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...Morrison's ex-guitarist and an album. They Only Come Out at Night, a sly dig at faggotry with a cover shot of Edgar looking like a ship's prow in drag. The band is much more straight ahead rock than heavy metal funk, and this oughta be a rave...
Which is lucky--the play itself is actually nothing to rave about. Forty-five minutes long, it takes place entirely inside a baby's crib in Harlem. The social message is about what you'd expect, and one character even has to come right out and any it: "Too many babies are bitten every day!" ("Sometimes I'm afraid I'm going to start laughing at that line," said Kit Williams, who plays the baby and at that point is waiting with amazing realism. "It reminds me of a Unicef ad or something.") The tragic parts of the play tend...
...Right on, Midge Decter! Let the Ms. girls rant and rave; let them prefer usually dull 9-to-5 routines in business to taking care of their own kids. Poor things! They seem to have no sense of humor or of fun, but whom are they fooling but themselves? Although fanatics sometimes accomplish improvements that are needed, offensive tactics make the job much harder. MAY GOULD Carmel...
...Dynamo" is the other Ballard rave-up. The shouted vocal owes a bit to Steve Miller's pioneer work in the field of white blues singing. Argent's piano playing here is strictly honky tonk: in total concept, the song faintly echoes some of Fleetwood Mac's later efforts. Ballard takes his only solo on this tune, and shows himself to be an adequate guitarist, even if he does sound like a cautious Jimmy Page...
Argent's tendency to lighten everything they do has lessened their importance. They are one of the five best unknown rock bands in creation by choice. They seem content to play in the rave-up mainstream of English rock: albums of two rave-ups, mediocre blues, and a couple of tunes to acknowledge roots in R and B. Argent's strong point is simply that they do what they do so well with the assistance of one of rock's finer keyboard players in the tradition established by Steve Winwood. It's not a taxing, or particularly innovative music...