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-Jan By Gw< Qam? Rick James ... Ric! Township exploded Fi Rick James and the Si will undoubtedly rema Rick James and the music industry a ye platinum album 'Com single "You and I." composite x>f four sepj Stone City Band, the I Colored Girls. Upon taking the sta in charge; he was the He doesn't shy auHiannn _ Ka j IIC IC his willing subjects, performer. He went i at its best to those o: able to feel the vibes what to play to tightei During such slowei "Hollywood," his rt nothing less than pas: involved in the tunej lady in the audience i j of "Mary Jane," the ended with some vei James, of course, as t The versatility of tl " ? ? Despit< rorma i^Ea - - P^Br ?:V <(? I Treat VI romp U ipc bin indolyn Broome tcock Staff Writer k James ... Rick James. The riday night with the sounds of tone City Band, and the echoes in for years. Stone City Band burst into the ar ago with the now double e Get It\ which contained the The Rick James Band is a irate talents: Rick James, the i Punk Funk Horns and the OP Rir?lr .Tam#ic wac HofinUaKr nuu V4VAIU1VV1J leader, and the audience were f away from his tlates to them... Rick James is a very versatile from moments of extreme funk f mellowness. He seemed to be \ of his audience and know just i the power he held over them. * tunes as "Dream Maker" and editions can be described as sionate. He seemed to be deeply ? and undoubtedly swept every up into this feeling. The playing other hit single from the album, ry impressive opera with Rick he conductor. lis man seems to be endless; he 2 flashes < n's 'Hair' !|| ^ BBbk5?& X^^A|SBSM^BQON^HK :.yS: :: l/flliomc anW riiorUfi r iiiiuiiio uku v/llOf l|/(( trough the film versi 9ld UUl is also a composer, writer, pro< musician. There was an instrur Stone City Band while Rick Jar next outfit, one with flashing ligh In the second part of the sho tunes from his latest album, tl Bustin out of L-7, which he des square." He wrote both the wor all the songs on the album. He began with the title cut an< single, "High on your Love." Tl definitely the best of the night, best. The audience was totall) talked to them; they talked bad they yelled back. He sang to then along. Rick James flirted with the 1 one feel that she was the only c men ? man to man. He dedicat "Spacey Love" to the ladies i paused to throw two dozen roses l Rick James concluded his sh< hit, "You and I." During this i was charming. He was friendly, sexy. He was uninhibited. He was Rick James is a new kind o innovative in his music and his s He doesn't shy away from his distance; he relates to them. R spirit, and this freedom dominat performance. As Rick James and the Ston< stage Friday night, the echoes tU- t n:-i. i Liuwugu tuc luwiiMiip. rvieK jail Rick James... See the Rick James interview c brilliam an odd fi ^IBBl} ^ WSr&S; SSSR5BN& iwaHnHB^rafl fe Rae : ^4 <11. _? on or n&ir i" ft' tl IV/ iucer and a talented nental solo from the |Jp8%oJ nes changed into his w Rick James sang le already platinum cribes as a "serious ds and the music for ^^||H|||P ^8188181^ i 1 went into his latest hose two sones woro BiSs???. if there can be any r into this man. He yjfegjtf i. He yelled to them; n and they sang right ^ ladies, making each tne. He talked to the ed the slow, stirring HJQ9|?PY n the audience and to them. jw with his first big lumber Rick James He was wild, He was > totally dynamic. f nnfnrtolnA** U ^ t laiuti . lie ID 11 | | i 111 i tyle of performance. audience at a safe I lick James is a free es his music, and his | ?p? :mMmI 2 City Band left the could be heard all I les ... Rick James ... I y.r/_ , >n page 9. The strangest fill _ Forman's multi-m ^ brilliance scattered seems to be in the p ?1 eyes. 1 j( jj j | j | When the cast me numbers or danci choreographer Tw> of kinetic energy p cast is just sitting them for the sake of -|p- - The main probler ^g|| llfe-H Michael Weller has ; the Broadway musi being an Oklahoma and back to being a Like all current f SsbSi WBff : j _ i J pruviues a uacKuro final hour, the shac V ; Forman has ma nag I fMiiliil Another problem if<T? I T Jonn ravage as th< Ipjjprt New York socialite 5||: trying to do with the PT| IB Don Dacus and A UM both are primarily singer for a group c iBB*V jP Chicago). Treat Wil who almost single-h |f. - his performance pr< I anything BUT a trea , - ? ;< Forman should be i|yjL jjt ^ for even though the KjM&CyS* within it several scei The wildcat of these W scantily-clad bodies I M g one of the most daz r mm m screen. The other show-st wherein female hipj joys of interracial i more scenes like it, i reservations. - . .. ?j w r nvik town l^|^P|HHKr|r^V^^Sl I^^SMKl f-fof* *:>-x Rick Jarne By David Baker Entertainment Editor m to open so far this year is illion dollar version of Ha I throughout its two hours, but >rocess of falling asleeD right mbers are singing one of Gait ng along with the movem rla Tharp, Hair is such an enei ractically emanate from the around, looking cute and be love, Hair is a bore. n with the film is the contriv ; concocted around the rather cal. The story concerns a youi cowboy to a Central Park hip hippie again. ilms taking place in the 1960s p for all of the proceedings. U low of the war takes over th< wicriicn niiu nit? sinooin-rur ed to build up through the mo\ with the film is the cast's la< 3 love-struck cowboy and Be m f?? 11 ? ?? ? 4 in; tans in iiivc* wim st-eill I ir respective characters. mnie Golden are not bad, eil known for their musical abi ailed the Shirts, while he is t liams, in the all-important rol andedly ruins the whole movi >ves is that he should get a nc it. thanked for bringing Hair to movie as a whole is disappc ^es that are destined to be ren * or\ 1 - J la oavrtge s i^u-inaucea we dance and flail about a smc zling displays of special effe opper is the "Black Boys VN >ies and a male draft board m iex. The scene is hilarious, , I would be able to recommenc .wwn ? rayo / ship !T^ # 8?F W wlH Bliffif WIl Sam Hicks ? GAMECOCK s unquestionably Miles ir. It has flashes of more often than not it i r\ frnnt r\f itc ' til W A IU7 V JVY1 V/I O MacDermot's musical ents created by ace rgetic work that waves screen. But when the gging viewers to love ed storv that scenarist disjointed songs from ng man's journey from >pie to an army private the Vietnam conflict nfortunately, in Hair's ? entire film, and that ining machinery that 'ie's first half. :k of experience. Only verly D'Angelo as the A Lrnnti; ?i^'W v *\I IW VY WJICU lllt^ (UC ther, considering that lities (she is the lead he newest member of le of Berger, is the one le. 1 he only thing that ?w first name, as he is the screen, however, inting, he has placed nembered as classics, dding fantasy, where ke-filled cathedral in cts ever to reach the fhite Boys" sequence, ember - sing about the and if Hair contained I the movie with fewer