European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Caught in the act inns group has toured Germany too Many times in the past few years and fans have become Over saturated. Added to that Only one song from in so a latest album a has received any amount of airplay the recent stateside hit suicide blonde. Whatever the reason for the Small crowd inns s two level stage and massive lighting setup seemed ridiculously excessive and the loud volume a obviously set for a much larger crowd a left some of the More Mellow tunes reverberating disco Dantly through the Hall. The show started off on an upbeat note inns launched right into the rocking suicide blonde. From there the concert had its ups and Downs with most of the ups coming with tried and True inns hits from the 1985 Multi Platinum album listen like thieves and 1987�?Ts kick rather than new material. Songs such As Shine like it does Good and bad times need you tonight and a cover of Edwin Starr a 1970 hit War had much of the crowd dancing but were quickly followed by lulls in the Energy level. It was t until the second half of the show with songs such As what you need new sensation Devil inside never tear us apart and the newer tunes the stairs and bitter tears that inns fans got what they deserved a rocking Good time. It s possible inns was just taking a while to warm up a the Frankfurt show was the groups fourth concert on its european tour a or perhaps the band members themselves were let Down by the Small crowd in the fest Halle. As the tour moves on hopefully the band and the fans will heat up. Inns brings along some talented fellow australians As a warm up act on its tour. With its mix of hard Rock and soul absent friends a featuring Canadian born Singer Wendy Matthews who a worked with Cher Donna summer and Bob Dylan and Singer guitarist Sean Kelly founder of the now defunct models a is a band Worth watching out for. Absent friends showcased songs from the debut album Here a looking up your address co written and co produced by inns Bass player Garry Gary Beers. Inns continues its european tour with performances at the following locations France Montpellier Zenith nov. 15 Bordeaux la Pat Noire nov. 16 Toulouse palais Des sports nov. 17 Lyon palais Des sports nov. 21 Paris Bercy dec. 13 amp 14 Spain Madrid Palacio nov. 19 Barcelona palais Des sports nov. 20 Italy Milan Palat Lussardi nov. 22 . London Arena nov. 25 amp 26 London Wembley nov. 28-dec. 1 Birmingham Nec dec. 3-6 Glasgow Sec dec. 9 amp 10 Ireland Dublin Point dec. 17 amp 18. Dates subject to Book delights the fire by Tom Blackburn Cox news service Jim Morrison lives a the Graffito says. Not True. He is dead. John Densmore wants a new generation to know that. How and Why Morrison died that a the main thing. First Densmore who put the beat under Morrison a poetry had to come to terms with it himself. Jim Morrison Lead Singer of the doors a �?T60s legend dead in 1971 at the age of 28. Robby Krieger played guitar and Ray Manzares keyboards. Densmore played Drums. Doors records sell in the hundreds of thousands each year. A Book of Morrison a poetry wilderness was a Best seller in 1988 volume 2, the american night was published in september. Oliver Stone is at work on a movie about the doors. In a Telephone interview Densmore said he fears the movie May turn into what he described in his new Book riders on the storm quoting one of his friends a a they re going to take your six year career and Squash it Down to two hours and then blow it up to the size of a two Story building. Is that going to be reality Quot riders on the storm is Densmore a own Effort to grapple with the reality. Part of it takes the form of a letter to Morrison Quot i figure we had a yearlong honeymoon of rehearsing then two Good years of marriage peaking on Success and finally four years of diminishing tolerance of each other. Which is sad. There did no to seem to be any other Way. Back then at least. Hindsight is easy. My new thing is verbal the Good times were the times in the garage later the recording studio creating doors music. The bad times were on Tours. The doors never knew when their Lead Singer a drunk a riders on the storm describes the Good and bad times with Jim Morrison. Story and photos by Anita Gosch staff writer the inns concert in Frankfurt Germany last week was like a game of waiting for the Good times to come. Because when they were Good they were really Good. But they were few and far Between. In its 10-year career inns has built a reputation for delivering a butt kicking show. With its rhythmic Rock mixed with a dab of Funk a driving beat overlaid with scorching sax and guitar riffs Lead Singer Michael Hutc hence a impassioned vocals and a string of danceable hits the australian sextet kept crowds on their feet and moving throughout entire shows. An inns concert guaranteed a Good time As does say a Huey Lewis concert. This time however inns seems to have overestimated itself. No More than about 4,000 people showed up at the 10,000-capacity fest Halle in Frankfurt. Apparently the Singer Wendy Matthews of absent friends. Inns Lead Singer Michael hut hence. On liquor nihilistic philosophy and the poetry of the French decadent Baudelaire and Rimbaud a would create his own theater of the absurd. Densmore began to write about it 10 years ago. His Book flashes backward and Forward around the letter to Morrison. He vividly describes sessions in which the band collaborated to write its songs descriptions no nonparticipants could Hope to match. The band coalesced out of a swirl of West coast students More interested in jazz soul and the blues than in their studies. Morrison was a film major and Quot mysterious a Densmore recalls. He would quote the poet William Blake Quot the Road of excess leads to the Palace of it was Only later that Densmore realized Morrison believed it and meant to take that Road rejecting family society and at last sanity. Riders on the storm opens with a scene in 1975 at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Oscar Wilde is buried therewith Chopin Balzac Edith Piaf. And Jim Morrison. His is the grave surrounded by Graffiti on Walls and other tombstones. The Morrison family gave the cemetery a machine that removes Graffiti. It is removed but reappears Quot this is not the that is the end for Morrison though. He died in a Bathtub in Paris full of Brandy and heroin. Quot i done to want to build up the myth Quot Densmore said. Quot i m trying to tear it Down. I done to want to glamorize his self destruction. In a hoping i m helping people out there cherish life wednesday november 14, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 17
