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...album to the portrait of a "Dark Star." Contrast the frenetic percussion work of Hart and Kreutzmann on "Caution" and Anthem to the brilliantly subtle and suggestive use of gongs, bells, cymbals on the later effort. Try "Alligator", a piece of unabashed musical sarcasm complete with a three-part kazoo introduction, on which Garcia's guitar solos are mocking and derisive. "Dark Star", however, displays a tone of ethereal coldness and humility. For twenty minutes, Garcia, Wier, Lesh, and Constantine weave in and out of each other, building harmonic bridges over acid rivers designed by mad chemist Stan Owsley...
...largest depository of film and film history in the world, saw some of his pictures and invited him to Paris. Langlois showed the films, and for a short time Van Peebles was a cinecult celebrity. He stayed on in Paris, panhandling, singing, dancing and playing the kazoo in cafés for centimes...
Steven and Joel Polinsky-brothers, actors of some experience, nice guys, and the performers of "Theater Two"-open with a comedy sketch about overcoming the inhibitions of playing kazoo, and then quickly proceed to do a "sound story" designed for audience participation: one brother tells about getting up in the morning and going to work while the other brother holds up a series of cue cards- "Radio," "Hot Water," "Happy" -and the audience is supposed to provide sound effects with specially provided kazoos. Steven and Joel (nice guys that they are) are very anxious to have the audience enjoy...
...rest of it, "Theater Two"-which is the present production in the Welles' series of weekly live shows in the Kazoo Theater-is a sentimentalist's stew of short experimental films (some of which are the work of students at the Welles Film School); occasionally funny comedy bits by the bothers Polinsky; recitations (one gets something like "People are the true flowers, and it has been a most precious pressure to have temporarily strolled in your garden"; a song; and a play. The play is a two-man, one-act affair, written by Stephen and Joel's uncle, about...
...only two interesting things about the Kazoo Theater are a short, academy award-winning film shown during intermission, and the strange feeling of disorientation that comes from watching such a seriously presented collection of unlikely, unfunny, unmoving "entertainment." It's a little like the disorientation that comes out of the theater of the absurd; but instead of emphasizing the absurdity of life, the "Theater Two" emphasizes only its own absurdity...