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; IIUBI f .s~:'-:4f-" "- ; :; X;.: - : <^n^B Despite He ?K/>;r r^/'M ?i L1ICI1 OUU By Jeffrey Charney v Assistant Ent*rt?inm?nt Editor Despite being constantly t| overplayed on the radio, Heart a proved that there is "life beyond the transistor" in an electrifying Coliseum performance Sunday ^ night. c \ IN THE PAST five years, there s have been few bands who have r experienced such a rapid rise to ^ commercial success as the Seattle- ( based Heart. Before 1975, they < were playing in unknown bars, ^ taverns and festivals, but now in j 1980 they have four platinum ( albums under their belt and have s just launched a 77-city tour in wake j of their newest release, BeBe Le !j <> t rn n 00 t r Just as Heart has experienced c their share of success, they have also experienced an equal share of t hardship. In 1977 they were in- t volved in a heated contract dispute c mgmaa^m *# Mert Hatfield as psychiatn existnece of an invisible rabbit 'Harvey'. art's new nd remain yith Mushroom records, whi esulted in the untimely release he band's most disappointi lbum, Magazine. STILL ON THE surface, t and appeared to be one of t losest-knit groups in rock. A Vilson, (Heart's lead vocalist) a ister Nancy (guitars) had becoi omantically involved w brothers, Mike and Roger Fisl (sound and lead guitarist) Seemingly these sibling roman< vould be matches made in rc leaven, but just before the rele< n oeae L.e strange, me W11S listers called it quits with I risher brothers. Even m< mportantly, they fired them b< rom the group. So ends the sa >f Heart. At 8:00 Mercury recording j ists Van Wilkes (Van Who?) to he stage and did little more th >ccupy it for a 40-minute set. '1* 8 H -/-^^-^ja^' m^ibpPhM John Parnell - GAMFC st Dr. Chum/ey denies i in Workshop's production Russell K. Pace - GAMECOCK transplant is strong ch there is justice in music today, of then the Van Wilkes band would be ng behind bars, for their performance was truly an injustice to the crowd. he AFTER A BRIEF period to he allow the audience to recover from nn this disastrous opening act, Heart nd appeared on stage opening with the me title cut from their new album, ith BeBe Le Strange. Although we ier have become all too familiar with this cut through radio, Heart :es performed it with a fresh and >ck fer.vent emotion. Little did the ise audience realize that they would be >on "bombarded" with eight other cuts the from this album as the night wore >re on. 5th Heart wasted no time in returga ning to the Dreamboat Annie days as they exploded with "Crazy on ar- You," the group's first hit single in >ok 1975. an AT THIS POINT it seemed that If Heart could do no wrong, but invisible'I # with hi !By Nancy Young Gamecock Staff Writer i While professionally style ! productions are unusual to find i | Columbia, Town Theatre hit th I mark with Harvey, the poignai I comedy by Mary Cole Chase. Harvey is a rare gem of a play ar < A1 McNeeley as El wood P. Dow | deserves most of the credit for ii | success. |gr Harvey comes from the irrasibl mind of Mary Coyle Chase, j j former newspaperwoman fron B Denver, Colorado. In the program Wm it mentions, "she learned th Ww cruelty of people and the depths o 1 j condescention." Harvey makes j f A subtle statment on this snobbery c high society. I AL McNEELEY cave a brilliar performance. He delivered jus the right amount of gentleness an philosophy that Dowd should have His performance was similar t Jimmy Stewart (who played hir in the movie version) but by n means an imitation. Hi monologue in the second act ha the audience in the palm of hi ock hand when he gave his monplogu f/ie in the second act. It would b Qf worth it to see Harvey just on hi performance alone. The booming vocals of Ann W/ with the rythmic guitar of Nancy the distinctive sound of Heart. disaster struck in the form of tx "Strange Night," another of the gi bombastic cuts of the Le Strange bj album. In contrast to "Crazy on to You," "Strange Night" had no fc blazing guitars, or convincing tx vocals, but only screeching distortion, which is unforgiveable th when you consider the group's ci potential. ti Ann Wilson then changed the " pace with the mellow "Dog and ai Rllttorflv " miwn^ miHi uutivuij, uiiAiAj wiiti iuc uiuusy, III "Down on Me," a song which has a si title and sound reminicent of Janis c< Joplin. "] The absence of former lead th guitarist Roger Fisher certainly D proved evident in the mysterious pi "Magic Man," followed by the Sarvey' delig gh hopping a TEKRY BACON, as Duane K ^ Wilson, was physically as well as mentally hyperactive and boyish. . He was the complete opposite of . McNeeley. These two actors , created an interesting com- a , bination; the opposites attracted |. and brought the whole production ?( together. th Abbie Turner's performance U/ac cilffi^iorit ac tho UnnrtkJ,. ?*MU UU4IIVIVI1V UO II1C UU Uglll^ e widow Veta Simmons but a< a sometimes her squaling and n overacting got to be a bit disconi, certing. At times she would react Sl e too quickly like when she saw the R if portrait of Harvey and Dowd in- a' a stead of tne one of her mother. >f w A MEUT HATFIELD, as Dr. Chumley, was perfect: he was the it typical stereotype of a in it psychiatrist. When he became e d converted into believing in Har- h -1 ' J At vey, so aia me auaience. Helen m o Hardin delivered the right amount Si n of blandness as Myrtle Mae d< o Simmons, Veta's daughter. One m s line she said describes her to the d d hilt: "I'm like my mother's p s relatives-they're all dead." Bill ic e Arvey Jr., as was McNeeley, w e Bacon and Hatfield, was very is natural in giving his lines as the a young and a bit too ambitious Dr. 44 Lyman Sanderson. '/son (above, top left) mixed Wilson (top right) combined Mming "Barracuda." Although iitarist Howard Leese and assist Steve Fossen worked well gether, there is still a vacant spot >r Fisher, whose shoes may never 3 filled. AS HEART RETURNED for leir first encore, the exasperated rowa was on its feet, in ancipation of classics like, Dreamboat Annie," "Heartless," nd "Little Queen," but they were ever to come. Instead, Heart jrprisingly encored with a foriful rendition of Led Zepplin's Rock and Roll," combined with le light and airy "Sweet arling." The second encore roved just as surprising for it was See 'Heart', page 11 hts crowd ntics Cyndy Medlock's Nurse Ruth elly was a bit strained to be impletely natural. Playing in the own Theatre is tricky: the actor iust project loud enough for the ist seats but, because of the nallness of the theatre, must be )ft and subtle enough to be sleivable. Fortunately, most of le actors were able to do this. Walter O'Roarke's sets were daptable and served well as the ackground. They set the tone of le play as a whole: quiet and jbtle. And Emmalee Elizabeth obbins' direction was just as dept. Harvey will be playing irough April 19. It is definitely orth seeing A1 McNeeley's Dowd. ind of course, to see Harvey. HAHVEY, OF COURSE is the ivisibie rabbit who befriends lwood P. Dowd. Dowd and arvey frequent the town bars, luch to his socialite sister's, Veta immons, and her snobby aughter chagrin. When Veta and [yrtle Mae decide to commit owd to Chumley's Rest sychiatric Hospital, the mistaken lentities of who is committing hom heightens the irony and omedy of the play. In the end, the udience is left with the question, Who are the truly sane persons? "