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Hooters achieve poised sound
When the PhilBdelphia-based
rock group the Hooters burst in
to the limelight in 1985 with its
platinum-selling debut album
"Nervous Night," the band
brought a fresh style that earned
it the best new band award from
magazines such as Rolling
By Carolyn l.amberson
Stone and Cream.
The follow-up album "One
Way Home," released in mid
summer, takes the band in a dif
ferent direction. While the com
position of the band remained
the same, the sound is different,
said singer songwriter/keyboar
dist Rob Hyman.
The brand of music Hooters
played on "Nervous Night”
borrowed a lot of qualities from
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the reggae and ska movement of
the early 1980s. And while the
reggae beat is still in the
background of the latest LP, the
new Hooters record has a much
more ethnic flavor to it.
"The first album was a real
straight ahead 4-4 rock and roll
album with a few exceptions."
Hyman said. On "One Way
Home." the band expanded on
the instrumentation and ex
perimented with rhythm
changes, he added, citing the
song "Washington's Day” as an
example of multiple rhythm
changes.
"One Way Home" provides
the listener with a variety of
sounds, instruments and im
ages. While the hooter, the
band's trademark instrument,
and the mandolin were
prevalent on the previous
album, "One Way” offers
something else. The mandolin
and accordian duet at the begin
ning of "Karla with a K" and
the strong rhythm section
(headed by drummer David
Uosikkinen and bassist Andy
King) throughout the record are
not only pleasing to the ear but
excellent. The accordian is an
instrument most people would
associate with (.awrence Welk.
but Hooters, nicknaming the in
strument Rolo,' have found its
use important enough to war
rant using it as part of the
album's cover art.
And one can't leave out the
fine guitar work of John Lilley
and Hyman's keyboards in
"Graveyard Waltz." a song that
provides the album with a nice
balance. A slow, haunting
ballad. "Waltz" is a contrast to
the more upbeat but cynical
numbers "Satellite," "Johnny
B" and "Hard Rocking
Summer."
It is this combination that
Hyman believes sounds even
more like the real Hooters than
the band did on "Nervous
Night."
Selling more than a million
copies. "Nervous Night'
spawned four singles: "All You
Zombies.” "And We Danced.
"Day by Day” and “Where do
the Children Co.” The band has
a lot of expectations for the
latest record, hut flyman likes
to look at its future realistically
"We have high hopes (for the
new record), but if it didn't out
sell the last one that wouldn t
change our outlook. This was
the best album we could make
at this time, so we're real happv
with it. In fact, we're very hap
py with it musically and lyrical
ly. We think it’s a good step
forward.
"This is just one of many
albums we’d like to make, so
it's not like this is the album we
want to sell 10 million
albums." he said. "Because
then it would be tougher next
time."
The four singles and initial
sales of "One Way Home" serve
as evidence of the band's in
creasing popularity. By mid
August, the album sold almost
500.000 copies and broke into
the top 30 on Bilboard’s Pop
Album chart. Hyman credits the
band's larger audience to the
massive amounts of touring it
has done in the past. They were
on the road for almost a year
supporting “Nervous Night"
and actually had to pull
themselves off the road to begin
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