And if you believe Stephen Stills sounds more convincing than Joni Mitchell, you havent listened to Joni Mitchell.

THERE’S a history o f why the time of the lady singer is here. It’s only in the past 10 years they’ve had a voice, because till then it was virtually impossible for a woman to write songs. No known classi­ cal composers, no known troubadors, no Woody Guthries. Most o f the woman singers now, if they indeed play instru­ ments, use self-powered ones — acoustic guitars, pianos, dulcimer, autoharp, deli­ cate things. Force o f habits (that is, social norms on both sides) wouldnt allow much troubadoring.

Little wandering on the highways with guitars and harmonicas because there was rape and that. Not much work because they couldnt sing loud enough. The usual stigmata that liberationists might point to. Not much work in rock & roll because it was and still is a man’s world. Millions o f male groups, few female. Fanny, Goldie & the Gingerbreads. And a few half-halfs - Suzie Quatro (she's a group?), Lulu 8c the Lovers, Jefferson Airplane, Delaney 8c Bonnie, Great Society, Big Brother, Cold Blood. That’s most of them. Folk music had a few, basically Joan Baez was the only one to become popular. Janis Ian (Ian 8c) Sylvia, Nina (& Frederick) are, or were names. Mimi Farina was (and still is) a good name. In a word, tough.

You dont get to say there are women singers and there are lady singers over­ night. It's a tough decision to come to.

Think of the record collection. Who to include, who to leave out. Which way to jump, whether they should all be blonde (ha ha that’s a joke), whether they should sing, play and compose. Whether age should count, where it all began, will it ever end . . . that sort o f stuff. Splitting infinites. It makes you do things like that.

Makes you edgy. Guests think you ’re a deviant because you ’ve got 100 albums by female singers and no Mick Jagger.

What’s that? No Mick Jagger. You're kidding? No Mantovani, no Wagner, no flutes o f the Andes? No budgerigar train­ ing albums or train recordings? Sorry.

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AH, but travel with me through j the past, come turn back time’s crisp pages. Spin spin, whirl whirl, fan tastic colors, faded photos etc . . . I guess the first music the young ears fed the now tired brain Included Rosemary Clooney, Andrew Sisters, Doris Day, Patti Page and Judy Garland. Most o f the music (!) was vastly unimpressive.

The parliamentary debates with Dr Evatt were better fun.

There were also Jeanette MacDonald, Shirley Jones, neither of whom are in my “ bag” , or for that matter, I in theirs.

Ginger Rogers I couldnt get into, Dorothy I.amour wasnt as good as Bob Hope, and Billie Holiday was black so we didnt hear her much, Edith Piaf was French. The Andrew Sisters were pretty funny but Elvis was better. Therefore, in the preschool years it was rock & roll: Fats Domino, Elvis, Lloyd Price if he was around then. That takes care o f the early and middle 50s.

The 60s. Here’s where it happens.

Days o f cheap wine and Cadbury’s Roses and Muscle Beach Party films. There were bulk female vocal groups around. The Shirelles, The Crystals, the Shangri-Las, the Chiffons, The Ronettes, The Dixie Cups, The Essex - mostly black groups singing solid wax wonders like Leader o f the pack, Chapel o f love, Da doo ron ron etc. * *

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Clothespins on washropes, Window to window tie Socks and bells and nightgowns Tassels in the morning sky.

Womanchild on the sidestreet Flashin’ in blackpatch Lipstick on her reefer Waiting for a match.

(Laura Nyro, Blackpatch)

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continued from page 9 So you wait in the dying 60s for flashbacks o f a better time. Trends come and leave, like white soul, made palatable for dull audiences, various rocking and rolling, and in the woman singing dept. . . . hoping for songs like Tar and cement

by Verdelle Smith, Carole King’s It might as well rain until Septem ber, Cher with Sonny singing I got you and similar songs o f despair. But it’s all right, though that couple, according to the best people, shouldnt be liked anymore because they were a bit too Hollywood Au Go Go. I like them.

Real soul music and real blues was repressed here because it was black, either that or because no one liked it anyway.

The Supremes were about the heaviest.

Number ones all over the place. Small-f funky was Martha Reeves, Gladys Knight.

The big one was Tina Turner with Ike in there somewhere - River deep, mountain high. We all liked that. And o f course Joan Baez. Ever reliable, trusty, faithful to the cause, soloing away in the clear blue air with her warm icy voice. She was the only one (apart from Phil Ochs, heh heh) doing that protest thing. And pretty good too except a little too nightingale.

Odetta was too trad and didnt sing stuff as interesting anyhow. And $t the time Nina Simone was being impressive, sing­ ing her songs about race hate. *

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I GUESS lady singing as a genre was born around 1969. Joan Baez, mention­ ed up there, was a forerunner but not one herself. Joni Mitchell had left her hus­ band in Canada and was writing songs for people like Tom Rush to sing. Linda Ronstadt had a hit with the Stone Poneys, Different drum, Melanie had been to Woodstock and wrote Candles in the rain about it. Joni Mitchell hadnt been to Woodstock and wrote Woodstock about it.

Laura Nyro was writing songs for Three Dog Night, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Fifth Dimension and was doing her own songs, for which she has not yet had recognition. Tracy Nelson was singing with Mother Earth. Judy Collins was singing mainly other people’s songs, in­ cluding Joni’s Both sides now.

During the next three years, Linda, Laura, Joni each released a couple of albums, some didnt get to come here.

None was m any way popular until Joni’s Ladies o f the canyon in 1970 which had some success. Melanie was the only Top 40 proposition. Carole King came out o f whatever retirement she was in to release Writer late in 1970. And Cher was still releasing; good old Cher, but she’s not a lady singer, she is a woman who sings.

Janis Joplin and Grace Slick were already long famous but they, at least then, were not lady singers as such.

In 1970/71 Carole King consolidated herself and became more popular than Melanie, though popularity has never been a criterion o f goodness. In 1971 Carly Simon released her first album which was then, and still is, a sleeper.

Carol Hall happened about the same time, already known tor her songwriting capa­ bilities (for instance by Barbra Streis­ and), and Rita Coolidge, out o f Mad Dogs went solo but picked up little, as the trade magazines say, attention. * * *

SO. In 1974 there are many albums available by women singer/songwriters and as many by the non-songwriters. It is possible to believe the lady-type singers have arrived, that is, gained acceptance, although this is untrue. The number of releases in this sub-genre is minor indeed taken with total release figures, and again, the number o f those albums released

which get played/displayed/promoted or somehow picked up is small.

Straight country ballad is possibly the only area where women singers (/song­ writers) find success, with a whole host of them doing well - Dianne Davidson, Susan Raye, Anne Murray, Sammi Smith, Tammy Wynette and others selling large numbers o f records and becoming well known and liked. But the female equiv­ alents o f the stars like Stills, Young, Morrison, Lightfoot, Wainwright, etc, etc, (equivalent in the star sense) are rare. *

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You might have said that you loved me But I wasnt really listening And it could have been the sound o f m y own voice Coming back to me, whispering.

I wish y o u ’d left your number.

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NOW WE should eliminate here some talented persons from the race. First to go is Cher who is good for nostalgia value - if you can be nostalgic about 1965 but her albums o f the 70s are patchy and just havent got it. I figure it’s okay to have one, which might have a good track on it; F oxy lady is reasonable.

Now Joan Baez, once again a 60s thing, and once again one album wouldnt hurt. She’s less into politics o f experi­ ence, more into politics. Her sister Mimi Farina shouldnt necessarily be eliminated here but I havent heard much o f her lately, so it’s hard to say.

Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner are mighty and we all know what they sound like, but not here. The Andrew Sisters are all good fun and sing like vixens and all very 40s but belong to another taste. Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and blues singers are not included.

Sometimes what Billie Holiday sang was a pre-emptor as they say, being a bit o f a writer what with God bless the child, but not really. Once again, a place in the record stack wouldnt be astray but not in with the lady-type singers. This also rules out Diana Ross for those who read the book and saw the movie, Lady sings the blues. Touch me in the morning is one o f those big selling albums, a far cry from the Supremes, quite pleasant though, and altogether not out o f place as background music in the sort o f restaurants where the waiters make you taste the wine.

Judy Garland is out except if you still go to see Wizard o f Oz at xmas showings.

And Nina Simone, while being incredibly talented is not in this bag. She turns out a nice Bob Dylan song though and has written a few reasonable ones.

The Pointer Sisters, again very talented, loads o f fun, very boppy, A -l harmonies but not here, although it’s an album worth having. Now Bette Midler and her two albums. The first had “ star” written all over it (by her record company) and the second has suffered criticism which suggests it aint as good as the first. Both are very patchy albums with samples o f her capabilities from ballads to camped Andrew Sisters, Shangri-Las and Crystals songs. I think I agree about the second not being as good for a few reasons: one is she murders a Dylan song and Da doo ron ron (with too many tempo changes). Apart from that, either album is okay for that area but the Andrew Sisters did it better. However, Bette’s more relevant to now, except not here. She is “ into her own” , perhaps.

We may as well rub out Dory Previn now, sort o f Streisand without the range, doing imitation show songs to her cult audience. She writes them herself, but a lot o f them suck, and basically she’s boring after a couple o f songs.

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Well, who else to write off? Helen Reddy, and very quickly at that. I am woman is hardly the sort o f song where she says she is a woman better than a man says he is a man. She is obvious and popular and good luck too. Olivia New­ ton-John? No. The country singers like Tammy Wynette could almost make it sometimes, particularly Tammy Wynette.

Mainly it’s the style o f singing and the housewife stuff which gives doubts.

Roberta Flack started o ff well as a fine interpreter, but she’s heading for the Top 40 and its bag o f gold. Her latest album Killing me softly, is in that tradition and should make her a lot o f money. Cohen’s Suzanne is good on it, but the best is the Top 40 thing Jesse arranged by Deodato and written, funnily enough ha ha by Janis Ian, herself probably too early and too folksy to be in the lady-type singers.

Most o f it, as you might expect, is drowned in strings and slush, making it an immensely saleable album and it will probably “ walk out o f the shops" and sit itself down with Neil Diamond on the stereo phonograph. *

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Just before our love got lost you said “ I am as constant as a Northern star".

And I said " Constantly in the darkness Where’s that at?"

If you want me I'll be in the bar.

On the back o f a cartoon coaster In the blue TV screen light I drew a map o f Canada . . .

(Joni Mitchell, A case o f you ) LOCALLY, that is Australia, there arent many female singers in the “ lady singer” genre. Jeannie Lewis has a lot o f spirit, doesnt write much, tends towards jazz & blues, and at times, although with an exciting range, is too strident. Rene Geyer sings well enough to make one replay her record a few times. But the songs she chose (or which were chosen for her) while being a reasonable "show­ case” , were not ultimately a good choice. Margaret Roadknight is not a writer but quite a sensitive interpreter.

However, she leans probably too far into folk & gospel for here. Linda George is heading for the Top 40, and quickly at that.

There are a few singers worth a listen.

Claire Hamill writes her own songs in the sort o f romantic/metaphoric tradition, sings, plays guitar and piano. Renee Armand isnt too bad. Her songs are the simple type, sort o f everyday songs. Her voice has that early Carly Simon whine and she may head the same way. Mother Hen is the back-porch down home type without as much polish or sophistication as, say, Bonnie (of Delaney &) but with more sincerity. 1 think she's small time in the long run.

Pamela Pollard sounds like she’s trying to sound like Laura Nyro and not doing a fantastic job o f it. She’s on the same label (CBS), and she goes for the funky (white style) but the odds are very long. Barbara Keith performs a gutsy version o f All along the watchtower and wrote Free the people, so she’s got a bit o f proven talent. Her other songs are as good.

Susan Taylor in the country-rock road is good. The backing is tight and sympathetic, her voice is exceedingly pleasant and she is worth hearing. Ellen Mcllwaine tends towards the rocky blue­ sy music, doing the songs o f Hendrix, and playing some solid guitar. This one grows on you.

Alice Stuart plays guitar (electric) too, and sings Statesboro blues as good as any.

Carol Hall is in the neo-Streisand Bronx women-city-blues-singer scene. * * *

SUZIE QUATRO? No thanks. She’s the female Gary Glitter. He’s got the glitter, she’s got the leather and hints o f whips and all those pseudo-decadent and basi­

cally porno trappings. Which is not to say she is repulsive to look at, being certainly better than chubby Gaz, but that they both murder reasonable oldies o f the rock world. When she fades in a couple o f months, I’ll make out she was never there.

Janis Joplin is dead and could never sing fantastically well, although she was exciting. What is interesting is the female rock group Fanny. The idea seems strange, because it’s extremely rare. They play songs like Cream's Badge just to prove what they can do, perhaps. They do it alright, probably got more talent than Slade, although very patchy. Grace Slick is still the first lady. Her new album is great, with the old Jefferson Airplane type backing, plus some acoustic stuff.

Trouble is her hippie breeding comes through when she gets hold o f a record cover to conceptualise. Someone should talk to the J.A. about this boring busi­ ness. As for her music, though, it is excellent. You can still recognise the powerful voice which had all the pill freaks listening to White rabbit all night some seven years ago. In fact, if you liked the old J.A. and thought they went ratty three albums ago, this could be the one.

O f the souly type lady-types, the ones are Linda Lewis and Claudia Lennear.

Linda Lewis, out o f England, has a fantastic range from Michael Jackson to Mahalia Jackson, and her songs are cutiepie stuff, and very engaging. Her voice is very clear, and she’s not a loud singer.

Claudia used to be an Ikette with Ike & Tina, explaining quite a lot o f things. Her album Phew shows she can sing with great power, and with Ry Cooder backing on bottleneck & slide the album is one to hear.

Last minute inclusions here include Maddy Prior, the singer with English traditional rock group Steeleye Span, in the Sandy Denny vein. Also a couple o f country/blues/jazz types - Tracy Nelson, from the group Mother Earth, and Bonnie Raitt. Both write a little and have a similar feel about their music - a fairly powerful sort o f countrified ballad.

Then Maria Muldaur, who almost made it to the finals. She’s been around for quite a while singing with folksy mobs, but it was only late last year she got the Big Push from her record com ­ pany. Her solo album was received well, though it was patchy. That’s the trouble when they get the push, because a com ­ pany will often turn the album into a sampler-display case for the talents. In this case Muldaur hasnt got time to build up any sort o f mood because the material varies so much. Even so, this is an album worth having, she’s bound to do more. *

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SANDY DENNY found fame with Fairport and now has a couple o f solo albums out, both o f which are splendid. She writes much o f her own fairytale music, or possibly modern traditional if such a thing is possible, with a leaning towards the Dylan-type images like: Oh when I was a lass at school/I looked out at the sky/And now among the woodlands cool/ Gathering sweet primroses I . . .

Carly Simon is fast heading away from what she could have been. Her first album was really promising, and her second Anticipation, was on the same track.

There were some excellent songs . . . Dan my fling, Anticipation, I've got to have you, and always one of two which seem­ ed there to pad the sides out to 20 minutes. Her third album, which made it for her in the States, No secrets, with the hit song You're so vain, saw her treading around the old Top 40, and getting away from the down-tempo stuff. The album, apart from being extraordinarily commer­ cial, was also patchy.

Now she’s just released her fourth, CONTINUED

Hotcakes. Once again it will head up to the top o f the charts; now that die's pregnant and James Taylor’s partner, she’s really into the Apple Pie class.

The title track is a boring little showstopper, and there are, as usual, some dull tracks. One track is Think I'm gonna have a baby, which is more good PR. The lyrics on the cover, which I think is the first time she’s done it. Most o f them are fairly forgettable although Misfit and Safe & sound have some class. A lot o f it is about love — sitting under apple trees and such, so one guesses James and she are doing fine.Hotcakes, nevertheless, will sell more copies than the other albums mentioned here; mainly because she’s crossed her markets and everyone loves her. I would humbly suggest her first two albums are ultimately more entertaining than her last two.

Carole King has gone quiet. She made it writing songs with Jerry Goffin years ago, and putting out the odd single. Now with about four albums released in the past four years, she’s had a success graph, from interesting with Writer, to mam­ moth with Tapestry (that album sold zillions o f copies), and back to pleasant with Rhymes & reasons. Mostly her songs rhyme well, the melodies are always interesting, but the lyrics are often drab.

About the best she came up with on Rhymes was in Ferguson road . . . I’m gonna head on up to old Ferguson road/ Find m yself a spot/Where the sun shines through/ril throw some old mattress/In the back o f the bus/And get a good head start on forgetting you. What I mean is, I like the woman, but she doesnt make the playlist too often.

The difference between Melanie, Linda Ronstadt, Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell, as a whole, is possibly complicated and maybe only in the eye o f this beholder.

But (a) these women use their voices as instruments almost, the way they mod­ ulate etc. (b) The songs they write are dramatic, with pauses and changes and flashes, and not the usual three minute run o f mediocrity, (c) The lyrics they write are extraordinarily good, and often poetry in the sense that Dylan’s words are poetry. (Unfortunately only one o f these points apply to Linda R., who writes rarely and plays less.) But (d) the way they interpret a song, which gets down to a subjective level and finally how the song gets through to you.

Since Melanie’s beautiful song Candles in the rain, she has released a few albums.

All o f them have been patchy, but all of them have had some beautiful songs. Her fault is probably the mudbrick syndrome

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(which I w on’t go into). Her live concerts are apparently powerful affairs, with dewey-eyed boys crying in the aisles as the beautiful woman communicates with them.

Totally different is Laura Nyro, who used to have dewey-eyed girls hysterical in the aisles. Something funny happened to Laura Nyro. Apparently she stopped shooting up in New York, or whatever she did, and got married. Consequently she hasnt released an album for two years, although “ they” say she is being signed to Asylum. Nyro, in press releases etc., was alluded to as "enigmatic” . . . “ woman in black” . . . “ mysterioso” . . . that sort o f thing. She certainly looked that way.

Her songs reflected her origins, which were a jewish/catholic family, and a home in the Bronx. She did as much as anyone to push the street music o f Harlem, and a subdued Phil Spector girl-group sound.

Her songs are brilliantly textured by her powerful piano. She has written some great songs, which other artists dont do as well, and on her final album a lot o f the material was drawn from the Ronettes/ Crystals days. If Barbra Streisand in fact looked better, was younger, took cocaine and could write songs, I think she’d like to have been Laura Nyro, but you never can tell. I suppose it’s white soul music at its best. (For black soul, there’s an album out by Labelle, the group which backed Nyro on her last album.)

Linda Ronstadt is different from these last few singers. She doesnt write or play much. But the songs she chooses are the best around - written by people like Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, Rick Roberts, Bob Dylan, Eric Katz, J. D. Souther, Fred Neil, Tim Buckley, Laura Nyro and more. Her voice is beauti­

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ful. She’s in the vaguely country area and her new album is almost perfect. It’s quite a few albums since she did Different drum and she’s never really been big, and might not ever be. But there is no one who can sing like her. If y o u ’re interested listen to the album Don't cry now, and her version o f Jackson Browne’s R ock me on the water on the Capitol album Linda Ronstadt.

Finally is Joni Mitchell, who really started all this. Her sixth album has just been released overseas, and it’s a strange one. Joni has never been an optimist perhaps a despairing optimist. On this she has less hope in her songs, as in Just like this train . . . I used to count lovers like railroad cars/I counted them on m y side/ Lately I dont count on nothing/I just let things slide.

And in Car on a hill. . .

I feel like I'm sleeping Can you wake me You seem to have a broader sensibility I'm just living on nerves and feelings With a weak and lazy mind And coming to people's parties Fumbling deaf dumb and blind.

I wish I had more sense o f humor Keeping the sadness at bay Throwing the lightness on ihese things Laughing it all away . . .

Stylistically, the album is similar to For the roses. You must consider back in the days o f her first album - she had so much drama and spark, a truly individual sound - that she was alone in the field. It lasted for three albums, then she changed a little on Blue, still the album I least prefer. For the roses was a change again, a more mellow sound, and now this, with a similar feel. Instead o f simple guitar or piano, she now tends to use rock backing, and on occasion, it reminds o f Blue.

Probably the worst offence is one track where she sounds like she’s doing an Andrew Sisters, and another where she uses Cheech & Chong on an " I ’m mad but I dont dare cause crazy is okay” type song.

I dont think she needs to bother. In fact it’s a real drag on the album, and almost worth a letter. The title track Court & spark is probably worth the admittance price though. Basically, that’s it.

THE DISCOGRAPH Y H onky Tonk Angel, Ellen Mcllwaine Polydor PD502.

M oon Shadow, Labelle, Warners, BS 2618 (im port).

Satisfied, M other Earth, Mercury SR 612-70 (im port).

70016/7.

Stoneground Words, Melaine, Neighborhood NHTC 251.

Court and Spark, Joni Mitchell, Asylum 7E-1001 (import).

For The R oses, Joni Mitchell, Asylum SD 5057 (import).

Blue, Joni Mitchell, Reprise MS 2038 (im

P ort).

Ladies o f the Canyon, Joni Mitchell, Reprise RS 6376.

Clouds, Joni Mitchell, Reprise 6341.

Joni Mitchell, Reprise RS 6293.

Dont Cry Now, Linda Ronstadt, Asylum SD 5064.

Linda Ronstadt, Capitol SMAS 635 (im­ port ).

Silk Purse, Linda Ronstadt, Capitol ST-407 (import).

Hand Sown/Home Grown, Linda Ronstadt, Capitol ST-208 (import).

Stone Poneys & Friends, Linda Ronstadt, Capitol ST 2863 (EMI).

S toney End, Linda Ronstadt & the Stone Poneys, Pickwick SPC 3298 (im port).

Gonna Take a Miracle, Laura N yro, CBS 234074.

Christmas and the Beads o f Sweat, Laura N yro, CBS 233912.

Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, Laura Nyro, CBS 63346 (import).

New York Tendaberry, Laura N yro, CBS SBP 233758.

The First Songs, Laura Nyro, CBS 234283.

H ot Cakes, Carly Simon. Elektra 7E 1002 (im port).

No Secrets, Carly Simon, Elektra EKS 75049.

Anticipation, Carly Simon, Elektra EKS 75016.

Presenting the Fabulous R onettes, Phillies PHLP 4006 (import).

Conspicuous Only in its Absence, The Great S ociety, Columbia CS 9624 (im port).

Cheap Thrills, Big Brother & Holding Company, Columbia KCS 9700 (imp).

A fter Bathing at Baxters, Jefferson Airplane R CALSO -1511 (import).

Manhole, Grace Slick, Grunt BFLI-0137 (import).

Aretha: Lady Soul, Aretha Franklin Atlantic SAL 932831.

Nina Simone in Concert, Philips PHM 200-135 (import).

The Best o f Judy Garland, MCA DXSB 7172.

The Original Recordins, Billie Holiday, CBS SBP 234300.

Bette Midler, Atlantic SD 7270.

The Divine Miss M, Better Midler, Atlantic SD 7238.

Sandy, Sandy Denney, Island 11-34697 M other Hen, RCA, MLSP 4641.

Lark, Linda Lewis, Reprise MS 2120.

Phew, Claudia Lennear, Warners BS 2654.

Barbara Keith, Reprise MS 2087.

Beads & Feathers, Carol Hall, Elektra EKS 75018.

F o x y Lady, Cher, MCA MAPS 6135.

Free Fall Through Featherless Flight, Jeannie Lewis, EMI EMC 2505.

Best o f Delaney & Bonnie, Atlantic SD 7074.

The Pointer Sisters, R CA L 34965.

Quiet Fire, R oberta Flack, Atlantic SD 1594.

Killing Me Softly, R oberta Flack, Atlantic SD 7271.

Writer, Carole King, A&M SODL 9333985.

Rhym es & Reasons, Carole King, A&M ODL 34708.

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Alberto the dirty director

From R O G ER HUCHINSON in Breda, Holland.

l b e r t o is about 35. He doesnt eat lunch because he’s afraid o f becoming fat, wears shoulder-length black hair and a straggly beard, and speaks five languages easily - all in the same soft, cultured tone.

He is an ex-member o f the Italian Communist party, calls himself an anarchist, and is one of the richest businessmen in south­ ern Holland.

Alberto is probablv the biqqest, certainly the best hardcore pornog­ raphy producer in Europe. For more than five years now his films - issued under the nom de pom o f Lasse Braun - have been edg­ ing miles o f competitive celluloid into the North sea. The secret of his outrageous success can’t be summed up at all, but it's some­ thing to do with the Dutch parlia­ ment and courts, and quite a lot to do with CLASS. Of which, before Alberto came along, the porno film world was desperately in need. Badly print­ ed, undirected 8mm horror shows which purported to be titillation (and, to color-blind robots with a penchant for the missionary posi­ tion, probably were), were shoved into plain cardboard boxes, label­ led or stamped like boodegs, and furtively hawked in the back­ streets o f Europe.

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F. “ JERRY” Rentzloff, central Texas sales manager for Lone Star beer, gazed around the beer garden outside the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin. "Yep, they sure do drink a lotta beer at this place. You know, we stock more here than anywhere else in Texas ‘ ceptin’ the Astrodome over in Houston.” “ Yep” , replied George "Com­ mander Cody” Frayne, sitting across the table from Rentzloff and squinting into the bright december sun. “ Yep,” Rentzloff continued. “ Why, all together we’re stockin’ 45 kegs for this Saturday night.

That’s a lotta beer! ” “ Yep,” Cody grinned, at what he rightly took to be a com­ pliment “ Yep,” Rentzloff added. “ It’s always best when you guys is playin’, that's why it’s so much more than usual even. You got a way o f gettin’ ’em all excited and screamin’ when you play, and they jes keep cornin’ back for more beer. Yep, that’s it all right.”

By now, Cody was beaming so broadly he was unable to keep up his end o f the conversation with another yep.

The man from Lone Star — one o f three local brews that Texans cling to like moths to light would make a good rock critic.

He’d called this one perfect. But then it looked like a can’t-miss proposition right from the start.

Here we are at Armadillo World Headquarters, a former national guard armory near the 40,000 student University o f Texas, site of Charles Whitman’s last stand. The AWHQ is now your archetypal dank American rock emporium, but it is one that tries harder.

That’s due to Eddie Wilson, a strapping Texan who, with a shave and a slight trim, would look very much at home giving orders in a real Guard armory. Himself a for­ mer PR man in the Texas beer idustry, Wilson has been upgrad­

o f the CP in 1958 for “ porno­ graphic practices” - ie. the mak­ ing o f sex films while still a student in a heady attempt to lure the Italian people away from the repressive doctrines o f the roman catholic church. Alberto never saw anything wrong with fuckfilms, and was quite a long way ahead o f his revolutionary time in using them as subversive weapon­ ry. The CP, then as now, dis­ agreed; and Alberto was let loose on the world outside the party, where he wandered for nearly ten years, exploring anarchist groups and pornographic arts.

In 1968 a Dutch pomographer was brought to trial in Amster­ dam. His defence was the timehonored civil rights case - “ De­ fine to me this obscenity", “ Are you not ignoring man’s lifeforce?", etc - the kind o f thing that courts in England, America, and Australia have been slapping contempt charges on since time immemorial. But the Dutch, as is their wont, listened, and consider­ ed . . . questions were asked in parliament, the case was thrown out o f court, and within a few months there was no such thing as printed or filmed sexual obscenity in the Dutch legal books. (Our anonymous Don Quixote, incidentally, went on to make a large fortune in the next two years and retired at the age o f 32. But that’s

another movie.)

You are giving pornography a bad cost Alberto his word to those Alberto, somewhere in Tobago name.” publishers back in ’71.

(Trinidad) persuading the people “ You know nothing, Alberto, Alberto, you see, is a kind o f to fuck for his shoulder-held about publishing. Stick to your ascetic. When he took these build­ camera, heard the news and rejoic­ films.” ings in Breda he was doing so not ed. Within a year he’d gotten a “ You stupid sons o f bitches, only in order to have a base in a large building in Breda, southern drink o f my mother’s piss” - for country which accepts pornog­ Holland and converted it into a Alberto is still Italian. “ In 1974 I raphy, but also so that he could pocket Hollywood. Series after will produce the magazines which lock himself and a group o f faith­ series o f exotically directed, Ton- will do to porno publishing what ful staffers away in a place with­ film - In Deutscher sprache, ex­ my films have done to porno out distraction: the better to pro­ quisitely packaged 8 and 16mm home movies - clean up. I will duce perfect pom. muff-movies ensued.

Western Breda is a town without dis­ Europe lapped it up. By 1971 wipe you o ff the market, and then traction.

You might say that it’s you can come to me and ask me Alberto was rich and celebrated.

20th century liberal capitalism in The success o f his proud, glossy to stick to my films.”

It must have been a glorious perfect working order. There is products changed the home movie moment, and Alberto lived com ­ financial inequality in the town, world.

At an Amsterdam pornog- fortably on it for a couple o f o f course - but no apparent raphers conference in late ’71 years until, some months ago, he poverty, everybody is well-cloth­ Alberto was given a standing ova­ realised that his deadline was com ­ ed, well housed, and well fed. tion on entry. At this same con­ ing up fast. He knew what he There are many hippies and stu­ ference several porno publishers wanted to do, and knew enough dents in Breda, but that famed got into a heated argument with about himself to recognise that he Dutch tolerance has quashed any couldnt do it alone. He wanted a life they might have shown. No­ our hero. “ Why are your magazines not couple o f small, pocket-size maga­ body has been busted for soft following the expert professional­ zines to sweep away Color climax drugs here for two years (there are ism o f my films?” the conversa­ and similar tripe, a few regular rumors that parliament may legal-* tion might have gone. "Why are booklets to grab the occasional ise it in summer); and the hippies they still ugly, unworkmanlike consumer, and one magazine to simply congregate in a bar or two embody his vision o f pornograph­ set aside for the purpose and pieces o f boring shit?” ic publishing; Oui-type wit, Play­ smoke themselves silly. With noth­ “ Ah, Alberto, the magazine boy stature and elegance, all this ing obvious to complain about they have sunk into dull apathy. market is different from your film and split-beaver too. market. People like their porno He got an English editor — Breda, dope-haven, pomgrubby.” myself — on a shorttime provi­ empire, tolerant, affluent Breda is “ But you have offered them sionai sional contract. And *n a the tne reasons boring as a drink.in in a brew. nothing better. You serve them why I shall leave at the end o f the w ery with an ordinary product only. first ;ssue are the reasons that may

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ing the 'Dillo since he took it over 1970 - adding the terraced beer garden, a downstairs game room with "fo o s ” ball and pinball, a fledgling art gallery, and, up­ stairs, the residence and studio o f Jim Franklin, who in many re­ spects is the spiritual father o f the whole shebang.

Franklin is an artist best known for the armadillo drawings and comix he started turning out in 1968. In his work, the creatures behave in a most uncharacteristic manner. One might metamor­ phose into a police helmet, or out of a spinning LP and then casually stroll into the ear o f the listener.

They might be humping the state capitol building in Austin, or one might transform itself into the Taj Mahal, or a whole pack o f them might be arching in neat forma­ tion over a Texas highway.

In no time, the armadillo be­ came a symbol to the freaks who flocked to Austin for college or because it’s just easier to live the hippie life there than it is any­ where else in what is still, after all, Texas.

Then armadillo consciousness spread. An armadillo festival was held in Victoria, in south Texas.

Haughty Nieman-Marcus o f Dallas featured His and Her armadillos ($100 each) in their catalog one year. The capper came when the UT student body voted to change its mascot from the Longhorn to the Armadillo. Like most in-jokes that grow into fads, even if not , national ones, it was all a lot more enjoyable in the old days. But it’s

still plenty palatable when Frank­ lin, as master o f ceremonies at the ’Dillo, dons his God costume or his armadillo headdress to deliver a stream o f unconsciousness intro for the next band.

The only thing ’Dillo audiences like more than Jim Franklin-asGod is country music, which is what most o f them grew up hear­ ing. They may have gotten way­ laid by the mid-60s rock explo­ sion, but it wasnt long before the flower child had mutated into the cosmic cowboy, and it did so with a vengeance. Gingham" gowns, imitation nudie shirts, and stet­ sons are standard dress at the ’Dillo. And since it is such an intensely localised scene - no high-pressure New York or Los Anqeles music biz hustle for these mellow folks! - the. bands they usually favor are homegrown groups like Freda and the Firedogs, Greazy Wheels, or Kinky Friedman and His Texas Jewboys.

Their hero is Willie Nelson, who at 37 has been kicking around the country music scene for some 20 years with little national success. Nelson is as fine a songwriter and as distinctive a singer as you’ll ever hear; he

sounds like a very gentle and patient man trying to sing his way out o f a straitjacket someone has entrapped him in for no good reason at all. But while George Uones Ray Price, Ernest Tubb and countless others have all hit pay dirt since leaving Texas, Willie never did despite his vast talents By some standards that makes him a Loser, and perhaps that’s why his fellow Texans become more rabid in support o f him every time he suffers a bigger setback in the Nashville music biz.

Or at least they like to think something to that effect in Nash­ ville, where the Music City busi­ ness establishment that has always controlled country music is frank­ ly puzzled and nervous about the new audience that Willie and his sidekicks — Waylon Jennings, Billie Joe Shaver, et al - are forging. It’s unprecedented in country music, and they’re mostly afraid that they will be left out by this new breed.

A couple o f years ago, Willie grew a beard and longer hair and started hanging out with the likes o f Leon Russell. When he finally decided to give up on Nashville, he found the 'Dillo so congenial that he moved in right down the street. Eddie Wilson likes to say that his hall is the place where Texas rednecks and hippies can groove together, and since Willie has come to embody so much of both elements, his concerts are always a major event.

Commander Cody and HisLost Planet Airmen may not be

Texans, but they are, understand­ ably enough, also a major event at the ’Dillo. Cody, you will recall, was thrust upon an unsuspecting national audience in 1970 as “ the first hippie country and western band” , when they put their tongue-in-cheek lyrics to country melodies and came up with such classics as “ Lost in the Ozone” “ Wine Do Yer Stuff". “ I'm Down to) Seeds and Stems (Again)” , and “ I Took Three Bennies and My Semi-Truck Won’t Start” .

But Cody and crew were al­ ways much more than a country band with whacked-out lyrics, and recently their music has had more to do with a particular time than a particular genre. That period covers about 1945 to about 1955, and is one o f the true heydays o f native American popular music. In New York, Charlie Parker was blowing non-stop sax. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys had added dixielandish brass and drums to traditional country lyrics and in­ strumentation; it was called West­ ern Swing, and all over the South­ west, shitkickers just couldnt get enough o f it. In the urban ghet toes, blues shouters like Wynonie Harris were working with big jump bands and likewise blowing the roof off.

Never before had different forms of American music found so much in common, and the main thing they shared besides the strong swing feel was that they were all very hot, music to work up a sweat by. Musical boundaries got smeared more and more, the dance beat kept getting bigger, and by the end o f this 10-year period something had emerged which became known as rock 'n roll.

Cody manages to cover all that ground. In fact, the crew is the best argument going that great music knows no time period any­ more than it knows a handy genre label; when played right, it’s all just hard, foot-stomping music, 1US1C, right here and right now.

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T I D I K A W A A N D F R IE N D S — A n th r o p o lo g i­ cal d o c u m e n ta ry : F ilm ­ m akers C in e m a , t pm , tues-sat, $ 1 .5 0 .

F R E N C H C IN E M A — L A J E T E E , N U I T E T B R O U IL L A R D , P R E M IE R E N U I T : F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , St P e te r’s la n e , D a rlin g h u rs t, 3 1 .3 2 3 7 . M e m b e rs o n ly .

J oin at d o o r $ 3 .0 0 . 6 & 1 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 .

H E N D R I X : M a n ly Silver S creen. 7 .3 0 & 9 .4 5 pm , $ 2 .0 0 .

JAZZ, FOLK PETER BOOTHMAN M O D E R N J A Z Z : L im e ric k C as tle , 8 -1 2 p m .

ABBEY JAZZ BAND: L o rd D u d le y H o te l, P addo.

M E R V A C H E S O N T R IO : R a n d y W ic k B is tro , 1 2 3 A vo ca street, R a n d w ic k , 7 .3 0 - 1 0 .3 0 pm .

D IC K HUGHES JA ZZ P IA N O : F re n c h ’s T a v e rn , O x fo r d stre e t, 6 -9 pm .

T I M B R O W N : N o rth b rid g e H o te l.

DON M O R R IS O N : R ed R ile y , 2 6 3 R ile y stre e t, S u rry H ills , 2 1 1 .3 2 4 0 , 7 .3 0 pm .

IRRELEVAIMCIES TOUR OF V IC T O R IA BARRACKS: O x fo rd s treet P a d d o . Be th e re at 1 0 .5 5 w ith polished brass and clean gaiters.

P U C C IN I'S I L T A B A R R O — S o u r A n g e lic a , G ia n n i S chicchi: O p era House, 7 .3 0 p m , $ 6 .5 0 , $ 8 .5 0 , $ 1 0 .5 0 (op era fo r th e pe o ­ ple a t one s ix th th e basic w age?).

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Prepared by Stephen W all, w h o also acts as T L D outpost and copy host^Tuesdays to T h u rs d a y s , a t 18 A r t h u r s tre e t, Surry Hills, 6 9 8 .2 6 5 2 .

TR O U PA DO RS: M a n ly V a le , 8 -1 2 p m , $ 1 .5 0 .

HOME: D en n is o n H o te l, 7 -1 0 p m . F re e .

EVENTS C R E A T IV E DRAMA W ORKSHOPS at G u rig an y a , 4 4 4 O x fo r d s treet, P addo . D o n a tio n .

G O R D O N BA RTON SPEAKS at H u m a n is t H o u s e , 10 S h e p h erd s treet, B ro a d w a y , 2 1 2 . 2 0 3 8 , 8 .0 0 pm .

JAZZ, BLUES FOLK DON M O R R IS O N : Red R ile y , 2 1 1 .3 2 4 0 , 7 .3 0 pm .

PETER BOOTHMAN — M od.

Jazz: L im e r ic k C astle, 8 -1 2 p m , fre e .

J U N IO R A N D T H E G O L D TO PS: F id d le rs V in e , C ro n u lla , 7 .3 0 .

M E R V A C H E S O N T R IO : B ellevue H o te l, P addo .

C H R IS T A P P E R A L A N D D A V E F U R N IS S : Fo rest Lodge H o te l, 7 .3 0 -1 0 p m .

M IX E D FO LK — P h y l, L o b l, E ric K aw as k i, Peter Phelps, B ernard B o la n , B ill M o rg a n : E liz a b e th H o te l.

TV, RADIO S A IL O R , S A IL O R — R a d io p la y : A B C R a d io 1, 1 1 .0 0 a m .

FO LK ROCK — w ith M a ria n H en d e rs o n : J ohn C u rrie , th e N e w Y o r k P u b ­ lic L ib r a r y , C h a n n e l 2, 8 .5 0 p m .

W HA T A W A Y TO GO — M o v ie w ith S h irle y M a c ­ la in e , D ic k V a n D y k e , Paul N e w m a n : C hannel 1 0 , 9 .0 0 pm .

S Y D N E Y OR T H E BUSH — D o c o on d e c e n tra lis a ­ tio n : C hannel 2 , 9 .2 0 pm .

STRANG ER ON THE R U N — A W estern w ith H e n ry F o n d a , Sal M in e o , A n n e B a x te r: C h a n n e l 2, 1 0 .0 0 pm .

THE JAZZ S IN G E R — M o v ie w ith A l Jolson — a classic: C h a n n e l 1 0 , 1 1 .1 5 pm .

ROCK FAT ALBERT, 8 DAY C L O C K : C hequers, 8 .0 0 p m - 3 a m , $ 2 .0 0 .

HOME: D en n is o n H o te l, 7 -1 0 p m . F re e .

TV, RADIO P R E M IE R E : T H E BOX: Said to o u t b u m an d tit N o . 9 6 , C hannel 1 0 , 9 pm .

THE H IS T O R Y OF P A P U A N E W G U IN E A — P A R T 1: R a d io 2 , 1 0 .1 5 pm .

M O V IE : T I M E L I M I T — A r m y d ra m a w ith R ic h a rd W id m a rk : C h a n 1 0 , 1 0 .4 0 pm .

JAZZ

THE PHANTO M HEAD S H A V E R : A B C R a d io 1, 7 .1 5 p m .

T H E IC Y M IR R O R — A L ive P ro m C o n c e rt b ro a d ­ cast o f “ a d ra m a tic conc e r tw o r k ” by M a lc o lm W illia m s o n : A B C R a d io 2 , 8 .0 0 p m .

W A R A N D P E A C E — F irs t of 20 BBC episodes: C h a n n e l 2 , 8 .0 0 p m .

A M E R I C A — F irs t o f 13 b y A lis ta ir C o o k e — T h e B rits L o o k a t th e Y a n k s : C h a n n e l 2 , 8 .5 0 p m .

NORMAN L IN D S A Y — F E S T IV A L “ R E D H E A P ” : C h a n n e l 2, 1 0 .1 0 p m .

FILM N F T A ’s c la s s ic s — “ M E T R O P O L IS ” b y F r it z Lang ( 1 9 2 6 ) and “ T O N I ” b y Jean R e n o ir ( 1 9 3 4 ) : AMP th e a tre .

C irc u la r Q uay. $ 1 .2 0 .

7 .1 5 pm .

M e m b e rs o n ly , jo in at d o o r. “ T H E C A B IN E T O F D R C A L I G A R I ” — 1 9 1 9 G e r­ m an f ilm , s ile n t, surrealist, plus “ E N T R ’A C T E ” , F re n c h , 1 9 2 4 : W o rk s h o p A rts C e n tre , 33 L a u re l s tre e t, W illo u g h b y .

In fo 9 5 .6 5 4 0 (d a y ), 4 1 .4 1 8 3 (e v e n in g ). 8 pm . M e m b e rs o n ly , jo in a t d o o r. “ T I D I K A W A & F R IE N D S ” : F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a .

10 p m . $ 1 .5 0 . “ A W IN T E R S T A L E ” — surf 6$ fo a m : M a n ly S ilve r S cre e n , 7 .3 0 . $ 2 . E x c e p t tues. & w e d .

ROCK “ C H IN C O G A N ” , “ S N IB B O ” , “ B IG S W IF T L Y ” : C h e q u e rs , 8 -3 a m . $ 2 . 0 0 . " T R A N S I T I O N ” : O c e a n ic H o t e l, 7 .3 0 - 1 1 .4 5 pm . $ 1 .5 0 .

PORYG CAMP DANCE: B a lm a in T o w n H a ll, 8-1 am .

FOLK

FAT ALBERT, 8 DAY C L O C K : C h e q u e rs, 8 p m -3 a m , $ 2 .0 0 .

TROUPADOR: B rig h to n H o te l, 7 -1 0 p m , fre e .

T R A N S IT IO N : O c e a n ic H o te l, 8 -1 0 p m , fre e .

F L A K E : R evesby W o rk e r, 8 -1 1 pm .

“ T R A D IT IO N A L F O L K ” : R ed L io n . “ T R A D IT IO N A L FO LK” — D e c la n A f f le y , The M cK ennas, Jane H e r iv il, Jack H o p k in s , D in e De H u g a rd : E liz a b e th H o te l.

8 -1 0 p m . 8 0 cents. “ DON M O R R IS O N , B R IA N SALTM ARSH” : F re u d ia n S lip .

6 9 9 .1 7 3 6 8 .3 0 p m . F re e .

FILM

JAZZ

H A M L E T : Russian film by K o zin ts e v —■ Best S h a k e ­ speare film ever m ad e: O p e ra H o u s e , M u s ic R o o m , 7 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .

JACK & J IL L : SOM E R E G R E T S — M e lb o u rn e fe a tu re s : F ilm m a k e r s C in e m a , 10 p m , $ 1 .5 0 .

NFT A — OFF H O LLY­ W O O D , A L E X IN W O N ­ D E R L A N D plus Z A B R IS K IE P O IN T : A u s tra lia G o v e rn m e n t C e n tre , P h illip s tre e t, 7 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .2 0 (m em b e rs o n ly — jo in at d o o r ).

W EST COAST USA — E X P E R IM E N T A L PRO­ G R A M . 16 F ilm s , 10 F llm m a k e rs : F ilm m a k e r s C in e m a, 10 p m , $ 1 .5 0

“ DEEP BAYOU JAZZ/ ROCK BAND” : Stage D o o r T a v e rn . 7 -1 0 pm .

F re e. " K E V I N G O O D IE T R A D J A Z Z ” : L im e r ic k C as tle , 8 -1 2 p m . F re e .

“G A R Y W A LF O R D JA ZZ B A N D ” : U n it y H a ll H o te l, B a lm a in . “ D O C W I L L I S J A Z Z ” : A lb u ry H o t e l, O x fo r d s ire e t, D a rlin g h u rs t.

ROCK

FOLK

FAT ALBERT, 8 DAY C L O C K : C h e q u e rs, 8 .0 0 p m -3 a m , $ 2 . 0 0 .

M A G IC : B rig h to n H o te l, 7 -1 0 p m . F re e .

T R A N S IT IO N : O c e a n ic H o te l, C oog ee, 7 -1 0 p m .

Fre e.

DON M O R R IS O N : R ed R ile y , 2 1 1 .3 2 4 0 , 7 .3 0 p m .

T R A D IT IO N A L FO LK: R ed L io n .

FILMS

RADIO,TV P IC K O F T H E G O O N S —

a a fy n d a p

RADIO, TV “THE W ORLD OF JA ZZ” — w ith E r ic C h ild : A B C R a d io 1, 1 0 .2 5 a m .

N A T I O N A L R A D IO T H E ­ A TR E — “ COLD G R A D A ­ T IO N S ” : A B C R a d io 2 , 8 .3 0 p m . __ “ D R A G O N W Y C K” “ SPINE C H ILLING

M O V I E ” — V in c e n t Price, G e n e T ie r n e y a nd o th e r ghosts: C h a n . 2 , 9 .3 0 .

FOLK, CONTEMPORARY “ C O N T E M P O R A R Y , T R A D IT IO N A L F O L K ": E d in b u rg h C astle H o t e l, P itt s tre e t, 8 p m .

“DOUG R IC H A R D S O N , TERRI W ELLES, DAN J O H N S O N A N D O T H E R S ": The Shack, B ro o k v a le , near e n tra n c e to m a ll. 8 .3 0 p m . $ 1 . 0 0 .

DON FLETCHER, AL HEAD, MORAG, BOB POMEROY, ANDY AND TO NY: E liz a b e th H o te l, 8 - 1 0 p m , 8 0 cents.

“ DON B R IA N F re u d ia n F re e .

M O R R IS O N , S A LTM A R S H ": S lip , 8 .3 0 pm .

JAZZ “ EC LIPSE A L L E Y F I V E ” : V a n it y F a ir H o te l, 4 -7 pm . “ M E R V ACH ESO N T R I O ” : B ellevue H q te l, P a d d in g to n . A fte r n o o n — 3 -6. “ DOC W I L L I S ” : A lb u r y H o te l. A fte r n o o n . “ D O N D E S I L V A ” : L o u is T a v e rn , E liz a b e th s treet, P a d d in g to n . A fte r n o o n . “ D O C W I L L I S ” : B eresford H o te l, S u rry H ills , 7 .3 0 -1 0 pm . “ DEEP BAYO U JAZZ/ ROCK BAND” : Stage D o o r T a v e rn . 7 -1 2 pm .

$ 1.00. “ BLUES W IT H JO H N BOURKE” : L im e r ic k C as tle , 8 -1 2 p m . F re e .

“GARY W A L F O R D ’S J A Z Z B A N D ” : U n it y H a ll, B a lm a in .

“NOEL C R O W ’S JAZZ B A N D ” : R ed N e d ’s, 25 Sprin g stre e t, C h a ts w o o d , 8 .3 0 - 1 1 .3 0 p m .

KIDS “T H E P IE D P IP E R ” : — kids th e a tre : In d e p e n d e n t.

9 2 9 .7 3 7 7 , 2 pm .

C H IL D R E N S SHOW — “ABBOTT & COSTELLO, B A T M A N S E R I A L ” : F i lm ­ m akers C in e m a , 2 p m . K ids 5 0 cents, a d u lts $ 1 .

K ID S M A T I N E E : M a n ly S ilv e r S c re e n .

D e ta ils

STAGE “TH E HOSTAGE” by B re n d an B eh an : C ro n u lla A rts th e a tre . S u rf ro a d , C ro n u lla . 8 .1 5 p m . “ T H E E A G L E H A S TW O H E A D S ” by Jean C o c tea u : G enesian th e a tre , 4 2 0 K e n t s tre e t, S y d n e y . 8 .1 5 pm .

PETER BOOTHMAN — M o d e rn Jazz: L im e ric k C astle, 8 -1 2 p m , fre e .

ROCK

T H E G R A S S IS G R E E N ­ E R " — m o v ie w ith C ary G r a n t, D e b o ra h K e r r , R o b ­ e rt M itc h u m : C h a n . 1 0 , 9 .0 0 .

“JA ZZ O N A F R ID A Y N IG H T ” — w ith E ric C h ild : A B C R a d io 1, 7 .1 5 .

ELECTRONICS " G A R D E N I N G ” — th e in ­ side d ir t : C h a n . 2 , 6 .5 5 . " T H E U N IN H IB IT E D ” — m o v ie w ith M e lin a M e r­ c o u ri, Jam es M aso n — th e p a in in S p a in : C h a n . 1 0 , 1 1 .1 0 p m .

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ROCK K U S H : C ro x to n P a rk , Pres­ to n .

CLOUD N IN E : G eorge h o te l, S t K ild a .

D O V E : Prospect H ill h o te l, H ig h stre e t, K e w .

H O T C IT Y B U M P B A N D : S t a t io n h o te l, G re v ille s tre e t, P rah ra n .

FOLK F O L K N I T E : A t th e C o m ­ m u n e C o ffe e L o u n g e , 5 8 0 V ic t o r ia s tre e t, N . M e l­ b o u rn e .

PETER PARKHILL: F ra n k T r a y n o r ’s, 1 0 0 L t .

Lo n s d a le s tre e t, C it y .

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S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G e e lo n g .

B IG P U S H : G eorge h o te l, S t K ild a .

B O O T L E G F A M I L Y : Pres­ to n In s titu te o f T e c h n o l­ o g y , P le n ty ro a d , B u n d o o ra.

B R IA N C A D D : M a tth e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C h a d s to n e .

M A T T T A Y L O R : G o rd o n In s titu te o f T e c h n o lo g y , G e e lo n g ( a f t .) .

M A C K E N Z IE THEORY: G o rd o n In s titu te o f T e c h ­ n o lo g y , G e e lo n g (e ve ).

T H E H IG H B A R O Q U E IN E N G L A N D : 3 A R , 1 1 .1 0 p m .

FOLK

ROCK

BALLENDEN KER, A N ­ D R E A M c lN T Y R E : U n io n h o te l, c n r.

F e n w ic k & Am ess st, N . C a r lto n , 8 -1 2 p m . $ 1 . 0 0 in c . supp er.

BUSHW HACKERS AND B U LLOCKIES BUSH B A N D : P olaris In n h o te l, N ic h o ls o n s tre e t, C a rlto n .

M A D D E R L A K E : S t A l­ bans h o te l, S t A lb a n s .

K U S H : In te rn a tio n a l h o te l.

A ir p o r t W est.

S ID R U M P O : W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a w a d in g .

C H A IN : C ro x to n P ark, P reston.

FO X: S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G e e lo n g .

RED HOUSE ROLL B A N D , T A N K : W a ltzin g M a tild a , S prin gvale.

B IG P U S H : G eorge h o te l, S t K ild a .

C L O U D N IN E : G ro v e d a le h o te l, G eelon g.

LA DE DAS: M a tth e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C hadstone.

B O O T L E G F A M I L Y : Pres­ to n In s titu te o f T e c h n o l­ ogy.

FILM D U E L (S p ie lb e rg ) and G O ­ IN G H O M E : N F T A G u ild , M e lb o u r n e Uni U n io n B ldg , 7 .4 0 p m , $ 1 . 2 0 , 8 0 c stu.

DRAMA WORKSHOP W ORKSHOP: C la re m o n t t h e a tr e , 14 C la re m o n t s tre e t, S o u th Y a rr a . P ho ne A d r ia n 2 4 .6 4 0 5 f o r tim e .

OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT A G A R D E N O F V A R I­ E T Y : S ig h t acts and a cro ­ bats.

F la g s ta ff gardens, 1 2 .1 0 p m , 1 .1 0 p m .

M E E T T H E C IT Y S L I C K ­ E R S : R ec o rd in g stars in c o n c e rt. T re a s u ry gardens, 1 2 .1 0 p m , 1 .1 0 p m .

TV W A R A N D P E A C E : P a rt I, A B V 2 , 8pm .

RADIO H IS T O R Y OF PAPUA A N D N E W G U IN E A : P a rt I, 3 A R , 1 0 .1 5 p m .

NEW S O C IE T Y : 3AR, 7 .1 5 p m .

E D U C A T IO N N O W : 3 A R , 7 .3 5 p m .

JAZZ H O T C IT Y B U M P B A N D : P rospect H ill h o te l, K e w .

F R A N K TRAYNOR: B ea u m a ris C iv ic C e n tre , B eaum aris.

BLUES D U T C H T I L D E R S : Sings th e blues a t F r a n k T r a y ­ n o r ’s, C ity .

NEW MUSIC Y O U : Play a t th e C o m ­ m u n e , N . M e lb o u rn e .

FILM R E P U L S IO N (P o la n s k i) and R E F L E C T I O N S IN A G O L D E N E Y E (H u s to n ): N F T A , G u ild T h e a tr e , M e l­ b o u rn e U n i U n io n B ldg, P a rk v ille , 7 .4 0 p m . $ 1 . 2 0 , 8 0 c stu.

DRAMA WORKSHOP DRAMA W ORKSHOP: C la re m o n t th e a tre , 14 C la re m o n t s tre e t, S o u th Y a rra .

R in g A d r ia n 2 4 .6 4 0 5 fo r d e ta ils .

OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT A GARDEN O F V A R I­ E T Y : S ig h t acts and a c ro ­ bats.

T re a s u ry gardens,

ROCK H O T C IT Y B U M P B A N D : W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a w a d ln g .

RED HOUSE ROLL BAND: C r o x to n P a rk h o te l, P res to n .

MADDER LA K E, FO X:

Chris & Eva 5 1 .9 5 6 3 or leave messages 5 1 .7 4 2 5 , w rite F la t 8 , N o . 7 Irving avenue, W indsor, 31 81.

1 2 .1 0 , 1.1 0 p m .

M E E T T H E C IT Y S L I C K ­ E R S : R e c o rd in g stars in c o n c e rt. F la g s ta ff gardens,

1 2 .1 0 , 1 ,1 0 p m .

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FOLK GEO FF AND D IA N E H O L L IN S , B O B W I N T L E , BUSHW HACKERS AND B U LLOCKIES BUSH B A N D : D an O 'C o n n e ll, cnr C a n n in g and Princes streets, N. C a r lto n .

8— 12p m . $ 1 .

M YSTER Y GUEST A R T ­ IS T S : T a n k e rv llle A rm s , N ic h o ls o n street, C a rlto n .

JO H N CRO W LE: F ra n k T r a y n o r ’s, C ity .

JAZZ DAVE R A N K IN JAZZ B A N D : A lm a h o te l. C hapel s tre e t, S t K ild a .

O W E N Y E A T M A N : Pros­ pect H ill h o te l, K e w .

FR A N K TR A YN O R : Ex­ change h o te l, C h e lte n h a m .

NEW MUSIC M E L B O U R N E NEW M U S IC E N S E M B L E : C o m m u n e , N . M e lb o u rn e .

POETRY B R U N S W IC K POETRY W O R K S H O P : S ax o n H a ll, S axon s treet, B ru n s w ic k (b e h in d T o w n H a ll).

TV

TV G E O R G IE

1966) H S V 7, 9pm .

G E T T IN G S T R A IG H T : (A O , 1 9 7 0 ) G T V 9 , 9 p m .

(A O ,

K U N G F U : F o r all y o u fa n s , H S V 7 , 7 .3 0 p m .

M O N T Y P Y T H O N ’S

F L Y IN G C IR C U S : A B V 2 , 1 0 .5 0 p m .

F E L L I N I ’S 8 V2 : ( A , 1 9 6 3 ) A good rep ea t, H SV7, 1 1 ,1 0 p m .

RADIO HANNS E IS L E R : 3AR , 3pm .

P IC K O F T H E G O O N S : 3 L O , 7 .1 5 p m .

ROCK B A N D O F L I G H T : W h ite ­ horse h o te l, N u n a w a d in g .

B IG P U S H : C ro x to n Park h o te l, P reston .

RED HOUSE ROLL B A N D : S u n d o w n e r h o tel, G e e lo n g .

C H A N C E : G eorge h o te l, St K ild a .

BOOTLEG FAMILY: M a tth e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C h a d s to n e .

M ADDER LAKE, ALROY B A N D : T e a z e r, C it y .

S ID RUMPO, AYERS ROCK: C a u lfie ld Tow n H a ll.

FOLK D A N N Y SPOONER, J A N IE M Y R IA D AND F R IE N D S : O u tp o s t In n , 5 2 C o llin s s tre e t. C it y .

M IK E O 'R O U R K E , P E T E R P A R K H IL L , A N ­ D R E A M c lN T Y R E : T a v ­ ern F o lk c lu b , U n io n h o te l, C a r lto n .

BUSHW HACKERS AND B U LLOCKIES BUSH B A N D : P olaris In n h o te l, C a rlto n .

HUGH M cE W A N , JO H N C R O W LE , G O R D O N M c­ l N T Y R E : F r a n k T r a y n o r ’s C ity .

JAZZ O W E N Y E A T M A N : Pros­ pect H ill h o te l, K e w .

B R IA N BROW N Q U A R ­ T E T : C o m m u n e , N . M e l­ b o u rn e .

S T O R Y V IL L E J A Z Z M E N : M a n o r H o u s e , c n r Sw ansto n and Lo n s d a le streets, C ity .

DAVE R A N K IN JAZZ BAND: R a ilw a y C lu b h o te l, P t. M e lb o u rn e .

FILM TH E CONFORMIST, T E L L T H E M W IL L Y B O Y IS HERE: T ra k , 445 T o o ra k ro a d , T o o rak .

1 1 .4 5 p m .

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9 7 7 . 5 5 0 3 . 2 p m . 6 0 cents.

FILM "K A N A L" by W a jd a: U n io n th e a tre , 5 pm . $ 1 .5 0 . “ K N I F E IN T H E W A T E R " b y P o la n s k i, “ S T R I K E ” b y E ls e n s te ln : U n io n th e a tre , 7 .3 0 . $ 2 . “ I F ” (L in d s a y A n d e rs o n ) 1 9 7 0 : F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , m ld n ite . $ 1 . 5 0 .

“W E S T C O A S T U S A E X ­ P E R IM E N T A L F IL M S " : F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a .

10 pm . $ 1 .5 0 . ‘ 1T I D I K A W A & F R IE N D S " : F ilm m a k e rs C in e m a , 6 p m . $ 1 .5 0 .

"J A C K & J IL L ” , “SO M E R E G R E T S ” — M e lb o u rn e F ilm s : F ilm m a k e rs C in e ­ m a, 4 p m . $ 1 . 5 0 .

V IM A L A THAKAR: (T a p e s ), F rie n d s house, 631 O rro n g ro a d , T o o r a k .

TV IN C O N C E R T : W ith R are E a rth , D eep P u rp le , B u d d y M iles, R o ry G a llag h e r, H S V 7, 10pm .

RADIO T H E P R IM A R Y Y E A R S : 3 A R , 7 .1 5 p m .

D IS C C O U R S E O N J A Z Z : W ith E ric C h ild , 3AR , 9pm .

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ROCK C A P T A IN M ATCHBOX, D U T C H T IL D E R S , M A C ­ K E N Z IE T H E O R Y : T e a z er. C it y .

B A N D O F L I G H T : M a t­ th e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C hadstone ( a f t ) .

B A N D O F L I G H T : C helsea C ity H a ll (e v e ).

B IG PUSH: W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a w a d in g .

JO H N R U P E R T A N D T H E HENCHMEN: C ro x to n P a rk , P res to n .

GARY Y O U N G 'S FAT C A T S : S u n d o w n e r h o te l, G e e lo n g .

SKYHOOKS, CLOUD N IN E , LOBBY LLOYD AND THE CO LO URED B A L L S ge t It o n a t th e F ra n k s to n P o lic e -c ltlz e n s Y o u th c lu b , T o w e r H ill ro a d .

RED HOUSE ROLL BAND, M ATT TA YLO R: B rig h to n T o w n H a ll, B oxsh all s tre e t.

MADDER LAKE: G le n W av erley high school.

S ID RUMPO: M a tth e w F lin d e rs h o te l, C h a d s to n e (e ve ).

M ATT TA YLO R, AYERS ROCK: B ea u m a ris C ivic C e n tre .

KUSH: S ta tio n h o te l, Prahran ( a f t .) .

BOURKE AND W IL L S : De M a r c o 's Essendon h o te l.

KUSH, ATLAS, ABEL L O D G E , C A N O P U S : Box H ill to w n h a ll.

C A P T A IN M ATCHBOX, D U T C H T IL D E R S , M A C ­ K E N Z IE T H E O R Y : T e a zer, E x h ib itio n s tre e t. C ity .

FOLK P E T E R P A R K H IL L A N D G U E S T S : D a n O ’C o n n e ll, cnr P rinces and C an nin g s tre e ts , N. C a r lto n , 3—6 p m .

D U TC H T IL D E R S ,

STAGE “TH E H O S T A G E ” : See fr id a y .

“T H E E A G L E H A S TW O H E A D S " : See frid a y .

ROCK “ S E B A S T IA N H A R D Y ": M a n ly V a le H o te l, 12 n o o n -3 p m . $ 1 . “ JASPER, 69E RS, F L A K E ” : H o rn s b y P olice B oys C lp b , 8-1 2 . $ 1 . 5 0 . “ C H IN C O G A N " , " S N IB BO” , “ B IG S W IF T Y ” : C h equers, • p m -3 a m . $ 2 ., ‘‘B U F F A L O , N IT R O ” : C arin g b a h Y M C A , 7 . S o­ i l . 3 0 . $ 1 .4 0 . “ FLAKE”: C u rl C url Y o u th C lu b , 8 -1 1 .0 0 . “ F IN C H , O T H E R E N D S ” :

B R U C E M c N IC O L : C o m ­ mune, N. M e lb o u rn e , 1 0 —3 a m .

SUE E M M E TT, BRUCE M c N IC O L , JO HN GRA­ H A M : O u tp o s t In n , C ity .

P E T E R P A R K H IL L , P H IL DAY, J U L IE W ONG, JO HN AND J U A N IT A : F ra n k T ra y n o r's , C ity .

JA Z Z DAVE R A N K IN JAZZ B A N D : L e m o n T re e h o te l, C a rlto n , 2 .3 0 —6 p m .

T H E P L A N T : P olaris Inn h o te l, C a rlto n .

H O T C IT Y B U M P B A N D : P rospect H ill h o te l, K e w ( a ft) .

J U N C T IO N C IT Y JA ZZ B A N D : Prospect H ill h o te l, K e w (e ve ).

V IC T O R IA N J A Z Z C L U B : M a n o r H o u s e , C ity .

B e x le y M a s o n ic , 8 - 1 2 p m . “ T R A N S I T I O N ” : O c e a n ic .

“G R A V E Y A R D , C A R U A S J U T E , L O T U S ” : L iv e rp o o l T o w n H a ll, 8 -1 2 . $ 1 . 4 0 .

BIRTHS O p en in g of L e ic h h a rd t W om ens C o m m u n ity H e a lth C e n tre . F e d heavies are e x p e c te d , c o u ld be a gro o ve . 1 6 4 F lo o d s tre e t, 2 pm .

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TV, RADIO D I V I N E S E R V IC E — S t P eter J u lia n ’s R C church (fo r those ju s t re tu rn in g

M E L B O U R N E NEW M U S IC E N S E M B L E : C o m ­ m u n e , 5 8 0 V ic to r ia s tre e t, N . M e lb o u rn e .

MEETINGS OUR L IV IN G RELA­ T I O N S H IP S : MS A lic e M c K e n z ie , T h e o s o p h ic a l s o c ie ty , 1 8 8 C o llin s s tre e t, C ity .

OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT IT A L I A N DAY: G la d ia to rs , d ra m a , m u s ic , w a n ­ dering tro u b a d o rs o f It a ly , F itz r o y G a rd e n s , 3 p m ;

TV

VANISHING POINT: A th e n a e u m , L a te , C o llin s s tre e t, C ity . 1 0 .3 0 p m .

T O P A Z : A T V - 0 , 8 .3 0 p m .

KIDS

SUNDAY N IG H T ON R A D IO T W O , 3 A R , 7 .3 0 pm .

RADIO

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ROCK CLOUD N IN E : h o te l, S t K lld a .

ROCK M A C K E N Z IE THEO RY: Sacred H e a r t h a ll, W in ifre d s tre e t, S t A lb a n s .

C O LO UR ED BALLS, RED HOUSE ROLL BAND, SKYHOOKS: M itc h a m O v a l, a ft, $ 2 .5 0 .

S ID R U M P O : T e a z e r, C ity .

K U S H : T a n n e ry H a ll, W errib e e .

F A N T A S Y : C ro x to n P ark, P reston .

LA DE D A S : Icelands, R ln g w o o d .

B A N D O F L IG H T : N u n a­ w ading F .C .

FOLK MARG R O A D K N IG H T P E T E R P A R K H IL L : O u t­ post In n , 5 2 C o llin s s tre e t, C ity .

D A N N Y SPOONER, G O R ­ D O N M c lN T Y R E : F ra n k T r a y n o r*, 1 0 0 L it t le L o n s ­ d a le s treet, C ity .

JAZZ A L A N LEE JA ZZ Q U A R ­ T E T : M c C le lla n d G a lle ry , F ra n k s to n . 1 1 a m , $ 1 .5 0 , 5 0 c kids.

CONTEMPORARY GEORGE G O LLA , DON ANDREW S, B E N J A M IN , S IM O N 'S B O T T E T , D A N JO HNSO N, SOFT OP­ E R A : K ir k G a lle r y , 4 2 2 C levelan d s tre e t, S u rry H ills , S .0 0 p m , $ 1 .5 0 .

CLASSICS M U S IC O N T H E H O U R — Classics fo r o n e n ic k e r, kids 2 0 cen ts; O p era H o u s e , 11 a m -4 p m . A ll tic k e ts sold at d o o r.

A L IR IO D I A Z — G u ita r P ic k e r o f n o te : C onservat o r iu m , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 4 . 3 0 , $ 3 .2 0 .

ALL BACH CO NCERT: E jsted C e n tre , 464 St

EXPERIMENTAL

FILM

PROFESSO R Z IG G L E S ' T R A V E L S : C la re m o n t th e ­ a tre , 1 4 C la re m o n t street, S o u th Y a rra . 2 p m , $ 1 , 5 0 c fo r kids.

h o m e ): C h a n n e l 2 , 1 1 .0 0 am .

T H E U G L Y A M E R IC A N — B ra n d o classic/U S b u ll­ s h it: C h a n n e l 2 , 1 .4 5 pm .

T H E L A S T C O R R ID O R — Political Play: ABC R a d io 1 , 8 .0 0 p m .

LO VE OF W OMEN A ND A D M I R A T I O N OF G R E A T M E N — T h e L ife of F ra n k H a rris : ABC R a d io 2 , 8 .3 0 p m .

MAN IN Q U E S T IO N — Jo h n B ell (N im ro d S tre e t T h e a tr e ) in te rv ie w : C h a n ­ nel 2, 9 .3 5 p m .

W IL D L IF E S A F A R I TO E T H IO P IA — B B C D o c o series — th is w e e k A cross th e G re a t S a lt D esert: C h a n n e l 2 , 7 .5 5 pm .

C O N C E R T O — A shkenazy plays B e e th o ve n : C h a n n e l 2 . 8 .2 5 pm .

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THEATRES THE A R C H IT E C T A N D TH E EMPEROR OF AS­ S Y R I A by A rra b e l: Pram F a c to r y , 3 2 5 D ru m m o n d s tre e t, C a r lto n , tuesdaysu n d ay , 8 pm , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 students.

R O D F R E E M A N S M IT H and M O S E S : B ack th e a tre .

Pram F a c to r y , 3 2 5 D r u m ­ m ond s treet, C a r lto n , 8 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .5 0 students.

T H E S A IL and B E A R D (Jean H a r lo w m eets B illy th e K id ) by M ic h a e l M c C lu re : La M a m a , 2 0 5 F a ra d a y s tre e t, C a rlto n , 9 p m , $ 1 .0 0 .

W H Y B O U R N M O U T H and T H E M IS S IN G L I N K by J ohn A n tro b u s : A c to rs th e a tre , 1 6 9 C h u rc h st, R ic h m o n d , fri-s u n , 8 .3 0 , $ 2 , $1 s tu d e n ts .

T H E S L A U G H T E R O F ST T H E R E S A ’S D A Y (c o m m , w ed) by P e ter K enna: A le x a n d e r th e a tre , M onash U n i, C la y to n , m on -s a t, 8 .1 5 p m , 2 .1 5 sat, $ 3 .5 0 , $ 2 students.

E N E M Y by Robin Maugham ( S o m e r s e t ’s n e p h e w ) d ire c te d by E liz a ­ be th H e in d s : V ia d u c t th e ­ a tre , 27a C ro m w e ll rd, S o u th Y a rra , w e d -s a t, 8 .1 5 p m , $ 2 . 5 0 , $1 s tu d e n ts .

FILMS

FOLK P H IL D A Y : nors, C it y .

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T ra y-

JAZZ Prospect H ill H o t e l, K e w .

NEW MUSIC N IA G G R A : La M a m a , 2 0 5 F a ra d a y s tre e t, C a r lto n , 80c.

POETRY. POOR T O M ’S P O E T R Y BAND: C om m une, 580 V ic to r ia s tre e t. N o r t h M e l­ b o u rn e .

FILM U n io n .

M e lb o u r n e Uni U n io n B u ild in g , P a rk v lllo ,

NFTA,

DRAMA WORKSHOP DRAMA W ORKSHOP: C la re m o n t th e a tre , 14 C la re m o n t s tre e t, S o u th Yarra.

Ring A d r ia n , 2 4 .6 4 0 5 f o r tim e .

F R I T Z T H E C A T (R ) and M O V E ( M ): C a rlto n c in e ­ m a, F a ra d a y st, C a rlto n , th u r-s u n , 7 .4 5 p m , 9 0 c .

3 4 7 .5 5 2 4 .

TRAVELS W IT H MY AUNT and ENGLAND M A D E M E : D e n d y M a l­ vern , G le n fe rrie rd, M a l­ vern , 7 days, $ 2 .5 0 , 5 0 9 .0 5 5 5 .

TH E BABY and THE R U L IN G C L A S S : D e n d y Brighton, C h u rc h st, B rig h to n , m o n -s a t, 7 .5 0 , $ 2 .5 0 , $ 1 .4 0 students, 9 2 .8 8 1 1.

PERFORM ANCE: last w eek, th e ir new p ro ­ g ra m m e w ill be T H E S E N ­ S U A L IS T : T r a k , T o o r a k road, T o o r a k , 6 .0 0 , 8 .3 0 , sat 2 .3 0 , 6 .0 0 , 8 .3 0 , sun 5 .0 0 , 8 .0 0 , 2 4 .9 3 3 3 .

I A M C U R IO U S , Y E L L O W ( R ) : Palais, E s p la n a d e , St K ild a , 7 .4 5 , sat m a t. 3 .3 0 , 9 4 .0 6 5 1 .

COMING UP Q U I E T D A Y S IN CLICHY, EXORCIST, L A D Y KUNG FU , JON­ ATHAN L IV IN G S T O N

SEAGULL, MAN WHO L O V E D C A T D A N C IN G , M A C IN T O S H M A N .

GOING OUT W H A T ’S U P D O C , LUCKY MAN.

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JAZZ

G eqrge s tre e t, C it y , 3 3 7 .2 8 1 0 , 8 p m , $ 2 5 0 .

FILM ROBERT R A Y M O N D ’S COLO R F IL M S — T H E GREEN W ORLD, L IF E AND DEATH ON TH E G R E A T B A R R IE R R E E F : 10 a m , 12 n o o n , 2 .0 0 pm , 4 .0 0 pm , $ 2 .0 0 , kids $ 1 .0 0 .

NFTA — IM A G E S OF THE M IN D S E R IE S — J A L S A G H E R (T h e M usic R o o m ) and JE T ’A IM E , JE T ’A I M E : O p era House, in fo 4 4 .5 7 9 3 , 7 .1 5 , $ 1 .6 0 .

J o in a t d o o r.

LES E N F A N T S D U P A R A ­ D IS by M a rc e l C am e: U n io n th e a tre , 7 .3 0 , $ 2 .0 0 .

C H IL D R E N S SHOW — A B B O T T 8* C O S T E L L O , B A T M A N S E R IA L : F ilm ­ m akers C in e m a : 2 p m , kids 5 0 c , a d u lts $ 1 .0 0 .

L A P R IS E D U P O U V O IR PAR L O U IS X IV (R .

R ossellini, 1966) F re n c h C in e m a : F ilm ­ m ak e rs C in e m a : 4 & 6 pm , $ 1 .0 0 . M e m b ers o n ly , jo in at d o o r, $ 3 .0 0 .

F IL M S O N A R T IS T S — JAM U (J. O e h r and I. S to c k s ): F ilm m a k e rs C in e ­ m a, 8 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .5 0 .

F I L M C L A S S IC S : W .E .A .

F ilm G r o u p , 7 2 B ath urst s tre e t, 1 .3 0 p m , details 9 3 .4 6 8 0 .

A W I N T E R S T A L E : M a n ly S ilv e r S cre e n , 5 .3 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .

ROCK

YARRA YARRA JAZZ BAND: O ld M e lb o u rn e M o to r In n , m o n -s a t, 7 .3 0 o n w a rd s, sat a ft 3 o n w a rd s.

OPERA T H E C O R O N A T IO N O F P O P P E A b y M o n te v e rd i: U n io n th e a tre , M e lb o u rn e U n i U n io n big, thu rs-sat, 8 p m , $ 4 , $ 3 , $ 2 students, $ 1 .5 0 s tudents.

POETRY

G E O R D IE , H U S H , S H E R ­ B E T B U F F A L O , 6 9 ’E R S , D O U G P A R K IN S O N : E . S. M a rk s F ie ld , A n z a c parad e, $ 1 .0 0 .

REALITIES MUSICIANS UNION B A N D — B A N D A S S O C I­ A T IO N O F N S W : A t H y d e P a rk , M a rtin place respec­ tiv e ly , 3 .0 0 p m -4 .3 0 p m .

Brass Bands — B ring o n ly y o u r Im a g in a tio n .

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CHOCOLATE ALLSORTS M O D ER N JAZZ GROUP: L im e r ic k C astle, S m ith and A n n e s tre e t, S u rry H ills , 8 .0 0 p m -1 2 pm .

BLAZE & W ARREN W I L L I A M S , C h e q u e rs, 8 .0 0 p m -3 .0 0 a m . $ 2 .0 0 R A S H O M O N by K u rosaw a plus B A L L A D O F A S O L ­ D IE R — Russian f ilm : O p ­ era H ouse m usic r o o m , 7 .3 0 , $ 2 .0 0 .

TV, RADIO NEW M U S IC — Pierre B o u le z ’s P L I S E L O N P L I: A B C R a d io 2 , 8 .3 0 p m .

T H E T O T A L S E D U C T IO N — A n in d e p th s tudy o f H itle r 's mass m a n ip u la tio n of the G e rm a n p eop le: C h a n n e l 2 , 8 .5 0 p m .

P H IL O S O P H E R S IN D E ­ B A T E — S ir K a rl P o p p e r, S ir Jo h n Eccles — H ea v y no d o u b t: A B C R a d io 1, 1 0 .1 5 p m .

M O NTY PYTHONS F L Y ­ IN G C IR C U S : C h a n n e l 2 , 1 0 .2 5 .

D A V I D C A S S ID Y an d his g ro u p “ th e H o lly w o o d B o w e ls ” : R a n d w ic k race­ course, m arch 2 . $ 4 .2 0 .

U sual agencies.

W H O ’S W H O by K e ith [W aterhouse and W illis H a ll: E nsem ble th e a tre , M ilso n s P o in t, 9 2 9 .8 8 7 7 , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .7 5 to $ 3 .2 5 .

E L T O N J O H N : R a n d w ic k racecourse, fe b ru a ry 24, $ 5 . 2 0 , usual agencies.

SYDNEY F IL M F E S T I­ V A L : 6 6 0 .3 9 0 9 .

THE GREAT MOSCOW C IR C U S : M a rc h 2 9 -a p ril 7, D av id Jones.

D IA L - A - P O E M : R ing T o m and ask fo r po em 3 2 9 .6 0 3 9 .

TV SESAME STREET, fo r e a rly b ird s : A B V - 2 , 8 a m .

COURSES C A IR N M IL L A R IN S T I­ TUTE OF HUM AN R ELA ­ T IO N S has courses: E n ­ q u ire 1 0 0 C o llin s st, C ity or p h o n e : 6 3 .9 8 7 6 .

C O U N C IL OF ADULT E D U C A T IO N has courses: E n q u ire at 4 th flo o r , 2 5 6 F lin d e rs st, C it y .

T e l: 6 3 .4 2 3 1 .

GALLERIES LA N D SC A PES O F 18TH & 19TH CENTURY — Leadin g B rit a rtists , R o b e rt R a in e r g a lle ry . P rin ts b y F rle d e ric k H u n d er-W a s se r.

P h o to g ra p h ic d isp la ys , gal­ lery society c o r rid o r , plus fro m 13 fe b , A m e ric a n a rt fro m M u s e u m o f M o d e rn A rt, N . Y . N a tio n a l G a lle r y .

FILM SALT W ATER W IN E — S u rfin g m o v ie : B rig h to n to w n h a ll, tuesth u rs , 8 .3 0 .

COMING UP S L A D E C Q N C E R T , book at usual agencies.

ELTO N J O H N , fe b 2 1 , S o u th M e lb o u rn e F o o tb a ll g ro u n d , 8 p m , $ 5 . 2 0 .

M ONSALVAT CONCERT in G re a t h a ll, m arch 1, 2 , S c a rie tti, B e e th o v e n , S h u b e rt, S c h u m a n n . 8 .1 5 p m , $ 3 , $ 3 . 5 0 , in c lu d in g supper and w in e .

THEATRE L O V E F O R L O V E w ith th e O ld T o te T h e a tre C o m ­ p a n y : O p era H ouse, 8 .0 0 p m , $ 5 .5 0 (concessions, e x c e p t s un).

COW ARDY CUSTARD: M a ria n S t T h e a tr e , K llla ra , 4 9 8 .3 1 6 6 , e x c e p t tues.

W H A T IF Y O U D IE D T O ­ M O R R O W by D avid W il­ liam son: E liz a b e th a n th e ­ a tre , N e w to w n , 8 .1 5 p m , f r i , sat, 5 .3 0 , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 4 . 7 0 , $ 3 .7 0 , $ 2 .7 0 . C o n ­ cessions.

TOOTH O F C R IM E b y Sam S h e p a rd : N im ro d S tre e t th e a tre , 3 3 .3 9 3 3 , 8 .3 0 p m . N o m o n d a y .

TH E P H IL A N T H R O P IS T b y C h ris to p h e r H a m p to n : Independent theatre, 9 2 9 .7 3 7 7 , 8 .1 5 p m , wed to sat o n ly .

HELLO AND GOODBYE: A u s tra lia n th e a tre , N e w ­ to w n , 5 1 .3 8 4 1 , 8 .1 5 p m , e x c e p t sun, m o n .

JACK SHEPARD OR A N Y T H IN G YOU SAY W I L L BE T W IS T E D — a rois te rin g 1 8 th c e n tu ry fr o lic : E n s e m b le , M ils o n ’s P o in t, 9 2 9 .8 8 7 7 , 8 p m , sat 5 .0 0 p m , 8 p m .

EXHIBITIONS DOUGLAS HOLLELEY P H O T O G R A P H IC E X H I­ BITION: P h o tographers G a lle r y , B o n d i J u n c tio n , 3 8 9 .0 6 2 6 , m o n -fr i, 11

am -5 p m ; sat, 11 a m - 4 p m .

T H E S C U L P T U R E C E N T R E : S tu d e n t W o rk s , 3 C am b rid g e s tre e t. T h e R o c ks , tues-sun, 11 a m -4 pm .

P A IN TIN G S , WALL H A N G IN G S , E G L IT I S , D R A P E R : D iv o la G a lleries , B a lm a in , 8 2 2 . 3 0 1 8 , th u r, f r i, 11 a m -6 p m ; sat, sun, 1 2 .3 0 -7 .3 0 p m .

P IT T STREET B O O G IE W O O G IE b y T y r a H u tc h e n — H ip p ie m etam orpho ses l> P h illip s T h o m a s : H o ­ garth G a lle rie s , 3 1 .6 8 3 9 , m on -s a t, 1 0 .3 0 - 5 .3 0 .

ARCHIBALD E X H IB I­ T IO N : A rt G a lle ry of N S W , 2 1 2 .2 1 0 0 , tues-sat, 10 a m -5 p m ; th u r , 1 0 a m 10 p m ; sun, 1 2 -5 p m , e x ­ cep t m o n d a y .

ROCK M OTHER EARTH and R en e G e y e r: W h is k e y , 8 p m -3 a m , $ 2 .0 0 .

SEBASTIAN HARDY: Stage C o a c h , m o n -th u r, 8-1 a m , fre e ; f r i , sat, 8 p m -3 a m , $ 2 .0 0 .

FILMS LADY KUNG F U w ith A ngela M a o : F o r u m , 11 a m , 2 p m , 4 .4 6 , 7 .3 0 , 1 0 .0 5 p m ; sun, 4 .3 0 , 7 .3 0 pm .

TRASH, FLESH: N ew A rts C in e m a , G le b e , m o n f r i, 4 , 8 p m ; sat, s un, 3 .3 0 , 7 .3 0 p m .

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THE FIN IS H OF T H E O L D BUFFER':

WHEN I A M CAUGHT when i am caught between your movements, the walls wavering in uncharted perspectives, always i am simplified . . . a silver streak

FOREST BLUES

Antonin Artaud was not of this planet, & he believed that “ all writing is pigshit".

Most people ignore most poetry / because

Thinking

most poetry / ignores most people . . . these poems are people poems Cocabola is a myth . . . these poems are mythbreakers . . . creating & presenting a myth / is a simpler communication form / than explaining & analysing everything.

M y mind is copyright do not discover what i discovered without consent in writing. Some­

a buzzsaw tearing into my occipitus i am deafened, stunned,

day you will / listen / to your

blocked in the noises

own voices / & poets will be irrelevant.

I am not the keeper of the faith.

of your crooning style,

about going on the dole and getting a bike and i've nearly decided to get a band together

or maybe i'll just sit in this cottage watching the seasons change playing records and the organ until they come to put the cloth

whenever we get there,

over everything.

momentarily together, i wonder

PARANOIA

where we are.

for the last few days now there's been someone else in my head unused areas she started out i think in one of the remote but she's getting closer and says she wants a share of the action

GONEBEDSONG

she'd like to do some of my talking

i.

she says.

auction woman handing you the deals

she's been using my eyes for some time

she's learned from illustrated classics

discreetly taking a view

of routine spook tricks;

every time i'm not looking.

magic flash and thunder and alakazaammm

she wants to get out. i don't think my friends would really

yr body's drumming loud and hard

like to know her

bop bop a lop

with her nasty insinuations

bop a lop bop bop

and endless repertoire of slimy comments.

yr breath is promising yr rhythms

fuck her.

you seem to be alive

then again, she can't stay there —

bop bop a lop alive

i'd go nuts. i think i'll get rid of her.

but you've seen all this before / you told me bop bop a lop

eliminate her. like it was in the late movie . .

you're not surprised

a bullet through the head

by cloaks and stars and rich brocades

a vampire at the neck . . . i'd go . . . but she'd go with me . . .

II. come on

i stole yr confidence

i stashed it in the mattress inside the guinness book of records

COCABOLA BROWN n e w s ' n 'w e a t h e k

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but wait — there's a few things i've got to do . . . my first million, the nobel prize, and not forgetting the guy down the street

so now you've lost yr movements now we cannot be recovered and now you know yr changes and now i never hear yr laughing nor hum yr bop a lop.

these poems/graphics are from Cocabola's Funny Picture Book which is available from TO M A TO PRESS $2 post paid 117 Glebe Pt. Rd„ Glebe. 2037.

with the lovely balls. perhaps a hypnotherapist could coo her into sensibility and render her powerless. . . aahhmm . . . perhaps a numbing snort of dope

Poem for my mother on her birthday

re-enter the house now

Tomorrow

& all is quiet

cabled Melbourne, late ordered toast

will be

& all is dark

at Green's Roadhouse, buttered, with cold cheese;

your 55th time . . .

& in your secluded house

will be

& in you now

drummed on a laminex table, drew my nails

my counting pin

& in your hour

across soiled vine & flagon wallpaper

my faraway highway . . .

1 can hear

till a waitress with overhanging tits

i'm doing junk

i can hear

in a dreamer's fashion

i can hear

you do not understand

your body now

0 jesus Christ isn't it nice

& the windows of hashish now

Roadhouse Blues after Rimbaud Three hours hitching, wore down leather heels on gravel roads . . . then made Gundagai:

whose hairy legs shone like boiled crayfish

my poems my anima

offered incisively the plate inscribed:

there is no longer

- GREEN'S ROADHOUSE. HUME HW Y. G U N D A G A I

any loss

then poured out my lukewarm tea;

for you.

a pool of roadmetal in thick white china.

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CONFESSIONS A**

SHIT EATER EEMS to me that every mid­ kind o f thinking are as trust­ dle class kid is an only child worthy as American prisoners o f well I was brought up in a war in Korea.

When I left school I bummed family with six surviving kids, so maybe I’m not so precious. As Dad often told us, he left school at 12 and slaved for a cocky, educated himself by reading ten books a week on a one man railway points station, and if he was still slaving his guts out it was for one thing - so us kids would not have to do the same.

My mates started going to jail at the time I started to sit the first outside” exams. Mum, who did for other people all the time, scratched her rash and had a tail-end baby It was as if she’d had the baby to touch the compassion locked up in her children. I still needed to hate so I hated all the back-clappers who came in to admire the little one looking at Mum as though this was the one thing she could be proud of.

Which made me look at the pride I took in suckling number six. Everybody’s too gutless to declare they’re better than anyone else these days, but I think I learned more in my misery years (they’d be formative years in a middle class family) than some student o f his own conscience would gain out o f umpteen ses­ sions which are named in the usual pretentious gobbledygook “ consciousness raising” and the graduates who could accept that

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ERIC BEACH

around and people looked after me because I was a dumb kid but they werent all so kind and al­ truistic and I wasnt a dumb kid anymore. Before I started High School I taught myself speed read-

REACTIONS and feedback are part of what Daylights is all about. Here ERIC BEACH replies to Confessions o f a m id ­ dle class w ork addict which appeared in TLD 2/5. LARR Y DRAKE took offence at our boxing piece in TLD 2/4. Eric wrote that the overcoming-your-conditioning-triumph is a bourgeois preoc­ cupation and about as interesting as a radical who drives a Porsche. Larry's objections are obvious. ing and I thought you could take a crash course on life, at 20 I was a tired little old man who wore his father in law’s shoes to the wed­ ding. It was just

Boxing: It’s loathsome, nauseating &causes brain damage L A R R Y D R AK E T WAS appropriate that Ward M cN ally’s name should be directly underneath the picture o f the flattened pug on page 6 o f TLD 2, 4. For Ward, the perpetual loser, has lost again.

Inevitably. You simply can’t win a campaign designed to make “ the ignoble art” respectable, accept­ able, bearable and tolerable . . . to make it anything but loathesome and nauseating in any community with the slightest 'pretence to be­ ing civilised.

On the subject o f boxing Ward is, I regret to report, the king of crapmerchants. I really do regret this, for in other respects I admire the man. “ Most o f the things said and written about boxing - that it is healthy, manly, sporting, virile, and good for the development o f character and self-reliance - are untrue . . . I reproach myself when I recall that I invented and started the Golden Gloves am­ ateur boxing tournaments, and by glamorising and publicising a dan­ gerous, useless sport am responsi­ ble for hundreds o f young men becoming professional prize fight­ ers. “ If there is a chapter in my life I would care to elide it is this one . . . Boxing is the most selfish, self-centred sport there is. The rules, customs and usages o f the game, as a boy rises from nonen­ tity to fame, tend to make him cruel, viscious, lazy, irresponsible, unreliable, callous, untruthful, greedy, merciless and cynical. The profession may engender a certain stoicism, courage and endurance, but by and large boxing and ring fighting have never added an iota to the stature o f anyone as a

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human being worth his salt.”

The writer was Paul Gallico (in an Esquire article) who, as he said, started the notorious Golden Gloves contests in those Benight­ ed States. He made his living as a sporting journalist before becom­ ing a successful novelist and was well qualified to write on the subject, having attended thous­ ands o f fights to record the slaughter for the “ sporting” pub­ lic. "If I were a dictator,” he said, “ I would abolish prize fighting in my country by decree. I would scrap all rings and burn all boxing gloves and never let a youth be taught to strike another with his fists.”

It is LITERALLY IMPOS­ SIBLE to engage regularly in ring fighting without suffering some brain damage. The very fact that the hands are padded with gloves protects those delicate instru­ ments from damage and makes it possible to strike much heavier blows than could be struck with the naked fist. “ The injuries inflicted on a man’s brain over the years,” wrote doctor Edith Summerskill, who was health minister in a British Labor government (in her book The ignoble art), "reducing him to a sub-human mental condition without necessarily making him certifiable, are only appreciated by those in direct contact with the unfortunate individual. When the structure o f the brain is con­ sidered it must be obvious that this sensitive organ cannot fail to be damaged by the impact o f a succession o f blows over the years. “ The brain weighs about three pounds. It is o f the soft consis­ tency o f cold porridge. It is not

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tied down and rests in a fluid in the bony skull. A blow causes it to wobble from side to side. Even a moderate blow will cause it to bang against the side o f the skull.

A more severe blow may cause such a sudden forceful movement against the bony parts o f the skull as to bring on bleeding or bruises. “ In part the brain rests on the sharp bony sphenoidal ridge. A severe blow that jolts the frontal lobes o f the brain against the ridge will destroy the tissue, tearing through the fine membrane which covers the brain and the brain substance, and induce bleeding.

These injuries do not heal [my emphasis] and the destruction o f the brain cells is permanent. The frontal lobes which are damaged in this way are those parts which control man’s highest functions: the power to co-ordinate his movements, to restrain his im­ pulses and to exercise his power o f self-control.”

The risk o f serious injury is not confined to the brain. Here is the opinion o f Mr J. H. Doggart, MD, FRCS, surgeon to the Moorfields eye hospital in Britain. In an address to the British Ophthalmological Association he said: “ The contention that serious and permanent injuries are exceptional cannot be maintained by anyone who takes the trouble to consult the medical literature. Here we find a long tale o f disaster, especially to the eyes and their adnexa. It must be remembered that gloved and ungloved fists are not the only instruments o f destruction. Boxers' heads colliding

with each other in the heat o f combat can inflict fearful injury.

So can the hard floor coming in contact with a stricken man’s temple. Complete severance o f an eyelid is not unknown and occular palsies, notably o f the oblique muscles, have often occurred.

Not least o f the evil fruits of the “ fight game” is the effect on the spectators. Have a look at the expressions on the faces of some o f these people snapped at the ringside. Naked bestiality, blood lust, unrestrained cruelty — these are the instincts the promoters are catering for, and the bloodier the fight the better the gate is likely to be next time.

It's a safe bet that the young thugs who slake their sadism by beating up inoffensive pedestrians in the streets o f our cities are regular spectators at “ the fights” .

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old bodgie mates got a life sen­ tence for murdering a drag queen and then burning the house down.

Most men get hold o f a wife and take longer, the difference be­ tween the working class and the middle class is the difference between revenge and torture.

Well one day I was walking up the street probably thinking about money because I was getting 29 dollars a week and paying 18 dollars rent and supporting a wife and child and going to university afternoons and this huge parade against VIETNAM was singing down the hill towards me and I was on them before I saw them, me in the suit I hated, an old friend o f mine was in front with a a megaphone, I yelled louder than I’ve ever yelled “ yr goin the wrong way” ; an old friend o f mine just smiled and gave the peace sign - we used to hang round The Big S which was a kind o f mutual support system for bums fresh oilt o f school and also the glorious freak-drag queen-crim-black and white-out ward-bound-school for anyone in­ terested m becoming something rather than becoming someone.

Well I got an E for English One and decided to keep on writing poetry and got a job nightshift baby-sitting an IBM 360/30 and watched the hills ac­ ross the bay switch o ff to a TV timetable and in the morning walked the opposite way in rail­ way stations and the wife said you’re only trying to be different and I left in agreement.

One day during my time in Queensland, which was a time o f purple and red which can p’raps be explained by jacaranda trees and poinciana blossoms and which was cut short as a Boggo road haircut: I was lost in some psilocybin reverie in Taringa when a carload o f hoons drove past and shouted “ what do you do for a living” fortissimo and the universe screamed out o f me “ NOTHIN’ ” and Jill, who was with me, de­ cided that when she finished her degree she was going to be a social worker. She may as well work in a dress shop.

My sister in Canada sends me photos o f the baby and describes the smashing little outfit she got him for xmas, my brother in Asia writes to me he’s on his way down under, he thinks we can wreck the world with an awful compassion and once went to demonstrations as a policeman, I never hear from the youngest musketeer who still hasnt read Kurt Vonnegut and sells insurance for Americans in New Zealand, the baby o f the familv writes me that he's joining the army and tailend Penny is tall and freckled and nine years old with her period - you wouldnt know her writes mum, dad doesnt.

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S ome o f the concepts o f womens -J lib have filtered down to the majority o f women with the rapidly changing fashion in the workforce and to women in scene. suburbia. Successful demands are Bright chemi cal colors being made for equal pay, more dominate the clothing; dyes very c hi ld mi ndi ng centres, and removed from anything in nature consumer groups protesting about rising prices have almost become or their own personal body coloring. Many o f the primary social norms.

Womens Electoral Lobby is tones worn before were slightly but now they are beginning to make itself felt as a muted, conservative political pressure technological test tube colors that group while Valium consumption compete against the natural soft by women is on the increase, colors o f skin and hair. So your helped by the local GP, and face isnt drowned out, it must be women are wearing some o f the heavily painted too. Mary Quant’s PR girl, Sue Scully says: "Color most artificial fashion and yes, but where else could we go, make-up ever produced. These are we’ve been everywhere else!” mainly young women, but there is Lastly, women are coloring some overflow to older women. their hair more than ever before.

Women may feel that they are In these days o f ecological the victim o f the supermarket consciousness, dyed, strange oligopoly, but as yet they arent colored hair is back in force. The suspicious o f the fashion houses, hair dries out, splits and ossifies: shoe manufacturers, and make-up that’s secondary . . . brands. They’re wearing four inch Merivale from the fashion and upwards platforms on their house o f John and Merivale says: shoes while knowing it makes “ I liked the casual, natural look, them prone to ankle injuries and but love change so I’m glad the throws the spine out o f alignment. new look is here. I would change But they’re fashionable! One the way I dress every week - it’s woman said to me: “ I’m sure lots o f fun. It’ s great the way men these shoes must be designed by have changed too and it will go a men who hate women!” lot further.” Merivale thought Before the fashion industry that girls were changed by putting took over women were controlled on heavy make-up: “ Their whole and marketed by their parents. personality changes.” It was all The mother especially had a lot to fun to her, and o f course it would say about how her daughter should be because she has finger on the dress and look to attract that special man. Today that role’ s in control button.

John and the grasp o f a multi-million dollar industry. It’s hard to say which is Merivale the most threatening to the woman.

The ho me - base d marketing at least allowed for variation from house to house.

Now there is a more insidious complete control o f her; she is made to feel that she must be primarily a sex object, she must prevent ageing and losing her appeal, and that she must keep up

M ARGARET

SMITH

somewhat more extreme and trendy Sportsgirl or Tullo shop. It is a sophisticated type o f In Shop.

Dozens o f silinky and “ correctly” made-up salesgirls act more like hostesses to this inner kingdom, and some o f them aimlessly mouth the words o f the pop music that goes on all the time.

The male section is exactly the same, except that there are suitably slinky males selling clothes that are like the female ones, but tailored for men.

Anne Summers, womens lib writer and political scientist at Sydney university, says: “ Men seem to be wearing the same superficial clothes as women, without rethinking their roles and therefore allowing themselves to be just as manipulated by fashion and advertising as women. The more subtle ideas o f what womens lib is all about dont seem to have been felt yet. It’s really hard to substantiate evidence o f this, though; you can only go on what you see around you.”

A young sociologist at NSW university, Tom Zubrycki, has similar views on this trend.

"Women seem to have taken on these new fashions with great zest, and they are probably more artificial than ever.

L _ It’ s hard to understand whether their ideology is connected with their appearance, ie. that they want to be a sex object and as artificial as possible, or whether the clothes express something unconscious in them. “ Women at university seem to be caught between two worlds — whether to be liberated, independent and projecting their selfhood, or to follow the fashion o f the city. A lot o f them talk about liberation, and still seem to want to be a sex object, for example they will have bleached hair.”

Michael Elvins finds he faces the same sort o f problem: “ When I was a boy in my mid and late teens, I always found more boys whom I could have sensitive aware communication with. The girls appeared silly and caught up in their conditioning. Can’t work out if it’s entirely their conditioning or whether it’s something innate in them, but I feel it’s probably the former because, o f the two sexes, woman is the most creative one, and man the most procreative. It’s mens desire to physically conquer the world that has got us into the mess we’re in today!”

Michael has been thinking out his attitude to women lately, especially to the small minority of intelligent and natural women that are starting to emerge.“ I

can’t really relate to this kind o f woman very well yet, because she is so new and doesnt conform to the majority of her sex, which I have been so turned o ff by. This is something I have to work out for myself, because it really is more natural to be bisexual than to be either homosexual or heterosexual.” *

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ALL THE new glossy and pseudo-liberated wome ns magazines seem to be catering for a market o f young women who want to be intelligent and up-to-date, whilst at the same time being glamorous sex objects.

The cover o f each magazine is a threat to any woman who doesnt happen to be super-attractive, or who is starting the natural process o f ageing. By their very contents, these magazines are creating a split type o f womanhood.

Jenny, a script-assistant for a film company says: “ Unfor­ tunately for many women, wo­ mens Ub has only been grasped at the intellectual and practical level. They havent tried to understand what it means for them personally. The fashions now encourage men to primarily see women as sexual targets.

Women seem to want this, though at the same time they want real relationships, and in a way the primary way they attract men is self-defeating. Ninety percent o f fashion trends are manipulated by the fashion houses, but at least 10 percent must be desired by women to allow such manip­ ulation.

When women start seeing themselves as whole and naturally beautiful human being*, who are capable o f creative and individual expression in their personalities and in their dress, then womens lib can be said to have really reached home.

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H E R E are great plans afoot for the music pages but probably, like all things great, progress w ill be slow. A t the m om ent, suffice to say that we hope to feature more articles, more inform ation and more interviews.

The reviews w ill still be there, but briefer, and generally those printed w ill be favorable. This does not mean the T LD reviewers fall o ff their chairs and applaud anything that spins on a turntable. It is simply th at w ith so many good records released each week it seems a waste o f space to slag artists. Exceptions w ill be made in the"'em peror has no clothes" cases, in the hope that we can stop you dipping your hands into your pockets for some well-hyped crap.

Hopefully we w ill be able to cover a fairly wide musical spectrum, b u t the emphasis w ill probably stay on th at which comes loosely under the title "rock music".

I was stunned to read last week Graeme Dunstan's (Make m ine co u n try style

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A montage of guitar pickers I

T’S a great thing to hear a night o f brilliant jazz. To be able to watch and hear a group of highly accomplished musicians in­ tegrate their talents to create a beautiful unity o f rhythm and sound is one o f the finer things of life. When you get such a thing, you enjoy it all the more because o f its rarity.

Kim Bonython’s latest jazz package, The great guitars, featur­ ing the Charlie Byrd trio, Barney Kessel, and Herb Ellis did just this last friday night at Melbourne’s Dallas Brooks hall. But are they great? To the 60s generation that may sound like an extravagant Claim. Like we know Hendrix was great, and you can argue about Clapton, Santana, and Zappa, but who the hell are Barney Kessel jind Herb Ellis? Most people have heard of Charlie Byrd, but the others . . . something out o f the past.

Kessel and Ellis were big names in the 50s; both playing - at different times — with the then formidable Oscar Petersen trio.

During the 60s they slipped from the limelight and occupied them­ selves with studio work (Ellis), or ending up doing Pop A&R for the Verve label (Kessel). An unkind fate for two very talented musi­ cians to be relegated to the back­ waters o f the music industry, but things have picked up lately and they have started touring again.

And time has weathered them well, both as humans and musi­ cians.

Ellis, plump, jocular and grey­ ing, his personality a sort of weird admixture o f W. C. Fields and Charlie Drake, is a real corker. It’s a pleasure to watch and hear him ripping o ff licks with such aplomb and verve.

Kessel, on the other hand, both: in deraaaiMr and playing style makes aa atcellent foil to Herb, swarthy, goateed, handsome, and very, very cool, he is the epitome o f 1950’s hip.

Ellis tends to favor lean, blues inflected lines and generates a compulsive swing that shows the influenr* o f Charlie Christian.

Kessel, on the other hand, is more an introvert. Ellis hits you with his clear, direct statements; Kessel continually surprises with quirkish turns o f phrase, oblique quotes, and an impeccable ability in avoiding the obvious. Very speedy, he is bebop guitarist par excellence, and one o f the most sophisticated rhythm guitarists in jazz.

Their set developed into a stun-

— his by line was lost) forecast of doom fo r rock music last w eek.

Certainly acoustic participatory music can be a lot o f fu n , although I do feel th at the fo lk boom in the early 60s, when guitars were lugged to parties and Tom D o o le y sung again and again, revealed th at some are more blessed w ith musical talen t than others. T o lim it yourself to acoustic music, simply because it is more politically pure or w hatever seems like one good w ay to cut yourself o ff from a hell of a lot of good music.

Once music is put dow n on record it becomes business, and th at goes for C & W , jazz, and all the rest as w ell.

In using the quote o f the " rip -o ff, capitalist" rock

musician: "C a n 't make it to the N im bin survival festival, man, unless you p ay" Dunstan fails to see that the p o in t of this is th at every rock musician in Australia is fighting fo r their own survival every day — I d on t w an t to destroy any fantasies, but rock musicians have to eat, just like you and me.

Certainly rock music appears to be in the midst o f a slump.

similar to the early 60s when Tin Pan A lley kept things going by churning out h it after h it. T h a t same lack of direction seems to have h it again, and the form ula songs are back on top again; but hang around, because w hat th at usually means is something is about to break.

Top TO favorites is a direct steal from various English rock magazines (L e t i t ro ck. Cream), and the idea behind it is to give the reader some idea o f the taste o f the w riter or whoever, and also maybe to jog your m em ory about some all tim e greats you may have forgotten.

- M A R G A R E T M A C IN T Y R E

Talbot's Top 10 — or ten golden hits from the graveyard of past wax 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

I Was Made T o Love Her, Stevie Wonder 7. Leader o f the Pack, The Shangri-Las For W illie, Joni M itchell 8. Be M y Baby, The Ronettes Madame George, Van Morrison 9 . Eight Miles High, The Byrds L ittle D a rlin ', The Diamonds 10. Do You Believe In Magic, He's a Rebel, The Crystals The Loving Spoonful Spanish Harlem Incident, Bob D y la n /T h e Byrds

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A L L A N W A T SO N

ningly beautiful and relaxed jam.

They did “ show” tunes, a beauti­ fully funky slow blues, whipped up a little boogie, and had a very fine time indeed, establishing an easy rapport with the audience with a little goofing around and cracking funnies. Both did solos.

Herb Ellis’s crystalline interpreta­ tion o f Django Reinhardt’s Les nuages left the crowd momentar­ ily stunned into silence. A splen­ did opening set.

In contrast to Kessel and Ellis the Byrd trio opened by plunging into the rhythmic complexities of One note samba really cooking.

Very intense, very complex.

Charlie Byrd seated, crouching over the acoustic guitar, utterly absorbed, his whole attention giv­ en to the instrument. Behind him Michael Lee Stevens on drums and Gene Byrd (a younger brother) on a frenzied Fender bass work.

Byrd is one o f the finest acoustic guitarists in the world today. Unlike the more linear, attacking style favored by Ellis and Kessel, Byrd seeks and at­ tains a chromatic richness that is staggering. Michael Lee Stevens drummed superbly: his slashing, light cymbal work, and whip like counter-rhythms, combined with the fluent lines o f Gene’s Fender to provide a pulsing mesh that Byrd rode on, moved around, and returned to with devastating ac­ curacy.

Byrd doesnt so much improvise but rather explores a number. On a thing like Chick Corea’s Five hundred miles high he took ele­ ments of the theme, dissected them, and then constructed deli­ cate harmonies around them. He is one o f the few musicians who can fully exploit the potential of the acoustic guitar. On this instru­ ment he, John McLaughlin and the little known Ralph Townsend stand alone.

The evening closed with Kessel and Ellis returning and all three guitarists getting together on a medium tempo version o f un­ decided numbers and, giving a nod to the man who in some ways is the father o f them all, played a su­ perb version o f Charlie Christian’s Benny's bugle. A fine way to fin­ ish, played at a skimming, swinging tempo, each musician traded fours with flash and verve, ultimately bringing the house down as two o f the guitarists moved into riff se­ quences behind Ellis who once again showed he is still one o f the most compelling jazz guitarists in the world today.

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Writings and drawings by Bob Dylan (published by Knopf, costs $7.50).

EM M ETT TILL matter what loons like A.J. Web­ erman find in his trashcan, what dedicated popculturephiles dig out about the early days, whether he played his guitar upside down, whether Ginsberg wanted to fuck him.

HERE’S probably still a lot to say about Bob Dylan, most o f it will be as unnecessary to the general schemes o f things, What matters is his music. as what went before.

Songs, poetry. And these you may While A.J. Weberman proclaim­ find compiled in a large hard­ ed himself a “ dylanologist” and bound book titled Writings and went through Bob’s dustbins to drawings costing $7.50 which is a see what he ate the night before small sum for anyone really inter­ looking for empty ampules ested in music or poetry or Bob Dylan was busy being himself Dylan and his relevance to both. which is an iconoclast’s icon­ It’s without a doubt the best book oclast. Like switching from folk about Dylan because 1.) he wrote to rock, growing his hair fuzzy it and 2.) it’s his poetry and, it instead o f long, putting out a seems, all the songs he ever wrote. double album, being declared They are the most important dead or irreparable, cutting his things about the man, his amazing hair right off, going country, sign­ songs. We know he performed ing with Johnny Cash, coming out them as no other could, but even for Israel, living back in the city, without his voice the songs stand doing other people’s songs like Big as some o f the best written when yellow taxi and generally setting performed by people like Roberta trends, waiting for others to fol­ Flack, Nina Simone, Manfred low and then switching on them.

Mann, Rod Stewart, Joan Baez, Scarlet Pimpernel, now you see The Byrds and thus. Taking the him whoops now you dont, stuff. words from the songs, they’d be Or perhaps he couldnt account for poetry, and great at that. So good, why he was doing all this, as in he that probably Australia’s best didnt know the answer but felt poet o f the moment, Robert the feeling. Does it matter how Adamson will maintain Dylan is many times he ran away from one o f the main influences on him Hibbing, if at all, whether he went and not only that but that Dylan to university, whether he hit up, is one o f the greatest poets o f the starved, wore black socks, was century (this includes Ezra Pound, embarrassed about being jewish etc & others), which takes Dylan early on? Possibly. out o f the realm of pop star and If he wore three-piece suits and mere culture hero into eternal looked like Paul Simon instead o f burning star status beyond James a scrawny pale old kid, it wouldnt Dean, and he didnt even have to have been the same. But he could die with his wheels turning: do that now and it would seem This wheel’s on fire part o f the mercurial schiz and Rolling down the road. possibly his fans would think it gas and do likewise. Now it doesnt Best notify my next o f kin matter so much. And it doesnt This wheel shall explode.

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It’s a large format book with more than 300 pages. The songs are listed in order o f album ap­ pearances, up to New morning including the accident period from Blonde on blonde to John W esley Harding.

Scattered through the book are Dylan’s drawings proving definitely he was no visual artist. There are half­ completed songs, rough notes for songs, and poems and notes o f various descriptions. It looks like every song he wrote - at least since he hit New York that first time - are here. Some o f them are relatively simplistic, many are beautiful, line upon line. He was so consistently good that imita­ tions like Donovan and Paul Simon and the millions o f others who have followed cannot match.

It also sparkles more than 90 percent o f modern poetry, and most novels. There are few song­ writers who should even be talked of comparatively - John Prine, Paul Seibel, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne would be-almost all.

By weight o f writings and his amazing imagery, Dylan wins: every second song being a master­ piece. Devotees will be pleased to know that Can you please crawl out your window is here, (use your arms & legs it w on’t ruin you). It was released only on single in 1966.

Anyway look at it like this: get the book, learn the lyrics, recite them at parties, be a hit or, stick it on the coffee table, or, rewrite his poems, you know, line from here, line from there, make just as much sense, or, change a few words and get your own songs going, maybe whip in a new chord here or there.

Deployment S yd n ey . A n im a tion stu dio needs an artist w h o can draw . 4 3 9 .5 1 0 7 .

Brisbane. Teenage d r o p o u t re­ quires well paid, hassle free, n o n ­ s o u l-d estroy in g w ork .

Passed senior, m ensa tests, n o selling.

INC b o x 7 7 1 5 .

S yd n ey .

24, will orb ita n t cal w o r k

Strong intelligent m an, w ork very hard fo r ex­ in co m e . O u td o o r physi­ p referred. R ing 9 3 .1 2 8 5 .

S y d n e y . Business girl seeks girl 2 5 /3 5 t o assist in small escort service f o r visiting executives.

Hours parttim e t o suit. Must be w ell g r o o m e d , attractive with pleasing m anners and personality.

C on fid en tia l rep ly .

B ox 648 C row s Nest.

M elbourn e. R ason a b le new Aus­ tralian (S w e d e ) wants to learn the language. A n y person preferably co n te m p o ra ry fem ale w ith sense o f h u m or that can use $3 hou r, please rep ly INC b o x 7 6 5 8 .

Dealings Sydney.

A tte n tio n : “ p orn o” b u ye rs b u y d irect. $ 1 .0 0 gives y o u nam es, addresses o f leading overseas m ail ord er houses. Allan, PO b o x 2 4 9 , K in g sford , 2 0 3 2 .

S y d n e y . G a rcon : The b est c o lle c ­ tio n o f m ale nude p h otogra p h y.

Im m ediate d elivery. Send $ 6 .0 0 t o C h ristop h er W ilde, PO b o x 5 0H , T errey Hills, 2 0 8 4 .

S y d n e y . B een cheated la tely??

N ow have w h at y o u w ant. C om ­ pletely u n cen sored , un in hibited, im p o rted “ a c t io n ” p h o to s, b o o k s , film s. T ry b e fo re bu yin g. $ 1 .0 0 f o r sam ple and ca talogue. The Manager, PO b o x 1 3, E d gecliff, 2 02 7 .

S y d n ey . F orm er UK sch oolm aster is w illing t o en rol y o u n g lady pupil f o r private tu ition . Must be willing t o learn and am enable to traditional m eth od s o f discipline.

INC b o x 7 6 0 8 .

Danish hard co r e . C o lo r p h o to s 10 fo r $ 1 0 . C o lo r slides 6 fo r $6, sam ples on ly $3. Air mail posted Zbierski, 1 -Berlin 4 1 , Varzinerst 1 1 , W est G erm any.

Departures G u y , 4 5, needs com p a n ion travel­ ling a rou n d Australia. T w o yea r trip o n and o f f w ork. Interested p eop le write t o PO b o x 1 1 3 , Glenside, S A , 5 06 7 .

Overland travel th rou gh ou t the w orld — Asia, A frica , South.

A m erica, Russia, fro m tours t o full scale ex p ed ition s. C on ta ct the experts, Trail finders, 1 5 H unter street, S yd n ey . Phon e 2 8 .4 0 1 1 o r 3 2 3 B ourke street, M elbourn e.

Deliveries Lesbian, fem in ist, h om osex u a l lit­ erature, including p o e try , novels, anthologies. D o c t o r D u ncan R ev­ o lu tion B o o k s h o p , PO b o x 1 1 1 , E astw ood , S A , 5 0 6 3 . Free cata­ logu e M on th ly B o o k n e w s $ 1 .5 0 p.a.

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S y d n e y . A re y o u cam p and la ck­ ing in c o n fid e n c e as a h o m o s e x ­ ual? I f y o u are interested in jo in ­ ing a small grou p t o learn w ays o f b e c o m in g m o re c o n fid e n t, c o n ­ tact A n d rea R ussell, p sy ch o lo g ist, 6 6 2 .2 0 1 7 . Free.

S y d n e y . O p e n e n c o u n te r group w e e k e n d , first w eek en d in m arch.

E x p e rie n ce j o y . D isco v e r y o u rse lf and others. Call G o r d o n Meggs on 6 6 5 .9 2 8 0 o r w rite PO b o x 2 2 9 , C oogee, 2034.

M elb ou rn e. E xistentialist S o cie ty fo r disillu sion ed idealists, d e fe a t­ ed rom a n tics, disen chanted indi­ vidualists, sto ica l pessim ists, m ili­ tant a gnostics. M eetings tw ice m o n th ly . Inquiries D avid Miller, 7 5 8 .5 7 9 4 .

S yd n ey . O p en e n cou n ter group w eekend o n m arch 1. C ou p les e n cou n ter group w eeken d on m arch 15. Call G o rd on Meggs on 6 6 5 .9 2 8 0 o r w rite PO b o x 2 2 9 , C oogee, 2 03 4 .

S yd n ey . C ouples w eekend en­ co u n te r group m arch 15. C ou p les must be heterosexual. Call G or­ d on Meggs o n 6 6 5 .9 2 8 0 o r write t o PO b o x 2 2 9 , C oog ee, 2 0 3 4 .

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C .A .M .P .’ s n ext dance will reveal th e scintillating and the sybaritic

Dwellings A delaide, freak fem ale urgently requires h o m e . S elf, six cats and d o g . W ill co n sid e r everyth in g . R e ­ liable ren t p a ye r. C o n ta c t Dale throu gh 18 M o r e co m b street.

S te p n e y , 5 0 3 4 .

Brisbane. A cco m m o d a tin g person w anted f o r t w o ro o m s in spaciou s easy-going H am ilton hou se. $13 w eek. P h on e A H 6 8 .4 7 1 2 .

M elb ou rn e, D anden ongs. A house fo r sharing w ith th ose w h o are o th e r than sm okers, plastic and

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N ew castle. I’ m a ca m p (m a scu ­ lin e) art student, 19, needing a c­ c o m m o d a tio n m id -febru ary in a h a p p y, sane h o u se h o ld (n o t b o a r d ) preferably m ix e d ; city , S to c k to n — o r co n ta c t others in sam e situation. (L ik e s: film s, m usic, theatre, sw im m ing, c o n ­ versation .) (D islikes: d o p e scene, bazzas, pessim ists.)

INC box 7 71 6 .

P erth. W A IT lectu rer (g u y 2 5 ) wants t o share hou se o r large flat, p o ssib ly w ith a ca d e m ic(s) o r sim ­ ilar. Q u iet and rela xed w ithin easy reach o f W A IT and c ity . INC b o x 7661.

S y d n e y . L on ely gay-guy seeks an oth er, m utual friendship (age n o bar t o 6 0 ) o f similar interests. T o share a b rick bu n ga low at St Leonards, m ust b e classical m usiclover “ A -B -C ” tickets available.

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S yd n ey girl(s) o r g u y (s ) t o share large hou se in sun d ren ch ed Bal­ m ain. O w n r o o m $ 1 4 . 39 R osser street.

Doings S yd n ey . Solar B arbeque fo r $ 2 .5 0 each, $ 5 fa m ily. Speakers G o r d o n B arton (A P ), p rofessor G eorge (E nergy S ou rces), p ro fe sso r R uncie (C R A G ), february 24, 1 .3 0 pm . 19 P effer street, Pan­ ama. B YO M & G . B ookings, p h o n e K en 6 4 4 .9 9 9 4 .

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S y d n e y . Natural fo o d freak with h appy 16 m on th ch ild desperately needs a c c o m m o d a tio n in house with small nu m b er o f like-m inded p e o p le . R ent up t o $ 1 0 . Prefer­ ably o n N orth Shore w ith big b ackya rd . W rite o r visit M arilyn, 20 C ollege road so u th , Lane C ove 2066.

S y d n e y , Surry Hills. Friendly b ro a d m in d e d person t o share flat in large terrace. O w n r o o m , p h o n e T o m 2 1 2 .3 1 3 4 . $ 1 3 .5 0 pw .

S y d n e y . Sensitive fem ale ( 2 0 ’s) share co tta g e with t w o easy going guys. M u sic, literature, tu ck er ou r interests; we w e lco m e you rs. 45 V iew st, C h a tsw o o d . 4 1 .9 1 4 6 .

S y d n e y . Q u iet freaks w anted fo r m ix e d hou se. O ne d o u b le ro o m fo r co u p le , and single ro o m . 259 Palm er street, Darlinghurst.

Dalliance A d ela id e. Cam p gu y, 2 3 , tall, g o o d lo o k in g , slim , pleasant natu red , q u ie t and sin cere, desp er­ ately needs guy sam e age o r you n ger, with sim ilar attributes fo r w orth w h ile friendship. A ll let­ ters answered. INC b o x 7 6 6 8 .

Brisbane (S u n co a st) e x ecu tive seeks m utually b e n e ficia l m e e t­ ings with swinging fem ale. G en­ u in e, n o clubs or p h o n ie s, please.

D iscretion guaranteed. INC b o 7672.

Brisbane. Cam p g u y , 2 9, tired o f beats. Interests m usic, theatre, tennis, d a lliance, w ants gu y 2 5 t o 3 5 , any ra ce , c o lo r , cre e d . A ll re­ p lies answ ered. P h o to please. INC b o x 7717.

Brisbane — N orth C oast, p erson ­ a ble, discreet, gentle, profession a l m an, seeks fem m e to occasion a lly e x p lo re sensual h o riz o n s. A ll e x ­ penses refu n d ed . INC b o x 7 6 7 0 .

H obart bi-m ale 2 9, m arried, seeks friendship o f m ale similar age. I’ m g o o d lo o k in g , easy goin g , w ith no hangups. D iscretion assured and required . A n y o n e interested? INC b o x 7 67 3 .

L a u n ceston .

V ery lo n e ly guy w o u ld like to m eet an oth er w h o is genuine and sincere fo r lifetim e friendship. INC b o x 7 7 1 8 .

M elb ou rn e. Shy y o u th , 2 0, aver­ age lo o k s. Tired o f shell. Desires dalliance w ith attractive fem m e.

M aybe we can help each oth er.

A n y c o n d itio n s con sid ered . N o car, p lace. W rite fo r refu n d . Gary, INC b o x 7 6 8 4 .

M elbourn e. Cam p girl w o u ld like to m eet o th e r cam p girls for friendship and g o o d tim es. Wide range o f interests. P hon e nu m ber if p o ssib le , lets get togeth er s o o n .

INC b o x 7 6 8 3 .

M elbourn e. A ttractive bi-gu y, 29, seeks e x tre m e ly w ell hung bi-guy 1 8 -2 5 fo r dalliance. Y o u r place if p ossib le. INC b o x 7 6 8 2 .

M elbourn e. A ttractive, intelligent, y o u n g , p rofession a l co u p le seek gentle bi-girl fo r e m o tio n a lly re­ w arding dalliance. A n interest in theatre and the arts p referred.

Sim ilar swinging co u p le s m ay also re p ly . INC b o x 7 6 7 8 .

M e lb o u r n e .

Intelligent, con ­ siderate, y o u n g , p rofession a l man seeks attractive, y o u n g , square lo o k in g guy fo r com p an ion sh ip .

G uarantee m utual e n jo y m e n t and entertain m en t fo r the right guy.

P h o to a ppreciated.

INC box 7 71 9 .

M elb ou rn e. S incere, lo n e ly , intel­ ligent and u n in hibited you n g cam p g u y , 22, seeks lovin g , long term relationship w ith similar g u y , 1 8-27. R esp o n d e n ts having o w n p lace an advantage. A ll re­ plies answ ered. INC b o x 7 7 2 0 .

S y d n e y . Male, 4 6 , tall, person ­ a ble, w ell furnished.

R ecen t w id o w e r , seriously seeking attrac­ tive, lim bless girl fo r h o p e fu lly

perm anent partnership. A ge se c­ on d a ry. C rutches certainly n o bar.

C om p a tib ility the k e y . G enuine request fro m lo n e ly guy. C o n ­ fid en ces re sp ected . Invite inter­ state. INC b o x 7 7 2 1 .

S yd n ey . Y o u n g girl t o m o d e l fo r P addington artist friday after­ n o o n s. C onversation , draw ing and whatever. INC b o x 7 7 2 2 .

S yd n ey . Englishm an, tall, 4 0 , will give th orou gh ly strict tu itio n and discipline to w illing girl. A n y lassie w anting her fath er figure and o th e r fantasies intelligently handled should en rol n o w fo r our m utual b e n efit. INC b o x 7 7 0 0 .

S ydney. Male graduate, 2 2, wishes to m eet Chinese guy f o r outings, eroticism and gay tim es. P h o t o ­ graph ap p recia ted . INC b o x 7 6 9 9 .

S yd n ey . Mid 30s, h a n d som e, slim , p rofessional m an w on d ers if there are you n g , b eau tifu l, superb b o d ie d m ales p ref. u n d er 2 0 , spu n k y , passive, interested in o c ­ casional dinner, dalliance. N o ties.

Like eurasians and b lon d s, p a rtic­ ularly if suitable, prepared t o jo in with third party 20s, g o o d lo o k ­ ing guy. G enuine g o o d tim es p o s ­ sible fo r h o m y , intelligent guys.

G old diggers, effem in ates, tim e wasters n o t w e lco m e . INC b o x 7 69 7 .

S ydney gu y, tall and slim w o u ld like to m eet girl interested in outings to nudist clu b . G enuine INC b o x 7 69 6 .

S yd ney gay g u y , fairly g o o d lo o k ­ ing, 3 4, desires t o m eet m ate, m y age or you n g er, fo r lasting love.

Must b e fairly straight lo o k in g , very sexy and a ffe ctio n a te , tota lly lo y a l and sincere w ith the ability to con verse in telligen tly. A guy I can resp ect and love (and vice versa) fo r the rest o f m y life.

Please send recen t p h o t o . A ll re ­ plies answered. INC b o x 7 6 9 5 .

S yd n ey . M usician w o u ld like t o share life with girl. P ossibility o f travel in future and a full life interest in m usic an advantage b u t n o t essential. INC b o x 7 6 9 4 .

S yd n ey . E xpert m asseur a ccep tin g private fem ale clients. E n jo y m as­ sage and sunlam p in privacy o f y ou r h om e or m y stu dio. R e a so n ­ able fee. INC b o x 7 6 9 8 .

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T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , february 12-18, 1 9 7 4 - P a g e 23

BRICK CHRISTIAN

o l l y w o o d tours; see the homes o f the stars. . and over to your right is the iron gateway to the palatial grounds o f the Fritz The Cat estate formerly owned by Goofy The Dog, a popular feature comedian of yesteryear . . . Fritz purchased the vast estate two years ago after his first box office smash hit Fritz is back in People’s comic No. 1.

Inside the gate we find the big star himself, engaged in typical decadent moviestar pursuits - to be precise, he is pouring a bottle o f brandy over the head o f a large blond alligator named Abigail.

The resulting chase and fight is

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cut short by the arrival o f Bruno Bear, tax expert. “ When I think of all those years when I was a complete unknown, y ’know?”

Fritz tells him. “ Yearning for them high class haughty bitches!

Now all I gotta do is whistle!

Sheeit. It’s disgustin’ ! Glug. Y ’see, Bruno ol’ boy, bein’ a big celeb­ rity, all these bitches are waiting around with their labias drippin’

STEPHEN W AL L T ’S TIME I layed another I info gem on you, Blue. A f­ ter the floods, cyclones, mouse plagues and other assorted rural afflictions, you must be wonder­ ing why you ever left your desk job in the glass and cement, high and dry rise building in the heart o f the city. Keep at it Blue, we need you. Get the postie to de­ liver you a copy o f the NSW Agricultural gazette. It’s free to men o f the dirt. The Gazette is a long way from Robert Rodale it’ s about agri business but dont let that put you off; with care you can sort out what's useful to you from what’s only another profit­ able idea to them - sort out the wheat from their chaff, so to speak. Y ou’ll find info on live­ stock, grain selection and farm management and the latest in farm research. ’Cause it’s free, you can’t loose. For interested city dwellers, the gazette costs two bucks; dont know if it’s free to the weekend 25 acrers (you know, the ones with the clean riding boots). Send to The Department o f Agriculture, State Office Block, Sydney, or apply at your local agricultural office.

THE SYDNEY *Stock Exchange Statistical Service has just publish­

for some o ’ that big-time movie hero cock. It’s enough to wear a tomcat o u t . . . haw haw . . . drink up, ol’ boy.”

"L et’s get down to business, shall we? I think we can get this tax mess straigntened out so that you won’t have to go for broke . . . heh heh . . . ” “ Swell . . . great . . . love ya, baby . . . yer a prince . . . I’ve acquired a taste for the expensive life . - . don’ wanna have to give up all this jet-set carousing I been in to lately . . . Ah, fuggit! I dunno . . . producers are cheap chiselers. . . who knows . . . ” Lat­ er, business disposed of, he is climbing on to a sleeping Abigail (“ Lemme just push this big ol’ tail outa the way here an’ - ” ) when the phone rings. “ Hey Fritz, man! Stevie! Liz’n!

Y'wanna come to a script confer­ ence t’morra at my office? We got a winner! I think we’ve found a truly great story here . . . Made for ya, kid. All about the prob­ lems o f living in today’ s turbulent times! Really beautiful, and —" "But we havent even wrapped up Fritz The Cat, Ski Bum yet!

Whatsis now?” “ Liz’n man, I know you’re gonna go crazy when ya read it!

We’re all really excited about it down here . . . really! How ’bout lunch t’morra . . . meet at my office at noon?”

Then back to the nowawakened Abigail.

Robert Crumb being a superstar with little or no taste for ap­ pearing in anyone’s publications but his own, this is probably as close as we’re going to get to his verdict on Ralph Bakshi’ s film o f ed a guide to the largest 100 companies in Australia. Besides info on authorised capital, issued capital, and the number o f share­ holders, it details the top 20 shareholders o f each company.

One gets a very clear picture o f the power o f insurance compan­ ies, banks and pension funds with a quick glance through the figures.

Unfortunately it’s not possible to find out who really owns what because o f a neat little device called nominee companies. It’s not possible to find out who has the beneficial interests in most nominee companies. For instance ANZ Nominees Ltd is the biggest shareholder in BHP; who owns the former determines who owns the latter. But it would be possible to find out how much o f the largest 100 companies in Australia is con­ trolled by say, MLC or AMP. If this sort of stuff turns you on send $2.00 to The Manager, Sydney Stock Exchange Invest­ ment Service, O ’Connell street, Sydney. * *

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A POST graduate psychology stu­ dent from NSW university is about to conduct "Confidence Boosting” groups for homosexuals who feel they would like to in­ crease their self-confidence, assert­ iveness, and skills in handling var­ ious social situations. The groups will be very practical, contain 5-6 members each and will meet once a week for five weeks. The girl running the course has been in­ volved with CAMP (Campaign Against Moral Persecution) for the

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Fritz The Cat. (The director in FTC Superstar is called Ralph; “ Okay, Ralphy, Giwidamee. I’ll read th’ piece o ’ shit.” ) Bakshi had to exercise im­ mense powers o f persuasion initial­ ly to get Crumb to sign a clear­ ance to allow him to make the film. The exact agreement that was finally achieved remains mysterious, but it is known that it included no provision for supervi­ sion o f any kind by Crumb. Since the film came out Crumb has been lying low and refusing to com­ ment. It seems unlikely that there will be any more Crumb-based films — Mr Natural will remain obstinately uncinematic.

For which relief much thanks.

The filming o f Fritz the cat presents an object lesson in the ripoff. Granted that immense dif­ ficulties lay in the way o f getting onto celluloid the quality o f one o f the greatest graphic artists o f all time, what emerged was in­ excusable. I went expecting an ersatz imitation, and what I saw was a grotesque travesty.

The artwork might have been excused — the backgrounds had some merit, though the animation was slack and characterless. The production had, after all, been done on the cheap, and animating talent is becoming harder to come by every year since the short cartoon was eliminated from the­ atres by cost pressures.

But what had been done to the plot was not a question o f incom­ petence but o f greed. Fritz the no-good as Crumb portrayed him in the strip was too specialised for the mass market, Bakshi thought.

T oo amoral, too dirty, too uncute, too adult for the late-teenyboppers he hoped would flock to see it. Fritz had to be shown to be good at heart under it all, had to reform, had to see the error o f his ways in being such a randy con­ niving little furry shit.

The plot Bakshi found a little gutless. Nobody got killed, the tortures were unrealistic and con­ ducted with insufficient relish, and there was hardly any blood.

The answer to both deficiencies lay at hand. By making the story­ line more gruesome you were o f­ past year and she has their sup­ port for these groups. If you would like more info, phone An­ drea Russel on 662.2017 (Syd­ ney). ** * A NEW national kids newspaper The dazzler takes up where Zoot left off. When Zoot died a few months ago it left a bit o f a vacuum but the Dazzler looks just as good; full o f games, projects, colorings, pop news and tilings to make. It comes out fortnightly, costs 20 cents at newsagents and is very wholesome - it’s so whole­ some I couldnt read another copy.

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THE Australian Government Pub­ lishing Service at present carries in stock a selection o f British gov­ ernment publications. Besides the dreary usuals (Clerical Work Meas­ urement No. 9, being a fine ex­ ample), you can purchase useful little numbers like “ The ABC of Cooking” . “ The ABC o f Preserv­ ing” and the "W ooton Reports on LSD and cannabis” . Do your own homework and write for a copy of the AGPS monthly list for december which contains a list o f British publications in stock or ask “ HMSO Books” for a complete list. AGPS Mail Order Sales, PO box 84, ACT 2600. Free. * * *

GLENFIELD FARM is now closed to visitors - for a month or so. The residents need time to rest up from the constant flood o f good people, tourists and energy suckers. During the past two

fered opportunities o f showing Fritz revolted by it, thus showing how basically nice he was, how basically nice the identifying audi­ ence was, while allowing them to pick up their kicks by seeing Harriet Horse whipped bloodily with a bicycle chain.

It’s the old arena bit; the Rom­ ans only had the pleasure of watching gladiators slice each oth­ er up in the arena, we can watch biblical spectaculars, Ben Hur, Barrabas, and have both the plea­ sure o f watching gladiators sliver each other in the arena and the pleasure o f feeling morally superi­ or to those bloodthirsty Romans.

This also made it possible to shift the political centre o f the story. In the strip the cops are undifferentiated pigs and the revo­ lutionaries comics — fools, sadists, poseurs, but still (if the word can be applied to a mixed assortment o f bunnies, birds, bears and cats) human.

In the film the cops are comic pigs, knockabout comedians who are brutally murdered, and the revolutionaries are demons, junkies, bikies, led by a radicalesbian lizard, pure evil. In the film Fritz wanders around weakly protesting when Harriet is being thrashed.

In the strip he is the one who suggests “ Here’s a bottle we kin shove up her cunt!” and he is the one who begins fucking her first.

Ralph Bakshi has no intention o f allowing anyone to believe for a moment that he advocates over throwing the government o f America by force or violence. If there should be another Mc­ Carthyite purge he is covered.

After the business lunch Fritz

picks up a bunny on Sunset Boulevard, gives her a line “ Yeah, so now my ex-wife is trying to soak me for as much as she kin get . . . Th’ producers and directors are trying to run me into the ground! Mass media is a total shuck! I’ve been shucked! Y ou’ve been shucked! Th’ whole system is rotten to the core . . . success has made me bitter n’ cynical!” — and lays her, then speeds o ff to his appearance on the Johnny Carson show. “ Yeah, I think these kids have some points worth considering about our society, Johnny . . . some o f their gripes are legitimate . . . o f course, a lot o f what is called the ‘ counter-culture’ is just immature sophomoric nonsense, but there’s something to be said for the new life-styles that are emerging nowadays . . . speaking o f which, Y ’wanna take a look at a clip from my latest movie? I think you’ll appreciate the rele­ vance o f this scene to what we’ve been talking a bo ut . . . ” On the way home he is divert­ ed into the apartment o f an old flame, Andrea Ostrich, but can’t get it up. “ Er . .. Y ’wanna tie me up an’ beat on me? You useta get o ff doin’ that.” Andrea suggests, but even this does not work, “ I guess there’s been too much ugli­ ness between us, Andrea . . . let’s try again later, okay? Where’d I put that beer?” and Fritz watches himself on TV instead. When he leaves the flat Andrea follows him and stabs him in the back o f the head with an icepick.

Fritz The Cat, finis.

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years, Glenfield has acted as a social change centre by offering the farm’ s buildings and land as a meeting place/conference centre for all sorts o f gatherings - single parents, free schoolers, commun­ ards, farmers, peacelovers etc; nearly 3000 people have visited in the past couple o f years, most have stayed for a night or more.

The farm is just outside o f Sydney so it has also been on the East Coast Travelling Hippie Belt

which is one o f the main reasons for closing down - not enough energy coming in, too much going out. After a good rest, the farm residents will open up for week­ ends. So pass the word around. *

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SEND your inside info, secret sources and shortwinded raves to me , PO box 8, Surry Hills, and receive in exchange a free copy o f Rock climbing in the south.

QU ESTIO N : How do you keep 800 million Chinese citizens happy?

ANSWER: Turn them all into ardent filmgoers.

In the current issue of Lumiere, Don Kennedy of Film Australia reports on the rise of film in China since the cultural revolution. His account of the march of the sprocket hole is exclusive to Lumiere, Australia's film media m onthly.* A lso in the c u rre n t issue: An appraisal of the T V points system Nationalising the movies in the UK A report on A big c o u n try The making of a "Hitchcock Western" in NSW Metamorphosis: novel to film The forgotten men of Australian movies Women in film Reviews, books, technical data and industry news * L u m ie r e is t h e o n ly A ustralian p u b lic a tio n in d e x ­ e d in t h e In te r n a tio n a l in d ex to film p e rio d ica ls ( F I A F ) , F ilm r e v ie w in d e x a n d th e In te rn a tio n a l in d e x t o m u lti-m ed ia in fo r m a tio n .

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JOHN W ILLIAM SON HIS WEEK heralds the visit to Australia o f the cold war statesman, Robert McNamara, who, on friday, sits down to lunch with Gough at the Lodge in the company o f representatives from Australia’s aid agencies.

Remember the days when McNamara was as hated and vili­ fied for his part in the Vietnam war as Johnson? Remember? Well, if you find you’re having some difficulty recollecting it may be because since McNamara took up his job with the World Bank some years back there has been a con­ certed attempt by the liberal es­ tablishment to “ rehabilitate” the man, which has been achieved by citing the “ evidence” thrown up by the Pentagon Papers to “ prove” that he had been against the war all along.

After all the Pentagon Papers are a pretty hefty load to hurl at anyone, and as most o f us can’t get it together to take on weighty tomes like that we simply feel we’ve got to take their word for it. Well, I’ve got news! Michael Klare, in his book, War without end, shows just how important McNamara was in the US plan to police the world in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

McNamara’s involvement in the war without end was crucial. Dur­ ing the 50s the Eisenhower ad­ ministration followed the concept that America’s main enemy was the USSR and that the main strategy in this regard was to be massive retaliation: a huge array o f bombers armed with nuclear weapons to put the fear of God -

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McNamara: Master of War or rather the US — into the Russians. (But in doing so the US let its armed services run down.)

By the beginning o f the 60s, however, it had begun to be ap­ parent that the main threat to the US position came, not from Russia, but from departure o f countries formerly in the US sphere o f influence.

When Kennedy’s new adminis­ tration took over in 1960 they realised this, and JFK and his ad­ visers set out to ensure the United States ability to destroy liberation movements in Third World coun­ tries.

In november o f 1961, secretary o f defence McNamara and Dean Rusk, the secretary o f state, wrote a secret memorandum to Kennedy on Southeast Asia which said: “ The loss o f south Vietnam to

communism would involve the more adventuristic escalations of transfer o f a nation o f 20 million the Vietnam war, as proposed by people from the free world to the the joint chiefs o f staff and gen­ communist bloc. The loss of eral Westmoreland’s staff in South Vietnam would make Saigon. He was never against the pointless any further discussion war himself and personally watch­ about the importance of Southeast ed the smooth running o f the’ Asia to the free world; we would American military machine in have to face the near certainty Vietnam. As Alain C. Enthoven that the remainder o f Southeast and C. Wayne Smith who worked Asia and Indonesia would do a under McNamara point out, “ Un­ complete accommodation with like the determination o f peace­ communism, if not a formal in­ time force structures and the corporation with the communist defence budget, in which the OSD bloc." The Pentagon Papers, in (office o f the secretary o f de­ fact, note that it was on this fence) staff was heavily involved, memo that Kennedy approved the or even the determination o f force sending o f several thousand ad­ deployments to Europe, which visers and combat support troops also involved OSD, decisions on to Vietnam which set the scene force deployments to Vietnam for America’s later massive in­ were made largely by the presi­ volvement there. dent and the secretary o f defence McNamara was only against the dealing directly with the US mili-

Gallagher’s digestive problem By a pissed-off member of the NSW Builders Laborers Federation o r m g a l l a g h e r , the N federal secretary of the Builders Laborers Federation, took a leaf out o f king Richard’s book and ruled his domain from a position o f impenetrable isolation when he met with the union’s Federal Management Committee (FMC) in Sydney last week.

Locking themselves behind the panelled doors o f their Koala Motor Inn suite (a three star, ex R and R establishment, now managed by a former valet of HRH the duke o f Edinburgh), Gallagher and his men refused admittance to the NSW delegate, branch president Bob Pringle, and then proceeded to launch their most savage attack yet on the NSW union.

The committee, which is made up o f the six state secretaries, and Gallagher, the federal secretary, was supposedly meeting to discuss the deregistration case the Master Builders Association has brought against the union. Under our Byzantine industrial laws the derigistration action has to be taken against the federal body and all its affiliates, so although its directed mainly at the NSW branch, all the other state branches and the federal organ­ isation will suffer if the MBA wins its case.

The NSW branch o f the MBA is desperately keen to have the Green Bans removed, as they are now stopping construction on about $3000 million worth o f apartments, office blocks, hotelmotels and the like, buildings that the city needs like a hole in the head. They would also prefer to work with a union which was less united and militant on industrial matters. They can see the sky opening up and raining dollars if only the Pringle-Owens-Mundey leadership can be removed, and they have been acting with the knowledge that Gallagher, self-

proclaimed revolutionary (marxist-leninist) and workers ally, also wants to see them axed.

The antipathy that Gallagher displays towards the NSW branch has its roots in the CPA split o f the mid 60s, and it is fired by his empire building personality. Three o f the FMC members were either on, or closely associated with, now discredited NSW branch ex­ ecutives from the past, including the one that the Mundey group took over from. Working hand in hand with Gallagher they now control the union in SA, Tasmania and the ACT, and they have the numbers on the federal body.

The decisions taken by the committee in Sydney were quite amazing. They began the week by barring Pringle on the grounds that only the state secretary would be acceptable as a delegate.

Bob was standing in for Joe Owens, the secretary, who at the time was away on his annual holidays, and by denying him admittance they effectively dis­ enfranchised the 10,000 workers in the NSW union, the largest in the federation.

But while Pringle was fuming outside the meeting, the commit­ tee was listening to the charges o f maladministration and misuse o f funds being laid by the NSW rank and filer, Joe Ferguson. These same charges had been rejected by the rank and file last October, when Ferguson led an opposition team that campaigned on these issues during the triennial elec­ tions for the executive of the state branch. The charges were also dismissed by the FMC during its november meeting, but the NSW delegate was allowed to attend that meeting.

Trifles like this were o f no concern to Gallagher, and he phoned Pringle on the tuesday, demanding that he produce the

executive minutes and other rele­ vant books at the motel that day.

Under union rules this is illegal, a 48 hour notification must be given to the branch secretary when these documents are requir­ ed, and Bob refused the request.

The next Wednesday (6th) the members o f the executive were at the Industrial court for the open­ ing o f a new wage claim case being presented by the 11 unions involv­ ed in the building industry.

Simultaneously, about one mile away, Gallagher and his men were revoking the Right o f Entry per­ mits of the NSW branch’s organ­ isers. This meant that building foremen could prevent union o f­ ficials from entering a site on which industrial problems had arisen. The workers on the job could be denied union assistance in a dispute.

After three days of Gallagher’s antics the union leaders were not surprised when they learned that he had informed the MBA o f this decision before telling the union.

The executive met that after­ noon and decided to call a mass meeting o f the members to discuss the actions o f the FMC during the week. The wage claim and the branch’s approach to the quarry workers strike which is rapidly closing down the industry in NSW were also on the agenda. They decided to allow the FMC to inspect the books in the presence o f the president and acting secre­ tary, and any NSW rank and filer who was also interested, provided the members voted for this pro­ posal at the mass meeting. They did.

It was during this conference that big Norm made his last phone call to the branch before flying back to Melbourne. In a voice loud enough to be heard by most o f those present, he informed Pringle that he was going to “ eat the NSW branch” . After three

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days o f motel air, whisky, and arguments, he was heavily into fantasy land.

Well the NSW branch will prove hard to digest, just as Stalin (“ The big fish always eat the little fish” ) had problems with Yugo­ slavia, so too will Norm with the NSW branch.

The Gallagher-MBA fantasy, whereby Gallagher takes over the NSW branch, throwing out the present leaders and lifting many o f the Green Bans, and in return the MBA drops its deregistration action, is unlikely to eventuate.

The union executive, one of the most open in the country, has too much rank and file support, and there is nothing to hide on the phoney issues that Gallagher has raised.

tary commander in Vietnam and the joint chiefs o f staff. ” McNamara had a hand in coun­ ter-insurgency operations that had their effect all around the world.

When he took over as secretary of defence there were no agencies in' the department that were respon­ sible for guerrilla warfare research Within a year four agencies withii that department had been expand­ ed to deal with that type of research: the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which was to develop the techniques of systems analysis and operations research for use in guerrilla war­ fare; the Armament Development and Test Centre (ADTC), which was to develop new munitions to , use against guerrillas; the Combat Developments Command (CDC), which tries to work out how wars against guerrillas will be fought after Vietnam and what new weapons and combat strategies will be needed (CDC is now plan­ ning strategies for projected limit­ ed wars in the 1980s and 1990s); and the Limited War Laboratory (LWL), which develops equipment and rations to enable American soldiers to fight in any climate and under any conditions.

Since 1970, when McNamara joined the World Bank, we have started to hear complaints from him about the plight o f “ under­ developed” countries. One won­ ders just how sincere that talk is.

Take McNamara and latin America.

During a 1967 congressional review o f the Pentagon’s Military Assist­ ance Program McNamara declared that the Pentagon’s primary aim in latin America was “ to aid, where necessary, in the continued de­ velopment of indigenous military and paramilitary forces capable o f providing, in conjunction with the police and other security forces, the needed domestic security” . Of the $US45 million in direct aid that the US proposed to give latin America in 1968 McNamara want­ ed 76 percent to be in the form of military hardware and services related to fighting the guerrillas there.

Way back in 1962 McNamara had placed enormous emphasis on US training o f the latin American military. As he said in front o f the US house o f representatives ap­ propriations committee, “ Prob­ ably the greatest return on our military assistance investment comes from the training o f select­ ed officers and key specialists at our military schools and training centres in the United States and overseas. These students are handpicked by their countries to be­ come instructors when they re­ turn home. They are the coming leaders, the men who will have knowhow and impart it to their forces. I need not dwell upon the value o f having in positigtps of leadership men who have first­ hand knowledge o f how Ameri­ cans do things and how they think. It is beyond price to make such friends o f such men.”

Although he’ll probably mouth the right liberal phrases when he comes I’m damn sure McNamara will never repudiate the work he did when he was secretary o f defence and the thousands o f peo­ ple that died as a result o f it. j— j

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Daylights saving MOST Australians have no hope o f a say thru the mass media. Participatory dem ocracy, freedom o f speech and communication-oriented media are for most people sheer fantasy.

But in TLD, w e have a no-vestedinterests, anybody read, anybody write, national weekly medium: it. is actually worth saving!

I f the articles are to o shithouse — write better ones. The product is as good as the stuff we send in. Keep the complaints coming in, in mercilessly straight language. We are not in this paper to impress or outdo each other, but to do a jo b o f communication: informing, enlightening, and inspiring each other.

Who gives a fuck if it’s a capitalist ripoff! We can still use it. Besides, if anybod y’s making to o much out o f it, their punishment is automatic: excess m oney will clog their spiritual pores and destroy higher consciousness.

PHIL 0 'CARROLL, AlbUry, NSW

More, more YES, utterly agree with Anonym ous, Balgownie (Letters, TLD 2 /4 ). Let’ s have more good stories and more o f Tabloid story in Living daylights.

MICHAEL WILDING W ilding,

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Tabloid story.

Flatfoot fancies WOULD ya believe that I married a black homosexual, working class woman and that I'm a gracious em­ ployee o f the state constabulary?

Probably not? . . . that’s OK . . . I just w ouldnt get breaks like that.

HOPPER

Comrade A m os strikes again H A R R Y GUMBOOT (if he is to be taken seriously, w hy does he — or is it she? — use that ridiculous pseudo­ nym ?) is for once on the right track with his sentiment that “ If the adven­ ture o f life is regarded as a search for truth, both within you and without you , then one feels almost prim con­ tempt for the citadel o f the lie.” Harry, however, in keeping with his pettybourgeois mentality, has to obscure in metaphysical idealism the scientific truism that the essence o f Being is one’ s knowledge o f Being.

Harry, the prisoner o f petty-bour­ geois ideology, does not know, or is ever likely to know, that only marxism — correctly formulated by Soviet marxists, in m y opinion — is the only scientific w orld outlook, and therefore the truth. Naturally I regard scientific truth as being the only truth because science is the knowledge o f objective reality which is the only state o f Being.

O f course, that marxism is the only scientific w orld ou tlook is a subjective assertion on my part which is not necessarily in accordance with objec­ tive reality no matter how much scien­ tific investigation undertaken on my behalf; but as marxism is the highest level to which I can raise my subjective consciousness I must necessarily reject anti-marxist viewpoints for the present.

Harry, however, has reached a level o f consciousness which I can only regard with theoretical contem pt because it contradicts my subjective viewpoint.

In this respect it is important to emphasise that w e are all psychologic­ ally different because the mind o f each individual is the result o f a unique interaction o f biological heredity and cultural environment. As we are all psychologically different all thought about creating a community conscious­ ness or mass consensus based on some ideology such as anarchism, Christian­ ity, fascism, etc. purely through some

non-coercive cultural or counter-cul­ tural revolution is unscientific non­ sense.

Marxists believe that a truly scien­ tific ou tlook entails the recognition that to interpret the w orld is to, in fact, change it, and that therefore a truly scientific ideology (which is marxism) must be a fusion o f theory and practice; while religion could be said to be also a fusion o f theory and practice it is a form o f philosophical idealism and so is scientifically mean­ ingless whereas marxism is a materialist philosophy and so amenable to scien­ tific verification. Thus, in keeping with scientific values, a marxist is necessar­ ily a revolutionary communist because the scientific validity o f marxism can only be ultimately proved b y the con ­ solidation o f communism.

Petty-bourgeois idealists like Harry G um boot imagine that marxists are motivated by some metaphysical notion o f bringing salvation to the exploited and oppressed masses under capitalism, but for marxists the revolu­

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tionary masses are primarily a means to an end, and that end is the scientific validation or otherwise o f marxism.

There are undoubtedly some TLD readers w ho have the inherent ability to acquire a marxist consciousness to a greater or lesser extent and it is in their interest to d o so if they realise the value o f knowledge — the alternative is the nigger mentality o f either the vulgar bourgeois materialism o f Billy Snedden and Co. or the primitive petty-bourgeois utopianism o f Harry and his friends at Nimbin. I certainly hope that someone is impressed by what I have to say because the more and better Australian marxists there are the sooner and easier it will be to consolidate communism in a people’s republic o f Australia.

LEONARD AMOS, Wynnum, Qld G reat slabs o f our favorite pen pal's politics had to be cu t this week, Sorry Leonard. - Eds

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Harry exposed?

ADMIT it Neville. Expose yourself.

A dm it that instead o f putting your ow n' name to your pox y ramblings, you hide behind the alias o f “ Harry G um boot” .

All o f the G um boot trade marks, (intellectualising middle class preju­ dices, condescending style etc), are yours also. So you think you know everything, but are to o gutless to admit your neurosis; rather you prop up this dickhead G um boot as the supreme snotnosed intellectual that you really are.

Y et perhaps you are doing the readers o f your counter culture rag some kind o f service. Perhaps the counterculture (which, by the way, doesnt really ex ist It’s just a collection o f part time dropouts wearing Indian style clothing and eating vegetables, w ho m ost o f the time fill their essential middle class roles as pie eating, money spending students etc), needs some kind o f fantasy to cover up its natural insecurities.

Just as superman stood for “ truth, justice and the American w ay” to kids o f many years back, G um boot repre­ sents freedom , anarchy and all that shit for the day dreaming counter culture.

But anyway, w ho gives a fuck.

Screw Harry G um boot, becom e Rich­ ard Neville.

M A R K BURFORD, Adelaide, SA P.S. I admit though, that in amongst all o f the crap Harry G um boot covers up with som e truthful observances and intelligent ideas, som e things which generally seem to be lacking in this ratshit paper. (Though it's getting better.)

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W H O is H u m b e rt H um bert, w ho is Peter Pan, w h o is Shylock? Hum ble H arry G u m b o o t is w ho he is. Let us not waste tim e w ith guessing games to gratify shallow curiosities. I t is H . G.'s ideas which m ay m erit discussion, not the inconsequential id en tity behind the signature.

Pearls before swine SLOWLY, as the heart becom es more variegated, a new self awareness en­ velops the being. Yet predictably the tortuous onslaught surrounding exist­ ence remains unbroken. Although necessarily obvious and sometimes oversimplified, the truths that spill from the pages o f TLD each week remain fo r me strangely edifying. No sentimental bullshitter me, just abso­ lutely delighted at what y o u ’re doing.

RODERICK, Subiaco, WA

School of life THE SCHOOLING o f children is like any interference with nature: we may

achieve the desired effect — and 1000 bad effects into the bargain!

It is m y belief that in preparing children for the w orkforce, b y taking up most o f childhood with schooling, we are depriving them o f a satisfying human life, present or future.

When I read o f a politician's pro posal for nationwide “ pre schools” , that is for taking up even more o f childhood with schooling, I am prom p­ ted to write urging (1) that any such “ pre schooling” remain strictly volun­ tary and (2) that the age o f com pul­ sory entrance to schools be raised.

Children would have a better life and be better prepared fo r adulthood if they had more chance to take in the real world (outside school) in their openminded years.

CAROL EASTGATE, Wodonga, Vic

W ay out west HOWZABOUT having Living delights extended to give a coverage (however minor) to all o f us here hicks across the Nullarbor? Even just a TV/radio co l­ umn would do marvels for morale.

IAN, Perth, WA

I think it’s about music IN REFERENCE to Jim Mackenzie’s criticism o f my criticism o f Albie Thomas (TLD 2 /3 ) . . . I say “ three cheers for relevant criticism ", but let’ s at least see whether the criticism is actually relevant before we get too carried away. Mackenzie must have been either dreaming or sleeping when he read that I was Dutting down R ock for being 20 years old, or for any other reason.

If h e’d bother to read my original letter correctly, he’d see that I was unequivocally defending what I regard­ ed as a valid and still-evolving art-form.

Have you got it this time, Jim? As for the so called great SOUND debate, that horrible apprehension arises from the stupidly inappropriate title The living daylights gave m y letter — I’m wonder­ ing right n ow what sort o f title the person concerned will give this letter — which effectively obscured a great deal o f the purpose o f the thing.

But as for the rest o f Jim’s “ criti­ cisms” — you quibble over my use o f the term “ avant-garde” . That is a com ­ monly accepted phrase for a particular type o f music: I could have used plenty o f terms, but for the sake o f reader comprehension, used a term very much in use. Personally, I dont care how olde worlde you find it, Jim. It doesnt matter to me at all.

Another point: you call Dolphy and Coleman too cerebral for your tastes THESE DAYS. Well. I congratulate ■ reL L t you for descending from'the heights at least at one stage to like them once.

And anyway, your rather patronising attitude towards academia, to cerebral art, including, to you , Dolphy & Cole­ man, seems based on a false analogy between “ GUTFELT PASSION” and Great Art, and, to be neat about it, “ cerebral” with Mediocre Art. If we accept this at face value w e’re led to a farcical esthetic situation. Ever heard o f Imagination, Jim? That comes from the o l’ brain, doesnt it? Or dont we need imagination either? In any case, your condescending, hipper-thanthou criticisms o f the two above men­ tioned musicians are ill-founded, based on your ow n “ historical” approach.

Dolphy and Coleman were both criti­ cised when they first came on the scene for discarding conventional tech­ nical processes in a search for a new way o f expressing em otion.

They were criticised for being too direct, to o emotional. The search for new ways and means I’m sure you could find on your battered old copy o f Ornette’ s “ Free Jazz” , if you look­ ed: or didnt you ever bother to hear TH AT one, Jim? Going back to your patronising at­ titude towards m y so called “ academ­ ic ” approach (that was something again that I was condemning in m y letter, Jim), I feel that you too are guilty o f a P.T., Sydney.

I just want to say that I agree with little o f that yourself, in labelling my said. argument for "ja z z " “ primitive” . Do everything that she(?)/he(?) you need sophisticated theories for Particularly that I too enjoy almost GUT music? Please, let’s be consistent. everything in your paper.

I’m middle-class, I’m working and Just in case y o u ’ve forgotten Jim, I’m n ot putting dow n R ock, or any I’m tied to hire-purchase, mortgage etc. other form o f music. As I said pre­ I’m well and truly into this “ owner­ viously, I’m n ot a musical fascist. I’m ship” thing: the “ status” thing.

I’m n ot really as aware a person as I just trying to unmask a particularly bad piece o f criticism. Last time it was like to think I am: I have however, read every issue o f your paper and Albie Thoms. This time it’s you.

Y ou say that I “ drop names” what I want to thank you because it has made was attempting to do was to illustrate me want to see.

A t the same time I do think some o f m y contention that there has been valid contemporary music outside o f your letter writers have a hold o f “ classical” . Theories and ideas in criti­ themselves, like: What a lot o f ques­ cism are useless if they dont have tions in the same issue o f TLD. I practical application to the art they are thought that one should have been in dealing with. And where is the substan­ your poetry contributions page.

RICHARD ZYCKI, tiation o f your “ sophisticated" theor­ ies, Jim? Who in R ock do you feel has Wauchope, NSW. been doing all these wonderful contem­ porary, “ rare" things? I’d like to know.

I might even agree with you. But perhaps, for you , all rock performers are as good as each other, pouring out THE SOUL cries out in torment, while Great Art, because they use electricity. assorted fools argue over what or what OH, and thanks for noticing Colis not anarchy through the letter col­ trane’s name in print at least five times umns o f your paper (it doesnt matter last year, Jim. I’m slipping, arent I. what name is given to the illusion o f Perhaps it’s because, as even you no­ how the world should be, it is still an ticed, he's not really cerebral enough, illusion o f reality). No murmur is is he, like Ornette, or Dolphy? raised about the article by A m os KEITH SHAD WICK, Drummond, Gadfly o f the giants a Glebe, NSW supposed interview with Ian Sykes o f O K chaps . . . kiss and make up — Eds. XL Petroleum.

I can put up with inane questions but to miss two very controversial points that Ian Sykes makes as if they didnt exist, shows a degree o f incom p­ etence in the reporter second to none.

Did Mr Drummond fail to comprehend THE SIGN o f being aware and adult is the im port o f the statement that Rex to be big enough to accept on e’s mistakes, but apparently the heavies at Connor did n ot know tfce X L had lost its quota o f crude oil, and that X L is TLD are unable to do this. the only com pany to lose this quota An item in the editorial notes o f your last issue (TLD, 2 /5 ) informed now that it cannot buy cheap petrol on the overseas market. readers that some gays had com e to your offices to negotiate a reply to a This, to say the least, is a crippling blow to X L especially in view o f the recent article and, as you put it, “ they decision o f the tariff board to return were received with little cordiality” . dumping securities to XL. A t n o point Y ou then went on to say the gays has Drummond attempted to find out had probably been the victims o f a who imported the dumped petrol in “ bully-boy from A SIO ” . Come on, question or to even highlight the posi­ admit the obvious; you have poofter tion o f the customs department in bashers on your staff. It comes as no taking arbitrary decisions that are aimed surprise to me to learn this. Poofter solely at XL. The obvious conclusion is bashers are everywhere, including in that the department o f customs and so-called radical and progressive circles. excise has made decisions in favor o f MARTIN SMITH, the large oil companies at the expense Glebe, NSW. o f X L but all Drummond can say is, “ H ow have the big oil companies acted improperly? Are there any specific examples?”

IN YOUR letters (TLD 2 /5 ) you Mr Drummond may I point out that printed one entitled Suggestions from you have just had an allegation made

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to you , that is the stuff Watergates are made o f and it goes right over your head. Instead o f probing that point, you go on to the vagaries o f tax minimisation. Ask yourself the ques­ tion next time something like this occurs w ho did this and w hy did it occur and you might get the point.

The next redhot point that com ­ pletely eluded Mr Drummond was those that concern the size o f X L Petroleum as compared to his unnamed com petitor. I d o suspect that there is an I an O and a C in the name somewhere.

Mr Sykes says, “ A com pany for in­ stance, which started only four years ago has n ow got about six times the number o f outlets that I’ve got, but die thing is w e’ve n o t cheated or any­ thing.”

This unnamed and nameless com ­ pany has recently signed a contract with a large overseas oil com pany to stop price cutting and to receive petrol ex refinery from that com pany at Australian prices. The implication from all this is that this unnamed petrol discounter was set up to com pete not with the established oil companies, but directly with X L Petroleum and indeed this unnamed com pany may have been established by the overseas oil com pan­ ies for this express purpose.

Mr Drummond however missed these points in his interview with Mr Sykes, perhaps a repeat interview with Mr Sykes and if he bears in mind the points I have made, the interview will be more to the point.

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I WAS going to say the bloke you got to write up Sunbury (TLD 2 /4 ) was a shitwit but I guess his piece o f piss just put the cap on the whole bad trip.

Sunbury may have been all rock and frolic for some — b ut I think there were a lo t w ho wished it had happened different. I was there for the full three and a half days and the things I remember m ost are: a guy fart-arsing around in the river and then drowning another swimmer (pissed to the eye­ balls) w h o returned to the land o f the living only after 15 minutes o f resusci­ tation; all the cut feet (including mine), cubic miles o f garbage; the stories I heard from ambulancemen about the Saturday night brawls on die hill, the 10,000 meatheads guffawing at each other and yelling “ Suck more piss” ; the sharks selling shit fo o d at Toorak prices; the wolves dressed up in long hair and caftans selling pretty perfumed candles from 60c and even­ tually couldnt get rid o f them at three for 50c; and the bourgeois bastard organisers w ho got around in a helicop­ ter.

I think the whole o f Sunbury was very unhappy and uptight. People are still smoking grass to com pete, and taking o ff their gear to be daring (although n o one did that much this year). Maybe we are working loose o f our gout crushing surroundings, but I keep thinking o f all those meatheads sucking piss.

The only really good thing about G.R. COXON, Sunbury this year was the top o f the Tottenham, Vic. hill where they had the folk tent with theatre, pottery and weaving demos.

The folk and the rock play Africa, AS A marker in English Com position which had three runs there, really in the NSW School Certificate Exam­ caught on and a lot o f people saw it. ination, rather appalled at the task, I Sunbury w o n ’ t really be a festival until am sending this “ answer” to you as a that part o f it is expanded into a total conscience-appeasing gesture. involvement sort o f place and the An English Composition (Ordinary hillside music becom es more than a Level) School Certificate Examination. giant piss-up, which you can have M y Impression o f a lively crowd scene. anywhere. It all depends on whether My impression o f a lively crowd scene people will really let themselves go and is certainly n ot this examination room get into it instead o f coming along to the atmosphere is up the shit; no fun. watch.

Just a heap o f stuffed dummies sitting Dont kid yourselves — Odessa Pro­ dow n at desks doing some crap exam­ m otions is run by businessmen who, ination paper. N ow m y impression o f a like the rest o f the filthy rockbiz scene lively crowd scene is say a rock concert in Australia — are m ore interested in with (sex) everyone freakin’ out and dollars than experimenting and having ’avin a b lood y g ood time. Some gooses fun. may resort to dope and alcohol to dump The fun revolution is there for the their hangups. taking. It doesnt belong to the cosy My definition o f a lively crow d counterculture elite, nor the promoters scene. like Odessa w ho will sell you a cheap Please excuse this mess but I got so substitute in a pretty packet if you hung up on this paper I had to take my don t organise it yourself.

ANXIOUS MOTHER OF TEN, hate out somewhere.

M oonee Ponds, Vic. THIS IS STUFFED

Exam sham

I WOULD like to bring to your atten­ tion the living conditions provided b y the Queensland railways fo r their em­ ployees in outback areas. I imagine other government departments in other states are also in on the act, b ut can’ t confirm this, perhaps you could and enlighten the public.

Floodbound at Blackwater in CQ, I got a job as a fettler on the railways for a week, until the Capricomia highway, route 66, reopened. A ccom m odation was provided but no tucker. This con­ sisted o f a camp bed, plus a vermin infested mattress in a humpy, practical­ ly open to all elements. Communal cooking facilities consisted o f one w ood stove, no w ood provided. The place was infested with redbacks, lice, silverfish, cockroaches, ants, bed bugs, flies, mosquitoes and the like and probably snakes in drier times.

The shower was a tin bucket affair, surrounded by decrepit canvas in full view o f the pub and a Shell roadhouse on the highway and passing trains. The toilet was a dry pan affair which hadnt been emptied in weeks and could be smelt from ten yards. It also had its share o f redbacks and other vermin and no toilet paper was provided and it didnt have a door. I am still receiving treatment for infested bed bug bites, scabies and tropical ulcers from the outpatient department at the Prince Henry hospital.

If a private com pany pulled such capers, government departments and unions would jump on them. Is the government immune? I w ould be willing to swear to the above in a court o f law.

JACK ROBERTS, Maroubra, NSW

Shrinks stink IN NO other profession is psychiatry more mistrusted than in the medical profession.

A t the age o f 24 I was depressed, and prescribed anti depressants (1964).

By chance a doctor discovered I had abnormally high b lood pressure for my age and I went to a leading specialist who put me on drugs to lower it. Also a spell in hospital fo r tests. While in hospital “ resting” the BP “ fell” without medication. On leaving hospital it rose.

The specialist discovered (I told him) I was on anti depressants and sleeping pills. The picture changed dramatically.

Some 18 months later I was again hospitalised for tests re b lo o d pressure, the specialist assumed I was a NO RT E b oy, I read his case notes, that as I was on barbiturate tablets I must be knock­ ing o ff amphetamine thus answering his query that m y b lo o d pressure al­ ways fell while resting in his care. On ward rounds he told one o f his juniors that “ Oh well h e’s had psychiatric help, it’ s really not worth bothering with.” The end result is (not yet 30) I walk around with a b lo o d pressure o f 130/180 (an average assessed at two readings a day for 30 days).

ANON, Sydney, NSW

T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , february 12-18, 1 9 7 4 -P a g e 27

F YOU saw Angela Mao take on a gang o f rapists in Enter the dragon you ’d have guessed she was going places. Well, it’s not every day you see a fragile asian flower demolish a pack o f vicious hoodlums with some resounding kicks, hand chops and hefty throws.

And without losing an ounce o f her femininity either! we said.

That was just a cameo role, an hors d’oeuvre to the coming splendor o f Ms Mao on screen in her own right as a fully fledged film star.

Lady Kung Fu is the first o f her films to be released here and it’ s an orgy o f martial arts violence with a dynamic fighting performance by Mao that makes the Ali-Frazier bout look like love Play.

Set in China in the early century, Lady Kung Fu opens a martial arts school and encounters hassles from a hostile group o f rival Japanese exponents. With her two offsider-brothers put out of action by the Jap aggression, she battles for her life and wipes out th e e nti re team nearly single-handed.

Her feats o f skill in the almost uninterrupted string o f sensational fight-scenes are pretty incredible, leaving the set like a battlefield, strewn with broken, moaning men.

It particularly blew me out when die flew through the air and vaulted herself back o ff a post into an opponent’s head, and when she horse-whipped a guy with her long plait, leaving his face a bloody mess. I dont care if she’s really got her chi together or £)

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not, even the faking is magnifi­ cent.

The distributors had to cut the crunching bones bit, though we were so numbed by everything else that I can’ t see how it would've mattered. Anyway, it’s such a stylised kind o f brutal ballet that it’s beyond reality.

Lady Kung Fu's fascination is one o f a cute little China Doll in a pyjama suit, so pure that she doesnt so much as hold hands with anyone, and she minces in while the American Gidget voice on the dubbed soundtrack says; “ I just beat up the japs!”

Or she’ s out there alone sur­ rounded by eijl thugs and sudden­ ly her eyes widen with summoned power and all hell breaks loose, with Angela emitting Minnie Mouse squeals as she hurls bodies all over the place.

It’s a sado-masochistic turn-on, no question. A Kung Fuck. Like those noticeboards in Soho shop windows advertising French mis­ tress offers discipline. Angela Mao is promoted as “ The Hong Kong Hell-cat who will give you the licking o f your life!”

The Raymond Chow Hong Kong movie machine that bolted Bruce Lee into a cult idol, hopes it has come up with a female counterpart. They’re backing 22 year old Angela Mao — discovered three years ago in Taiwan and since famous in the Far East — as the new superstar o f the western Kung Fu fad. She’ s a black belt of the Korean form o f martial arts, Hapkido, and also studied Chinese T’ai Chi Chuam.

And to kick o ff the export action they flew her to Australia last week, still smarting from a misplaced Kung Fu blow she col­ lected while working on a film with George Lazenby (Stoner) which set back her arrival here.

We met her in the smooth bar o f Sydney’s Boulevard hotel. Ms Mao was got up in a ming blue cheong-sam, demurely slit to re­ veal a glimpse o f stocking top, a mink stole around her shoulders despite the heat, and a pair o f diamonte-studded shoes with en­ crusted, see-thru heels. This was decidedly not our pyjama-clad Lady Kung Fu, but an impeccably groomed film studio starlet-stable

was a fast-talking, speedy young American producer, Andre Mor­ gan, who is righthand man to Raymond Chow, head of Golden Harvest Films.

Andre Morgan justified the ex­ ploitation o f Kung Fu - which does after all extol pacifism - in movie violence, by saying it was okay because the good guys al­ ways win.

But what about the anti-Jap­ anese caricature o f the Lady Kung Fu film? “ Have you ever seen Japanese in Hong Kong?" rallied Morgan. It was a popular Chinese film theme and Ms Mao contribu­ ted that she’d been brought up to feel that japs were bad people, but she didnt think it right that one group o f people dhould hate an­ other group o f people.

However she was not partial to chairman Mao, who incidentally is the best known exponent o f T ’ai Chi Kung Fu. The question on her attitude to Mao’s China flustered her composure for the first time.

“ You shouldnt ask such a ques­ tion — it’s a political question that causes problems with Hong Kong and Taiwan,” said Morgan inter­ preting her reply. “ After all, Miss Mao’s family fled from Shanghai to Taiwan after the revolution, her parents still live in Taiwan and she travels on a Taiwan passport.

O f course, she hates the commun­ ists," he added.

You couldnt fault Ms Mao’s modesty and virtue, as she sat prettily and enigmatically, at one point vowing that she’d never take her clothes o ff for a movie. None o f her films involve her in any love scenes or the taint o f sex.

And as for womens lib, she might be the symbol o f self-de­ fending womanhood, but the army o f Right On Sisters! hasnt filtered through to the ladies o f Hong Kong. She believes a wo­ man’s place is in the home cooking the food, looking after her husband and raising the child­ ren. She’d just got married secret­ ly a few weeks ago to a former Chinese film star and after her 18 months contract is up she’ s going to phase out her career.

As for Bruce Lee, a close friend o f both Andre Morgan and Angela Mao, the mystery surrounding his death had been fabricated by the media. “ It was a freak,” said Morgan. “ He was hyper-allergic to a headache pill.”

But with his posthumous fame and the cult following for Kung Fu, it looks like Angela Mao will be kicking her way into our hearts for quite some time to come.

Published by R ic h a rd N e v ille at 1 7 4 Peel s tre e t, N o r th M e lb o u rn e f o r In c o rp o ra te d N ew sagencies C o m p a n y P ty L t d , th e p u b lish er and d is trib u to r, 1 1 3 R osslyn s tre e t, W est M e lb o u rn e . T h e b o o k fu l b lo c k h e a d , ig n o ra n tly r e a d /w it h loads o f le a rn e d lu m b e r in his head.

JUDITH RICH