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...beanbags. Crazed clowns attacked a plastic bubble, which, inflating like a Zeppelin, devoured them alive. Minstrels strutted, samurai cut curlicues in the air. And while filmed images slithered across a billowing screen, a man and a woman simulated lovemaking as strobe lights flickered, spotlights raked the audience, and a raga-rock band screamed bloody murder...
There are 66 of the miniatures, dating from the 16th through the 19th centuries. They belong to the genre of Ragamala paintings, each delicately drawn and daringly colored to illustrate the moods and scenes of classical Indian music, the Raga. Ravi Shankar and the Beatles provide an appropriately vivid background...
What followed has been a kind of underground happening. T Plays all kinds of music--rhythm and blues, oldie-goldies, jazz, raga-rock, and the new experimental psychdelic sounds. You can listen regularly for months and only hear a half-dozen songs you don't like. (Compare this to WBZ, where you must suffer through three dogs, five commercials and two contests to savor one good tune.) The music is supplemented by T's rambling jive-talk, interviews with underground figures (from George Reed, who is running for Caesar on the Christmas Party to Frank Zappa, leader of the Psyche...
...twang of Indian music, formerly known to Americans exclusively through Ravi Shankar and his sitar, has suffused popular music. The product is "raga-rock," a sound that distinguishes the new Los Angeles and San Francisco groups which are setting the pace of current rock 'n' roll...
...Hail to Gerald Scarfe's surrealistic creation of the Beatles incarnate [Sept. 22]! And raga-rah to your smashing account of psychedelic Beatledom...