ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

In all the furor over the death of Borry Oakley and while CREEM sends its condolences to the Allman Brothers, Capricorn Records and all the fans of each the group is still going on with playing, whieh must say something about the fortitude of those who truly tove rock. And, what has barely been noticed is that the Allmans have added a new member, Chuck Levell, formerly with Alex Taylor's Friends and Neighbors. He plays piano, enabling Grog Allman to concentrate on organ and occasional rhythm guitar. No word on who the new Allmans' bassist will be, yet, hut their album, Lightnin' Rod should be out very soon.

The charming lady in the Wild Cherry promo picture (it was originally a trade ad, fot the group's first single, "Show Me Your Badge") is the wife of Brown Bag Records owner, Terry Knight. Pia Knight is abo credited wilh the discovery of Mom's Apple Pie, the other of Knight's first two Brown Bag groups. Load of new books on the way. We mentioned in the Mail Section that Greil Marcus is working on a book length version of his Rock-A-Hula Clarified, for Doubleday. tvoft'/ fuiv.t lot of the same material, whlch is good If yonVs road the CREEM essay, no( so swvll il'you ain'i. CREEM columnísl Bob Christgau hasjusl signed wiih Penguin, tv> do a boofc leníatívcly tillad />í\//í of imerican Rock Criíics whuh will be au üothologj of his artiules, and Consumcr Quides, Whlch haw appcarctl Ikmo and ill tho Village Voice, amongseveral dsowhercs, it) Iho las! U-w veáis.

In Britain, Charlie*(idleIt has edited the notorious Rock l-'ilc, a compendium of a multitude of Ig things: articles (inciudingone by CREEM’s Simon Frith), a listing of alt British number one records since the Rock’N’Roll Era, and a Ustingof At Top 20 from British rock papers since 1955. Mo American release information. 0* yet, but you can RNdcRs| additional details here.

Ringo Starr wants ChpejitJ^$ly* Chong to be roadies in his new film. Wily didn’t the I'ttesign Theatre think of casting them that way to their movie?

Lou Marvin is the heir to the S&H Green Stamp fortune, and an ardent vegetarian. On Thanksgiving day. Marvin and a group of fellow vegetable freaks, staged a happening - they called it - in fjNwt of u €k& Senders' Kentucky .Vij^dH^ckan Restaurant iryLos ■■ ,y

■ The gtoup ware dressed 8 jg {mdiditVand turkeys, except for who was dmaed as t!i*, Colonel. Marvin chased the pseudo-poultry around the restaurant, caught one. and was about to Chop off its head when other members shouted, “And . God Says Thou Shall Not Kill.”

Marvin then picked Up his guitar and belted out gsong „ (Written by himself) called ’’Love Animals. Don’t Eat Them.” .

Now, who’s gonna do the same for asparagus? (ENS)

Sha Na Na were in L.A. getting ready to play for KROQ’s mammoth promotional concert ; when they decided to call up their old travelling companion. Keith Moon. “Hey,” they informed the mad Whoster, “we’re having a party tomorrow, you onghla fly over.” End of conversation.

• Typical ending: Keith showed up the next day. enieped tiMt' entire concert. Closed his pub 1 early to do it, too. . ; ' , V

We rah into a Chuck Berry gig. ' with his stalwart Midwestern backup band. The Woolies, the other night, and got the surprise of our lives. We were prepared for an endurance contest between our nerves and “My Dinjfa-Ung^but vvliat we got was more than we bargained for.

in the middle of one number. Chuck went back and began to * .ad jive - that’s the only word for it with Woolies' pianist Bob ' Baldori. Suddenly, both of them grinned, Baldori stood up and took Berry's guitar In his hands, and Chuck sat down and:, | PLAYED PIANO! He’s good ^ j| plays it the way he plays guitar, sounds like the record^ \Vc wereshocked. And pleased. He still rooks on. * £. 8III

If you've got any McGovern* ||jadNtbh buttons laying around^; ■save ’em. They're worth S3 .[already? and their value-Canbe, ;;ekpee ted to. grp w? Alkd^suggested; 's3§o$d CprfKHr^Mh Ned Eranklin. the Republicans could have saved a lot of money by recycling some anli-Roosevel bu I tons .f(ottTjiN|S^^kbu tons read ?*We Don’t W|at |eanot

Nonnah Mailer’s next book, is ip cofiochonmi^turea of Mafttynl Momoe.Thebook will be called Marilyn Monroe, The Legend and 7%; Thtlh -* with copy by Kierf •and the photographs are from an exhibit, produced by Lawrence Schiller, Grosset & [Dunlap will publish.

ITtwm apparently will be a double, lino album from Derek and the Dominoes released shortly. It's a Clapton set, called /;/ Concert, and is the first release, in England, of Clapton manager Robert Sligwood’s how RSO (R.S. Organization, you see) label. The album Is due out in February in; y doAmerielh^;; release date has been

1 There is.alioan incomplete?; studio album made at $te Dominoes break up, which '1 Pete Townshend has been ^Misting Eric Clapton In over* i dubbing and mixing. Jim Keltner J on the original recordings.

Black Sabbath recently turned down an offer to tour South g Africa because they would have been foroed tb segregate their ' audience, Explained Sabbath JS singer Ctaie Osbourne, “The Idea was to have this tine down the IliftMcue of'the hall, with bkcks on one side and whites on the other* i and you weren’t allowed to cross over?; Black Sabbath said they. turned down the4our because the stipulations were, “totally insane and ridiculous?’ (ENS)

■ Johnny Winter is back in action. v Rick Derringer produced his new album in N.Y.’s Hit Factory. Also recording: Blue Oyster Cult, Jo Jo Gunne, J. Geilsand Joe Wa&pK?

I The first annual American pinball If showdown was held Thanksgiving | weekend in Washington D.C,, and 8 Wayne Rhodes, president and Kjounder of the InternatlilBlgM I Pinball Association, emerged the 8 embattled victor. &

Rhodes said that about 100 ’’flipper Freaks” engaged in the t tournament. Other matchesafe•] I expected to be held within the Byear, in New York and possibly -[ California. The International r Pinball Association'Can be reached at P.O. Box 8633, §|| I Washington, D.C. 20011. (ENS)

jjjjThe Who’s Roger Dal trey has converted a barn on his Sussex tec calls “the best location for a studio I’ve come across in 1 England. I’d recommend it to s? anyone.” * '*v-' :

' Daitrey is also working with a singer called Patches. “He has an incredible voice,” says Daitrey, “» ^ combination of just about || everyone you’ve ever heard.”

Roger is also a father now, of a girl named Rosie Lee. CREEM’s congratulations, of cpttiiiK,'*i

k'l^thember 'Ron Cobb, who was sort of the Bill Mauldin of the leftist press for most of the '60’s? He hadn’t drawn anything in two years, until recently, when he re-surfaced in Australia, with an ' editorial cartoon for a new down under newsmagazine,

Will the Jefferson Airplane split ? op, become just Grace and Paul ^nd-HotTufta in the near future?

Slade guitarist Dave Hill broke his ankle after being mobbed by fans ajig at Liverpool Stadium* ?'ii||'|?t|iected to'Mhtpk'casI 'for about six weeks, although he ^ continued on the group’s sell-out 'tom of the O.K. {CREEM’s favorite dementoid, tester Bangs, was on portions of the Slade tour, incidentally, and should be regaling us with the fa\, figgers ^

James Taylor and Carly Simon got married* Now James can publish books, and Carly can go to the University of North Carolina, or they can both go r nuts, and be locked up. At least afford if. |f

John, Entwistle, who plays bass 1 for you know Who. has formed a group called Ro Ro. The group won’t replace the Who, but it will enable the most silent member of the oldest intact English rock band to record some of the songs he’s not able to get down either with the Who or on his own solo I'palhums* 8

Also in the group are Alan llp'Ross, on guitar and drummer i||l||th^ne t%akin> both:pfwhomi|; ^.'N-^^^l^thiKntwIstle^onP > Mhis solo discs. Other members include Andy Snedon (bass?so it’s not quite clear what Entwistlw glpldysf and Michael Ship | (keyboards).

^nt^slqWentfal but True: The ^ g^ginai owner of the acre of land Black Oak Arkansas’ are subdiving Jgtn Heaven. Ark., was Grover ' s Cleveland, who soll||||n 1895.:/^ square inches and Arkansas (wlio can he reached do Atlantic Records, 1841 Braa^ publicist Bob Levinson arc parceling generous square inches to anyone who wants one, for as

Hot Rash: By the time this reaches you, a new/old Rolling Stones album should be on your local record merchant's shelves. Titled More Hot Rocks . . . Biz '' Hits & Fazed Cookies, it’s a two-record set issued by London ‘ to follow nnicSThe first Hot g^f||n|*f8| contains IS titles, | are *‘B” sides never befomy available on album? - this Is the part for St6ni‘^ > maniacs - is completely goen o\t*r to tracks previous!) us difable only on Fnghsh imports; Included ‘4Money?H'* lj§j ^Fortune TeUer/’^’Ppl^in^Ivy^ H Satisfied” and “Long. Loqg'" While?’ Liner notes are AtppHetK by Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stones' former nuiugcr/prodiuer of their curlier albums

..’Mate Solan mow'd to Wales.' 8?:; v./:. ':

• - ■ • , V:? : Alice Cooper sponsored a giant ■party at New Jimmy’s in Gay lllprce, following their bottb Olympia gig. Marlene Dietrjeb came asMyrq Breckturidil;*^ costume split down the middle half male, half female. When ''asked by’TV was, Alice replied. “Rons ' 'VSartett.” Rona smiled.

Cheech and Chong am ttheir own TV series’? Nbt can’t have Star 7)’ck. and Shindig too. (ENS)

ThesRqhii^Skm^-^iiljp^brditig;:'' m Kingston, Jamaica, with the same band that Paul Simon. The Staplc» Singers, Booker 1'.. and Leon Russell have used in recent months. Whether this means that flic Stones are preparing a heavily,; reggae-influenced album or‘not is open to question, though.

While in Kingston, the Stones occupied an entire 33-room hotel. included m their entourage aic 26 ■persons, from wives tpTarfsemaids (Earth News Seruu.)

when last we turned to;^ the plight of Led Zeppelin leader Jimmy Paget he WM being ^bothered no end by the construction of four 60-foot high fipabtes - which blocked the view of Loch Ness - where the monster is, remember? - from his J 'Scottish hdm«. W?31, Jiminy just ' won his suit, successfully preventing one of the pylons from being situated on the grounds of ' his estate. Said a Loch Ness Hydro Board representative, “This is going to add $150,000 to the coat of the scheme?’