Word: orpheums
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...CORNER of the Orpheum's smoking room--a naked, exhausted, once elegant chamber--three punks snickered down on their joint. "We don't know much about Jimmy Cliff," one yellow-suspendered and hairy-lipped kid said, "but we like him." And at that moment last Saturday night Jimmy Cliff was giving himself to an audience neither young, punkish, nor unfamiliar with his music, but which also had a blind faith in the reggae singer. From his first number, Fundamental Reggae, the house was alive and poised on the brink of each high-throated, smooth verse, silent in the lyric wave...
...This is earth-feeling music," says Bob Marley, another Jamaican reggae star. In the sweep of the packed Orpheum, back across the misted edges of this vague, bent-spaced box of face-lost, swaying people, this power was realized, this music embraced...
Finally, if it's hard-core raunch and roll you seek, you have no further to look than the Orpheum. On Friday, October 10, the triple billing of Foghat, Black Oak Arkansas and Montrose provides the ultimate in crotch rock and is the perfect complement to a bottle of Jack Daniels or Southern Comfort, depending on which part of the country you're from. Foghat sprang from the dissolution of one of the many Savoy Brown combos and added to their knowledge of blues a commercial touch in order to comply with the American audience's cry for boogie...
...those who like the blues, but still relish an etheral atmosphere, Saturday the Orpheum offers James Montgomery and the Gentle Giant. Gentle Giant, a group from England cut in the King Crimson mold, seems to command your attention for about twenty minutes; problem is, they tend to become so predictable that you know where the band's going before they...
...HITLER'S ARMY landed in Boston Harbor Friday night, it could hardly have been more devastating than the performance Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, otherwise knowns as "Labelle," dropped on downtown Boston's Orpheum Theater that evening. Voluminous plumes, vibrant booties and large doses of pure, rock-bottomed funk held the packed house spellbound for a solid two hours...