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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1995)
If you see Jamhay and I he Lazy Porch Dogs in conceit, you nuiv think You're JEREMY STINSON , "And ciw ’O' son ethmg comp;o’<riy differ ent ‘ Jambay guitarist Sheney Doiy said this a*; fhe band took the stage for a solid 90 minute set last weekend at tne WOW Han She was right Jambay was very different from the opening act. The Lazy Porch Dogs, and yet. very similar If you haven't seen Jambay and The Lazy Porch Dogs, let me fill you In The two groups are the same band The Lazy Porch Dogs (a k a Jambay unplugged) opened Saturday's concert with a lullaby and pro ceeded to play a full hour of acoustic origi nals The band - Shelley Doiy and Chris Hau gen guitar, Michael Sugar, bass, and Matthew Butler, drums pa yea a rnm ot biuegrass, folk, jazz and rock Their use ot four-pad harmomes over progressive instru mental arrangements gives them a Iresh. unique voice in the West Coast muse scene where excessive distortion and mundane, three-chord guitarists are e : too common The individual talents of the band mem bers also help make this possible Sugar was just as comfortable bowing jazzy solos on the upright as he was laying down solid electric grooves or moving up and down the compact neck of the mandolin W—— ..1, s .^■-■■r^'...l ,,„ _. Jambay played a mixture of bluegrass, folk, \&n and rock at their concert at the WOW Hall last weekend t .■( >iy ,r K.1 r was espeaaify inventive Although the two shaded lead duties. Doty tended to dominate this rote m the acoustic set Haugen backed her sotos with intelligent but sparse mandocn work or lightly tapped harmonics on the gun tar TK'S commun-cation was surpnt.ng because the two guitarists seemed about as different as Jambay and The Lazy Porch Dogs Doc Martin clad Doty offer anped up and down with her low -slung guitar ;*e f tea w to Haugen was - • ;>.<nt to s»mpty nod h* head back and forth fus feet firmly planted on the ground Although their lyres aren't too profound if s were a cactus i wouldn't need so n ;ch water- they are pretty creative "Under moonlight and satellite dishes / Watching the !>de and tune go by * Jambay s electee set wasn't qu-te as uyr-t" ' i. <>‘f ,|4 «K(S!ic one Msimewi managed lo keep things interesting, though, with imaginative and sons !> <:< rhythms But it was the way the band members played together, not individually. that made things work And let's not forget trie audience As soon as band members took the stage, they were greeted w>»h the ‘Jambay Howl' .1 shell yelp that sounds more like a Confederate < > urge tnan a h t" diy crowd a! the WOW Han One audience member even supplied Doty with a much needed c.«»po during the first set The improvisationai nature of the>r mus t >s bound fo draw comparisons to o«*»r we Known groups B Ja'-.bay has truly os'aii shed their own identity Don't was uni.; the last term oi your senior year to see tt<*<‘.*i guys *e ! did They oMer something tor everyone and a howtmg good time sswkssimWs ‘Forrest Gump’ going to video with huge marketing campaign NOV YORK (AP) Contrary lo one ot his pet aphorisms, when Forrest Gump comes to video Apni 28, you know exactly what you're going to get You get the film of the year, wdh si* Academy Awards, including oest picture, actor (Tom ' Can He Threepeat7” Hanks) and director (Robert Zemeckis). and three Golden Globes You get the tourth-highest grossing film m Hollywood histo ry You get the movie that engen dered debates over whether Gump was a champ or a chump, and hand-wringing about the dumbmg-down ot America So it life is like a box ot choco lates. Forrest Gump now is a lot like a Whitman's Sampler with the chart on the box's lid telling you exactly what candies are where Certainly Paramount Pictures knows what it's going to get. too The studio anticipates the Mm priced to move at $22 95 witt become its ait-time, top sonng video and plans its largest marketing campaign ever to ensure that AH we have to do is bM* the airwaves and let people know it's coming," Jack Kanne. Para mount's executive vice presi dent of sales and marketing, told The Associated Press in an interview He refused to say exactly how much Paramount will be spend ing to pitch the video, but he noted that the cornerstone of the effort is a tour-month saturation bJiU on television So our strategy is not to ten them what Forr&st Gump is we just have to remind them that it s gomg to be out them on video new " he said And that’s an easy job to have " Kan no sa>d Paramount s strat egy all along aimed to take advantage of the positive press that stemmed from the bushelful o! awards We knew it would be a con tender." he said But he said that the buzz from the awards won't help because the movie had developed mto such a phenomenom already I think an it's done here is set it up for being the targe movie that ■( is." Kanne said, adding that any minute now" it Will be the Ihird-biggesi movie of all time, surpassing Sfar Wars (Jurassic Park —• the all-time favorite movie of Michael Humphreys, the kid who plays young Forrest — and E T rank No 1 and 2, respectively ) What makes it rttngu>ng is the amount o< momentum that this thing has realty t)een able to muster," Kanne said So the studio is counting on megasates We fee1 that the demograph ics are broader than most peo ple thmk We think that the audience is (aged) 12 to 80 This movie has touched a ot younger audience than most people reaii/e. ' Kanne said So we expect it to bo certainty in the Top 10 all-time I think the prior movie that was this big that won the best picture Oscar was Dances Witn Wolves which I think was 21st (in box-office gross) when it won " The only thing you may not know you're going to get is Through the Eyes ol Forrest Gump, a 37-mmute. behind the scenes look into the making of me movie H shows now the special effects people created me illu sion of Gump meeting U S presidents. the pmypong tour nament m China, a Gulf Coast hurricane and the computer wi/ ardry that makes actor Gary Soise took like a double amputee It's an epc of human propor tions," Hanks says in this tape, laughing as he tries to explain the movie s success You know. I read this thing This breaks every rule of movie making that l know of There s no quest that anybody is on There's no bad guy There's just the spirit of Forrest Gump That's the backbone of the move "
