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by Bill Bently
The benefit concert for Rubin "Hurricane"
Carter held Monday night at Madison
Square Garden--featuring Bob Dylan's
Rolling Thunder Revue-- raised more
than $200,000 for the boxer imprisoned in
New Jersey. Earlier that day Dylan and
troupe sang for Carter at the prison.
Dylan was accompanied by Joan Baez,
Joni Mitchell, Roberta Flack and Allen
Ginsburg.
It had to happen. The Ku Klux Klan has
chosen Charlie Daniel's song "The South's
Gonna Do It Again" as their theme song.
The tune is used in ads designed to
Jimmy Cliff has moved back to Jamaica, improve their image.
putting to rest rumors of his attempted "*
Americanization. When asked about the
roots of reggae, Cliff attributed "ingenu- "'" If the sun rises as usual on December 22, it
ity" as the most important factor in the may be due to an unusual force acting on
Jamaican music's development. Austin's pioneer underground newspaper the solar system. Every year in an event
The Rag has found the solution to their named Cabaret Orson Welles, a few
• .. constant money problems: porno movies. Austin folks engage in a sort of Dada
By co-sponsoring skin shows the paper has ballet folkdance to celebrate Winter
The man who claims he is the most famous netted $3,000. The extra twist of the Solstice and insure the return of the sun.
man in the world, and is probably right, whole affair is that the films are being The ritual evolved around the belief, as
has opened up the first in a chain of fast shown in University auditoriums. Itexpressed by Jeff Woodruff, that the job
food restaurants. Muhammad Ali's fish, wasn't that long ago that UT banned the of a poet in the external world is to
chicken and fries eatery is tagged Ali's Rag from being sold on University coordinate people's consciousness with the
Trolley. At the grand opening in Chicago property. Lawsuits followed, and the U.S. rhythms of nature. Jeff says the ritual
it was suggested to All that the singing Supreme Court eventually ruled in favor seems to have improved his life for several
boxer Joe Frazier be enlisted for of the newspaper. Now, with the money to months, and that it works on electromag-
entertainment for each subsequent be made in the tits & ass trade, there is a netic emanations which are essentially
opening. Watch for an Austin Trolley possibility the Rag will begin running a part of ourselves. Physicists can explain
soon. centerfolds in '76. it...but who makes the sun shine?
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Ken Moss, Wall Street drop-out who later
founded Freelandia Airlines, has pleaded
guilty to involuntary manslaughter
charges stemming from last year s death
of Robbie Mclntosh. McIntosh was
drummer with the Average White Band.
He died about 12 hours after inhaling a
white powdery substance, originally
thought to be cocaine, offered to him at
Moss's Hollywood home. The substance
turned out to be heroin. Moss faces a one-
to 15-year prison sentence.
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The Broderick Crawford Blues:How can
you tell what the latest American
consumer craze is? Watch what the
junkies steal. It used to be TVs, then
stereos. Recently, police report, the
majority of heroin arrests also involve
recovery of citizen-band radios (CBs).
10-4.
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Pigboy Crabshaw does the Funky
Chicken. Elvin Bishop brought his
hog-calling rock to the Armadillo last
week. Bishop's set had to be delayed until
the Monday night TV football game
ended. Two-thirds of the group couldn't
take their eyes off Cosell and his cohorts.
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The first recording to come from Onion
Audio will be Bulcones Fault's first single,
"Do It" b/w "The Doctor Knows His
Business." Onion is located in the inner
sanctum of the Armadillo.
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The star of the Manee Lipseomb benefit
turned out to be none other than
Lipscomb himself, Les Blank's document-
ary film "A Well Spent Life" transported
the large crowd at the Paramount Theater
into the Navasota life of the ailing blues
man. An early set by Doug Sahm and a
closing set by Ry Cooder added to the
evening's spirit. The night was organized
by Kurt Van Sickle.
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