The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, June 10, 1980-Page 9
Arts
HEARTA AT COBO
The best part of breaking up
By TIMOTHV YAGLE
Personnel changes can have drastic
emotional as well as musical effects on
a rock band. Take the Jefferson Star-
ship, stranded without former vocalist
Grace Slick who has launched a solo
career, is doing as well without her as
they ever did with her. Former Rain-
bow front man Ronnie James Dio has
assumed the lead vocal chores for
Black Sabbath, probably still the
premier heavy-metal band. Consequen-
tly, they now sound much like the old
Deep Purple (Rainbow's lead guitarist
is former Deep Purple axeman Rit-
chie Blackmore.)
Heart; lead by the dynamic sisters
Ann and Nancy Wilson, has undergone
and survived a change (which saw its
sound man and lead guitarist, borthers
Mike and Roger Fisher, leave the band
for 'personal reasons' and, of course, to
pursue individual careers. Ann and
Nanty have subsequently taken charge
of the band and assumed more
dominant roles.
THIS WAS dramatically evident Sun-
day night in Detroit when Heart and
The Ian Hunter Band which features
legendary guitarist Mick Ronson)
played the first concert of a two night
stand at Cobo Arena.
Former Mott the Hoople leader Ian
Hunter and his band featuring Ronson
began this extraordinary bill, playing
many cuts from their new double-live
set Welcome to the Club.
Hunter is an exemplary rock and roll
performer in that he doesn't play to his
enthusiastic audiences, he plays with
them. His fans seem to know what to
expect with Hunter and he delivers in
grand style. The near-sellout crowd
brought Hunter and his band out for two
encores, which were "Cleveland
Rocks" and "All the Young Dudes."
During a "All The Young Dudes," Hun-
ter yelled the now-familiar line, "I
wanna see you," as the house lights
were turned on to the crowd orgiastic
delight.
Unfortunately, Hunters' show is
probably more suited for the smaller
more intimate confines of Masonic
Auditorium instead of Cobo; he could
establish an even better rapport with
his audience in the smaller Masonic,
and, thus, everyone would enjoy the
show that much more.
FOLLOWING Hunter's set, Ann and
Nancy and their gang of three let the
crowd have it with their unique and
sparkling combination of feminine
charm and agression. Vocalist Ann, the
elder (29) of the two appears more con-
fident and even more tenacious on
stage than in years past. On stage, Ann
is like a sexual animal. She practically
invites her fans to be awe-struck and in-
timidated by her powerful, yet still
feminine style. She dominated Heart
both in conceptual orientation and in
sheer presence. She typifies the
threatening sexuality vocalists like
Mick Jagger and Robert Plant flaunt
while adding a distinctive edge to it.
While Ann's approach has changed
slightly, her 26-year-old blond sister
Nancy has expanded her musical
horizons two-fold: She has assumed
more lead g'uitar duty in the absence of
Fisher but still shares those duties with
the competent but quiet Howard Leese,
who also plays keyboards. But the for-
merly sedate Nancy is also singing
more. She solos in a pair of tunes from
Heart's new release Bebe Le Strange.
And on stage she is actually being
thrust more and more into the guitar-
playing spotlight and, thus, is no longer
overshadowed by the gritty Fisher.
Heart's stage show is more
sophisticated than it was in their last
appearance here two years ago. The
main differences are more elaborate
lighting, a more expansive stage with
floating speakers, and a more
exuberant Ann Wilson. Right from the
opening song, "Bebe Le Strange," Ann
was a bundle of energy, high-stepping
and dancing around as I have never
seen her before. She pranced and
kicked around the stage much like Mick
Jagger did when the Stones appeared at
Masonic two summers ago.
BUT ANN has undergone ever a more
traumatic change. And bassist Steve
Fossen put it succinctly backstage after
the concert: "Her personality is more
true now." With the former boyfriend
Roger gone now, she feels freer and
does more of what she wants to
do-musically and otherwise. Her new-
found freedom is displayed on stage,
too. She's belting out the songs with
more authority now, even on the blues
number the band performed. She's
more in control of herself now and wan-
ts to have a good time.
Ann's outward manifestations of her
feelings have shown up in how the band
performs now, as well. After pon-
dering the question for a minute, Ann
said to herself in a post-concert inter-
view: "(With the departure of Roger
and Mike), "we've become less
technical and added more soul."
While guitarist Howard Leese has
assumed more guitar parts, he doesn't
attack his guitar like Fisher did. He
plays competent guitar, but it's as if he
is playing in a world by himself.
It also seemed as if Heart's song
selection, which Fossen said stays con-
sistent throughout the current seven-
month tour, is divided into three distin-
ct sections; mid-tempo tunes at the
beginning with "Straight On", and
"Even It Up," then to the mellow por-
tion featuring "Dog and Butterfly," and
possibly their best song ever, "Mistral
Wind", plus "Magazine", then they
unleash the power with "Crazy On
You," "Barracuda," and "Rockin'
Heaven Down," with an encore of the
sizzling Zeppelin classic "Rock and
Roll."
With the Fisher's permanent hiatus,
Ann and Nancy have taken charge and
the band is sounding crisp and
rejuvenated. The Wilson's & Company
want to prove they can rock with the
best of them and maintain their high
altitude in an otherwise congested rock
and roll sky. Heart is a good rock band
which.puts on a great live show. Ann's
energy along with the well-timed
lighting and choreography is what
propels this band. With all the internal
problems the band has experienced,
Ann and Nancy have learned valuable
lessons and are kicking it out that much
harder.
'Evita 'sweeps Tonys
NEW YORK (AP)-Here is the list of
Tony award winners for Broadway's
1979-80 season. The winners were an-
nounced Sunday night at the Mark
Hellinger Theater in ceremonies
televised by CBS.
Best Play: Mark Medoff, Children of
a Lesser God
Best Musical: Evita
Best Actor, Play: John Rubenstein,
Children of a Lesser God
Best Actress, Play: Phyllis Frelich,
Children of a Lesser God
Best Actor, Musical: Jim Dale, Bar-
num
Best Actress, Musical: Patti LuPone,
Evita
Best Direction, Play: Vivian
Matalon, Morning's at Seven
Best Direction, Musical: Harold
Prince, Evita -
Best Musical Score: Tim Rice, An-
drew Lloyd Webber, Evita
Best Musical Book: Tim Rice, Evita
Best Featured Actor, Play: David
Rounds, Morning's at Seven
Best Featured Actress, Play: Dinah
Manoff, I Ought to Be in Pictures
Best Featured Actor, Musical: Man-
dy Patinkin, Evita
Best Featured Actress, Musical:
Priscilla Lopez, A Day in Hollywood, A
Night in the Ukraine
Best Choreography: Tommy Tune
and Thommie Walsh, A Day in
Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine
Best Scenic Design: Tie, John Lee
Beatty, Talley's Follly and David Mit-
chell, Barnum
Best Costumes: Theoni V. Aldridge,
Barnum
Best Lighting: David Hersey, Evita
Beat Revival: Morning's at Seven
Special Tony awards for achievement
in theater also went to Helen Hayes, Ac-
tors Theater of Louisville, Ky., and to
the Goodspeed Opera House, East Had-
dam, Conn., with a surprise award
given Mary Tyler Moore, who made her
Broadway debut this season playing a
crippled sculptress in Whose Life Is It
Anyway.
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Tuesday, June 10
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
(Ernst Lubitsch, 1923) 7:00-MLB4
Two jewel thieves meet and fall in love while picking each other's pockets.
The pair moves from Vienna to Paris where they rob the Peace Conference
of "everything but the peace," and then larcenously establish themselves in
the household of a stuffy millionairess. "It is superb . . . it comes as close to
perfection as anything I have ever seen in the movies."-Dwight McDonald.
NINOTCHKA
(Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) 9:00-MLB4
'Garbo Laughs,' said the original ads in 1939, but there is by now a widespread
. story that although Garbo could pantomime laughter superbly, no sounds
emerged, and these were provided by an anonymous creature in the sound
lab. The rest of her performance is her own-and she brings distinction as
well as her throaty, sensual abandon to the role of a glum, scientifically-
trained Bolshevik envoy who succumbs to Parisian freedom, i.e., champagne.
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, this light, satirical comedy has the nonchalance
and sophistication which were his trademark."-Pauline Kael.
Tomorrow: Wim Wenders' THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY OF THE PENALTY KICK
and THE AMERICAN FRIEND at Old A & D.