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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1995)
Emerald ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE October 13, 1995 Showdown Mill Camp More than 1H5 ha this will com pete in the Ticket masteis 'unsigned hand' competi tion By Allison Hall Frmianca Fkwcyu* What do most unsigned bands want' ()l>viously to got signed II i band is lui kv enough to invite artist and repertoire (A X R) representatives the people who t an sign a band to a label to a gig and actual ly have the reps show up, then that band is several steps ahead of the rest To make things a little easier To ketmaster devel oped the Tit ketmaster Musit Showcase in 1003 All unsigned hands are invited to send in their demo tapes. Music industry people choose five frauds to play 30-minute sets in local showt ases, which art? held in 43 cities Out of 10,174 entries this year, 1M5 hands wore asked to plav. For the past two years, the lot al showt use has been in Portland, but this year it is in Eugene — on Oct lu at the Mill ( amp Saloon, which is actually in Springfield There is a rotating panel of 12 industry people, ranging from A & R reps to managers to publishers and throe to sis of these panelists attend eat h of the performant os. The panels, past and present, have included rep* from Atlantic Records. Com rete Marketing Oeifen Records. Polygram Music Publishing, Sony Music Entertainment and several others. Bands are rated on songwriting, originality, musi cianship, performance anti overall potential, accord ing to Tii ketmaster publicist Bonnie Poindexter At the end of the 42-t its tour, 20 bands will advance to the regional*, which are held in San Fran cisco. San Antonio, Chicago and Tampa Those 20 bands get approximately $1000 and an all expenses-paid trip to the nearest i ilv- From there, five bands receive a $2500 development grant and a trip to New York City to perform in the National Tu ketmas ter Mush Showt ase Whichever band is chosen as the finalist gets a week-long recording session at Bad Animals studio in Seattle. NATAl.it MUNfCK *<*»•) Mill Camp Saloon in Springfield will host the local showcase on Thursday evening But even the 1)1111(1-. that don't advance after the local set .ir*< still (lotting the chant e to play for influ ential people in the industry, and Poindexter said that is a major accomplishment in itself There are six (winds playing at the Mill Camp tour stop: Phamous Pltmes and the American Cirls from Eugene. Doris Da/e, Skin Horse. In (une and Tales Untold all from Portland • SHOWCASE P '( CONCERT Ticketmaster Music Showcase ai Mill Camp Salem (ki l‘)M 8pm aiw(ham u SI 92 Depictions of violence response to society ! ts obvious there is a correlation between violent.** in sot mty and . loitmci* m media; however, there is no strong evidence of 53lion between die two occur rences On the contrary, a wealth of valid, scientific studies exists, indicating that socioet onomic factors have the must profound effect on violent « in society. linages of violence through artis tic expression are portrayed in response to increased violence and strile in the environment. No i (im pelling evident e suggests that, his torically. art has ever i aused the moral decline of u society. However, there is historical basis for the subsequent moral decline of society based on censorship. As was the case in Nazi Germany and Sovi et Russia, restriction of information from the public forum served only ON THE SCENE to woMti social problems Organized crime and violent e in Anumu have historically been the moM probleraatn during periods of economii and social chaos. Consider the Industrial Revolu tion when workers were terribly underpaid and overworked. You won't find any gangster rap or film on the chart* during those periods Artists express their feelings about the world around them < toe example is the suggestion by Neo Nazi groups that the awful images painted by concentration camp sur vivors in the Holocaust Memorial were commercially motivated. This is insulting In a similar fashion, the young men iind women who lace death every day in our nation * inner tit it's am only expressing the horror that exists around them The hn t that residents ot Amen ' a s most rural towns and wealthier suburbs are graphically aw ire of the horrors that exist in our inner cities ■■ not due to the federal govern mtmt's efforts to promote altruism through public education. We are aware of the pain that our less fortunate fellow Americans suf for because we learn about their lives through music, film and jour nalisrn. Politicians like Republicans Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich are wrong when they finger pop cultures for the moral decline of s<m iety Americans do not pay attention to these messages because they are Turn to HINDS Page 10 Master flutist opens series y: ■ ■ jsiGS SacMev the Sctox ot Mu'.r: Wot Id MuSiC Set es urnth a performance J? 8 p m on Saturday 31 Be31 Concert Halt G S Sachdev moved to It* United States m 1970. and since i*)en he has been a nva ■: t Scotsman teacher and performer ot Indian music Ttcwts fo* the conceit are $8 students $10 genera* For more information '.id the Muse Hotline at 346 3764
