1983_09 The Daily Collegian September 1983

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Southside Johnny escapes Springsteen's shadow
For most of his recording career.
John Lyon, otherwise known as South-
side Johnny, has been trying to get away
from the inevitable comparisons to
Bruce Springsteen — both men grew up
in Asbury Park area of New Jersey and
for his first three albums. Southside and
his Asbury Jukes worked under the
watchful eyes of The Boss and his right-
hand man, Miami Steve Van Zandt.
Southside and Springsteen/ Van
Zandt parted company in 1979, although
remained friends and occasionally
jammed together in Asbury Park bars
and clubs. The sound of the Jukes
stayed essentially the same, though a
rollicking brash and heartfelt combina¬
tion of Memphis Stax  Volt soul
With his eighth album, Southside and
the Jukes finally escaped Springsteens'
shadow Trash it Up! will in no way be
compared to a Bruce Springsteen re¬
cord In fact, it's difficult to even com¬
pare it to any of Southside's earlier vinyl
efforts, so different is the sound.
What you will find here is a stripped
down, revamped Southside Johnny and
the Jukes So far removed from his ear¬
lier work, Southside has even dropped
the 'Asbury' from the group's name
For Trash it Up!. Southside has
joined forces with Chic producer-guitar¬
ist Nile Rodgers. wh also produced
David Bowie's last album. What the two
come up with is a mildly interesting
concoction of synthesized funk dance
music, which is only marginally better
thann what is found on the dance chart,
these days
The songs, with the exception of the
title cut and "Bedtime."aren't that great
lyrically, but they arc rescued by superb
T-Bone Burnett first gained attention
in the rock press as a guitarist in Bob
Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in the
mid-1970s. Not much was heard after
that from this lanky Christian artist
until he opened a number of shows on
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siderable airplay on college and pro¬
gressive radio stations. His newest
record. Proof Through The Night,
establishes Burnett as one of this cor.-
try's best singer/songwri
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stark, plaintive Nebraska with its sim¬
ple, yet thoughtful lyrics that get Bur¬
nett's message across to the listener
without any fancy gimmicks. In several S*
songs, Burnett evokes images of Bob y
Dylan and Woody Guthrie with his'
acoustic guitar playing, and in others,
understated morality evi¬
dent in his lyrics. Burnett is making
musicjhat is. unqucstioningly. the
oppositcof just about everything on the
n rock with the best of
a crack band — keyboard-
Mansfield, bassist David
rummer Jerry Marotta —
has an all-star lineup that
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playing by the heart of the Jukes —
guitarist Billy Rush, drummer Steve
Becker and keyboardists Kevin Kava-
naugh and Rusty Cloud.
As usual. Southside's vocals are intense
and heartfelt, and are augmented by
some fine backup singing by David
Spinner. Papo Calozo and Steve
Simms
Some loyal Jukes fans may be put offby
the band's new direction — and the
absence of the incomparable Asbury
Jukes Horns — but Trash it Up! may
Springsteen and gain Southside an
audience he deserves.
On a scale of I to 10, Trash it Up!
Benefit concert for
campus radio tonight
There is a well-known song in the
play, "Cabaret" that says, simply, "Mon¬
ey makes the world go round."
Students at campus radio station
KFSR are finding that out the hard
Currently. K FSR is broadcasting 257
watts from a tower atop the Speech Arts
Building.
Since KUFW (the United Farm
Workers' station) took to the airwaves
this spring, KFSR has had trouble with
its signal, said Gilbert Mosqueda, the
student station's manager.
The non-profit radio station is pres-
entinga benefit concert at the Hacienda
Inn at 8 p.m. torvight. The San" Fran¬
cisco-based group "Translator" will head¬
line KFSR's first transmitter benefit.
"The big problem is KUFW. but
there are some areas that we should
have picked up even before" the other
station began broadcasting. Mosqueda
said.
"If we increase the watts to 3,000, we
could be heard over a greater area of the
valley. We could probably go as far
south as Hanford." Mosqueda said.
"We're still getting estimates, but so
far we figure it will cost between $4,000
•See KFSR, Page 12
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