University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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■ T T en Without Hats Open Tubular Concert rlURRICANE HOWL r While the audience patiently waited for Men Without Hats to take the stage, Ivan vividly stated backstage the underlying reason for the delay. They feel we ' ll blow them away. If they want to play games, they can play with themselves! The first University of Miami concert hosted by the James L. Knight Cen- ter just happened to be the biggest of the year, The Hurricane Howl. This year ' s Howl featured two very popular groups, Men Without Hats and The Tubes. Both groups have had top singles on the Billboard charts and should have proved to be an outrageous show. And that they were! Men Without Hats took the stage at 9 p.m., after a two hour delay, per- forming songs off of their Rhythm of Youth album. Three brothers and a black sheep make up the relative- ly new group — Men Without Hats. Yet they boast having a No. 1 hit single, Safety Dance , which was good enough reason for the audi- ence to sit and wait to see how good they are in concert. After singing The Great Ones Re- member, Ivan Doroschuk, lead singer for Men Without Hats, said I think that anybody who came to sit down should go to church. Anyone who came to dance should come on down! And that they did. Filling up the center isle, the audience danced the safety dance to I Am, Things in My Life, I Cot the Mes- sage and of course, the pop hit, Safety Dance. The audience seemed pleased with Men Without Hats ' performance, almost so much so as to forget about the two hours delay. However, the show on stage was not the only form of entertainment at The Howl. Backstage, there was a lot of confusion going on, and ev- eryone had a different idea of why Men Without Hats were delayed two hours before taking the stage. A nine hour sound check (by The Tubes), that was the cause of the delay, said Ivan. Marc Durand, Men Without Hats ' manager, stated that The reason why Men Without Hats did not go on is because they had an altercation with The Tubes . . . The Tubes just weren ' t nice. Hilda Mitrani, chairman of the Student En- tertainment Committee, cockily added that the reason for the delay was that They (Men Without Hats) were on the bus playing with them- selves, so we ' ll have to play with their check. Howl 29

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Men Without Hats Open Tubular Concert Hurricane howl « • So who ' s to blame for what stu- dents were calling another SEC- promoted flop? SEC pointed the ringer of blame to The Knight Cen- ter and, of course, Men Without Hats were blaming The Tubes and The Tubes were blaming Men With- out Hats. Nestled between the two perfor- mances, a pep rally took place with the UM cheerleaders, band, band flag corps and Miss UM Maggie Ra- mirez participating. The pep rally was scheduled to try to set the Homecoming mood into the hearts of the students in preparation for the Homecoming game against West Virginia. The Tubes took the stage, following the pep rally, dressed as business- men in grey three-piece suits. They lined up together, choreographed like a Temptations number, all danc- ing cute little steps and singing their own parts to the song Business Men. I ' d like to thank you all for coming tonight, Fee Waybill, The Tubes lead singer, told the crowd, I hope you enjoy your Homecoming show . . . and I ' d like to set you . . . drunk-out of your minds. Waybill then sported a Miami foot- ball jersey, setting the mood for the next song, Sports, stripping down to shorts and Nike sneakers while hitting a few fly balls out into the audience. Next, Waybill donned shoulder pads and a helmet so he could throw a nice spiral, one that Bernie Kosar could appreciate, to the back of the auditorium. He managed to do all this while singing a fantastic song, strutting around the stage much to the delight of the N N I think that we ' ve done what no one else does. We do what we do . . . It ' s our art! Fee Waybill 30 Howl J