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love play together Saturday at Bimbo's Further along those lines, Righteous Raoul wants to start a rumor that Steve Ashman of the Zasv Pitts Memorial Orchestra will be sitting in with." Raoul's band, the Stupeds, Thursday at Mill Valley's Sweetwater Just to see if anybody shows Hot young rock band D.J. Burns, featuring guitarist John ny Ih son of Fantasy Records chairman Saul Zaentz, plays Thursday at the Stone, introducing material from the band's second album for Debut Records, not surprisingly a subsidiary of Fantasy Poets and sometimes rockers Jim Carroll and Henry Rollins of Black Flag appear July 2 at the Great American Music Hall Summer shows at UC Berkeley's Greek Theater are Just around the corner, including dates by Ziggy Marley, love and Rockets, Pat Metheny Group, 10,000 Maniacs, Joe Jackson and EhIs Costello. On 0 Personal Note After 17 years of uninterrupted service, your faith-' ul correspondent departs tomorrow for a six-month sabbatical, leaving this column in the capable hands of Michael Snyler. My first review was a show by Elvin Bishop and Commander Cody, a benefit for Charlie 1 Musselwhite, who had been injured in a car crash, and they packed the Keystone Berkeley for the occasion. PUNCH LIJF I COMf OV ClUt MSTAURANT DAD La SAN FRANCISCO to it bsl Mous Fwiy tovn FRIDAYS Ml A DM HIS am- A -A VVSaTVafOjnVOJJ WPTaaTpAiJ UWMMiHtyBia CHUONiatfOPMusicamc CT1HE MAN WHO used to call himself Johnny Rot-1 1 ton stopped by San Francisco a few weeks back in advance of the summer tour by his band Public Imago Ltd to spread some good will and dispel a few myths.

Eek! A journalist," he shrieked, only half in Jest, upon answering his hotel room John Lydon once belonged to the Sox Pistols, who earned quite a reputation as rock-and-roll bad boys and standard-bearers for the then-fledgling punk movement, but now he has moved on to more serious endeavors. "I am only Johnny Rotten in Journalists' eyes," he claimed. "It was a wonderful story, but it's also a myth blown out of proportion." He belches during the conversation to illustrate his boredom with such pedantic discussion. What he wants to talk about is his ninth album with Public Image, imaginatively titled After all, he insisted in his current record contract that the label send him around the country specifically for that purpose. "I call it pop music," he said.

"It's a Joyful celebration of life and, no, I'm not He stands and stretches, walks around his Nob Hill hotel and spits out the window. His tour opens Wednesday with Now Order and the Sugorcvbes at Mountain View's Shoreline Amphitheater, a tour dubbed by some as 'The Monsters of Art" "I think it's a Jolly good Joke, not to be taken seriously," Lydon said. "Pop music should be fairly disposable, instantaneous, for the moment, not part of history or any of that crap." A couple of minutes later, he defends the amount of effort he puts into such evanescent musical creations. "I take my work far too seriously for it to be one big joke," he said. So which is it? Serious art or disposable trash? "Oh, it doesn't matter because you're jdst going to write up all the same cliches anyway," he answered.

The truth is, Lydon, the cliche is you. Coming Up Ring'o Starr and Friends play September 1 at Shoreline Amphitheater, with the Beatles drummer TOMMMTI tUMOAV, JUM1 11 I S3 COMEDY SHOWCASE HOST: JIM NENOfOLOUS TOO MUCH JOY MONDAY, JUNE 1 FM COMEDY COMPETITION AUDITIONS SPECIAL QUEST HOST TUeSOA-TMUBSOAV 4134lf PM FmDAVJMTUnOAY H17 4 11 FM JOE BOLSTER LARRY 1UBBLES MOWN SUED REISS MM OHM TMS M. UOVC 444 UTIfnV fT ftTWf Ht WAMMQTON XAV rWM Ufftr OWI kit mm na mama ruHL-mtm. wn MnarotMuaun. WALNUT CREEK TOMMMT1 tUNOAY, JJUM1 1 1 PM THE TRESAMIGOS SHOW! BRIAN COPE LAND SUE MURPHY DEXTER MADMSON TH BAY AREA LOVESACOOO it's Pavdrotti, the Pick- tpt; of waierpoto.

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