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The Daddies
The Daddies (rock) at the EMU
Beer Garden Free chips and salsa
4-5 p m , music 5-7 30 p m $2
The Renegade Saints (rock) at
Good Times 9 30 p m S5
Tao Jones/Marble OrcharO'Pappy at John
Henry's 10 p m $4
International Anthem/Peter Wilde Mad
Farmers (folk, rock) w/ Phanta/magona
lights at the WOW Hall 9 p m $5
Charles Brown and Clarence Fountain s
Five Blind Boys ot Alabama (soul) at the
Hull Center 8pm $16/14
Winter Blues Festival at the
Eugene Hilton Ballroom 8pm
$16 advance. Si8 door
Jumbalassy and Unshakable
Race (reoaaei at Good Times
9 30 p m S5
Heart ol Oregon Pageant (benefit tor
HIV/AiOS Resources, Inc ) at John Henry s
8 30 pm S3
Bob Martey B Day Bash w the Cardiff
Reefers (reggae) at the WOW Hail 9pm
*7/8
Shumba (African Marimba) in a
Red Cross benefit tor Somalia at
tbe WOW Hall
Fiddlin Sue Uncle T and Johnny
(bluegrass) at John Henry s
8 p m $1
Rooster's Blues Jem at Good
Times 9 30pm $1
New Band Night at John Henry's
10 pm $1
Jazz Combos at Beall Concert Hall
8pm $4/2
Dangerous Household Objects
(folk-'rock) at Good Times 9 30
p m $2
Hazel/3 Milt Pilot/Funnelhead (rock) at
John Henry's 10 p m $3
Peter Wilde (folk) at theWOW Hall's Club
WOW 7 30pm $1
Sundogt (Swamp Beat
Boogie/Caiun) at Good Times
9 30pm $4
Blind Lemon Pledge w/ guests
at John Henry's 10 p m $3
Good Clean Fun (classic rock)
at Good Times 9 30 p m $3
Tht Guardians ol American
Morality (country) at John
Henry's 10 p m >3
The Melvins (alternative rock) at the WOW
HaH 9p.m $10/8.50
Photo by Ucfww* $fi**9*t
Cany Rich, toad vocalist and bass ptoyar lor Jolly toon. Is back lit by his saddaslgnad
light show at tha WOW Hall Jan. 29.
The rays of light flashed it a frenzied
.spend. briefly illuminating the ominous
figures on stage and the fog-shrouded
i rowd below in sync with the spinning
hursts of light, the music of Jollv Mon
completed the illusion of a spec tral
world
This |an 2ll show at the WOW Mali
was i oinpletolv different than the hand's
last show m hugenn. hut that is what
Jolly Mon fans expect
"We are constantly changing No two
sets are the same." said Garev Kii h, the
lead voi alist and bass player Jolly Mon
also includes guitarist Karl Het ker and
drummer Greg Fklutul Together. they
com.ot.l a hoiling hrevv ol psviliofnnk
thrash with i ontorted reggae undertones
Formed in l‘>*10. the hand now has a
total of 2U songs with "solid" lyric s Jolly
Mon is one of those rarities — a popular
hand without a Cl)
StOTy by release. But Rich
said the hand hopes
Freyu Horn to have« cd out hv
the end of summer
"If we can't cut a good record deal,
we ll just release something on our own."
he said As the hand's songwriter. Rich
has an improvisation!)! approach
"I don't sit around and write," he said
"It's almost like wall long a i artonn. the
xvav I hahhle And somehow it almost
always makes sense ' He called it the
"Taoist, or surreal" approach.
Ru h is also known lor improvising at
his puhlu performances
"I like spontaneous stOff and'frtsikiflg
out on stage." he said.
But Rich's handmntus are a hard sell
when it comes to (us stage show ideas,
such as wearing nothing hut glow-in-tho
dark body paint
"With Karl it's always a total stand off.
full Grog is gist unsure," Rich said As
for mo. I want to do it all " However, he
said this tension is "< ool, hei a use it bal
ances things out."
Musically, about all they have in com
mon is that they were in high school
drum choirs. Ru li said
In their spare time. Rich idolizes Boh
Marley while Kcklund listens to heavy
metal and Becker practu es complex lati
no riffs on his guitar. But this unlikely
team manages to meld these divergent
Turn lo JOLLY MON. Pago 8
Taking in the latest
MOVIES
I
If you're pining awuy for
the good old glory days when
Porky's was among the year's
highest grossing movies, then
you will be sorely disappoint
ed with Flirting. If. however,
you believe the art of coming
of-age movies was lost with
Porky's, then you will be hap
pily surprised.
Luckily for the Bijou,
which probably wouldn't
want to feature a "panty raid"
movie, the ad featuring young
women in their underwear is
not representative of the film.
Flirting is an Australian
film that employs all the
required techniques of such
movies and uses them with
Flirting
Director John Dulgan
Stoning: Noah Tayior.
Thancfle Newton and
Nicole Kidman
Venue; Bijou Art Cinemas
Unrated
ffeWew by Lucas Gutman
such grace and subtlety that it
makes exploitation films on
the subject look even more
pointless than ever.
The story is a familiar one
of forbidden love. It's
between a gouky sort of intel
lectual boy at on all-boys
equally intelligent Ugandan
girl front the all girls school
just across the lake.
What makes the movie so
magnificent is the groat care
writer/director John Dulgan
uses to employ tried-and-true
techniques in such a manner
that they seem fresh and new
to us.
The girls across the lake,
the unpopular people finding
out they need each other
more than the acceptance of
insensitivo classmates, the
school
sensitive and
Turn to FLIRTING, Page 8