Archbishop Mitty High School - Excalibur Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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four Mitty muniors who have recently formed a band along with pianist Phyllis Pearson from Mother Butler. Steve, who has played for seven years Qmostly 12-string guitarj, sat on one of those plasticized benches in the Mitty foyer as he tried to explain in his low, soft-spoken voice where mu- sic is going and what its function is. Music that was drug oriented, basi- cally started by the Beatles, is start- ing towards Christianity. Music is a form of communication, you can use music as a sort of tool to touch upon shadows of thought. Leonard Cohen e Tom je ff Sipiora Smithers 31 .in and Mason Williams have been in- fluences on him. Later I found another member of their band, Dan Dalhauser. l've had guitars around me since I was about eight. But I took my first lesson eight months ago, and I had my last lesson seven months ago. He paused for a moment and pushed his shoulder-length, stringy black hair back over his ears, and continued, l didn't improve at all during that time. I play for my own pleasure, which is why I can't play anything anybody else likes. l asked him what else he played be- sides guitar. He said I can play any- thing, butjustnotvery well, sometimes not at all. Like Fanelli he couldn't say what his music would really sound like, but offered some ideas, We play our own music the way it comes out, we let it flow together. Wc've decided not to decide what it will sound like . . . because we know our range of music is greater than we think . . . Dave Anderson was probably best des- cribed by one Mitty student: the Monster that never was. He is tall, .p , . c,s'l5.,tli K Q- xr' f, x T , Q4 'E X H 5 X S , . I I . . :QQ ' K A -av is A I I g Q . 0 S a.. 1 0 Q I Q 0 v- 4 , - M V Paul Tim Edward Bill Dominick Smith Smith Spence Sprugasci Stea gig 54 p .31 . uv' ,el ' 5 .,.- ' .. - un s . - + . 1 I .y b , o K

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thin, and has long brown hair that covers all but one thin strip of face. That which isn't covered by hair stares through steel-rimmed blue glasses, and smiles a lot when he's in a good mood. Where is Rock going? ! where IS it going? . . . We're trying to McLaughlin and Harvey Mandel. porary jazz explained the drummer with long hair as he sat across the play progressive rock, he said of his group, Sweet Rush. We're TRYING. I think that's the real direction, that's real muscianship . . . stuff like john I'm playing abstractjazz and contem- X X, QE llxgfkxxz .X 4 n s.g Michael Tierney Qc I Xu 3 W QRYUU1 table from me. What I mean by that is total improvisation at a give pro- gression. Mark Stanford started playing drums at eleven because he was intrigued by African rhythmatics. He has played with a ntunber of local rock groups and is now working with me in a band that as he puts it has a variety of styles. Bob fGarcia, Mitt-y '70, now at SJSl is working with his stuff , I'm working with avante-garde, and I don't know what you're doing. What I want to do is play Black jazz, the term Black jan means the original foundation which so many people took and screwed . . . It would take a whole page to list all the people who have influenced meg I would say Philly jo jones and Cootie Williams. Of the state of music today, I want the sound to mellow, the sound is mellowing from acid rock. I like music because it me ans audio-emotion, it's the only art that can tamper with the inside and fluctuate the nervous system. Bill Patterson is not you're typical idea of a musician. A solo folk gui- tarist-singer who jams a lot with friends , he is NOT generally seen sitting in the hallways, guitar in hand, harp in mouth, holding im- promptu folk-blues sessions. Clean cut, broad shouldered, Bill is the varsity fullback-defensive end who helped lead Mitty's football team into the first division and al.most to a WCAL championship. He does look a lot like a cowboy though when he talks out of the side of his mouth, or when he grins and says, really whaddya want to interview Con't. p. 45 4 L. 7' A' Wy' 'W M Ray Brien Andy Brady Tom Terry Townsend Torres Trevino Turner Vanderbosch Vane Nh- B :L 4' -74' T f'n I 'f 3