Word: ep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawn. Today, whether they knew him or not, everyone on Graceland's staff, which grows to 450 during the summer season, refers to the singer by his first name. Elvis' septuagenarian uncle, Vester Presley, who once manned the gates, promotes his Southern cookbook in the record store called EP's LPs, and the aroma of down-home dinners still drifts through the house. The King's aunt Delta Biggs, 68, inhabits a downstairs suite and cooks for the night cleaning crew...
...Navy will permit female personnel on the EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft. The Pentagon also endorsed the plan announced by Navy Secretary James Webb last month to assign women to ammunition ships, oilers and other vessels in the Navy's "combat logistics force." This policy alone is expected to create up to 9,000 new jobs for female sailors...
...band currently is working on an extended play (EP) demo tape with six musical tracks that they will circulate to different record companies in order to secure a contract. Green Fuse also plans to take one of the songs on the EP--called "Celebration"--and create a video. The song is "very political," Ross says, adding that it deals with the present situation in South Africa. The video will include actual footage filmed in South Africa and performance footage taped at Johnny...
While the general thrust behind the Suns seems to be an investigation of how little structure a song can have and still be a song, Big Dipper insert their bursts of oddity within relatively normal frameworks. All the songs on Dipper's debut EP, Boo-Boo, are vaguely recognizable forms of straight rock and roll, country or pop balladry. "Faith Healer," for example is a conventional rock tune made interesting by a contorted and bizarre riff, seemingly some sort of comment on the TV preacher of the title...
While Big Dipper could be a lot tighter--the rhythm section nearly falls apart during "San Quentin"--Boo-Boo is a worthwhile debut. Nothing on this disk is as immediately startling as Volcano Suns' "White Elephant," but then again this EP is a lot easier to listen to than the Suns' All Night Lotus Party. For those who like musical roots mixed in with sonic radicalism, Boo-Boo by Big Dipper is Boston's next big thing...