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LARRY BLACKMON, leader of the musical group Cameo, works In the studio finishing Camera's new , Cameosis. Cameomates Serious About Their Commitment To Music

' That isn't a rare disease, but their meditation sessions the road, ne "spends much of" the title of the new Chocolate before each performance. A his time in Orlando, Florida, CityCasablanca Records separate room decorated with where he is producing a new album by Cameo, the ten-ma- n candles and flowers, is always 'group, Mantra, that he group which Larry founded in set aside for that purpose. discovered at Disneyworld. 1975. "We treat every perfor- "I'm never not working," he And Cameosis, he explains, mance like a ceremony," laments, though he's recently is a state of being. "It's a very Larry says intently. "The taken up roller skating as a real place we're coming foremost thing on our minds is diversion. from," he states. A level of '' the willingness to give the au The future? must .consciousness that we dience an that s ex- "You experience be for the generate. People don't realize citing from beginning to end. always prepared it takes to Where leaps and bounds," he says. the adrenalin come; ; other groups look on isn't a nine-to-fiv- e on stage and have an impact, the stage as an implement to "This job where are to put into the atmosphere be used, we respect it, as most your days always enough energy to get 10,000. , Broadway actors do. If you planned." " Which means a bout of people moving." treat the stage as a privilege, Cameosis strike Larry and his Cameomates that allows you to expand your might are serious about 'their corn-- ; .talent to its fullest extent." anywhere, anytime. That, ac- - will mitment to their music, a pop-R&- B cording to Larry, produce flavored style which em-- 1 With Cameo's bus touring, a "high, vibratory state, the phasizes emotions, moods and schedule, Larry doesn't get to aura the audience experiences costume to generate' his home in Atlanta very often from a warm, energetic and changes : uni-- or to his in likeable of musicians. momentum. Part of their : ' highrise apartment group ty of energy on stage is due to, New York. When he's not on It's really an event." 2 2