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Show PAGF 8 THE THUNDERBIRD TUESDAY OCTOBFR 28 1986 Centrum Berlin, Rainmakers christen entrances (continued from paie 1) you there are some good looking men there." She smiled and the band broke into the ' Metro," a best seller from their early album There was a shadow play on the curtain behind her and the drums sounded like a heartbeat echoing desperately through her body. Nunn fell down on her hands and knees beating a tambourine and shaking it over the waving hands of the audience Her movements, her words, her smoky and intense voice was sensual and cold in equal combinations The music was loud, but coolly sophisticated and polished The band returned to six members after a year or more of being a trio John Crawford and Rob Brill were dressed in black with their blond hair wild and guitars in hand Added to the band is a keyboard artist, a drummer and a female vocalist When the band began to play "You Take My Breath Away," the hit song from the movie Top Cun, the audience was pulled into a sway of familiarity and ends the song in an uproar of apprec intion Although there were probably four or five songs to which the audience could actually sing the words, Berlin was loudly cheered on by the Saturday night crowd, some of whom had begun their wait outside the Centrum after the homecoming football game as early as 5 p m According to Robert Johnson of ASSUSC security, "The whole band went outside to talk to a group of sixth graders who had been waiting outside all day and gave them autographs "Berlin is really cool a personable group of people," Johnson said By 6 TO, there was a substantial crowd packed around the ot the Centrum A group of five people at the south entrance were playing the card game UNO until the doors opened at 7 30 and the wildly screaming crowd rushed in and down to general admission seating, at which time the crowd trampled a woman who was standing at one of the entrances, leaving her a bit shaken up. Shortly before the first band went on stage, a college-ag- e woman was escorted by two security guards out of the building The woman was visibly drunk and although she resisted very little, the guards could not move her up the stairs without pulling her shirt halfway her bra Finally in desperation, and unable to cover her bra, one of the security guards threw her over his shoulder which shimmied her skirt up to her waist and exposed her underwear He carried her up the stairs while the floor-seate- d crowd cheered and clapped and the girl's friends followed carrying her sandals. At 8 30, the opening group, the Rainmakers rocked with a George Thorogood style that crazed the audience The group from Salt Lake City had a bad boy attitude and a sense of humor which was conveyed in its music The lead singer rushed onto the stage with a black magic hat on his head and a guitar slung at his hip with a deep, whiskeyed voice that sung a quick tune about St. Louis. The four members left the stage with a wish that evervone would have "love, art, passion, and inspiration for the rest of their lives " The crowd by the stage moved like children truck with outstretched around an aims. The crowd was dancing and exuberant, admitted that although most of the concert-goer- s Berlin was not a good as they had expected and the evening was an excuse to party after the homecoming game. off-rev- ealing : ice-crea- m Bob Walkenhorst led The Rainmakers in the Centrum Saturday HAVE YOU LOST YOUR HEAD OVER SOMEONE? Its hard to say the right words, to that special someone, when youve lost your head. (no head no mouth ) Give Up? NO! Take out a classified ad for only 50t and get those right words in print! The Thunderbird offices are located in the basement of the Librar |
