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Show O5 A concert August 4. 1977 glowed from within. Kiss do things big, there are no two wavs about it. They also run the risk of being dwarfed by their monstrous stage and gimmicks, and of having the squeeze put on the make each tour mote sxtacular than the last. How much further can the theatrics be taken? Kiss will answer that. all glitter v by BARBARA RATTLE Chronicle suff v J There were the expected Kiss theatrics-bas- sist Gene Simmons drooled simulated blood as he was lifted up and over the audience on the hydiaulic platform. Ace Frechley's guitar flashed, smoked, and was left to burn during his solo on another platform, and Peter Ciiss. the drummer, pounded the skins 30 feet above the otean of outstretched amis and slack-jawe- d observers. Rhvthm guitarist Paul Stanley had the ladies' attention with his athletic, hairy body and rose latooed shoulder. Kiss is a fantasy, a dream. Whether a pleasant one or a nightmare is a r cat-face- d d Does anvone care what songs were played? As one git in the audienc e put it. "I wouldn't have been able to sit through it if there wasn't all that wierd stuff to watch." Of course there were the hits "Rock and Roll All Night," "Beth," and "Christine 16," and the older, better numbers that cult followers love even more, like "Fi rehouse," "Black Diamond," and Detroit Roc k City." But mostly it was a matter of neck craning and bug-eye- d expectancy of what next. outrageous thing would hap-Flashpots sent flame bursts SO feet high; their heat could be felt even at an incredible distance. The giant Kiss logo flashed sporadically, the steps ol the huge stairway 1 r 1 rxrrormance. n Jimmy Smith CLUB BLUE NOTE August 4, 1977 STEVE BJERKLIE Chronicle suff Jimmy Smith is at once the grand lord and master of the modern jazz organ. There are others Charles Earland, Jack McDuff, Groove Homes, Johnny Ham-mond-b- ut Jimmy Smith was the first, the one who came along and knew exactly what to do with the instrument. His opening night sets at the new Club Blue Note in Salt Lake made believers of most everyone. The organ is a monster under Smith. He pumps through the blues like a turbine; steaming, grinding, twisting and heating. These are the funky blues, and Jimmy Smith bends the changes with pounding torque. When he slows down the blues rumble rumble like a Corvette idling. By contemporary standards the show was a conservative one. Smith and his group ran through riff tunes he has done for fifteen years, "Fingers," "Walk on the Wild Side," etc., without experimenting with some of the newer material on recent albums. Guitarist Ray Crawford, sharing the solo spotlight, easily glides under Smith as Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Wes Montgomery and Grant Green have done in the past. Kenny Dixon on drums recalls memories of Donald Bailey. The now obligatory congas are handled by Buck Clarke, imposing in his Queeg-Quee- g was the familiar nightclub air of cigarette smoke wafting with the spirits of gin, scotch and vodka. Squire Jackson, manager of the Blue Note, tossed off the matter with characteristic coolness, saying that he was positive things would be cleared up soon. The Club Blue Note is right now the only place in Salt Lake City with the potential for presenting jazz to three or four hundred people in an atmosphere Hansen Planetarium will present a continuation of its children's festival every trio on its own than it is a piston behind Smith, who maintains strict and absolute Saturday in August begin- condusive to the music. The wish of success is natural, but the need for this baby to survive in Salt Lake is vital. presenting such entertaining and important artists as Jimmy Smith, the Blue Note may guarantee its own By future. Oh Yes.. .the Blue Note is located in the Old Gaslight Theatre at 828 So. Main Appearing this Street. Tuesday and Wednesday will be Willie Hutch and his ning at 10 a.m. The festivities include a Pw puppet show by Craig entitled "The Adams Further Adventures of Space Deputy," a star wars type with puppets. Following the puppets the star show "The Sky Tonight" explains various aspects of constellations, the moon and planets in simple Smith is boss, no disputing. Thursday's show was the opening for the Club Blue Note. The usual problems were apparent bad light- The book deals with the long standing charges of intemperance against Joseph Smith and the early Mormons, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Copies of the book are now available in local stores or through the author himself by writing LaMar Petersen, 3440 S. 3610 East, SaltLake John Dean's new book, Blind Ambition, has been released in paperback. Read it or burn it; whatever, it's good reading. for students. Admission for children is 50 cents. Motown Gang. Glad. OSH will present Singing in the Ram Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. Admission is $1. 1 $1 writer, has completed another volume of Mormon history entitled Hearts Made funded program. terms. Tickets are $ .50 for adults and LaMar Petersen, a local received a $365,000 Challenge Grant as one of 59 approved grants from new money made available by President Carter this week. Challenge is a federally City 84109. WHAT IS A HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION? IT IS YOUR ALTERNATIVE TO HEALTH INSURANCE. I A. Y i I? "- '".'."V. J -) J Vr? 3M v ' -- "s r I -- ' Have you heard someone say: "I was so sick I almost called the doctor." That person will call the doctor as a last resort because he will have to pay for the doctor visit, even though he is covered by health insurance. With an HMO, calling the doctor should not be a last resort. Our doctors want to see you as soon as and before the you become ill one for becomes problem medicine Preventive hospitalization. all about. It keeps that's what we are costs down to keep you out of the hospital. We pay for your doctors visits; but, should hospitalization become necessary, we cover that too. Care is given by a team of doctors, technicians, pharmacists, nurses, laboratory technicians, mental health workers, nutritionists and other medically oriented people who have joined together to provide their services in one of our health centers. For further information call the FHP or Marketing Department: 101 visit the Personnel Office, Annex, where packets of information are available. I I faculty & staff 1 J ENROLLMENT ENDS AUGUST 31 & y it control. Funky Jimmy pierce-and-punc- h The Utah Symphony has suit. The group is less a tight-kn- matter of preference. Cheap Trie k opened the show w ith basic rexk and roll and some striking visual clashes. Of the four members, two (vocalist Robin Zander and bassist Tom Peterson) look like protxr rock performers, but then there is drummer Bun E. Catlos. looking like a bespectacled accountant, or the kid you used to call "Fats" in junior high, and lead guitarist Rick Nielson, appearing as some odd offshoot of Archie Andrews ol comic book fame. Nielson is a walking joke, until he starts to play. One short solo and people stopped laughing and started standing in their chairs. For Your Information Master of jazz organ by Trick SALT PAL.4CE Kiss: When Kiss was formed in 1973, its intent was reportedly "to take over the world." In of the Salt Palate the micro-woilThursday night, it appeared that Kiss had fulfilled its mission. Kiss, the king of spectacle rock, knows their audience and respects its short attention span, never letting too much time pass before introducing a new visual effect. The music was there too, of course, thundering out of what several crew members said was the biggest sound system ever put into an arena area. This time around, the group ascended a high stairway from the rear and stepjed on to hydraulically lifted platforms that slowly stretched out their steel arms, holding the group out over the audience feet in the air. They were some 20-2- 5 lowered, and the show began. w and Cheap Jm$Tr 11 355-123- 4 NJj&rf Cil - L X cup UTAH ing sound and mike inadequacies but a delay with city hall also put a restriction on liquor, a touch only Utah could add. Gone 323 South 600 East Salt Lake City (801) 355-123- 4 |