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FOCUS EDITOR: PATTI KLEVORN | 843-1122 x341 | [email protected] www.ludingtondailynews.com LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2011 A7 Art with a heart in it met Jim Dine the other day. I’ll bet not more than 10 people I here know who he is. Maybe not that many. Jim Dine is an artist. He doesn’t paint pretty pic- tures. He never has. But once you get past the weird stuff — and there is weird stuff — you begin to see his vision. Meijer Gardens recently had an exhibit of Dine’s sculpture and al- though he is better known for painting and print making, the sculpture was, to use technical terms, something ONE THING else. Dine has incor- AND ANOTHER porated several fa- vorite themes over DIANE NEMITZ his 50- to 60-year span, hearts being the best known, but also Venus de Milo and tools. The exhibit at Meijer Gardens included three Venuses adorned with tool belts made up of sharp objects. MELISSA MCGUIRE | DAILY NEWS You have to see it to appreciate it. Don’t Stop Believin’ sold out the Little River Casino Resort’s Makwa Endaat Event Center, and by the end of the show people were out of their My favorite was “Large Parrot seats and standing at the stage. Shouts Color.” It was, as adver- tised, a very large and colorful parrot — way larger than life size — on a gold heart. I have at home a reproduction of one of Dine’s heart paintings. One of the women who attended his talk at Meijer Gardens brought her own copy of Fans believin’ the painting and he was gracious enough to sign it. I called ahead to see if I could Journey tribute band rocks Manistee crowd meet him and was told probably not, but when he showed up in the BY MELISSA MCGUIRE lecture hall I went up to him and DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER introduced myself. He didn’t seem annoyed by it and we chatted a <:G2HII$'$6%05-$2-%A$J)- bit. You see, the reason I have fol- lievin’ performed Journey’s lowed his career over the years is M1970 and ’80s songs to a he is a graduate of my alma mater, sold-out crowd Saturday night at Ohio University. He didn’t remem- the Little River Casino Resort. ber me. I was an English major not The tribute band from Los Ange- an art student, but I remembered K)#7$"0$"-#$,*#-$L";!"/.0$#!%&7$!.#$ him. been singing Journey songs on tour He was in residence while I was for about two years, playing both a student and I vividly remember the hits and some less-well-known !"#$#!%&$'$!"#$()*+$,*#-$.*-$#!%&$ — on campus in 1959. It was, to ‘It was awesome. I am a say the least, controversial. I re- minded him of that exhibit and die-hard Journey fan. I have he asked me if I thought at the time he would ever come as far as a Don’t Stop Believin’ he has. He said he sure didn’t. He also asked me if I’d been back on tattoo on my back. I did Tony Love jams next to Juan Del Castillo at Saturday’s show. campus since then and I admit- ted I had. He said he’d never been it because my sister was back, but he has an exhibit and lecture coming up on campus later diagnosed with cancer when this year. “You know it’s at the in- sane asylum,” he said. I told him she was 12.’ Lead singer Juan Del Castillo hits a high note, sound- the “asylum” is now an art center. ing just like former Journey lead singer Steve Perry. “Same thing,” he said with a laugh. And, maybe he’s right. Risa Eyestone Jim Dine was the subject of a Kalamazoo whirlwind of controversy when he Roger Cain, Juan Del Castillo and Tony Love was on campus back in the day. are shown performing “Any Way You Want It.” And the great thing about it was songs for die-hard Journey fans. When not performing with DSB, some of the students, who normally were more Frontman Juan Del Castillo band members play in the band for the CMT interested in Friday afternoon sounded almost exactly like Steve show “The Singing Bee.” “teas” with the fraternity boys, or Perry, Journey’s original frontman. /*))0$1))*$%0$2-3$4.-5#$6.+7$%*$,08- You could close your eyes and feel ing a date for J-Prom, were talking like you were really at a Journey a tribute to the men and women in “We had to travel here in some waited more than 30 minutes to about art. Art, of all things! Most concert. the service. snow,” said Caryn. “I am glad we do. of the comments were along the “We are celebrating Journey’s “Honestly, we have seen the got here.” “It was awesome. I am a die-hard lines of “is this art?” Or even “this timeless music,” said Del Castillo. real Journey several times,” said Christina Hendricks of Luding- Journey fan. I have a Don’t Stop Be- can’t be art.” But art it was and He said the band was excited to be Bruce Prieur, who came to concert ton said she liked the show. lievin’ tattoo on my back,” said Eye- Dine’s style hasn’t changed much able to play in Manistee and hopes with wife, Caryn, of Grand Rapids. “My favorite was ‘Don’t Stop stone. “I did it because my sister although now he can afford to cast to return. “There have been different people Believin’,’”she said. “I got teary- was diagnosed with cancer when pieces in bronze instead of rob- Castillo and fellow band mem- -*+$.08$,KK$-!)$AK.;)$%9$2-)()$4)**+7$ eyed when the band sent it out to she was 12.” bing his closet to create a piece like bers, Scotty Kormos, Jeff Vincent, and (Juan Del Castillo) could be Yvonne (a woman in the audience She said she was crying when “Green Suit” or collecting trash off Roger Cain and Tony Love, played out there with Journey as Steve who has been battling cancer). I they played the song. When she the street for “After Winged Vic- “Faithfully,” “Escape,” “Any Way Perry.” just met her.” ,0.KK+$*).;!)8$-!)$1.087$#!)$!.8$.$ tory.” You Want It,” “Wheel In The Sky,” The Prieurs said they have seen Hendricks said the show was bet- photo taken with them and her dad 6"0)$.08$!"#$,*#-$&"9)7$:.0;+7$ among other Journey hits, and many tribute bands and Don’t Stop ter than she expected it would be. had band members sign a hat. lived the starving artist lifestyle ended out the show with an encore, Believin’ has been one of the best “He sounded just like Steve Per- :)M-$?A$.-$-!)$N"--K)$O"()*$P.#"0%$ 1%-!$.-$<-!)0#7$=!"%7$.08$:)&$ singing “Don’t Stop Believin’.” yet. He said Rolling the Stones, ry,” said Hendricks. "#$:)"K$2)8.@.$%0$L.+$Q3 York City. The late ’50s and early During the show, there was a which comes to the casino July 2 After the show Risa Eyestone ’60s were a time when Pop Art video clip of Steve Perry talking and 3, is also very good and sounds of Kalamazoo was waiting in line [email protected] was making headlines and Dine about “Faithfully” and the DSB had a lot like the Rolling Stones. to meet the band DSB, which they 843-1122 x307 was in the thick of it with people like Andy Warhol and Claes Old- enberg. He doesn’t necessarily BUSINESS OF THE YEAR NOMINEES | think of himself as a pop artist — LUDINGTON & SCOTTVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE he leaves that to Warhol and oth- ers who made us see everyday ob- WESTERN LAND SERVICES won the John Wilson, left, the Lake Ball Drop in downtown jects as art. Rather he uses found Business of the Year Award. 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