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Friday, May 13, 1977 Scrimshaw Page ;l Orleans Review Eulogy For a Friend . Well Received ' Mike-Q~!e~ans continued from page 1 facing it head on. Most of us know cost, to say no better than he saw Last Friday night, the Spring together and produced a very clear readily for publication by the what we know of the truth and are of that nerve of Being which may ~ concert of 1977, featuring Orleans, sound as a result.) There was also editors of American Literature, so overwhelmed by the burden of include all of us. lie never turned began with Travis, Shook, and the excellent harmony on the one of the most highly respected our knowledge that we hide it, away. He lived with awe at the Club Wow. They are a musical- vocals ... "an overall togetherness journals in its field: In addition, away, leaving no snags to catch on dizzying profoundness of his world, comedy team consisting of a guitar of sound," when all 5 sang most recently, he had been plan- convention, no signs to in- and only because he never turned and a bass player, and with both rung a lecture on his sabbatical convenience us politically. Bob' away from the unpainted facts of vocalizing. They were received Orleans sang songs including projects to be given to the college Lawler embraced the burden of his life and death could he fix "awe" fairly well by the crowd, as they several never performed before, community in the near future. knowJedge~ He sought the power so playfully between two l's 'and a played an hour set. which are to be recorded on an as- We could go on recounting Bob and the law of reason with all his pause to spell his name." Orleans then began shortly after yet urmamedalbum which is due in Lawler's academic achievements heart and all his mind and all his the opening act. Orleans consists of studio in late June. The new songs at length, but then we would only soul. He sought to see himself Bob Lawler, in all his love-driven 5 men: Larry Hoppen, John Hall, included: 'Think I Will' py Wells be circling around and around the without illusion and in himself the vulnerability to the truth of his Jerry Marotta, Wells Kelly and and 'Don't Throw Our Love Away' center of the man without ever universe. He sought, at infinite vision, in all his self-forged daring, _. ~~~~~e H~~r~d :eip~~~~!a~e~ ~~ ~~~~~~s~~;~e~i~o~~~hf:~t~t~ The Problems of Urban Education ~~~t:%a~~~~:~~:~i~~fO:pe~k 15minute encore. Orleans featured The One' and 'Dance With Me', as John Wilcox this eulogy, must speak these good excellent light work designed by well as other previously recorded Graduate student Bernard their pupils. words of tribute, must keep en- Ron Merkle, who also runs lights material, all of which performed Franklin, in a lecture to Dr. Bernard Franklin, who is also couraged to face bravely what he for 'Little Feat'. It was the first well. Pernell's Education 102 class on head resident of Rouzer, is doing faced. For his world is our world, time in Alumni for the use of both Orleans enjoyed playing in the May 6, stated .that most problems gradue-e "work in school ad- his life is our life, his death is our 1 front and stage mixboards to Baltimore end D.C. area. They in urban education can be traced to ministration. Before coming to death. If we dispell the con- achieve quality sound, including 16 have had good performances racism which is inherent in the WMC, he was. a guidance counselor summate humanity in his name stage monitors. {Their per- recently at Univ. of Maryland, institution. in his native town of Newark, New and in his life, we do so at the peril formance featured good individual Painters Mill, and Gettysburg. Observing that the vast majority Jersey, working with inner city of our own humanity. work on their instruments; they "People in the areas respond well of inner city students are black, students in a federally funded Let us embrace and celebrate were highly skilled, worked well to our music." while most teachers are white, project, the memory of Bob Lawler. Orleans BacJu!round ::::~::e~~i~oo~.a~r:t:~:~e!~ F"P::'::"-o-e-m--o-'--t"':h:::"::::e:::::::':'W":::"'::e::':e=k:::':"-'" In 1969, JOM Hall, Larry and JolmHalrand~thers,.know, and ~~r~~~ybe~:f::n~f~et::;s;n~! :a~~S~e~eh:~ p~~~rsa~dse~~~ jiave worked With, LIttle Feat. classroom: the middle class values L together in New York City. John Or~e~ns p~::~r ~o l~s~n ~ ~~ of the teacher and the ghetto Two lines like mother and baby once joined Hall originally played with :~d sS:~e ~o~de~~' onme I "street values" of the student. Now hurtling apart at a right angle I ~:~~r:;~'al;!~n :~c~~~ Orleans' current tour, thus far 2 For example, the great' In the lower ease, when it looks like a one or an I, played. Both went into "Thun- months, is their first as a headline American dream that any child And truly looks alone, You can topple it with a flick of your smallest finger ders'rcg'', from which Wells left fa~~i~r~~~~=fnt~::J~~~~ ~s~:a~po~~~eto~'::~: (it's easy to topple) :aC;::t~~' t~e~~~n wiw~n;'~nn~ All members of the ,group write city student. Aceerding to Mr. music except the bass guitarist. Franklin, an oppressing en- And in Chicago, once in New York, it turns a loop ~':~f::'=:'~~~~a:~:~They see the inability to play one vironment of poverty which the Around fierce bigness and peeps in windows "J instrument as 'providing far ghetto child can do nothing to formed by Hall, Wells Kelly, and greater musical expression by the overcome breeds a sense of It forms the right angle for seeing the two Hoppens. Jerry Marotta individual', as well as giving the hopelessness. This "cultural joined in 1976. group a wi.der variety of sounds. .despair" is in turn reinforced by L is for lamentation r!":~si~n~9~1:~~~~~~:I!:: Overall, this was one of the best the white suburban feeling that Some call "cellardoor" the loveliest word in English II, which was only released in ~~:~~ ~~:~~~~o~~er~~~~! !rai;:!~ represents a personal ~~~peB~s n~~t::fil~b~~~~~~ 'Spirit'. (Spring ~974) in which As a solution, Mr. Franklin L is solid and rigid, though not like H and A, Though not like E or Z Orleans has switched recording ~~:r;a:o~~~ J:!~~:i~n:~:~~~ ~~::e:cb:ve:~:~:: bl:::~ companies to Asylum; "less bucks crowd reaction was good. 'I_'hey other persons from '