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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
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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
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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
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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.