Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 44

1 12 DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, February 17, 1980 We've Chopped The Price Of Cherry Pie (Guitarist's composition included in movie Former resident with Rose Band Save 50 on SWARTZ Cherry Pie er good 15-20. 1980 )n Carry-Out Whole Pies Happy Birthday George Reg. $3 VV $3.45 Plus Tax a NSiS. wKV.i Tues. iat.

10 30am 8pm Armstrong. A friend Hunter made on that circuit helped him get a job with Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels. And his career was under way. In 1975, he moved to Los Angeles. While doing session work in L.A.

in 1978 he got a call about a possible audition for the movie. "I kind of took it with a grain of salt because out here you hear those rumors everyday." "It was totally off the wall for me," he said. "Here was an opportunity to get in on the ground floor and see what it is all about" Hunter hopes to be able to use that experience as a. springboard to bigger and better things. "I'd like to broaden my base a little bit, like get into movies, write more songs, have my own band.

There is no reason I can't do all of those things," he said. In fact. Hunter wrote and recorded his own album in 1977: "Steve Hunter: Swept Away." Call 621-7900 and ask Sandy for a weekend you won't forget. By RON TAYLOR Herald and Review Staff Writer The soft blues guitar hints at the tired -Is tar's last attempt to emotionally- pre-)are for a concert as it builds to a of brass and strings, then quickly dies- 1 "It is phenomenal the way it just fit scene," author Steve Hunter said his instrumental," "Camellia." The melody serves as a swan song for Midler in "The Rose," as she is "flown in by helicopter to what will be l'ber final concert. Hunter, a 1966 graduate of MacArthuri School, didn't write the song espe-yially for the movie.

The former Decatur resident was per- 'forming as a member of the Rose Band the movie and was playing the melo-: to himself backstage when a produc- er heard it, he said. The producer liked it, he said, set it to "a full arrangement, and inserted it into the movie's soundtrack. want to pamper vou. make you smile and Liuph and feel real pond, and we want to do it some weekend soon. Imapine it: every- need and wish and whimcarered to.

Chilled champagne in vour room when vou ar You're a hu iTeaMast fan? Miss lullmp's Hearth wjs treated with you in mind. There's more. Swim min, and suana and shuf-fleNwrd and Uijnpinj; in our TropKjl Fun Don-. And we'll vou $2l Cooper's gold album, "Billion Dollar Babies," and with Lou Reed, Dr. John and several other recording artists.

But having his song on "The Rose" album, which is climbing to the top 10, is his biggest thrill to date, he said. "This one is special to me because this is one on which I've written a song. That is a marvelous feeling," he said. Hunter's interest was not always in playing guitar in a rock and roll band. Although he was always interested in music, it was more of a hobby than livelihood, he said.

"I really wanted to be a doctor and then all of a sudden music started getting a little more serious," he said. Throughout most of his high school years in Decatur, Hunter played his guitar as a hobby. And then, one day, rock and roll took a radical jump into the mid 1960s and Hunter says he was turned on by the guitar work of musicians such as Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. "The first time I really got into rock and roll was when I first heard Cream and Jimi Hendrix," he said. "The guitar playing of Eric Clapton really did it for me.

It was a real rock and roll renaissance." Hunter still wasn't convinced he wanted to be a professional musician. But, while serving with the Army in Okinawa, he won a United Services Organization contest and toured Far East Army bases with a USO show. "I got a chance to get in front of different audiences and all of a sudden it hit me that 'this is great, I'm really starting to enjoy Hunter returned home in 1970 and began touring east central Illinois with different local groups. One of the best, he said, was the Light Brigade, which included local names such as Ron Stockard and Jerry "Pork" Steve Hunter In the 10 years he has been in rock and roll. Hunter has played on Alice 1 FELINE Day Care Center Kel Air Dollars to spend in our shops and restaurants! Call Sandv now Cnl the hole strv And tell us when ou re coming.

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But we're a whole lot more than a whole lot of music. The exciting international cast of young adults who give you more than just music. It's an unforgettable family experience. New! From "RUSH" "Permanent Waves" "Stars of the '60s didn't expect big success," Hunter said of the movie's interpretation of rock and roll. "One day you're a hippie and the next day your a big star.

It killed a lot of them," he said, naming several artists of the '60s who died at young ages while at the peak of their careers. Part of the strain that contributed to the deaths of several modern music stars was the transition of their music from a form of youthful protest to a major industry. It killed them because they got caught "in the transition of an art form becoming a business," he said. Today, Hunter said, he sees a change in the music pendulum. It is swinging back from a big money business to a type of modern art form.

Because of the costs of making records and putting on concerts the industry has slowed down some, he said. Also, rock and roll fans are becoming more sophisticated about their music, he added. What this means is that the fans are not as quick to spend their money on just any record, "so you'd better be good, you'd better be worth it." Hunter is already busy trying to put his mark on the new interest in rock and roll. He just finished recording a "new wave" album with Phil Kelsey and is planning to do more of his own work. ON 5K69 Reg.

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Monroe Street in Spring Creek Plaza 11-9 Sun. 12-5 Phone 877-8670 Peome 5 li-idOS ft, Performing in the movie "The Rose" I allowed Steve Hunter a chance to step into the late 1960s and experience I the effects of success on a rock and roll singer. rThe 31-year-old guitar player per-" f6rmed in the movie as part of the Rose playing slide, rhythm and lead guitar: He's part of the album, too. Reflecting on the movie's representation of rock and roll, Hunter said, "it was a fantasy story based on a lot of fact, especially about performers of the late '60s." The movie follows the last days in the career of a female rock and roll star who dies from an apparent drug overdose during a strongly desired concert in her hometown. Gregory Johnson exhibit at Kirkland Paintings by Gregory Johnson, 25-year-old artist from Skokie, will be on exhibit in the Kirkland Fine Arts Center Studio Gallery at Millikin University Monday to Feb.

28. The artist will speak informally about his work at a 7 p.m. reception Feb. 28. Johnson's work features elderly people in commonplace settings.

"The idea is to revitalize a realistic image which has expressive qualities; to visit a stock, time-worn theme and attempt to extract a personal statement," he said. "Though my paintings have reference to photography, I feel they offer a sense of energy and light that suggests an equivalent of our most positive aspirations." Johnson, who has a master of arts degree in art from Illinois State University, devotes full time to painting. Recently the Springfield Art Museum purchased an oil painting, after winning the Governor's Best-in-Show Award. Olney Central College gives Johnson workshop The Olney Arts Council will present a workshop by artist Gregory Johnson, Feb. 27 from 7 to 10 p.m.

in the choral room at Olney Central College. Admission will be $3. The workshop will consist of three parts: an informal slide presentation of realism from 1760 to 1970, technical aspects of painting such as scrumbling, glazing and alia prima, and a question and answer session. Artists may bring their paintings for a critique which will follow. "DECATUR'S ONLY" WAIT'S for SILK SCREENING SUPPLIES HOW.

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