July 1969

Ian Underwood Whipt It Out

Richard C. Walls

Ian Underwood Whipt It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen) (5:08) Underwood is a very good free alto sax player. He whips it out, with, against, around, and under the strict laborious drum beat. Strong Ornette Coleman influence -doesn’t play long enough to really get into anything - but it’s a sweet sound (doesn’t it sound like fuzzy dice and bongos-spaced free variations?)

DUNE

Thomas Haroldson

DUNE. Frank Herbert Ace Paperbacks, $0.95 Unlike many science fiction writers, Frank Herbert finds man more interesting than spaceships. As a result, his epic novel, DUNE, provides us with a unique vision of the future. What he sees in store for man in the year 23,000 is based solidly on what he knows about man today--and he knows a great deal.

THE REVIVAL

Writing about the Detroit Rock ‘n’ Roll. Revival two weeks after it happened and one week before the summer long series of “pop festivals” begins, can look at it in the perspectives both of what happened there and of how it seems to compare with what is going to happen the rest of the summer.

THE ANTI-ROCK & ROLL CRUSADE

Bill White

Janet going girl reporter to the Community Baptist Church in Garden City to interview anti-rock and roll crusader priest. Glad to say they got on fine. Rev. Riblett, you recently constructed a seven foot cross out of rock and roll records contributed by members of your congregation, doused it with gasoline and set fire to it.

WABX/CREEM MAGAZINE ROCK & ROLL NEWS

There are really only a few things that an unknown rock group can do to gain attention that don’t come off like hypes. The one method that seems to impress even the most sophisticated tock fans, though, is for a group to gain the attention of a well-known star (i.e. Chris Farlowe by the Stones or any of the Apple acts) who will use his ethos to promote them into first line stars.

CREEM REVIEWS

Chuck Pike

Reprise RS 6349 Neil Young is definitely one of the best all-around musicians to come out of the rock generation. He has combined folk, rock and country, three of the four truly American musical cultures into one fantastic soulful experience.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

GRAY McFARLAND

Gary McFarland - Skye SK-8 Side A 1st movement - On This Site Shall Be Erected 2nd movement - 80 Miles An Hour Through Beer-Can Country 3rd movement - Suburbia - Two Poodles And A Plastic Jesus Side B 1st movement - If I’m Elected 2nd movement - Last Rites For the Promised Land

SAUGATUCK POP NO.2

Bob Stark

The first “Pop Festival” of any consequence was held in Montery in 1967. It was a tremendous success and helped greatly in increasing the feeling of community among California Rock and Roll people. Since that time Pop Festivals have become almost an institution, and any rock show that includes more than four acts ends up being called a Pop Festival.

"BLUES? IN DETROIT? You mean that they actually still play blues in Detroit?"

Sheldon Annis

It’s understood that when Blacks started coming up here they brought their wives, and kids, and recipes, and churches, and do-rags, so there is no reason to assume that they didn’t bring their music - which, in non-religious circles, was blues.

geyda

Frank Michels

Geyda is Rob Miller, lead guitar; Paul Santagelo, bass guitar; Frank Lowenberg, drums; and Chuck Pitt, rhythm guitar. They have been playing in and around the Detroit area for the past three years. In the past several months their music has assumed another dimension as they have gained new direction.

Vanishing Cinematic Genres

James L. Jones

Remember the old ads: SEE The Sacrifice of a Hundred Virgins! The Fall of Babylon! Mighty Armies Clash in the Fiercest Battle Ever! You don’t see ads like that any more. For one simple reason: they don’t make movies like that any more. Hollywood spectacles were, at their worst, at least entertaining.

TORONTO SHUCKS!

DAVE MARSH

Ever been in Toronto at 12 midnight with 55¢ (Canadian funds 54¢, U.S., 1¢) and two (Canadian) cigarettes? That’s the upshot of what Toronto Pop 1969 did to me. The two day fiasco will probably be remembered in the music industry & the hype of the century.