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3HTepestreat to eat and an )m an artistic cook, a crepe However. f to The Magic Panm Way in Beverly ind desserts he restaurant is as cperie concept was iry escapees Leslie open a restaurant ian Palacsintas. the oblems*y produce crepes of ’alacsintas. are deli-ter of eggs, milk and ; problema gas flame. Pans til they reach a cer-is reached, the out-lom of the pan is i the batter and re-pside down on the )ne revolution later.* is perfectly cooked he Magic Pan wasgs like chicken, ib. shrimp and hamd in the crepes andi please one's palate, cs for these dehca-moderate. ranging 6 to $3 25 for variousHire meal may be or-■ 13.95 The meal con crepe and a spinach id superb Tender. Iy placed on a bed negar dressing d to a thick guiyasmd crepe a la mode naclanketed in a crepe ttuce and chocolate lly created for The juarebut can The Magic-Bob LawrenceTURNTABLEGrin bear itThe trouble with ‘Grin by Grin is that it lacks character It shows no distinguishing marts from the scores of other unknown groups that are given the chance to make an album Grin really doesn't offer anything unusual enough to hit the listener between the eyes lor earphones* to make the musical moments memorableThe album is a paradox of sorts the three members of the group (Nils l«ofgren. guitars, keyboard* vocal* Bob Gordon, bass, vocals, and Bob Berberich. drums, vocals definitely exhibit fine musical abilities and the technical quality of the stereo recording is excellent, but it's the songs themselves that leave the package unbalancedRepetition is too often the main fault of Grin In Open Wide a thin unattractive voice screeches the solo part while the back up singers beat out the refrain open wide*' until, like a wounded animal, it should be shot and killed to end the miserySimilarly. “I Had Too Much. in which the mger wails for his chick to turn me loose. ‘ just doesn't *tand out its organization and form is standard. I've heard it a hundred times before on lesser albums, and its contrived attempt at using a raspy, rock voice failsSee What Love Can Do starts with an Iron Butterfly-like beginning, halted and driving, but it. too. gets caught up in its uninspired circle and finally just sits there until the endWe All Sung Together ' is lighthearted and pleading until a chorus of flat voices starts repeating the title with no inflectional changes whatsoever. Again repetition stag nation The song needed to be more like a revival, but soul ful it isn’t. And oddly enough, just as some spirited hand clapping starts, the songs ends. boom, that's it. and leaves one thinking that they ran out of grooves on that lt;*dc of the recordThe majority of Grin's songs lt;all 12 on the album written by Lofgren* don't go anywhere, they're aimless, and unfortunately it shows. The numbers often reach a point where they could logically expand and grow to become more stunning. and then they give up halfway through, drone on a bit more and die It's like the group isn’t wUhug to give enough they offer just a grin, not a complete smile•’Grin' does have some redeeming feature* Giving the listener a chance to sit down ^pd relax a bit is Take You to the Movies Tonight. a short, easy going tune that is rcm iniscent of the bassy guitar strumming of an early John Sebastian song The ballad like ‘Pioneer Mary . with a hint of the drawl of The Band, features some satisfying close harmonic* and. hopefully, shows some of the potential Grin hasIn contrast to these lighter moments is 18 Faced Love a raunchy number that rates high for its strong beat and gutsy sound. It should have been more grindingly sexual, but even so it's successfulGrin may be lucky enough to stick around past its first album, so many group* helplessly and deservingly wither away after their premiere recordingThe makings of a good group in Grin surface occasionally but too often are covered up in tntc tripe Further polishing, and development lt;and probably some songs written by some one other than Lofgren t may help Gnn make it—D. Frank Culbertson
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Los Angeles Southern California University Daily Trojan
Los Angeles, California, US
Mon, May 03, 1971
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