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Show Mandora's box Have a Freak week BY GERALD MANDORA It was reassuring to see our University's very own groupies blossom at the Elvin Bishop concert last Saturday evening. Their presence, mixed with the appearance of many left-over flower children (who are looking more and more like battle-fatigued veterans these days) clearly demonstrate a large, fully evolved "scene" right here at the University, as well as in all of Salt Lake. Music has to be the lowest common denominator between all the people who make up our hip under-culture. Consequently, each time there is a gathering, of the people like there was Saturday night, a stirring kind of revival naturally develops. At the rock concert we are reminded of our number and we get a chance to reunite our vibes. The crowded audience also signified the underground, for why else would we flock to see Elvin Bishop while the AM radio promoted Eric Burdon downtown? Even more remarkable, how could previously obscure groups from England such as Jethro Tull and Led Zepplin sell one million plus LP's with the use of little advertisement, no pop single on the radio, and only one small tour of the United States? Could it be that the small disgusting underground is really a large culturally similar segment of the youth? The sound of the long hair continues to dominate the music industry, indus-try, while it represents the rhythym and fervor of youth and reflects the size of the movement. Therefore, the rock concert is a cultural outlet, a live spontaneous outgrowth of the long hair. And yet it remains as the only entertainment opportunity open for mass assembly. A few questions From the above assertions, I would like to air a few questions to the University, and for anyone who has related to anything I've stated so far. Why are we relegated to sitting on a ballroom floor, the grand total of once a month (if we're lucky), amongst a closed University audience, while Ferrante and Teicher (along with wow. . . The Classics IV) play before an open audience at the same arena sports enthusiasts attend free weekly? Isn't our music considered a valid art form worthy of a large scale drawing production? Secondly, why must we pay outrageous prices downtown at the Salt Palace to hear one substantial group play while three groups concert weekly for less money 900 miles away? It's hard for me to envision most musicians being on the capitalistic trip. And last, why aren't there more local musical outlets, active outdoor dance concerts, or at least one decent place which offers some degree of atmosphere to regularly hear our music? Consequently, how many more good local bands such as Warburton's, Holden Caulficld, Smoke, etc., etc either have to break up or leave the valley, not from lack of listeners but from lack of work? Small paranoid groups reWT 10 f," f th6Se tluestio"s, is the same one which has 2 ,h.rt T Pfnid grUpS' ambling behind locked doors, ncenl Tn fW't CVering our culture with the scent of Welv listen I Prb 6m beCmeS m0re acute- Whie sit pas-ments pas-ments 2 M Ster60S' in our '"dividual sweaty apart-To apart-To DiTa it 8o W "eXt mnth's bi event' the establishment continues he efo actn II l rS'C f " Ur mot. The establishment, xplo Z 5 hfelPs 'tSf t0 Profit and further controls by exploiting our collective display of apathy LeSfifS and00n il wi time for dancing in the streets. Gr ek Week mT" ? drS and windows- Right beside demtstte ' u ' Jh'oSdt " l ""d and easy as it should 3 "me to let the music nw express" ntv our ch n ' 'f8 hair t0 COme ut and P-udly anyone else? W3y f life' Vm billing to work for it, |