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\44 -• Ify. *■ *By RANDALL DA VISMusic'cr»kDr. Hook and The Medicine;Show celebrated last Hallow-;.,', een by holding a Freakei% Ball in Hollywood and inviting a bunch of freaks, naturally, and members of the. press who write about rock*, j and roll which means they.: probably had only one list. * ^This writer donned a cos—; iuroe and wem 10 eat. drink .• and dance with the rest of'., j them. Dr. Hook wasn't bad to ! sit and listen to and were*1* great 10 rjane* to. I spent most of the evening dancing with Buzz — a beautiful and':| extremely nice woman — who unfortunately turned out*' to be the bass player’s old** lady. You win a few and lose/.' a hell of a lot al those Holly- ■ wood gatherings. ;The group put the gather-.,I lng on because they had aK.. j ways promised themselves | they would if they made .. j enough money. Of course ! they were a Iso*looking for ex- .posme (pnrl of Iheir show • went on the radio} and a..chance 10 debut and promote -| songs from their second al- .. ; bum, Sloppy Seconds, j They led off with a song * they wrote for the affair, '■“Freaker’s BhJL” which also • -begins the album. The song -is probably worse and fun--nier than anything you cam conjure up in your head. It will help dispel any thoughts that Dr. Hook is a serious-group singing love songs and ballads which is the impres--sion many had because of. -their hit, '‘Sylvia’s Mother,” such a successful spoof that most everyone, including the t disc jockeys who played it, missed the crooning parody. ■lt;The Cover of R. 0 11 i n g 1 Stone” is a • song along the ' ■ lines of the lead off song as 'they speak of every rodk band success except'getting** their picture on the cover of the main rock music publica-’-^ tion.Some of their songs are
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Pasadena, California, US
Wed, Jan 10, 1973
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