Word: wbcn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY: Marlowe. (1970) James Garner as Raymond Chandler's famed private eye in a missing-persons case involving an ice-pick murderer. CH.7. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. In Concert. ABC--WBCN simulcast series features the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Al Green, Taj Mahal, Dr. Hook, and Eric Weissberg. CH.5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...Concert. Stephen Stills and Manassas headline a lineup that includes Brewer and Shipley and Randy Newman for this simulcast concert. Music on WBCN FM. CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...Concert. Simulcast rock concert with picture on the screen and sound in four-track stereo on WBCN-FM radio, features the Hollies, Loggins and Messina and Billy Preston from Santa Monica, Calif. CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
Paranoia, Political paranoia, the kind you get when you see a fascist behind every rock. I know quite a few people who count themselves as politically active, and to a man (or woman) they're all a touch paranoid. But to call Alice Cooper and their ABC-WBCN simulcast a harbinger of creeping facism, as Andrew Kopkind did in last week's Phoenix, strikes me as so much hysterical over-reacting...
...within the limitations imposed by the greedy general atmosphere of television, that the show was excellent. This may've been the music--my love for the Allman Brothers borders on mania--but the tendency to underplay the visual effects was refreshing after the nightmare of split screening in Woodstock. WBCN's choice of what obnoxious commercials to air was just irrational enough to be interesting. "In Concert" has the potential to please that segment of the rock listening public tired of fighting rip off ticket prices and obnoxious audiences. And, even before simulcast gets itself completely straight, it sure beats...