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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1975
Alcoholism
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“Bob, what did the doctor at the
health center say about your drink
ing?”
“Oh, that quack said I was an al
coholic and that I needed to stop
drinking. Boy, is he stupid.”
“Why is he stupid, you do drink
too much and you black out occa
sionally. ”
“I’m no alcoholic. Alcoholics are
poor and live on skid row and they
want to be drunk.
Bob is a college junior from a
wealthy family and seems to have no
problems, with the exception that
he is an alcoholic and won’t admit it.
many more fallacies associated with
their use of alcohol.
Another misconception among
the young adult drinker is the belief
that alcoholism is only found in the
old and middle-aged. The actual fact
is that a higher percentage of the
drinkers under 50 are heavy drink-
Few students realize that as many
as one in eight Americans are al
coholics or have a serious drinking
problem. Another 36 million are af-
fecTed by a drinking relative or
friend.
Bob also has some traits that are
against him as far as the national
alcoholism figures are concerned.
First of all Bob is a male, statistics
from the National Institute on Al
cohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA) indicate that men are
three times as likely to be ‘heavy’
drinkers than women.
Bob is also in the high risk area for
male drinkers, that is, he is between
18 and 20 years old.
Beer is Bob’s alcohol forte,
another item against him. People
drinking beer have a higher rate of
alcoholism than ones drinking other
alcoholic beverages.
Now that we have heard who has
the highest rates of problem drink
ers, who has the lowest rates of al
cohol problems?
Women, with all their pleas for
equality, are still in the minority
among the alcoholic population.
The oldsters are also in the minority
among this sample of the American
people.
Residents of the south have also
acquired a lower proportion of al
coholics in its drinking population I
Add to this a rural location, Jewisli
religion and postgraduate education
and you have a very small chanceal I
being an alcoholic according to the |
statistics.
What happens if you’re not a
female rural Jew with a Fh.D. and
living on social security? Don’t give
up hope. You can still keep from
being an alcoholic by not repeatedly E
drinking in excess and being in con
stant awareness of your drinking
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In the previous exchange, Bob’s
girlfriend is deeply concerned about
his acquired addiction to alcohol.
Unfortunately, Bob has the same
feeling as a large number of Ameri
cans toward alcoholics and who they
are.
Due to various forms of misin
formation and the lack of informa
tion, a large percentage of the
American public believes that the
alcoholic is a street walker and lives
on “skid row.
The facts are almost the opposite.
Only five percent of America’s al
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half of America’s alcoholics are emp
loyed.
Bob and other Americans have
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Led Zeppelin puts it all together
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I have only two regrets about
doing a write-up on Led Zeppelin’s
"Physical Graffiti. ” First, it’s a dou
ble, and I have misgivings about re
viewing such a high percentage of
two-record sets.
Second, I liked the album, and
I’m afraid that, after so many posi
tive reviews, anyone who reads
Rock Notes regularly will get the
impression that I’m a candy-assed
music critic. Well, 1 11 just save the
snide remarks for next week. This
time I’ll heap the justly deserved
praises on Led Zep.
With the release of “Physical
Graffiti, I believe that the Zep have
reached a point where the labors of
all their earlier albums have culmi
nated. Their first three releases
alienated critics for a number of
reasons — most important, they
were labelled very early in their
career as high-decibel noise; i.e., all
crunch with no punch.
Second, they didn’t take a path
that critics could easily follow or un
derstand. The styles of those three
albums differed so radically from
one another that they were con
demned for being inconsistent.
Perhaps it can now be seen that
what was thought to be inconsis
tency is really musical versatility.
They had a distinct ability for play
ing hard, switching over momentar
ily to one or two acoustic numbers,
and then reverting back to hard
sounds.
Maybe the thirty-five to forty mi
nutes on a single album weren’t
enough to get the point across in
depth. Well, here they have four
sides of vinyl to show critics and
listeners alike that they have a uni-
“When Patty got leukemia
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Now we’re worried she’s
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holding down a full-time job in the Defense Department
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que style and undisputed talent.
The songs on “Graffiti” are defi
nitely in the Led Zeppelin style; oc
casionally a sharp ear can pick up
traces of “The Immigrant Song” or
“Misty Mountain Hop. Tunes with
the intensity, or crunch, of “Whole
Lotta Love” are absent on this set,
and, no matter how hard they tried,
I doubt if Page and Plant could ever
repeat the immensely popular and
deeply significant “Stairway to
Heaven.” In an interview with Rol
ling Stone, lead guitarist, Jimmy
Page went so far as to admit this fact.
But the album is still very impor
tant in that it basically sums up Led
Zeppelin’s musical career since
1968. The listener is treated to a
pleasing blend of blues, hard rock,
and acoustics whose roots go back to
“Dazed and Confused” from their
first album.
But there has to be a negative side
to everything, and the minor draw
back on this album might be label
led ‘overindulgence. Two really
fine songs, Tn my Time of Dying,
with its echoing slide guitar, and
“Kashmir,” which sounds like
something out of the Near East,
both drag on into the realm of bore
dom. It’s really a shame.
All the pros and cons aside, and
despite whatever the critics may
say, Led Zeppelin, through the re
lease of “Physical Graffiti,” without
a doubt emerges as a band to be
reckoned with.
Many thanks to Mike at Budget
Records and Tapes for supplying the
copy of the record used here.
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When I started writing Rock
Notes, I figured it would be oriented
almost entirely towards record re
views. But the responses I have re
ceived from readers indicate that
the scope of the column must go far
beyond that..
As stated in a letter in Listen Up
on March 28, there is a definite
need for a radio show with a hard
rock format, and we must make a
personal, conscious effort to bring
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The first of these goals will be
approached by a three-hour show
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Cable. Forewarned is forearmed.
Also, if anyone is interested in
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then to convince Town Hall of the
options available.
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