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...tentative agreement between the theatre and WGBH-TV provides that the television station will use its personnel and equipment to tape the play during a regular November performance in exchange for the rights to air the production up to four times in the Boston area...
...strike life was a dirty brick building in the center of the sprawling shipyard. A press center inside issued journalists' credentials, and worker-translators wore yellow armbands indicating which foreign languages they spoke. In the conference hall, representatives of striking factories sat at four long tables. Tape recorders took down the proceedings, to be replayed for comrades back in other factories. From a corner table, women in white smocks distributed sausages, cheese and sandwiches...
...best thing about One for the Road may be that-flaws and all-it is even better to watch than listen to. Hi-fi meets scifi. Kink crazies can snap up a record, then clip the coupon that comes with it and send off for a video tape that shows the lads in full...
Recorded during a live performance in Providence, the tape is, in fact, a visual précis of One for the Road. Good shooting, good sound and dexterous editing (supervised by Ray Davies) make it not so much a companion to the record as a necessary adjunct: music that you can see. There could be a lot more of it to come...
...Kinks package is not the first to link vinyl and video tape, but it is the first to reach the market. A previous try spotlighting Blondie, the only socially acceptable punk outfit, was withdrawn when union negotiations prevented release of the tape. The new tape, marketed by TIME-LIFE Video, costs $39.95 retail. For anyone with the ante, and a taste for some high-spirited, high-stepping rock, One for the Road is one of the more notable music events of the year. It is a tidy audiovisual chronicle of fierce, reckless endurance, a gone-to-hell charm that...