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|IPaigCB:(S Dec. 2, 1983*" Emfl@niMmDDD(Bmft] ^- U2 flies high through Big Red Sky' From their very beginning, it was evi¬ dent that U2 was a band that mattered — a band that was the creator of impas¬ sioned, urgent music. That fact was never clearer than on War, the Irish group's third album that established them as one of the most' important new bands ofthe decade. On their ensuingtour of America, U2 convinced all nonbelicvers with a stun¬ ning live show, and without question proved themselves worthy of superstar The bands 1983 tour — both here and in Europe — was one of the year* highlights, and just in time for Christ¬ mas U2 has presented their fans with a gift: an eight-song mini album recorded live. Under a Blood Red Sky. Recorded in Denver, Boston and at the Rockpalast 83 Festival in West Germany, Under a Blood Red Sky is an impressive work, capturing the Irish quartet at their finest. So cleanly is this album recorded it almost sounds like a studio recording with audience applause dubbed in later. [Copies of the Audited Financial Statements of the Associated Students of California State University, Fresno, for the: fiscal year ended June 30, 1983, are available for review in the As¬ sociated Students office located in the College Union Room 316, and in the library, Department of Social Collections THE$6"LARGEPIZZA EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK AND YOU DONTNEED COUPONS 'SAVE ON A LARGE ORIGINAL 9 TOPPING STRAW HAT PIZZA WHEN YOU PAY OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICE OF ONLY 6.99 - A 3.26 SAVING - YOU DONT NEED COUPONS AT m Straw Hat i COMPARETHE-PMCETHENTHEQUAUTY u^r*- U-h- tat? as WCkc* mc- "rzr AJ*. S1 in | (W«M ■ fen** *.*♦ as as 7JC ass ass iss ISO 1J.9S ass FRESNO HUE Shaw 222-7476 '*- CLOVIS 536 Shaw Ave. 298-2076 a»^»»»gaBaaa»*Ja«»»a«»a«1a»^a»BgaaBfaa,pa«»»aaaa»a«a>^l But such is not the case — producer Jimmy lovinc has done his usual excel¬ lent job of giving a band a clean, crisp Featuring songs from all three of their albums, U2 presents us with a ful¬ filling testament of their musics impor¬ tance. From War we have "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "New Years Day," and the quiet but forceful "40," which along with "GIoria"and "I Will Follow" combine to form the heart and passion¬ ate soul of Under a Blood Red Sky. Add to that "The Electric Co.," "Party Girl" and "I I O'clock Tick Tock," and we have the makings for one ofthe best live albums in several years. Paced by the incceasinalv sophisti¬ cated guitar work of the Edge, the rhythm section of bassist Adam Clay¬ ton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and the forceful tenor of lead singer Bono' Vox, U2 sweeps the listener into an exhilarating, stirring experience. On a scale of 1 to 10. Under a Blood Red Sky earns a well-deserved 9. Although the Doors havent been together as a group since Jim Morri¬ son's death in 1971, they have main¬ tained their popularity without the benefit of having released any new material in more than 10 years. , Hailed as one of the most important groups ofthe late 1960s, the Doors were the spokesmen for a hedonistic genera¬ tion raised on rock V roll, protest marches and Vietnam. Their psyche¬ delic sound, driven by Ray Manzarek's pumping organ, John Densmore's crash¬ ing drums and Robbie Krieger's jagged guitar, became the hallmark of the 1960s. In concert, the Doors were right at home, pushing conventional standards to the limit and glowing brilliantly as a musical entity. So it is on AHre, She Cried, a live chronicle recorded over a three-year span (1968-70) that covers the gamut of the Doors' musical styles. The Doors were often labeled as a bunch of boozing druggies, but on Alive, She Cried Morrison and Co. are sharp, giving the listener a superlative performance on every song. ~""~ From the driving blues of Willie Dix¬ on's "Little Red Rooster,*to the electri¬ fying but crude rendition of Van Morri- ^ ^ son's "Gloria,"to the passionate reading of "Light My Fire," the Doors were perhaps a little ahead of their time. Their popularity remains today, even a decade after Morrison's death, and it could become even stronger With this album. On a scale of 1 to 10, Alive, She Cried Pat Benatar is one of the finest hard rock female singers around. That much can be deduced by listening to her stu¬ dio albums and her string of hit singles. But on Live From Earth, her stab at a live album, Benatar fails miserably. M uch of Live From Earth sounds like a cheap bootleg tape recorded from the bathroom of the concert hall and then re-recorded onto the cheapest tape available. So bad is the sound that Neil Gerardo's fine guitar work is lost most of the time, and some songs, like "1 Want sSc* Maaic, Paac 12 Tor a Speciaf Christmas.. m 0 '£ your cftoict $99-50 THamond Tendant or 'Earrings UTiytKow or -wfiittgold. From pro ball...to prison...to pottery i Radii's life has been shaped and molded like the pottery he creates. xlLi Mudhamud Raku uses one finger to gently shape the clay spinning on his potter's wheel, he tells how his life has been shaped and molded, and how not until now has he found the right form. Fourteen years ago the 38-year-old CSUF art stu¬ dent was playing professional football. Six years ago he was in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. Now he is content to make pottery and study art. With a mud-covered finger, Raku points at the name "Peter Voulkos,"a sculptor he admires, scrawled on the wall behind him. Flinging a glob of clay at the scribbling, Raku said, "1 throw mud at him once in awhile to let him know he is No. 2 and I am No. I." Although Raku threw the clay at the scribbling on the wall with a laugh, his words were symbolic. He has been attending CSUF for two yean, and now believes it's time to concentrate on being an artist. "I'm beginning to feel I've paid my dues and now 1 want to do ceramics full-time." For Raku, paying his dues has meant volunteering many hours a week at Inside Out, a rehabilitation center for ex-convicts, counseling inmates at the Fresno County Jail on weekends, and hosting an Inside Out-sponsored talk show that airs on cable channel 4 every Thursday night. Taking the lead from his grandmother, who as a Mormon went on an evangelistic mission to Connecti¬ cut,' Raku set out on his own mission to help other ex-convicts and prisoners when he was released from prison three years ago. But, taking a draw on his cigarette, the 6-foot-2, 160-pound man said that it is time to put more energy rn his art and his studies. "I'm going to get my (teaching) credential and my master's and any other papers that will show all those people IVe changed." "All those other people" are the prison authorities at Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown and Vaca- villc North Reception Center where Raku was an inmate. Raku's goal is to teach ceramics in prison,an institu¬ tion that is familiar to him. X he hands that carefully molded the rows of multi-colored pots lining several shelves in the Conley Art Building were not always so gentle. When he was 12 years old be stole bottles of liquor from a boxcar, the first of many minor crimes that kept him in and out of juvenile halls until he was 16.SU years ago.duringa trigger on a shotgun, and he was sent to prison on his 33rd birthday. s While Raku was in prison, artist Jerry Meaks taught him and other inmates ceramics. "I saw people get beat up," Raku said, rolling a large lump of clay into a ball. "It was really gross in prison. Pottery gave you sorhethirrg-to do." Raku was "sold" on pottery as a teenager after seeing a man in a juvenile hall form an elephant and v "But my peers wouldn't let me dot supposed to go to the gym." L7o Raku, who was known at that time as James Smith, went to the gym and the playgrounds, and excelled in football, basketball and track at Edison High School in Stockton. He played football and two years of basketball at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, and won a full-ride basketball scholarship to Utah State. There he played two years of basketball and some more football. He was drafted by the National Basketball Association's Seattle Supersonic*, but opted to play pro football for the Denver Broncos becuase the pay was better. He played only four games for the Broncos during the 1968 and 1969 seasons becuase of an injury. He finished the 1969 season with the Ottowa Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. "When I was 26 years old I had a big decision to make," be said. "Should I go back and get beat up (playing football) or should I be a family man? So I went to work for PGAE (Pacific Gas and Electric) because I figured everyone needs electricity." Raku has seven children, ranging in age from 11 to 20, including three 18-year-old sons, "all by different ladies." But after the shooting incident, his PGAE job. ended, and he acquired a handicap: a criminal record. m. hen he first began attending CSUF he was advised by counselors and the Vocational Rehabilita¬ tion Center to take business classes. Many business courses later he realized something—"Who's going to let me sit in their office?" As an ex-convict. he thought his chances of landing a job as a secretary, which was what his schooling was preparing him for, were slim. So he turned his hands from the typewriter to paint¬ ing, ceramics and other art classes, and eventually settled in as a potter. "Roger Bolomey (a CSU F art instructor) helped me make a decssioa about doing one phase of art." Raku said.-You cant do a whole bunco." Raku takes his name from his favorite kind of ceramics", Raku pottery. An art instructor told him that his pots weren t really Raku because the only true Raku potters were those from the Raku family who originated the type of low-fire pottery. So looking up at a poster that said "Mud. Ha Ha, Mud." Raku decided at that moment to go by Mud¬ hamud Raku. His artist's license is already under Raku, and he plans eventually to change his name legally. "I'm going to change it for art's sake. I know actors do it. When you're trying to assume an identity, you need to assume a name." Reaching up to a shelf, Raku pulls down and exam¬ ines a pot he's especially proud of. "It looks like velvet. It even feels like velvet." he said. The pot is finished with a glaze of his own invention, a project he's been working on for several semesters. He finally perfected the glaze on his first firing of Raku pottery this semester, after experimenting on over 500 pieces of pottery. ' "It s got its own distinctive look. People can work a lifetime and.not do that, make their own glaze." He credits art instructor Larry Anderson with help¬ ing htm make the glaze which includes lead, frit, cobalt and copper carbonate. U chooling and art have been Raku's path back to a normal life, and he wants to help other ex-convicts, and convicts, find their place in society. "I think it's a therapeutic thing. It will give them some kind of highway, a way to get back. ' "Ex-convicts should be the first ones to go back and teach,**besaid. "I think 1 know the problem. IVe been institutionalized my whole life. "They say the average grade level (of convicts) is 6.8. I'm telling it's 3.4. Those guys are out of it." A specific incident came to his asisst' "One time a guy came out and said,'Hey, how you Homo sapiens doing?' and got jumped. They thought he was caffing them homosexuals. "The best way to attack the problem is to prepare them for getting out. It's really borriMe to expect laem to make a transition when they doflt know anything." When you're out of prison, Raku said, with no job, no money arid often no one to turn to for help, its hard to go to college. "I know s lady who went out and whored herself lo buy her books." Raku warns to go back to prison and try to prepare convicts for the day they're let oat, bat right now be wants to finish his own education and find his place in society. . "First you redoing what you ri«v« to do, then you're do«agwbwyouwawtod«.lrafmtolrwmamaaat-
Object Description
Title | 1983_12 The Daily Collegian December 1983 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1983 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Description
Title | Dec 2, 1983 Pg. 6-7 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1983 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | |IPaigCB:(S Dec. 2, 1983*" Emfl@niMmDDD(Bmft] ^- U2 flies high through Big Red Sky' From their very beginning, it was evi¬ dent that U2 was a band that mattered — a band that was the creator of impas¬ sioned, urgent music. That fact was never clearer than on War, the Irish group's third album that established them as one of the most' important new bands ofthe decade. On their ensuingtour of America, U2 convinced all nonbelicvers with a stun¬ ning live show, and without question proved themselves worthy of superstar The bands 1983 tour — both here and in Europe — was one of the year* highlights, and just in time for Christ¬ mas U2 has presented their fans with a gift: an eight-song mini album recorded live. Under a Blood Red Sky. Recorded in Denver, Boston and at the Rockpalast 83 Festival in West Germany, Under a Blood Red Sky is an impressive work, capturing the Irish quartet at their finest. So cleanly is this album recorded it almost sounds like a studio recording with audience applause dubbed in later. [Copies of the Audited Financial Statements of the Associated Students of California State University, Fresno, for the: fiscal year ended June 30, 1983, are available for review in the As¬ sociated Students office located in the College Union Room 316, and in the library, Department of Social Collections THE$6"LARGEPIZZA EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK AND YOU DONTNEED COUPONS 'SAVE ON A LARGE ORIGINAL 9 TOPPING STRAW HAT PIZZA WHEN YOU PAY OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICE OF ONLY 6.99 - A 3.26 SAVING - YOU DONT NEED COUPONS AT m Straw Hat i COMPARETHE-PMCETHENTHEQUAUTY u^r*- U-h- tat? as WCkc* mc- "rzr AJ*. S1 in | (W«M ■ fen** *.*♦ as as 7JC ass ass iss ISO 1J.9S ass FRESNO HUE Shaw 222-7476 '*- CLOVIS 536 Shaw Ave. 298-2076 a»^»»»gaBaaa»*Ja«»»a«»a«1a»^a»BgaaBfaa,pa«»»aaaa»a«a>^l But such is not the case — producer Jimmy lovinc has done his usual excel¬ lent job of giving a band a clean, crisp Featuring songs from all three of their albums, U2 presents us with a ful¬ filling testament of their musics impor¬ tance. From War we have "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "New Years Day," and the quiet but forceful "40," which along with "GIoria"and "I Will Follow" combine to form the heart and passion¬ ate soul of Under a Blood Red Sky. Add to that "The Electric Co.," "Party Girl" and "I I O'clock Tick Tock," and we have the makings for one ofthe best live albums in several years. Paced by the incceasinalv sophisti¬ cated guitar work of the Edge, the rhythm section of bassist Adam Clay¬ ton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and the forceful tenor of lead singer Bono' Vox, U2 sweeps the listener into an exhilarating, stirring experience. On a scale of 1 to 10. Under a Blood Red Sky earns a well-deserved 9. Although the Doors havent been together as a group since Jim Morri¬ son's death in 1971, they have main¬ tained their popularity without the benefit of having released any new material in more than 10 years. , Hailed as one of the most important groups ofthe late 1960s, the Doors were the spokesmen for a hedonistic genera¬ tion raised on rock V roll, protest marches and Vietnam. Their psyche¬ delic sound, driven by Ray Manzarek's pumping organ, John Densmore's crash¬ ing drums and Robbie Krieger's jagged guitar, became the hallmark of the 1960s. In concert, the Doors were right at home, pushing conventional standards to the limit and glowing brilliantly as a musical entity. So it is on AHre, She Cried, a live chronicle recorded over a three-year span (1968-70) that covers the gamut of the Doors' musical styles. The Doors were often labeled as a bunch of boozing druggies, but on Alive, She Cried Morrison and Co. are sharp, giving the listener a superlative performance on every song. ~""~ From the driving blues of Willie Dix¬ on's "Little Red Rooster,*to the electri¬ fying but crude rendition of Van Morri- ^ ^ son's "Gloria,"to the passionate reading of "Light My Fire," the Doors were perhaps a little ahead of their time. Their popularity remains today, even a decade after Morrison's death, and it could become even stronger With this album. On a scale of 1 to 10, Alive, She Cried Pat Benatar is one of the finest hard rock female singers around. That much can be deduced by listening to her stu¬ dio albums and her string of hit singles. But on Live From Earth, her stab at a live album, Benatar fails miserably. M uch of Live From Earth sounds like a cheap bootleg tape recorded from the bathroom of the concert hall and then re-recorded onto the cheapest tape available. So bad is the sound that Neil Gerardo's fine guitar work is lost most of the time, and some songs, like "1 Want sSc* Maaic, Paac 12 Tor a Speciaf Christmas.. m 0 '£ your cftoict $99-50 THamond Tendant or 'Earrings UTiytKow or -wfiittgold. From pro ball...to prison...to pottery i Radii's life has been shaped and molded like the pottery he creates. xlLi Mudhamud Raku uses one finger to gently shape the clay spinning on his potter's wheel, he tells how his life has been shaped and molded, and how not until now has he found the right form. Fourteen years ago the 38-year-old CSUF art stu¬ dent was playing professional football. Six years ago he was in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. Now he is content to make pottery and study art. With a mud-covered finger, Raku points at the name "Peter Voulkos,"a sculptor he admires, scrawled on the wall behind him. Flinging a glob of clay at the scribbling, Raku said, "1 throw mud at him once in awhile to let him know he is No. 2 and I am No. I." Although Raku threw the clay at the scribbling on the wall with a laugh, his words were symbolic. He has been attending CSUF for two yean, and now believes it's time to concentrate on being an artist. "I'm beginning to feel I've paid my dues and now 1 want to do ceramics full-time." For Raku, paying his dues has meant volunteering many hours a week at Inside Out, a rehabilitation center for ex-convicts, counseling inmates at the Fresno County Jail on weekends, and hosting an Inside Out-sponsored talk show that airs on cable channel 4 every Thursday night. Taking the lead from his grandmother, who as a Mormon went on an evangelistic mission to Connecti¬ cut,' Raku set out on his own mission to help other ex-convicts and prisoners when he was released from prison three years ago. But, taking a draw on his cigarette, the 6-foot-2, 160-pound man said that it is time to put more energy rn his art and his studies. "I'm going to get my (teaching) credential and my master's and any other papers that will show all those people IVe changed." "All those other people" are the prison authorities at Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown and Vaca- villc North Reception Center where Raku was an inmate. Raku's goal is to teach ceramics in prison,an institu¬ tion that is familiar to him. X he hands that carefully molded the rows of multi-colored pots lining several shelves in the Conley Art Building were not always so gentle. When he was 12 years old be stole bottles of liquor from a boxcar, the first of many minor crimes that kept him in and out of juvenile halls until he was 16.SU years ago.duringa trigger on a shotgun, and he was sent to prison on his 33rd birthday. s While Raku was in prison, artist Jerry Meaks taught him and other inmates ceramics. "I saw people get beat up," Raku said, rolling a large lump of clay into a ball. "It was really gross in prison. Pottery gave you sorhethirrg-to do." Raku was "sold" on pottery as a teenager after seeing a man in a juvenile hall form an elephant and v "But my peers wouldn't let me dot supposed to go to the gym." L7o Raku, who was known at that time as James Smith, went to the gym and the playgrounds, and excelled in football, basketball and track at Edison High School in Stockton. He played football and two years of basketball at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, and won a full-ride basketball scholarship to Utah State. There he played two years of basketball and some more football. He was drafted by the National Basketball Association's Seattle Supersonic*, but opted to play pro football for the Denver Broncos becuase the pay was better. He played only four games for the Broncos during the 1968 and 1969 seasons becuase of an injury. He finished the 1969 season with the Ottowa Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. "When I was 26 years old I had a big decision to make," be said. "Should I go back and get beat up (playing football) or should I be a family man? So I went to work for PGAE (Pacific Gas and Electric) because I figured everyone needs electricity." Raku has seven children, ranging in age from 11 to 20, including three 18-year-old sons, "all by different ladies." But after the shooting incident, his PGAE job. ended, and he acquired a handicap: a criminal record. m. hen he first began attending CSUF he was advised by counselors and the Vocational Rehabilita¬ tion Center to take business classes. Many business courses later he realized something—"Who's going to let me sit in their office?" As an ex-convict. he thought his chances of landing a job as a secretary, which was what his schooling was preparing him for, were slim. So he turned his hands from the typewriter to paint¬ ing, ceramics and other art classes, and eventually settled in as a potter. "Roger Bolomey (a CSU F art instructor) helped me make a decssioa about doing one phase of art." Raku said.-You cant do a whole bunco." Raku takes his name from his favorite kind of ceramics", Raku pottery. An art instructor told him that his pots weren t really Raku because the only true Raku potters were those from the Raku family who originated the type of low-fire pottery. So looking up at a poster that said "Mud. Ha Ha, Mud." Raku decided at that moment to go by Mud¬ hamud Raku. His artist's license is already under Raku, and he plans eventually to change his name legally. "I'm going to change it for art's sake. I know actors do it. When you're trying to assume an identity, you need to assume a name." Reaching up to a shelf, Raku pulls down and exam¬ ines a pot he's especially proud of. "It looks like velvet. It even feels like velvet." he said. The pot is finished with a glaze of his own invention, a project he's been working on for several semesters. He finally perfected the glaze on his first firing of Raku pottery this semester, after experimenting on over 500 pieces of pottery. ' "It s got its own distinctive look. People can work a lifetime and.not do that, make their own glaze." He credits art instructor Larry Anderson with help¬ ing htm make the glaze which includes lead, frit, cobalt and copper carbonate. U chooling and art have been Raku's path back to a normal life, and he wants to help other ex-convicts, and convicts, find their place in society. "I think it's a therapeutic thing. It will give them some kind of highway, a way to get back. ' "Ex-convicts should be the first ones to go back and teach,**besaid. "I think 1 know the problem. IVe been institutionalized my whole life. "They say the average grade level (of convicts) is 6.8. I'm telling it's 3.4. Those guys are out of it." A specific incident came to his asisst' "One time a guy came out and said,'Hey, how you Homo sapiens doing?' and got jumped. They thought he was caffing them homosexuals. "The best way to attack the problem is to prepare them for getting out. It's really borriMe to expect laem to make a transition when they doflt know anything." When you're out of prison, Raku said, with no job, no money arid often no one to turn to for help, its hard to go to college. "I know s lady who went out and whored herself lo buy her books." Raku warns to go back to prison and try to prepare convicts for the day they're let oat, bat right now be wants to finish his own education and find his place in society. . "First you redoing what you ri«v« to do, then you're do«agwbwyouwawtod«.lrafmtolrwmamaaat- |