If you see Jamhay and I he Lazy Porch Dogs in conceit, you nuiv think You're
JEREMY STINSON
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"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
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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
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‘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 "