NEW KEITH RICHARDS LP DELIVERS & THE GOGDS RICHARDS ROCKS from the roots up; Banshees’ wail is wickedly accurate; a California duo dishes out jazz with soul. Keith Richards — Talk Is Cheap, Virgin Records 1988 It’s true. This really is the best Stones release to come along for some time. The spirit of the “World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band” resides in the guitar-playing fingers of this man. The front man may have the lips and attitude, but Richards has the all-important sound. . The raunchy guitar riffs, trade- mark chord changes, and the bat- tered, cigarette smoke-impaired voice make for rock from the roots up. No high-tech pyrotechnics, no extemporaneous filler — it’s the kind of sinewy Spartan rock chat gets under the skin and itves in the blood stream for a spell. Among the more exotic ar- MICHAEL BECKER music reviewer rangements on the release are Make No Mistake, an Al Green- inspired R&B tune and Locked Away, a surprisingly gentle, acoustic guitar-based tune. Lots of prime ‘candidates for saturation airplay with Take it So Hard, You Don’t Move Me and _How | Wish topping the list. While others his age turn inex- orably to yogurt and bran, Richards turns out a solo LP wor- thy of his legendary status as one of the rock genre’s durable bad boys. Siouxsie And The Banshees — Peepshow, Polydor 1988 Siouxsie and bass player Steven Severin, who have been a creative pair since the band was first spat from the corrosive ferment of the seminal British punk scene in 1976, are the lyrical dark heart of the Banshee project. The band first dabbled in poking a morally malevolent finger at pre-pubescent icons on the 1979 U.K. album Join Hands. Scary TROLLER EVERY WEEKEND! ere Pane oe DURABLE ROCK ruffian Keith Richards rolls out the spirit of th Stones on his new solo release. songs like Playground Twist and Mother, chipped away at the com- fortable version of childhood reminiscences to shock and shift the listener into gaining a new perspective on sou!-smothering evil. Peepshow picks up the thematic thread and spins it out with sus- tained accuracy. The music throughout the collection is readily accessible. Sadly gone are the punch-drunk raw edges that made the debut LP Scream such an event for avant-garde rock en- thusiasts 12 years ago. But thankfully gone are the droning idiosyncrasies that made some of the earlier work hard to like. Whether it’s taking a simple chil¢ren’s game to frame the hor- tific on Peek-A-Boo, or turning a spin on a fairground fixture, Carousel, into a grim exploration of loss of control, the bulk of the songs are pregnant with a de- cadent sense of nasty foreboding. Wickedly satisfying stuff. Tuck & Patti — Tears of Joy, Windham Hill Records/A&M 1988 California-based jazz guitarist Tuck Andress and vocalist Patti Cathcart keep it very simple on their debut release — just one singer and one guitar. The result is a potent, rare distillation of jazz and soul. . 921-7616 © Cc GREAT MUSIC es NO COVER Don’t miss the LANCE HARRISON DIXIELAND BAND every Saturday 3-6 p.m. Friday & Saturday Night Wailin’ Demons 6422 Bay St., West Van. § (Horseshoe Bay) Andress and Cathcart recently picked up the San Francisco Bay Area Jazz Society’s Jammies’ awards for best jazz group and best jazz guitarist. Cathcart has a subtle, powerhouse of a voice. She scats with the best of them. Andress has a sparing touch to the strings, favoring a quick, light plucking technique. Together the two have produced an intimate collection of exuberant jazz ex- plorations and vulnerable ballads, This coupon cannot ~ - HORSESHOE BAY 6695 Nelson Ave. West Vancouver 921-8188 33 - Wednesday, November 2, 1988 —- North Shore News New book explores CIA brainwashing From page 26 the Allan Memorial Institute (at- filiated with the Royal Victoria Hospital). During the 1950s and 1960s. Shucks. A Father, A Son and the CIA is one of three books now available in Canada that detail various facets of the strange case of Dr. Ewen Cameron and the approximately 100 Canadian men and women who were unwittingly used as real-life guinea-pigs by the CIA. The author of A Father, A Son and the CIA, Dr. Harvey Weins- tein, is not only a psychiatrist but the son of one of the victims. This book is his sensitive and frequently painful exploration of the effects * that these experiments had on the Weinstein family and the quest by the Allan Memorial Institute vic- tims for justice in our country and the United States. It’s true, folks: every word. The Canadian Justice Department in- vestigated this whole sad mess and released the Cooper Report detail- ing the role played by both the CIA and our own government (which provided 90 per cent of the AMl/brainwashing funding) in the spring of 1986. Just a few weeks ago, the CIA agreed to settle out of court with nine of the AMI plaintiffs (in- cluding the Weinstein family) after stonewalling for over seven years. The settlement was the largest ever awarded to non-Americans and constituted a successful ploy by the CIA to avoid revealing details about the rest of their brainwash- ing program. And there was far more dirty linen to wash. The experiments performed at the AMI by Dr. Cameron were on- ly the tip of a civil rights nightmare: in all there were 185 non-governmental researchers in- volved in this CIA fiasco. Similar experiments were conducted at 44 universities, 15 research institutes, 12 hospitals and three prisons. While much attention has been focussed on the AM! victims, they are only a handful of the men and women who were injected with hallucinogenic drugs, subjected to massive and repeated electroshock treatments and maintained in forced sleep for up to several con- secutive months. How did this happen? What ac- tually happened? What was it like to live with a brainwashing victim and then take on the CIA? Read A Father, A Son and the CIA (lames Lorimer & Co.; 265 pp.; $24.95 in hardcover) and discover for yourself the validity of the proverb that “truth is stranger than fic- tion’. 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