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I hcttter, I Xnuv, X uU^< .nul N'igti(lijc l>*<u/<• Tough Mama at the EMU Beer Gardens 4-7 p m Free Savoy Brown and Tarry Robb (blues) at Good Times 9 30 p m S7 Tha Strangers/ Tough Mama (rock) at John Henry s 10 pm $5 Onomatopoeia/ Oswald 5-0/ Adickdid (rock) at the WOW Hall 9 30 p m $576 University Singers and Eugene Vocal Arts Ensemble (contemporary choral music) at Beall Concert Hall 8pm $2/4 Unshakable Race and Jumbalassy (reggae) at Good Times 9 30 p m $5 Drunk at Abi's/ Compost/ Nixon Fiat (rock) at john Henry s 10 pm $4 John Cage Celebiation (dance and spoken word performances) at the WOW Hall Day long beginning at 1 p m Includes 5 30 per formance in the Dougherty Dance Theatre at Gerlingtr Annex $7/5 Negalivland with Palapa B2 (electronic, mixed media) at the WOW Hall 8 30pm $7/8 Brave Old World (Jewish klermer music) at Beall Concert Hall 7 30pm $8/10 C o E Rooster's Blues Jam at Good Times 9 30pm $1 Supernova/ The Betmars/ Her Number 13 at John Henry s 10 pm $2 University Symphony at Beal! Concert Halt 8pm $2/4 High Street (acoustic rock) at Good Times 9 30pm $2 Giant Sand/ Marshal Plan at John Henry s 10 p m $3 Oregon Composer's Fornm (new student works) at Beall Concert Hall 8pm Free Walker T. Ryan's Bines Workshop in the EMU Ben Linder Room. 7-10 p.m Free Dangerous Household Objects at Good Times 9 30 p m. $3 Buckhom/ Ro-Sham-Bo/ Rhythm Breaker at John Henry s 10 p m $2 Latayette String Quartet (chamber music) at Beall Concert Hall 8 p m, Bines Cloh Project (blues) at Good Times 9 30 p m S3 Oswald 5-0/ Gravel/ The Crabs at John Henry's 10 pm $3 Orlan Crawtord presents *108 Cops ot Cotfea" (folk, jaa and coflee) in the WOW Hall s newly remodeled basement perfor mance space/coffeehouse Crawford describes it as a "no frills coffeehouse ” 8-10 p m $3 (includes coffee or tea) Story by D. Lee Williams Photo by Angi Gass For musical variety and afford able fun, John Henry's is n Tha KurU Protect, an Oragon band, hangs out In front of John Hanry's on East 11th Avanua bat ora thalr par formanca as tha haadllning show Thursday, April IS. It's half lifter eleven Thursday night ami The Kurt/ Prnjw t Oregon's best band has in.st taken the tall stage at John Henry's Two of my friends gut up. hand me their l»»*er and take off, driven out I>\ a no-naine. low-talent open ing band, and I in thinking that the rest of our beer-thirsty, live musu hungry group should probably be home study ing, sleep ing or else in rehab A fast flnshlmt k (sponsored by Henry 's Dark) knifes all thinking Marine the hand's only girl, the baud's lone blond slides into a violin solo then sings, loud, loyy and gravely . sounding and looking a whole lot like a blond chit k named Kelly or Kristie or Melissa Ilaniels that I met with this same group of t tub groupies, at this same t.luh Iik alion. two summers ago when |ohu Henry 's yvas the underage dam ucluh nightmare, (Huh Hollywood lleer buddy Kevin trapped in lyvin flashback says, "Whoa is that the blond chit k we chased around t Hub Ho' a long time ago. the one yvho thought yve yy ere cheesin' on her. hut really yve were hard on X and just wanted to tout It that huge ret! hat she yy as wearing?" The first song ends, and I ansyver. T don't know . may be so " Hut by the sei ond set, by the \i\th beer, it doesn't really mat ter bet ause the flnshhai k's been peed yvay away, and our yvhole table's pretty milt h ready to propose to Mamie's violin Thursday nights are for John Henry's The musu is live, the crowd is small, the beer list is extensive and the i ost inexpen sive Don't dress up Don't comb your hair Don't he worried about making smart small talk bet ause y ou won't need it folin Henry nighU are made for mush and Mich elob, not condoms and come on lines It's where to get loaded, not laid Inside is a vaulted, elephantine, catlie dral-like ceiling, and the ceiling and walls are hlai k brown and smoky. The whole design is hountmgly uterine. The small entrance on Ktti Fast 11th Ave holies the vast and tlark interior. During a pee break in the hand's show. I officially baptized |ohn I lenry s Kilgene's Biggest Hot k 'll' Hull confessional Itoutli And it is big It s Max's on steroids Patrons saddle up to a corner bar. shoot stick in a hat k pool room, dance on a checkerboard floor or sit at pit nit tables or Turn to JOHN HENRY'S. Page 0 Tracking the latest iliimwiflr Big Mountain Wake Up on Quality Records Rating: ★★★★ * Frtsbee material * * nothing special • * * worth a listen **** quality muse • * • * * steal it it you hay* 10 RDS Pooplu have said, "it's all in the namo." Big Mountain should riot he con fused with Big Country, one of those obnoxious early-eighlies bands r that cranked out meaningless dri- j vel that lulled to sleep an entire * generation and allowed Ronald Rea- V* gan to serve two terms in the White \ House. Personally, I only know Big Moun- \ tain as great ski resort in Whitefish, Mont. But college is a place to expand your hori zons. and true to form. Big Mountain an now lie stored away in the memory banks as a reggae hand Big Mountain's solid sound is worth the gray matter used to remember the band — good news for those whose short-term memory has lieen whittled away by THC. On Wake Up, the band takes traditional island sounds, odds a touch of rock 'n' roll and modernizes the age-old Huh Mtirloy format. Lyricallly, thti themes of racial equality, justice and struggle are played out in typical reggae fash ion. Revolution plays a big part in rthw album, most notohly on "Peaceful Revolution.” a sung about the lack of representation most people have in their supposedly representative governments. It's a power-lo-the-people mussage Bob Mar ley would l>e proud to sing. "Light’n Up." (hu album's first track, tells us things are never as bad as they may seem. "Rastaman." which comes later on the album, is an inspirational song giving praise to |ah. the Rastafarian deity. Wake Up is a solid effort by Big Mountain. Check it out for yourself.