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THIS WEEK’S
TOP TWENTY-FIVE
(3) 1. Platinum Blonde Crying Over You“ (1) 2. Bryan Adams Bryan Adams * (l7) 3. Haywire Out of my Head” 4. Dire Straits Money for Nothing "(2) - 5, Corey Hart Never Surrender‘ 6. Howard Jones Life in One Dav 7. Sting . . (3) 8. Bowie/Jagger Danctng in the Street 9. Boomtown Rats Ram (7) 10. Rational Youth N0 More & N0 LeSS“ (9) 11. AHA Take On Me (16) 12. Wham Freedom
(1 l) 13. Waterboys
Netted Gem: You’re really breaking into the music in- dustry now, but it took some time. Your climb to popu- larity wasn’t quite‘as fast as that of Platinum Blondeyfor instance. Do you think that the public was more open to, Canadian talent later in your career, around the time artists like Bryan Adams and Corey Hart began to break through?
Robert Preuss: Well Bryan Adams and Corey Hart are the only new Canadian talent that are getting big outside of Canada right now. Even in
Canada, the public isn’t thrilled about Canadian .bands. You have to work
really hard to be accepted in this country if you’re a Canadian band.
Gordon Deppe: I think
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popularity is due to a lot of things. Money is one of them. Even when we had been
' going for a while and Pla-
tinum Blonde were just start— ing, you could tell that they had a lot more money behind them then we did.
NG: What do you think of Patinum Blonde?
Gordon: Well (laughter) I don’t want to start cutting up other bands. I may not see eye to eye with them (Blonde) on everything they do, but they’re okay.
NG: Now that you are past the struggling Istage, what
obstacles remain in your path? ' Gordon: Record company
executives! Most of them don’t care about the music, only about how much money they can make.
NO: I want to‘wind up on a technical note. I’d like to know what kind of instru- ments you started out with. Gordon: My first electric? What an embarrassment! It was called “Sention”. I think that they made them in a shop down the street from where I lived. After that I moved on to an Ovation, then a black Les Paul Custom. Robert: I started out on a Baldwin acoustic piano. My parents bought it for me.
NG: Sandy, I notice that you play a Spectre bass on stage. I have seen you play a Stein- berger in one of your videos, given that you aren’t the tallest bass player] have ever seen wouldn’t the Steinberger be more suited to your size? Sandy: I only used the Stein- berger for that one video. It hands from a “V” shaped
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plate at the back of it, and that plate really cuts into me. I’m happy with the Spectre, I’ve got the only pearl colored one in Canada. It looks and sounds great.
NG: What does the future hold for The Spoons? Gordon: After the new album .comes out, likely a Canadian tour.
NC: The United States? Europe?
Gordon: Oh yeah! Gotta keep going! '
If you are a Spoons fan you probably enjoyed the concert, if you aren’t you still don’t have much excuse for not enjoying it. Admis- sion was a bit steep ($7.50) and the Barn isn’t ready for any sound system larger than a ghetto blaster, but a good time was had by most if not
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(5) 14_ Gowan Strange Animal“ 15. New Regime Seduction‘ (4) 16. Power station (lg/let 1t EnCODbantg’ a 21 17. Dolb ’sCube' a te u e e it ou , _ ( ) 18. Go Fléur 3 J“; Another Day... By Michael Zinck (24) 20, John Fogeny Centerfield He’s developed that “laid
21. Aretha Franklin
22. Vicious Pink
23. U840 w. Chrissie Hynde (18) 24. Belouis Some
25. New Order Perfect Kiss
*Canadian Content “Charlottetown Content
“ALBUMS OF THE DAYS”
Monday, 23rd. Boomtown Rats
Tuesday, 24th. O.M.D., Crush Wednesday, 25th. Platinum Blonde Alien Shores‘ Thursday, 26th. Dire Straits Brothers in Arms Friday, 27th. Paul Hyde & Payolas"
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back” look, and added a few pounds, as the years have rolled by. Ronnie'Hawkins is on tour, again, as is he for most of the year.
-He is rocking back in a chair, with a cold one on the table in the cubby hole of an office that is Jsually occupied by Carolyn Ryan. “Yes, just call me the Geritol Gypsyl”, he beings. “We’ve been on tour now one and a half
times and then back to . Quebec and home to On- tario.” He grabs for a swig of the cold one. “After that its’. back to Europe.” He has his biggest following there, on the European Rockabilly tour. “We headquarter in London, and from there travel all over Europe, to every rockabilly festival; and you know I see many of the same people. They come from all over and follow us everywhere. ’ ’
He has been in this game for 37 years, and I asked, “why?” “Its a livin’, I got to do something.” But not only him: It is a family affair as his son and daughter are part of the band. Even Ronnie Hawkins shares 3 parents’ concern for his children. He doesn’t mind the fact that he provides work, and gets to travel with the kids. “Its a job and the family is to- gether,” Ronnie says.
He was in town about two years ago, playing at the now- closed Showboat. “CBS, our record compnay, wanted us to play in some different
areas to get a chance for the
months, through all the Mari- .
record buyers in all areas to see us live.” And what does he think of his return visit to PEI? “Well now, I’ve met a lot of fine people, and they do like to party.” He already knows our who got things going right from the first number, “Ya, wild Phil is a great rocker.”
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The «road manager them walks in. "Can you sign this contract Ronnie;”, he said, waving a few sheets of paper in the air. “Sure, got a pen?” He takes mine. “There we
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go. .' hat’s the way it goes with Ronnie Hawkins. Business al- ways at the door. «It has been
g~spare time.” ' . .
_ Photo: Zinck a long time for the big ma wearing the white c0wboy h with a red bandana and whi star. And you can bet he’ll playing long after this year frosh have graduated. Yo just can’t quit when yo T-shirt reads “a legend in h