Keel Over, Under and Everywhere Else This time, this time, Keel’s for real. So says the amiable and straight-talk- ing leader of this particular pack, Ron Keel. With “Tears of Fire”, the latest Video by his namesake band, the TV Keel is finally the concert Keel. “I ike our other videos a lot,” Keel explains, “but they didn't really show who we are. Our first video, ‘Right to Rock’, was real conceptual and didn't really show the band. ‘Because the Night’ did show the band, but it was done as a very cinematic, beautiful kind of thing. That's not really us. When we were getting ready to do a video for ‘Tears of Fire’, | said that | wanted to show the group as it really is—just ‘guys who play a real good, hard rock'n'roll show. Nothing fancy about it.” ‘There's nothing fancy about Keel in concert, Perhaps, but the video— well, it's nothing fancy. Just how they wanted. As Keel describes, the band video achievement in music ‘and for best director. ‘Woman, Thy Name is =e 5 ramseyeacon,, [WNT cree’ priced to $9.95 each OFS. | gorgeous former protege, fabel’s popular “Video 45s”, those three- of fOUr-song music videocassettes that hhad until now cost about orga 52 lok Up, You Peek malor motion picture Foy Scheider and An ar, Mowing aero | Margret costar $18 apiece: With erent? | rough the mall 0 the these, who neese a iralls_| gorgeous-lder wa iment, we find former VJ Nina Black putt ni the teks Rat Boy, under the direc- torial arm of Clint East: wood's squeeze, Sondra Locke. And Fiona (remem: ber her?) reportedly will Co star in the Bob Dylan vehicle, Hearts of Fire. “Money computer-animated forNothing’ clip, directed by Steve Barron for Lime: Tight, has won deserved awards all over the wor! ‘The latest: A pair o' Monitor Awards from the Videotape Production Association. The clip picked up kudos for best By FRANK LOVECE of its recent tour with five camera guys from the Los ‘Angeles production com- it were. The glamorous tou took everybody by bus through such hot spots as Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Col: orado and Milwaukee, somehow. “That bus got really crowded,” Keel chuckles. “I don’t know how, though, but we all generally got along. The camera guys were great. They let us play with the cameras ourselves, which was nice of them when you consider how expen: sive those [16mm film] cameras are.” Still, stopping every so often—and sometimes oftener—to shoot glorious Western landscapes and sunsets did make the na- tional tour seem as if it in cluded Australia and Japan. But the band, Keel reports, took it in stride. "Showing all that country and showing the people who came to see our con certs—that was lots more ‘embarked on the first week pany The Company accom- panying. Company men, as important to us than show- ing a lot of standard back- stage stuff “The director [Peter man] did a good job, | think, of showing what we're really like, how our different personalities work onstage. Of all our videos he smiles, “this is the one I'm proudest of. It’s the one, when I'm 80 years old, that Ill look back on and say, ‘Yep. That IN BRIEF: IMAGINE (1972) Directed by and featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Sony cassette. Beta/VHS Hi-Fi stereo. 55 min. $29.95. ifestyles of the rich and Lennon. Stripped-down narcissism as naked as a peeled banana, this big time home movie is at once a cultural document and cinematic masturbation. Seen only fleetingly in the past—partially on TV in 1972, and in its 81-minute entirety at New York City’s Whitney Museum in 1977— this collage of private, promo and TV-news: footage is set to 10 songs mostly from Lennon's /m- agine album. Most of Ono's songs have been excised for the video. Shucks. 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Classic Family and Jonathan Mover. But | Entertainment. $29.95. before GTR came his [ ) Asia In As fastest-itting and arguably | The MTV simulcast con most successful group, cert, shot at Japan's Asia. The lineup was Howe, | Budokan arena. Songs who'd joined Yes in 1971 to | include: “Heat of the slog through a decade of | Moment”, "The Smile Has “art-rock” stardom; drum- | Left Your Eyes”, “Soul Sur- mer Carl Palmer (of Emer- | vivor",, “Only Time Will son Lake & Palmer, the late | Tell”, others. Directed by P.M. and the earlier Atomic | David Mallet. Released Rooster and Crazy World of | 1983. Vestron. 59 min. Arthur Brown); bassist John | approx. $30. Wetton (U.K., Bryan Ferry | [] The Making of GTR Band, Uriah Heep, Roxy Self-sponsored documen- Music, King Crimson); and | tary on the 1986 formation keyboardist Geoff Downes | of the rock quartet. In- {an “overnight” star with | cludes video clip, “When ‘The Buggles). It was a join- | The Heart Rules The Mind” ing of classically based —_| Directed by Jim Yukich. rock and Downe’s modern- | RCA/Columbia. 60 min. ist mode, and despite approx. $29.95. critics who said a'70s-style : supergroup would never | Next Issue: Let's Watch work in 1961, Asia was an | Some Tapes Together: The instant hit. The band it Rolling Stones. FACES 63