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Oragon 97403 342 291* Join us all month long for our 10-year Anniversary Party Grand Prize Drawing ^ Thursday the 28th for a trip ^ for 2 to the Oregon Coaat New hours Mon Sat 4 pm to 2 50 am Sun noon to 2 50 am 959 Pearl 0 CHILDREN S SATURDAY Jakazuw' SATURDAY FEB. 3 / GENERAL y BOOK DEPT. 13th & Kincaid M F 7:30 6 Sat 10 6 I UP BOOKSTORE ENTERTAINMENT Blues band makes Southern melodies — from New York By Ming Rodrigues f merakj Entertainment Etepoitei A band named Blues Traveler evokes images of mellowed men with their beat up guitars in tow crooning alxwit the good ol' days in smoky, sleepy, small town dives Then out spring four post-adolescent Brooklyn gu\s with their pricey musii degrees, calling themselves the Mines Traveler and prtx ending to prove their point h\ par king the New York night club si ene and releasing a self titled de but album that's on the cutting-edge ol some pretty fero< ious blues ‘We could be very melodic and make traditional chord progressions, things that were very planned out, but overall we’d play the blues. * -John Popper "Blues Traveler wants to make music real again." saiil promoter Bill Graham, who discovered the youthful talents and wasn't surprised when the band earned encores opening re< ently for jerry Garcia and the Allman Brothers "They an* simply the Ih*sI young band I’ve seen in New York —- they’re fresh, they rattle their bones and they make you feel good." said the man who man ages such acts as the Rolling Stones. Bob Dylan and the Neville Brothers 1 "They're from the same realm as the (Grateful) Dead in that they'll always I want to be close to the stn*ets ." Even their critics recognize the resem > blance. Declared Rolling Stunt* maga , zine: "They've tapped into a Grateful i Dead spirit: improvisational. loose, a lit tle trippy. They’re a band you can see again and again." Comparisons aside, these are four young men —■ Bobby Sheehan. Chan kinchla. John Popper and Brendan Mill all in their early 2(>s. who just three years after coming together are now a force of their own These guvs throw youthful rawness to the wind with their brand of hard-driv ing hlues which one reviewer described as "kit king the '00s to the ’<)0s." Saturday night you can judge for your self |iist how gootl these guys are when the EMI' Cultural Forum presents the Hlues Traveler at the Eugene Hilton Hall room at H Tit kets are $8 for students and $12 for general admission, and can he purc hased at the EMI 1 Main Desk Like all fledgling bands, Hlues Travel er had its humble beginnings After high st hool. the guys moved to New York City where they paid their musical dues. They began as a bar band, playing for $50 a night, until they felt confident enough to convince the own ers for a share of the t over charge "VYe were just out of high school learning how to live on our own as well as lie in .1 band." kinchla said "At 18 and 10, you t an sleep on floors and wake up five hours later to hop a suhwav and get to your next gig and love every minute of it " David Graham. Hill Graham's son. < aught the group at a Columbia I Iniversi ty fraternity house gig and later at a live show at Barnard College Festival. He continued to check out their perform ances at local clubs before bringing their talent to the attention of his father. The band, which earned a cameo role in the upcoming Oliver Stone Doors film, debunks the myth that music theo ry has nothing to do with playing the blues With the exception of kinchla. who has no formal training. Popper. Sheehan and Hill all studied at both the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York and the Berklee School of Music. All four members attended Princeton High School in New Jersey, where they began to form Iniiids that were "like fam ily." To pin down the music of the Blues Traveler would be a little difficult, for their sound is distinct, melding inflec tions of the blues, jazz, metal. Jimi Hen Blues Traveler, hailing from New York, brings its own brand of tunes to the Eugene Hilton Ballroom Saturday night at H. From left to right are Bobby Sheehan, Chan Kinchla, john Popper and Brendan Hill. drix and Paul Butterfield. The guys share a reverence for pushing out the bounda ries with their diverse styles. Ambition wise, they plan to be the first band in space. Popper credits the formal training he. Hill and Sheehan had for enabling the band to remake all the rules. “Brendan and I had a music teacher in high school who whs a real mutant in the best sense.” he said “We could be very melodic and make traditional chord pro gressions. things that were very- planned out. but overall we'd play the blues. "When the band first got together, es pecially after Bob. who's a real Dead head. joined we’d just jam and mess around. Chan ami Brendan are sort of disciples of Zeppelin and I was always a Jimi Hendrix guy Bob's bass playing, well, he just knows how to melt one song into another." Popper, a boar of a Kuy who stashes iiis arsenal of harps >n a bush-camp ban dolier and who has appeared on record un-ill capable of complex single note riffs that rival the lyrical quality of the saxo phone. *We were just out of high school learning how to live on our own as well as be in a band. At 18 and 19, you can sleep on floors and wake up five hours later to hop a subway and get to your next gig — and love every min life of it. ’ -Chan Kinchla ings with David Sanborn, is known to bring harp blowing to new dimensions of virtuosity. In his hands, it is said the harmonica transcends its usual role of soulful noise maker and becomes a legitimate instru Proving a solid backdrop to Popper's harp are kinchla on guitar, Sheehan on bass and I.ondon-born Brendan on drums Opening for the Blues Traveler will la? 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