Word: concert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publisher of an underground paper, Dallas Notes. In the late '60s his weekly hassled civic leaders. The authorities reciprocated in kind. First police busted Burns on obscenity charges because of some earthy expletives in the paper. A jury acquitted him. Next, a disturbance at a 1970 rock concert led to charges of inciting resistance to police officers. A jury convicted, but an appeals court reversed. Then the cops got serious. They stopped Stoney's car late one night in 1972 and found in the glove compartment a tiny stash of marijuana. It was barely enough...
When Tenor Richard Tucker, 60, set off for Alaska for a concert, he promised his grandchildren that he would have his picture taken driving a dog team. Arriving in Anchorage, however, Tucker found no snow. Gamely he dressed up in a fur-trimmed anorak and posed his wife Sara in the sled, then waved a whip above five puzzled huskies. He was not so happy when the dogs set up a wail reminiscent of / Pagliacci. "Mush!" he cried, and swung the whip in his wife's direction saying, "It's the first time in more than 35 years...
...total ultimate." Superlatives, however redundant, fall easily these days from the lips of Dan Hartman, 23, bass guitarist with the blues-rocking Edgar Winter Group. And why not? Hartman is the proud owner of a new set of threads that just may revolutionize the look of a rock concert. Let the Doobie Brothers attire their drummer in stars and stripes that blink on and off in tune to the big beat. Let Elton John wear trousers that explode. Hartman tops them all with the Guitar Suit, a $5,000, one-piece, silverized affair that makes possible a Flash Gordonesque union...
Zappa's musical output in the last year and double concert at Boston's Orpheum theater last weekend suggest that the brilliant composer may decide eventually to sacrifice his art for greater public acclaim and a higher income. To Zappa's delight, his last three albums, Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe' and Roxy & Elsewhere, scaled the charts and seduced a new crop of listeners--mostly teenyboppers jaded by glitter rock--into becoming "Zappa Freaks." But all this success spells trouble. The band that once proclaimed it had "no commercial potential" is now in danger of becoming much too commercial...
...hour of free-flowing improvisation and older tunes like "Idiot Bastard Son" and the classic "Oh No" made it clear that Zappa has not lost the skill of synthesizing a variety of musical thoughts into pure Zappa-esque composition. At the concert he also showed his remarkable skill in keeping the players in firm control while allowing them golden moments of freedom to explore their own musical ideas. His second set, unlike the first, undisputably displayed the real Zappa--a Zappa that was not present in Overnite Sensation or Apostrophe...