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Even at his most vindictive, Paxton bulldozes sympathy for his cause. Backed only by a simple acoustic strum, Paxton uses his music to highlight his lyrics. An occasional beat on a bongo drum, played by Angel Allende (any relation?), lends an exotic flavor to the song...
...Unity has belied its grand title. Last week representatives from 48 of the OAU'S 49 member nations gathered for their four-day annual exercise in disharmony at a spanking-new conference center in Libreville, the sleepy seaside capital of Gabon. Shortly after Host President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo pleaded for "a summit at which we talk about what unites us, not what divides us," Chad accused Libya of seizing 45,000 sq. mi. of Chadian territory. Ethiopia charged that it was the victim of a "coordinated conspiracy" of aggression led by Somalia and Sudan. Somalia countered that Ethiopia...
...dazzling performance for its guests. Arriving delegates were met at Libreville's tiny airport by fleets of Mercedes, Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces and escorted to the conference center by siren-screaming motorcycles. Along the route, thousands of women -draped with cloths emblazoned with the portrait of President Bongo-sang and swayed rhythmically to native drums. Exclaimed one overwhelmed observer: "My God, this makes Disneyland look real...
People are always talking to Frank Zappa about the perverse things he's allegedly done, but nobody ever seems to get around to what's really important--the varying tonalities of different bongo drums, for example--the stuff that the guy's seriously interested...
...back on in a pinch--a few concerts, local starving artists in the street, you know. The cult guys are still around, sure. But they're all into it now, too. It's got the makings of an international conspiracy. It's the lowest musical common denominator since the bongo drum; Sonny and Cher, Hall and Oates, Stiller and Meara, Leopold and Loeb, local starving artists in the street, they're all into it. Hendrix and Joplin are releasing posthumous albums of it. Disco. May the Good Lord take me, take us all, to the great Disco...