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THE GOLD;BHG OCTOBER'll, '196& PAGE' 9 Vietnam Crossection by John Douglas "Nothing was delivered and It's Hey soldier boy, where have you gone? up for you say. Justwhatyouhadin I've gone to fight the Viet Congo mind when you made everybody pay. I've gone to make that country free. Now I hope you won't object to thi s . Mother, won't you pray for me? giving back all that you owe. But the sooner you come upwlth it--then Hey college girl, what do you see? the sooner you can go." It keeps getting tougher to write This killing's not for you and me, an honest article on rock music 00- We have no cause to fight this foe. eve ryone keeps tr ying to ele-. So Hell no, why should we go? vate It to an art status. Rockises- sentiaHy a folk music and if we Hey Legion man, what do you feel? don't watch it, it'll go down the Let's see what the Senate will reveal. same drain as jazz, because then we let it stand on its own, divorc- I know the Commies had a role. ing it from roots and trom our own Those hippie punks should be controlled. "tastes and just accepting it as art. The Beat le s showed howeasily this Hey candidate, what do you say? can happen with Magical Mystery "An honorable peace ... " again today. Tour, where they justaboulexcut- se ss a human bitterness which It's so hard to pin you down. ed rock by tailoring their music to pervades rather than slices-- inal Byrd. who are fulfilling the orchestration and electronics rat- "Pulled into Nazareth, was feel- recording contract of a non-ex- The same old crap from town to town. her than utilizing them toadddim- in bout half past ten. I just need istent group. They do a couple of enslon to the music. This is the someplace where I can lay my Dylan songs, a Woody Guthrie Hey working· man, what do you know? worst kind of artistic presumption. head, Hey: AUster, can you tell ballad and eight modern country I just don't understand this show, If anyone thinksthatJimi Hendrix me where I can find a bed'? He songs. Sometimes they approach Damned if I know what to think. could just stand there and play and Just grinned and shook my hand. their material like hard rock, Ah Hell. somebody pass me a drink. we can accept it as art wttf no un- No. was all he said." They are an- sometimes they use a fidrtle and derstanding that he sounds like Ray dowed with a dignified reserve banjo, usually they play good-time. Charles and plays like Buddy Guy like Flatt and Scruggs and they're Buffalo Springfield type rock. If John Bennett thentheyarecondemninghimtothe nothing else can lie said. it's an honest record by honest musicians same grave as classical music. real and don't go on tour for hip who know where they came from bopper-s or play guitar with teenie The roots of rock are all Amer- their teeth, There is no message, and where they're going and aren't Sex on Campus tcan folk music, black and white, only what they call "mountain hut blues seem to be in the fore- music." afraid of being hillbillies or doing by Chris Schubert front. The trouble Is that what most Sweetheart of the Rodeo is by something different for a change, rock fans know about blues ISearly The Byrns. the group that start- The meaning here is expressed in Realizing that no one person can accurately depict the situation as It Animals and Rolling Stones re- ed progressive rock. This Byrns numerous Jines of country wtsuom really exists on this eampus , here is a collection of comments made by students, destgned to throw some llght on the subject. and In a Dylan SOil" whi{:1iasks cords, and Motown which is to group however is just a loosely the llstenerwhyhefeelsdisappoint "H's very narrt for a relati()llshiptodevelopnaturally on this campus. blues as wop rock was to rock. And tied band of musicians. includ- ed with the record, since this is Fun realization of thls hits you when you get into your date's car and there a further complication Is that most Ing John Hartford and one ortg- really where it.ts at. are two pillows and a fluffy blanketln the hack seat. This is rny summa- of these same people and many tionot sex at WhlC." musicians acknowledge no debt to "This campus is way hehind." the other cornerstone of the new Eyewitness View "You go out witlr somebody mre, or four tirnes and you are branded for music, country music. life. Is that Jair tothe gtrlv It+s one ot my pet peeves, but really there is Country music is the music that The Baltimore Trials nothing you can do about it." Is turned off when people stop at "There is certainly a lack of oonvton here." traffic lights. It is the white folk Turning onto Maryland Avenue rjay went ou to obsceuttv, I wunder "I feel that people are encouraged to go to Lees, to back-campus, to, music and because It doesn't fit in from the Jones Falls Expressway. what it ts like to f.. k cOllllnllllislll; back seats of cars, and to da r k and dingy places hy the lack oJ facilities. the soul music pattern it Is for- the only thing you noticed was the the).' seemed to think it was pretty There just aren't many places where two people can go to tJe alone and gotten. Any further growth of rock lack of buses. But you could feel American. talk or play records. Thi:; situation is particularly a problem for fresh- i.s going to have to absorb the coun- It; passing someone whose hands The kids kllO\'"what they wauted, try influence and two new albums shot up with the v for Peace and They are not strangers 10 march- men and independents, (to a Ie.sse r extentIt even arrects fraternity mem- mustrale this fully, Music From Freedom that has become Common ing tllree abreast five feet apart , bers because even in the ctuurooms you can't really be alune.P" Big Pink and Sweetheart of the place in Baltimore; yes, even Balti- They are !lot strangers to face "Cold weather sort of hampers the style. [n the dead of winter where Rodeo. Both records were super more. We heard the shouts two masks onpoliceormacec;ln~.Tlle~· are you going to go? - Of course, you could reserve a room in Baker Memorial and plug in your stereo." Rodeo. Both records were super- blocks from the court house, and are not strangers to hecklers. In- "There always exists the urge for sex even though the administra- vised by Boh Dylan and both con- as they became more distinct, side a courlroorn,ninel>eoplell"ere tion tries to control and Inhibit it. In my opinion sex isn't a dirty no-no. tain songs written by him. Dylan faces took on the features fhat you'd on trial fortheir Civil disohedience It's part of a natural relationship." records in Nashville and most of been before In Chicago, or at Col- in protest of U. S, involvement ill think the administration needs a healthier outlook on sex." umbia. the war in Viet Narn. Whether you flI "WMC has the image of tieing one of the most goody-goody colleges The police stood silently, masks agreed with these m