LETTER TO STANSFIELD TURNER FROM JOSEPH E. LEARY

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• Publication Date: May 24, 1979
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SONOMA COUNTY STUMP
2489 Gravenstein Hwy. So. Sebastopol CA 95472
since 1972
May 24, 1;979
Adm. Stanfield Turner, Director
C. I. A.
Washington, D. C. 20 50 5
Dear Stan,
I was sorry you weren't able to make it to the Laguna Beach Arts
Festival last summer. I was busy but ready to come down if you
had made it.
I became co-publisher of this little paper last February and wrote
the article on hydrogen fusion in the enclosed issue. If you have a
chance to read it and respond, I would be very interested in your
thoughts on the subject.
We are watching and waiting for the ideas that will help the U. S.
break the apparent dependence on foreign oil. If you and/or the
agency come across any and we can help spread the word, please
let us know.
I hope we can connect sometime if you are in my area or I in yours.
Thank u for your time,
Joseph E. Leary
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Is [won SS0 is
years away
It Ain't Necessarily So
"The significance of a '
successful demonstration of
fusion would be very, very
great. We would then know
that there would be an unlim-
ited energy supply, 'even -if
there were no practical re-
actor existing. Once one
knows what directions to
move, you can move very
fast. The scientific basis
for the Apollo project was
established in the thirties,
all that was required was
the commitment. But you
have to know,'this country
can marshal an industrial
effort and run faster than
any country in the world, if
it knows what direction to
run. The mathematics are
still incomplete. You would
need to demonstrate some
repel each other. To over-
come this mutual repulsion,
the fuel must be heated to
about 100 million degrees
Celsius (water boils at 100
degrees Celsius). Then'to
insure that there will be
enough collisions of these
nuclei, -density and confine-
ment time must be balanced.
In other words, the-more
dense the fuel becomes,
the less, time it must be held
that way, and vice versa.
This ratio has produced two
different directions from
which scientists are approa-
ching the problem.
The first approach is mag-
netic fusion. This was the
first approach to be tried,
has been going longer, re-
ceives more money, and
The official line gems to be that throwing more money at the
fusion program will not speed it up.
gain , at least two or three,
that should be enough to show
the scientific basis..." The
man speaking is Gerold Yon-
as, the head of Sandia Lab-
oratories in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, one of the lead-
ers in the race to develop
inertial confinement fusion.
There are two kinds of
nuclear reactions, fission
and fusion. A fission reac-
t ion splits heavy atoms into
lighter ones. It is the kind
of nuclear reaction used in
the atomic bomb and in the
atomic power plants that are
so controversial right now.
A fusion reaction combines
or fuses two lighter atoms
into a heavier one. It is the
kind of nuclear reaction tak-
ing place, in the sun. It is of
interest because a fusion
reactor would apparently
have about 1% of the problems
of a fission reactor:
? It is not self-sustaining,
so there is no possibility of
a meltdown. If there is any
problem, you simply pull the
plug and it stops.
? The only radioactive by-
product of fusion is the reac-
tor chamber itself. Most
scientists feel that this prob-
lem can be solved by the
time a reactor is actually
built.
? The fuel, Deuterium, or
heavy water, is available in
virtually unlimited quantities
in the ocean.
'Fusion is the ultimate en-
ergy resource," says Edwin
Kintner, the head of magnet-
ic fusion for the Department
of Energy, 'it is the last
physical process anybody can
point to for the large scale
production of energy. What
we are trying to do is bring
solar energy down to earth
and make it in large, concen-
trated quantities.' Clean
energy from an abundant sup-
ply of cheap fuel; a dream,
you say? Well, the money to
make this dream come true
is currently coming from
the Department of Energy.
The firs. successful man-
made fusion reaction was
the hydrogen bomb. The H-
bomb, however, required an
atomic bomb to create the
conditions necessary for
fusion. Researchers today
are looking for a way to sus-
tain those conditions to pro-
duce a controlled fusion re-
action. The nuclei of the
atoms they are trying to fuse
have a positive charge and
appears to be closest to the
magic "break-even. " Break-
even simply means as much
power comes out as was put
in to get the reaction going.
The. idea is to use huge mag-
nets to compress the positi-
vely charged nuclei and hold
them that way.' Magnetic
fusion goes for less density
and a longer confinement
time.
The second and newer
approach is inertial confine-
ment fusion. Using either a'
laser or a particle beam ac-
celerator, scientists are
taking a small pellet of fuel
and hitting it with.a short
burst of tightly focused en-
ergy that causes the outer
surface of the pellet to ex-
plode with such force that
it produces both the neces-
sary temperature and very
high density inside the pel-
let: The density is so high
that the inertia of the fuel
itself keeps the high density
long enough for the reaction
to take place. Hence, iner-
tial confinement fusion--
more density and a shorter
confinement time.
There are a few other ap-
proaches being suggested by
various people. The best
known and most controver-
sial of these alternatives is
a process using colliding
beams that is the brainchild
of Dr. Bogden Maglich.
community. His idea is to
accelerate the fuel itself
into a beam and then reflect
the beam back onto itself
and achieve fusion through
the interaction of the two
beams. He has been running
his research on a shoestring
because the panel of DOE
experts that reviewed his
idea does not feel that it will
work. Although he is only
- asking for a couple of mil-
lion dollars, the DOE has
refused to give him any mo-
ney at all.
Or. Burt Richter at Stan-
ford received a Nobel prize
for his work with colliding
beams. He points out that
Maglich is proposing some-
thing well beyond the known
technology of colliding beams
and does not see how he
(Maglich) is going to over -
come some of the problems
now existing with the rates
at which beams will interact
with each other. Dr. Rich-
ter's sentiments are pretty
much the same as those of
officials at the DOE. Nobody
can see how Maglich's idea
is going to work and nobody
can categorically state that
it will not work. Maglich
feels that he is caught in a
Catch-22: he can't get the
money to demonstrate that
it will work until he demon-
strates that it will work.
The Electric Power Re-
search Institute (EPRI) asked
an advisory committee of
three prominent people in
fusion research to review
Maglich's proposal last sum-
mer. In a letter dated Nov.
27, 1978 to EPRI, the com-
mittee said they did not see
great potential for a fusion
reactor but that the theoret-
ical work Maglich was prop-
osing to do and what he could
learn about plasmas (gaseous
charged particles) would
be valuable. The committee
..concluded that this work
(Maglich's proposal) is a
well-defined package which
is reasonable in scope,
specific in goal, likely to be
achieveable, and an impor-
tant adjunct to experimental
programs . In light of the
lack of high energy build-up
studies in the U. S. and in
view of the potentialities of
this approach, it (the com-
mittee) recommends that
6a
EPRI support the present
proposal if DOE supports the
associated'experimental
work." So Bogdan Maglich
still has to convince the DOE.
It -has been almost a year .
since the date of his proposal
and he has not been success-
ful as yet.
Meanwhile, the inertial
confinement community has
its eyes on a report that is
about to be issued by the
Foster committee. Foster
is a vice-president of TRW
in San Diego. His committee
was asked to review the en-
tire fusion program last year
and turned in a report in
June 1978. It was re-conven-
ed in January of this year to
review the inertial confine-
ment program. and its report
should be coming out about
now. Sitting on the current
committee are Foster,. Ed
Gerry, Burt Richter, Ray
Potluck from Los Alamos,
and Tim Coffey from the
Naval Research Lab. The
report is,expected to docu-
ment the promise and the
problems of the research
being done. According to
Dr. Richter, the committee
feels that the promise is
very high, but it's not prov-
ed..
The magnetic fusion pro-
gram is probably the closest
to net energy gain. Of the
six labs working on magnetic
confinement systems, Prin-
ceton is farthest ahead.
Princeton is using the Toka-
mak, which the DOE says
is .. (a Russian acronym
for 'toroidal chamber with
magnetic coils'), a circular,
doughnut-shaped device. The
magnetic lines twist around
the doughnut, closing on
themselves to confine the
plasma. About 605 of the
. all the con ions for a sus-
tained?fusion reaction.
'As close. as 1982 sounds,
.and in spite of what Gerold
Yonne said about our ability
to move rapidly once we
know the direction, everyone
still sees a practical fusion
reactor being between 20 and
50 years away. Edwin Kanter
sees that time as being art
of the funding problem.'
the political process looks
2.4,6 years ahead, corpor-
ate processes look maybe
10 years ahead... we are
trying to convince people to
spend money for the benefit
of the next generation, "
The official line seems to
be that throwing more mon-
ey at the fusion program will
not speed it up. But compe-
tition for funds is intense
under the surface and one
can't help wonder if the
decision not to fund Bogdan
Maglich was influenced by
that sense of competition.
Although nobody interviewed
wanted to openly criticize
the DOE's funding decisions
(it's had politics to, knock
the agency you're depending
'on for money), there was
frustration expressed pri-
vately about the priority, or
lack of it, given to fusion
research, and the apparent
demand that each step be
completed before the next
one is started. While it is
true that crash programs
can become' inefficient and
wasteful, there is nothing
to indicate that point is near
at the current. funding levels.
The percentage of its bud-
get the DOE is spending on
the entire fusion program
(4. 5% in '79 and 6% in '80)
does not indicate a very
high priority. Since the 1980
budget contains only a 1-1/2$
U. S. magnetic fusion effort
is in tokamaks. The princi-
pal tokamak experimental
devices are at the Princeton
Large Torus (PLT), the Al-
cator C at the Mass.. Insti -
tute of Technology; and Dou-
blet III at the General Atom-
ics Co. , in La Jolla. "
The device expected to
cross the break-even line
first is the Tokamak Fusion
Test Reactor (TFTR) being
built at Princeton. It is
scheduled to begin operation
in 1982, and will cost about
$239 million. It is also "...
expected to demonstrate
the scientific feasibility of
magnetic fusion by producing
increase ($500 million in
'79 to $510 million in '80),
there seems to be no inclin-
ation to revise priorities.
Considering the economic
havoc being wreaked by the
current suppliers of energy
and considering the prospect
that fusion offers of break-
ing that stranglehold, one
can't help wondering why
the DOE is not heading in
that direction at top speed.
As the expanding technology
enables individuals to discon-
nect themselves from the
energy supply system.
shouldn't the bulk energy
users, public and private, be
investing in doing the same
thing?
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Is life kicking'sand in YOUR -
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the wholeness and satisfaction
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And THAT is the essence of the
est training! "
Well, for years now I've
pretty much shared the philos-
ophy of this.promo on the back
of the eat (Erhard Seminars
Training) Graduate Review,
and generally I.awid intense
sympathetic encounters unless
there is a high potential for
entertainment value, but I
nevertheless attended an eat
guest seminar recently, hop-
ing to discover more of what
this phenomenal organization
is all about without actually
taking "the training. "
Est, the eight year old brain-
child of Werner Erhard, is
officially classified as a non-
profit educational corporation,
and so far has offered, in
exchange for less than the
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in the Bahamas (current tui-
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ing.' They range-in age from
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those eventually retract their
misgivings) that the exper-
ience is the best thing that's
ever happened to them in
their entire lives, period.
Pretty impressive.
The seminar was held in a
large, attractive room of the
El Rancho Tropicana in Santa
Rosa, We were all given
name-tags; those of the est
graduates were prettier,
fringed in sky-blue. Every-
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better looking than the gen-
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up the center aisle to get a
choice seat in the as yet
sparsely filled auditorium,
a man named Eldon ushered
me to the side; for some
mysterious reason the middle
'section would be available
only after the end seats were
filled. My friend, an est
graduate, cavalierly ignored.
this directive and led me
straight to my preferred des-
tination. "They told me in
the training I could do any-
thing I wanted, " she explain-
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Helen, a tall woman in her
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plimented the audience, now
300 strong, for being such
great people. She praised
Sonata County for being such
a beautiful place. She had
everybody stand up-and shake
hands with each other. Est,
she said, had enabled her to
become master of her life
without even trying. For ex-
ample, she used to have
trouble making ends meet;
now she never worried about
money and always managed-
to balance her checkbook.
Helen was a likable person,
at least on stage, radiatinw
happiness and good vibes.
Not the kind of person with
whom you'd discuss Descar-
tes and Einstein over cappu-
ccino, but airily pleasant.
If I had to guess her occupa-
tion, I'd say she must've
been a real estate agent at
one time or another.
Next up was Roger, a
handsome, square-jawed
man, fortyish, well-dressed
and self-assured. He looked
to get the desired-things in
life. Est iseasentially an
experience, not a belief sys-
tem. It enables beliefs to
blossom when they work, or
allows no to shed them when
they don't. In life, we either
have what we want, or the
reasons why we don't. ".
Always stressed was the
"recontextualization" of the
est training, wherein people
experience the transformation
of being at the effect of
"things 'to a context where
the7 are the source-at cause-
of 'things. "
Est is not a flake operation,
and time not like being assoc-
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The est Advisory Board, not
all of whose members are
set graduates, is composed of
men and women who have dis-
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The U. S. Government awards
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inmates, and there is a move
in Congress to make the train-
ing available to parolees. The
Los Angeles police department
has undergone est training,
1But there is dubiety. Eat
"They told me in the training I could do
anything I wanted," she explained.
like a Werner Erhard clone.
The theme of the evening
was "parents and children,
and he got right down to it,
asking members of the aud-
ience to share observations.
'Parents and children never
really understand each oth-
er, " said one fellow. "I be-
little my son because I see
myself in him, " said another.
Roger equated the experience
of family as the beginning of
the world working. "Most
parents like to think they're
'safe harbors' for their
children, " he said. "But
'safe' means 'no consequen-
ces.' Kids would love to
share their deepest feelings
with their parents, but they
fear the repercussions,
Teenagers can't come home
and confide what a beautiful
sexual experience he or she
has just had because all their
lives, children have been con-
ditioned to fear consequences'
from their parents. Real cour-
age is not to say anything that
is on your mind, but to lis-
ten. " He said that, generally
speaking, it is parents, not
children, who are out of
touch. Parents learn much
more from their kids than
vice-versa, and kids learn
from the world around them.
Roger was a good speaker,
magnetic and forceful, and
often humorous. His lecture
pendulated from the parent/
children topic to why est is
valuable, and back again in
a related cycle:
"Our beliefs are structured
notions of people, things,
events, etc. /After the train-
ing, one-can choose beliefs
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claims that the transformation
it offers isn't like "positive
thinking, " because it acknow-
ledges the truth about life,
accepting the ups with the
downs; yet its unrelenting
message seems to be that
through accepting responsibil-
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as being good even when it's
"bad"--increased happiness
is definitely the name of the
game. And I rather resent
being exhorted to take the
training because it is undoub-
tedly the "greatest gift you
could ever give yourself,"
The simplification disturbs
me. It's like saying you can't
fly because you don't think
you can. If Werner Erhard is
uniquely blessed with insights,
how can his enhanced aware-
ness he so easily communica-
ted to less fortunate mortals?
Or, if he's really just like
you and me, surely the odds
favor a happier world predica-
ted on common revelation?
After all, Christ was crucified
2, 000 years ago and people
are still killing in his name.
I confess to an inherent cyn-
icism about life, and a natural
tendency to resist being es-
corted from one state of mind
to another, but I no longer
summarily disdain human po-
tential movements and spirit-
ually enriching processes like
est. Most of what was said at
the guest seminar harmonizes
substantively with my own
feelings about life and its
ramifications. Especially in-
spiring was Roger Is impas-
sioned finale, calling for an
end to all the bullshit in the
world, all the strife and war
and alienation that result pri-
marily from the indivic:ual
pretense, or "acts, " which are
the erroneous methods for
survival that we have all been
conditioned to embrace since
infancy, However, I am not
ready to always manipulate my
perceptions of circumstances
so that imperfect conditions
and the accompanying dissatis-
faction will somehow be miti-
gated. Like the est people, I
don't believe in self-deception
or in using a crutch when you
can walk, but the nature of
life appears too complicated
for any of us to have really
figured out.
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give up hope of seeing an
entertainment' film with any
integrity, a masterpiece hits
the screen. George A. Ito-
mero has combined, premises,:
from his earlier "Night of the
Living Dead" and "The Cra-
zies. He has created'a
satirical horror film that
exceeds our rhythmic expec-
tations as no other film has
done aince Hitchcock's
shower scene in "Psycho.
Gone are the low budget
production standards of
Romero's early films. But
his wry attitude toward mid-
dle class values, that prompt-
ed Jean-Luc Godard and
Jean-Pierre Garin to dub him
"revolutionary" ten years
ago, remains dependably in-
tact. Not since Elizabethan
drama has there been such
gore presented without blind-
ers on. '
In post-Vietnam America,
Hollywood presents pathetic
sob stories like "Coming
Home" and "The Deer Hunt-
Winning Ways
by Bliss Buys
They're so frenetic they may
sometimes remind you of an
irrepressible kid brother,
but the five members of
Duck's Breath Mystery The-
atre apply a great deal of
thought and craft to their
zany comedy/theatre act.
Duck's Breath made a rare
Sonoma County appearance
at The Laguna May II, and
memories of their winning
ways at the Hotel Savoy var
iety show two years ago
prodded me to be there.
Among other extended 'bits'
the enthusiastic crowd enjoy-
ed in the first of three short
sets was a takeoff on the
private life of Ann Landers.
Ann, played by Merl Kessler,
learns the secret of the Ber-
muda. Triangle, meets and
marries Mr. Right (Dan
Coffey--"he works for the
government') and demon-
strates to the world why she
keeps "America sane and
moderate. "
In "Sonata My Fault, "
Ingmar Bergman's cinematic
style gets a roasting. To
accomplish "Bergman's
characteristic extreme close-
ups, actors walk into the
audience and lean into their
faces. I could swear Leon
Martell looked like Liv Uhl-
man for a minute, writhing
in his/her misery.
The-audience, being no bet-
ter than they should be, res-
ponded hilariously to the
Second Grade class in Sexual
Kinetics. Having proper sex,
the nun (Bill'Allard) explains,
is "just like camping. Figure
out what you need and cut it
in half. " Leering "second
graders" acted out the parts
of the "spermazoid" and "ova-
told, " who had a dickens of
a time getting together when
the saran-wrap condom or
the tennis racket diaphragm
were blocking them (much
like a raucous basketball
play), but popped out a plastic
baby doll with astounding reg-
ularity when things were al-
lowed to take their course.
In the same pseudo-spiritual
vein, God (represented ir-
reverently by Merl Kessler)
had to choose between species
er. " Inddntly financed;
Romero uses the vamp events
as an axis to tell the truth
while only pausing briefly to
give his satirical zap to the
Academy Award nominees.
The truth everyone is out
for himself ahd in the process
we are eating each other
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a-moral tale of two men who
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.Slier pulls no punches. He
lets his heroine pick a most
unlikely candidate to meet
her needs, and leaves her two
lovers high and dry. They
may continue their-sexist dia-
logue on their.own. Fine
performances by the adults,
with a little overacting by a
13-year-old. A
MANHATTAITat Codding-
town enema to Santa Rosa.
Woody Allen throws in the
towel after the public rejected
his masterpiece 'Interiors.
"Manhattan" is a non-movie
that meanders about aimless-
ly. Allen insists his actnrs
tmproyl'ee their dialogue, and
just -get through it as best `
they can.
He occasionally conde-
scends to sprinkle a few one-
liners into the mucky stew.
Guilt-ridden liberal review-
ers will have something to
quote as they try to make up
for "missing the boat" last
time around. We don't know
if Allen bothered to invent
this stuff himself, or stuck
co-author Marshall Brickman
with the onerous task.
Typical with improvised
dialogue, you can't hear what
anyone is saying the first
half of the film. Diane Kea-
ton, Michael Murphy, and
Muriel Hemingway are de-
stroyed without a script and
strong direction. The loss is
particularly unforgivable in
young Hemingway's case as
the star of "Lipstick" and
"Teenage Mother" deserves
better. But New York stage
actress Meryl Streep knows
how to beat Woody's game;
she creates such a different
character from the townie in
"The Deer Hunter " that
you'd swear this actress must
be.a different person.
Okay, Woody. You've.
proven you can beat the
critics at their own game.
Now, cut the crap and get
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presented in tableau by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre. Jim
Turner, as the fountain, emits a steady stream of water on the stage
for realism.
of fungi, all of whom wanted
"to move up the ecological
ladder." Mushroom, athlete's
foot, psylocibin and refriger-
ator mold all put on quite a
show in lobbying for their
causes, but refrigerator mold
won out (I think).
Between sets, Jim Turner
(playing the fountain in above
photo) said of the act: "I
don't feel like I'm acting.
I've been doing this stuff
since I was 6, ' He intimated
his style was developed in
defense while growing up in
a tough neighborhood.
Five former U. of Iowa
theatre majors, Duck's
Breath's players exhibit al-
most frightening energy on
stage at times, causing one
to wonder if John Belushi
would have a chance if they
made a record. The fact is,
they are not only funny, but
they're musicians and vocal-
ists, a rare combination in-
deed! They're acting out
some absurd skit, they burst -
into song... and they're good!
But that night at The Laguna,
they used only a little music
to add flavor to the show.
Don't forget to watch for
them next fall, when they re-
turn from extended leave.
Jim Turner and Dan Coffey
plan to try standup comedy
this summer, so watch the
Chronicle pink pages for
them. Then the group will
make its annual pilgrimage
to Iowa, where friends and
original following await, and
return to headquarters in
San Francisco. Then there's
a series of campus appear-
ances, arranged by their
Monte Rio booking agents,
Show & Tell Productions.
Watch for their local appear.
ances, you mat' have the
great opportunity of seeing
one of their epics--Hamlet,
Gonad the Barbarian, A
Midwestern'Night's Dream,
or their new "Senseless
Cruelty: A New Western.
Just tell Bob at the Laguna
you can't wait to see Duck's
-Breath Mystery Theatre,
and he may just bring them
back.
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Former co-founder of the -
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Sunday, May 27; at the Inn.
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Show times are 8 and 10:30
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Though in no way an inter-
pretation of existing traditional
tunes, Robin Williamson's
new acoustic music directly
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heritage of songwritirig and
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Contraband Shakes `em Up at the Boarding House
The Contraband made ano-
ther smash appearance on
April 29 at the Boarding
House in San Francisco,
opening for Roy Loney and the
Phantom Movers.
The evening consisted of
two sets apiece for the bands,
but that didn't deter Dan
Christy and the other mem-
bers-of.Contraband from put-
ting all they had into their mu-
sic. And I must say I respec-
ted the band for not playing
duplicate sets, as a lot of
opening acts (and even head-
lining acts) do. Only one or
two songs were the same in
the second set as in the first.
Perhaps part of the reason
Contraband sounded so
excellent could be the fact
they were recording a new
single. In approximately 3-4
months it should be out, and
will probably feature a live
version of "Twist and Shout.
Their second single, which
contains "In The Night" and
"Searching for Affection, ".
came out less than a month
ago on their own private
Label, Louder Faster Records.
For a relatively new band
to the scene, I really have to
admire their professionalism.
One thing they do which is
really a nice touch is place
the drummer, Marc Randall,
to the side of the stage instead
of hiding him behind the other
band members, as is usually
the case. This enables the
audience to see the drummer
and also gives the guitarists
plenty of space to move arourd
--and move around they did!
Lead guitarist and vocalist
Dan Christy crouched, kneel-
ed, leaped and bound his way
'through the sets, at times
throwing his guitar behind his
back to grasp the microphone
better to sing. With his wide
red tie, earring flashing, and
characteristic chain guitar
strap, Christy sang and play-
ed like a budding George
Thorogood --only more ori-
ginal!
John "Maddog" Baumann
played his keys like he'd been
doing so all his life, and dur-
ing one particularly hot num-
ber even jumped over the top
of the keyboard and new to a
mike like one possessed to
sing a great lead vocal and
get in front for a song.
An eerie apace-like intro.
was coolly pulled off by
Michael Stone on his Fender
jazz bass during the song
Tears for Two. "
Lou played for almost two
hours, making it worth the
wait! There were no open-
ing acts that night, but the
crowd didn't care; we were
there for Lou. And he didn't
let us down.
After "Sweet Jane" was
"Waiting For My Man, " fol-
lowed by "Little Queente,
the duration of which a
cigarette danced, stuck into
the strings near the pegs of
Reed's guitar. The guitar
strap itself read in fancy
white outlined block letters
"ANIMAL, " for a rock'n'roll
animal, that is.
A sax solo highlighted
"Walk on the Wild Side, " and
after the applause died down
we could hear cries for re-
quests ranging from "Coney
Island Baby" and "Itock'n'
Roll" to even "Over the
Rainbow!" But Reed didn't
deviate from the songs he
had planned, which featured
a lot of oldies.
The sax man demonstrated
his talents as flutist during a
beautiful rendition of "Per-
fect Day," the band sounding
very jazzy throughout the
chorus of "You're Going To
Reap Just What You Sow.
Lou began what many
think of as his theme song,
"Heroin, " by playing a solo
under red and blue lights.
Gradually the band joined in,
and the song picked up. tempo
and melted into a medley of
"Tracks of My Tears" and
"Shake It Up" before re-
turning to ' Heroin. '
Continually smoking ciga-
rettes, Lou played "Bad
Luck" off his newest album
as his last song, and held
the audience at bay while
they cheered, clapped, and
stomped for an encore. For
awhile it seemed as If Lou
wasn't coming back out.
but finally he reappeared to
do some rather unexpected
encores, including the old
song "Pale Blue Eyes" off
the third Velvet Underground
album and "I'll Be Your Mir-
ror," which is also an oldie
I hear Lou hasn't played on
stage for quite some time.
The final song was "The
Bells, " title track from the
latest LP.
Pandora
Contraband's Dan Christy, "I want to
keep smiting songs everybody's
mom and dad will hate."
The Contraband plays a
very musical, intellectual
sort of rock'h'roll with the
punch still intact, and I must
encourage every lover of
rock'n'roll music to see this
band at first opportunity.
They truly have a lot of po-
tential. ? . .
Which I'm afraid was not
the case with the act to fol-
low, Roy Loney and the
Phantom Movers. Singer
Loney strutted and quacked
his way through songs not un-
like an impression of Donald
Duck, and the three drums
and three cymbals seemed to
be too much for the poor
drummer. Their set consis-
ted of a mixture of songs
including Elvis Presley's
"Return to Sender. " One
highlight was "if You Ain't
Gettin' Out, " which had that
"punkabilly" sound coined by
the Cramps of New York.
Apparently some members
of Phantom Movers were
once part of that great S. F.
band, the Flamin' Groovies.
If it wasn't for that claim to
fame, they'd probably be
playing to empty halls.
Lou Reed
On May 9 some. friends and
I witnessed one of the all-
time rock greats, Lou Reed.
He opened the sold-out show
at the Old Waldorf about an
hour late, with the classic
,tune, "Sweet Jane."
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