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Jefferson StarshipofKrieger and John Dens-more have formed the Butts Band, a sort of mellow rock ‘n roll group.Kevboardsman Rav• »Manzarek. meanwhile, is off on his own trip, with anew album called “The Golden Scarab” (Mercury SRM 1-703). It’s a concept LP. rooted in a book by Sigmund Freud, “Mosesand Monotheism.““Scarab,” savs Rav. isis a separate band, all is not yet lost for Airplane freaks:By BRUCE MEYER United Press InternationalWall-to-wall people in a backstage dressing room, champagne and beer flowing freely from iced bottles. On one side of theroom. Gracie Slick is explaining her new interest in the Orient and demon-strating her Samurai sword. Her goal, she says.is learning to remove the tops of wine bottles with one swipe.The other side of the room is somewhat saner. Paul Kantner is explaining the status of the Jefferson Airplane and the band’s offspring, the JeffersonStarship.“We (Paul and Gracie)just wanted to play againWe’ve been waiting a year for Jorma and Jack (Kaukonen and Casady, the Airplane’s lead guitarist and bass, respectively) to get it together, and we just got tired of waiting.”Gracie. clad in her Samurai suit, explains thather pupils are permanently dilated. Paul continues: “This (the Starship! is definitely a new band. We don’t want to rely too much on old Airplane material.”But though the Starship“The Airplane has not broken up officially or legally.” says Paul. “We may play together again —mavbe even make an al-•bum. Marty Balin may come back — we (Paul and Marty) have been writing songs togetherlately. '*%***The Doors are no more — they died, just as all the doomsaycrs predicted, with Jim Morrison in Paris. But the remnants of the band move on. Robbie“about this guy who iswaiting for the Messiah.He’s looking for someoneto show him the wav...a%personal quest for the understanding of life. At the end he finds out that heBetty Garrett getscan only do it himself. Take life as it is, don’t judge.A grandiose theme, tosay the least, but handledrelatively well, except for the utterly inane lines of spoken narration betweenlong way from ArchieHOLLYWOOD (UPI) -Betty Garrett, who playsthe meddlesome neighborof the Bunkers on “All In The Family,” is the real life wife of actor Larry Parks whom she prefers to the nut portrayed by Vincent Gardenia in the series.Betty and Larry have been married 30 years and arc the parents of Garrett. 24. and Andrew, 23, both of whom still live at home.Home, incidentally, is a comfortable wood and stucco California nondescript perched on a knoll in the San Fernando Valley on an acre of property almost obscured by trees and shrubbery.Larry is the gardener with occasional help from his sons. Betty ventures into the yard only for a deep dip in the family pool.When the Parks clan moved into the house 11 years ago their French provincial furniture was lost in the immense rooms, most of which have 12-foot ceilings. The living room is more than 30 feet long.She has since replaced most of her treasured antiques with heavy Spanish-stylc furnishings, and three large couches in the living room.The house is light andairv with most of theAground floor rooms leading to the outdoors.Here and there are special pieces Betty and Lar-rv have collected over the*years. There’s a large hutch in the dining room filled with Haviland China given Betty by her grandmother. It is more than 100 years old.The dining table itself is an antique oak given to Larry by his mother who brought it from her hometown of Joliet, 111., then toKansas where Larry was reared and eventually to California.The outsized coffee table is the result of Larry’s labor over an ancient ship’s hatch cover.Gary (short for Garrett) contributed pen and ink drawings which are framed and hang in almost every room. The oils aremostly the work of young Andrew who is a student at UCLA.The family is rounded out by a pair of mongrels, both of whom appear to be part Beagle, named Snoo-STARTS TOMORROW AT THE PARAMOUNTpv and Louise.1 CTADTt EDI AT THE ftAFMftFPBcttv needn’t work for a living. Larry has built apartments all over the Los Angeles area, keeping them as rental and income units. Even Betty isn’t sure how many buildings they own.Husband and wife are both victims of the acting bug and often hit the road with stock companies. During television season Betty reports to CBS-TV five days a week and works from 10 a.m. until about 6 in the evening. She usually fixes breakfast for herself and lets the males fend for themselves.She has discovered, much to her delight, a solution to fixing family dinners without having to dash home and throw together frozen meals.“It’s called crock pot cooking,” Betty says. “The crock is wired electrically and I put in the meat and vegetables and seasoning before 1 leave in the morning.obc INTERSTATEseveral of the tracks. On the whole, though, a successful debut for Manzarek as a solo.* * *A prediction: Kiss is going to be a super-group and may just bring us all back to the kind of tail-shaking rock *n roll we all deserve. The gas shortage has caused two of my favorite bands to try a new twist: Bus-pooling. The New Riders of the Purple Sage and Commander Cody are sharing Cody’s scenicruiser bus, “Honeysuckle Rose,” on tour. For better or worse, Jeff Baxter of Steely Dan has disclosed that the band gives each potential song idea 10 minutes of brainstorming before going ahead with it or throwing it out. Fast workers. James Taylor begins a 22-city tour in May. Alice Cooper’s first movie will be out soon, including footage from the “Billion Dollar Babies” tour.
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Biloxi, Mississippi, US
Tue, May 07, 1974
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