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Show -- ai,"xgi' ' ws L 2 G The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, August 19, 1973 5 i horror movie and who brayed Lke Balaams onginal ass, p Drugola Tightens Grip on Good Old, Noisy Rock By Dr Max Rafferty readers know, Im fan of not exactly a turnc whether straight, rock mu-ic- , hard or aud In fact, I think As my n its a combination of and catir-waulin- g cacophony with strong , of overtones withheroin drawal toms, contrast to the custom of slipping them This, of course, money payola " Now that Sen James was Buck-le- y ) is de- (Conservative-N.- manding a complete federal investigation of the relationship between the drug culture and the hang-ounwashed, world of rock, maybe some of ll my younger readers who have been accusing me of musical McCarthyism wall take another and a longer look at this crummy and calamitous concomitant of the now" generation's way of life Room for Picture? Hanging a picture on the old dorm wall of the late rock idol Jams Joplin after, not before, she died horribly of a drug overdone might serve as a useful obbggato while the beat goes on, incidentally the Atlantic 2. Across whence crawled the Beatles not too long ago, a London court began trying a case are you ready for alleging sexola." Rock star this? Jame Jones and her songwriter husband were charged with procuring sex for BBC radio and TV producers in exchange for getting records plugged," to quote the story on this overseas tribute to the mynad virtues of good old rock. Mad, Mad Parties Jame, it was alleged, promised prostitutes TV work if they gave producers a good tune," and threw mad, mad parties for BBC men in apart wire-servi- festivals and which staged at which killing'- were common and maiv orgu part of the ritual just had to be as corrupt and depraved as lru fact it looked and sounded they also will turn their ears away from this aural rotgut DO YOU NEED ' ments fitted with mirrors. 1 always wondered two-wa- why anyone m his right mind would play this frenetic junk over the air; now I know. Hand In Haad goes along with dope addiction and evual debauchery the way Maiy s e lamb went along with Mary Maybe r.ow that our young people - have turned their faces away from campus noting and LSD i gestion, Rock Actually all this figures It stood to reason that a system of entertainment which blasted eardrums into a state of permanent disrepair, which who featured performer looked like fugitives from a mu-u- PLUMBING RxtufM. Fitting, Accessories, Pip, Valves, Repair PotJi Near All Kind IXPIKT ADVICE Plumbing Sales Dept. SALT LAKE CITY OGDEN I haven't hesitated to say so from time to time Of course, every time 1 did, I got clobbered by the frantic fans of the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin, who claimed not only that music is m the ear of the hearer but also that anyone who tied rock in with dope or sex was an old maid looking under the bed for somebody who never had bei n there, isn't there now and never will be there Here It Comes Okay, all you rock hounds, and in your own jargon, let me lay a couple of things on you: IP mi foils 1. A recent National Observer story by Michael Putney reports last Februarys indictment by a federal grand jury eon IHteiyise to celebrate the of two CBS RecDivision ords employes, charging them with using heroin as payola" to disc jockeys (Deejays" in the vernacular). 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