12, 1992 ~ North Shore News

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Music industry

did

not honor Orbison
while he was alive

From poge 27

Before tong he was playing ina
show band and touring Reno, Lake
Tahoe — 23} the big casino resorts.
After one tour he married one of
the band members, Georgina
Betts, a professional singer and
teacher.

Over the past 10 years Arntzen
has had an ambitious music ca-
reer, He put together three bands
of his own, including Nightshade,
a top-40 variety act, The Big Shots,
a children’s show, and Sacred
Hearts, ari original rock act. He
has aiso forged a successful voca-
tion as a freelance jingle writer.”

tn between he manages to per-
form such routines as a tribute to
Harry Connick Jr..with the Mark
Hasslebach Band.

The Orbison role, he says,
seemed a natural progression.

Arntzen may not resemble the
rock'n'roll legend but he’s been
able to cop a sound quite reminis-
cent of Orbison’s unique, shim-
mering, near-operatic vocal style.

“His sound is net easy to
duplicate. The range is difficult —
it goes pretty high.

Becoming familiar with the
young Texan’s restrained sty!e
took some getting used to as well.
“His character is diametrically
opposed to mine. | move around a
lot, where Orbison was a very —
testrained personality.”’

But the response from audience
members has put any insecurities
to rest. Many taid Arntzen he was
able to transport them right back
to the golden days of rack and

roll, :
“They said I'd been faithful to

- James Dean (Curtis Biayne),”

Orbison. That’s what's important __
to me.” : .
For Arntzen, playing the Big O

_ has been a nightly chailenge to tap

‘nto the personality of the much-
missed singing legend. And he’s .
discovered a great deal about the

. shaded singer in the process.

“‘) learned that he was 2 very”
simple guy, an incrediably tough
guy for someone who had so -
many tragedies (Orbison’s first
wife, Claudette, was killed in a
motorcyle crash in 1966. Then, in
1968, two of his three children
perished in a fire in his Nashville .
home.) . .

“4 found out he was a very
well-adjusted guy, not a self-
destructive type.”’ As one historian
observed, Orbison was the mild
sensitive type whose most violent
expletive was ““Mercy.’' a

“Rock and roll is tough on the ~
body — it tends to chew you up
and spit you out. He had one of...’
the longest careers of the early.”
rack ‘n’ rollers and was still ~:~...
creating things late into his career.. -

“The sad thing was he only.) -
won one Grammy Award, and it:- _
was after he died: Orbison was. ....
treated great by his fans but Was... .

~ never recognized by the music in-

dustry.” - ok Ler Fy
Judging by the turnout at the.”
Surrey Arts Centre, A Closer YYalk
With Roy Orbison, starring such =~.
“60s faces as Elvis (Ben Bass),
Marilyn Monroe (Alanna Lane):
and Red Robinson (lan Boothby),
is almost guaranteed a heaithy-run
at Richmond Gateway Theatre, *
where Arntzen will be hitting the.
high notes until Aug..22. 06.0 2

Bumbershoot announces

stunning line

- From page 26...

back to the heady days of nascent
Who-Stones raucousness. :
Mexican R’N’B, the title being a
jab at The Who dictum maximum
Rn’ B, is recorded monaurally.
Conceptually the mono-choice is a

boldly Luddite move in CD format, °

but the music gains curious vigor .
by virtue of the sonic compression
wrought.

Maguire does some inspired
bashing on what saunds like a
cardboard and tin drum kit. Sum-
mertyme’s squat basslines
emanate from what seems like the
end of a iong tube. His vocals are
sputtered with the garbled in- -
salience of a young Mick.

Throw in a touch of psychedelic
ilash and you've got some
monstrous tracks hagpening.:

Mexican R'N'B is thick with
essential beat and raggedy-edged _
catharsis.  -

Barenaked tadies — Gordon,
Sire Records/WYarner Music
1992

The Barenaked Ladies are hot.

The cheeky name itself took
them surprisingly far in terms of
generating profile beyond the
primordial pop swamp. The Ladies
are responsible for much thin-
skinned harrumphing in certain
puritanical quarters of North -
American officialdom.

The tempest is dubious given the
basic innocent playfulness of the
music itself. :

The group is a contemporary
twist on the hootenanny folk
stream that saw its halcyon days in
the early 1960s. Equal parts ir-
reverance and innocent in-
sightfulness, the Barenaked Ladies

“THE BUMBERSHOOT

of music

are five regular guys from Centr
in essence they are anti-stars,

but in fact they incite passionate
adulation from’a fast-burgeonin
rank of young fans. A. recent ap-
pearance at the Earth Voice. Festi-.
val at Seabird istand revealed alt

- ecstatic neo-hippies cartwheelin

in the sunshine, fresh-faced
legions in lock-step with lyrics o'
songs available at that point ont

‘in the form of an independent
release. . : =
Gordon gathers the nifty faves —
Be My Yoko Ono, If | Had:
$1,000,000, Brian Wilson includ

Barenaked Ladies make you fee!
good, rae

festiv:
set for Seattle, Sept. 4 to Sept. 7 at
Seattle Centre, has a stunner.of a:
lineup this year. ts
Headline acts include: Holme:
Brothers, Jimmie Dale Gilmour."
and Kevin Welch, Bebe and Cece ™..-
Winans, Ricky Van Shelton, Curtis. -
Salgado and the Stilettos, Beia
Fleck and the Flecktones, Sonny >
Landreth and the Goners, Toots... °
and the Maytals, Joe Ely, Joan‘Ar-
matrading, Michelle Shocked,
Tower of Power, John Hammend, --*
Queen Latifah, Little Feat, George: -
Benson, Subdudes, Spin Doctors;
They Might Be Giants, John Mayall: -
and the Bluesbreakers, Robert: . -
Cray, Third World, John Lee”.
Hooker. oe

For more specific information. call,
the nifty recorded message'men
at (206) 441-FEST. ’