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I'd been to the Palladium in Nev York for the first time during Christmas . vacation. 1961. Still called The Academy of Music—the name was a relic of palmier seasons—it was about as gr, tabby then as it is now. Between showings of some wide-screen John %%Tante oat opera. Murray the K was putting on his annual holiday extravagania. Right there on a single stage in hot succession: Joey Ike and the Starliters with _Chum and The Pepper-mint Twist. Cary "U.S." Bonds howling School Is Out, tiny Timi Yttro belting Hurt Anne the din of the band without seeming need of a mike. Bobby Lewis, as•vat and possessed, in thrashing letal visition on the stage, I couldn't sleep (a all last night, just a-thin/tin' of you! .. . Heaven. A living jukelx)x of the year's top hits that wouldn't quit. Most of the audience stayed ki• all three daily shows, sleeping or making out while Wayne won the West. | |||
x‘ as bat k last Iall. chasing Rockpile, featuring Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe. I Teat ales' Wert opening for Van Morrison at the Palladium, site or one 01 my first multiple rock-ins-roll orgasms, was one of those meaningful meaningless acci-dents that Nionnei,rut has a funny wont for. Rockpile is a semi-demi-supergroup among fans of so-called New AVav• rock, but I was there less to tide the Trendy train than because its music seems to come so directly from the pure sweet fountain of Fifties and early Sixties rock, the source beneath the Murray the K cobweln somewhere down deep near Chuck Berry. Buddy Holly and the Everlv Brothers. | |||
Edmunds, at 35, is among other things the grand old AVeisliman of record pro-clueing in England, with credits includ-ing Ducks Deluxe, the Flantin' Groovier. Foghat and lirinsley Schwarz. It was in 1969. as prodiitterc)1an ii I In lin 101- Schwat t. that lie met Lowe. then lead singer-smigwriter--hass player lot- the group. They became good friends—something you can see onstage-and Lowe began to absorb C' trything he could about producing Irom Edmunds. I hat was considerable. since Edmunds went through a pet iod of re-creating such rock classics as Do Don Ron Ron and ix/ It Rork down to the last note and muffled grunt. | |||
Lowe. in the last couple of years, ha% been gaining his own reputation as a production whit He's played, written songs for or produced nearly everyone who's anyone ill British New ll'ave. in-cluding most of the creatures in the Stills stable. most notably. among them Elvis (:ostello—wlii)se three albums Lowe prodttced. | |||
Fie and Edmunds also ha% c separate careers going: Lowe's Pure Pop for Now People (Columbia) Was it:leased last spring. mill a new one is in °Inked stun I I)'. Edmunds' latest. Tracks on Wax 4 (Swan Song). ■%iis the reason lot I lit tin-rent tour, since record-company wisdom de-mands touring to push what is lot ingly referred to as "new product." | |||
During last spring's tow Lowe. who had the newest albm, was billed as leader ol the group This time around, the new one is Edmnds', so he gets top billing. It doesn't appear to matter to them. One reason theCre in the band together is the fun ol it. | |||
Their Palladium slunv is a rave-up. | |||
From my balc-ony seat. Lowe. on bass, in football shirt and Levis, looks like a bean-pole Peter Townshend, while Ed-munds. on lead guitar in a black suit and retl tie. looks a little like Bonnie Franklin in Eliot Ness drag: and. come to think of it. the rhythm guitarist bring") to mind a slighth wasted Beaver Cleaver. Pure pop 101 now IX*Ople. | |||
As opening act. they get maybe 40 minutes and no encores. Thor use it. Like a one-(land Murray the K show, they rip out winners rapid-fir•. much of it solid as the rock of Chuck Berry and some of it pieces of the actual rock. The set is a three-braid of original tunes from Tracks on Wax 1 and Pure Pop laced with such true grease anima as Smiley Lewis' 1955 Imperial hit, I Hear You 101°r/tint. As the set progresses, they seem increasingly like kids at play. truly plugged in to the raw atavistic fun that rock *ns is supposed lo be. | |||
I liked it so ninth I saw them again in Chicago tcti days late, at the Park Il'est, where they were headlining after Van Morrison clashed and bunted fol-lowing his Palladium shows and Cairn-dav A-ight t jaw | |||
In Chicago, the survivors had them dancing in the aisles of the Park %Vest as Lowe sang in merry triplet descent: | |||
And so it goes, so it god's, so it goes, so it goes, But uthere it's gain', no one | |||
Edmunds doing Chuck Berry's d Land is a killer: I don't think 1'‘e ever heard anyone, other than Chuck himself. (Jo better Chuck guitar. They are on, and Lowe hardly takes notice when he %prologs a bass string during Heart of the City: he jes' plays on. | |||
After the show. I talked with Lowe in his tom bus. parked outside. watching the rain call on the black shining street as we talked, a gallon jug of cheap() California wint on the table between We began with metaphysics. | |||
''PLAYROY: V'at's the appeal of it? | |||
LowE: 1-11e reason why I started . . . I know it might sound very glib, but it's true . . . l started because I thought I could pull more chicks if I was in a group. | |||
''PLAYROY: What would you have done | |||
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