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American curioisity creates Soviet rock demand
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BOSTON (AP) — Warner Records is bettin;
Zvuki Mu. even (hough its flashy lead singer
Mamonov, insists on nnging in Russian. Columbia is
going with Boris Crebenshifcov. a rock ’n* roll switch-
hitter who can belt 'em out in both Russian and En-
ghsh
It's all part of a rush by major entertainment com
panies to oring out albums by Soviet rock musicians
The companies hope the curiosity of Americans
about contemporary Russia will sell records. They
sav the Gorbachev era has made Soviet culture a hot
product.
But record executives have widelv varying views
of how authentic a sound the public will pav to hear.
Some are deliberately Westernizing the music,
prompting critics to say Americans are missing the
real soundtrack of giasnost
At one end of the spectrum is Grebenshikov's solo
album “Radio Silence.” which Columbia Records
ant to release in June. Ten of the 12 songs are in
nglish and were written especially for the album.
All were recorded in the West by a successful British
producer. David Stewart of the rock group the F.u-
rythmics.
It has poetic, dreamy Ivqg * that are not overtly po
litical or even distinctively Russian in content. Aside
from the raspy voice of the chain-smoking, ponv-
tailed Grebenshikov. “Radio Silence” hears little re
semblance to his wildly popular Leningrad hand Ak-
varium (Aquarium), which has sold 3.5 million offi
cial albums and countless underground tapes ir. the
Soviet Union
Jack Rovner. Columbia vicepresident for market
ing. said Grebenshikov himself decided to do the al
bum in English because, otherwise, the music's ap
peal "obviously would have limitations.”
Some record companies, however, are taking the
plunge into Russian lyrics.
In late April. Opal-Wamer Bros, released an al
bum entirely in Russian bv Zvuki Mu. a Moscow
band whose name means “Sounds of Mu” — a
tongue-in-cheek tribute both to “The Sound of Mu
sic” and to the mooing of cows
Like Columbia. Opal W’amer used a big-name
Western producer. Brian Eno But the recording
was made in a Moscow studio and preserved Zvuki
Mu’s homegrown flavor, a blend of intellectual ruck
and funk. The initial 50.000 records, cassettes and
compact disks have just reached the stores.
Zvuki Mu is scheduled to bring its rambunctious
stage act to New York's Lincoln (Center in July.
Grebenshikov also is planning a U.S. tour, probabiv
in the fall
Of all the new releases, pcrhai* the most authen
tic is “Gruppa Krovi” (Blood Tvpe). a collection of
Russian protest songs and dame numbers b\ singer-
poet Viktor Tsoi ana his punk group Kino (Cinema)
The i
in the apartment of one of
ns pu
album was recorder! in
the band members
Joanna Stingray, an American singer married to
Kino guitarist Yuri Kasparyan. said sne recently sat
in a plush Leningrad restaurant with a group of So
viet rock performers reminiscing “about the old days
when they literalh went hungry ' *
Today, she said, top Soviet stars travel bar k and
forth to the West and earn tens of thousands of dol
lars from record contracts, as well as rommanding
thousands of rubles pet (oncert in the Soviet Union
Kino's four-track recording was released in April
by Ciold Castle Records, a small Lo* Angeles laoel.
but has the muscle of (.apital Recotds' distribution
network behind it.
”We wanted to make sure it was the real Russian
stuff." said tkild Castle promotion director Jeff Hei-
man. “That seemed like the hippest thing to do."
Woodstock concert fails to match 1969 crowds
BETHEL. N Y. (AP) — In the
spirit of the concert it’s commem
orating. an unofficial Woodstoc k
reunion is slowly coming together
with borrowed gear and donated
services.
By late Friday night cars were
lining all the roads leading to the
farm where 400.000people spent
three days — Aug. 1 5-17. 1069 —
listening to music, getting high
and enduring shortages of food,
water and hygienic outlets.
Unlike the original Woodstock
concert, no rock stars were within
miles, but thousands of people
were still pouring onto the site re
garded as sacred grouncj ,0 those
nostalgM for the rock culture of
the 1960s.
Police estimate this weekend's
gathering will attract up to
100,000 people. aiuL.bv Friday
some 35,00(kAia<1 defended on
the 49-acre rarm 60 miles north
of New York City, said Sgt
Charles Kulick of the Sullivan
Caiunty Sheriff's Department.
Most people were willing to
pav a S3 “donation” to gain en
trance to the farm, although
there was no guarantee of enter
tainment. Bv Friday evening local
musicians were performing on a
makeshift stage using donated
sound equipment powered bv a
donated generator.
"We had no idea it would grow
into this." said Richard Pell, as he
stood on the stage and gestured
toward the crowd spread about
the sloping field.
Pell, the unofficial coordinator
of the unofficial event, said the
project started earlier in the week
with a handful of guitarists plav-
mg for a few dozen people
A three-day reunion concert,
held 12 miles away at the Impe
rial Resort in Swan Lake, flopped
Thursday when only 250 people
showed up to hear performers
like Edgar Winter and Woods
tock veteran John Sebastian.
Bruce Taylor, the vice president
of the Imperial Hotel, of fered to
move Friday night’s concert to
the Woodstock field, but Bethel
city officials wouldn't allow it.
“It’s not going to happen.” said
town supervisor Allan Scott
“There’s enough frenzy here al
ready '*
Authorities had made one
drug arrest bv Friday night and
two people were hospitalized, one
for a drug overdose- and another
for ac ute alchoholism
The urge to celebrate history's
most lanMHis roc k *n’ roll concert
at its actual site and not at a Cats-
kill Mountain resort drew a cross-
section of American culture: hip
pies and ex-hipptes. bikers, le
gions of Grateful Dead followers
known as Dead heads, business
men on their lunch hour, middle-
aged tourists, housewives and
Hasidic Jews from nearby Gatskill
communities.
"My husband went to the first
one and said we should go every
dav this week and we have.” said
Lorrie Mans, a #3-jrear-old
mother from Jyai by^Yqimgcv ill*-
who In ought nRr two <j^jldt« n.
Around them other children
played, dogs chased each other
and music from hundreds of car
stereos and acoustu guitars filled
the natural amphitheater, which
was ringed bv cars, buses, tents
and vendors.
Rolling Stones reunite for at least one year
NEW YORK (AP) — One Roll
ing Stone says the “Steel Wheels"
will spin for only a vear; his Glim
mer Twin says he hopes the hand
will stay together longer.
Keith Richards and Mick jag-
ger. the quarrelsome frontmen
for the RoOing Stones — the hand
— revealed their disparate views
to Rolling Stone — the magazine
— in an interview for its Sept. 7
"If you asked me what I
wanted to do for the rest of my
life. Keith and I would probabiv
disam-ee." said Jagger. lead vocal
ist for the group. "When it’s
good, it's reallv good. And when
it isn’t good, it's bonng It’s very
hard to keep doing the same
thing with the same people over
and over again.”
Richards, predictably, dis
agreed
“I can never think about start
ing something up again in order
to make it the last time." said the
Stones guitarist. "This is the be
ginning of the second half.”
Jagger said one of the reason*
he decided to reunite with the
band for the “Steel Wheels" al
bum and tour was that it would all
be done within a vear. The tour
begins Aug. 31 in Philadelphia
“So we just have to put up with
each other for a
said
vear." Jagger
Ri< hards, who bad-mouthed
I agger in interviews and on his al
bum in the past vear. said he
knew the Stones would be able to
work together again after he and
Jagger spent some time in Barba
dos
"1 did have to take Mick to a
few discos — which are not my fa
vorite places in the world — be
cause Mick likes to £o out and
dance at night." Richards re
called “So I did that. That was
my sacrifice. I humored him.
And that’s when I knew we could
work together.”
Elton John eats with hat on despite dress code
DALLAS (AP) — It wasn't be
cause Elton John and his four
guests ordered a S 1.000 bottle of
1959 Chateau Latour. the
smoked shrimp and oven roast
E heasant on corn puree with pob-
no chili ranc hero
They let him keep his hat on at
The Mansion despite their rigor
ous dress code, restaurant offi
cials said, because the British
rocker has a reputation for un
usual attire.
“It was a military envelope-
type hat that sits on top of a head
with a jeweled broach attached
and a tassel hanging down."
maitre d' Wayne Broad well told
the Dallas Times Herald.
"We allowed it only because it’s
a costume look which you kind of
expect from Elton John.
“We allow clothes that are na
tive to a country or a costume or
uniform. The whole look has to
be right."
iger. *
for a
last week for a concert, also was
wearing a gray silk Italian suit,
necktie and one earring.
Elton John
Cher finally opens show in Atlantic City today
ATLANTIC CITY.
N.J. (AP) — Cher’s show will fi
nally go on at the Sands on
Wednesday after nearly a year
and a half wait.
Six giant billboards with
“Cher” spelled out in huge pink
letters have been set up in New
York and New Jersey.
An exhibit of Cher memorabi
lia in the Sands lobbby has at
tracted television's “PM Mag
azine.” “Entertainment Tonight."
and the fan who set it up has been
on "Sally Jesse Raphael "
The much bally booed five-
night stand was announced in
March 1988. as the Oscar-win
ning star’s first night club en
gagement since she got serious
about acting, some eight years
ago
The show was scheduled and
postponed last November and
this March.
"With any other artist, they
might have lost interest.” said
Sands’ entertainment director Jay
Venetianer.
"Since the artist was Cher, it
became that much bigger, it
heightened the excitement." *
The 43-year-old star won an
Oscar for best actress in “Moons
truck.”