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When Blood, Sweat and Tears performed
with the North Carolina Symphony
Saturday in Raleigh, a musical and social
phenomenon unique to this area occurred.
Musically, the concert was a rare fusion of
rock, jazz and classical music, tastefully put
tojether.
As a social event, the concert brought
together under the single roof of Dorton
Arena two and three generations of
listeners for a single evening. The often
stereotyped gap in musical tastes between
them was bridged.
Watching the audiences reactions to the
performance was almost as enlightening as
seeing, for the first time, a jazz rock group
by Alan Clsbort
Record Critic
Preservation Act 1- The Kinks (RCA)
It's 1974, by God. (1984 minus 10, if you
like statistics.) We won't talk about the
future because we all know rock music is
suffering from too many egos spread too
thin. Just set your time machines back 11
years... If we're gonna talk about the past,
then we're gonna talk about THE past.
The British Invasion saved us from grease
and growing up like Mom and Pop. The
Beatles were so cute. The Rolling Stones
were so nasty. The Who were so mod. And
then there were the Kinks.
They created an image, but they all looked
alike, so that people had a habit of forgetting
about them. (Plus, they wore identical red
suits, and only kinky people or people
named Rudee did that sort of thing back
then.) The group knew about four guitar
chords, and those sounded as if they were
played by the drummer (Hailing away at an
electric guitar with the reverb and volume
turned up to ten.) These same chords were
interchanged for every one of their early
songs, such stunners as You Really Got Me
(their first American hit). All Day and All of
the Night, Till the End of the Day, and Tired
of Waitingfor You. The Kinks pushed all the
other British punks into the back seat as far
as simple 1-2-3-4 rock went.
Why make things harder than you have
to? That was the Kinks' guiding principle.
No, you couldn't get any more basic than the
lovable Kinks in those days. Now, everyone
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on the same stage with a symphony
orchestra. I use "audiences" in the plural
because of the phenomenal variety of people
at the concert.
There were the usual concert-goers,
students from area colleges who came to see
the band that meant so much to the early
development of jazz-rock, different though
the group's personnel may be from the band
Al Kooper put together in 1967.
And then there was another audience.
They came in coats and ties and gowns, that
looked like formal wear in contrast to the
casual attire of the younger audience.
The middle-aged and the senior citizens
asks what happened to the Kinks as if they
suddenly disappeared (a pleasant memory).
Bringing things back to the present, the
Kmks have a new album out (their 500th or
so) and, with it, they only certify that they
will never suffer the humiliation of being
fodder for the nostalgia manufacturers.
Never will they be as fun and forgettable as
Whoopie Cushions.
In the course of their recording years, they
have alone above and beyond any other
group's output cemented a consistent
world vision. And, the visionary is Ray
Davies, the singer, songwriter and recorder
of life in general. He will eternally occupy a
seat in songwriter heaven.
With this new album, Davies does not
pretend to bring out startling new themes for
all of us to obediently swallow and then
forget. The old themes are here: the desire to
escape from modern life and all of its
complexities, the wish to sit in the sun and
watch life pass by and the hankering for
innocence in the face of a cruel world.
After all, as the title suggests, this album is
about preservation. And preservation to
Davies (embodied in the character he would
most want to be the Tramp) means getting
as close to his world vision as possible. Just
look at the man ...he's been wearing white
socks for years (because they are
comfortable, no less). He doesn't own a car
or even a stereo that works properly.
Thematically, Preservation Act I only
explores the same Kinks themes. But
musically, it is their best album in two years.
They have stopped the unhealthy trend
toward horns which plagued their last two
albums. They muddle only one song.
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came to hear the symphony and conductor
John Gosling, whom they know well.
' Gosling has been delighting audiences
throughout North Carolina and
surrounding states with increasing
excellence and imaginative programming.
He saved his farthest out for this orchestra's
first joint rock concert.
Though the college crowd was there, and
the room was packed, the hoards of fans who
are typically drawn to rock concerts did not
show. In fact, the youth (excluding the kids
who came with their parents) did not
decisively outnumber members of the two
older generations.
Three or four years ago, a college audience
Cricket. You can also hear the trade-marked
Kinks sound, simple and addicting chord
progressions. It makes me want to smile to
know that after all years, they aren't afraid to
play it like they preach it.
Another thing about the album that
makes it so refreshing is that it is
unashamedly British. In the past two years.
Davies has tried to explore the American
way of life as only an outsider can (never as
poorly as E. John-B. Taupin's feeble
attempts, though).
England, that great land of tradition,
kings and queens, is cold-bloodedly entering
the Twentieth Century and R. Davies
doesn't like it one bit. He gives no
intellectually compelling argument for his
dislike of what's happening, but he doesn't
need to. He is only reporting what he sees.
Money and CorruptionI Am Your Man
and Demolition set new highs in bitterness
toward modern, matter-of-fact business
practices (which really equals capitalism).
In Where Are They Now?, Davies makes
his nostalgia statement. (A very popular
practice these days, if you'll just notice.) But,
he takes a new angle: "I wonder what became
of all the Rockers and the Mods. 1 hope they
are making it and they've all got steady jobs."
The Kinks have left open the option that they
are One of the Survivors (another song from
the album.)
Yes, survival is very big these days. And,
it's so nice to see that the Kinks are still
with us, doing what they've done all along,
battling for every inch in a "mixed up,
muddled up, shook up world..."
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alone would probably have bought out this
same show, but the band has been plagued
with an unattractive commercial image since
the You've Made Me So Very Happy days of
their superstar status.
Yet the musicians are first rate. About half
of the original group are still playing, and
some of the new members are worthy of
favorable notice. For example. Lou Marini,
besides playing a tender soprano sax,
arranges the horn section all of which are
good jazz musicians.
Big shoes were left to be filled when
talented lead singer David Clayton Thomas
went off on his own two albums ago. But
replacement Jerry Fisher, with a Joe Cocker
voice texture, is an exciting stage performer
besides being a capable vocalist.
Those who have in the past criticized
Blood, Sweat and Tears' rhythm section
should take a second listen. Drummer
Bobby Colomby uses perfected rudiments in
an unusual style, Jim Fielder is an
experienced bassist and Larry Willis, a more
recent addition to the group from Scotland
Neck, N.C. is an interesting pianist and
composer.
One of their pieces was the famous "And
God Created Great Whales," written four
years ago by Alan Hovhaness during the
ecology campaign to save humpbacked
whales from extinction. The work contains
four "whale songs" as observed by zoologists
and it incorporates recordings of the voices
of the animals.
It was yet another audience who most
showed their appreciation at the end of the
performance. Hundreds of teeny-boopers
rushed the stage as John Gosling called
Blood, Sweat and Tears back for an encore.
And the spotlight on the conductor
revealed a broad grin, which was no stage
facade. He was happy about a truly
successful evening of real family
entertainment and not the G-rated movie
kind.
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