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The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 51

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Utterly Original1 fi pioneer Bill Pinkney do-wops and bip-bams at 0 'Hara 's today and Saturday Interuiewpage 5E (the Charlotte Cbserrer SECTION Friday February 28 1992 OutFront IDE Hot BUTTONS LASER SHOW admviwifZfcflj Wk Lo 4 MtfMXH Do you own a vinyl copy of Side of the Have you pulled them out for a listen during the last five years7 And the true test of faith Do you lack a gagging reflex at the sound of to Still here? Congratulations This for you a laser light show taking place this weekend and next with a soundtrack of nothing but Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd tunes This show is Saturday at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory the same show comes to Grady Cole Center March 7 Kathie Gimla Laser Light Extravaganza Band 10 pm Saturday Monroe Auditorium Lenoir-Rhyne College Hickory also 8 and 10 30 March 7 Grady Cole Center 310N Kings Dr Tickets tor any show $10 Advance tickets for the Hickory show are available at Music Eye in Hickory for the Charlotte show at Camelot Music Repo Records and All-American Sports Bar Details (704) 328-1 741 9am -5 pm weekdays (for Hickory show) or 358-1 600 10 a m-l 0 any day (for the Charlotte show) MUSIC 4 if nj By DIANE SUCHETKA Staff Writer believe I had volunteered to heave my body against it Velcro suit or not it was intimidating feet high 8 feet wide tilted back at a slight angle propped up on the sunken dance floor of the bar at the Embassy Suites Hotel on South Tryon Street Half a dozen spotlights and a black light shone down on it Two silver balls revolved above it spinning dots of lights onto the crowd Disc jockeys stood in a booth before it serenading it with Van It was surrounded by a wooden railing lined with men and women who had staked out a few inches to guarantee a good view It looked like some modern-day shrine to what 1 sure But hundreds had come cold Miller Lites and Budweisers in hand to watch awe They call it The Wall 4-r employees call this crowd-drawing gimmick that debuted three weeks ago Like David Letterman did on TV a few years back patrons here can volunteer to climb into Velcro-covered coveralls take a jump off a mini-trampoline and throw themselves against first Velcro jumping wall The highest jumper goes home with the biggest prizes Everybody gets something for trying Lillie did I know I had laughed hysterically on Friday night when called a few friends and my fiance and invited them to come watch me metamor-phne into some weird human fly in despierate search of flypaper 1 liad visions of them 50 years from now sitting in rocking chairs fy LAURA MUELLERStaff great form as he hurls himself at The Wall at PJ Barfly: Velcro Troy Franklin dressed in a jumpsuit and gloves shows Survival Sunday is what the bar Pieae see The Wallpage 9E New Orleans might have the real Mardi Gras but got the one and only Looms McGlohon The jazz pianist and his trio will help the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra celebrate that annual megaparty this weekend as part of its Cabaret series The Grady Cole Center exactly the French Quarter but if you know what it means to miss New Orleans close your eyes Dean Smith Charlotte Symphony Cabaret with the Looms McGlohon Trio 815pm today and Saturday 2pm Sunday Grady Cole Center 310 Kings Dr Tickets $1 student and senior citizen discounts available Details 332-6136 9 a -5p today I i 'sB if THE TUBE Let Geraldo Phil and Oprah interview the lesbian strippers and prostitutes who frequent truck stops Comic Paula Poundstone has a better and refreshing idea Talk to ordinary folks A meter maid A postal clerk A tax specialist And a guy been bitten by a shark twice Her half-hour talk show on HBO is a beauty thanks largely to gently teasing interview style She gets her laughs but never by stabbing the guests Decked out in cowboy boots and blessed with a quick wit Poundstone comes across as a gangly girl-next-door Interested7 You can see a new episode of Paula Poundstone tonight Tim Funk The Paula Poundstone Show midnight today on HBO It II be repeated Monday (1 1 30 Wednesday (2 40 a and next Friday (2 40 a VIDEO MITCH EPSTEINSamuel Goldwyn Santa Choudhury and Denzel Washington star in offers a good mix of heritage irony Feople can always find someone to hate the who has alien religious or social beliefs Those jjeople are most easily defined by skin color and the dividing line in the sweetly ironic Whites patronize blacks in little Greenwood Miss Blacks put down brown-skinned Indians who immigrate Is Fink" (Fox $94 98) an existentialist comedy about the way a soul is drained from him by Hollywood phonies money-grabbing moguls and cheap brunets7 Is it a cautionary tale of what happiens when we get chummy with serial killers7 Or is it the nightmare of a man who discovers the terror that ensues when your neighbor decides made too much noise7 This dark comedy out on video Thursday will appeal to anyone who liked the Coen previous films Simple" and Crossing (The film slipped in and out of Charlotte in one week but judge it by that Fox refused to advertise it properly John Goodman John Turturro Jon Mahoney and Oscar-nominated Michael Lernerstar Lawrence Toppman At Charlotte Coliseum tonight Van Halen is and vocalist Sammy Hagar The 1992 (from left) drummer Alex Van Halen bassist LF5 won a Grammy on Tuesday for best hard Michael Anthony guitarist Edward Van Halen rock performance Ticket detailspage 4E Inside Straight-ahead (l to work in motels Indians know whom to choose as an ally Some of them watch Indian movies listen to raga music and pray to Hindu deities trying to revive an Asian racial heritage never known firsthand The film starts when Jay and Kinnu (Roshan Seth and Shar-mila Tagore) are expelled from Uganda 1 972 during dictator Idi order to the country of Asians They leave with 6-year-old Mina their daughter who loves that idyllic Please see Mississippipage 4E Mississippi Masala Stars: Denzsl Washington Sar-rta Choudhury Roshan Seth Director Mira Naif Rating: Unrated Brief sex nudity 'Excellent Soon few Poor Hosiers Une-ceptaws Showing Manor OusenPark Expect guitar-oriented back-to-their-roots sound at Van Halen show You too U2 Opening for Van Halen: Meet Australia's Baby Ammalspage 4E Rmgling Bros and Barnum Bailey Circus CIRCUS: Meet David Lari-ble (above) clown in the Charlotte Coliseum THEATER: Neil play in Winston-Salem? Stinkeroo 4E 9E By RICHARD WALKER Staff Writer hen Van Halen bass guitarist Michael Anthony talks about his latest album last Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" he talks about a lot of new things First there was breaking away from the new nightclub the Cabo Wabo Cantina in San Lucas Mexico to get back into the studio Then there was a new record engineer Andy Johns who formerly engineered albums for groups like Led Zeppelin and Blind Faith And for the first time Van Halen have any material written before they recorded The one constant Anthony says is the energy level play a lot of the same songs night to night" Anthony said from a hotel room in Birmingham Ala during a break on the world tour do a lot of stuff from our new album but we What can we say about concert Tuesday at the Charlotte Coliseum except that sold out? Well a Their tour with The Pixies as the opening act is selling out everywhere And in a big way Of the first five shows the Saturday concert in Lakeland Fla sold out in four minutes the Sunday concert in Miami In 1 2 minutes the show here in three hours the Thursday show in Atlanta where tickets were available by telephone only In an hour and 20 minutes the March 7 show In Hampton Roads Va with only two tickets per customer in two hours On Tuesday the Living section plans to publish a review of the Lakeland concert On Wednesday The Observer will publish a review of the 7 30 Tuesday Charlotte concert in our final edition try to keep it a little unpredictable we came out and did the same show every night yet bored with it it would stagnate and I think the fans would recognize that Anthony recalls a recent concert where Van lead singer Sammy Hagar broke into a song from his days with the group Montrose was in Chattanooga and he had a lot of old Montrose fans there" Anthony said "We had heard the song before so we just played along It ended up being one of the highlights of the night" But spontaneity has always been a Van Halen mainstay Van first appearance in the Carolinas was Please see Rockpage 4E 3E 6-8E MOVIE LISTINGS CALENDAR LISTINGS pinni i.

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