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Buckhom Continued from Page 7 As suggested by someone in the sudience. turn everything else up, naturally. After all. there’s nothing belter than real ly good music played really loud, and you can weed out those people who were just there to be seen. And were Buckhom out drinking in the beer garden and liv ing up to their beer-label name with the rest of the kids? ‘*We found that we end up playing better when we don’t touch the stuff.” Axon said. Even at a beer garden. And even with a name like Buckhom. Buckhom will next he playing tonight at John Henry's with Sow Belly and next Friday at the WOW Hall with Hitting Birth. The band will soon make a four-song demo tape available for purchase at several local music stores (Drcgott fttowrt f)lapcrs i;r h 'i \' o \ i ■ _ It... M-. M.... !>■• • Vitiir,l.i\, l K i.>K r 1*> ' ‘ J'l 1; V 'fi l); 1 h< if Ti sii'ut.i\. II.'K r i 7 ^ . i'm. 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Chris said They said that Plant is sympathetic to their “forced- celibacy" plight “We had a 10-day holiday in Hawaii, and Roltert flew all of our wives and girlfriends out to be with us." he said Before parting company Chris and Mark gave us a hint as to where Robert Plant might be. so we headed up to Room 610 in the Hilton We expected to find a hallway full of groupies and hear w ild parties going on, but the hall was quiet The only person we found up there was the Hotel concierge, who told us a couple of excellent Grateful Dead stories He informed us that Robert Plant was not staying there So we headed hack to the huge, gras buses and knocked on the door of the se< ond one It was then* that we met Nate, who was to he our name sis for the rest of the evening. Nate is a rather large man who tried to U- vers threatening He's actually a very nice man He was in I'.ugene earlier this summer setting up for the Grateful Dead com ert Nate was extremely guarded about Ins exai t occupation 1 m not sure what 1 do. they just pay me,” he said Nate's traveling companion was Scott, the lighting man who "quit med si hool to do this Nate and Scott’s bus was an exact replica of the bus used hs Chris and Mark B y now we svere anxious to get into the show, which was about to begin. Silva Concert Hall was filled to capai ity with people of every age. creed and economic background. On our way into the show sve met Dot Kane, a lo<_al resident who is related to Plant by mar riage "He's a very nice man. very polite." she said. The lights went out, the incense was lit and the show began Plant played songs from every period in his musical career from Led Zeppelin to the Honey-drippers to his newest solo effort, Fate of Nations. Plant was backed by a band of superb musi cians. lnnis Sihun. who just joined the tour to replat e Kevin Mai Michael, played guitar Fran cis Dunnery. formerly with British cult fnve It Bites, played lead guitar for many of the Led Zeppelin tunes Dunnery has also been signed to a solo deal with Atlantic. Also on guitar, mandolin and keyboards was Phil Johnstone, who has toured with Plant before and is a contributor in the songwriting process. Plant's longtime bass player Charlie Jones, who is. incidentally. Plant's son-in-law. also joined him on stage The show rambled on for three hours, and Plant did not even stop to take a breath. The band, which is made up mostly of youngsters in comparison, had to stop for water and rest, but Plant gave the audience more than its money's worth. The backdrop had a mystical feel to it. and the lighting conveyed the ethereal sense Plant is famous for. After the show it was time to continue our search. We headed out to the back of >• Hull Center, where huge white trucks wen waiting to pack up the equipment and head to San Frnncisi o. Before the show we had befriended Jason Faulk, ioi d police cadet, who was doing hm k stage s. •’ for the Hull Center He was very good at in-- job. and he had been given strii t orders to ke. p us nut of the backstage area We had already tried vain to get ba« kstage by fol lowing Scott and d blown our cover as cool reporters Faulk finally relented and let us wait with the otln ms At first there were many people, hut r tin ..-..nutes wore into hours, the crowd dwin dled Soon We were down to just sis people. Two guys from lot d hands who had met Plant before the show and a married couple, who were long time Plant fans As we waited. Skate, whose real name is (.len. recounted the history of the Seattle band Alii e In Chains for us Actually, he tried to tell us he was oik e a member of Alice In Chains, but we didn't fall lor it. We tried absolutely everything, even helping the pizza guy deliver pizzas backstage, but our quest for Robert Plant turned up dry. We had a great time learning about the people who made his performance here possible, though. There was a very happy ending to the story of Geraldine Peabody, the woman reporter Ed klopfenstein interviewed last week who hoped to meet Plant Saturday, as Plant was leaving for San Franc isco, Peabody got a i banco to tell him how much she admired him. "It was exciting, but it was more of a relief after all the work that we put in. It was great to l>e there with a man who wrote the music that I «n|oy. and who is responsible for so many of the things in iny life in the last year," she said REVIEW Continued trom Page 5 Keep dreaming. Demolition Man. the latest in a long line of humdrum n< tion flicks, falls prey to all action cliches in an attempt to anesthetize the audience. Fven worse, the action isn't interest ing enough to save the weak plot The audience finds itself too dis tracted by the gaping plot holes and insipid futuristic gags to actually care who gets axed and who doesn't. Besides, whv should we care when we ian pre dict how it will end? The film stars Wesley Snipes as Simon Phoenix, a psycho pathii killer in the year 1996 who has an insatiable appetite to destroy everything he sees. Sylvester Stallone plays a cop named John Spartan whose sole mission in life seems to revolve around catching Phoenix. He does — except Phoenix rigs an explosion to make Spartan look guilty for the inadvertent murder of about 30 of Phoenix's hostages. Plot hole No. 1: For some reason, the police choose to believe a deranged sicko like Phoenix when he claims Spartan is responsible for their death. As a result, both Spartan and Phoenix are sentenced to a cryo genic prison. Switch to 2032. when Phoenix is inexplicably allowed a parole hearing. Naturally, he escapes. Afterward, we learn his escape was planned by the leader of San Angeles, who has designed this futuristic society t»i be free of everything that makes America great i.rimv, profanity, violence — ami individualism. Why did he thaw Phoenix? Because he wanted him to kill the leader of the rebels. Kdgar Friendly, played as a cross between a (oncemed individual and a stand-up comic by Dennis i,eary. Plot hole No. 2: Friendly is seen as a threat to this plastic society, yet as we learn during a sudden Leary £tand-up routine in the middle of the film, ail he wants to do is smoke cigarettes ami read Playboy. With those rights, he will !*■ happy. For this they defrost a mad dog, psy chofrenzied killer? The ineffective police force, which has no concept of what violence is. then defrosts Spar tan to help catch Phoenix. Plot hole No. 3: While the prisoners are frozen, they are supposedly rehabilitated. Titus when they got out of the deep freeze, they will have learned to interact peace fully within society. But the movie never explains, if it's pos sible to rehabilitate them in tneir sleep, why they can't be rehabil itated in two days of cryogenic frost? What good does it do to freeze someone for 30 years if he doesn't know he's been frozen? What can he learn about the cru elty of his crime if he can't inter act with society? Those are only a few of the films obvious leaps in logic. Thera are a few positive things to say. Snipes, who has proved himself as both a dramatic actor ill jungle f ever and a comic actor in Whitr Afen Can't jump, proves Ins worth us an action star as * well. He is the best thing about this film. His hyperkinetic ener gy jumps off the screen (as * opposed to Stallone's all-around lack of charisma — big surprise). Snipes is the only actor in the film who can overcome the script's weaknesses Sandra Bullock does an unin spired turn as Lenina Huxley, one of the future cops who helps defrost Spartan. She and Spartan make futuristic love, recalling a far more clever scene in Woody Allen's Sleeper. As a matter of fact, none of the scenes from 2032 create a fresh image. The future has been depicted in countless films, from 2001 A Space Odyssey to Free jack, and nothing in Demolition Man fascinates us enough to make us care, least of all the future slang, designed to show us how detached society has become but instead only makes the audience cringe. For instance, "MurderdeathkiU” is the police term for murder, and "be well" is used in place of "take it easy." The film also includes a hor ribly blatant endorsement of Taco Bell being played on commer cials all over television.The mak ers of Demolition Man committed a seemingly endless array of bad judgments. Viewers would do well to avoid making their own. Don't go see this film.