ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

Last night developments of the Stones tour: Gary Stromberg, house flack, put a piece of raw liver in the rose petals Mick threw out to the Madison Square Garden crowd; Chip Monck whip-creemed Jagger.

That guy on the Jefferson Airplane's new album cover? Actor Rip Torn.

Gladys Knight and the Pips were jfrlappoae&to sing at the PexnoM receive enough passes. Ohio had * tkaibte on evety ra|t-call, they ;

show this time out, does that make semi-cancelled Dick Cavett 'new Ed Sn&tvan?

^Strange Case of the Hidden Rod Stewart Song: Wp*d been touting that Nev cr A Dull Moment would have Jerry Lee Lewis* classic Whafa Made Milwaukee WgmxiiM* on Wbe«ther«seo$fM Came it didn’t and - briefly - our \ 'faces w«rem£’ ]

\ Turns Out that the c&w booze -halhtd.is^th^ebright:onthe«| , egj^hMptd cartridge versions. No |§at Mereur^knew wh||J| sure, it wasn’t on the a&um. One person ventured faat&fllktMbe; because people who boy^shac don’t buy singles, and people who buy albums do. Therefore, went the speculation, since

“MSwaukee” Stewart ‘B’ side, Rod deckled the |§|sell some mope copies Was to leave “Milwaukee” off the record.

Now, maybe someone can come up. with the full "Python" story?

Cheech and Chong’s voter le^siration drive is paying off: San Antonio, Texas recently gave |P^':, the keys to thefct^afaL in t^s only move that top that, the Taco Council of the Wbrld presented them with the* largest taco ever made for their voter registration campaignToo bad about the Flying Butrito -5 —Brothers, too. (Earth News)

Tony McPhee of the Groundhogs is reportedly looking to do the m V ultimate ” hit onc »ofa on his guitar, spend j J.' the rest pf the evening syn|P* ^

Hollywood after being apprehended on ajtesfe yfcar ol Jipflwarrant Seems Pollard leased ap auto in 1969 and never made any paymenijjjiP^

version of “Hot Rod Lincoln” | and the pahey apparently Continues into the ’70’s. They’ve (EH)

Was the real reason F^fe, f^pab^|e#gaedfrpm;' . Mountain because the group’* mereasmg the decline of h&hearing? And whgr^a^n’t West, Bruce and Laing signed with are rumored to have the inside track.) Hi

Teshavea new drummed Aten"" White who lastappemed with loe L Cocker on his recent tour. Bill Bruford has left, to play in the |ppl asa »dmnws with Kimm 8 Crimson. Illftl i C\U, ftm -

That Marc Bolan/Ringo Starr AfW# J&Ogm, will appear in movie theatres here I; |qpgdwa W&Britain) in ^ documentary, featuring a i Wemtdey Stadium gigbythe grpup,i^rta^u^k|srdWkh Ringo and Elton John. There’s * also an Ahce^Womkriartd,' tea-party sequence, fSmed U John Lennon’s home in Ascot v^th Mare and jRir^o at aoe table, j mud Jtme G^rcVwife) arri 1 mbtngOhiaK) mmsai '.tan, -no |^iT

The Fillmore East is due to open v again in. September. The 2,654 Long Island realtor Frank N. faded Ute theatre wdl have anew name in ^ the fall, as well as ballets and classical concerts inside.

CaptaSBeefheatt:sdntTefa»0'-:';:. TuB SB crates Of oranges after i^i^'V'aii:^riihottghp^f:| P|pfoh^troll looked thick as Wfafam* ’ C - ■

The Stones recorded themselves, Stevie Wonder and the Dorothy .Norwood singers in Houston for *

Ar^pud. Raum^r/who had been piayir^ with foe group since Jerry j ttfesahm; or long hair.” | several days in a coma before he a

Abce Cooper’s next move? To Roadway in November, and then a new lp, along the lines of “Alice for President.’7 *

You’re So Nude: It’s all the rage in England. The Rock & Roll All Stars wore the first, appearing in the all-together for the Curious'‘| Pillow Book. Then Hawk wind and St. Cecilia, two other British groups, agreed to pose naked for the new women’s pornzine, Women Only.

OZ beat everyone to the punch, however, by scoring Germaine Greer’s husband. Paul fl clu Feu, with his cock dangling on the inside back cover of their ' latest issue. He’d been visually jj castrated bv Cosmopolitan when they ran his centerfold, du Feu said, and was angry. Thus OZ. *

liljliii' Funk, reportedly recording in Nashville, have added a fourth member, Craig Frost, on organ. They ’ve known him for a while; 'tfee new Fourth-Punk formerly played keyboards for the notorious TernKnight and the Back;

Ford Sutch, the screaming . crooner profiled in CRFEM’s Beat Goes On a couple issues ago. has done it again. His most recent promotional venture was to send two naked young women to No. ' 10 Downing SfM London, wilh an invitation to Prime Minister Harold Wilson tor his latest show.

Keith Moon was hospitalized m I (he’s out now) with an abeess inept red while doing a?? * double somersault while touring, With Sha NaNa to Belgiu|||J| -■ . v •• ■

Murray thejC, notorious 5 th Beetle of foe early ‘60’s, is baek oo New York’s WNBC-AM, with a

Top Notch Convention Quote (Democratic) Florida governor Ruben Askew, in his keynote ; speech: “This convention ingoing - to prove that freedom's not just mother word for nothing left to I lose."

And the Ft. Lauderdale News reported that “cities who will'! house delegates were warned they should increase the chlorine content of their water supplies lust in caseV!

T C » Current Audio Magazine has its first issue out, after winning a court battle w ith Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager. The magazine, which comes in the form of a record (distribuMd by the Buddah Group), had taped Elvis* historic, l’irst-and-only press • conference (given before his ' Maikop '§|uare Garden date in ' July) and put it in as the cover J story in their first issue. Par|^§^ and Presley flipped out, but to avail: the courts ruled that the . taping was legit since Current Audio is not cleared for broadcast purposes.? * y.%

The mag is being distributed to record stores and other record racks, listing at $2.49, but ' generally retailing for around $2. "

, Black t)ak Arkansas, the hillbilly | zanies, are playing benefits for ? Ralph Nader this fall. Plans are': for the BOA shows to raise Iraoney for .consumer law centers i at cross-country college campUSC*. I Will lim Dandy Mangrum become Nader’s Eagtotou^^* ^

I' Following hard on the heds of foe Allman Bros., Black Oak have coughed up J [own town in the Ozarks.

Final costs are expected to run' | $ 750,000 for 1,300 acres Jpliid deep:. to the hear t of the pzarks-Tto? bah| Will build [Aefoame hduSeSlf^Mdjtion to H housing already existing on the -lland, TfteyV© stocked "foe, risers,. I and fields with deer, wolf, bear, ' bass and trout.

Shelby Singleton, producer and record company ! executive whose biggest success has been the Sun reissue series and Jeannie C. Riley’s “Harper Valley P.T.A. ” got busted K$: grass a few fortnights ago.

A sixteen foot tall dope plant W&Sftomd growing to Singleton’s greenhouse. According to Ms son, who was also arested, Singleton \ thought that the plant was

The code authority of the National Association of casters has quietly rerommemfod' Impending of the hart advertising.for women’s hygiene ': . products r specifically, tampons jj and sanitary napkins. Wonder who they’re gonna get to do endorsements? (EN>,

The tf&f Mael of Warner Bros, group Sparks (formerly .* Halfnelson) was given a standing kjvatipn for hitting himself ofl the Bwith-a tun pound sledge ng a performance of JljfoMore My, NIC© rad to be and it wasn't part of

Marianne Faithful! is in a clinic to ' DtcrfrCord, Ingkiid, tfod^rg&ltog' -heroin withdrawal treatment. Faithfull, who is Mick Jaggef\&? former girlfriend and had a couple of mld-Ws hits (“Come Go With Me?’ '“Asfears%)fy’*; |fj reportedly “determined to cured,” according to hgr physician, Djr, fames Willis.

, Interestingly enough, Faithful had recorded - the Stohes’ “Ulster | in ^

toff Beck has finally formed the band OfhiS-$tflii& together w#h two ex-Vanilla y. E udge particles. Carmine Appice (drums) and Tim Boger t (base) Jit'' well as Max Middleton on piano and Rim Melfold on lead vocals. -(Middleton was to &eck*s last,'

Beck haa sbokett of joining , NfMPp#. Into crash'which • sidelined him for nearly two ^ [ye^^^rmearttime, 'foe ' Eudgesicles^idfmed.C^actus' with. | ex4Detroit Wheel Jim McCarty. "

A ieitoiijff Miami psychologists ■ Me helping patients diet by means of ah'fpetric Fork. A portable N shocker is attached to the fork, and if, after treatment at a clinic, ' -the ‘*£ood addict” goes back oh J 1stuff, the shocker is available to g o.

Canned Heat have replaced Joel - . | Scott Hill with Jamie Shane. ■* B Shane will perform t& “rhythm and writer for the group.” Shane Aripjoln the group during their ’etittohi tour -Wiid-Harp pf Boston, '

Lesley Gore is back. „ . On Mdfowru 4' "