The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1987 Page: 9 of 24
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THRESHER Fine Arts Friday, September 25,1987
Rockefeller's and Fitzgerald's bang heads
FRIDAY
•Rockefeller's (3620 Washing-
ton Ave.) presents Rare Earth tonight.
Call .the Rockefeller's Box Office at
861-9365 for ticket information.
•Miss Molly & The Passions play
at Fitzgerald's (2706 White Oak
Drive) tonight. Call 862-3838 for
more information.
•TheBandedGeckoshitThe Red
Lion Restaurant and Pub (7315
South Main) tonight. Call 795-5000
for more information.
•United Artists releases "Real
Men" tonight, starring Jim Belushi
and John Ritter.
SATURDAY
•John Hait and guests Ry Cooder
and Nick Lowe jam at
Rockefeller's this evening.
• This is the last day to see "Living
on Tokyo Time" at the River Oaks
Theatre (2009 West Gray ). Call
524-2175 for show times.
•Fitzgerald's presents Jr. Med-
low & The Bad Boys.
SUNDAY
• Sonic Youth bangs heads tonight
at Fitzgerald's.
•River Oaks Theatre premieres
"A Hero's Journey," the documen-
tary about Joseph Campbell, tonight.
It plays daily through October 3.
Jim Belushi stars in Real Men, opening today in Houston cinemas.
COMING UP
this week in fine arts
TUESDAY
•The Red Lion Restaurant
and Pub presents Dean Cook.
•Tryouts will be held today and
tomorrow in the Jones Commons for
Chekhov's Three Sisters, which will
be directed by Jennie S toller, a mem-
ber of the Royal Shakespeare Com-
pany. The auditions begin at 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
•Rockefeller's presents an eve-
ning of dance bands starring the
Original River Road Boys.
•David Bromberg plays it all at
Fitzgerald's tonight only.
Waters' absence mars album
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Pink Floyd
After months of waiting, the new
Pink Floyd album, A Momentary
Lapse of Reason, is finally available.
More talk has surrounded the release
of this album than any other in recent
years with the exception of Michael
Jackson's Bad. This is because no
band has gone through as radical a
change as Pink Floyd. Roger Waters,
the main songwriter and bassist for
the band, left in 1983 to pursue a solo
career. This change has caused many
to speculate if the band would be able
to manage without his talents.
After several hearings, I can say
that I do like the album. As an album
by guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour,
drummer Nick Mason, keyboardist
Richard Wright, and bassist Tony
Levin, it is an enjoyable album of
solid British rock. As an album by
Pink Floyd, it is a disappointment.
Guitarist David Gilmour is now the
leader of the band, performing all
vocals and writing almost all of the
material on the album. He and pro-
ducer Bob Ezrin have put together an
album which takes many of its ideas
iromThe Dark Side ofthe Moon and
Wish You Were Here, two of Floyd's
earlier albums. Bits and pieces of
radio broadcasts are mixed in with
songs, and much of the keyboard
work is reminiscent of those albums
as well as The Wall..
Gilmour has stuck with a more
standard rock formula of single songs
with fadeouts, while under Waters'
realm a Floyd album would resemble
an opera. The only break in the music
would fall when die record needed to
be turned over. His compositional
skills were what gave the band its
edge and its albums their epic propor-
tions.
Gilmour and Ezrin have produced
an album that is heavy on keyboards.
There are six keyboardists listed on
the album, including bandmembers
Gilmour and Richard Wright. The
drumming by Nick Mason is typical
for an eighties techno-pop album,
using both electric and acoustic
drums. The sound of the drums is
pounding and laden with digital delay.
A snare hit is thunderous and ex-
see Gilmour's.page 11
•The Contemporary Arts Mu-
seum (5216 Montrose Blvd.) opens
its exhibit Sue Coe: Police Stale.
THURSDAY
•True Believers headlines at
Fitzgerald's tonight with Cinco
Dudes.
•Bass shirts on sale now. You
know who to call.
ONGOING
•The Comedy Workshop is
showing Are We Having Fun Yet? at
8:30 p.m. Thursdays through Satur-
days through September, and Young
FrankenNerd on Fridays and Satur-
days at 11;00 p.m. and at 8:30 on
Sundays through October. Call 524-
7333 for reservations.
•The Rice Players present
Marco Polo Sings a Solo in the Farns-
worth Pavilion in the Ley Student
Center September 30 through Octo-
ber 3 at 8:00 p.m. Call 527-4040 for
ticket information.
•The Contemporary Arts
Museum (5216 Montrose Ave.) is
exhibiting Warhol/Beuys/Polke
through November 15 and Sue Coe:
Police State through December 6.
•The exhibition, Leonardo da
Vinci: 1452-1519, The Inventions, is
showing at the Glassell School of
Art (5101 Montrose Blvd). Exhibit
hours arp 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday
through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday through Sunday.
•The 'True Wit" exhibit continues
at the Cullen Center (1600 Smith)
through October 8. The'exhibit dis-
plays the humorous works of several
Texan artists.
•Fibrations '87, a showcase of
Houston Fiber Artists will be at the
Art Institute of Houston (3600
Yoakum) through October 14. Call
523-2564 for more information.
•The Sewall Gallery is showing
a retrospective of contemporary
Dutch artist Jan Schoonhoven
through October 16.
•Frank Lloyd Wright and the
Johnson Wax Building is on display
in the Farish Gallery in Anderson
Hall through October 11.
•Houston Central Public Li-
brary (500 McKinney) is presenting
Polish History, Art & Culture, in
commemoration of the Pope's visit to
Texas, through September 27. Call
247-2222 for more information.
'AmericanArt, 1845-1945, will be
on exibit at The Museum of Fine
Arts (1001 Bissonnet) through De-
cember 27. Admission is free on
Thursdays. With a Rice ID, it's only
$1 on other days.
•The Country Playhouse
(12802 Queensbury) will be
presenting The Odd Couple (female
version) by Neil Simon on Friday and
Saturday nights at 8:30 through Octo-
ber 3. Call 392-3456 for ticket infor-
mation.
•Michael Goodhue and Lee Jami-
son will exhibit their art at the
O'Kane Gallery (U of H Down-
town, One Main Street ) from Sep-
tember 21 to October 9. The gallery is
open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
•The Alley Theatre is present-
ing "The Last Flapper," the story of
Zelda Fitzgerald (F.Scott
Fitzgeralds's wife), through October
4th. For ticket information, call 228-
8421.
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Raphael, Michael J. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1987, newspaper, September 25, 1987; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245672/m1/9/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.