Before Collective Soul, Atlanta's Marvelous Three -- the new,
butch Loverboy -- played a wild and exciting set of ripping,
chunky pop. Singer-guitarist Butch Walker leapt around the stage
in a manic blur of tattoos, making faces while he played and
joking around like he was Robin Williams' evil, roadhouse twin.
Most of his joking was in the form of left-field pop references --
quoting TLC's "Waterfalls" in one song, Prince's "Raspberry Beret"
in another and improvising a little ditty about his gun-packing mother
which included the first section of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."
They even finished the show -- after a scorching set of songs from
their Elektra Records debut -- with "Always Something There to
Remind Me" (a 1970 hit for R.B. Greaves, but Walker no doubt
picked it up from the more successful Naked Eyes version in '83).