Horsey just wants to make music, help others
By Kaly Soto
Oregon O&fy i meraW
When women are involved in bands,
they have to put up w ith a lot of era p from
people who don't know exactly how much
these women contribute to tin* music they
make.
Misty Muffin, of Horsey, is no excep
tion.
"Actually 1 never realized how differ
ent it was until I got up here and this guy
asked me whose girlfriend I was.'' she said
"In San Francisco there are a lot of other
female bands, and that doesn't happen."
Horsey are a band from, you guessed it.
San Francisco. The band is made up of
Doug Campbell on vocals and guitar. John
Weiss on drums. Steven Moon on guitar.
Muffin on bass, and Mike Supple, who
engineers sound for the group
Horsey got started when Campbell.
Moon and Muffin moved to San Francis
co from Michigan and hooked up with
Weiss.
"Our first encounter started with pret
zel warfare." Campbell said.
Like many bands just starting out.
Horsey's bond members do most of their
own publicity.
"We had experience in the past with
people who claimed to help us." Camp
bell said. "Until wo can find someone who
can accurately represent us we would
rather do it ”
When it comes to describing their music
the band has reached no dear consensus.
Supple calls it "music for head-banging
acid heads," and Moon c alls it "destruc
tively recreational, and loud."
"That's one adjective we always get —
loud," Muffin said.
Campbell, who is the lyric cst for the
hand, has a different take on the matter.
"Our lyrics tow the P C line," he said.
"The term political correctness is used
to describe a bunch of different movements
that don't always work together. In our
music: I write about things like drug addic
tion and sexual promiscuity 1 also talk
about the bones on which we walk, you
know, the people who died so we could
have all of this."
Writing music is an interesting feat, and
Horsey go about it in many ways. Hither
Campbell will come up with on interest
ing poem or they will just hash out a tune
in the process of jamming
"The music is done by everyone; over
50 percent c omes from jams." Moon said
Their trip to Eugene is part of Horsey's
first tour in support of the various record
ings they have made. The band was quite
surprised when it walked into Green Noise
Records.
"Hero we are in Eugene. Oregon, and we
go over to Green Noise Records and our
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records an? on the shelf." Moon said. "Peo
pie can come and see us and listen to
something that we've created; that 's cool
Although the hand itself is most impor
tant to the group, the members are also
concerned about helping new bands find
a practice space and recording studio that
is condut ive to their needs.
"We want people to be able to come and
record for a couple of hours at a low price
and feel like they're really playing," Minin
said. "We record everything we practice,
and that's how a lot of our music has come
about."
"It's hard to work when you've got
someone saying give mo your Dost guitar
over-dub with 12 people standing around
you and watching tin* time.” Supple said.
Basically, the members of Horsey are
really concerned with making music; and
helping other music ians do the same.
"We just try and retain the feeling of
making a living without sacrificing our
decision-making (which could happen if
Horsey gets signed).” Moon said.
The band bus released a self-produced
tape titled Fear Is Not and it is
currently working on what was supposed
to be an HI* but has turned into a full
length album.
Bad Brains creators of funk, rock, reggae fusion
By Kaiy Soto
Oregon Daily Emerald
Had Brains began making music in 1976,
and Saturday they, along with Prong and
Alcohol Funny Car, will appear at the WOW
Mall.
"White kids are playing funk, black kids
are playing rock, and everybody likes reggae,
an Epic executive said. "This new wave of
fusion did not come out of nowhere — the
acknowledged originators of this sty In are Bad
Brains. They started it, they’ve done it the
longest and in many ways they still do it
best.”
The music scene in Washington, D C., in
the late 1970s was "ruled by the funk-based
music called go-go.” However, go-go did not
appeal to the members of Bad Brains.
I)r. Know, the guitarist, Darryl Jenifer, the
bassist. 1 IK and Earl Hudson shared frustra
tion with American culture and were look
ing for like-minded individuals with whom
they could share their love of music
Though Bad Brains began their musical trek
in a generation influenced by the Sex Pistols,
whose music dealt mainly with the lack of
hope. Bad Brains were writing and creating
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Bad Brains, the forlalhars of soul funk
fusion still play tfw WOW Hall Saturday.
on a different level.
"We liked what punk rex k was doing." Dr
Know said. "But we wanted to direct the oner
gy it created into something."
"Reggae, and Rastafarianism, added a spir
itual side and helped us with a positive men
tal attitude," ho said.
The hand’s popularity bounded from that
point on.
"We were very popular in the D C. alter
native musit scene and started to play oth
er i ities. especially New York At that time
i was booking the band, and vve did shows at
C P, C B . Max's Kansas (atv. the Mudil Chile"
he said
"We tried to play with all kinds of differ
ent groups — metal, hiphop. funk to make
our shows something more than a concert
The Boastie Boys played with us a lot, and
the Chili Peppers did their second gig ever
with us." Dr Know said
In the following years, Bad Brains went
through a number of personnel changes and
have finally arrived with their current line
up of Dr Know on guitar, Darryl Jenifer on
Ikiss,Israel Joseph ! on vocals, and Mackie on
drums.
To dale. Bad Brains has released seven
albums and are currently touring in sup
port of their latest release, titled Hisc
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