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12 THE SUN, Sunday, August 15, 1982 Promotion can be a risky trade on the cutting edge of rock music I Mr, uh Mr 7e- 'I sl jr jf SSJ mi i- mm I j.J L- i ROCK, from Dl It's hard enough trying to book an original New Wave band when the oilub owners' first question is "Whose do they play?" It's even harder when the bands have names like the lJ)ead Kennedys or the Revilos, and ylay music you can dance to only if you like banging your head against a t-VClub owners are operating from 2n'old, racist, sexist vibration," Taciak says. "They don't care tabout the bands. They're in the busi-I of selling liquor. They hire bands 1 -that help them do that. The only 'New being played in the clubs is old ItocIc 'n' roll bands masquerading as New Wave by playing a little Blondie Xor," he shudders, "Rod Stewart." itl ln September of 1981, never hav-I ting produced a musical event in his Mr.

Taciak decided it was time v-3 wage "a war against the fat." He tjqult his job as a shipping clerk, bor- -towed some money and searched for space in which to set up a New Wave club. He modeled his battle J'plan on the hit-and-run discos of New York street gangs, who move into an --abandoned building, set up a sound 'system and dance the night away, dis- appearing by dawn. KH Taciak's first club hardly last-ed longer. Called 888, it was an after- Hours affair in an abandoned sewing Th Sun Richard Childresa Dancing to the music of Nuvo Blind in a New Wave festival at Theatre Project, which ended this weekend. bar in a non-residential block of Hanover street in Brooklyn.

He "New Waved the decor" with old sofas and graffiti, filled the jukebox with the latest sounds, and dubbed the place Club Banned. Club Banned opened in February, 1982, operating Wednesdays through Sundays "from midnight until whenever." No liquor was served, Mr. Taciak says, "to get away from the high cost of entertainment. It's much cheaper for people to bring their own liquor if they want to drink Besides, the bar atmosphere creates a sort of drinking frenzy. We wanted a looser atmosphere where blacks, women and all kinds of people could feel comfortable." Club Banned was shut down by the police in mid-April.

They cited violations of the previous management's still-current liquor license. But Mr. Taciak is convinced their motive was more one of suppression: "The police don't like what they can't understand or control. They thought we were freaks in the neighborhood." Roger and Leslee Anderson feel the Marble Bar has had to fight a different sort of suppression. Since 1978 they've hosted live bands seven nights a week international name acts as well as local newcomers, playing everything from blues to bluegrass, jazz, rock 'n' roll and New Wave.

Unlike most clubs, which tend to book acts exclusively on the basis of a specific clientele's preferences, the Andersons have consistently varied the Marble Bar's music in an attempt, Mr. Anderson says, "to educate the public." Disappointingly, the Marble Bar's audiences have varied as widely as the music. "The jazz crowd stopped coming when we started booking punk," Mr. Anderson says. "Now the punks hate us because we also book produced Leather Pearls, a punk music and fashion show event that culminated in female bikers racing around a huge Crisco can while a man with glitter in his beard danced in a black slip.

Somehow someone toppled the massive sound system into the audience. "It was like 'Towering Ms. Mason recalls, "but everybody was laughing." This summer Foster Taciak went back to work as a shipping clerk. But he's found a new spot for his club: an abanonded clothing store at 406 Eutaw street. For the first week of September, he has booked the Misfits, a New York punk band, and he's firming up a six-month schedule.

Still, he's not fooling himself: he calls the club Terminal 406. "I'm just waiting for the cops to close us down," he smiles. "I'm here until they put me out," Roger Anderson says. The Marble Bar, at 306 West Franklin Street, continues to host live music seven nights a week. Chris Mason produced a month-long New Wave Festival at the Theatre Project, which just ended this weekend.

Nuvo Blind will play at Gi-rard's August 28. The Sun Richard Childress Belinda Blair of Nuvo Blind. machine factory on Lombard street. It was in operation three weeks before neighbors' complaints about the midnight-to-dawn music brought in the police. Undaunted, Mr.

Taciak relocated to a more secluded spot: an unused blues and rock. Each crowd hates the others. One clique suppresses the other." Until 1981 the Marble Bar enjoyed a special status as the only club in Baltimore even booking New Wave. Now that New Wave has percolated into the mainstream, other clubs are plugging it into their schedules, and the Andersons find themselves competing for a once exclusive market. Chris Mason stays out of the competition as much as possible.

She produces only on an occasional basis, creating special events in unlikely, spaces. She's been at it since 1971, when she founded the St. Dymphna Dramatic Society. St. Dymphna is the patron saint of the mentally ill.

"I figure you have to be crazy to be in this business," she laughs. In 10 years she has produced some milestones in Baltimore alternative performance history. She was responsible for starting Edith Massey's singing career in 1974. she sighs, "you can all blame In 1976 she Underground comics revived by 2 Baltimore-based artists Outdoor Exhibition Sunday, Aug. 1 5 The Art Guild of Maryland, Inc.

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DSSCOUiJTS COMICS, from Dl being crazy. To kill time Ricky does things like biow up crickets with firecrackers and flood bathrooms. Every high school, they claim, has a Ricky Dickner. And he usually ends up selling life insurance. "Most of the original reasons underground comics came into existence were absorbed into the mainstream," Mr.

Chalkley says. "In the bland, non-confrontational Seventies, the undergrounds lost their ability to shock." But underground comic books hung on through Disco, est and Perri-er. And in 1982, the conditions may be right for a renaissance. If so, "Weirdo, a veritable encyclopedia of bad taste, could lead the way. One of its chief contributors is the legendary cartoonist R.

Crumb. "Crumb is a genius," Mr. Chalkley says. "He's the closest we have to a Jonathan Swift. He says more about our culture than a whole boatload of novelists." "A lot of young kids, though, are totally unfamiliar with Crumb or his work," according to Mr.

Hankin, who teaches drawing at Johns Hopkins. "You wouldn't believe the gap." But the first time he shows his students old Zap comics, the response is automatic. "They love them." As for a comic book about Balti more, they say it's a natural. Laying out their plans at the Bridge, Charm City's classic stick-to-your-shirt eating place, they envision a comic that would capture the flavor of Baltimore for all America. "It would be a social history of the city," Tom Chalkley says, "the ethnic groups, how they relate, everything that makes Baltimore Baltimore.

You could do so much. A comic is like a frozen movie. "There's still room for undergrounds which they sometimes call 'the medium' to break into the public consciousness. It's a totally accessible art, something everybody immediately understands." But that's for later. Right now, the two are anxiously awaiting the release of their first record and the consummation of a distribution deal with Warners.

"Take Me Out to the Ball "Hey, it's a great American song," Mr. Hankin says. "There are verses nobody has ever heard. It's all about a girl who hangs around with ball players. Her boy friend tries to kidnap her and take her the beach.

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