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% \ Vibes/ c Drumrru Bv John W. lempleton lot influenced by Earth, Staff Writer Wind and Fire and a lot try to be like the Ohio PlayHis music is complex ers with pulsating rhythms However. Bohannon has from six different instru- , . , r . , i r carved out a niche of his 1 ?ments--the product of years of playing with aomc of the??wn m t e crovv or . T world. His sound has -heea ?? in tlu? and disco music--but , . ,, .w n . * , rhvtnms he creates fnot Hamilton Bohannon has a - . , , . . . onlv -with his drums, but very simple purpose in . ; , . . " - with such instruments as mind. ?; o4iitar ann kpvh/\!ipn , , . wnu nv Tvvruiu, . "i just like^to be a ,,w . . . , r,.? My music is about be^ .e? different person, said the ~ , : r ing happv; most ot mv drummer and bandleader music js" up.temp0, ^foot in his hotel room prior to st0 j hand clapping. last Saturday's, show at the w won., hear anvlhing Winston-Salem Coliseum. ativc in mv musjc.'" ? "1 hear a lot of groups- ,The roots of the Bohanthe majority of the croups-- , . . . : . . , 1 t - non sound go back to the jvhich sound like everybody . _ ,, , - rural town of Newnan, Ga.. p rp Hp JlnnPn -I "i wouldn't be satisfied whe* he ?as born. "I was Sounding like anybody else; >nt? usic -before I started ??? Ihere's so much music out sc^??^ ^ut \ was also a there," Bohannon said with Prett>' g??d baseball playa shrug. "Mostly every- er' When I was 8 or 9, I body is influenced by Sly played on a grown-up team, ^and the Family Stone); a * ?ot ?^er? I gave that ?Sounds^ ft """ f The already exciting foot- doing one of their many ball game^-got even more original sets. Ahtiqugh the ihtense at the half as the vocals were not strong at irr - ? reams departed and the the beginning (due to PA marching band rivalry filled problems), they made up * The A&T Marching rhythm section is fat and Machine's Drum Majors meaty and John Hauser Cranked them up and 'hey adds the right spices with its they excuted their preci- The majority of the songs sion drills, the sound power vamp (a little too long) and buffered greatly. One could need musical ideas to contell that they worked very tinue to hold audience athard at learning the steps tention as long as they but neglected the music performed them. somewhat. This group is from It s very hard fofr bands Winston and has serious doing precisions to containf flnancial backing, a hard the volume with different working leam including sections movingin different musclan^ 5taff allj_ luad direct ion ST=There=-were crew (all the goodies if signs of their growing into {akes w i( on) They some of the strenuous ... . soon will be releasing one ~ techniques - that ? other ?* -- - oi tneir recently recorded y^fEAC marching bands cuts employ. Their selection and The BAR KAYS have arrangements of songs wasr- made five Piedmonf-TriacT Very 8??^. appearances in the past $ The Marching Rams took nine months The- same icbmmand of the field and show was used on a? flve opened to the fanfare of. engagements. It was minus f^Last Dance and proceed- , u . .... . , .. .... the smoke screen but still ed to do a precision drill to . , . . jhe tune which immediately was (18ht- hve'y and exclt" Won over the audience. lng' The.v- are presently i-fhey also clinched the working on their soon to be ;cjrowd with the band's ren- reieased LP* L1LGHT OF dition of Close The Door LIFE on Mecury Records, .ty PENDERGRASS. Talking to LARRY DOBFinally, the band and SON tne lead vocalist, I .audience joined together discovered the new album ?br a chorus of Foxxy's *s being remixed and '^'Get Off. Although the should be pressed and precision was a little weak, packaged bv the end of the ^iey sounded and looked mont'1 ar>d released in Iheir best of the night on October. iftis cut as the group divi- The show turned out a "fled, bounced, sand and ,mle after two AM and a "danced across the field. ver>' tired crowd turnrd . their backs and went to t.ie i1 The Marching Rams lack next gig (Probably the ali$he power of the earlier readv congested La Terre rdays. It's drop in member- XXI)" It seems that only a ifhip has also taken its toll few people can promote the :jn sound elasticity. There is w.s Coliseum for nonc. much talent strolling complicated engagements, ground the WSSL campus, jf t^e SUpp0rt from WSSU ?|>ut if you find out why the Student Body Saturday was ;younger^generation is hap- a preview of HOMEr'py doing nothing, call a COMING 78'. the Student ipress Conference. You 11 Government had better diw*r>nn he aettino a NDRFI . -- o- ? ? - rcct tneir attention towards ?jPEACEPRIZE... "High School Jet Set" tcdcat i i ^at realK turned out for i- ISREAL, a new local , ? . the artatr # "jgroup took the invitation to nriU .KIVir.K rF ? . , ~ HOHANNON. next up ,i>e the opening act at the , :?AR KAYS show this past !VaS 3 "n'c upusct*5cauf Saturday night. The show he wan,cd t0 hcad,Inc (he nr-nm a a a?A show. To make known his tjiv p m and pro- resentment, he left to. eo to ;tluced by an outside agent tne note! thirty mimites ^but was in conjunction with ^e^ore he was to" go on. He tihe WS State University showed up an hour later fStudent Government Asso- an(j Sfj]| pUt on his entire ciation (One wonders why act Performing his old and :Mr. Georgie Woods wasn't new hits Hamilton at one ntacted...) point was snouting repetiClad in robes and wigs, tiouslv "We don't need no ISREAL ppened the show t i |L ? * 1 ? ; % irt mus 1 ;\ ; . . i *. ,% ; . . .*. ; .; ; . !% v , >>>; ft x ; ! x x >; ; c< ?xc Cl ir Moves tc up because I felt I could become a professional musician." By high school. Bohannon had started, a dance |gl band. He received a; music ^ scholarship to Clark Col: ?1 ?lege, where lie reiehid a * ""W"A In mnur film .iiiiiii In Atlanta, his career fl began to take off. ohannon Mk K .> r-> 1 ?i r-?l .? ? li ~ ? 1 L"* 1 piu> 111ni un." uunu , of Gordon George,_a musi cian who also emceed the major concerts in the city. Also playing in the band as George's valet and guitarist ' was Jimi Hendrix. .. . During 1%5, George was emceeing a Jackie Wilson show," which included among others. B.B. King. Gladvs Knight and the Pips. Moms Mabley and ^ Stevie Wonder, who was to ?play a major gfcle in Bohan non's career. "He (Wonder) was inside the hall on the stage BohclflT playing the piano," said By Joe Daniels ' sound check". ~ ? copied into the brain. His. Ciearlv. hi* fans ahv,_ show was borino and a-^c .v o pnotized ~bv~~ his driving iir~-artgtnaltty. - every letter of his name into Nevertheless. the. fans ate each beat which is photo- . m UPPROGRESSIVE LISTENING - THE BROTHERS JOHNSON-BLAM like West I ^ The album blasts off with and with t the opening cut ''Ain't We much moi I _ . v, , . , A vocals th Funky Now that is thrust- tings. Lis ine the LP right up the ? . charts. "Blam" is also novative getting good air-plav and T ments rai has the hook in the horns ddatuci ? i r ? D l\ V-/ 1 I 1 lL 1 that was taken from the , . BROTHERS JOHNSON'S RidT-t Right On Time LP "Run- ?j-r- ? & ... with a st B ning For Your loving ? . Also in the hook (With?the= ately puts horns pounding on all- of $tar fours) is a synthesizer line French Y "churning thirty second note brass in arpegios-ending on a falling - build int0 synthesized rubber-band Best C ?;niingTn fourths. - We Funk The entire album sounds Rocket, M !?: : : r m iLJ WW Wm t 1 ic pers i'lC* ' / * tjl vl!-j X'M'.v \\,XvX,X*X\\,M v! MvX > a Differei ? ? Bohannon. "1 just walked Pup and started banging on top of the piano. That's vvhat started our friendship. "1 joined him as his drummer, but he panted ? mu at much for a frirnri as hannon.' He was different from evervbodv else on the ^ H - tour, no drinking, no smoking habit. I didn't drink or ~ . smoke wither and we were both younger, than everyone else." . That cross-country tour with Wilson and company still sticks out as the greatest thrill in Bohannon's mind. "We went all over the place," he recalled. After two years with ? . was made number one road band leader, for Motown. For five years, he toured with Marvin Gave, Diana ion Ross?and the Supremes, the ????Four Tops, The Temp/ ; tations, Smokfcy Robinson ^&nd t c pinners. The time then came for Bohannon to leave Motown ;?; liAXl .v.. . f ul lOC M IA TUM 0 NfAL VI mmmmmmmmmm % - international mumivJU Coast material c0MU>t0^0Qwr;~ZrM ^oast material "tht bocky houok pii iiiiii nil* j hat sound comes H { ^TTMjnHi :e reverb on the I an normal set- rated r tening to the in- I m 3 times the terror ljl horn arrange- I IT'S ALIVE 2 w much of the H RS are JOHNSON I off ice owis ii b ooNjj mch are JONES. m show at 8 30 wi )-Rocket ooens ^1 ^l. ^ S ALIVt 2 mi / ivumci upcns rated R? 2ND hit wa ispended synthe- its alive > (Which immedUi one in the mind I iofns and other I $>- ] strumcnts?that a fanfare. ^ I There is more iron in three LltS: Blam, Ain't | large eggs than in three y Now, Ride-O- ounces of tuna. ' " ?\ hsj I ^ I ?S | I W ! ] She I ^ ^ * I 9 > . i ---"-7 ?J mm Him r'mum. ta?^?re,T?^aBaca5v>?rr TTKT?^W?: -w.^-w>? onalities b : -;t : >: t-: :(: : :(: : : : ?. : xtx- 'J:''.*:' M- ! . ) '. :!'. *xt ' -' nt 'Beat' as the company phased out such a set up is not for its in-house band in favor of everybody. picking up musicians for ..You can hurt yourself if limited periods. "I left you try to write and can't Motown because there was writc>" he sajd -$0 the nothing else I could do best thing to do is to \e{ there," he said. <nmpnne else write and you_ ^ quite different jyjt be the urtist." Miring mi ni> naat 1 had a nla new9o\ ggsaag is an'1 11 ? _ I J I II 1 Dig oana oeiore wnn \l -upcoming album by horns, then, I had none. It j|ne Crawford, vocalist with * . was a big thing to go from a his group; My goais righ. big orchestra to an all now are to get her album rhythm group. cut and possibly-^go goW Bohannon has made his and "to" make my~latest mark since the early 1970s album. "Summertime with danceable tunes with Groove" gold." he said. simple lyrics. Some critics Bohannon said he tried to of disco music attack the keep his priv^fte life to repetition oftohannon and himself, but he did reveal , other disCo stars. two things not generally "If you hear my music, assoaciated with disco you don't hear anything stars--he likes to listen to simple with all the syncopa- semi-classical music in his tiomwg?daj-' he retorted, spare time and he likes to "It's never easy to get a hit go to churclvevery Sunday. record. After you record, "1 give 10 per cent of my there's no guarantee you'll Hfe to the publicD the get it played. other 90 per cent 1 keep to Production and distribu- myself. That includes all tion are areas Bohannon " ;?otP , ... ir the problems in my private has to concern himself . . , . . , ir with. He writes and pro- Hfe. I deal w.th that myself. , duces all his music and " "What 1 hoPe to.8lbe in gawi? three- jnusk publish- 'sPurg . ,~~tiaupmess with no sttess ine companies, but he said \v . ,, , , , , & r and strain, he concluded. [f ROARING DOWfiTHtWAU WITH SttOKLY : cw no? tail 9:00 : *** CO ?* 'iimit S GOODTIME (KJTU1\W5 1 " -1 _ . It was the Deltas against the ? rules... the rules lost! ' v coia* 7:20IL. LAMPiiN'i MOB MMU 1 | ~ ? OHN 'OUUVH( DONAID V^tr^^NO - *- Y ~?, iJilfr ^V'.V.CNf | I 1111 fcl ?"? -J. ij: A new comedy IhriRer.from the GoWte : "Sifver Shook? HQUJfl J : : : : '"'.J Disco With I illy Bynum I 3 Takes Over - | 5/7 / he Others I Take Off! I V\ - Midnight I iOb 1330 | V * X
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