14—The Daily Collegian Monday, Sept. 10, 1984
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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.
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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
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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
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that you can dance to. And dance the
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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
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songs themselves. And the songs that
seemed most wonderful were those
drawn from their latest album, Earth
Crisis, particularly "Bodyguard"
and the well-known "Steppin' Out."
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the song that began with Hinds' plain
tive introduction, "We love you so
much. . .so much we love you. . .that
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human race?' " The band's musi
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Monday, Sept. 10, 1984
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