European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 14, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 19 random flote oooo of Toivi a by Fred schruers a mom i can t do no More complained Bruce k Springsteen As his Mother Adele tugged Zimback onstage at Madison Square Garden after he d already outdone himself for three sold i out nights. On his first night Springsteen dedicated i Sweet Little sixteen to his sister Pam 16, whom he pulled out of the audience. He brought her onstage again \ the second night asking in mock outrage what Are Boudoin Here it s past your still he could t resist saying to the audience not bad for 16, huh later in the week after pm stations broadcast the news that Bruce s next three new York concerts would be september 15, 16 and 17 at the palladium the 3,400 seat Hall sold out within two hours. P Urple Haze the sequel to american Graffiti is no being filmed in san Francisco and will feature most of the Graffiti cast with the exception of Richard Drey executive producer for both purple Haze and a Star wars sequel the Empire strikes Back will be George Lucas who directed both films. Bill Norton who directed i outlaw blues is directing purple Haze while Irvi Kershner who did eyes of Laura Mars will get the directorial credit on Empire. A Star wars to special later this year will feature the Jefferson Sta ship minus Grace Slick doing Craig Chaquico s new Cigar s Inger Joe Strummer and guitarist Mick Jones of England s highly political Punk group the clash recently spent three weeks in san Francisco putting guitar and vocal overdubs on what probably will be their first is Warfield Joe Strummer bored with the . American album. They then took off for a look at the country they lacerated in their song i m so bored with the ." they think they re Neal and Jack living Outon the Road laughed Blue Oyster cult producer Sandy Pearlman who is also producing the new clash band s debut record the clash sold More than 100,000 copies in England but despite Selling some 20,000import copies is not slated for immediate release in the . By the clash s Label epic. The group plans to play several cities in the states before the year is out. Q Ueen plans to tour the . Later this year after Fin Ishing a new up to be produced by Roy Thomas Baker in Geneva. While foreigner s Mick Jones was 20th Century Fox George Lucas on Star wars set. Chatting backstage after a Flint mich., show both his Satin stage pants and his Street denims were packed and driven away by Crew members. Dressed Only in his underwear Jones had to run through a crush of screaming Teery toppers to reach his Limo. Nick Lowe and Dav eedmunds will tour the . In october and november after Edmund s new album tracks on Wax 4, is re leased. Lowe s next record and the one hell produce for Elvis costello will be out around the new year. Stacy Sutherland 31, former Lead guitarist for the briefly legendary 13th floor elevators died in Houston aug. 24after being shot by his wife of a year and a half. C 1978 King features Syndicate inc. Todd Rundgren Utopia ahead in the Boob tube by Carl Diori associated press Todd Rundgren says plastic platters of recorded music Are going the Way of the records he says inevitably will give Way to video Rundgren l infant terrible of the re cording studio instinctively is prone to otherworldly Wiz Wardry. But prophecy or pipe dream Rundgren is getting ready for the Advent of sight sound recordings by building a $1 million video studio in the mountains of new York near Woodstock where he makes his Home. Rundgren says the studio will Crank out video product e american top 10 pop singles from billboard 1. Boogie Oogie Oogie a taste of Honey 2. Three times a lady commodores 3. Hot blooded foreigner 4. Hopelessly devoted to you Olivia Newton John 55. Kiss you All Over exile 1 6. An everlasting love Andy glib 7. Summer nights John Travolta & Olivia Newton John 1 8. Don t look Back Boston 9. Got Roget you into my life Earth wind & fire 10. Shame Evelyn Champagne King a american top 10 album according to billboard 1. Don t look Back Boston 2. Some girls rolling stones 3. Double vision foreigner 4. Grease soundtrack " s. Sgt. Pepper s lonely hearts club band soundtrack 16. Natural High commodores i 7. Blam Brothers Johnson ii 8. Who Are you the who 1 9. A taste of Honey a taste of Honey 1 10. The stranger Billy Joel a j British top 10 singles compiled by Melody maker i i. Three times a lady commodores 2. Deadlock Holiday Locc 3. It s raining darts 4. Brown girl in a ring Rivers of Babylon Boney m1 5. Of what a circus David essex6. Jilted John jilted John 7. You re the one that i want John Travolta and Olivia Newton John 1 8. Super nature Cerrone 1 9. British Hustle i tension 1 10. Picture this Blondle a i american top 10 country singles from billboard 1 1. I be always been crazy Waylon Jennings 1 2. Boogie grass band Conrad Twitty a 3. Womanhood Tammy wynette4. Hello Mexico Johnny Duncan 1 5. Heartbreaker Dolly Parton 6. 1 f you got ten minutes Joe stampley7. Who am i to say Statler Brothers 8. It s been a great afternoon Merle Haggard a Arcade Christy lane.10. With love Rex Allen tons his own and those of his band Utopia for play on Cable and Public television As Well As retail video Cas settes with films for network to yet not Jer possibility. Who knows he quips maybe Well have our own show like the Osmond one night during a recent week Long engagement atthe Roxy in los Angeles the show was beamed by Micro wave transmission to 25 radio stations across the nation an audience of some love million people Rundgren is was the largest live radio broadcast Ever at tempted by a band he says. I Don t suppose it will Stop there. There will be lots of other people trying to top for Good measure the set that night included Stel Lar lineup of Fleetwood Mac s Stevie Nix Hall and Gates Spencer Davis and Rick Derringer who All showed up to Jam a bit. It s fun to be involved in a history making event no matter How insignificant Rundgren smirks. Just before that extravaganza at a five Day gig at Newyork s Bottom Lane Rundgren and band put up to sets All Over the place beaming a camera Center stage. The audience of the club a rather cozy affair to begin with not Only got multimedia glimpses of the performance itself but saw various film clips interspersed on the to screens. And of course one of the night s sets was video re corded for showing on Cable to at a later Date. Rundgren says such elaborate productions Are a combination of giving the Public its Money s Worth he Usu ally has no opening act and his own personal preference. I see a lot of shows that i get really bored with be cause of a Lack of variety he explains. Quite frankly i m not at All enthralled about music today in general. Partly because of the artists and partly because of the business aspects of it it s become too hyped up and overinflated. I Don t feel that music is the socially influential medium that it was 10 years but to and video recordings can change All that he s one reason Why i m getting involved in video i want to remain vital. A lot of people write television off but i think the idea is Good to have a revolution in television the Way there was a revolution in records 10 Rundgren says today s performing artists must share the blame for what he perceives As the music scene s cur rent state of s hard to find someone whose intentions in making Rundgren i want to remain music Are pure who is primarily interested in making music and Only secondarily interested in Success fac but the record companies Are equally responsible he says. Ever since Fleetwood Mac sold eight or nine Mil lion albums whatever it was record companies Don t Seea Point in investing in any group which Sells less than Rundgren s current Solo Effort Hermit of min hollow is doing Well both commercially and critically. That is partly because the album is not As Eso Teric As some of his recordings he says. If the music is sort of assessable like it is on this new album then it s bound to get better reviews says Rund Gren. I think it s pretty easy to calculate the Way people Are going to
