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Last yeir's R/O blood driveyielded about 320 pints, lout songcimprovemnent is expected this yeardue to increase(d publicity.

TCA's next- blood drive this.season will be their 10-day lialblood drive, currently planned lor.late October.

11n the live blood drives hold rhsTCA it MIT1 during the year, theMIT comnm-uniyy typicallydonates about one percent oI theblood collected in theM assachusetts- MWtine Ked Crossregion, even though. the MIT community comprises only abouttwo-tenths o1 one percesl of therlegion;ll population.

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Also in the past, many studentshave spent their time in theAcademic Midway which followsasking questions about coreplacement. "It-is hoped-that -the.question/answer session] will al-low the Academic Midway to bemore of a time for exploration ofcourses and schools," Lazaruscommented.

Sklar pointed out that onereason the academic orientationhas not been well attended in -the

-it - was that upperclassmenremember how it was for themand give it very poor reviews.Because of the format change,however, he expressed his hopethat tomorrow's activities wouldhave a much higher attendance.

Because of the last-minutenature -of these changes, therooms chosen for these discus-.sions are not very close to Kresge.Lazarus said in his memo thatplans for a more careful re-organization should be under-taken for next year's incomingclass - involving better coor-

dination of facilities and perhapssome even more major modifica-tiOnlS to the orientation's format.

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By Eric ShermanDespite the new Massach-usetts

drinking age, this year's rush isgo'ing well according to most rushorganizers.

I- FC president Barbi Hill '80said that she was satisfied withrush and was not aware of anymajor problems. When askedabout problems with the newdrinking age, she replied that thefraternities were "trying not toantagonize anyone'that [freshmendrinking) would bother."

Bob Matteo '80. IFC rushchairman, said that it is a little tooearly to tell how rush is progress-ing, but that there have been nomajor problems~so far. On drink-ing, Matteo said that drinkingstill exists, but that it hasn't beenemphasized as much as inprevious years. He went on to say'"Generally, if a freshmfan prefer7-redoto drink alcohol, he was notdenied."

DormCon president Dean Phil-lips '80 concurred with Matteo'ssentiments. He said that thingsfare running smoothly and that

although freshmen could still ob-tain alcholic beverages, alcoholNvas "not. pushed as much as lastyear," When asked-about rushviolations, Phillips there had beenno major problems.

The R/O0 center reported that;ls of' Sunday afternoon, 1048freshmen had arrived andchecked in, Of the freshmen thathave arrived, 207 are women.This means that the number ofwomnen in the class of '83 is lowerthan had been hoped for.

About two percent of thefreshmen had not visited anyfraternities by. Sunday. Thegreatest number of fraternitiesvisited by one person was H .. Thegreatest number of total visitsmade by one person was 24.

Zetta Psi, a new fraternity atMIT, has been given special rushpriveleges for this year such as be-ing able to extend bids early. Asof' Sunday afternoon, they hadtwo 1reshmen accept bids. Matteosaid that this is not necessarily aibad signs since freshmen could beexpected to delay accepting onebid to see whether they receive

bids from other Fraternities.In general, said Matteo6 it is

too early to decide how a par-ficular 1'raternity's rush is progres-sing until freshlmlen begin to ac-cept bids on Monday.

An unexpected turn to thisyear's rush' has been the reaction of Bexley. Instead of follow-ing the traditional anti-rush, Bex-

ley has postered the Institute andinvited freshmen to drop by.

Accord~ing to Steve. Bradley,desk captain, Bexley is holdingneither a rush or an anti-rush."Sone peop ic we're being friend-

ly lo and Spom-e people we're stillnaot being ftriendly to," saidBradley, "[We're] looking forpeople who feel they belonghere.''

One problem that Bexley hadwats a lack of entry keys. Becauseof an error on the-part of thelocksmith, Bexley did not haveenough entry keys to Fit the newlocks that had been inslatled-overthe sumniter. Bexley had requestedthat no 1Ireshnien be temporarily

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The fraternity rush began with Friday's picnic & continued through theweekend. (Photo by Mary Anrn Helferty.) .

port Office summarized the feel-ings of a group of concerned stu-dents and faculty who had justmet to discuss the problem.

Among the agreements reahiedby the group were the shorteningof the orientation lectures to a-one-hour -session, and the in-troduction of a set -of informaldiscussion sessions immediatelyafterward.

The purpose of these discussionsessions will be to provide a morecomfortable atmosphere for stu-dents to ask questions.

Sklar noted that one problemwith the way things had formerlybeen done was thatquestion/answer time was offeredin Kresge - MIT's largestAuditorium - as part of the mainorientation lecture program. Thiscaused awkwardness for those notused to talking in front of largegroups- and needlessly wasted thetime of many who might not beinterested in a given question. Byoffering the question/answer timeon a more informal basis in smal-ler groups, the planners of thisevent are hoping to better servepeople's needs.

By Kent PitmanChanges to the "form and sub-

stance"' of tomorrow's freshmanacademic orientation have beenplanned in response to commentsf rom members of the M IT comr-munity that the old program wasnot proving effective.

In previous years "thefreshmen did not -feel that theywere getting any significantusefulness out of... core -orien-tation,"' R/O Coordinator EricSklar '81 explained.

According to Sklar, core orien-tation has in recent years con-sisted of talks which went intoconsiderable detail, about infor-mation which freshmen could justas easily look up in the FreshmanHandbook.

Today's program will offer lessin the way of redundant specificsabout the core options and moreof a general nature. It will centerupon "comments on require-ments and why they are," saidSklar.

In a memorandum written latelast month Associate Dean AlanJ. Lazarus, Director of theUndergraduate Academic Sup-

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TCA begins a two-day blood drive today in the Student Center. (Photoby Steven Solnick.)

By Jay GlassIFhe TIechnology Community

Associatio n (TCA) will begintheir series or sponsored MIT-IRed Cross blood drives today.The R/O drive will last throughtommorrow, with the blooddonation goal ror.the two-daydrive set by TC'A at 400 pints.

I'he location for the drive is thefourth flo)or of the Student Centerin front of the TCA office. Nursesand tablcs will be available todayfrom 9:45arm-3:30pm, and toinor-r<w froin 11:45am-5pm.

A delinite need for Iresh bloodnow exists in the Boston area,liter the accident-fraught Labor*VDay weekend.

No reservations are necessary,as donors will. be alotted donation

Led Zeppelin exploresdifferent styles of music ontheir new album, In Throughl'The Out Door. Page 6.

Think you can't dance to punkrock' Then you've never seenthe B-S2's in concert. Page 7.

The freshman picnic kicked off.RiO Activities Friday afternoon. For more pictures of the picnic, seepage 3. lPhoto by Mary Ann Helferty.V

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By Gordonl Rt. Haff.Ed note: Gordon Haff is ex-

periencing· his.Afkh RI/ Week. Hefiled these observations with TheTech.- The big weekend is Finally over.

Although many frats are still try-ing to rill their slots and althoughthe dorm assignment process isAt yet complete, the pace of rushas a whole is slowing down.

The striking thing about Rushweeks is not any differences butrather the similarities from yearto year. Even with Ed King'sdrinking bill which some thoughtwould drastically affect R/Oweek, Kush still goes on the sameas ever. Certain dorms and fratseven held their parties on thesalme nights as pre~vious .years.Without even looking at a DailY( *0nfsfisim, I still had a good ideaotf what was going on where andwhen.

To be part of the first weekendof' Rush either as a freshman orfnr upperclassmaln Is a truly uni-que experience. There are almostas many parties during thatweekend as during all the rest ofthe year combined. The partiesrange irom small, sedate affairs toraucous, expensive blasts.

Over the frats, the' days arespend on picnics, amusement parttrips, tours of' Boston indeed justabout anything imaginable.Thousands of dollars are spententertaining the freshmen duringthis weekend although many ofthe upperclassmen take full ad-vantage of the parties as well.

What is the reaction of thetypical Freshman to this? That'shard to answer because there areas many different reactions to theweekend as there are freshmen.Somilc freshmen have been party-ing to their heart's content andlel that they are having the timeol' their lives. Others seem to beoverwhelmled with the entirething; there are so many livinggroups and So much going on thatthey don't know where to start.Still others are just tired of the en-tire thing. The constant movingand talking at both the dorms andthe firts h s tired theil out andOltide thclm a1 bit sick of theweekoend.

I watldererd around the tratsand dorms this year as I have inthe palst ;flnd the parties weremiuch the smllle ;ias always. Kushweek set.4r the scene for somne ofthe biggest find best treat parties ofthe yealr.

Down Beacon Street and EBayStats: Ro;ad, bands blared theirmusic out onto the street and

iahiosl every frat had a party onF:ridav or Salturd;ay night. Some

.v¢ve iiad partits on both nights.T he dornms had their share of

:Ictivity as well. i)uring the daybirhbecues anld t'ootball gall¢es

erne used to entice freshmlten tovisit. At night Amherst Alley andAlmes Street rocked with withtheir s;halre oIf' parties.

The dormitory, parties weregenerally set oil a less lavish scalethanll were the frats. however.enthusiasti: upperclasssmen were

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;tssiLned while there were no entrykeys, but on the request ot Dean'Sherwood, they housed somefrXeshmen who, for a period ofabout one day, could not be sureof' re-entry into the building.

Another more serious problemthat Bexley has had has beenrumors being spread of theirtreatment of freshmen. Bexieycalled the R/O Center on Fridaywith a complaint that freshmenwere being told "horror stories"Bexley's treatment of freshmen.

to be more for the benefit of theupperclassmen 'than for thefreshmen.

Although R/O Week means alot of hard work, particularly atthe frats, many people here feelthat R,'0 is the best time -of theyear. There is nothing else whichis quite like R/O and indeed thebiggest barrier to it is gettingthrough and not collapsing fromexhaustion. it is a time ofdecision-making, but it is also atime to have, fun and a lot of it. Iguess that's what makes R/0memorable.

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At Friday's freshman picnic. open~ing speaker Peter Richardson-*48,the Director of Admissions, urged the Class of '83 to "care for others.".Before his words get lost in the shuffle of R /0 week, freshmen -andupperclassmen -should consider them caretully. How should youJcare for others in your time at MIT?.

Activities want and need helpOne way is through activities. You may not realize it, but the MIT

community is served by one of the most extensive collections of studentactivities. Movie groups, theater groups, service groups, a yearbook,and this newspaper rare all provided to the MIT Community at a verylow route because they are subsidized by students who donate their timeto make them run.

And for them to continue to run, they need your help. Someorganizations are on the verge of extinction because they don't htave thestaff to go on doing- their job. In the last few years, MIT has lost ;a new-spaper, a magazine, and a political action group., Pill these groups dis-appeared mostly because of a lack of staff, not because of a lack of'work,

Even groups w-hich are not facing imminent death are short 'on staff.Many groups have important positions open, but-nobody to fill them.Certainly, no group is going to turn you down I f you. volunteer.'

It is- very important that everyone volunteer his time to somer group.Keeping the activities in service is a cooperative effort. If you do yourpart for one activity, I'll do my part for another activity and we'll bothbe better olf, we'll get the benefits of each other's contributions, aridwve'll also get the benefits of knowing that we've done-something forother peop'le.

Develop skills, acquire a hobby

The benefits you can derive from involvenment in activities arenumerous. You get to sharpen your abilities to deal with other people.You mawy also get to develop some administrative skills.

In some c:.ses, you get to develop skills which are specific to a par-ticulalr acetivity. If you work as a business marlager, you learn ac-countiirg skills, if you work as a reporter for.The Tech, you can learn towrite.

You don't need to pick your activities solely on th~e basis of what wvillhelp you in a future jo~b, however. You may want to pick an activitywhich can be more like-d hobby. This way your activitie's can become arelief' from your classroom activity.

You don't need to choose your activities on the basis of what you didin high school. One purpose o~f an MIxT education is to broaden yourhorizons. As far as activities go, you can do this by tryi~ng somethingyou halve never done. MIT organizations usually do not assume anyprior experience. I had never had any journalism experience before Ijoined 'Flit T ech.

An important year forpolitical activity

There is one special reason to join governmental and politicalorganizations. Over the past few years, the MIT administration fiasprop~osed several policy changes, many of which would have beendetrimetntal to students. Without a concerted effort on the part of manystudents, we would now halve more restrictive drop date policies, morestringent grading policies, arid far less shareholder responsibility on thepart sol AM IT, the relatively free MIT environment would not be so free.You ca.n thank the students for this current state of affairs, and youowe it to ISuture classes to maintain or improve the quality of life atMIT.

This year promises to be an i import ant one for political activity. Therec~ently released Dining Commiittee draft report contains a proposal{o6r c~ollpulsory commn1tos metal phan for residents of certain dormitorieswhich would take effect with the Class' of 1984. This proposal hasalready sparked quite a bit of colztroversy. There is also the ongoing is-sue of' MIT's investments in companies that do business with South.Africa.. Furthermore. there are ualwalys issues popping up that nobodyever expected.

So I urge you to follow through on Richa:rdson's adcvice by gettinginvolved. Make sure you stop by the Activities Midway Thursday even-ing. I hope to see youl there.

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tow ~~Bob Wasserman '80 -Execuivtse EditorVolume 99, Number 428

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volved in-the process, was to as-sign as many womien as possibleto rooms outside of McCormick.In fact, only 13 freshwomen werepreassigned to McCormick.

The motivation', reportedly,was to encourage women to ex-plore aI wider range of housingoptions. This encouragement ispartly to help the living groupswhich aire newly coed this year,a nd p ar tlIy to al Ie v iat eovercrowding in MdcCormisck.That dorm received a largenumber of transfers fromelsewhere in the dorm system andfaces a tight housing squeeze thisyear.

Now what you've all beenwaiting tor. Whlile we're on thesubject of housing, I think its timeto pull out the crystal ball withthe First Annual Housing LotteryPredictions. Written at a still ear-ly juncture'(Sunday) and basedpurely on 'personal discussionswith fre-shpeople and R/O'workers, I'm going to be bold -and foolish -and guess what willbe fact by the time you read this.

First, it seems that the Class of'83 is more conservative than in

previous years. As a result, Iwould guess that despite their bestefforts, 'McCort-ick will still besom-ewhat heavil-y over-s ubscri bed,* whi le Desmon dHouse (New Hiouse) will fill easilywith women-. Consequently,-coedgroups, particularly on theeastern part of the campus, may.lhave some problems' attracting

women. Also as another side ofthis conservatism -emerges, I feel-r egque s t s for voluntaryovercrowding rn-ay be down qverprevious years.

Meanwhile, the frat. rush,although somnewhat' low key thisyear, is not too badly off.. Thefratern ity systemn goal this year is417. In spite of a reluctance on thepart of some freshmen to visitBoston frats-manly even spentthe weekent sightseeing - Thelist of frats in trouble numberedonly six on~ Sunday. Still, I feel thefraternity rush will continuelonger this year than In the past,with the goal of 417 being at-tained more slowly.

Vague though they deliberatelyare, those are my guesses. It I'mclose on the trends, I may even layodds next year.

Today, a vari ety of thoughtswhich made a -pit stop in my brainthis weekend on their-way. to sulreoblivion:

To show that colurninists don'talways havte to say bad thingsabout 'pe ople: congratulations tothe Admissions Off-ice! No, notabout what a great freshman classths:y ve giveon us ( I'll reserve judg-ment on that for a while), butrather on their' mathemnatics.There are now 1048 freshmen(sorry, freshp eople) on campus.Assuming that~not all of the 27no-show 'fresh arrive eventually,the final class size should land aw-ful ly close to the target 1050).

Whlt'~s with these no-showsanywaly? Did they just oversleep?

Among information 'availableto freshpeople this week 'was the"Undergraduate AssociationSocial Calendar - Fall 1979.''Now this is a new one oan me. Butif the new UA Social Committeeadheres to it, it looks like a busy.terns.

Accordinlg to this calendar, thecampus can look forward to: twolive band parties, a Casino niight,the bia;n n u l Sk uffle dance,Hoeilecoming Weekend, a revisedan1d enlarged Class Day, twomlore late winter parties, and poshsils Ya disco night. That seems tome like more camnpus-wide actionwhain we've had in the two yearsI've: been here. Not countingStratl's Rats of course.

Let's hope this new wave of ;ac-tivitv' will bie better attended thanthe old Rats. The new drinkiinglaw frees -up a lot of money oncespent on booze. If the UA's am-biti-ous planrs can bring -the stu-dlent body together more often, itwill be monkey well spent.

Another entry in the pat-on-the-back category goes to theR/() Committee and Deans-of-ftice {or deciding to preassign'frestip~eople to temnporalry hous-

inEn the past, temporary assign-men-ts xvere nzade when freshmenarrived on campus. The newsysteml is fairer to- late a-rrivals andmuch easier on the dorm. staffs,It's also one less decision that hastgo be madte during R/O week bythe already overburdened{'reshmten.

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P.roperly, it shoul d have beennoted that some people were up-set by the possible.-interpretationof the Grogo _picture, and anapol-ogy would have beenforthcoming.- In subsequent years,precautionls such as making surethat gorillas didn't too closelyresemble actual freshmen wouldhave been taken.

This year, due' partly to-a mis-under-standing within tile pie'turebook comamittee, Grogo ap-peared once again in the freshmanpicturebook. This time, however,the -address was Technique, MIT, not lKampala, Uganda,. Thus, the

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To thte Editor:Once again the M IT ad-

ministration. has rescued us fronrationality. In the grand traditionof the thurvda ',sex guide scandaland Jews for Jesus vs. MIT Hillel,they have made a big molehill outofai little molehill: once again wehave a G:rogo incident. It seenmstraditional that, when faced witha1 possible instance of its collectiveposterior being unclothed, the ad-ministrationz will chose the alwaysill-considered massive overkillresponse.

Two years algo, when peoplewere upset because'a gorilla fromU~ganda might, be taken as adegrading metaphor for a blackperson, the administration made

it poss~ible for the situation to getcompletely out of hand. Anadversary -situat.,on was es-tablished early, with otherwise-respected members of the MITcommunity bringing charges ofracism. to the Committee OnD:iscipline regarding an innocent-ly conceived Kack picture. The ad-

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(Continuedfrom page 4)picture was not inherently offen-sive, since the address was ac-curate, the picture was no dif-ferent from thde ni-ne -othler hackpictures in this year's pic-1turebook, anid it chould have beenaccepted by-' much of the MITcommunity on the same basis asthe picture of Grogo Ion the lastpage of this year's -Technique.,

However, the administrationsaw thi ngs a bit differently.Goaded by the memory of the lasttime Grogo ap'peared, theydemanded 'that the TCA deletethe picture. Although the demandwas phrased as 'a request, such a.bleak picturec was painted of theconsequenc es of disobediencethat the TCA had 'no choice butto comply. The people who wereoffended the last time would notcare about the address, andwouldbecome -so enraged that 'theywould be completely imperviousLo 'ratiocination. Disciplinary ac--tion would naturally be taken,,and there could be no defense,gainst the charges- that were sure'o be made. Further conseque ncesilong these-lines were left to themagi nations of the -TCA-nerbers.

The adrninistration was com-Aletely within its rights in exercis-ng control over the co'ntents ofhe picturebook, since MIT is a)rivate institution. Howevier, ex-~rcising such control in anacademic environment is general-y reserved for emergency situa-ions. This' is the reason the ad-n inistration - requested . ra therihan ordered action -by TCA., andhe reason for regarding such re-iuests as "censorship" insofar ashey actu;ally 'appear to be orders.

Several methods of dealingiith the picture were discarded: arinted apology or disclaimer, anpaque mask, and ink. Anything,hich left the picture unconcealed,as reject'ed; even though the ink)aked through the page andestroyed Maurice B. Henldon'sicture, it weas still possible tolake out the offending -pictureid legend. The glued-on mask)uld easily be resnoved from theazed paper of the picturebook,though over 800 copies were so:asked before the rejection cametrough. Fortunately, a request~at all the books be destroyedid new ones be printed was,restal led; the problem .wasIved . with scissors and razorades.The notch on page 16 of theictulrebook- drew -moreidespread attention than the pic-re would have. Even more at-rition would have been drawn ife picturebook had been held upitil after Labor, Day, to beprinted. Furthermore, the peo-

who feel insulted by the pic-re are probably unaware of thearched address, and thus willobably be at least as hurt as-y were last time, when no hurtnecessary or intended.Although the gesture of cen-ship has been made, the only)up likely to be appeased byIt gesture is the administration-if. In order to forestall the pos-ility of blame -being laid on theministration for something-r which it had no actual con-I (in fact, the committee of--d. to print - a statement ofponsibility in the picturebookpreclude this), the administra-imade a scapegoat of the

;hman picturebook committee.;ince the TCA members in-ved were quite contrite, having'

desilre whatsoever to re-~erience the events of two years,,and since they *gave evidence

rood faith by readily accedingthe 'administration's 'requests,-iplinary action is much lessAy to be taken than it:rwise might be. 'However, I

Perhaps it will be possible forGrogo to be seen, not as~ a hatefulsymbol. of racist ,opression, butas the beloved mascot of MIT'syearbook.

in this letter, only my own opi-dions halve been expressed.Although 4 participated in thepreparation of this-year's pic-turebook by writing the format-ting-program and otherwise as-sisting, I am neither a member ofTC(A nor its spokesman.

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The tendency toward hysteriaby the administration is alarming,to say the least. Clearly,

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The emergence of John Paul the albumn.'The album comesJones as a major writing talent wrapped in a brown paper bagin Led Zeppelin had been long stamped with the song titles

i. overdue, if In Through The andcopyright info.The coversOUT Door is any indication. inside the bag all show a barNevertheless, Jimmy Page still room -scene of a man sittinginfluences every note the band . alone at the counter, burning a

I plays. 'Dear John' note with a lighterI don't think this album will as the few people left there

go over particularly'well with look on. The-pictures are inthose -Zeppelin Ellns whose black d: white, tinted brown torock iastes center among look filmed, except whereAerosmith, Van Halen, and -there is a swipe across theTed Nugent, Therecord is too man. The inside, of that area isdifferent from those "metal" in color. There is one cover forbands to appeal to them. each of the-people around theConversely, I think that peo- ,man, showing their view of theple with -broader musical, note-burning scene. One coverpreferences will probably like is the -piano player's view,it very much for the same another is the man with thereason. coat's vikw, and -so on. The

Hipgnosis has 'come front cover from the "B"through with another great album is illustrated with thisalbu m cover The covers for -review.Houses of the Holy, Presence, The more I listen to Itand 'The Song Remains The Throufgh T'he Out Door theSame were also done by more I feel that it was wellHipgnosis, but this one may worth the wait.prove to be the most spec , Kathryn Gropp

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In Through The Out Dloor, LedZeppelin on Swan SongRecords, 16002.

The tape ended. I stoppedthe cassette deck, and saw itstwin recording level metersgazing at me through their yel-low lights. I stared back atthem, tentatively punched therewind lever, sat back on thefloor and waited, sorting outmy feelings about Zeppelin'sninth album. And they weremixed or more precisely, un-decided.

In Through The Out Dooris different. On it, Led Zep-pelin experiments with manymusical styles: country, fiftiesrock, blues, contemporaryrock, and reggae (no disco,thank God - the though ofRobert Plant slugging out dis-CQ is inconceivable).

One difference is clear fromthe start. There are a lot morekeyboards on this album thanon any of its predecessors. Thecredits can partially explainthis, for keyboardist/bassistJohn -Paul Jones had a hand in-writing six of the sevennumbers- there are even twotracks for which he wrote allof the music. It has been tenyears since a Led Zeppelinsong (not including in-strumentals) was not at leastpartially written by JimmyPage. And as much as I enjoyintricate guittr work, I have to -admit that the interactionsbetween Page and Jonesthroughout the album weremore interesting than quadru-ple guitar overdubs.

A "Click' interrupted mymusings. The deck hadfinished its task and waspatiently waiting for my nextcommand. I hit 'play.'

On another listen, I noticedanother' difference betweenthis album and the others. inthe past, Plant's voice tendedto sound the same throughoutan album. Here his voice wasmore versatile, changing fromrough rocker to sweetserenader. The songs certainlybenrtft from his ability tomatch his vocal style to fit themood of the piece.

In fact, I barely recognizedhis voice on the opener, "Inthe Evening." The track startsimpressively, with Page andhis violin bow and JohnBonham and his kettle drums,a combination which sent mylevel meters into a frenzy. Theintr>'s near eastern influencesmeld into Zeppelin's familiarbluesy rock. Plant's throatyvocals blend nicely With thecatchy hook and Page is alsoin good form with a nice solobreak. A nice tune, butnothing spectacular.

The next cut, "'SouthboundSuarez," is one of the songswritten by Jones. A strongrocker, it hangs on his infec-tious arrangement and the in-teractions between guitar andpiano. However, it seemed totake a while -for Plant to reallyget into the song.

Starting with a laid-backreggae rhythm, "Fool in tbhc:Rain'' deals with a guy.standing on a street cornerwaiting for his lover. After awhile, he becomes disil-lusioned, and decides to leave

- he can't wait any longer. Itstarts to rain as he goes, andthern he realizes that he's beenwaiting on the wrong cornerfor her- all that time. Plantshines during this piece withhis smooth vocals. The initialpart seems to drag on, butwhen the tempo changesradically, the melody becomescaptivating., I was glad to hearPage playing acoustic guitar,for its lack on Presence was

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blues and back to rock withconsiderable style. My onlycomplaint about this song isthat the vocals tend to get lostin the mix, but considering theZeppelin's slick production Isuspect this might have beenintentional.

Entitled "'All of My Love,"the next track has,.like "Foolin the Rain" received a goodamount of airplay. It is a lovesong that shows Plant'at or

one of the things I didn't likeabout that album. Theacoustic guitar adds depth tothis piece, as it'has to many oftheir older works.

The last song on the side,"Hot Dog" owes something toJerry. Lee Lewis. Its story is aclassic somebody-done-somebody-wrong; the lyricsare funny-and the countryrock is well-executed. Zeppulls this change of pace offeasily,? producing athoughourly entertaining cut.

The second side begins witht h e a m b X t i o u s"'Carouselambra." For sheermusical quality, this track isthe best on the album. It windsthrough many. melodic andtemporal changes, with lots ofinteraction between guitar andkeyboard. As in "Fool" theslow section nearly goes on for-too long, and again theyswitch tempo just in time. Theslong t. avels from rock to

near his lyric best. Theimagery is moving, and thetune mellow. Once again,Jones holds the melody with'the keyboards (and syn-thesizer) with Page adding theembellishments on acousticand electric guitars. Lovely.This is the other tune whichJones exclusively wrote.

"I'm Gonna Crawi'is ablues number that closes thealbum. It has a very strangesynthesizer intro which soundssuspiciously like an orchestra,but the cut is otherwise un-memorable.

After several sessions withm'y tape deck, I doubted thatthey were going to tackleBeethoven next, although Iwas pleased to hear Led Zep-pelin try different types ofmusic - instead of "stickingwith what sells," as other ma--jor bands have. I t wasfascinating to- see how theymixed their blues origins with

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The Bloodless Pharaohs, alocal Philadelphia band, openedwith an hour-long set of their ex-eeptionally boringpunk-jazz. Myrelief at seeing the Pharaohs leavethe stage was soon replaced byrestlessness as I stood- in a crowdin front of the stavge for over anhour waiting for the B-52's.

They finally arrived, and it wasworth the wait. The band openedwith "Planet Claire," and im-mediately had the -shoulder-to-shoulder audienc~e pogoing andcrashing into each other. Theband played beautifully from thebeginning to an ecstatic crowd.

The B-52's capabilities as agreat dance band were clear asthey ripped into "52 Girls," thebest rocker on the album. The.crowd danced madly, causing thetemperature and humidity in the

club to start rising noticeably.The band, had captured theaudience totally aK- this point, andthey continued with a fine versionof -6,060-842."

The next song was an. old- B-52's number which doesn't appearon the album. "The Devil's in myCar" is a very funny tune aboutdealing with a balky ("There'sstatic on the radio!" shrieksSchneider) automobile.

The band continued with'Lava" and an exciting version of'Hero Worship." By this tine,

the heat and humidity were imak-ing the club almost unbearable.The audience continued to devourthe performance, in spite ofhumidity so high that condensa-tion on the ceiling provided -asteady downpour of artificialrain.

Next up were "There's a Moonin the Sky"' and "Di nce This

Mess Around." The latter is lotsof fun in concert, as you can see

-the members of the band actingout their roles in the song, in-cluding Fred Schneider perform-ing "all sixteen dances" (theCamel Walk, the Hippo-Crit, theAqua Velva, and the others.)

Next, the band started into"Rock Lobster," but stoppedafter a few measures when RickyWilson broke a strong on his,guitar. -He got another,diflerently-tuned guitar and theband, closed the show with"-'rrvate Idaho," a rare tunewhich does not appear on thealbunm.

The exhausted audience step-ped out into the cool Philadelphiamorning, XThe B-52's had done afine job under battlefield ~condi-tions.

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After gaining popularityamong new-wavers on thestrength of a single ("'RockLobster" b/w "52 Girls"), the J3-52's are clearly on their way tostardom with the release of their,first album. Perhaps the best ofthe artistic (read as'"beyond the"musical capabilities> of theRamones'9) new wave groupsaround, they have produced agenuinely exciting record-

Their music, on the first listen,is clearly out of the ordinary.D~riving, precise keyboards byKate Pierson' run.through thesongs. Fred Schneider's vocalshave a rough, thin sound, likeBob Weir with a chest cold.Vocals on some tracks by Cindy'Wilson are also a standout-, hersharp voice is an interesting con--trast to Schneflder's. The o'themusicians in the band are alsotechnically adept.

The album opens with "'PlanetClaire." Some lyrics from thissong illustrate the B-52's style:

She came front Planet ClaireI knew she camae fromg thereShe drove a Plymtouth SatelliteFaster than die speed of light.Planet'Claire has pink airA Al! the trees are redNo one ever dies there

No one has a bead.The song is made more in-

teresting' by somne marvelouskeyboard work by Kate Pierson,which gives it a spacey sound

The second song is `i52 Girls."T~his iS a real rocker, which con-sists ma3iiiy of uncommon girls'names, and th e repeated question"Can you name, ntame, name/-Nsame them today?" Like someother 8-52's work, it parodiessimilar tunes of the 1960's.

I "ance this Mless Around"seems very strange, but it's one ofthe best songs on the album. Ithas a confused, lengthy structure,but remains interesting as itparodies parties and people."'Rock Lobster" closes -the sideout with,.a look at a beach, party intypical B-52's -style.

Side two starts with "Lava,'?which overflows, with sexualimagery. "There's a Moon in theSky (Called the Moon)" isanother visit to space. "HeroWorship" displays CindyrWilson's voice beautifully, asFred Schneider moves tokeyboards. "-6060-842" is thestory of a person who reads a-scrawl in a lavatory promising"'600842"/And I'm ready for

you." He tries to call over andover,- but the number has beendisconnected.

The closing song, "down-town,'" is the same tune that was ahit for Petula Clark years ago.The B-52's give it a sparse anddistant sound, with city streetnoises in the background to-malkethem sound as if they are playingon a busy street corner.

The. R-52's appeared last Tues-day at the The Hot Club,-an ex-pensive and poorly-run clubWhich is, .unfortunately.,Philadelphia's only genuine newswave showplace. After waitingoutside during a sound checkwhich lasted until 10:3,. the

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