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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1975
Charlie: fun-loving Egyptagreement:
strictly military?
By AMY ROWLETT
Staff Writer
The Aggie Players’ first fall pro
duction, “You’re a Good Man, Char
lie Brown, returns to campus
Wednesday through Saturday
nights at the Rudder Forum.
Director R. W. Wenck said it is
the first major musical by the
Players done so early in the school
year. He feels that with fall classes
just getting started and no other
major activities planned, more will
have an opportunity to see it.
The Charles M. Schultz-inspired
musical features comic strip song
and dance through 14 production
numbers. Earlier done by the
troupe in the MSC Ballroom, it ran
four nights, with three sellouts and a
90 per cent capacity attendance.
Primarily a fun-loving show,
“Charlie Brown attempts to mesh
adult and child-like qualities into its
characters, forcing the viewer to
realize that maturity is perhaps a
combination of both innocence and
experience.
The Players production stars Jim
Burford as Charlie Brown, Dana
Herell as Lucy, Kathi Cowgill as
Snoopy, Charles Blakewood as
Linus, David Campbell as
Schroeder, and Boni Peterson as
Patty.
Three additional characters were
created by Wenck: Shermy, played
by Bruce Kates; Violet, played by
Melanie Dennis;and Marcy, played
by Celina Ellington.
Every actor gives a solid profes
sional performance, but Lucy and
Schroeder have to be singled out for
stealing the show. Miss Herell has
just the right amount of crabbiness
and freshness needed to portray her
famous character. Campbell s de
livery and showmanship enable him
to ham it up in places where his lines
Roxy Music
don t get many laughs.
Since almost everyone knows
Charlie Brown, it seems that it
would be difficult to portray him.
Burford disproves this, voicing his
lines philosophically, and yet with a
certain touch of naivete, giving an
intimacy between him and the au
dience.
And, of course, there’s Snoopy; a
talking Snoopy no less. Miss Cow-
gill shakes, pants, licks, and howls
so believably that the audience im
mediately falls into puppy love.
Tickets for the musical, on sale at
the Rudder Center box office, are
$1.50 to $2 for students and $2 to
$2.50 for others.
Jim Burford as Charlie Brown and Melanie Dennis as Violet
help present the Aggie Players' first fall production, “You’re
a Good Man, Charlie Brown. ’’ i>i><,t„ i>> caen Johnson
The best of Britain
By JOHN VANORE
Staff Writer
Howdy! Welcome back for
another fun-filled year at Aggieland.
For the benefit of all you new read
ers, and all the old-timers who used
to wrap fish with this page, these
reviews will deal with rock music in
all its manifestations — folk rock,
acid rock (whenever I Hash back to
1967) , blues, and glitter rock, to
name just a few. But my forte is
heavy metal music.
Rather than write simple-minded
reviews of top-sellers, I tend to at
tack albums from unique points-of-
view. I also like to cover some of the
lesser-known, but extremely
talented groups and solo performers
who seldom get much publicity or
airplay. Like Blue Oyster Cult. Or
Orleans.
Or Roxy Music. Roxy Music is an
outstanding British band that is
often regarded as one of the few re
maining sources of fresh and innova
tive music in this swarm of for-
mularized American Top 40 groups
that are stagnating rock music.
Three musicians names are read
ily identified with Roxy Music. The
first is Bryan Ferry, the group’s lead
vocalist. Ferry has the voice, class,
style, and looks to become the new
Elvis Presley to all those moon
struck girls out there who haven’t
outgrown the ol Pelvis. The best
description of his voice is probably
to call him a crooner with a touch of
Mick Jagger.
Ferry has two solo albums out,
“These Foolish Things and
“Another Time, Another Place. He
does a few of his own songs, but
sings mostly older classics, like
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,’ the
great Platters hit of the ’50 s, or Dy
lan’s “It’s a Hard Rain Gonna Fall.
Bryan Peter George Eno, better
known simply as Eno, started out
with Roxy Music, and then left the
group to embark on a solo career.
Eno is often called the Scaramouche
of the Synthesixer, and he considers
his musical career as a creative ex
periment.
One of his favorite experiments is
with repetition, and the resulting
ability of the human ear to weed out
minor changes and deviations in the
pattern. All this leads to his concept
of horizontal vs. vertical music.
According to Eno, horizontal
music begins at a supposed Point A,
develops through Point B, and ends
at Point C, whereas vertical music is
a “solid block of interactions. Thus
the listener can enter and leave it at
any point.
Eno may not be for everyone, but
he definitely has some interesting
ideas. Vertical music is available on
Eno s two solo ventures, “Here
Come the Warm Jets and “Taking
Tiger Mountain (By Strategy).’’
Last spring, two fellows wrote to
the Battalion about my Blue Oyster
Cult review, and mentioned that
group’s instrumental talent in the
phrase “soaring synthesizers and
screaming guitars. ” I’m not trying to
downgrade the Cult, but, for some
really soaring and screaming
guitars, check out Phil Manzaners’s
lead guitar on “Street Life, Roxy
Music’s fourth album. Manzanera
shines with a crisp, intense sound
that comes across like wailing and
teeth-gnashing, while George Har
rison can’t get past the gently weep
ing stage.
I never imagined myself getting
excited about some pretty basic
guitar chords, but the life and fire
Manzanera puts into his playing is
something else entirely.
“Country Life is very probably
the best Roxy Music album to date.
After listening to some of their ear
lier stuff, this comes across as a logi
cal progression in their musical de
velopment. It is almost entirely
good, solid hard rock, with a few
lighter munbers thrown in for varie
ty’s sake.
Side One opens up with “The
Thrill of It All and Edwin Job son,
Eno s replacement, on piano. As the
song develops, Manzanera opens up
on guitar to back up Ferry’s excel
lent vocals.“Three and Nine” is one
of those softer songs—its perplexes
me because I can t figure out the
lyrics. It doesn’t stand out in a
crowd, but Andrew' Mackay’s saxes
cut loose to carry the song.
Manzanera’s searing opening
guitar licks make “All I Want is You’
stand out as just about the best cut
on the album. Ferry jumps in with a
fiery vocal burst of impassioned
lyrics, and Manzanera’s guitar
breaks easily rate another upward
push on the volume. “Out of the
Blue features those soaring guitar
riffs 1 mentioned, Jobson’s synth
esizer jumps from the background
of the intro to trade on and off with
Manzanera’s guitar. The close of the
song finds the synthesizer Swapping
roles with the guitar, which drops
off to a background role.
A bouncy, but low-key number,
“If It Takes All Night," closes the
side.
Side Two is not quite as dynamic
as Side One. Rather, it leans much
more heavily on Ferry’s more-
than-adequate vocal talents.
“Bitter-Sweet” is a slow, somber af
fair which, with its German lyrics,
could have been used in the
“Cabaret soundtrack. The
keyboards on “Triptych, howexer,
recall the soundtrack from some
“B-Grade English spy flick.
“Casanova goes back to the
strong reliance on lead singer Fer
ry, with some nice organ work that
sounds like it has its roots in the
keyboard artistry of Ray Manzared,
formerly of the Doors. Also in this
league is “A Really Good Time,”
where Ferry the crooner comes on
exceptionally strong.
On “Prairie Rose, Roxy Music
learns the meaning of the phrase,
“Kick Out the Jams! On top of that,
it’s patriotic, with lyrics like; “Texas
— That’s where I belong, it seems to
me/Texas — Lonesome star, shine
on the big country.
Manzanera puts across one of his
best performances on the album or
to date, and the band as a whole
plays its best and tightest on this
cut. Now that’s what I call saving the
best for last.
“Country Life,” in my biased
opinion, is one of the finest rock
albums available today. The sheer
passion and intensity can carry the
album, but the outstanding perfor
mances given by all the members of
the group make it sound even bet
ter. In short, this record is a must.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Al
though Egyptians portray the new
U. S.-negotiated Sinai accord as
strictly military, diplomatic sources
here say it represents a new level
of coexistence between two nations
who have gone to war against each
other four times since 1948.
The practical effect, from the
Egyptian standpoint, is to make
another outbreak of hostilities
unlikely unless Israel attacks.
An Associated Press News
Analysis
To be credible, any Arab offen
sive would have to include Egypt
and its half-million man armed
forces.
Although they are drawing closer
together, Syria and Jordan do not
have the capability to wage a war
against Israel on their own, the in
formants said.
The removal of Egypt from the
front line is what most troubles
radical Arab regimes and extremist
Palestinian groups. They believe
Egypt has sold out what they see
as a sacred Arab obligation to re
cover their land and destroy Israel.
President Anwar Sadat has
emerged from the latest round of
U.S. peacemaking in the area a
clear victor. But he may become
the pariah of the Arab world unless
the new accord serves as a dynamic
for further moves toward an over-all
settlement.
Having rebuffed the Soviet Un
ion, Sadat clearly is counting on
the United States to maintain the
peace momentum.
“The Americans are going into
this with their eyes open,” the
sources said. “They realize if the
Egyptian-Saudi Arabian axis is to
continue working and the moder
ates in the Arab world are to re
main dominant, there must be
progress on the Syrian front fol
lowed by a return to Geneva.”
Sadat believes Egypt is psycho
logically ready for the blast of
criticism expected from radical
Iraq, Libya and the extremist
Palestinians over the new accord.
The state information organs have
been mobilized to “sell” it.
Thus far, Syria, Jordan and the
moderate Palestinians have re
frained from any direct confronta
tion with Sadat over his policy.
Through emissaries he has kept
them informed of details of the
negotiations.
“Sadat is whetting the appetite
of the other parties directly in
volved,” Egyptian sources said.
“And he expects the moderate
Palestinians under Yasir Arafat
to come to grips with new realities
once the dust settles in a few
months.
In the Egyptian view, the most
important aspect of the agreement,
the one they believe will influence
the other ’confrontation states”
is the Israeli commitment to with
draw from Arab land.
“For the first time they are leav
ing under a formal agreement,” a
political source said. “Their policy
until now has been to expand their
hold on territory as a way of main
taining the upper hand over the
Arabs.
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