Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 11, 1991 TAG: 9104120337
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-10 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
It took him several columns to convince the audience that he was a saint, not some kind of idiot, for being at the concert. In his short article he used "I" about 18 times and referred to Vanilla Ice about half that many times. If you took away his off-the-wall comments about sainthood, Iraq and the North Carolina basketball game, there were about two paragraphs of critique, with no objectivity and very little professionalism.
He mentioned nothing about any of the choreographed dances all three groups did. They were very entertaining. Never one word about the rhythmic drummer or the smoothness of the saxophone player. Both were very good and displayed a lot of talent.
Ice's stage manners were casual and he had his fans' attention from the time he emerged from beneath the stage on a lift in an array of laser lights and dense fog. He had the crowd on their feet. All the adults, including myself, were moving to the music. He was funny, sexy and had a great rapport with his fans who, needless to say, loved him!
Lowe did criticize the sound equipment and feedback, but never attributed anything to the lousy acoustics in the Salem Civic Center. They would make Mozart and McCartney sound second-rate. LYNDA MURPHY ROANOKE
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