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| ‘Steal Your Face’ - Grateful Dead [Grateful Dead records]

Roger Stomperud

After eleven years to- gether the Dead still have the same personnel in its nucleus as it has on their first Warner Brothers Record. There have been changes, both musically and in per- sonally, but somehow they have sta,.. the same while progressing light-years.

The changes have been ‘additions’ rather than ‘re- placements’. Although there were changes when they were the Warlock, the first in the Dead happened in '67 when percussionist extra- ordinaire Micky Hart and avant-garde pianist and electronic tape wizzy Tom Constanten joined in time to record ‘‘Anthem of the Sun’’, which is still one of my favorite recordings. Con- stanten dropped out of sight (forever it seems) after the |trail-blazing double ‘‘Live- | Dead’’ set. Hart quit after

‘“‘American Beauty.”’

Jerry Garcia has always been the focal point of the | band, and he has also been | responsible for a large chunk |of the music, and he had | done more work than the others outside of the band - as solo artist recording three diverse LP’s, ‘‘Garcia’’ (Warner Brothers), ‘‘Gar- cia’’ (Round Records) and “*Reflections’’; as a studio musician on records by such people as David Crosby, C.S.N.Y., Crosby & Nash,

J.L. Steves” Three different adult basic education programs are being offered by Douglas College on the Richmond Campus.

Employment Orientation for Women (E.0.W.) is designed to help women make the transition from the home to the labor market. Each E.O.W. course lasts nine weeks.

Basic Job Readiness Training (B.J.R.T.) is an eight-week pro-

The College Library will close ion December 23rd and re-open January 4.

Douglas College has received an invitation for faculty, staff, land students to participate in meetings of United Native Club of the Matsqui Institution to gain insight into native and

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Jefferson Airplane/Starship, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Howard Wales, Merle Saunders, Old and in the Way and the Rowan Broth- ers, as well as the sound track for Zabrisky Point; he has also been present on recordings by his cohorts Wier, Lesh, Hart, and Hunt- er.

In the later years Bob Wier has received much attention as a singer and a very fine song writer. His solo efforts, both alone and in his work with Kingfish, show he is a fine performer in his own right. He is also featured on albums by other Dead mem- bers.

Phil Lesh on quad comput- erized bass guitar has a background as.a jazz trumpet player and has written clas- sical music in days gone by.

Bill Kruetzman holds everything together by his consistent drumming. His work with Micky Hart pro- duced some of the most interesting drumming in rock history.

The Dead lost a lot of their funkiness when vocalist and organist Ron McKerman (Pig Pen) died in 1973. He had a fine voice and he generated a lot of excitement in their live shows.

Keith Godchaux’s piano work helped a lot to fill out the sound after Hart left in

’71. His wife Donna who also ©

sings vocals, is unfortunately

put in the background. Micky Hart is now back in

the band and his presence on

gram designed to help unem-

~ ployed young persons enter the labor market. Included with the training are visits to business and industry.

Both E.O.W. and B.J.R.T. are Manpower-funded, full-time day programs offered free of charge. Students. may also qua-

lify for Manpower training allowances which are paid each week. Both programs will begin when sufficient students enrol.

_inmate problems and perespect- ives. The meetings take pace at

7:30 p.m. Tuesday’s, at the institution. For those interested, forms for obtaining a visitor’s pass may be obtained from: Mr. Jake Thomas, Allied Metis

Society, 2716 Clark Drive, Van- couver, or phone 874-9610.

“Blues for Allah’ is a wel- come sound.

Robert Hunter was em- ployed in 1967 as chief lyric writer and occasional song writer and has done a fine job. His solo efforts, Tales of the Great Rum Runners and Tiger Rose (American re- lease only), have proven he is not as fine an arranger or singer. His voice, though, is interesting. It comes off as a cross between Dylan and Lou Reed.

Although a large percent- age of their 16 releases have turned to gold, they have never had a ‘hit’ or even received much air play. This is very strange since they are also one of the worlds big- gest concert draws. They drew 800,000 people at a show at Watkins Glen in New York state, where they head- lined as the ‘Band and Allman Bros..’.

It is also interesting to note that 24 - plus sides out of 40 releases to date have been recorded live.

This brings us to Stea/ Your Face. It has been said that they have hit their stride and this double set will do nothing to disprove this. There is nothing new on this album outside the cover ver- sion which has always been a part of their live sets. Stea/ Your Face is actually a sound track from their film An Evening with the Grateful Dead which is due to be released shortly.

Enquire about either of these

~at the Canada Manpower Cen-

tre, 563B No. 3 Road, Rich- mond, if you live in Richmond, Ladner or Tsawassen. Phone 273-6431 for information.

The Adult Basic Education (A.B.E.) program provides up- grading in English, Mathemat- ics, and Science to a grade 10 equivalency level, to prepare students for enrolment in vocat- ional or other specialized train- ing.

Students may enter this pro- gram at any time, and work at their own pace until they achi- eve the level desired.

The next A.B.E. program begins Jan. 4, 1976, and the cost is $2 per student for each full school day. Students may attend full-time (six hours a day), or half-time Monday through Thursday, afternoons and/or evenings.

For more information, call the Richmond campus of Douglas College at 273-5461, and ask for Counselling.

It was recorded during their goodbye week at the

Winterland in San Francisco in October ’74, when they went into semi-retirement. All the original mateial has been done better (in most cases) on previous albums, and the covers don’t touch the original artists’ hits. The original material can all be found on five albums, ‘Grateful Dead’, ‘Working- man’s Dead’, ‘Wake of the flood’, ‘From the Mars Ho- tel’, and ‘Ace’ by Wier.

They cover Chuck Berry (The promised Land, and Around & Around) without going too far from the origi- nal recording. But Johnny Cash never sounded quite like they do on ‘Big River’.

One of the highlights 1s ‘Stella Blue’, Garcia (or any of the others) has never been a good vocalist, but nonethe- less, he has an uniquely interesting and strong voice. It is a hauntingly sad song that will grow on you if you let it. Other songs of note are ‘Ship of Fools’ and ‘Black Throated Wing’.

The other songs on this set are; ‘Cold Rain and Snow’, ‘Beat it on down the Line’, Marty Robbin’s ‘El Paso’, ‘Sugaree’, ‘U.S. Blues’, ‘It must have been the Roses’ and their usual show closer “Casey Jones’.

The album has many faults, most of these being the lack of new material. The

performance itself is sloppy at times, this is due to their free-wheeling attitude and ability to have fun on stage. ‘Steal Your Face’ will not

earn any new fans but it is a welcome addition to any ‘Dead Head’s’’ collection. It is also not a starter for those that are willing to be turned on to the Dead.

Those interested should look to ‘The Best of the Grateful Dead’ (Skeletons from the Closet) and the triple live set ‘Europe 72’. Other recordings not already mentioned are; ‘Aoxomox- oa’, ‘Grateful Dead’ ‘Bear’s Choice’, and Micky Hart’s ‘Rolling Thunder’.

Those of you who are really into it should also check out two live recordings from Sept. ’66 on Sunflower records, ‘Vintage Dead’ and ‘Historic Dead’. There is also American bootleg albums to be had for those who shop around. While you are at it you might even find Phil Lesh and Ved Login’s ‘Sea- stones’ and The Godchaux’s ‘Keith and Donna’ which are both on Round Records. The Grateful Dead are also fea- tured on soundtracks for the movies ‘Zabrisky Point’ and ‘Fillmou’s Last Days’, both on Warner Bros.

One word for those of you who pass the Dead by; You are missing out on a very worthwhile and unique ex- perience! Don’t let it happen to you.

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