SHOREWORLD

What the heck IS Summer to you, anyway? A yearning dream of sun, fun and peace of mind, or a Grizzwalds in a trailer park weekend at Porky's?

Personally speaking, there's little that reminds me more that summer's here than the chemo-petroleum stench of barbecue starter fluid, which drifts up in a choking cloak through my windows and down the block when my neighbors fire up their grills to frolic and gobble the dogs of summer…But speaking of bad genetic memories....

Maybe you're wondering what we really think about what's (not) going on in auld Asbury Park this summer: Riot? What riot? Maybe you presume I only preach that everyone should race around like horseblind wankers on a weekend pass from Dumboville, strictly focused on that ill-perceived microcosm of me-so-kool hippoid gratification that passes for The Arts!

So are we talking JiveBury 2001? Or Sandy's 4^th of July Post-Apocalyptic nightmare?!?: What a contrast! The Stone Pony gets lurid headlines about some silly little nudey shows, and the next thing you know, the streets teem w/9 millimeter carjack cowboys venting their Greeked-up rage on 'The Man'. There goes 10 years of hopeful good PR and our best wishes right down some tabloid toilet, some folks would say. while others might say, 'What WERE they thinking, anyway?!?"

To get to the Sandy Point: I've been hanging, listening, thinking, drinking, loving, lusting, wailing, scrawling, tip-toeing, praying and just skulking around Asbury since the early 70's, and I've seen the hurt and dirt of several generations, political dynasties and malignant or well-intentioned palookas who happened through to graze
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Line Drive Hits Home(continued from page 3) with vocals by Kathy Washington as well as selections by Earth Wind and Fire and Tower of Power.

Where the band really comes alive is in their renditons of classic jazz standards. This night in particular, they gave new life to the Broadway gem, "My Funny Valentine" by adding a groovy, slow funk feel.  The version bore no resemblence to the original or even Miles Davis' yearnful recording in the 1950's.  The vocals were handled masterfully by Washington and there was a superb trumpet solo. Loo prvided the same level of passion for his take on "My Romance."  As a double closure to their two -hour set, he band  got people's feet moving with Tower of Power feverish "What is Hip" and their own original "Get the Funk Outta Here."

Line Drive's next NJ Coast appearance will be on Thursday, August 16 at 7-9 pm at River Gardens Park,                                  (continued on page 8)