Despite Their Screams, 6,000 I
(Still Manage to Hear Herman ,

By JOHN GRUBER
tonne smo JoumlStam BEFORE THE Hermits took!
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Six thousand screaming teeny bappers—mostly female -—~0V€I‘, tWO current favoritest thei
kept up a siren of human sound and paid homage to Herman‘BlueS M3300 (from Amer 1C3).

and his Hermits Thursday night at the Dane County Memorial!and the Who (3150 from Eng-i
Coliseum. land), banged and cavorted on

For the 45 minuws that the British quintet was on stage, the ?stage. .
high - pitched human wailim' I TheBlues Magoo — 31d€d by;
never ceased—except w h e n! HERMAN’S MESSAGE, as he geleetnc batteries attached to:
Herman asked his frenzied alldi'fexclaimed at one point, is;the1r belts, (3°10er bedroom

ence ‘0 deSiSt- ?“Have a lot of fun, and forget!:tghtt§e:‘:rt:mned the audiencei
B 9 8 1‘ Udgingly. the te e n yjabout everything.” His fa n s' The Who were better due mu

hoppers quieted, only to erupt dld that the moment th.e,their s u bj ect matter, 3:
seconds later when the n ex tlHermits ran on stage. And h‘slvariation in rhythmic tern f
Hermits hit song began, or word was their command. p0,,

. . . and a finale, “My Generation,”
when Herman 5h°°k “'5 h e a d" At one pomt, the alldleme.which literally ended in a cloud:

swung his arms, and rocked sang an acappella chorus forlof smoke and a smashing off

back and forth, "‘MI‘S. Brown, You’ve Got a instruments. 0}
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Or when Herman took off his‘Lovely Daughter.” They needed THE HERMITS didn’t bang—‘
blue-green silk shirt. moved to|little coaxing from the touseled- they N a yed. And credit the?
the stage, 311d sat down, CUd-fih 3i1'9d’ smiling, exmlberant‘quintet with an ability to bring;i
dling the microphone as a red‘Herman. . . Ian audience along on a musicalt.
spotlight framed him, and be- What defines Herman lS 3‘journey.
€811 8 ballad like ”I U 11d er- carefree. spontaneohs manner At times some of the frenzied
stand.“ framed by an unsulhed attitude thought coming along meant,
'* ~ ' "*iwhich is reinforced in both song flockm onsta e t - ° h

PHONIPOWH g g.0101n te
tam}, stage character. Jeaders. Five or sxx Dane Coun-
$0.33“ 32:: 2:. I Its a sugar y kmd 0f sweet-ity policemen stationed at both

Hm you: om. fness “'hiCh sets Herman 3P3”, ends of the stage, and at times:

answmu fiand which causes his zealousstmng out along the platform”
"’"m" V“ "‘ "" iaudience [0 h 0 P e, in their ‘put an end to these hOpes, how-

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,screams and moans, they may ever.

TC‘ODMM AISUCIifl‘ 5m.“ S&VOI‘ some Of that purity for But Cameras abounded. and
-~ *M’M- the police couldn’t do anything
Jabout the human siren which

Jwailed unceasingly for the
iHermits — and particularly
;Herman.

themselves. ‘ i