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PAGE 16 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1984 The ERS Band knows what the people like Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff John Belton, Dan Moore, Brian Witmer and Wayne Addison of the ERS Band are a welcome change. These four guys aren‘t dreaming of making millions in the music business, or maving to L. A. in pursuit of a fat recording contract. â€" Quite the opposite, in fact. As a band, they‘re content to level their sights on the local entertainment market and their aim is simple â€" to keep their audiences happy, play good music and have fun. ‘"We don‘t want to be superstars We don‘t want to be little fish in a big pond. We want to be big fish in the little (Kâ€"W) pond," said ERS lead guitarist Wayne Addison. "Our whole idea is to entertain by doing the tunes that the people like â€" the songs they hear on the radio. We want to give them a good time, and have fun ourselves." For ERS member, the band is more of an avocation than vocation, and the musicians all have fullâ€"time jobs, families and other interests which keep them from becoming too "serious‘‘ about their performing careers, he said. We do it for our own satisfaction, because we love music, not as a career," said Addison. ‘"We‘re realists. We all have families and stable lives, and we‘re not Although the name ERS is still a fairly new arrival on the Kâ€"W club circuit, the band itself isn‘t, and Addison admits, they are more likely to be recognized as the old wellâ€"known countryâ€" rocking Evil Roy Slade Band. According to Addison the past 12 months have been a ‘"crossroads" for band members â€" a year which saw the change in the group‘s name, a shift in its musical focus to middleâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"road rock, and a break into a "different sort‘‘ of club. He said the changes were a natural evolution, reflecting both the changing interests of band members and the fickle nature of public taste. Addison stressed that although they are a ‘"weekend‘‘ band, each member is dead ‘"serious‘‘ about the music they perform. noteâ€"byâ€"note, it‘s not mechanical. As a result, the songs we do have our own style. Rock‘s got to be a touch spontaneous, there‘s got to be a feeling there, and that feeling is what I‘d like to think our audiences pick up on.‘‘ It‘s this commitment to music, Addison said, that makes ERS special, because each member always works to do every song a little different, and a little better. **We‘re not conceited and we don‘t say we‘re great... But we love the music and I think that gets across to our audiences. People can tell we‘re having a good time,‘"" he said. Wayne Addison , we don‘t play it Swan was vocally weak at times, but she compensated, bringing that special aura, with the children, to its highest peak the precipice that made Sound of Music such a boxâ€"ofâ€" fice legend. Her chemistry with the dashing Captain, was demure but electrifyâ€" ing. Dale Mieske, in a superb KWMP debut, cut an elegant portrait as the militant martinet, widowed, and retired from the Austrian army. From a seasoned performance at London, England‘s grand Old Vic to the Stratford Festival clan, Gilbert and Sullivan of the finest stock, baritone Mieske was a KWMP coup. The Centre was filled with the Sound of Music‘s best songs from Eidelweiss, Lonely Goatherd, the spineâ€"tingling Climb Every Mounâ€" tain and the title song. Charlottetown‘s Elizabeth Mawâ€" son, as Mother Abbess...a thousand Hail Marys for a performance pillar of strength. And who else could play the Captain‘s mooching, best busiâ€" ness friend Max Deitweiler better, than master character actor Terry Doyle. sp Such calculated finesse and gusto‘ e But this Sound of Music was wonderful because of seven enâ€" chanting young people called the Von Trapp family children. Drew Houser, as the sensitive Kurt, was a natural in his KWMP debut; Vanessa Coulter as the blunt Brigitta, waltzing adequately in mances, it was harder for Alison to stand still, but up to that point she hadn‘t moved off cue at all. But you tend to get itchy, when you are four years old and tired, "chuckied Mrs. Lunney referring to her daughter‘s delightful imâ€" provised fidgetting technique. _ Alison has been approached by *‘That‘s completely different. KWMP were like a family. They were all careful and supportive of the children. There were no prima donnas. Pat (Maria) and Dale (The Captain) were so good to her but Terry (Max) was just incrediâ€" ble. Everyone was so nice." Alison seemed a little indifferâ€" ent at times because she wasn‘t quite sure if the show was a rehearsal or the seal McCoy. It Lunney says Alison ready for the bigâ€"time. m‘:ulerfiendmcoy It waan‘t untll Thursday, two days into showtime that she figured it ‘"‘Toward the end of the perforâ€"