Hinds: artists' create awareness
■ Continued from Pege 7
mindless zombie* programmed by evil liberals to emulate the
violence they are presented with
l( we gag the ability of artists — like Spike Lee, Ice-T and
Oliver Stone to present, through the media, to the upper
half of America's m anomic i lass what life is like in the
impoverished communities, this awareness would not exist
It would not lie a debatable political issue for the Republi
can party, whu h has a very poor track ns ord on this matter
What Dole advocates have is a "see no evil, speak no evil,
hear no evil" polo v, where the wealthiest of Americans would
be conveniently cocooned from am sense of responsibility to
do anything about these problems
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Showcase: six Oregon bands will play
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Phamous Phaces' current
lineup has been playing for
three year*, although the band
has been in existence, on and
off. for «*ighl years
Mike Trathen. the bassist,
said the band is influenced by
the British invasion — like the
Beatles and the Who.
But. he says, “we've ail
played in Top 40 bands in the
past and have become pretty
versatile," with influences from
punk to new wave to the dread
ed corporate rock
Phamous Phai es has been
entering as many showcases and
contests as possible "It's like
the lottery — i! you don't plav,
you don't win," Trathen said
He's looking forward to tins
gig because of the exposure, anil
he's proud because they "beat a
lot of odds just to be picked
The American (iirls have
been together for a little more
than a vear Eric Larson, a
singer/guitarist, is somewhat
hesitant to label their music
besides saving it's pop rrx k
"If 1 ask someone to dttsi rilie
our music her ause I < an’t. they
lend to say we sound like some
thing that's completely opposite
of what the last person said,"
1 arson said
According to 1 arson, the hand
was nominated hv someone at
the l.ugene Weekly to la* in the
showcase
The American (lirls sent in
their tape and were asked to
play 1 .arson said they aren't
doing anything in particular to
prepare for this gig
“This is no more important
than playing in front of JO poo
pie We practice the same as
usual." he said “A gig is a gig"
Dons l>aze has been described
as intelligent, melodic and folk
influenced pop
"What about crunchy with
some distortion and a little bit
of funkiness too?” asks Scott
Crabtree, the drummer He's
played in a lot of groove-orient
ed bands, but the vocalist hates
the Grateful Dead.
The bassist is into punk, but
the guitarist is into folk. This
variety influences their sound
Crabtree saw the hand is opti
mistic about the gig.
Thev placed the Musician's
Hall and North X Northwest
and tnith were "industry-orient
ed. but then* was apparently no
• me there to spec ifi<ally see us
Skin Horse's singer*song
writer guitarist, Steve Janies,
received a letter recently
informing hint that Skin Horse
was invited to play the show
case initially not remember
itlg they had even sent in an
application James says that one
newspaper reporter described
them as '( runchy folk pop."
He lies, rdied the band as typ
ical two guitars/bass/druins,
with a lot of harmonies He said
the lyric:* are "cinematic" and
tell stories, and there is some
wild guitar playing, “but not so
much as to be distracting from
the songs
In June's guitarist. David
Weigel said We got a phone
call one day from Tic ketmaster,
and I had no recollection of
sending otir tape in I guess it
was sent on a lark, he said
The band has been together
four years and has played in
front of ASK reps many times,
so they aren't nervous.
Weigel sard the only thin#
the hand is doing to prepare for
this partii ulnr gig is "checking
our tires and automobiles for
that long haul down 1-5."
The band is debuting three
songs, so Weigel is a little ner
vous about that. In June is just
happy to play another show and
to get feodbai k
l ilies Untold hits U-en togeth
er for five years Their influ
ences range from Supertramp
and Squeeze to Jellyfish and
Klton John Don Si hwortz. the
bassist and tuba player, said the
hand hod to put together a spe
cial set stm e they ore only per
m it ted to play for 30 minutes
He said the hand has played
in other showi ases in I .os Ange
les in liars, such as the Coconut
Teazer and Club Lingerie, and
even had label interest from the
i vrnbal man's label. Paisley
Park (before the laiwil's demise)
Schwartz said as tar as show
coses go. "Never try to expei I
anything — if you get too ext it
ed you're going to be let down.
They tend to goby really fast ”
Poindexter wanted to let all
bands know the industry reps
will be marked and anyone can
go and talk to them.
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