’Femmes: Timeless, open Dear Mom. You had boon gone for.a few months when I first heard Violent Femmes in late 1983.. From .that first odd duckling, riff of "Blist’er in thoSini,"^.-. Ik new t hey were my. hand. They seemed,.to en compass everything good and; warm hearted you were: This was a band. stripped down 't;ov the essentials with ai sponTaneiids; nerva'.exposed. * -i,- 1 hhy 8taripd playing^on strent\ corners^;In .Milwaukee, -W.is^j^lj^.-invttr-^Jianjjiin^-.'nanrliirH;- like •the Ruthlesi A^ustits-. dJufim^tHe'yTe’bigjtime rocording'artlst#..They even pj;rty.ed.( larnegie Ilall •;.1 iti .New York City, three <Weeks- ago^ The st.une . ; s(>uiKis like "t h«; .JtiVat les; ’y()u th()Vigiit I hey were a fad wheh l)ad bft>ught- thtrkidsJcrshe ' * I lard I lay's v-.■■NiKhi”'.buf:-you;ffhal-fyjVughtam 'One hundred^kicisf riished, the stage, going 'Jbfierk'. and kissed-Ciiirdthj.Ciand.- the femmes' ^.singer. Brian Ritchie; the bassist, ant! Victor lie L/Oreh^a’ the dru.rnmef. Hriah stiysTt was pretty exciting to play .a place that had. people like earns have become more universal and all-age encompassing since “Add It Up/'/asongon their first record about teenage lust and frustration- . It would be kind of ridiculous for a 40-yeair •old man to be saying "Why can't I get just one fu(:k?' i tl)ink he should've been fucked by the time he was 40“' Hrjan says. V: , '; (ioiid6i>'s nevy;lyrii:s recall nothing less than john JUmiion's stark first..solo record with the i’lastic.Ono Hand. “Faith." a song Which could e.isilv l»' he^dfarTaylot's. is .1 direct 1 op of Lennon's "God." I.lk.e';linnoh. Gordon details everything he doesn't believe in like General Motors, the president and tile I Mgu.n of Women Voters hut ends up by saying he believes there's a spirit for everyune. Gordon’s spirituality is sometimes seen as being insincere on songs like “Jesus Walking on the Water” but I think he just shows a more freewheeling open-minded ap proach to religion. Qn "No Killing." Gordon spins out a series ur*l hiium The Violent Fejrimes piny the EMU liining Room Monday night at 8:30. Advance tickets are $7 for students. $8 for the public, anti are available at the EMI? Main Ih-sk. Prices rise $1.50 the day of the show. Pholo < ourtoftY KMIJ (!) Tc haikovsky, "a pretty decent guy." I think you would have been impressed. With their new record "The Itlind heading the Naked." I can see the Violent Femmes lasting another thirty years. They've developed their teenage angst and dance sound into a timeless sound featuring an open format that allows them to include guests on some songs like Jerry Har rison of the Talking Heads on organ. Steve Scales on percussion and Fred Frith on weird instruments. Brian says his personal goal, whether the Femmes stay together or not. is to remain musically valid until a ripe old age It's good to see that the good things in life can stick around and not he damaged irreparably. He usees 70-year old Sun Ka. a Philadelphia jazz musician, as a role model Brian says the biggest maturing in the Femmes has been in the lyrics; the Femmes' con of mantras likt! “We don't want no killing l.ord. I don't want to see my brother die." The cynical might say the message is too basic hut it hits an emotional chord, especially if you hear it the same day the Senate votes to fund the Gonlras. There’s not much time* left. Gordon seems to say. so why speak with “poetic” artifice grafted Oil top of it? Before showing us who the nuked are. he gives us a rundown of who the blind leaders are. Mom. “Old Mother Reagan" is a half minute punkuhiliy romp that hopes “she go far away.” Violent Femmes should slay awhile. When the second record came out I really thought I had lost something I loved and believed in. With this new record, a friend has reappeared after a long absence. Story by Paul Sturt/ Tenth No Nukes Ball slated One of Kugene's favorite bands, lames T. And The Tough. and one of tint area's newer musical entities. Liv and I art l.ive, will provide dance music for the tenth annual No Nukes Hall Saturday night at the WOW Mali. The two trends will he joined by the a capella women's group Sweetgrass and legendary street film theater actor Stoney Burke of Berkeley. Calif. For the past decade, the No Nukes halls have been held to raise money for anti-nuclear con cerns. as well as to provide information about ongoing anti-nuclear projects. Past balls celebrated passage of initiatives banning nuclear plant construction and radioactive-waste storage in Oregon, and urging a nuclear freeze with the Soviet Union. Information about drives to designate Uine County and Oregon as nuclear-free zones will lx; provided at this year's event. The ball begins at 7:00 with food and free films. Sliding-scale admission based on ability to pay will be from $:t to $5. The WOW Hall is wheelchair-accessible, and free child care can be reserved by culling Citizen Action for lasting Security at 343-8548. The WOW Hall is located at West Kighth Avenue and Lincoln Street. f CAMPUS AREAv Hail Taihis I mm K>» Perm Special $30.00 (im Iwlri i ul jnd style) 702 E. 11th • 465 6363 OH— 9«K>d through M»ch BIG SELECTION USED COLOR TV’S $49.00 and Up DEKA Electronics 390 W. 12th • 342-2488 eeeeeeeeee Case offers recital University guitar instructor David Caae. one of Eugene's premier classical guitar soloists, will perform a free faculty recital Wednesday night at 8.00 in Beall Hail. Appearing on the program with Caae will be harpsichor dist John Hamilton and tenor Eric Benedict. The program will include sonatas by Domenico Scariatti, Spanish pieces by Isaac Albeniz and a guitar-harpsichord ar rangement of Boccherini’s introduction and Fandango" by (ulian Bream. The works of English composers )ohn Dowland and Benjamin Britten will be featured as well. 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