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WHRB: You are able to sing the lyrics to every song by Love Battery. If you're a rising star, you know the words to the lyrics of every ballad by the Hard Ons, as well...
...classified, Jurassified. "I don't get out much anymore," she demurely declares, adding that mostly she sits "in my star trailer watching CNN. I know what everyone in Bosnia is wearing." She frets that she has Oldtimer's disease, or at least Part-timer's ("Did I sing the ballad yet? Was it wonderful?"). She also purports to worry about sullying her "newfound stature." When her backup trio, "the politically correct Harlettes," starts a striptease in the home of the world-famed Christmas show, Bette goes frantic: "Girls, this is Radio City! They have a manger backstage...
Years of experience also gave the band the ability to play the crowd as well as--well, as well as Joe Perry plays guitar. After rousing the crowd to a fever pitch, Aerosmith proceeded to lull them with their rock ballad, "Dream On." Then they returned with the haunting "Janie's Got a Gun" and some of their harder numbers--only to break the mounting tension again by suddenly breaking into the theme from Peter Gunn. When Steve Tyler jokingly asked if everyone knew how it felt to be "Livin' on the Edge," and then began the best and last...
Even during the few slower numbers that Joel interspersed throughout the performance, he managed to maintain the emotionally charged energy of the rest of the show. "Lullaby," off the new album, seems destined to be a classic, and the choice to segue directly from the slower moving ballad to his new single, "A River of Dreams," enabled him to get the crowd swaying to its compulsive beat without loss of momentum...
...violin isn't the only out-of-the-ordinary instrument that Cop Shoot Cop can tame. "$10 Bill" gets all of its beat from a militaristic snare drum, "Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead)" features a piano trawling through what this band might call a ballad...