Post by sam on Oct 2, 2005 10:04:05 GMT -5
Looks like the Review turned the place out in Indy! 
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October 1, 2005
SOUND EFFECT
Charging down memory lane
By David Lindquist
david.lindquist@indystar.com
The veteran vocal group that performed Friday at the Indiana Convention Center was not the Temptations.
The quintet looked like the real thing, thanks to precise dance routines and smart red suits accented by long-stemmed flowers in rhinestones.
But leader Dennis Edwards, an on-again, off-again member of the Temptations from 1968 to 1988, can't claim the "Temptations" name as his own.
Legal rulings have saddled him with the cumbersome "Temptations Revue featuring Dennis Edwards."
In the big picture, it doesn't really matter.
Their performance of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" features the original gritty voice heard on the original recording, and the rest of show boasts some of the greatest songs from the past half-century.
The opening notes of "Get Ready," for instance, put a tangible charge into the Circle City Classic audience of 5,000 assembled in the massive rectangle of Indiana Convention Center Halls A, B and C.
A five-member horn section added legitimacy to the program, and tenor David Sea would have been welcome in any configuration of the Motown icons.
Sea flexed his vocal power and range during a show-stopping version of "I Wish It Would Rain."
The group also left the crowd wanting more, spending just 45 minutes onstage, compared with the preceding act's 60.
During that earlier hour, the eight members of Lakeside delivered synthesizer funk at teeth-rattling volume.
Opening number "Raid" made the audience feel as if it were under siege, and that's not necessarily a bad tactic from a warm-up act.
Lakeside's throbbing bass and party attitude rolled on and on during "Fantastic Voyage." If Coolio's hit remake from the '90s didn't make it clear, the final destination is "the land of funk."
Lakeside also showed an appreciation of the Beatles with a cover of "I Want to Hold Your Hand." After a two-dimensional tribute to 1964, vocalist Mark Alan Wood opened the song up and found a soulful ballad inside.
Unfortunately, headliners Bell Biv DeVoe and Johnny Gill arrived onstage too late to be included in this report.
www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051001/COLUMNISTS15/510010462/1081/ENTERTAINMENT04
October 1, 2005
SOUND EFFECT
Charging down memory lane
By David Lindquist
david.lindquist@indystar.com
The veteran vocal group that performed Friday at the Indiana Convention Center was not the Temptations.
The quintet looked like the real thing, thanks to precise dance routines and smart red suits accented by long-stemmed flowers in rhinestones.
But leader Dennis Edwards, an on-again, off-again member of the Temptations from 1968 to 1988, can't claim the "Temptations" name as his own.
Legal rulings have saddled him with the cumbersome "Temptations Revue featuring Dennis Edwards."
In the big picture, it doesn't really matter.
Their performance of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" features the original gritty voice heard on the original recording, and the rest of show boasts some of the greatest songs from the past half-century.
The opening notes of "Get Ready," for instance, put a tangible charge into the Circle City Classic audience of 5,000 assembled in the massive rectangle of Indiana Convention Center Halls A, B and C.
A five-member horn section added legitimacy to the program, and tenor David Sea would have been welcome in any configuration of the Motown icons.
Sea flexed his vocal power and range during a show-stopping version of "I Wish It Would Rain."
The group also left the crowd wanting more, spending just 45 minutes onstage, compared with the preceding act's 60.
During that earlier hour, the eight members of Lakeside delivered synthesizer funk at teeth-rattling volume.
Opening number "Raid" made the audience feel as if it were under siege, and that's not necessarily a bad tactic from a warm-up act.
Lakeside's throbbing bass and party attitude rolled on and on during "Fantastic Voyage." If Coolio's hit remake from the '90s didn't make it clear, the final destination is "the land of funk."
Lakeside also showed an appreciation of the Beatles with a cover of "I Want to Hold Your Hand." After a two-dimensional tribute to 1964, vocalist Mark Alan Wood opened the song up and found a soulful ballad inside.
Unfortunately, headliners Bell Biv DeVoe and Johnny Gill arrived onstage too late to be included in this report.
