![]() quite simply infringes our policy over advertising matters."īut it wasn't long after that - the end of 1974 to be exact - that the band had to declare bankruptcy. In 1972 their hugely popular "Cover of the Rolling Stone" got them exactly there with the caption "What's -Their-Names Make the Cover." It also got them banned by BBC and two other English radio stations because "the constant repetition of the title of the magazine. One day you're on the cover of Rolling Sone magazine, the next day you haven't the change in your pocket to buy the current issue. Hook and the Medicine Show project that absurdity on stage in a whacky, eccentric hodgepodge.īut success in the world of rock 'n' roll is as flighty as Tinkerbell, and instant fame and the promise of oblivion are part of the same package deal. The Captain is the epitomy of piracy with a conical twist his foil, a ticking crocodile, renders Hook absurd. It's Sawyer's resemblance to a pirate that gave the band its name: It's borrowed from Captain Hook of Peter Pan fame. They return to the Washington area tonight to perform with Sha Na Na at the University of Maryland's Cole Field House. Hook and the Medicine Show, a band that's been angling the waters of country rock for eight years now they've caught a few big ones, but just as many have gotten away. Ray Sawyer, country pirate with a black patch over his right eye, a battered straw hat and tufts of red/blong hair at his ears that might be mistaken for hay, guffaws at Locorriere's vignette.Ĭity huckster and country hayseed, they are the lead singers, writers and front men for Dr. I'd make the record skip, and he'd break my leg. I'd run through the room with the opera record on. I was raised on opera-serene and peaceful.My fadda taught me. A mafioso type with the strained, scratchy voice of Brando's godfather says, "I love music. Dennis Locorriere, looking like a reject from the 1974 Sears catalogue - faded jeans suit, blown-dry hair a little too long and too thin to be stylish - launches into one of his character monologues. The clowing and general goofiness begin immediately.
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