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Pi 4 Section 2 Chicago Tribune, Monday, August 6, 1979 Rock returns to Comiskey Park; Journey is hit Tower Ticker By Aaron Gold began tossing things like half-eaten hot dogs, half-filled cups of cola, and an occasional apple or orange over the railings to land on the hapless folks below (who tossed the stuff back along with some of their own). Everybody apparently had so much fun that the whole process was repeated between the Santana and Journey sets. At any rate, Journey was the obvious hit of the day. For some inexplicable reason, the band draws better in Chicago than anywhere else outside its home base of San Francisco. The band, like its lead vocalist Steve Perry, is certainly decent enough, but-totally undistinctive in terms of both music and stage presence.

The band members are pleasant rather than powerful, though their set was undeniably the high point of the day for most of the crowd and their finale, complete with fireworks and hundreds of balloons let loose in the lowering, lightning-licked sky, was highly effective and entertaining. (The weather further cooperated by waiting until Journey's set was over before the heavy rain that had threatened the proceedings all day began in earnest.) EARLIER. THE show opened with Molly Hatchet, a passable but predictable Southern boogie band whose forte is not originality, followed by a mildly entertaining but hardly overwhelming set of rhythm and blues and rock by Eddie Money. Santana, a band that has been through a number of incarnations and now seems to have moved out of jazz and esb-terica into more garden variety sounds, swung through a set that ranged from intensely rhythmic and rocking to highly melodic. Thin Lizzy, the most promising act on the bill in terms of impact potential, came out kicking and created some excitement with "Jailbreak," but lost its momentum with the slower numbers that followed.

Meanwhile, the lights and siren effects that accompany "Jailbreak" and can be so effective in terms of mood in a darkened hall were far less colorful in an outdoor setting. IT'S A GIVEN fact, certainly, that mood can play only miniscule, if any, part in the impact of the musical proceedings at ballparks and the like. Difficult enough for a band to achieve in a large (but at least dark and therefore seemingly more intimate) indoor hall, it's nigh near impossible to create outdoors, particularly since to most of the audience the musicians appear to be merely pinheads (speaking in terms of size, of course). Such outdoor affairs being more celebrations than anything else, the best that can be hoped for is an amenable ambiance, a sunny day, a decent sound system, and some reasonably good sounds. Sunday's show came close enough.

NOTES: The North Shore Record Collectors Club will sponsor a record swap meet from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday in Raymond Park in Evanston. By Lynn Van Matre Rock music critic DT WAS, OF COURSE, a slight overstatement when a WLUP deejay told a capacity crowd of rock fans at Comiskey Park on Sunday that they should keep things cool because "this is the place everybody's watching," or something to that effect. Still, there's no doubt that in the rather recent past this rabidly rock 'n' roll radio station and-this particular ballpark have proved to be, shall we say, an explosive combination, what with last month's rather silly "anti-disco" doings between games getting out of hand and resulting in the cancellation of the second game of a White Sox doubleheader.

But Sunday, WLUP was back at Comiskey Park staging the first all-day outdoor rock show Chicago has seen this summer. The concert, featuring Journey, Santana, Thin Lizzy, Eddie Money, and Molly Hatchet, was (unsurprisingly enough) totally devoid of disco and fracas-free. The crowd, in fact, remained placid throughout the nine hours of music, set changes, and occasional showers. UNTIL THE HEADLINERS, Journey, took the stage, the most exciting things all day had been the food fights, moronic as they were. For some reason, during a rainy second intermission after Eddie Money, a portion of the crowd in the upper balconies Lisa Hartman tie tune and "Old Time Rock and Roll," as well as "You're Never Too Old," written by Marriott's talent di The master baton-maker who the maestros seek out he favored wood or rubber handles, Bohm replied, "A few of each, please." Horowitz has played under Sir Georg Solti's direction, but never made him a baton.

But he did make batons for Jose Serebrier, and had a few anxious moments when he learned Serebrier had stabbed himself while conducting in Mexico. But it wasn't one of Horowitz's batons, only a plastic model Serebrier had picked up elsewhere. Criicayo T'iDune Press Serves. MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN MOTION PICTURIS DOWNTOWN MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN rector Gene Patrick ana the special's producer Scott Sternberg. And Lisa's waiting to hear from ABC-TV about a movie she tested for, "Love for Sale," that would have her playing a tough woman for rent.

A WELL KNOWN TV star goes topless on the cover of the Aug. 23 issue of Rolling Stone. But don't get all upset, it's only Mork himself, Robin Williams. Leif Garrett was a big hit with his fans Friday at the Auditorium, judging by the constant screaming and steady barrage of flowers, stuffed animals, and other gifts that pelted the stage. The 17-year-old rock 'n' roller will play just that next season in a two-hour special episode of TV's "CHiPs" series with Eric Estrada and Larry Wilcox.

Tim Curry's excellent Saturday concert at Park West was packed with fans dressed in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" garb prompting him to say: "Oh God, they sent the costume brigade." TICKER BITS: Former President Ford checks into the Chicago Marriott Hotel Monday to address a McDonald's franchiser's meeting. If you're a Joni Mitchell fan, don't miss her latest album, "Mingus." It's an extraordinary jazz album that began as a collabora- tion with Charlie Mingus and turned into a tribute to him when Mingus died be- fore the album was completed. Happy birthday to Lucille Ball, Robert Mitchum, Andy Warhol, State Rep. Terry Steczo Chicago) Lisa Glas-berg, 22, has joined WMET Radio as a news reporter. WFYR will simulcast the Helen Reddy (Aug.

11) and Chicago (Aug. 12) concerts from ChicagoFest. Jeff Kutash's Dancin' Machine and comic Gary Mule Deer open Monday at the Blue Max. And the other day Jim Szantor saw a guy playing a guitar in the subway: "I don't want to say he was bad, but I took some money out of the cup!" little orphan MIDNIGHT SHOW NIO.HTLY LAST FEATURE 12:10 A.M. f-aRIDAVS APPEARANCE by Blues Brothers John Belushi and 1 1 Dan Aykroyd (joining John Prine 11 and Muddy Waters) at the opening of ChicagoFest had been a well-kept secret around City Hall for some time.

The two former Second City actors, who sprang to national prominence ou "Saturday Night Live," went to meet Mayor Byrne in her office several weeks ago and stayed for an hour. They laughed most of the time and Aykroyd even did his Jimmy Carter impersonation. The mayor asked them to open ChicagoFest and they agreed, telling friends later that they were doing it because they were so impressed with her. But their managers and Universal (that's who they're filming "The Blues Brothers" for) insisted it not be publicized for fear of an unruly mob. The word leaked out Friday, but they showed up anyway and everyone had a great time.

Mayor Byrne didn't show up at Navy Pier Saturday, but her daughter Kathy did and ended up singing "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" with Bobby Vinton at his afternoon show. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was disappointed that Mayor Byrne withdrew as a roaster for Sunday 's Kappa Alpha Psi tribute in his honor at the Conrad Hilton, but she sent Aid. Wilson Frost in her place. However, the mayor did join hundreds of VIPs (including Gov. Thompson) at Sunday's Chicago Cubs-St.

Louis Cardinals game in Wrigley Field that included a gigantic celebration honoring Jack Brick-house on his baseball broadcast. TICKER TIPS: There's still a possibility that Robert Redford will star in the movie version of the best seller, "The Thornbirds." He wants more location filming in America instead of Europe. Murphy Dunne (son of Cook County Board President George Dunne) flew to L.A. over the weekend to screentest for the Richard Dreyfuss role in a TV series based on "The Goodbye Girl." (Dunne has been here filming "The Blues Channel 5 is shifting its nightly newscasts, as of Aug. 27, to: local news from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

(Jorie Lueloff and Chuck Henry); then network news from 5:30 to 6 p.m.; and back for another 30 minutes of local news from 6 to 6:30 p.m. coanchored by Carol Marin and Jim Ruddle. Miss Marin, a rising star at Channel 5, also have a featured report nightly on the 10 p.m. newscast. LISA HARTMAN, best known for playing the title role in the "Tabatha" TV series, is having a ball her first time in Chicago.

The beautiful actress-singer can't decide what she wants to see first, but is working such long hours taping Channel 7's "You're Never Too 1 Old" one-hour special at Marriott's Great America, that she may not have much time to sightsee. The show airs Aug. 25 (10:30 p.m.) with Lisa, Robb Weller, Anne Ryerson, the Honey Bears, Dr. Hook, and ventriloquist Jay Johnson. Lisa gets to sing two songs from her new "Hold On, Hold On" album, including the ti- JAMES BKOI.IN MAKGOT KIDDER TUT? and ROD STEIGKR I 4ntfo4vtin RHONDA 0 PETTY niTl, AAV AAJAJA (X) PLUS HOROWITZ' CLIENTELE includes three dozen conductors, and he makes.

total of more than 100 individually -fashioned batons a year. He charges $5 for each one. Zubin Mehta used to buy his batons from a factory in Cleveland, but the factory was destroyed in a fire. The librarian for the Philadelphia symphony asked Horowitz to deliver a dozen sticks to Mehta as a favor. When Bernstein took the New York Philharmonic on a Far Eastern tour last spring, he placed an emergency order for 15 batons.

Horowitz lost count of the number he made for Schippers "It was scads. I don't know whether he ate them or what, but I saw him break one when he was only slightly perturbed." The baton shafts are made from birch or maple and often very slightly tapered. Each shaft is painstakingly lathed and sanded, and when the wood grain runs wrong, the wastebasket fills. The assembled baton, even with a bulbous wooden handle Horowitz uses rubber and surgical tubing in addition to cork weighs less than half an ounce. Horowitz does not know why a conductor favors one model over another.

Recently, he decided to send Bohm some bator.3 for his 80th birthday, and when he asked the conductor whether Continued from 1st Tempo page a replacement for the baton Viennese conductor Karl Bohm had broken at rehearsal. The librarian made his way to a music store where Horowitz was making a request appearance repairing--timpani. Horowitz said there was no way to find a duplicate unless someone could be persuaded to make it. Horowitz volunteered. He sped home to his workbench, and, though he had never made a baton even today, he doesn't make his own drumsticks he produced a reasonable likeness of Bohm's baton.

Since then, the world's leading conductors have sung Horowitz praises and far and clamored for his services. One day the telephone rang and it was Julius Rudel of the rival City Opera next door. "Guess what," Horowitz quotes Rudel as saying, "I'm out of batons. Do you remember what I use?" Well, of course I remember, said Horowitz to himself. (Most of the time in rehearsals it was a pencil.) Horowitz made an 11-inch-long baton.

Rudel was thrilled, but the musicians in the European orchestras, where he often guest conducted, were not. They asked Rudel to paint the stick white so they could see it. -all ORROR PRETTY PEACHES 3 ccnttnuoua kMlA.t 372-2054 OiaaaOaH near LAKI COME EARLY! OPEN 8:30 A.M. ORIENTAL "5 $1.50 'UP FROM THE DEPTHS" and "PATRICK" NEAR NORTH NEAR NORTH Screams 7 Winter Night MCVICKERS $1.50 HILARIOUSLY FUNNY" -Richard Grtnjtr, Coynopolltan "H.0.T.S."&"SWAPMEEr "THEREAJJRUCEJ.iEL. NORTHWEST lit lilts Unrtad Arrjtts iR 1316 W.

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