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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1993)
Uvlng Colour vocalist Corey Glover puts his exuberant melodies to a new sound on Stain. Ti\ t<i paint I ivinn * olour in hruad sliokrs alternative, n« k. ja//, blurs, house mnal, tuuk — and you’ve unwed the point Sinte 1‘thH, living ( x ill mi I lav I xt u i it tci inn mil'll a 11\ disrtse levoidv to a puhlu and an industry dial thrive on and wain lot i lavwfii a in m and titles ( inns have liailed the \ev» \oik < uv foursome toi ils lusion ot styles tailing undei no genie Inn treking ol mam Mill, loi I iving ( oloin lionlman and soli amt wx alist Cotes (»lo\ei, sornellllies Ix-mg m 1 iwng < adorn is like Ixmg a i ast assay on the island ot inistii loss Sometimes you jnsl want to fit in " I he iMisilion we weir in during the first I ollapalix >/a a 11 tuple seats agi i was a dilli i tilt one," savx (ilosei. who with Ills shun, reddish hail, plain giav sweats and 11 onset s is a shat p i on nasi to the long lot ked. loloitlills diessrd. prosoiatlvr |K‘riotmet he vsas two seats ago lie s m a nudtown Manhattan ottiie to look over the rough i uis ot Ins group s ness video, “leave It Alone “ 1 he uptieat romp is the fust single oil the in ends trlrasrd Vum. the hand's third Ii’. “We considered ouiseises sets alterna tive (during I-ollapalixi/a] We didn't cotv side! ourselves part ot the mainstream in ans sense that most people in the main stream thought ot us. although we might have had a popular single on out tiist record. All the accolades that tame later on we didn't understand \nd the rear (Kill oil the It till in si iliu* plac n vui like What an dies doing hr if m Win air vim hr i r Vnd wr nr I r t oilf used as lo what I hr ( I itri la ssas to hr a pal t o| (Ins mi is rinr iH \\ r thought Hr fit that i litri la. Inn evidently nr didn't Rcgaidlrss, the hand has drsrl niird a sound with a lot of dit IririU rleinrtm — that in the end is sunpls I jsmg (oloui When tin hand's drliut. \'n<it{. Has rrlrasri almost fisr scats ago, M I V jumped on (hr hand and put its sii gin single “( ult o! Personality■" — into heavy rotation I hr mystique ol a so i allrd hlai k hat d mi k hand mam oird a lot of people, and this, pitted Hith (.losci s user-friend Is. exuberant melodies and Vernon Reid's aurally astonish inggnitai Hoik. quickly tallied the hand up the charts. Released m August, ll»‘MI /ime'i l 'p h.is all ambitious >s merit! and inusii alls s ailed lolJowup to wfl Ywtd, though the new IJ* lacked a true hit single Hit- album pushed the iiuisk al possibilities ol the lasing (ailoui sound taiihci awas trom (hr main Living Colour Gets ^ Serious The New York foursome buckles down to a heavy sound stocked with attitude Itv KrU T. Miller, /hr Ivmhlr \rws, Temple I1. sliram. delighting a lot of < tint s but dis tomaging top 40 ltsteneis hollowing the 1 ollapaloo/a tom in the Mimmn of 1‘fOl, bassist Mn// Skillings left the hand and was replaced hs Doug Wimhish, a fount'! mrmtx'i of tin Sugai Hill Ret oids house hand Wimhish\ fiiM studio I P with 1 mng ( olour is Slum. th< hand s new l.V-uatk ret <>id Opting not to in oni with 1 d Stasinm. the man hehnul the Ixiaids ft»r the Inst two I i\ing ( oloui I IV the\ instead w« *i hed with Ron St ( k i main ( the dials helnnil Soundgaiden. Stmit Youth and fhitfalo loin) and achieved a haidei iih k. tec I Reid’s guitar lines, though Mini lai m the s|X‘tlium of solos, pound awav with molt deletinitiation and aggiesMon duimg \< isc v and lefrainv William ( alhoun s drums and Wimhish s hass an in some places simplv hoinhastu C »lovei s hear tfelt \oc als ate still m the middle of it all we aving from speaker to sj>eaket as fie nar tales jh till it a I lx-1 lets and vch lal t oinmeiilaiv W liv Slum* It mav Ik* a hit «»t a teach, hut (timer s got his rationale “(A stain] is an indelible mark,** he sass I he\ don't go awa\ Stains are alwavs then Ksersthing \ou have, everything you weal, e\ei\thing about vou in one was is stained — emotionally, physically. spiritu allv. vou know You re always tainted h\ this event that happened in vour life You're alwass thinking about the time this hap|K*ne<l and how it made sou into what sou aie todas Stains just affet t esets thing ” And throughout its six-st ar < aieei lasing (adotii lias been stained by |x»pu hurts its most lamous aspei t having l>een the lat t that eat h of its memlxus is black 1 hough hum the beginning it ahsass has hern an issue t<»t each of tin band s members. (.lover maintains black alwass shouldn't be an adjective to dr sc mIk- the band "We got the moiukei 'black rock hand and that was pretts unfair. says (.loser It was velfinijx>srd in a was. but it was uniau then to link esersthmg we did t«» that fat t For other hands it's not true You don t { ail I .niirifirsN an \si.m nxk luiul 1 > tittle Pig” am) *Go / with an intensity nev ^ the band on m radio-ready. Stain's best moment is ■kdthe end of the IP with an atti- I iv.Jton. ’uns and signature is vocals “ m Ron St Germain. Sum hardest LP to date, relay* ness a la SeaQIe usic. sound |Bd arrange are pure Lhnng Colour, ich — depending on the song -»is both good ^ and bad. k has been irjjK some o< the’jB tunes tH a It Living Cfl( ■Cord songs Ml ■bun will be o ■Id rock books. Wilier ilon i i .ill \ an Halm .1 whin imk It.mil \ mi iton ! i .ill 1 os I i ilm ,i Mr\u all link I).mil t hat's mil pat tit ulai Iv (ait to us Vgam il pirjudurs jicoplc In li ning lo tin- in out It’s like < >li, line i nines llial blai k i ik k hand I hal s dclinttcls mil tilt- kind ot label the hands wants — nr needs "<)n lime's If,i then- Mete some issues icgaidmg ns being blai k," tie t uni hides “ And dies ait- nlivmus lo most people And then I s.im a icvicw ot tiie record a ton pie months aftri it tante out where the writei thought esets tiling dial was on the record... could lie equated to being blai k m America, which is not the case It’s about being a person in tins world, whuh is what all of out records arc about This is who I am Thconls difference there is dial I tan quicker than vou. Period. " Q