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Show 'Edition' provide needed relevant BY RICHARD ROMNEY Entertainment Editor I've been trying to tell myself all week that I hate The First Edition, but I keep refusing to believe it. Sure they've been labeled la-beled teeny-bob and bubble-gum and various other more derogatory deroga-tory tides by every freak in the city, particularly the promoters of the ' heavy rock-outs presented downtown. But I keep thinking about thier songs, and their songs are good. Sure they're not the wildest group ever to hit Salty Valley, Utah, 'though previous reviews forwarded for-warded by their publicity firm say they put on a great audience-involvement audience-involvement act. No one could justifiably say they gross-out an audience or shout obscenities or encourage people t0(ilnf . mikddf of naked on stage. No SU ment inthe Dome ,h And sure they've h7:: songs that may have , s? of folk songs in the Newa Minstrels tradition fin, back to their hits, and "' wlt they', do H -- music in theso;; Fools." Their so f'! tainly sold well, and the, ? ; some reason for that , Lyrics that have been fully haunting me a, -provide the answer The! entitled 'Tell 1, All B4;:: Sister, and the aswei Kenny and the First Edifo. vide a required relevant-muddled relevant-muddled world. The at solving the unrest andfe ude in today's colleges r really gets down to . important things in jf, c about. And their other sop" low the same general p,, "Tell it out brothers and ' before we fail, tell it outbr.--and sister, tell it all, teller f There come the words apt H group's style maybe in -corny, with the important :t tion of "What Condition Sir dition Was In," but nont-Othcrs nont-Othcrs of you will j; group described as tj;. corny, or delightful, as vc. sonal tastes dictate. Revr. nit they are a group that ipv Th both young and old, nr.. est cut and good-looking." Prc pure fun" with "win:: friendliness that recs jjjjj strongly with the auie:; , audience that undoubiedir , , .' sue with reservations, bulk::.: any." If that's the kind::': you're after, they'll be fc. f p.m. Saturday night. Pen:-. prg think I'll catch the show. dra |