14—The Daily Collegian Monday, Sept. 10, 1984 arts erbie and company kept Rec Hall jumpin • By PAT GRANDJEAN Collegian Arts Writer With the exuberant shout "Selah, State College!!" David Hinds, lead singer for the band Steel Pulse, kicked off a night of music at Rec Hall that those present won't soon forget. concert review Of course, the headliners for Satur day evening's concert were Herbie Hancock and the Rockit Band, who found themselves playing to a nearly full house and one of the most racially integrated' audiences one is likely to see in State College. Neither act had to struggle to win audience approval, as the majority of the audience seemed firmly in their Was the show that much of an electrifying experience? No, guitarist David Hinds of Steel Pulse had his hair like this before the show, but Saturday's performances by this group and Herbie Hancock with his Rockit Band left a lot of people feeling high. Steel Pulse is a British reggae group that dazzled the Rec Hall audience with its great playing and comical actions. ************ * * * * * * * * * * * TONIGHT FREE ICE CREAM to all students . . . of the College of Human Development. Create your own Sundae! Discover all the organizations of Human Development! Monday, September 10, 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Living Center, located in the Human Development building. See you there! ************ * * * * * * * * * * * r' • - itleraZdirmus-Nrwar- ; * '• • . 1 3- J r r Urrrld clot' JIIII PEPIN STATE JAZZ CLUB Do you like JAZZ? Come to the first meeting and find out more about us. Discussion of: Concerts, T-shirts, Arboria discounts, and more! - MEETING - • Tuesday, Sept. 8 7:00 p.m. Room 119 Boucke RlO9 . • • • ;TN(' A 0 1- 8 ~.; 2.r.• cp Tici p i , 219 E. Beaver 238-7281 * One Day Service on Most Prescriptions. * Low Reasonable Prices * Repairs and Adjustments * Clear Glass, Photo Grey Extra, and Plastic Scratch-Resistant Lenses in Stock * Large Selection of Frames HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 8:30-5:00 corner from the beginning. However, there's no doubt that due to the high overall quality of their performances, both bands made firm fans out of a number of borderline cases, such as myself. In particular, Hancock's set was a revelation. Long viewed as one of our more inventive jazz-rock fusioneers, Hancock has nonetheless seemed to have a hard time getting a truly gritty, tough sound down on record. Even the new wave/funk influenced tracks on the album Future Shock, which make one feel as if they should rightly come out of the speakers and lean on you, don't seem to have the bite they need to put them across. This weakness was obliterated in concert. With his seven-man band and musical equipment that ranged from the 600-year-old kora to tomor row's latest in high-tech, Hancock made music that came nearly as close as live music can to storming Monday-Sundae Social. Heaven Most of the pieces performed came from his brand new album Sound System, an attempt to extend the Future Shock concept to encompass Third World musical styles. Selec tions incorporating this idea were "Sound-System," during which the Rockit band sounded like a 2,000 member steel-drum outfit, and "Ka rabali," a Caribbean-inflected piece featuring warm keyboard improvisa tions by Hancock himself. Heavily featured was the futuristic jazz-funk that forms the core of all of Hancock's recent work. "Metal Beats" and "Hard Rock" were real scorchers built on "Rockit"-style pro gressions, which showcased the tal ents of virtuoso scratchmeister D.St. (who, for my money, is a damned sight more inventive than Grandmas ter Melle Mel). ."Rockit" itself was given a brilliant build-up by D.St., who began with a call-and-response rap that had everyone on their feet, then lit into a spacey synth-scratch bridge before plunging the band into a version of the song complete with dancing video dummies. Bernard Fowler, band vocalist and clearly their most glamorous person ality, had his solo-spectacular turns as well, providing a strong song-and dance performance on "Future Shock." His vocals on "Stars in Your Eyes" (dedicated by Hancock to "those who have romantic hearts") was less effective, but redeemed by a climactic leap from the stage to a perch in the front row. More striking than the perfor mance and in dramatic contrast to its complexity was Hancock's onstage demeanor. Eminently affa ble I don't think I've seen anyone who seems so easygoing in concert he gave the impression of a man half his age (he's 44) who is just now getting turned on by all of the possi bilities of music and realizing how much he has to learn. Particularly touching was his intro duction of the "newest member" of the Rockit band, Foday Musa Suso, who hails from Gambia, West Africa. Hancock seemed as awkward as the guy next door as he related with a touch of awe that Suso's ancestors had invented the 600 year-old kora, an instrument that looked like an enor mous electrified mandolin. Called back by standing ovation and audience cries of "Her-bie! !", the band's encore was a blistering rendition of Hancock's "Chameleon," updated with a much heavier beat and featuring a fantastic keyboard interlude. As' for Steel Pulse, they clearly The Student Union Board will be holding Coffeehouse Auditions Sunday, Sept. 16 1-4 p.m. HUB Ballroom Anyone with any talent please attend R 053 325 00•000••••••••••••••• , • A) IWC)U BORED ?f. •I, ROBOT • TRACK & FIELD • TRON • SPACE ACE • BIRDIE KING II • THIEF TACISCAN • SPACE DUEL • GYRUSS GALAGA • BATTLE ZONE • and many more MEDUSA • MS. PACMAN hyperactive GAMES a FOR ONLYSI • EvEßylAyr: ALL games take ONE TOKEN! at the 0 (4 AAq—a across from • 0 GOLDER Doff McDonald's • NM ARCADE 106 SOWERS ST. •••0••e••• e • • • • e , • • 0 VALUABLE COUPON 2 FREE TOKENS with the purchase of 0 tokens for $l.OO (present coupon belore purchase) COLDER DOME ' VIDEO ARCADE 106 SOWERS ST VALUE IS DOUDLED 9 am 'til noon until Sept. 31 Rockin' on and on describes the Herbie Hancock concert Saturday night, and that's how the audience would have liked it non-stop music all night long. Hancock's personality helped captivate the audience, as well as the expert musicianship of his Rockit Band, including the multi-talented keyboardist, Anton Fier. fulfilled the role of an opening act above and beyond the call of duty. In fact, they came painfully close to stealing the night from under Han cock's nose with leader David Hinds hard-rocking reggae songs. While promising, in his words, to provide the audience with a lesson in "reg gaetology," what they really pro vided was a course in social ecology that you can dance to. And dance the audience did particularly in the bleachers, where they seemed to grow in numbers with every song. The members of Steel Pulse were great comic actors as well as musical performers, whether mugging for the audience and the cameras (as bassist Ronald McQueen did persistently) or dancing across the stage, playing off each other. 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INIIIIIIIIOIIIIW on campus THESE ARE THINGS 1 RAVE TO KivoW. , LETS GO CANASTA... 4 012te. 1 I CANT REMEMBER NAMES, BUT I NEVER FORGET A FALSE! flcross Space walk 1 Spire ornament Norse county 2 Wine Concha 3 Star in Scorpia Thole 4 Tapestry Old make of car 5 Golda Caffein•rich nut 6 Actor Poston Meantime 7 Expedite Bills and 8 Insufficient Distant 9 Wild plum Cap 10 Direction Thralls 15 Competence Trouble 18 Snaffle Buddhist sacred 19 Bribe mountain 20 Ratite Entity 21 Some Italian region 23 Caravansary Harangue 24 Antelope John: Scottish 25 Dusk Witch_ 26 Electrical unit Overture 28 Rhine tributary Total admission receipts 31 Port Grebe 32 Earthen jar Assegai 33 Young horse Secular 34 Fencing sword Hurrah in Madrid 35 Hurricane Card game 37 Chore Colleague 38 Electric particle Fruit of horseradish 39 Salute Complete V i 0 17 For new transfer students only As promised, the Transfer Liaison Corps (TLC) will continue throughout Fall Semester to bring you interesting and informative programs Each program is designed with you in mind and is concerned with helping you make the most of your P S U experience. This week's program is listed below: Introducing University September 10 4:30 p m R tenour Health Ctr. Health Services Self Directed Learn rlcp. l'SepterbbOr 7:00 purt 321 HUB Putting What You Know to xt 4 l. Work for You in Your Academic Program Planning Jobs for Human Development September 11 4 00 p m HUB Assembly Hall Majors Jobs for Business Majors September 12 4:b• p m. HUB Assembly Hall Study Starters September 12 8:00 p.m.320 HUB Jobs for Engineering Majc rs September 13 4:00 p m HUB Assembly Hall And don't forget, bring your PASSPORT if you have one. See you there!! Down Keep Happy Valley beautiful.Doret litter The Daily Collegian Monday, Sept. 10, 1984 Crossword (answers in Tuesday's classifieds)
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