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monday, October 27, 1980
daily nebraskan
Ronstadt wins 'mad love' of crowd in stellar show
By Bill Graf
The queen of pop-rock, Linda Ronstadt, wooed a near
sellout crowd at the Devaney Sports Center to the point
of mad love.
It's curious how a woman who only takes passive role
in songwriting could reach such stardom. However, after
Saturday evening's concert any thoughts that she's over
rated were shattered. From the first beat laid down by the
warm-up band, the Joe Ely Band, to the end of the second
encore, the show was alluringly first-rate.
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Certainly her voice, which can range from soft and
sexy for ballads to wailing for rock 'n roll, is part of the
reason for her success. But her position also must be part
ly credited to the all-star cast of musicians with which she
has surrounded herself throughout her career. Also, her
sex symbol image doesn't hurt either.
Ronstadt took the stage dressed solely on a Nebraska
women's volleyball jersey and red high heels, which in
stantly livened up the crowd. Soon afterward, Linda and
the band broke into the title track of her latest album,
Mad Love. From that point on the high excitement level
was unceasing.
Most of the material performed was from the Mad
Love album. However, from time to time Ronstadt reach
ed back to older hits such as Hank Williams' "I Can't Help
It If I'm Still In Love With You," Lowell George's
"Willin' " and Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day."
Letter-perfect
Each tune was reeled off in letter-perfect form. But by
no means did the band stick strictly to the album versions.
They took full advantage of being live.
Guitarists Dan Kortchmar and Dan Dugmore took off on
rockin' but tasty guitar solos. Former Little Feat member
Billy Paine cut loose on the keys. Even bassist Bob Glaub
attracted the main spotlight on "You're No Good" while
performing a red-hot melodic bass solo.
Also, the star's long-time musical companion Kenny
Edwards and former Jackson Brown backup vocalist
Rosemary Butler complemented Ronstadt's voice, making
the performance one of the finest vocal shows to appear
on a Lincoln stage. Edwards also supplied conversant
acoustic guitar and banjo licks.
Russ Kunkel on drums along with Glaub made up a
rhythm section that is a state of art.
The performance maintained unbelievable consistency
considering that instrument changes took place after
nearly every tune.
Only once did the musicians break for any length of
time, but Ronstadt filled the time with a tale about her
appearance on The Muppet Show.
She explained that she doesn't care to do television
shows because the sound gets "squashed down." But be
cause of her long-time crush on Kermit the Frog, she said
she couldn't pass up the offer. In closing, she dedicated
the next song to Kermit and kicked off "Blue Bayou."
Two encores
Ronstadt closed the regular portion of her show with
"Back in the U.S.A.", which gave her still another op
portunity to wail as well as the best of them. Also, Kort
chmar ripped off another guitar solo that gave the impres
sion that he was born with guitar in hand.
At the end of die tune, Ronstadt received an instant
standing ovation. She returned and did "Heat Wave,"
which unleashed more cookin' vocals and roused
the crowd enough to bring her back for another encore.
For the final tune, only Ronstandt and Paine returned.
Paine sat down at his grand piano, Ronstadt took the
center stage and the two did a moving version of "Des
perado," bringing whoops and hollers from the crowd.
The warm-up band, the Joe Ely Band, from Lubbock,
Tex., was a welcome relief from the dime-a-dozen bands
that are usually opening acts for big names.
Their style was heavily influenced by Buddy Holly,
which isn't particularly surprising since Holly started as
a West Texas rocker. But they also performed some of
their original tunes with a Tex-Mex flavor and others in a
high-energy rock 'n roll style.
Hopefully someday I'll be cruising through Texas and
have the good fortune of catching them in an authentic
road house, where they're no doubt at their best.
Up to this point all the credit for a fine concert has
gone to the musicians. However, a word must be said for
the soundman, who obviously takes great pride in his
work.
Another bit of thanks must go to whoever decided
to have the concert at the Devaney Sports Center. The
center doesn't have a bad seat in it. Also, the poor acous
tics that plague Pershing Auditorium seem to have been
overcome at the Sports Center.
Dracula appears
as Halloween treat
One of the world's greatest horror stories, "Count
Dracula," comes to the Nebraska Educational Network as
d Halloween Special on Friday at 10:30 pjn.
The 2 '-hour rebroadcast "GREAT PERFORM
ANCES" presentation, adapted from the 1897 novel by
Bram Stoker, features Louis Jourdan as the infamous
vampire king, who has roamed the earth for 500 years.
The quintessential tale of gothic terror, "Count Drac
ula" begins as a young lawyer Jonathan Harker (Bosco
Hogan) leaves London for the mountains of Transylvan
ia and the Castle Dracula. In the tale of evil, Harker be
comes a prisoner of Dracula, as the Count prepares to
leave for his newly adopted home-London. Harker
eventually escapes, but not until he sees the Count and
his three brides lying in their coffins, not dead and not
alive.
Harker returns to London and his fiancee, Mina West
ernra (Judi Bowker), but is disturbed by his experiences
on the continent. Dracula follows Harker to England and
proceeds to plague Mina and her sister Lucy (Susan Pen
haligon). Professor Van Helsing (Frank Finlay), an expert
on vampires, is called on for aid.
Writer weeps over her loss of lease and mind
By T. Marni Vos
Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers.
Lose your purse: "Hello, Lincoln Police Department?
My name is T. Marni Vos and I lost my purse."
"That would be our non-emergency number, 473-6245
. . ." Click.
This is an emergency! Everything I own ... my identi
ty .. .
"Is this LPD's non-emergency number? Yeah, my
name's T. Marni Vos and I lost my purse.''
checkbook, high school pictures-my first boyfriend-my
first mistake, a pair of glasses with white tape on the nose,
old concert tickets, Band-aids, relief- that's spelled R-O-L-A-I-D-S-just
kidding . . . sorry ... an old retainer, a
fingernail file, candy with lint balls, a Valentino's garlic
roll ... an old parking ticket -I should never have gotten
that, it wasn't my fault . . ."
humor
Lose your hair:
Telly Savalas
Yul Brynner
Mr. Clean
Losing weight:
'Bald men are more virile.
Right after Thanksgiving.
"Just a minute. I'll connect you with the lieutenant."
"Okay."
"Hello."
"Yes, hi, my name is T. Marni Vos and I, uh . . . I . . .
jeez, I forgot why 1 called, oh right, I lost my purse."
"Okay, Ms. Vos, please hold."
I eat dinner and clean my room.
"Hello, Ms. Vos, are you still there?"
"Yes, sir."
"Okay. What we're going to do is fill out a report, all
right?"
"Sure."
"Okay. Name, address, color or nationality."
Lose your temper: "Well, we've been here 356 days
and I'm sorry, but this really makes me angry. I mean, this
was a nice place to visit, but I'm tired of being held hos
tage here."
Lose your boyfriend: "Chrissy? . . . Your name is
Chrissy, isn't it? Yeah, I don't know if you know me, but
I seem to have lost my boyfriend, and some people think
you might know where he is. Is that true?"
Lose your keys: "Tim, hi ... I know it's one in the
morning, but I've lost my keys. I thought I might have
left them there -have you seen them?"
"One in the morning?" Your keys?"
"Yeah, they have a whistle and a can of Mace on the
ring with them."
"No, I haven't seen them."
"Well, gee, I don't know what to do, because I can't
get in my apartment, and I don't know where else to look,
and it's one in the morning-1 don't have my Mace or
whistle and 1 don't know what else to do, because I can't
get in my apartment ... and I don't know where else to
look and it's one in the morning and ..."
"WE'VE LOST OUR LEASE!!!" . . . right.
Lose time: "Tomorrow is, ah, whose. "-Mulock
Lose your mind: "No excellent soul is exempt from a
mixture of madness . . "Aristotle
From one hell of a mixture ... and one hell of a
weeper.
"Uh. . . T. Marni Vos, Taco Inn, white ... but the
purse is brown, with a broken zipper and a safety-pinned
shoulder strap."
"Where did you lose your purse?"
"Hinky Dinky. I noticed it was gone when 1 went to
pay for my groceries-$31.89-crap."
"What time did it occur?"
"I don t know. My watch was in my purse."
"What else was in your purse?"
"Are you kidding? How much time do you have? I
mean this was a big purse ... my billfold with my credit
cards, Iicense-I just hated that picture-let's see, my
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