Show Tosh LP 0 for 2 Muppetts' vocal quality in Bob Irvin reached a new state of With the price of tonsciousness 1 have skvrocketinK to albums 9H list price it astronomical an has difficult to worthv of suth a depletion of a college Significant Not even student a fragile budget Moses in the wilderness searthed I isddigently for something as did rev lew to album an in seeking immense! Income anything select it Then did an aural double take when I I heard Peter Tosh Hey said that s got to Kk hie Havens He s changed his name to Peter Tosh the voices are strikingly similar and the styles are dose Some of the topics sun of are closely akin as wtdl But to put it simply Peter Tosh is not quite as talented as Hit hie Havens Tosh is however a vou e for 1979 just as was Havens a voice for 9b9 and 1970 Thev call it Reggae but Tosh s music is a curious amalgam another tribute to those of us who feel categorizations are both stupid and futile The problem with 1 osh s blend of stylizations though is the fact that h s not all that good at it VNhat transpires in his LP ' Bush hxtor is a mishmash of sound which gives the impression that it was done piecemeal just to fill up two sides of a hunk of v in v I To fe sure part of Tosh s appeal stems from the fact that he is on Polling Stones Records and has t he help of Muk Jagger ami Keith Kithardlsi but to give him t redit there are a couple of tuts that he does well on I he title cut is at the same lime lxth lazv and powerful plea for the legalization of marijuana he brings up some good if not one suhd punts and the tune is one that sticks Don t Ixxk Bark is a track that would probably fall the range of mediocre into however if it were not for the I lndd 1 musicianship Jagger appears with Tosh on the ' ou to Walk and opening cut Dont Look Back to give the album a starting push I he song is I'n catchy and is a hkelv single (ot without daggers Tosh and his band degenerate into a dead horse On most trat ks osh has all t he vocal quality of one of the Mup petts It became difficult to stav 2ake throughout most of the album With lvrirs like Live Clean vour Let works be Stand firm vou gonna feed orm I‘i7s Mibrak Icopvright Musirl there is hui in hold one s seen merest Lien tne Richards presence of Keith with give lof things go fvetler Coke famel on safe two fail to the album a lift Richards addition IS appears the use jo glaucoma mg Imagine of WOOD (AP) - After spending five years finding out t hat their whole is greater than the sum of their individual parts the Moody Blues have slipp'd quietlv bat k into sue essful collet tiv it y Notice the careful avoidance of the word ’comeback It s hard to tell what would have had even one of them made a huge break through In any as-- thev dec idd to go bat k to the studio as a group in Spterrdxfr Moodies’ earlier efforts in country in November happned 1977 The result ’Octave was clearly a well nne shot in the arm It was certified gold meaning sales of f00 (MMJ 10 clays after its release last summer and joined the comeback m pop music is almost as as smog in laog commonplace Angeles and arouses about as mut h enthusiasm Besides it s almost ridiculous to talk about comebacks when vou re dealing with a band like the Moodies Of course diehard Moody Blues fans the group used to Kk referred to as a cult band but the word cult is also m ill repute these dav s not iced that the concert s and V-- a rami ! V lV v un::cf kecii flow of platinum albums that Ixgan in 19br stopped in 197J with the release of Seventh Sojourn’ cut a HELD year earlier But for manv casual nx k music listeners the Mtxxhes disappearance didn t register Their and the classics of late ’bOs earlv 70h m Nights White Satin and “Tuesday Af terncxin for example — remained staples on most rex k stations Their albums sold at a greater clip in their absenc e than in their public presence — some 30 million copies to date The illusion of their presence was never shattered bv anv formal announcement thev were splitting up I hev pretended and still do to talk in terms of rests personal house leaning and the like But while the Moody Blues remained fondly ensconced in the mind public guitarist Justin Havward bass player John Idge OVER 3RD WEEK Q - flutist Thomas Rav plaver Mike Binder (iraeme Fdge were bunch of struggling not hugelv sue cessful 7:15 9 00 take someone you LOVE TO THE YEARS BIGGEST LOVE STORY HI SAT LA’E 5HUW 10 4V I kedxutrd ktMmvwni Ttr just another solo artists ones either A rrancozmirmi MnumiuuiMI HM'illill and drummer that one blasted out of a Richards -- Jagger nr fiPuc movies presents the original Roar once movie cast y again with the original Vif f-'- S ji hDiy''3 a different set of jaws 2h Century Fox A LOU ADLER MO iAEL FV-uv- ls IITE F’HODt ICTION THE FtOCKY FOIIIOH F’ICTUI IE Si iOW Slumnij TIM CURRY SUSAN SARANDON HARRY HOSTWICK UEN Onqtndl Musical Huy Murac arvl Lyncs iy RICHARD O'RI UI 21 RICHARD ORI SFIARMAN arvl JIM Screenplay Fry Associate Producer JOHN GOLDSTONE fclxecutive Pnxliccr UDU ADLFJR V Donald Sutherland Elliott 6ould litavniM Pflufl Robert Duvall ms aSWuCtM Mil An DONALD SUTHERLAND Friday 7:00 Saturday Salty Ktllerman Produced tngo Preminger Production ELLIOTT GOULD TOM SKERRITT and 9:30 and 12:00 7:00 and 9:30 R Fry MICHAEL WHITE Drain J Fry JIM SHARMAN Hituiia 17 m ccoMarwywif ernf o Adult Oumdmo DwX Friday and CAPITOL THEATRE Saturday 43 South At Main 752-752- 1 s So the Moody Blues are officially back — an attractive rolin lion nf fellows who have that quiet aelL assurnne e that cornea from year of stardom hut who are well aware of their gcxxl fortune is not only keeping their old fro nds hut also making a few new ones c The million-sale- One of Tosh s problems mav well !e the fact that it s often difficult to understand what he s singing Rolling Stones Kccords supplied the Kras on the sleeve Out that sometimes doesn t help as thev are written in pidgin - nghsh Reminds me of Faulkner and the Nmps familv Again I m all for eclcclint v in music and a breaking awav from nice little compartments for styles and I think that T osh does this to a degree But to do it for the sake of doing it as it seems here doesn t quite make it guitar barely audible It seems he on the allium more to allow of his name in promotion than to add anything of consequence to the record "ith ail due apologv to Rick Johnson and the Kill the Heads lolks the title trac k is interesting more for its contr nl Ivritullv than musically The song loudly ad locates the of legalization toanjuana claiming it to he a cure lor everything from police brutality ork Joseph Burkridge by of the tule vegetating in front at blindlv Saturday staring ' I had a v ision well a semi Vgfit vision There weren t anv golden I did tablets or burning bushes but see a rather mveperfnrmant e bv a Peter Jamaican reggae musician Tosh Tosh was joimsl on the set bv none other than Muk Jagger and you thought that onlv occurred in the pages of Rolling Stone purchased Tosh s new album Bush Doctor the next week the album does not Unfortunately live to the up expectations generated by the television ap pearance With the exception of one ortwo tracks the album consists of trite utopian lyrics and repetitive fortunately saw voice '79 Richie Havens9 A While happened except for Jaqqer Hall window Overall the album is not worth wearing your stvlus with Move over Moses it is prohahlv easier to find a wav out of the wilderness than to find a decent album these dav s Blues successful again Moody Horn 1 2 00 Midnight j |