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"This (switch) is when the old rock and roll people will be appeased as well. If you don‘t like INXS then you can stick around for the second set and get some good kickâ€"ass rock and roll," he laughed. unless you play what the bars want and the bars want tribute and clone acts It seems to be clone or stay home," he added. Kuick, slated to play The Highâ€" lands. Cambridge, May 26, might be making money. thanks to help from one of Australia‘s hottest acts, but Waleski stressed his group does switch to other covers in its last set. Members usually play only one hour of INXS tunes because, as Waleski says, "we don‘t want to take it to the absolute extreme" and the switch shows off the band‘s versatilty. Nobodv really likes having to zo out and play somebody else‘s music in order to make it, to make cash," he said, "but it seems that‘s the way the market is these days. You don‘t play words The lead vocalist of Hamilton‘s Kick. an INXS cover band, openly idmits there are big bucks in taking advantage of another band‘s success. Wendy Somerville Chronicle Staff Ted Waleski doesn‘t mince Entertainment PAGE 20 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY MAY 24, 1989 Frmmmmmmneiininianmmnnmcaninmnananamegnatasmomm in on [ifWILf .e sn agesosmsesmoemmmrmmrenioro Audience gets stung by this boring Red Scorpion pompmratanenne t ol memneane mt 51 ie x) 100 en id es uies ce m a0 on 0; 1c ofi A + mt reld 4 hb Anip e t Y ‘ v ‘ a w Ne PR 4 Oe \uae: 4 Bm e C wl yecls i ia dAÂ¥ i4 esic is L m * y* it mA oE s 16 Pox us After pursuing separate musiâ€" cal careers that resulted in a few members winning places in radio station Q107‘s Homegrown conâ€" test, the group decided to get back "My presentation as a vocalist is quite a visual presentation â€" I dance a lot. I come from the school of Mick Jagger and so does Miâ€" chael Hutchins (INXS leader sinâ€" ger). Kick gives a more updated presentation (of the Stones)." Apart from Santarelli, Kick members go back together about 10 years, when they formed Reâ€" lease, a top 40, Aâ€"circuit band. Release toured across the country and even had a chance to play at Ballingers, now The Highlands. Waleski blames "diverse" interâ€" ests for the band‘s eventual breakâ€"up five years ago, but adds that members still remained good friends. The band discovered it was onto something when it first began playing INXS covers about a year ago. Waleski said a lot of fans commented on the uncanny simiâ€" larities between INXS and Kick; made up of Waleski, Doug Okada on lead guitar, Steu Hoffman on keyboards, Rob Anton on bass, and Vince Santarelli on drums. Perhaps Waleski, who studied musical theatre at Sheridan Colâ€" lege â€" "I had to take three different dance classes: jazz, tap and ballet," â€" can be credited. The new Release stuck to its old format, playing top 40 material, until switching to mostly INXS ‘"We missed playing together," Waleski recalled. ‘"We had a good chemistry as a band before." _ together a year ago for weekendâ€" only performances. s INXS clone, Kick plays The Highlands this evening. Waleski said the band is happy playing just three days a week â€" "We like to limit playing on Thursdays because we have to get up for work the next day."â€" and songs and changing its name to Kick; taken from the latest INXS album. Tom Savini is the only one riding high after the production of Red Scorpion, a rough and tough action pic starring Dolph Lundgren (Lt. Nickolai), who might be remembered as Rocky‘s sparring partner in Rocky IV. Savini is responsible for the convincing makeup effects when Lundgren is tortured with an extreme form of Cuban acupuncture. â€" Lundgren as Nickolai is dispatched to a fictional African nation known as Mobaka. His assignment is to kill rebel leader, Sundata, who is fighting the communist regime in charge there. Because Nikolai is going undercover, no one but General Vortek (T.P McKenna), his nasty superior, knows what the muscleâ€"bound Russian‘s mission is. / Wendy Somerville Chronicle Staff â€"Imagine, the only credits to a film made in a com.r‘versia] South African backdrop are given to a makeup man. °* _ Once he gets there, Nickolai gets himself in a bit of a mess when he instigates a barroom brawl which lands him in prison. There he meets Kallunda (Al White), the rebel secondâ€"inâ€"command, and American journalist Dewey Ferguâ€" son (M. Emmet Walsh). The threesome plans a brutal escape and make their way across the African desert to the rebel camp. The nice rebels greet them as heroes as does rebel leader Sundata. Not being too smart, Nikolai ignores his nagging doubts about his mission and tries to bump off Sundata. As is expected our "hero" is unsuccessful and he captured by the rebels and later tortured. The Soviets soon rescue the mindless hunk, unaware of his identity. When mean ol‘ Vortek discovers Nikolai is more of a wimp than a winner, he orders him executed. Outwitting his captors, Nikolai flees to the desert and takes up residence with a bunch of friendly bushmen. Too bad direction by Jospeh Zito lingered on boring moments rather than beautiful African dessert scenery. there are no plans for changes. Members, whose ages average 28, feel it‘s worth keeping up the tough pace of juggling two diffeâ€" rent jobs. "We‘re sure getting up there," Waleski laughed. "We‘re old guys but we‘re still rockin‘."