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10 Tuesday, February 3 1970 KENOSHA NEWSMusicDada rock:i-'reakiestall~ Bv JACQUIN SANDERSZ Newsweek Feature ServiceFor its finale, the rock group called Alice Cooper plays “Don't Blow Your Mind Like We Did Last Summer'’ and blows a cloud of chicken feathers over the audience., The feathers are followed by the chickens, live and squawking. Then Alice himself — yes. Alice is a boy who wears eye makeup and a silver-sequined dress over dirty yellow trousers — gets into irfist-fight with his drummer who wears his white hair long and generally performs in a sparkling gold undershirt and gold-lensed pilot's goggles.* Tklice Cooper is one of the new — and newly wealthy — groups on the pop music scene What they perform is called “dada rock.” and it takes its name from a certain resemblance to a longoutmoded kind of painting in which the artist uses and sometimes ■distorts unexpected objects for symbolic purpose and for shock -valueCl'We want to break the conditioning of the audiences.” says Afire. “We can't let them pin us down to what they expect, like acid rock or blues. After all, who cares how many times somebttrck guy's ‘baby' left him?itWe don't say. ‘Stop the War.’ out loud, but we're saying it nevertheless, because the w ay we look and act on stage is the way soeietv made us. We are living social criticism, plannedfljhvhy.’*■Dada rock takes pride in the unexpected. If an audience shows leal signs of understanding, the groups begin to worry. Indeed, some of them are so far out. they make the Beatles look like so many little old men.* Take Larry ( Wild Man) Fischer, for instance. A California boy, he used to roam the streets singing his songs about love and motherhood and murder to strangers for a dime. His behavior was so weird that he was thrown out of high school and he wasThe Alice Cooper Bandtwice committed to mental institutions by his mother.But his new album, “An Evening With Wild Man Fischer,” is now climbing the charts and he*s considered one of dada rocks' brightest comers.New as it is, dada rock has an Establishment Figure. This is Frank Zappa, 29, founder and leader of the legendary Mothers of Invention. For five years, the Mothers rocked the rock scene .with brilliant, far-out music, vicious satire and outrageous behavior.Now the Mothers are gone, but Zappa carries on with a rock empire of his own known simply as Bizarre. It was he whodiscovered Alice Cooper and promoted the group's first bigtime appearance at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West last fall.Part of the dada world is contempt for society, and this usually includes the eager audiences for dada rock.
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Kenosha News
Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Feb 03, 1970
Page 10
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