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Show Page B8 Thursday, January 6, 1983 Park City News T HUN CT I I The Ventures rekindle echoes of the '60s The most successful, influential in-fluential instrumental combo com-bo in the history of rock V roll is coming to Park City. None other than the venerable Ventures will be playing at the Cowboy Bar Jan. 14 and 15. Over the last 20 years the Ventures have been the best-selling best-selling pop-rock instrumental instrumen-tal group on earth. To date they have released 80 albums in the U.S. and nearly twice that number worldwide. All in all, more than 65 million Ventures discs have been sold. The group's heyday was in the early 1960s when they were one of the acts Bob Bogle and drummer Mel Taylor. They have survived some tough years of endless one night stands on the road together. Following their early '60s zenith, the Ventures were one of the many American bands who got lost in the shuffle for a while following the musically-revolutionary English Invasion spearheaded by the Beatles in the mid-'60s. Rock in-strumentals in-strumentals suddenly became passe and the Ventures Ven-tures were no longer hot items domestically. Undaunted, they turned their sights to more the 1960s, every fame-hungry garage band in America was pounding out those catchy rock and surf melodies by the Ventures. Ven-tures. " Balloon Bouquets Only $20 for bouquet of 15. Parties & special orders available. Phone 649-3295 8a.m. -12 midnight spearheading the surf sound. The Ventures' stinging, incisive in-cisive guitar riffs on such genre classics as "Walk, Don't Run," "Pipeline," "Hawaii Five-O," and "Out of Limits" were some of the most exciting three-minute instrumental exercises pop music has ever witnessed. According to rock journalist jour-nalist Edna Gundersen, "In the 1960s, every fame-hungry fame-hungry garage band in America was pounding out those catchy rock and surf melodies by the Ventures. "If the band was their inspiration, in-spiration, then surely lead guitarist Nokie Edwards was their hero. He is one fine picker ... Edwards' guitar sings better than most of rock's flashy warbling front men. Untrammeled by wah-wah wah-wah pedals, fuzz tones or electric gizmos, Edwards produces crisp, high velocity licks and astounding special effects that guitar string were not made to deliver." Remarkably, after all these years Edwards and his original sidemen are still together. Other members' of -the Ventures are rhythm guitarist Don Wilson, bassist PARK CITY Tonight thru Saturday DYHATOIIES Rockin Rhythm & Blues from San Francisco $5.00 cover Thursday $6.00 cover Friday & Saturday Jan. 9 thru 11 KHIGST0I1 Jfi&I'U!! TRIO Bluegrass Jazz Jan. 12 JUDAL r Coming Attractions Jan. 14 & 15 TEE VENTURES Walk Don 't Run " "Pipeline " "Telstar' 2 shows 8:00 & 1 1 :00 $8.00 advance Jan. 18 TAJM&BJUr 2 shows 7:30 & 10:30 $10.00 advance Jan. 21 & 22 NEW USEES CP TEE PC2PIE UCE 2 shows 8:00 & 1 1 :00 $8.00 advance Happy Hour 4-7 Tickets on sale at Cosmic Aeroplane, Smokey's Records, allZCMI stores, Salt Palace & Cowboy Bar Liquor Store. Join us for dinner featuring BBQ ribs, steaks and a great evening's entertainment For dinner reservations and information please call 649-4146 We specialize in banquets & parties. promising musical shores. As a result, the Ventures are now world famous, having spent the last decade or so touring worldwide. Among the many locales they've visited are Mexico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Phillipines, Indonesia,' Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Okinawa and virtually vir-tually all of the non-communist non-communist European mainland. They have proven especially popular in Japan where they have charted several hit singles in recent years. It's been an extremely up and down career for the Ventures. Ven-tures. As critic Ed Ward put it recently, "They've gone from being un-hip to very hip to un-hip to hip again, and they haven't changed what they do a bit." Right now, the Ventures are back to being quite hip again. They started playing American clubs and concerts again in 1981, after years of non-activity If ,J, "illlllllllft f i II; .:Mp Ilk r Jill ,mmmm IllilllillW IBPPp II .Jiliiiipp . A. if "J V;;1 W ' - '., ! ,...H Ji::.: i I f ()- : v I - The Ventures the Ventures to the newest generation of rock fans. The Go-Gos' Charlotte Caffey wrote and sang on the Ventures' Ven-tures' 1981 single release, "Surfin'andSpyin'." The Ventures will be performing per-forming twice each night at the Cowboy, with shows at 8 and 11 p.m. Tickets will be $10 each at the door but are available for $8 in advance at all ZCMI locations, Cosmic Aeroplane, Stateside. 1 Smokey's Records, the Salt (BireetfiiiiMf ffraDion DDn BBp The past several months -Palace and the Cowboy Bar have'withessed a revival of liquor store.. For reser- vauuiis anu mure imui- "interest over the Ventures, primarily among New, Wave bands and their followers. and more rmalion call 649-4146. The Ventures are only one The Ventures' stinging of the notable acts which will guitar sound is a clearly f be appearing at the Cowboy evident major influence on Bar in upcoming weeks. the sounds of such nouveau bands as the Raybeats and the B-52s. In particular, the all-girl Go-Gos have been quite vocal in championing Others include the Dynatones Jan. 5 through 8, Taj Mahal Jan. 18, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage Jan. 21 and 22. Two Complete Fools' to appear at Egyptian On Sunday evening, Jan. 16, the Egyptian Theatre will host "Two Complete Fools" at 7:30 p.m. This talented pair, Nina Cheney and Jacob Mills, presents a memorable evening of mime, comedy and just plain clowning around. The Kansas City Times has called Mills "One of the great jugglers, mimes and clowns in the nation." In addition to this mime and juggling performance, the pair will offer a workshop in comedy and juggling at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 16, for $3. Participants are asked to bring three similar-sized balls to juggle. Tickets for this special night of family fun are $4 for adults and $2.50 for children, general admission. Members Mem-bers of the theatre pay $3 for adults and $1.50 for children. For reservations to the workshop or the performance per-formance call 649-9371. Utah Opera Company to present 'La Boheme' The Utah Opera Company celebrates its fifth anniversary anniver-sary with the production of "La Boheme" by Puccini to be sung in Italian on Jan. 20, 22, 24 and 26. All performances per-formances will begin at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. One of the most familiar love stories and perhaps Puccini's finest and most poignant work, "La Boheme" will feature three guest artists and three local Utah singers. Making his debut with the Utah Opera Company is conductor Bruce Ferden, who conducted the American premiere of Prokofiev's "Maddalena" with the St. Louis Opera in South Africa this past summer. As stage director, Sarah Ventura returns to Salt Lake City to stage her fourth production for Utah Opera. She successfully staged previous pre-vious productions of 'La Traviata." "Don Pasquale," and "Lucia di Lammer-moor." Lammer-moor." Another guest artist will be nor Augusto Paglialunga, 'ki will sing the role of lii.dolfo lie will replace uladc Peterson who was originally scheduled to sing the tenor role. Paglialunga, from Seattle, returns to Utah Opera after a thrilling performance per-formance as Edgardo in last season's production of "Lucia "Lu-cia di Lammermoor." Joann Ottley will return to sing the role of Mimi in this production of "La Boheme" after her successful appearance ap-pearance in "Lucia di Lammermoor" Lam-mermoor" which opened last year's season. Well-known soprano Billie Loukas, who sang the role of Mimi in Utah Opera Company's Com-pany's first production of "La Boheme," will sing the role of Musetta. ' Baritone David Power, who is on the teaching staff at the University of Utah, will be making his debut in theroleofMarcello. Other performers include William Goeglein, Terry Summerhays, Noel Twitch-ell. Twitch-ell. Merrill Wilson and David Winmill. Tickets are now on sale for La Bohetnt;" at the Utah Opera Box Office in the Capitol Theatre, 50 West Second South, Salt Lake City, UL 84101, 534)831. Greetings from Dr. Bop! If you've been keeping up and, hey, who hasn't? with Dr. Bop's ongoing examination examina-tion of the sorry state of Utah's so-called New Wave rock bands, you're well aware that by now Dr. Bop has exposed that silly scene for what it is : A complete sham. Dr. Bop thereby advises his loyal legions of Bop believers to boycott all Utah bands posing as punk or New Wave. They are nothing more than the illegitimate offspring of musical genres which had glorious heydays a few years back but flickered out soon after. It's 1983, you Bop-heads! Punk and New Wave died years ago. Why are we allowing these local poseur bands to make us relive musical eras that were only marginally interesting to begin with? Jeez, you Bop-heads, Dr. Bop suspects that perhaps in our desire to remain constantly hip we're actually looking pretty silly by clinging to fads and trends which have had their day. It's time to quit pretending we're Johnny Rotten or Wendy O. Williams. Or Sid Vicious. Unless, of course, some of you Bop-heads want to actually pay the dues and live your lives like a bonafide punker like Sid Vicious. Yeah, Dr. Bop suspects he would have to hold his tongue and restrain from his critical assessments should a Utah punker come up and say, "Hey, point your face over here, you sleazewad Dr. Bop and look at me! I am a real Utah punk rocker. I've lived my life just like Sid Vicious, so you can't tell me that I can't be a punk rocker in Utah. So stick it, Dr. Bop." Yeah, Dr. Bop truthfully admits the good Dr. is still able to summon brief moments of truthfulness, after all that under such circumstances, Dr. Bop would have to shamefully hang his Bop-head and renounce his anti-Utah punkers theory. Yep, all it would take is one bonafide Utah punker to show his pimply face.- Just one punk out there who had really paid his dues and lived just like that prototypical punk rocker himself, Sid Vicious. Of course, by the time some Utah kid got through living his life just like Sid Vicious, he probably wouldn't be talking to Dr. Bop. Because that stupid kid would be dead. Let Dr. Bop explain. If you'll remember, good ol Sid Vicious was just about the grossest, gnarliest creature in the world when he and his band Pistol any son: thrillseekers who dared watch and listen to the Pistols' hostile, viciously crude live performances and records. Sid Vicious was at the center of the Sex Pistols. Onstage, he guzzled beer sometimes some-times spitting it on the audience more often than he hammered his bass. And hammered is putting it kindly. Vicious couldn't play. On purpose. A real punker, you see, never actually learns how to play an instrument. Such would be a sellout of punk's underlying anti-music and anti-craftsmanship stance. Offstage, Sid Vicious was even more of a barbarian. He threw up on people in airports. He regularly renounced the Queen of England and society in general to anyone who listened when he was in the mood to talk about it. Reporters were always anxious to turn his ill-conceived, juvenile ravinp into banner headlines. Nothing was sacred to Sid Vicious. Nothing. Not even his girlfriend's life. If you'll remember, Vicious knifed his girl, Nancy Spungeon, to death. It was a grisly scene straight out of Hitchcock's "Psycho" with a little of Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" thrown in. Sid Vicious knifed his girl to death after they'd been up for three days straight in a seedy hotel room in New York's Gramercy Park area. They'd done heavy quantities of heavy drugs to keep awake. They'd fortified themselves with meals consisting only of the most nutritionless junk food. The resulting mixture of bad chemicals coursing through his bloodstream combined com-bined with the delirium of drug abuse and. sleeplessness eventually made Sid Vicious ' take it a bit too far. - - . - The punk dream became a reality that day Sid Vicious knifed his girlfriend. When the punk dream became a reality, the punk dream died. Sid Vicious did the same a few weeks later. Out on bail waiting for trial, Vicious ran one needle too many into his forearm. Heroin is definitely punk. To die of an overdose is the most romantic thing a punker can do. Any takers? Dr. Bop rests his case and hopes and prays there will never ever be any real punkers in Utah. But Dr. Bop also dutifully reminds all his Bop-head readers of this: Since we don't have the real thing in Utah, why are we wasting our time listening to all these phony, insincere musical trend-chasers posing as punkers? It seems essential, the way Dr. Bop sees it, to begin an immediate boycott of Utah punk and New Wave bands. Thank God, you Bop-heads are apparently one step ahead of Dr. Bop already. Dr. Bop was very heartened to hear that one of the most suspect of local New Wave outfits the dreaded 004 of Salt Lake was roundly booed by patrons of the Cowboy Bar on New Year's Eve. Allright, you Bop-heads, you're catching on! Let's run these muscial mutants out of town. Wait a minute, you're probably saying, Dr. Bop's gone too far this time! To which Dr. Bop curtly responds hold on a minute you crazy Bop-heads. There's a good reason to run musical imposters like 004 out of the city limits. Why? Well, says Dr. Bop, because 004 has committed the most heinous musical crime of all cultural rip-off. How so? Well, says Dr. Bop, 004 specializes in the tinkertoy rhythms and robotic, chantlike melodies of a Carribean musical offshoot of reggae called ska. In other words, these middle class, college-educated WASP-ish young musicians have purloined a muscial form from an underdeveloped Third World country and are now blatantly and opportunistically using it to make money. Shame on you, 004. And remember, all you Bop-heads out there who agree with Dr. Bop on this matter keep booing all Utah punk and New Wave bands. Loudly and often. And if you don't agree with Dr. Bop on this matter, you're wrong. I'm sorry, but that's the way the Dr. feels about it. Sue me if you don't like it. And remember, always listen to the Dr. Bop radio show every Friday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. on KPCW, 91.9 on your FM dial If you don't, you're an idiot. T-v r ; isi . oup means u. And remember one other thing rock 'n' roll is for the young. Or at least the young at heart. So don't pet too grown up. |