22 -— Wednesday, May 23, 1990 - North Shore News

music fest

minutes are welcome to contact
Park Music Fest at 921-9430.
The festival will be held June 23.

Performers invited to

Amateur musicians, dance
groups and performers who can
entertain) a crowd for 10-15

muUSIC
CALLING ALL performing artists:

the Watertront Park Music Festival
wants you.

House of Love

worth a

listen

Yes, the pop world loves an enigma. House Of

T™ House Of Love, Fontana 1990

Love's all-round creative force, singer-songwriter and
guitarist Guy Chadwick knows this. A second untitled
album, complete with technicolor butterflies in place of the
usual liner notes and lyrics, draws one in like a net.

The focus is rewarded in spades
by one of the most interesting
newish bands to be heard from
Britain in a while.

Crystalline lyrics... ‘‘In a town
where cars are diamonds and
hunger is the key, someone's got
to love you"... manifest
themselves in a sweeping wash of
guitar resonance. Reai time crum-
bles and drops away. Roger
Waters mind-melds with Bono on

MICHAEL *
BECKER

record review

the dark side of the Joshua tree.
Eno takes Tiger Mountain and
Chadwick sops up the residual
ambience to forge a synthesis
marked by an unexpected majes-
ty.
Just how the subtle dynamics of
the House Of Love sound
translates live on stage is the
musical question of the month.
We'll find out Saturday, June 9 at
the Town Pump. As the man says,
“The time is right to celebrate or
die.”’

The Who — Join Together, MCA
1990

The 1989, 25th anniversary
cash-in tour afforded the grizzled
rockers @ tremendous opportunity
to coast. But the legendary fellows
proved their tunes have both stay-
ing power and relevance.

The skimpy booklet included
with the bow set might have heen
improved by the inclusion of
reflective words from the band or
a considered essay putting The
Who phenomenon in context for a
generation of tans who have
Cocked tess than a quater con:
tury.

tnevitably the music speaks for
itself. An elegant run-through of
the milestone rock opera Tommy
accounts for half of the set. The
rest is a well-paced mix of Who
classics and Who versions of solo
outings. Pete Townsend's muse is
shown to best aclvantage on Iron
Man’s Dig and the Empty Glass
vintage Rough Boys.

Join Together never comes close
to generating the unbridled
mayhem captured on the Live At
Leeds album. This one’s about big
band rock — a brass section here,
backup vocals there, a drummer
plus a percussionist in place of the
irreplaceable Keith Moon.

The image of Townsend, half
deaf, hand-bandaged and wind-
milling it away on electric guitar in
B.C. Place Stadium last year is the
stuff of legend. Ultimately Join
Together confirms that moment.
Eric And The Good Good Feeling
— Funky, SBK Records 1989

Eric “Good Good Feeling”
Robinson covers much ground.
The first three tracks on side one
build a funky bridge between
black permutations of disco and

booty shaking hyperfunkadelicacy.

Eric has the Prince routine down
pat and he also does a mean Little
Stevie. Higher Than Heaven chugs
along with a solid lower-register
piano foundation, pushing the
thing on up to higher ground,
Green Eyes is downright worship-
ful.

Lyrically Robinson’s bag is all
about good good stutt tike hope
and love and self-empowerment.

Power remixes and
“ultradynamic” video, ‘Cass-
ingles” (cassette singles) feed the
hype. The Indiana-born Robinson,
once singled out in church chow
by Bobby Womack, has been a
writer for Motowa. He's spun out
hits for Diana Ross, Aretha
Franklin and Smokey Robinson.
He was also responsible for
Sylvester's Dunce Disco Heat.

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