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Show They finally came up with a good concert, but now it's too late BY RUDY KOPPL Chronicle Staff Last Saturday at the Fairgrounds Fair-grounds Coliseum the Genral ' store let loose Holden Caulfied, Fanny and Cold Blood. It really wasn't Fanny or Holden Caulfield that made the event fantastic, but Cold Blood took the audience in their hands and made them dig it. If a person didn't raise hell bodily Saturday, then the person sure got ! a mind full of beautiful music. Fanny and Holden Caulfield .worked at it, but only Fanny got recognition. When Cold Blood hit the stage, however, they showed the audience who the masters of music were. The promoters of this concert, Rick Romney and Allen Covey, wanted to make the atmosphere freer for the people. They did just that, and they were also careful in how they handled this show because be-cause they realized the potential problems. "The main thing that roes wrong with a show is a ' J t. , 1 ' i - 4 f , r t s Lydia Pense, lead singer for Cold Blood, was the highlight of the evening Saturday at the Fairgrounds. She enticed the audience. preparation, man." Then out of the blue I heard a sniff, sniff. It was the lead guitar, Larry Field. He had the sniffles, and was nicknamed nick-named "Sinus Man" by the group. Next to him was Lydia Pense concentrating deeply and at times appearing to succumb to the pressure pres-sure she finally let loose on stage. All the other members of the group, Mic Gillette on trumpet and trombone, Dan Hull on tenor Photo by Tony Marino sax and flute, Larry Jouty on trumpet, Sandy McKee on drums and Paul Matute on organ just seemed to relax and dig it. Soon Cold Blood hit the stage and started with "You Got Me Hummin' " and the audience went wild. All through its set the band worked as a unit. The female singer would move her body sensuously, sen-suously, driving the audience mad. reckless promoter and stupid audience," audi-ence," said Covey. He added that the audience he was dealing with i was ignorant, but Romney seemed to keep them together and handle i the situation with care. : Since a policeman was injured at the last concert in the Coli-. Coli-. seum, security was doubled. But these guards seemed more at ease. I asked one guard about the incident inci-dent that happend at Spirt and he - said, "Last concert the damn cops . treated the kids like damn ani- mals." He was there to help the kids and dig the music as well. : Just before the show started the ' same guard came up to me and ' said, "I can't wait till they play r that first note so I can get with : the music myself." And believe '-t me he worked it on out. Soon the concert started with : . Fanny, an all-girl group, which did well. But the girls got the raw end - of the deal, since they should have played after Holden Caulfield, not y- before. They played a lot of cuts :i from their first album, called Fanny, as well as the title cut t- from their upcoming album called "Charity Ball" to be released in ;:. June. All their music was sup-t, sup-t, ported by strong organ and very !: together guitar work. But the au-: au-: dience didn't respond much till the end nf their spt Y June and Jean Mellington on t bass and lead, Alice Debuhr on j drums and Nicole Barclay on or-; or-; gan all proved to be quite tal-C tal-C ented. Backstage Miss Mellington sr said she was freaked out because J:: speakers were aimed at the group, jS musing an echo. She also said their group was recommended by t'l George Harrison to release a ver- , sion f "Badge" in England, wh'ch isn't hard to believe since this song and their other material was quite together. After Fanny finished, Holden u Caulfield tried to play music. It A Played boogie that sounded the same every song, all night long. It ii tried and tried, but this group will always appear as the average local group and nothing more, t J' was about one hour before told Blood was to do its set when W" ney were sitting backstage drink- "J8 Coors and smoking what? , When talking with the bass player, 'j' Rod EUicot, he said, "Utah has BbrtSbeen gr0Vy for Cold ood. At the same time one in his mouth and lit it up myjaying, is called |
