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Cream of the Crop
by Thom Rednour
Ah, life. Oh wonderful joys
of living. We (and I use that term
loosely) are now in possession of
a real-live-honest-to-goodness
radio station. No more clutter,
no more trash, no more
scotch-tape spit and prayer
equipment.
1 spent the last twelve hours
at the wonderful Quasar Fusible
Sismograph radio in the City of
Flowers. Things got under way
after I woke up on the floor and
did my morning show. We were
planning on putting in a new
one-piece carpet right after
Semester Break, and finally
planned it for today at ten. Well,
folks I was pretty well shot at
ten in the a.m., but only Dave
(our fine station manager)
showed up, so I pitched in. We
measured and measured so we
could cut out the rug, and while
we were doing that, the new,
highly efficient engineer Steve
Moody stumbled in. We decided
that since we would have to sign
off anyway we would straighten
out the electronic nightmare
that has caused so many of the
problems that you've all heard.
Steve found a smaller cabinet to
put our amplifiers in, getting rid
of "the rack" on which they
were located before. This new
one fits in perfectly. Just inside
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WQFS Programs
Fri. 7-10 Tom Clayton
10-1 John Moore
1-5 Clare Glore
5-7 Rick Samson
7-10 John Neal
10-1 Thorn Rednour
1-4 a.m. Joe Hay worth
Sat. 10-1 David Angell
1-5 Rick Noonan
5-7 Mitch Clifford
7-10 Doug Scott
10-1 Bill Sproul
1-4 am John Moore
Sun. 10-1 Sarah Sherrill
1-2 "Firing Line"
1-5 Mike McCraw
5-7 Helen Macarof
(classical)
7-10 Marc Intermaggio
10-1 Tom Rednour
Mon. 7-10 Mike McCraw
(0-1 Mitch Clifford
1-5 John Moore
5-6 "Dutch Concert
Hall"
6-7 David Rhees
(classical)
7-10 Danny Beard
10-1 Mitch Clifford
Tues. 7-10 Marc Intermaggio
10-1:30 Joe Hayworth
1:30-5 Thorn Rednour
5-7 Rick Samson
(classical)
7-10 Tom Clayton &
Clare Glore
(country)
10-1 Tom Gleiter
11 -11:30 "The Shadow"
Wed. 7-10 Mitch Clifford
10-1 John Moore
1-5 John Meyler
4-4:15 Interview of John
Miscellaneous Ramblings
the door, conveniently out of
the way. Then there was a table
to the left of the announcers
chair that would have given the
most stable person an instant
uncureable case of
claustrophobia. God-damn, this
probably won't make sense to
anyone, but it feels so good to
be able to relax in a nice studio
with a very comfortable swivel
chair amid more luxurious
surroundings. Even the outer
office was rearranged.
All I can say now is that
everyone is more than welcome
to visit Guilford's proudest
possession OUR RADIO
STATION.
Now for some thoughts about
music (which is what this whole
epistle is about anyway). Our
Dear Friends, Firesign Theatre
have finally released some of the
material from their original
blow-outs in LA. The Album is,
of course, on Columbia and
contains four sides of that
particular firesign madness. It
will be presented often on the
new station, so keep listening.
You'll never be the same (if we
ever were).
Another thing I was thinking
about this morning while I was
trying to write this original
ramble. It concerns the attitude
of the, ah-quote, new breed of
rock musicians and their strange
GHMP
Fri., Feb. 18
8:00 Nina Simone and Donny Hathaway University Hall,
Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets $3.00 in advance, $4.00 at door.
8:30 FILM ODYSSEY: "Beauty and the Beast" Jean Cocteau's
delightful fantasy about a princess and an ugly beast. 2 hrs. PBS-TV.
Sun., Feb. 20
9:00 MASTERPIECE THEATRE: Elizabeth R: "The Marriage
Game" Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I. 1 hr.45 min. PBS-TV. Color.
Mon., Feb. 21
GEORGE BIRTHINGTON'S WASHDAY (the government says
no)
8:00 Mel Flood. Flute recital, Union Lounge.
10:30 p.m. BEYOND VIETNAM: American Foreign Policy in the
70's. Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) UNC-TV.
Tues., Feb. 22
GEORGE BIRTHINGTON'S TRUE WASHDAY
8:00 JACQUES D'AMBOISE dance troupe. Dana
9:30 BLACK JOURNAL "Who Killed Malcolm X?" PBS-TV
color.
Wed., Feb. 23
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Wonderful Wednesday
Thursday and Friday
Nothing happening - Stay in bed.
7-10 Tom Clayton: Clare
Lindsay Glore (country)
5-7 Joe Hayworth )(H John Mey ler
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7-10 Bill Sproul
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5-6 Music from Rochester
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THE GUILFORDIAN
following. Downer-rock
someone put it so aptly. Award
winning groups like Black
Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad
and the like who have mastered
the art of turning their 4000
Marshall amps up to ten and
then craping on the guitar (cuz
that's all they know) and these
new red-controlled fanatics eat it
up. It's such a shame that groups
with absolutely no talent rake in
thousands of greenbacks while
there are still hundreds of
excellent musicians floating
around starving. It sort of is like
what has happened to our great
bluesmen. BB King, and other
great black blues men played
360 one-night stands barely
making enough money to make
it to the next dive while the
young folks of 'Frisco were
pulling it in. But they knew
about these great bluesmen and
the dues they'd paid, and many
times groups like Canned Heat
wouldn't play in concert halls
unless the folks they learned the
blues from would also appear.
Bill Graham was especially
instrumental in bringing them
into the limelight they so
deserved. But these new
volume-only groups don't have
the same feelings. They're into it
for ego-trips or bread.
But then again, things have
changed so much since those
days when you spent maybe
three bucks and got two sides of
excellent music, lyrics, moods or
whatever.
Maybe it's just falling
back on good vibration days,
when, even though the war was
in full swing, feelings towards
other brothers and sisters was
one of a supreme love for life.
Situations have changed so
much, tho, thanks to our ace in
the White House. An extensive
political diatribe could be in
order here, but what the hell has
this to do with music. I feel he is
a bummer, and that he's doing
his best to make all of us bum
out, and I think that's what
might be causing this rash of
downer-rock. ENOUGH,
ENOUGH, ENOUGH.
Yesterday afternoon I was
returning from the corner with
the editor of this great paper
when out of Dana pulled a
rather large red English bus.
"My God, what is that?" the
editor queired.
"It appears to me to be a
rather large red double-decker
bus," I answered to the best of
my ability at that time.
Curiosity had gotten about
the mind, so we ambled over to
the front of the gym where the
buses were now parked. There
were three chaps standing round
trying to find out where to park
their bus, the "Hairy Pillock."
Travelling past the cafe and
down to 69, we had a very
interesting intercourse with Mr.
King about what, why, who,
when and how all this came
about.
It seems that they had made a
bet with friends at a local pub
that they could drive this aged
bus around the world and pull
back in the pub driveway. So
they took the bet and have been
travelling round the world since
1969, leaving from England and
journeying cross deserts and
mountains, singing as they went
to supply themselves with fine
women and other necessities of
life. When they arrived at
Bombay, they had the bus
shipped to Australia where they
WQFS
Improved
by Danny Beard
WQFS Operations Manager
WQFS, ever intent on better
serving the college community,
has initiated a series of
programming changes for the
new semester.
First, on Saturday, Sunday
and Monday nights at 10 p.m.,
Bill Sproul, Thom Rednour, and
Doug Scott will present special
programs concentrating on a
certain type of or trend in
music. This week they will
feature the music of several
English bluesmen.
Tom Clayton and Clare
Glore, WQFS's experts on
country rock, have a country
show each week on Thursday
night from 7 to 10.
Finally, Mike McCraw plays
an Album of the Week during his
10 to 1 show Wednesday night.
FEBRUARY 18, 1972
toured for a year, finally leaving
there to arrive in Frisco and have
spent the last six weeks or so
touring America.
Last night in the Union
Lounge we were treated to over
an hour of good time music and
fun. "The Philanders," a group
of touring-for-the-hell-of-it
just-to-see-the-world-and
-have-a-good-time musicians, led
by Richard King, singing.
English and Irish bawdy folk
songs in a style that has seemed
to have dissappeared for too
long a time.
Clowning around in the
corner, cracking dry british
humor, and damn good picking
(even though King drilled it into
us that they were "amateurs"),
they thrilled us with two nearly
hour long sets. They did some
American songs also, including a
superb version of "Foggy
Mountain Breakdown" and the
Kingston Trio's "MTA" song.
The place was packed and
walking in late made no
difference, since they made
everyone feel so good. It's so
nice when people that full of life
perform so well, and their
feeling goes out to all in the
audience. They appeared at just
the right time, and everything
clicked excellently. If you
missed them, I'm sorry, but for
those of us who didn't, it will be
remembered as "A jolly night of
merriment." God Bless the
Queen and the Philanders.
Harold & Maude
Showing now at the Janus II
Theatre is Harold & Maude, one
of the best movies we have seen
in sometime.
Burt Cord (Brewster
McCloud) portrays Harold a
young man with a slightly sick
sense of humore, and a love of
death. Ruth Gordon (one of the
all-time greats) plays Maude, and
no one could have done better.
Maude is a creature of life as
much as Harold is of death. Her
favorite occupation is
"liberating" cars and other
objects at will. "I act as a
reminder not to get attached to
things," Maude tells us.
Harold and Maude are
brought together by their
common enjoyment of going to
funerals.
See this one it's black
comedy that isn't sick comedy,
or even sick non-comedy, which
we've seen far too much of
recently. Colin Higgins wrote it,
John Alonzo directed it, and Cat
Stevens wrote and sang the
score. A truly fine show. K.R.
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