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Ringo Featured on 20 20 and Phil Donahve with Won't Get Fooled Again, The Velvet Underground with Rock and Roll, Led Zeppelin with Kashmir, and Joy Division with Love Will Tear Us Apart. U2 have finally reached that plateau with The Joshua Tree (Island) — a brilliant rock album, the band’s most complete work. It bristles, with Irish romantic passion and a crusading spirit that good shall triumph over evil. It howls with a menacing fury and power that heavy metal bands continually threaten but don’t deliver. Like The Who, the greatest rock band of the "70s, U2 has consistently been over-reaching, trying téo hard to make that ultimate rock album. Now, there can be no doubt that U2 is the greatest rock band of the "80s, and The Joshua Tree may be one of the greatest albums of the decade — time will tell. MELD WORKS Producers Brian Eno — blamed for the last album being $0 unfocused — and Daniel Lanois have exhibited a clearer sense of purpose in melding dreatilike atmosphereics with U2's direct rock attack. Albums like this aren't supposed to exist in 1987. It has no obvious radio hits. The LP is so interconnected that With Or Without You, released as a single, sounds aimless without the other tracks. On the magnificent cover, band members look more like inbred desert hermits than video heart-throbs. Singer Bono Vox has been-acctsed of sloganeering with his lyrics, but here he's conveyed his hopes for salvation and redemption convincingly. He approaches the neenyace poetry of mentor and compatriot Van Morri: HITS HARD The LP is very much Bono's diatribe; ‘against American paternalism (Bullet the Blue Sky), repressive governments that torture and kill prisoners (Mothers of the Disappeared) and death (One Tree Hill). The Joshua Tree in the desert may be a metaphor for the place where we make sense of the madness. Hence, the album has|an American feel with its lonely harmonica, night sounds and jangling of the band's guitarist, known as The Edge. But his signature chiming guitar sound is still at the core of U2's rolling thunder. Right now, he’s rock's best guitarist. Bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen play with elementary drive, and their knack for increasing the throttle gives the songs an ascending sense of excitement. Eno's haunting synthesizer drones and moans recall Joy Division at its most morbid. There's a majesty and sense of pride to the Joshua Tree. This is U2's masterpiece. TRIO A FOLK GEM Neither Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton hor Emmylou Harris are the commercial superstars they once were, Bat their collaboration on Trio (Warner Bros.) is a labor of love that’s also an artistic success. The masterful display of harmony and ensemble singing on this collection of traditional American fol probably far too rustic to be a hit, but it will delight fans of the genre. The mood of these old-fashioned tunes is mostly melancholic, dwelling on lovers’ pain and loss, and draws out the emotion and character in each singer. It’s an awesome technical display. Each singer gives a brilliant vocal performance, but the story here is the harmonies. Parton's girlish soprano, Harris's mid-range soprano and Ronstadt’s mezzo-soprano mesh with balanced, feminine beauty. They all know when to veer off the main melody, or dart in with a change or come together at the right time. WIGMbER Fhiest NOW OPEN! Come Try Our Home Cooked Food WHO DUNNIT? . . . Only mystery writer Ted Wood (left) could say for sure. He and local writer Vi Plot- nikoff are pictured talking above, possibly milling TED WOOD SHOSSSSSSSSHSSSOHEE over another intricate plot. Wood was a guest speaker recently in Castlegar. Story below. Photo tor CosNews Mystifying local fans By SANDRA GROEPLER An audience of mystery fans, local writers, and library supporters gathered Monday night at the Castlegar library's temporary headquarters to meet Canadian thriller writer, Ted Wood. Wood's visit and presentation, sponsored jointly by the National Book Festival and the Castlegar Library, gave local people a chance to more deeply appreciate the plots and characters of Fools Gold, Live Bait, Murder on Ice, and Dead in the Water, thrillers which feature Reid Bennett, a one-man police department in a small Ontario town. A writer since he was a child, Wood feels that he is “the world’s luckiest guy, because I get to do what I want;” Wood, who grew up in London, England in World War II, and later moved to Worchestershire, came to Canada in 1954, at which time he sold his first story to Boy's Life. His background, as an RAF flight engineer, experiences on anti-submarine patrol in the North and Irish Sgfls in 1949, and three years as a Toronto policeman helped to prepare Wood for his writing career. Additionally, Wood worked for 17 years in the advertising business, has written speeches for politicians, films for General Motors and IBM, plus TV dramas and documentaries. His articles have appeared in Chatelaine, Saturday Night and MacLeans. As well, he writes columns for Marketing Magazine and Air Canada’s flight magazine, and is currently the manager of creative services’ for Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. Somebody Else’s Summer, his first book published, was his only venture into short story writing. A confirmed thriller writer now, Wood, under pseudonymn Jack Barneo, has initiated another series which includes Hammerlocke and Lockestep books revolving about the adventures of fictional character John Locke, a Toronto bodyguard. 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