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letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >Behind </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.810000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 23pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >This </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.710000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 23pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Door . . . </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 102.250000pt; height: 11.500000pt; top: 651.850000pt; left: 75.100000pt;" > <LAYER top=869.133333px left=100.133333px width=136.333333px height=15.333333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,136,15" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.900000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >by Stephanie Embrey </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 177.100000pt; height: 303.400000pt; top: 673.900000pt; left: 41.050000pt;" > <LAYER top=898.533333px left=54.733333px width=236.133333px height=404.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,236,404" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"Dingy rehearsal rooms—that is our <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >life! We live in dingy, Dada rehearsal halls </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >and dingy, Dada Hiltons and Holiday </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Inns," proclaimed Michael Des Barres, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Detective's lead singer, with mock </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >theatrical elogquence. The setting, appropriately enough, was the dimly lit </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Studio "D" in the original, ivy-dripping </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >S.I.R. (Studio Instrument Rentals) complex on Santa Monica Boulevard near </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Vine Street, in a Hollywood swiftly going </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >seedy. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 28.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Less that three weeks removed from their last national tour, Des Barres and the other members of Detective (Jon Hyde—drums, Tony Kaye--keyboards, Michael Monarch—lead guitar, and Bobby Pickett—bass) were once again readying themselves for the rigors of the road. Although the group's second Swan Song album, <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >It Takes One To Know One, </SPAN>has maintained a tenacious hold on the national charts, Detective, which opened concerts for Blue Oyster Cult, Kiss, and Todd Rundgren between October 1977 and January 1978, was rehearsing for its first headlining tour. However, after only a handful of dates, the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >group was forced to postpone the </SPAN>remainder of its Midwest and East Coast concerts because of blizzards, to make a </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 176.900000pt; height: 426.950000pt; top: 552pt; left: 228pt;" > <LAYER top=736px left=304px width=235.866667px height=569.266667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,235,569" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >hasty retreat to Los Angeles. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Until weather permits, and the tour is rescheduled, Detective will play in more temperate climates, including a concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Detective found its name when Des Barres purchased a True Life Detective magazine. Said Des Barres, "The title caught my eye, so I called Monarch for his <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >opinion and he liked it too. It was as </SPAN>simple as that. It has no concept. Like any <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >name, you bring to it what you will. I </SPAN>think that, once you start talking conceptually, you <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >lose </SPAN>the concept." </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"Like all art, you take from it what you <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >want. When people see a painting, they </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >read exactly what they want into it. It's </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >a matter of interpretation. Likewise with </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the name of a rock band: 'Wings,' for instance, flapping?" At this critical pause, Des Barres helpfully flailed his arms in the air to illustrate his point. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >The three-year-old Anglo-American <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >unit is composed of five rock and roll survivors with a strong accent on unity. Some of Detective's prior professional credits include Silverhead (Des Barres), Steppenwolf (Monarch), Yes (Kaye), Sugarloaf (Pickett), Badger (Kaye and Hyde), and a variety of session jobs. However, the most intriguing aspect of Detective, or any other band, for that matter, is the interaction that takes place among its members, fusing a collection of separate individuals into a single, coordinated group identity. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 21.600000px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >In <SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" >Tony Kaye's words, "As far as I'm </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >concerned, everything I've done before </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" >has been a training ground for me, both musically and personally. I think that it has been the same kind of forward progression for all of us. Now, we've </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 176.900000pt; height: 425.300000pt; top: 552pt; left: 414.600000pt;" > <LAYER top=736px left=552.800000px width=235.866667px height=567.066667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,235,567" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >graduated ... into Detective." </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Des Barres validated these sentiments <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >with a few thoughts of his own: "I think </SPAN>the hardest thing in the world, actually is not merely being a good musician <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >on your own, </SPAN>but uniting five people into a single musical entity. And that's hard. Because that's basically what we're all about right now, trying to lose our vanity and our <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >individuality in a group perception. You </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >see, when the five of us share one thought, </SPAN>it's true communication and chemistry." </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Detective is aware of the slow and circuitous nature of success in the music industry. The "quick gain" and the "overnight sensation" are avoided rather than sought out. Des Barres expressed the group goals when he indicated that "We want to <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >get </SPAN>there, and <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >stay </SPAN>there, and make <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >great albums. We want a long term, </SPAN>sustained kind of career, and that involves growth and evolution." </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"We <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >never </SPAN>get lost on stage," he <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >exclaimed. "That's when we come alive. </SPAN>It's what we live for—I mean, you travel <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >twenty-three hours a day to </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >get there, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and </SPAN>the buzz and the drug, 1 guess, is simply' being out there, performing." </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Pickett nodded wryly. "That's about <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the only time when we </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >do </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >know where we </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >are." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Des Barres countered with a description <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of the group's stage show: "We try to emit </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >a lot of energy and excitement on the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >stage, a lot of drama. I'm </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >very theatrical </SPAN>on stage," confessed the former actor, pausing one beat for emphasis. "I do <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >Hamlet </SPAN>in between songs." Amid </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >laughter and scoffing from the rest of the bands, Des Barres leveled another one-liner, "Pickett is much more dramatic than I am—he's a rock and roll Othello!" </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 176.900000pt; height: 426pt; top: 552pt; left: 601.300000pt;" > <LAYER top=736px left=801.733333px width=235.866667px height=568px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,235,568" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: 1.100000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Pickett followed his lead with on-the<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >road romantic strategy. "We always try to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >find ways to make it easier for our fans to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >get to us." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"Pickett wears his phone number on his <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >t-shirt," laughed Des Barres, "actually, </SPAN>he wears his hotel room number." </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 14.400000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Replied Pickett, "Yeah, I had four hundred different shirts made this year, with all our hotel room numbers silk-screened on them." </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 36px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >By this time, Michael Monarch, introduced by <SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;" >Des </SPAN>Barres as "Romeo Monarch, the sex object and resident <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >enigma of Detective," slouched in, looking </SPAN>tired, tormented, and anxious to rehearse. While Jon Hyde's drums echoed insistently, and the rest of the band began to set up and tune their instruments, Des Barres summed up his philosophy in a serious, <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >succinct statment that linked him </SPAN>spiritually to Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's most mystical member, and the moving <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >force behind Swan Song, Zeppelin's </SPAN>custom label. "I think if you're into the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >occult, or just about any form of </SPAN>spirituality, it's got to affect everything, <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >hasn't it? You can't just go home and do it </SPAN>as a hobby. <SPAN style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;" >I'm </SPAN>not too heavy-handed about it, and I don't go around preaching, because there's nothing to preach. If you <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >find out what you want to do, pursue it, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >and use all your energies to that end. </SPAN>Every day, every moment, is an alchemical <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >process, but I hate to think of the past or </SPAN>the future. I'm really concentrating on <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 2.620000pt;" >what's happening right now. </SPAN>Communication is alchemical, but it's something you don't <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >talk </SPAN>about. 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