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Pittsburgh Press, July 26, 1981 E-5 Punk Rock Bands, Fans 61l)9 "FOSITIVir-ROOf OfASKIO'D-' m. I ji ZTfcii A THE TIGEilS lon the rork 'n nilakr i mmm AWWrWrrWWrWWWWWrWI rmifjiirr lAfiufin T1FIYUST' Are Pretty JbUUNllL Ubonon Church Rd. THE SWEETWATER BAND Imtldmi it Lidld Hit Mill BlHrrvC fmm tiUIOOK DANCWG-t tkt Imi dmi DARRY DLUEopm FEZ Mil Ireedkeod Aliquippa 371-1110 ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT EVER HAPPENED IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN AGAIN. mmmm Tame Here Press Photo by John Heller JOHNNY ZARRA Not typical punk-rock proprietor. round while the band rips through a "scuzzoid" version of "Angel of the Morning." At the tune's end, Zarra said: "When I had rock 'n' roll bands in here, every one of 'em sounded alike and played the same songs.

These punks now do their own things. They're all different and I love it." THAT RARITY OF RARITIES, SEQUEL THAT READILY ApW i (Continued from Page E-l.) There's always people who want to punch you out I don't know why, maybe they're bored. "Some of our audiences drink and do what people do in bars. We could be a polka band and if polka was in, they'd be coming to see us. "Then there are those who really 1 like our music, have above-average intelligence, are more in touch with their emotions and more honest I hate to blow the myth, but they're nice guys.

A razor blade in the nostril is pretty declasse." Pittsburgh punk may never be the social phenomenon it is in larger cities simply because there aren't enough clubs to book the better local groups and the clubs that do exist are small "holes in the wall" compared with the ballroom-like CBGB's in New York and the Star-jammer in Los Angeles. Outside of WYEP-FM, radio stations here tend to play the more traditional rock music of bands like Foreigner and Journey. Until the local groups are able to record and distribute their music more extensively, they'll remain "underground." MEANWHILE, back at the Banana, it's after midnight and many of the college types have left, while more "hard-core" punks have arrived. Several males with "rooster- Elume" haircuts are bobbing to the eat of Prototype, a new band. As lead singer Kim Troiani of Mt.

Lebanon roars into the microphone, a tall, lanky spectator begins leaping up and down at the edge of the stage, limbs flailing like a young Jerry Lewis. His body slackens and he seems boneless as he nearly crashes into the musicians. Harry "The Wire" Wagner, a WYEP-FM disc jockey and musi- cian, described the scene. "The bands and the audience are one here. Someone from the crowd can up on the stage with the group and the owner will let them.

If somebody tried to get onstage at the Civic Arena with Ted Nugent or Journey, they'd get kicked right off." The Five retains for its second set. The crowd is more animated and several people, most of them without partners, start jumping in time to the frenzied music. What is the name of the dance? "I don't know what it is, man," said a young blonde with cotton in her ears and a red bandanna around her head. "I think it's like derivations on a thing called the but since I never saw the bono, I don't know. It's just like jumping around, you know?" On stage, Reed is dancing with a microphone stand and rolling a- BIG BAND DANCE "IT IS A 'TONIGHT Enjoy a Delicious Dinner In Our lounge and Re- ceive a tree ncner 10 The Ballroom Dance THIS SUNDAY USSUNDA JOE SILVO Singln 4 Coupkt Wtkom HOWARD JOHNSON'S Rt.

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