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Show Friday, February 1, 1991 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Eight Big Head Todd and the Monsters invade Midnight Radio, late last year, my belief that these guys are Chronicle Entertainment Editor album is actually better than Another Mayberry different, but better. Midnight Radio sports 13 tracks, which were recorded live at performances and at rehearsals in basements and in k Mohr's living room, on a digital recorder. No remixes overdubs or were performed, and the energy and quirkiness of their live shows comes through in all its glory. It's pure Big Head Todd and the Monsters, just as if they were right there with you in the room. And the Midnight Radio Big Head Todd and the Monsters Big Records The more music's so great you don't even miss the smoke, the chatter, or the waitress asking if you want another drink. And this is one concert you can enjoy again and again destined to things much greater than night clubs and independent releases was reaffirmed. Their follow-u- p By Steven Miller and again... Midnight Radio reflects the band's ability to go from a dance number to ballads of epic proportion without warning or effort. Of particular note among this worth of music, is generous helping of 63 minutes-plu- s foot-tappi- two-trac- listen to new music, the more depressed I Good albums seem to be fewer and farther apart. get. bleak to be the ranks of "new finds," seem Particularly most being aerosoled ninnies in razor-blade- d jeans, o plug-inrap outfits, or A light shines in the darkness, however. Those who have seen this light know it as Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Those who have yet to find it, don't know what they've been missing. d Since the 1989 appearance of their first has the Another band album, Mayberry, garnered praise from all corners from Billboard Magazine to the Chrony music writers across the nation have raved about the band, while the trio has been pleasing crowds from London, to New York, to the members of Salt Lake's own I spine-chillin- relationship; "Cold Blooded," sounds more like a James Brown put-oand the most atmospheric ballad the band has produced yet, "Elvis." The message conveyed in the lyrics of this song are somewhat murky it's unclear if there is an attempt to equate the King's pathetic end with unrequited love but the song is pure brilliance nonetheless. In fact, each of the four songs mentioned above is pure n; s. brilliance, and the album as self-release- payola-flingin- g surrenders for no one). With the a of behind label it, promotions department major Midnight Radio would have swept the 1991 Grammy Awards, and would have been near the top of every music writers Best of the Year list at the dawn of '92. For the time being, however, Big Head Todd and the Monsters Midnight Radio (and Another Mayberry) will inspire awe in only a select few. I invite you to join us. I'm positive you'll find your money well spent. Big Head Todd and the Monsters will be appearing at on Main Street in Park City, tomorrow night. Tickets are available at the door. is a private club. For more information, call wheel-greasin- and Stevie Ray Vaughan, but the similarities are fewer than Mohr's own stylistic touches in his powerful vocal delivery and strumming. Bassist Rob Squires is in a class all by himself, and drummer Brian Nevin is nothing to be scoffed at either. With a repertoire of original, brilliantly conceived songs that are tight, melodic and articulate, Big Head Todd and the Monsters are on their way to great things, something I became aware of immediately when I first heard Another Mayberry. And with the release of the band's second album, ..!" Todd and the Monsters, Brian Nevin, left, Todd Park Mohr and Rob Squires return to Utah tomorrow night. in Park City. They'll be playing up a storm at Big Head -- ii Chubin iirWQ WHEN FINDING A from page five GOOD MOVIE if ti g, ce ce 1 . puts anything label reps have scouted the band, the Colorado trio Clayton-Thoma- s NOWSHOWi! a whole released by a major or medium sized label in 1990 look shabby by comparison. I hope there's an exec kicking himself somewhere for not agreeing to sign this band at whatever terms they might have demanded ('cause while Zephyr. Lead singer and guitarist Todd Park Mohr (whose head really isn't that big at all) has been compared to David . ng g the title track, "Midnight Radio." "Bittersweet," traces the rise and fall of a romantic de neo-disc- Z-Pla- ce other "loaded" the im possessed combat THAT'S WHEN I'M in mi i vkAlS I m A iest i oienn tl. :CAL (Sea. Air w MOVIE BUFF. rrorn .. I -i topics . Chubin defaces famous works of art, (Picasso's Guernica, and Dorothea Lange's by legendary photographs), n a a with placing "Utah Happy Art" seal of of one blue-ribbo- ft Ah - OVER 90,000 S'iK'S MS kit L.m MOVIES TO ' o( atej Nay' or- - crew CHOOSE FROM IN NO. UTAH ..net ssss: - i. . Remember the 5U are V, f 8w Locally "m mY we WW - . .Mil! Owned & 1 a'on hit Operated 1 that's sun, J Wty-Kilm- f.'J'f er versar Orion R I 31 Authorized! Distributor rne in"',. mnute$ jUUUUl I Aulhortied LIN Industries. Industries, inc. MlliiiV. 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