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APRIL 14,1978 Street Singer S t e p h e n B a i r d PAPERSUN PAGES By Deborah Solomon On that first sunny day that finally felt like Spring, Upper Division was entertained by Streetsinger Stephen Baird who was as sunny as the day itself. Baird, 30, who is presently residing in Boston is that city’s number one streetsinger. He has been capturing audiences for the past seven years by singing and playing varies instruments such as the guitar, dulcimer, auto harp, kazoo and tamborine. Also in his act are the dancing tap dolls of which he allows the audience to play with. Baird was attending North Eastern College in Mass, majoring in Chemical Engineering when he quit in his senior year. “I quit partly because I was just getting into music, partly because of politics and I didn’t like Chemical Engineering,” Baird said. After, he began running college coffee houses. In 1973 Baird was able to get streetsinging legalized in Boston, he even has a badge that reads “Itinerant Musican # one.” Baird says his main goal is to get streetsinging leaglized in the entire country. He says that singing and sharing that singing with others is a beautiful feeling and no one should be denied this freedom. How does he intend to get streetsinging legalized throughout the country? Says Baird, “ I have to educate the police to stop arresting streetsingers and audi- ences, I have to educate the public to protect us, and I have to educate the streetsingers to stop running away. If they run the police feel they’ve really accomp lished something. This isn’t just my problem it belongs to the whole world.” When asked if people are ever negative about his singing Baird repled that sometimes someone will tell he doesn’t belong there. But with a crowd of people around who love him the rebel soon loses to his cause because as Baird said, “It’s hard to break through a protective screen of people.” He' also said if a person doesn’t like him, he’s usually mad at the world so Baird never takes it personally. “It usually takes about a hour to get an audience to except me,’ says Baird. He does this by singing children’s songs, sing-alongs and passing out kazoos. “ After they’re excepted me I can be a little more riske and do things such as political songs.” Baird gets his material from various sources, Girls Scouts, folk festivals, passerbys, and a few he does himself. For Baird being chased by police while streetsinging is all worth his while. “When I first started out a person gave me $60, everthing he had for just one song, it’s very intense experience,” continued Baird, “then once an old drunk gave me everything he had, a potato.” The State University College of Technology at Utica/Rome will be included as one of the stops on a cross country tour of college campuses by a zany, nostalgic film extravaganza called “The Mind- Boggling, Never-To-Be-Forgotten- Or-Believed Escape To Movie Orgy.” The three big hours of fun and campy memories is sponsored by the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company, and will be shown on Monday, April 24th at 9:30 p.m. in The Pub. The Pub Life Board is presenting the frolic, and with Schlitz paying the bills admission is free. “Escape To Movie Orgy” comes here complete with segments of many of your favorite childhood TV characters, movie classics (and duds),' cartoons, crazy commer cials, and bombshell bloopers, t is a bonanza for trivia freaks and nostalgia buffs. Loaded with clips that pop on and off the screen, the Movie Orgy has been called “A 2001 Splice Odyssey.” The Schlitz-sponsored Movie Orgy is currently in its eighth successful year, having played to over 550,000 college campuses and military installations around the country. Campuses continue to ask for the film year after year. It retains its popularity and appeal because of an annual facelifting which adds new elements but keeps in some of the favorites of the year before. Added to that, people simply seem to enjoy taking another look at the things that captured their fancies and fantasies -as kids. So hop aboard the time machine, grab your pillows, blankets, and popcorn, cheer for the good guys, heckle the bad, but above all, don’t miss this exciting “Escape To Movie Orgy.” Friday Nights at the Movies Records “Films-That-Never-Made-It-To- Utica\ is the theme of Mohawk Valley Community College’s Fri day night at the movies film festival to be presented during Spring. The College will present recent award-winning films by prominent modern directors. Films will be shown Friday evenings at 7;30 p.m. in MVCC’s Payne Hall Auditorium. General admission is $1.50 (MVCC students free with valid ID card) and refreshments will be served. The calendar of films is as follows: April 21 - (double feature) “Grey Gardens” (1975) directed by the Maysles Brothers. This documen tary film depicts the lives of two distant relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis who live in the decaying splendor of a once fashionable home in the Hamp tons. “F For Fake” (1973) directed by Orson Wells. This fun film is filled wiht skullduggery, flimflamism and truth-and-illusion. April 28 - “3 Women” (1977) directed by Robert Altman. Remarkable performances are turned in by Shelley Duvall as a vapid therapist who desperately seeks attenton and approval from her peers; Sissy Spacek as her adoring, schizophrenic roommate; and Janice Rule as the enegmatic muralist whose miscarrage acts as the catalyst which brings them together. May 19 - “Casanova” (1977) directed by Fedrico Fellini. This is Fellini’s first English language film and stars Donald Sutherland as the legendary Latin lover, whose sexual history is traced in scrupulous detail. For further information please contact Angela Gerace or Bob Lacell. By Stephen Spellicy Roger Glover: Elements ‘Elements’ is Roger Glovers interpretation of creation. Ab stract sometimes, classical yet progressive, ‘Elements’ is compos ed of many different musical forms. Basically it is progressive rock although the string section of the Munich Philharmonic plays a major part. Immaculate produc tion and a wonderful idea. Surprising when you consider that Roger Glover used to play bass for Deep Purple. A. Strawbs: Deadlines Somehow, some way, the Strawbs have since the 60’s consistently produced good, may be great music. Catchy tunes, competent musicianship and the unmistakeable voic eof Dave Cousins, the Strawbs are a delight. Outstanding songs include ‘No Return’, ‘I don’t want to talk about it’, and ‘New Beginnings’. ‘Dead lines’ is probably a bit more satirical than previous releases. The cover depicts a man drowning in a phone booth while a beautiful desert background shines on. Long live nature. B plus. Terje Rypdal: Waves ECM Records for years now have been producing high quality, elegant recordings of progressive, experimental jazz. ‘Waves’ fits all these categories and more. ‘Per Ulv’, the opening track demonstrates the subtle yet stunning guitar work of Terje Rydal. However, Palle Mikkelborg seems to be the major influence, as he sets moods and melodies throughout the album with such diverse instruments as trumpet, fluegelhorn, RMI keyboard com puter, Tac piano and Ringmodula- tor. (Don’t get scared, its still jazz) real nice cover. B plus. Lenny White: The Adventures of Astral Pirates The story begins in darkness, no one in the universe has ever heard music. Our heroes, the Astral Pirates loot and have fun until they stumble upon MUSIC in a far corner ot the Cosmos. Upon arrival they discover that music (in this case) is a combination of Disco, Soul, Jazz, and Heavy Metal. Co-produced by A1 Kooper and billed as a “musical space odysee” this is in reality just an excuse for Lenny White to show off his drumming talents. Star Wars Forever. B minus. Crack the Sky: Safety in Numbers Influenced by such groups as Jethro Tull, Kansas, Strawbs and the Beatles, Crack the Sky is currently one of the tightest hard rock groups available. The control led power of Rick Witkowski’s guitar and John Palumbo’s compo sitions combine for some very tasty rock ’n roll. B plus. Vangelis: Spiral A combination of electronic, acoustic and percussion instru mentation, ‘Spiral’ is amazingly composed, arranged and perform ed all by one man; Vangelis. Considered as a replacement for Rick Wakeman when he left ‘YES’ and rejected because of his totalitarian tendencies, Vangelis is a unique keyboardist. Symphonic rock. A. Genesis—and then there were three... As rocks favorite storytellers, Genesis has created a very popular and identifiable sound, a sound that continues to be dominated by Tony Bank’s multi-expressive key boards. As energetic as ever. Genesis is probably the most powerful three man group since Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Music ally, there are enough nice little riffs here to keep anyone jumping. The unfortuante departure of guitarist Steve Hackett, noted by this albums title, is probably due to his desire to make solo albums (his 1976‘s “Voyage of the Acolyte” is pure genius). However, Mike Rutherford (who also plays bass) certainly has done a good job on guitar replacing Hackett. The single “Follow You Follow Me” is a sure hit. A.
