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.
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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
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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
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