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Band pays homage to diversity
Musicologists are generally
not fun to be around.
But Camper Van Beethoven
is. This band of college
dropouts and graduates from
Santa Cruz. Calif., has unleash
ed world music from the gaze of
academia and claimed it for its
own.
Like its name, the five
member group seems to get a
perverse joy out of juxtaposing
contrasting cultures in one
song.
Camper's commitment to
diversity, reflected in the
group’s 50-percent ratio of in
strumontal songs, has resulted
in the group's excommunica
tion from Santa Cruz’s college
club scene. The "Mafioso
ethic" of the club owners re
quires bands to play world-beat
music exclusively to get book
ed, Krummenacher says,
While Camper could un
doubtedly play this mix of
African and Third World
rhythms — currently popular in
the Bay area — the band has
been content to put out two in
dependent records and tour up
and down the West Coast.
The band’s absurd humor is
probably most responsible for
its strong identity. One song,
"Where the Hall is Bill," even
earned them a spot on the syn
dicated Doctor Demento radio
show (heard locally on KRXX,
Sunday nights at 10).
Probably more than anything
else. "Take the Skinheads
Bowling" has solidified
Camper's standing. The
singer's unconnected thoughts
such as how everyone's coming
home for lunch these days
mingles with how last night he
found skinheads on his lawn.
His solution to all this? Take
the skinheads bowling. The in
sistent background chorus
echoes the load singer's lines no
matter how absurd they are.
The song has been both a
breakthrough and a noose
around the band's neck. In
places like Columbia. Mo., this
is what the band is known for.
and audiences will berate the
band until they play it. Krum
inenachor says.
i "Sometimes I get apathetic
about that song, but I'm happy
that was the song that made it
on the radio because it's so
abstract, it's really just a
nonsense pop song." Krum
menacher says,
Camper Van Beethoven will
bring their mix of bizarre ethnic
instrumentals and satirical rock
to the WOW Hall tonight at
H:30. They will be the second
band in a bill including 10.1MM)
Maniacs, the Uptones and local
band St. Huck. Tickets are $t> in
advance. $7 the day of the
show.
Award-winning
country music
star to perform
"Kicky Skaggs is the brightest
thing that has happened to
country music and the brightest
star on the horizon." says coun
try legend Merle Haggard. "I've
admired him not only for his
singing talents, but he’s a
helluva musician as well."
Skaggs' star will shine on the
horizon of the Silva Concert
Hall stage Sunday night at 7 in
the Hult Center. Skaggs was
selected as the Country Music
Association's 1985 Kntertamer
of the Year, and his hand was
named the CMA’s Instrumental
Group of ihe year
Monday night, Skaggs ap
peared at the 1986 Academy of
Country Music awards
ceremony as a nominee for
entertainer of the year and top
male vocalist of 1985.
Skaggs’ band recently return
ed from a tour of Great Hritain,
whose various folk music styles
came to America with colonists
and immigrants 300 years ago
and evolved into modern coun
try and Western music. The
Britons gave Skaggs and his
band rave reviews.
The Sunday Times’ Simon
Frith wrote that "what mattered
wasn’t musical roots or U.S.
utopianism, but something
more fundamental — the great
country band's ability to
translate humdrum emotions
into moments of power and
beauty."
Tickets for Kicky Skaggs'
Hull Center appearance cost
$18.50 and $16.50. and are
available at the KMU Main
Desk, the Hult Center box office
and all Hult Center ticket
outlets. For more information,
call 687-5000.