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‘*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.
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purchase at several local music stores
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also have less equipment to unload and sot up
There are eight people assigned to each bus.
but Robert Plant was not on any one of them; he
flies from city to city. Chris said most of his time
on the bus was spent "talking about food and
playing t-ards," hut Mark said that they hadn t
really played cards yet
When asked about their personal lives Chris
and Mark both responded that they were* not
married. "I left my girlfriend in Africa and came
on this tour." 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
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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.