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D5! THE HABTfORD COURANT: Friday, Oclctm 16, 1981 ove simrjs LET WEEKEND Iun Dining Dancing Entertainment YOUR Foreigner Streamlines And Likes the Results By COLIN McENROE Courant Staff Writer AMONC OUI SPECIALTIES SAUBBMTEN, Hungarian Govlmh, Figi Hdu, KomIw tippdMn, JoQ4f Schniful Roatt Turtay FRIDAY SPECIAL BROILED LOBSTER TWIN LOBSTERS SATURDAY SPECIAL PRIME RIB 8.95 AL GENTILE'S MUSIC a a a IS THE VERY BEST! CHRISTMAS PARTIES! NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS! NIGHTLY Capon Seafood FREE ntnni mi an "I think we lost a couple of friends," fleeting. We've been through a lot in Loo Gramm said sadly. "It's a shame the last year. It's important that peo- parking mnriDLc illmia TEL 247-1541 jvst Miasm now the civic ceith too. They re both very talented peo- pie see the different sides of foreign pie." er." Opon Monday thru Saturday SSS CloMd Sunday ffM Pvfclal RifMlv ti ft TrmlM Plan Cflrsi.

htUti ItM. ifafc ttw 5 ml fw Around the Area SUNDAY AND MONDAY ROAST CARVERY Roast Stuffed Turkey or Loin of Pork 6.50 Roast Lea of Lamb 7.50 served with Relish Bar, Salad, Pot. Vee. Tei.66M2i9 1.800-982-310 265-5170 24 Hour Service located 3 mites nortii ol Brtdtey Field. 94 Mountain Rd, SuffieM When a new band succinctly named Novo Combo started playing New York gigs this year, it attracted unusually star-studded crowds: mem' bers of the Rolling Stones, Hall and Oates, and Carly Simon could be seen moseying into the clubs.

The reason? Earlybird Dinner Specials 5-7 pm Well, the combo may be novo, but the musicians aren t. OLD CROMWELL INN Bassist Stephen Dees played with Hall and Oates for two years, and 4-6 pm Sat. Daryl Hall produced Dees solo album. Guitarist Pete Hewlett has played During the entire month of October ft with Eric Carmen and Carly Simon and has also recorded a solo album. accompanied by this ad.

S. Guitarist Jack Griffith, whose resume is somewhat less impressive, was dis 1 covered while working on the Florida club circuit. Drummer Michael SHRIMP SCAMPI Don't miss GARFIELD the cat. He's loveable, hateful and mischievous a trial and a joy to his or Shrieve was one of the original mem bers of Santana and has since worked Steve Winwood, German synthesizer guru Klaus Schultze, and the Rolling Stones. He can be heard on "Some FRIDAY, SATURDAYS, SUNDAY SPECIAL BROILED SCROD $5.95 SLICED SIRLOIN MARSALA tf oe (wwine sauce mushrooms) $5.95 SLICED SIRLOIN PIZZAIOLA (wpeppers mushrooms) $5.95 LONDON BROIL $5.95 EGGPLANT VACCARO $5.95 FRIED SHRIMP $5.95 SEAFOOD OREGANATO (wclams, mussels, Alaskan King Crab, A filet of fish on pasta) $6.95 SURF 'N TURF (fried shrimp NY strip steak) $6.95 LOBSTER FRAVIAVOLO tfo (picked lobster mussels) $8.95 Girls," "Emotional Rescue," and "Tattoo You." Novo Combo's first album contains its own tribute to epidermal graffiti, owner, Jon.

STEAK 8C SCAMPI 1 PRIME RIB OF BEEF 1 A v. aujus 1 NEW YORK STRIP STEAK 1 LOBSTER 8C SCALLOP au gratin 1 Includes 'A fe Baked Potato or Rice Pilaf ifl Tureen of Soup Extensive Spinach and Salad Bar Assorted Breads simply tit.Cu "Tauoo." The song al A Sunday laugh most made it onto the soundtrack of the new film "Tattoo," according to Shrieve. in the comic pages of The two talented ex-friends are Al Greenwood and Ian McDonald, former members of Foreigner. The band, which will play at the Hatford Civic Center with Billy Squier Sunday night, went from a sextet to a foursome this year, when Greenwood and McDonald were shown the door. Gramm and Mick Jones, the guitarist-songwriter who founded Foreigner, saw the personnel shake-up as a way of nudging the band out of a period of complacency.

"1 think we were feeling it toward the end of the 'Head Games' tour," Gramm said. "We knew we couldn't be doing the same thing anymore. If we continued as we were, we'd be narrowing our sights." Despite its enormous commercial success, Gramm was never particularly enamored with the 1979 "Head Games" album. "I thought 'Head Games' was a reckless album," he said. "We lost a lot of subtlety." As the tour came to an end and preparations were made for the next album, communication among the members was poor and creative impulses were at an ebb.

"We were very close to not being a band at all," Gramm said. "We needed a rethinking for the future of the band. We've seen a lot of bands put themselves in a hole and not be able to dig themselves out. You can really bury yourself through lack of creativity." Gramm said the new stripped-down Foreigner will have "a lot more personality" in concert, with the rhythm section of drummer Dennis Elliott and bassist Rick Wills getting more time in the spotlight. Gramm said his monopoly on the crowd's attention is "one that I'm more than willing to give up." "I have my hands full just singing the material, Gramm said.

The energetic lead vocalist sings til of the 18 or 19 songs in the band's set. Foreigner has never been the darling of the major critics, many of whom have derided the band as a soulless hit machine. "I read the reviews," Gramm said. "There are some valid criticisms of the band. The ones that bother me are the reviews that sound like the guys haven't listened to the album." "4," the 1981 follow-up to "Head Games," has been enjoying somewhat more positive reviews.

Critics have saluted the band for unveiling new melodic and rhythmic tendencies and for jettisoning some of its old misanthropic (and misogynistic) lyrical leanings. "We've knocked the chip off our shoulders," Gramm acknowledged. "The music on this album is the product of more looking inward and re- "They had already shot the scene by the time the song was ready," Shrieve said. "The tempo was different. They tried slowing the song down, but it just SKCIUS SHIED ntl 1 J.

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