Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STUFFED IN the middle of my review copy of Ladies and Gentlemen--LENNY BRUCE!! I found a thick sheaf of slick xeroxed copies of reviews which the book had already received. Putting them aside, annoyed, I noticed a half-page of typescript, "About the Author." That seemed legit as preliminary reading. But the short biography-hype was culled from a self-advertising essay of Goldman's which I had read before: "Shuttling back and forth between Columbia University, where he was a lecturer, and Brooklyn, where he was one of the gang that ran with Lenny Bruce, Mr. Goldman developed...
...their children. But The Beatles weren't a passing fancy that would go away. As new groups tried to sell acid rock and noise, The Beatles became, well, acceptable. "They weren't greasy like the motorcycle bunch of the '50 s," says one fan, "and they weren't slick like Bowie or Alice Cooper are now. The Beatles were nice--you could've brought one home to your parents." Today, orchestrations of "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby" are pumped into supermarkets. One girl even caught her "mother bopping around to Beatle songs...
Orleans and Ian Mathews make up a highly-touted double bill at the slick Performance Center this week, Mathews playing Wednesday and Thursday only and Orleans Wednesday through Saturday. Orleans is a four-man band that used to back up Janis Joplin, and is smooth and well-rehearsed, fast but not harsh. Ian Matthews is a guitarist and singer from England who plays all sorts of stuff, mostly in the country-folk end of rock...
...Johnny Otis Show, also at the Performance Center until Sunday, is, however, a different story. He has a fairly big R&B revue, good and slick and definitely worth a trip...
...Dells, at Paul's Mall in Boston this weekend, are a super-smooth group from Philadelphia, and they're sure not to make you jump up and down and scream. They're real polished, though, and fine to listen to. It ought to be good for a night of slick...