ENTERTAINMENT
Seattle group sounds, looks good
Despite the fact that there should have been a
larger crowd at John Henry’s Saturday night and
that there were some sound difficulties, the night
went well for the four hands. The main act, Skv
Cries Marv. gave a visually and aurally engaging
performanc e as the Inst hand to take the stage
Opening band Spikenard, who hail from music
rnec.cn Seattle, got the night rolling with some
straight-ahead grunge rock The threesome (whose
instrumentation consists of the three indispens
able components of a roc k band — guitur. bass and
drums) had solid, well-constructed songs. (Hev. it
worked for Nirvana.)
The group,
whose songs arc
based around
the bar-chord
guitar-playing of the lead singer, was a tight unit
No sloppy endings from them. And true to their
apparent hard-core roots, on a few songs they
shouted the lyric.s jointly. This gave the tunes a
high-energy intensity It was right on
The next two bands to perform were made up of
local talent. Flowerz. the second band, played a
decent show. I don't know if it was a had night for
them or what, but they seemed to lie kind of half
assed about their material.
The dynamics Interjected into their songs were
refreshing, however. The vocalist for Flowerz has
a sonorous voice reminiscent of the Sisters of Mer
cy.
The songs thundering from Two Minutes Mate
were solid and well-constructed. The vocalist,
who had u strong voice and yelled a lot at the audi
ence. was entertaining to watch.
Like Spikenard, the hand memtiers shouted cho
ruses in unison and even had a good song about
thrash/hardcore hand Fugnzi. The movement and
progression of the music: itself was enough to grat
ify.
About midnight the band everyone in the bar
wanted to see slowly emerged from the set-up area
The backdrop of the stage was dreamy. About live
slide projectors displayed religious images behind
the players and a hallucinatory pattern continu
ously shifted in the middle of it all. I imagine that
one could have taken in a scene like this hac k in
By John Fleischli
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I imagine that one could have
taken in a scene like this back
in the days of Jefferson
Airplane et al in San
Francisco.
the dnvs of Jefferson Airplane et al m San Fron
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The visual stimuli did not end there The two
singers for the group strolled onstage wearing
these huge, bizarre c ostumes and glided about
while the music focused into the first song
,Sk\ tines Marv also c ome from Seattle, hut any
attempt to categorize them as part of the "Seattle
sound'd* futile because they are definitely not
grunge They are Roderick, (voice and words),
Anisa Romero (vocals). Joseph Howard (buss), Ren
nett James (drums), Marc Olsen (guitar), Gordon
Raphael (keyboards) and l)J Fallout (samples and
effects).
As you can see from what this last guv plays,
this is a unique hand The individuals have
diverse musical tastes, and it shows in the music,
they plnv. The samples and effec ts tec hnology
gives the hand a rave-like sound on several songs
Indeed, there were many people having a good
lime dancing around in front of the stage
The male-female vocal harmonies of Roderu k
and Romero were ethereal Fitting in with the reli
gious aspect of the show, they helped transport the
audieni e to another plane
The group played songs from their new disc on
the World Domination laliel titled A Hcturn to tht
Inner Experitrrice Included on the album is a great
cover version of the Rolling Stones' "2000 Light
Years From Home ”
I was happy to hear them play it at John Henry ’s
along with the poppy ''Gone.'' and for an encore,
they played "laiy Down Your Head " It ended with
an awesome drum solo by James, which was great
because drummers don't always get the attention
they deserve
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