(TV) Blondie Covers "See No Evil" at 9:30 Club

["Rene Alvir" <r_alvir2@hotmail.com>]

Just read a review of the Blondie show at the 9:30 Club in DC.  A positive 
review, of which I'll include the text (note the reference to Television):
Fathers brought daughters, mothers brought sons and everybody else brought 
their oldest rock T-shirts to the 9:30 club on Monday night to see the 
remnants of Blondie, the funnest band in the CBGB stable in the 1970s. They 
looked good and sounded better.
None of Blondie's contemporaries on New York's New Wave scene found as much 
joy or success melding the city's other musical movements of the time into 
their own oeuvre. All these years later, 1980's "Rapture" sounds tame, but 
rockologists credit the tune with providing pop radio with its first taste 
of hip-hop. As Deborah Harry, now 58, rapped her tribute to Grandmaster 
Flash and Fab Five Freddy, a huge percentage of the audience mouthed every 
word.
Blondie saluted fellow denizens of its old haunts. Harry shrieked, "What I 
want, I want now!" during a cover of "See No Evil," a tune from Television, 
the most bliss-free of the CBGB bands.
Harry, dressed in a frilly red shirt that frequently threatened to fall off, 
screamed like a good punk would as fellow band founder Chris Stein hit the 
famous guitar break on "One Way or Another." But for the chorus of "Call 
Me," Harry held the microphone toward the fans and let them go for the high 
notes on their own.
Though she fronted perhaps the best dance combo to ride the New Wave, Harry 
didn't possess any smooth club moves back in the day, and still doesn't. She 
got all herky-jerky as drummer Clem Burke, sporting a white "New York City" 
T-shirt like the one John Lennon made famous in the 1970s, led the band 
through an extended disco mix of "Heart of Glass."
Harry still packs a catty wallop, however. During "Rip Her to Shreds," she 
dished on a rival scenester's look: "Red eye shadow! Green mascara! Yuck!" 
The suggested solution to deal with the fashion disaster -- "Rip her to 
shreds!" -- was very CBGB.
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