Wednesday, July 24. 1991 ~ North Shore News - 25

Ramones rock and the gypsy lives on

OCK !S Ramones; Reinhardt is revisited: Fela is on

fire.

Ramones — All The
Stuff (And More) Vol. Ii,
Warner Music/Stre Records
1991

Rock ‘n roll, the pure spirit,
doesn’t come much more distilled
than this. Right up there among
the essential rock slabs of the age
is a track included on this com-
pilation, a pithy pop panegyric on
the power of painkillers — /
Wanna 8e Sedated.

No one can accuse the Ramones
of taking unneccessary creative
risks. The monotone spew and
leer vocal attack of Joey Ramone,
the snappy barrage of three-chard
songs and the interchangeable
succession of drummers — Tom-
my, Marky, Richie Ramon all
thumping away with glacial
determination, combine to deliver
quick mythical takes from

Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

teensville.

The Ramones dish out with the
dependable consistency of a
multinational hamburger corpora-
tion.

Live last year at the P.N.E. Joey’s
tales of travail were indecipher-
able, buried in the decibel overkill
of guitar onslaught. Thus Cretin
Hopand Teenage Lobotomy

Feast features music

From page 24

tion each year. ‘We believe the
festival should be a moveable feast
so we cen focus on the enviro-
ment of different areas,’ explains
McCandless. ‘To us, the Stein
represents an attitude: we worked
hard to protect it and now we use
it as a stage. It is synonymous with
the idea of compatibility with the
earth.’

This year's feast (Aug. 3-5) will
be held at Sea Bird Island, 4.800
acres of prime agricultural land
located 14 km from Harrison Hot
Springs. Blue Rodeo, Gordon
Lightfoot, 54-40, and North Shore

uftists Mae Moore, Ann Mortiiee,
Spirit of the West, Bob’s Yer Uncle
and Metropolis Dance number
among the talented list of volun-
teer-musicians and performers,

Organizers have added a 650-
seat family and alternative theatre
for panel discussions on topics
such as forestry, fishing and
aboriginal rights,

And McCandless says the festival
has changed with the times: for-
estry speakers will talk, for exam-
ple, mere about sustainable de-
velopment than demand an
outright ban on logging.

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became pretty much the same
thing.

Yet the conipilation chranicles a
Ramone dynamism not readily
associated with the band. The cuts
are not of uniform length. Occa-
sionally electric guitars give way to
acoustic. And sometimes more
than three chords present
themselves in a given song

Added bonus: Ramones clock in
with hilarious true-to-spirit cover
versions af Surfin’ Bird and Nee-
dles and Pins.

Django Reinhardt — Un Geant
Sur Son Nuage, PolyGram
Jazz/R.D.C. Records 1990

Although humbly born a

“wandering Gypsy’ 81 years ago
in Belgium, Reinhardt continues to
hold court as an original king of
guitar.

He died early at age 43. The
tracks on this compilation were
recorded between 1935 and 1940
and attest to a short yet prolivic ca-

reer, They were selected by
Reinhardt’s son and guitarist,
Babik Reinhardt, for release to
commemorate what would have
been his father’s 80th birthday last
year.

What the recordings lack in
sound engineering clarity they
make up ter in clarity of expres-
sion. Half of the 21 tracks here in-
clude violin virtuoso Stephane
Grapelli, Needless to say this sw-
iny puts fire in ihe belly.

And there are some great inood
pieces too, among them Nuages,
which still sells in big numbers in
France and a take on J,S. Bach,
Iniprovisation Sur Le t Er
Mouvement Du Concerto Ea Rc
Mineur De 1.8. Bach.

Fela Anikulage Kuti And Egypt
80 — Original! Sufferhead,
Shanachie Records 1991

This is a re-issue of four cuts at-
tributed to be “Classic Fela.”
Records between 1987 and 1984,

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no song — a loose application of
the noun -- clocks in at less than
16 minutes. At just over 21
minutes the title track Original
Sutferhead amounts to sweaty
Afro-lazz fusion catharsis.

Thase lucky enough to stumble
upon it saw the Fela show at the
PNE Aquastage !wo years ago. The
rhythm missionary was rude, lewd
and busting with smash-the-state-
diatribe and pan-African senti-
ment.

The selection on this release
represents a good sampiing of the
Yoruba-jazz-funk fans can expect
to hear from the Nigerians Wed-
nesday, July 31, at the 86 Street
Music Hall.

Be prepared for massive jam-
ming, intricate grooves and spiritual
healing. Tickets are available
locally at Out of Africa Global
Culture at Lonsdale Quay and
Ticketmaster outlets.

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