Rolling Stone Magazine No 179 January 30 1975 Rolling Stones George Harrison Rick Wakeman
IN THIS ISSUE
The Undiluted South Bronx Truth about Freddie Prinze by Tom Burke 25
The tangle of adolescents frozen to the pavement waiting for a glimpse
of their star refer to him never as Freddie but always as Chico. Its
part of the identity warp a stand-up comedian must cope with when
he makes his national breakthrough as the costar of a television
ethno-comedy series. Chico the persona battles for equal time with
Freddie Prinze, the 20-year-old ethno-comic who was a little-known
Catskills resort entertainer until last September. Chico and the Man
changed all that; now he uses side entrances and exits, flees into
waiting limousines and narrowly escapes the fan-madding crowd.
Beneath both personas is a thoughtful, ambitious young man from
the South Bronx who has been through the dues-paying millfrom
New Yorks Improvisational Club to the Playboy Clubsand has
now settled in Hollywood, where he hides. As Prinze told our writer:
Managers say to me, You gotta be seen places. Why? Im on top,
man, without nobody seeing me nowhere. . . .
Rick Wakeman: Journey to the
Center of the Stage by Cameron Crowe 20
At the front edge of a cresting wave of interest in a classically informed
rock-based music is former Yes keyboard man Rick Wakeman.
Cameron Crowe traveled and talked with Wakeman on his 20-stop
American tour. With a massive 118-person entourage which included
the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Choir of America, the
tour inevitably lost money while drawing sizable crowds and rave
reviews.
Beyond the Unknown! The Ancient
Astronauts Conference * by Timothy Ferris 31
Howard Phillips Lovecraft used to write about a race of super beings
who roamed the earth long before homo sapiens, leaving behind a
strange legacy of mysterious graffiti and a veiled threat to one day
return. H.P. Lovecraft, of course, wrote fiction, but there are those
today who have constructed similar tales along serious lines of in-
quiry. And so convened the first Ancient Astronauts Conference, in
which luminaries of the scientific and para-scientific world gathered
to compare evidence and offer advice to seekers of the unknown.
The Rites of Amnesty: A Deserters
Tale by Thomas Kent (U.S.A. Ret.) 14
Musical News 5
The George Harrison tour is over, after 50 concerts in seven grueling
weeks, with Harrisons voice and Ravi Shankars health among the
casualties. In London, meantime, two of our favorite Micks, Jagger
and Taylor, talk in the aftermath of Taylors departure from the
Stones. Also, a talk with Country Joe, a bitter, nearly beaten man,
another reminder that the dream is over.
Final Special Pyramid Note and Apology
We regret having to delay, once again, an installment of Ken Kesey's
Search for the Hidden Pyramid. The fifth and last installment turned
out unexpectedly long, due to the fact that the Secret was revealed;
we regret the inconvenience to those of you who cut yoga class this
morning to pick up this issue. Bear with us.
DEPARTMENTS
Calendar ----39 Politics -----14
Letters ---- 4 Random Notes ------13
Performance-------- 39 Records----------------35
Singles ----- 7 Review ----------------8
Founded in California, by Jann Wenner back in 1967 Rolling Stone Magazine delved deep into the music world and frequently tackled political issues. In the first edition 11/9/1967 Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone "is not just about music, but about things & attitudes that the music scene embraces. However it quickly distanced itself from the underground newspapers of the time embracing traditional journalism & avoiding the radical politics championed by the underground press.