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Supertramp Searches for a New Tune I songs come from," Hodgson laughs. crazy, knowing that I'm looking for something else, will keep me sane." is easy for us, having been through it. Reaching the age we are (both 27) Sew Easy To Sew Stretch Fabrics A St i I.Jul Mr NUWUrOAU! 2 .9 VWA $1 29.88 sj and looking back logically, it (school) didn't teach me much or what it did teach me was how not to educate a child." Thomson added, "It's not so easy you're in it. You obviously do get frustrated then." "There are many sides to Supertramp," Hodgson said. "There's a real boogie side, a jamming side, a jazzy side, a drama side which really is 'Crime of the It just happens that one side took off, so people kind of labeled us into that." Both men agreed that each band member had changed a great deal since coming to the U.S., and accordingly, their music has evolved into new realms, one of them being spiritual.

"Music itself is spiritual on all kinds of different levels," Hodgson said. "I'm a spiritual seeker. The thing that most musicians strive for most musicians that I've idolized the past is success. And then when they get there, they kind of fall apart because there's nowhere else to go. And then their writing falls to pieces.

Most of the bands from the 1960s, I've seen them go that way. A lot of them either take drugs or they take to their mansion or their car and they just divorce themselves from reality. Hopefully, if success does get a bit MAKES BUTTONHOLES SEWS ON BUTTONS (T) MAKES STRETCH STITCH IN SERVICE SINCE 1860 Essex Jet. Shopping Always Been a Punctual From Poge 1 land. "It's a nice place to play.

There is nothing wrong with those kids (at the concert). There was a communication breakdown." "We've always thought that our music was kind of contrary to violence. We like to hypnotize people with the light show. They get off on the words and the music," Thomson said, in a lilting Glasgow Scots accent. I asked them about the words in "School" from their popular album "Crime of the Century." For example: "Don't do this and don't do that, What are they trying to do? Make a good boy of you, Do they know where it's at? Don't criticize.

They're old and wise, Don't want the devil to. Come and put out your I'm mistaken expecting you to Hodgson thought a moment. "There are two different types of revolutions in lyrics. One that just incites listeners to stand up and start shouting This is wrong. This is And one that suggests they become aware of what's really happening and change themselves and bring about a change.

The world needs that now," he said. "The song 'School' is putting down the educational system, which Steven Has ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Steven Ladd never missed a day of school from the first grade on through high school 2,160 school days. "It's rare to have a student go all the way through school without missing a day," said Richard Chapman, assista nt superintendent of Orange County schools. "It's extremely rare.

It requires good health, freedom from accident and just plain luck." Steve was no slouch; just being there was not enough. He was graduated from Maynard Evans High School this spring with a 4.4625 scholastic average that earned him honors as valedictorian. But what about the sore throats, viruses and accidents? Youth Liberation ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) At 15, Keith Hefner and a group of friends founded Youth Liberation champion of children's liberation. Today, at 22, Hefner says everyone seems to have abandoned the cause except him.

"We couldn't go to political meetings because we couldn't drive. And even if we lived close enough to walk, our parents wouldn't let us go," recalled Hefner They advocated giving children the vote, said children ought to be able to "divorce" their parents and get alimony and they the idea of giving jobs to children, with the right to receive welfare or unemployment benefits. Hefner's friends grew up, all gone to school or into other radical movements. Youth Liberation is a one-man operation now but Hefner feels as strongly as ever about youth liberation. "I'm not going to give up on this yet," he said.

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Hopefully I can be a vehicle to learn more about myself and help to help others as well from what I learn," Hodgson said. "We all got off on the Beatles' dream. The Beatles showed how music can change the world." "We need some respect for each other's individuality," Thomson said. "Rock music today seems to have a void of anything meaningful," Hodgson said. "In the '60s, there was really hope there, because it exploded, because people were singing about things that meant something.

It's a cycle. Maybe it will explode again in the '70s." "Yeah," Thomson said. "It's become unfashionable to express care. People tend to knock it. But basically behind all the facades, everybody's just as confused as the next one." He feels that America is "the hub of what's happening in the world.

All the problems are here and all the answers. In England, people are still walking around with blinkers on. That stubbornness to change is what's going to cripple them, whereas here people are so willing to change." "I always wonder where the yet to miss a day. Steven's perfect record was jeopardized just recently as a result of an accident while riding his 10-speed bicycle. He was taken to a hospital and treated for abrasions and a mild concussion.

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Were 1 .99 to 3.29 NOW PRICE Sale "If you knew how Supertramp came together seven years ago, you'd have to believe in some kind of guiding force. If that guiding force is there then there has has to be a guiding force for all our music us well. All thoughts and music are extracted from the cosmos, I suppose. The music is just coming through me. I'm just a sort of transmitter.

And so, the more positive and the purer I make the transmitter, the better the music is going to be." On their latest album, "Even in the Quietest Moments," there is a tune written to "Babaji," a "very high spirit a la Christ and Krishna." "All my life," the song goes, "I felt that you were listening, Watching for ways to help me stay in tune. Lord of my dreams, although confusion, Keeps trying to deceive, What is it that makes me believe in oh won't you come to me, Won't you help me face the music, Bring it out so We can sing it out, Help us find it before we lose After a few hours of tea and conversation, the two rock and rollers rode off in their superterrific camper to the next town and the next show. Was I impressed by their music and their mystery and their manners? Bloody well right I was. Ladd him to stay in bed for a couple of days. It happened on a Friday, after school.

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