The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 304

6001) 1S po 0A A Gbv-11-5 TIME ITGITET7S I I CE irTiO po Ei ENGLISH ROCKERS' FAMILIAR MOLD "PYROMANIA" Def Leppard Mercury 810-308M1 When these English rockers started off in 1979 young and full of fire (if no new ideas) some thought they might buck the heavy-metal trend and keep from merely duplicating past sounds While the group has maintained some crispness and melody it has settled into an all-too-familiar mold which "Pyromania" doesn't break Under the steady hand of one of the genre's better producers Robert John "Mutt" Lange the guitars wail and Joe Elliot screams away competently but to no purpose other than to put a little more solid unoriginal rock alongside all the rest in the bin ATKINSON STYX PRINCE KISS CHAKA KHAN JULIO IGLESIAS LIZA GRATEFUL DEAD Jimmy Buffet Billy Squier Senator Peter Allen Culture Club Jerry Garcia Laurie Anderson Weather Report Hall St Oates DREAM GIRLS HAY FEVER at ALL THEATRE LAKERS KINGS ALL SPORTS ir-a WE lb Vika IF STYX PRINCE KISS CHAIL JULIO IGLESIAS LIZA GRATEF Jimmy Buffet Billy Squier Peter Allen Culture Club Garcia Laurie Anderson Report Hall St Oates DREAM GIRLS HAY FEVER at ALL LAKERS KINGS ALL SPOI 'i10 A 171: A 01Ra-1Tt141 4 titowell sincerity Here EVFs brand of sacred pop is no less polished but it is the group's most convincing effort in years At its best EWF can produce artful ideas built on stinging punches of rhythm and horn arrangements and those rose-colored views of utopia can appear pretty invigorating in this framework At its worst EWF can indulge in the weirdest wordplay producing songs like "Freedom of Choice" with these head-scratcher lyrics: "Instead of getting betterRain is getting wetter to a fair reality" Huh? White has his virtues as a lyricist but coherence isn't always one of them Though this album isn't as ambitious as 1980's "Faces" a bloated two-record set it does show why EWF is one of the masters of studio pop "Fall in Love With Me" the new single) and "The Speed of Love" allow for scatty rude-boy vocals from White They're both packed with the chiming multilayered backup vocals and complex melodic development that are quintessential EWF The frisky hook-heavy strut of "Straight From the Heart" is fun too Here singer Philip Bailey gets to play wry funkateer with his supple reed-thin falsetto building to a jazzed-out conclusion EWF mostly keeps the rhetoric in check focusing instead on assertive rockers that give everyone in this nine-member unit a chance to flex his muscles There is less cosmic emphasis but the EWF on the richly textured vocals horns and still intact And surprisingly still fresh JOHNSON 383 OTO t''1411 etloo WI KEZY and WEST COAST CONCERTS In Association With BEACH CLUB PROMOTIONS Present KEZY and WEST COAST In Association With BEA ACHING 'FEET' "ON MY OWN TWO FEET" Paul Barrere Mirage 90070-1 You might have figured that guitarist Barrere's Little Feat pedigree would guarantee at least a few good cuts on his solo debut but "On My Own Two Feet" fails to meet even those modest expectations The production is weak and tinny the songs and vocals are less than adequate and the music falls into the barren nether-zone between funky blues and heavy-metalfunk rifting The version of "High Roller" falls well short of Little Feat's treatment of the tune and the occasional nice the Dixieland horns on "Love Sweet few and far between Disappointing SNOWDEN JI511111 BIFFETT On dr iffilliti 1MM 1 INNS it IS I 6 EMI 1 ItT rsi-i zoos ontetin I mla min rim i 1 4 SIX FLAGS SUNDAY MARCH 6 8PIA ANAHEIM CONVENTION CENTER All Seats Reserved: $1350 1150 and 950 Tickets available at CONVENTION CENTER BOX OFFICE TICKETRON MUTUAL CHARGE-LINE (213) 6884380 and TTELE-MON (213) 410-1062 7'4 Cif A6': v' 3 e' ''1i)-3t 'sr!" 4' tt 4t 24t 4 1 5z niutoct 10671a WEST COAST CONCERIntresen TRANSLATOR NLkRCH 5 PLIMSOULS MARCH 6 3ERRYGIIRCIA 7:30 and 10:30 PM ALL SEATS $1450 slit tvp12 RIDA ARC RAWFOR 1 AL A missionj10 i Eno cmotom g111 0 il 'AIIILLI I 1 Y1311010 0'0 1 A1 i l'w I RIDA ARC RAWFOR I ALU1Iff i Min iti missionj10 i tu i 1 et 91 I lazzat cloyee a eyt 0401010 WALL OF VOODOO MARCH 12 PSYCHEDELIC FURS MARCH 13 Psi'l k- c0 4 0 fli 4 A i' A t'414 1 1 KROCA IOW and WEST COAST CONCERTS In Association With BEACH CLUB PROMOTIONS Present Ivium IWO ann Wtbi LAMM LUNLIKIS In Association With BEACH CLUB PROMOTIONS Present GREG MIN BAND NIARC11 19 FELONY NIARCH 26 CHfikil HAM 7:30 PM Stir Nil? 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