Rock Around The World: Jay Boy Adams-Fresh- Article/TITLE><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-9302529-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Walden arranged bene</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >fits for Carter's primary </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >campaigns by the Allman Broth</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >ers and other top pop acts. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Walden himself denied that he </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >had any political ambitions at </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the time, but he recently accept</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >ed a post with the Administra</SPAN>tion. Don't panic, though, since <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Carter has positioned him in </SPAN>such a way as to minimize his influence. Walden will not be a <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >Commisar of Kultur. He is </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >among 16 persons appointed to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the Committee for the Preserva</SPAN>tion of the White House. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 21.600000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Walden put a good face on <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >this embarassingly insignificant job. "I am interested in both </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >preservation and American Art," </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >he says, "and the opportunity to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >work in conjunction with Amer</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ica's most famous and historic </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >homes excites me." There was </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >no immediate reaction from </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Gregg Allman. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 16.800000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >RESOURCES </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 38.400000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 9.600000px; margin-left: 4.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >There is a lively militant tra<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >dition of politically explicit </SPAN>labor songs, socialist ditties, and working class anthems. London's <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Pluto Press collected the words </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >for such well known songs as </SPAN>"The Internationale," "The Red Flag," and "Union Maids" into a <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >pocket sized </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >Big Red Song </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Book. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Its </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >available </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >for S 1.50 </SPAN>from Pluto Press, Spencer Court, <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 2.620000pt;" >Chalcot Road, London, </SPAN>N.W.1 ... Music of a more respectable and traditional kind is <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >catalogued in two new hand</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >somly packaged paperback </SPAN>"illustrated encyclopedias" published by Harmony Books. Nick <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Logan and Bob Woffindon of </SPAN>New Musical Express have pro<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >duced a book on rock, admitting </SPAN>in their introduction that the ephemeral nature of the business <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >makes it "an undertaking of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >extreme foolishness." Neverthe</SPAN>less, it's a pretty book, as is Fred Deller and Roy Thompson's companion volume on Country Music. Both are organized alpha<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >betically by performers and fea</SPAN>ture selective discographies, 300 record sleeves in full color, and hundreds of photographs. Critic Nick Tosches looks at the under-<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >life of country and western in a </SPAN>new book, <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >Country, the Biggest </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Music in America, (Stein </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >and </SPAN>Day, $10.95). His is a historical look that emphasizes the black <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >influences on c&w as well as </SPAN>some of its seamier aspects. </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 117.350000pt; height: 47.900000pt; top: 177.100000pt; left: 175.700000pt;" > <LAYER top=236.133333px left=234.266667px width=156.466667px height=63.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,156,63" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 28.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >IS ROCK BAD <BR><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >FOR YOUR <BR></SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: -0.380000pt;" >HEALTH? </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 144pt; height: 745.300000pt; top: 225pt; left: 175.700000pt;" > <LAYER top=300px left=234.266667px width=192px height=993.733333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,192,993" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >The latest study which <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >`proves' rock n' roll is bad for </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >you contends that the beat and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >rhythm of the music itself causes </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >learning disabilities, affects per</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ception, and disrupts worker </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >productivity. Dr. John Diamond </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of the International Academy of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Preventive Medicine finds two </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >principal' problems with rock </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >music. "One is stopped </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >rhythm," he told Geoffrey Pre-</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >court in the </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Boston Herald, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"The music ends after every bar. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >There's a heavy emphasis on the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >stop. Then, it suddenly starts up </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >again. The music has no real </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >flow. The second characteristic </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >is the beat itself . .. </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >it </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >is the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >exact opposite of your natural </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >beat. My theory is: When your </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >body reacts badly to the sound </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >of rock, it sets off an alarm </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >mechanism, suggesting that </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >something has gone wrong with </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >your heart. When the alarm goes </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >off, your muscles weaken. Your </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >energy level drops." Dr. Dia</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >mond claims that it is the back</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >wards beat in rock which is </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >responsible for this, a beat which </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >characterizes about half of all </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >rock music. He further claims </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >that there are studies which </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >show that when one factory </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >turned rock off, there was more </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >productivity. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 38.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.380000pt;" >COLLECTOR <BR><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >OF THE YEAR </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >The heart-break record col<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >lector of the year award has to </SPAN>go to Clarence Browne of Ros<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >lyn Estates, Long Island, whose </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >sad saga became news fit to print </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >in the </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >New York Times. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >It seems </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >that the 51-year-old welfare re</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >cipient, who gave away most of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >his 5120,000 inheritance, has </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >750,000 records in his house—</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and he is facing eviction. "They </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >are everywhere," reports </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >The </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Times, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"in piles on the floor, in </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >the refrigerator, on tables, on </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the fireplace mantle, in cartons." </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Browne refuses to give them to a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >museum, saying that "They're </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >the only things I have left in </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >life." So the poor man has been </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >reduced to sitting in the cold of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >his unheated, dilapidated home, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >playing his records on a battery </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >operated record player. He was </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >asked if the cold would not ruin </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >his collection. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 24px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >His response: "People say <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >that records get brittle but they </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >don't. They are inanimate until </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >you put a phonograph needle on </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >them, and then they come </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >alive." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.290000; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >And that's news. </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 125.300000pt; height: 62.650000pt; top: 192.700000pt; left: 367.400000pt;" > <LAYER top=256.933333px left=489.866667px width=167.066667px height=83.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,167,83" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.600000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Arial Narrow,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 41.184000pt; letter-spacing: -0.380000pt;" >JAY </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.690000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 67.200000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Arial Narrow,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 41.184000pt; letter-spacing: -1.130000pt;" >BOY </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 139.950000pt; height: 30.750000pt; top: 255.350000pt; left: 367.400000pt;" > <LAYER top=340.466667px left=489.866667px width=186.600000px height=41px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,186,41" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.780000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Arial Narrow,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 41.184000pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ADAMS. </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 180pt; height: 244.500000pt; top: 288.400000pt; left: 367.450000pt;" > <LAYER top=384.533333px left=489.933333px width=240px height=326px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,240,326" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >If being a nice guy has anything at all to do with "the industry," then Jay Boy Adams might very well cash in on some of <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >his chips. What reason for such flagrant </SPAN>display of simple goodness when all of earth and beyond is in such bewilderment? <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >A simple answer, J.B. is holding heavy </SPAN>when it comes to something as basic and <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >serious as honesty and self-respect. Just </SPAN>living and sharing the life of a gentle and <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >caring human being </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >is </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >worth so much </SPAN>more than dollars and nonsense. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Coming into this life deep in the heart <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of Dallas almost three decades ago, Jay, </SPAN>at six months of age, unquestionably ventured on to Ansen, Texas, with Mom and Dad. In keeping with the Adam's Family lifestyle, the home they chose in Ansen just happened to be situated right next door to Jeanne C. Riley, who, shortly after their arrival, sat in, <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >as what </SPAN>else? A babysitter for the Boy. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 19.200000px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Jay, using all he was able to engulf at such early stages in his life, discovered </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 180pt; height: 244.150000pt; top: 288.400000pt; left: 555.500000pt;" > <LAYER top=384.533333px left=740.666667px width=240px height=325.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,240,325" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.240000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >that he had not developed an </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >understanding of good ole patience. Using life as a worthy tool, Jay was able to overcome the desperate need to scramble against time. "Yes"admits Jay Boy, "it all does have to come together, but at the proper time and in a professional way </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 16.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >for all concerned ... Our country's drivin' <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >a freeway these days. We're not ridin' on Colechi Road no more." And these changes </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Jay has experienced by performing 150</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >200 gigs a year for the past seven years </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >seem to have made way for a more worldly insight regarding his own group's </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >understandable impatience, regarding the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ole 'make it happen now' unproven theory. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >In keeping with past tried and truths, some </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >mistakes and helpful insights. Jay Boy </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Adams appears to be making giant steps </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >on the bumpy road to success, lending a more meaningful understanding of the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >realness involved with being more than </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >just another country boy. </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >—Sharon </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Ripmaster </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 180pt; height: 165.400000pt; top: 797.700000pt; left: 369.600000pt;" > <LAYER top=1063.600000px left=492.800000px width=240px height=220.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,240,220" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 19.200000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Fresh is not a punk rock group that slaps women in the face, nor the <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >Out of Borstal </SPAN>boys of the same name from several years back. Fresh evolved from a group called Fresh Start that achieved a fair modicum of success in '74-75 with their LP, <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >What America Needs. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: 1.120000; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >This year's Fresh is a seven-member Cal-Soul coalition playing clearly unpretenious goodtime rock that threatens </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >only to turn on your lovelight. No star <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >syndrome, no message, just a seamless </SPAN>team concept dedicated to perpetuating Otis Redding to War soul-rock formations with what might well be called <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >fresh-</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" > </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.270000; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ness. <SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" >The rising soul band energy in </SPAN>Feelin' </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 180pt; height: 154.400000pt; top: 797.700000pt; left: 557.650000pt;" > <LAYER top=1063.600000px left=743.533333px width=240px height=205.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,240,205" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 19.200000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Fresh <SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" >springs from the "family" core of drummer Fred Allen, bass Milo Martin, rhythm guitar Elaine Mayo, lead </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >guitarist Paul Marshall, keyboardist Frank Savino, saxophonist George England and lead singer Bill Pratt, a former Motown <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >backup singer. Fresh tightens its usually </SPAN>loose grip on strictly commercial structure to put out the singular "Whatever </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 19.200000px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Happened to Rock and Roll" behind Pratt's dynamite vocal work. Fresh is a <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >tiger in harness, but their tiger hands cut </SPAN>deep with untainted, unjaded joy. 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