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...York with a truckload of melon--where he peddles most of them on the streets, manages to rip the Fillmore East off for an order of 40 melon at $5 apiece, and ends up hawking a lot more from the Fillmore stage between sets of a two-night Grand Funk Railroad orgy. And in a post-script, the journal looks back from April 1971 at what happened to Jeffrey Golden in the summer...
...Mielziner, direction and choreography by Gower Champion--appear to have approached the assignment with the kind of enthusiasm that should be reserved only for musicalizations of Night of the Living Dead. Lyrically, the libretto must have been written with a rhyming dictionary in one hand and a Funk and Wagnalls in the other. Musically, the score repeats trite A-B-A patterns with a kind of excess that would be recognized even on Sesame Strret. And the sets are the most resolutely ugly things I've come into contact with since...
...members of the Mahavishnu Orchestra do not smoke, drink or eat meat, and this discipline is reflected in their music. The group does not have the carnivorous overtones of Grand Funk Railroad or Alice Cooper, the smoky sense of the Doors or the Dead, or the alchoholic tendencies of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. They are truly an organic band. Their jazz-oriented music is, according to McLaughlin, the only rock music today to which one can meditate...
...Funk and Grace. Within the classic range, there will be variations. "We are not a socialist country," says Designer Donald Brooks, "so why should there be a single look?" Brooks, in line with his own designs, predicts that girl watchers will be observing "marvelous-looking girls in styles ranging from the deep and great funk to the beginnings of pride, elegance, grace and femininity...
Rock shows are canceled in Hampton Beach, N.H., when youths try to break into a sold-out ballroom. Worried officials are vastly relieved when 55,000 enthusiasts of the Grand Funk Railroad fill New York's Shea Stadium-and only three injuries and six arrests result. After an estimated 1,280 concerts for 3,750,000 music enthusiasts over a period of nearly six years, Promoter Bill Graham closes his Fillmore West in San Francisco, just one week after shutting down Fillmore East in New York City...