Word: wbcn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brother Blue is not a French Surrealist, but a "storvteller" who's been featured on Eric Jackson a wee hours show on WBCH in recent weeks WBCN is quite stupid to do this, both Brother Blue and Jackson himself have low deep voices that put me, at least to sleep--preciously what I don't need at 4 a.m. (Which is when Brother Blue comes on). He might be less soporific in person, at a relatively early hour (11:59 p.m.), In the Currier House Senior Common Room Saturday night...
...WBCN production is very different. It presents all of the characters of the plot from the bottom, right up to Nixon himself, in a fairly comprehensive study of the entire mess. While the background music and quotes are interesting, the one major problem with the record is that it was made from a BCN show presented May 13, 1973 and the material was outdated well before Nixon resigned. Parts of this record actually make Watergate entertaining. The beginning, for example, features a holy roller preacher howling "The hypocrites in the Amen corner have got this world in a hell...
...WBCN is good at making even the most serious of political events look like self-parodies, but some of their idle speculations about Watergate rest on too many paranoid assumptions. These assumptions make phrases like the description of Haldeman and Erlichman as "the german shepherds, the palace guards, the leaders of the White House Band," memorable, but they also lack any kind of insightful analysis. That's not to say that exercises in paranoia are bad, "especially then, when all of the facts still weren't out. The record only leaves you wishing BCN would do another show about Watergate...
...seven day stint at the Jazz Workshop. It is hard to predict where Lateef and his several instruments will take you. His last record, "Part of the Search," was a commercial, nostalgic attempt at the Swing music of the Thirties. It's probably a good idea to listen to WBCN's latest broadcast tonight before you shell out your money...
FRIDAY: In Concert. Two back-to-back replays of rock-music simulcasts from last year feature Alice Cooper, the Allman Brothers Band, Blood Sweat and Tears, Curtis Mayfield, Seals and Crofts, Chuck Berry, Poco, and Bo Diddley. CH.5. WBCN-FM. 11:30. Color...