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Show ! tte mew music I BY STEVE POULSON Entertainment Editor ST. THOMAS AXIS The LDS Student Association is sponsoring a stomp Saturday night in the Union Building with St. Thomas Axis from Provo. St. Thomas is probably the area's tightest progressive blues band; all four of them (guitar, bass, organ or-gan and drums) are good musicians. musi-cians. Skimmed Milk will also be there they will play from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. THE MILL The Old Mill is alive and well at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, and things seem to get better out there every weekend. Isaac will play along with Fat Chance this weekend. Isaac is a new-fangled hard rock band from Provo. Fat Chance is my favorite blues band on the face of the earth. Actually the seven-piece band used to be Smoke until a W e s t Coast group stole that name and put out an album. Fat Chance is the purest blues you'll hear they take their music mu-sic from early blues people like Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, etc. The band does some great things on harp, vocals and keyboard. Also they have a sax player, who I'm not sure knows how to play he always wanders around on stage pretending like he's blowing I think he's the band's guru. Fat Chance is like that very informal, infor-mal, but they work well together. Also, the Mill is really seeing some good things on Sunday nights. Dancing is prohibited by law on Sundays, so this day is reserved re-served for people who just dig listening. lis-tening. Usually one or all of the weekends groups play a set, then there is an informal jam session. Lately, all kinds of good musicians have dropped in to jam. Admission, Admis-sion, I think, is only a buck on Sundays. LAST WEEK If you missed the Rock and Roll Revival, feel sorry for yourself. I think everyone there was amazed. All the old performers were as tight and together as any contemporary group I have seen, and the rock group that backed I them was superb. This was ably the best concert of the with Bill Haley and Cornets' Diddley, the Drifters and cii" Berry receiving standing ovatir S I don't know what the Door's T I looks like but I'm sure it's u risque as Chuck Berry's was While I'm on that, the offc. word on the Doors' cancellati' thus: The Salt Palace sent ft "decency legioneer' back to ten to approve the Doors' per(or! ance before they came to & Lake. His conclusion? Q) tV type of performance was "uas" able," and (2) the performers crowd were "out of hand." "jf crowd got excited (?!?) and(rt' the concert was scheduled toe the performers kept on playj," (tsk, tsk). Shame on you, dJ ... you ... you nasty things, jC FELON FOLLIES May I recommend to you t annual Felon Follies April 8 p.m. at the Point-of-the-lfc tain. This is supposed to be really interesting show: skin comedy and rock and jazz groif I understand that this year t were flooded with erstwhile pyl heads who are laying down sir I good rock sounds. GRASS Leaves of Grass will reopen t Union Jazz Cork Room series, was announced Friday. The grt will perform this Tuesday ai p.m. in a free concert. Members of the Leaves of Grt include Wayne Christiansen, : ano; Craig Rasband, bass; at: Ken Breinholt, drums. The day concert represents the public appearance of the group one and a half years. Their li concert was characterized by t static dancing through the t by their enthused patrons. Future jazz committee fey Room offerings include an appei. ance by Smoke Blues Bandanc. Revolutionary Youth for Or. fund raising benefit featai Lucky Things and its troupe: dancers. RECORDS IN REVIEW "Real Friends" - The Met of Distinction (RCA) : This alb-" really surprised me. Their LP was kind of a bummer, ! this is really fine the vocal t: lages and vocal quality is sf ior to anything the Fifth Dto' sion has done. "Small Faces" (Warner Bns You'll probably be hearing be and more about Small Fact-They Fact-They comprise one of the bK-progressive bK-progressive blues bands ant The group has just acquired Ji Beck's one-time vocalist, J'-Stewart, J'-Stewart, who has a reputaba-one reputaba-one of the finest contempt blues singers in the world. 1-is 1-is Rod's first LP with Faces. "A Legend in his Own ' Lamont (UNI): Charles Lac-is Lac-is an excellent writer and P; vocalist. His sound is J"; rock, but still very mel. ' mont is also responsible for horn arrangements througW-album, througW-album, which are just W" "The Deirdre Wilson (RCA): This album is a ; piece. Arranger-producer Casella has put together album some of the best imaginable - rock an P pie, horns and strmgJ. ella's music, his arran . and production are the album sounds W have taken years to cow |