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Show i El Freako music strikes again live, where the most inventive playing is on "Love Shock." Side two has studio cuts, including their strange single, "Harbor Lights." Jack King on drums and bassist Ross Vallory should be commended for their fine work. All you VooDoo cultists out there will be pleased to note that Dr. John Creaux, the inscurable Night Tripper, has a new release, called "The Sun Moon and Herbs." It features a huge cast of sidemen including equally inscrutable (but inaudible) Mick Jagger, with Eric Clapton, The Memphis Horns, and scads of other luminaries. On an even more esoteric plane, we have 'U,' by the Incredible String Band. It's a long double album, over 106 minutes of strange, beautiful, funny music. They have a rather unique talent for capturing the personna of gods as they sing their tunes, that somehow find the interdimen-sional interdimen-sional terrain between old-time old-time English folk ballads and the absolutely stupifying Captain Beefheart. When a band goes beyond mortal limits to define new musical territory, as the ISB does, they're beyond criticism. The Beach Boys Surf's Up" intoy' 6 bvword Uudgingfro. they deserve all Plimentary press t( getting lately. tneyvH-magnificent tneyvH-magnificent prodnr-e 80t " Wilson gs are very well ' If you like the son6 "m ,' on "Who's Next,"you'-like Next,"you'-like "Smash Yo'uft The Wall," by John Fni -twhi,eWhUisSj has the coloring of Plav with reoccuVC heaven and hell throat In the unlikely event that,, been looking for a comb.nes elements of i ' and roll, bluegrass and other musical category, found your group. Seatra,'s album, "MarbleheadMes, d.splays the groups rathe range o talent quite well R : Creene's fiddle paying ticular, would even mJ Wieser, Idaho, Fiddler's Judge. He does some br, work on "Despair Tire" which,;, includes some chilling Sl, burne-like verse. By VAL NESS Chronicle Staff The all-out absolute best rock album of the year (right after "Sticky Fingers," that is), according ac-cording to the Bozo Flash, Red Fred Bones Mexico, and a few other stars of the El Freako Music Conspiracy, is "Who's Next," by Townsend, Entwistle, Daltry and Moon, from you-know-which well known English group. I won't even talk about the album; just take that money you were going to spend on that Utah Green, and go get this instead. "Headphones" Horton, of course, dissented from the above decision, insisting instead that "Bark," the Jefferson Airplane's new release, is better. That's mainly because he's got all their other records and then some, and he likes the security of being a true-blue fan. Indeed, the record does come close to the Who album. It has the usual stunning dynamics of the group coming through in excellent fashion. The characteristic revolutionary rhetoric is still there on many songs, along with a couple of really weird things by Slick and Covington. There's some neat graphics, too. Moby Crape's new album, "20 Granite Creek" is certainly their best since their first album four and a half years ago. Miraculously, they've gotten back together again to produce some really great rock 'n roll. The Steve Miller Band has another fine album out called "Rock Love," again with personnel per-sonnel changes. The first side is |