Darkside: Next show at Wild Duck
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“I just went from there, working
the contacts and just hooking it
up," he says. “I just realized there
was no one doing it in town.
Someone had to do it. I always felt
like 1 was held back ’cause I was
n't big enough in San Francisco. I
felt like a smaller guy out there,
but in Eugene I just saw the poten
tial totally.”
One of the initial problems Pan
ni faced before organizing his first
shows was breaking the anti-hip
hop mentality of those associated
with the Eugene music scene, in
cluding this publication.
"The number one difficulty has
been the unseen happy-on-the
outside, asshole-on-the-inside
vibe I get from people 1 talk to,”
Panni says. “They're like, ‘Oh,
here’s some kid trying to do all
this hip-hop stuff. I believe hip
hop is shit but 1 don’t want to tell
him.’ I just know a lot of people
aren't opening their minds
enough. Eugene has a lot of tradi
tion, 1 guess, and people don’t
want to break that tradition.”
Even after convincing media to
correctly promote the shows and
venues to host them, Panni has
been forced to deal with often
paying nearly double the damage
deposits other promoters pay, hir
ing extra security for each show
because of the stigma associated
with hip-hop fans, and dealing
with the OLCC in order to open
the concerts to an all-ages audi
ence.
Three successful shows later,
those obstacles are beginning to
fade.
“At first it was for hip-hop rea
sons,” Panni says of the venues’
initial reluctance. “But now
they’re seeing that it can work,
and they’re seeing that they might
be able to make a little scrill on
top of that, a little bit of money,
and so they’re saying, ‘Look, if
this guy’s doing it,’... they’re giv
ing in.”
The latest venue to “give in” is
the Wild Duck, which will host
Del the Funky Homosapien and
five other performers Aug. 13. Del
joins the ‘Liks, Hieroglyphics and
Latyrx as Darkside headliners.
While all are respected in hip
hop’s inner circle, none has
achieved nation-wide popularity.
“I do like some major label
stuff, but the quality of the under
ground scene is so much more
complex,” Panni says. "These
guys have major label deals, but
they’re still underground artists.”
One concern of Panni’s has al
ways been the groups he brings to
Eugene, meaning he eschews
gangster rap and those artists dri
ven to succeed by money.
“No one that’s doing ignorant
music is going to get in in Eu
gene,” he says. “That’s the way 1
want it because there’s a lot of ig
norant stuff out there. I just find a
lot of the Puffy stuff, even a lot of
the Master P stuff, even though I
respect them as businessmen,
they’re just exploiting the music
and it’s just going to the shits right
now. The underground groups
that are critically acclaimed don’t
get the props that they deserve,
but they’re the ones that are pre
serving hip-hop. By bringing in a
group like Puffy, yeah you’d make
a lot of money, people would go
out and buy tickets like that, but
in my heart, I wouldn’t be able to
do it.”
So for now, Panni will keep
bringing in artists he knows and
respects in hopes of spreading his
own hip-hop message.
“We’re trying to educate the
people while entertaining the
people,” he says. "The more peo
ple that tune in and listen to the
radio and come out to the events,
they can realize what they’ve
been missing. I’m open to all
kinds of music, but a lot of peo
ple still aren’t open to hip-hop
’cause it’s hip-hop. There’s just
so much in hip-hop, there’s so
many different aspects you can
cover. And it’s all original, no
matter what the hell they say, it’s
original. We’re trying to educate
the people and give them a true
sense of what hip-hop should be,
not what you're going to get on
MTV. If they keep watching and
listening and learning and enjoy
ing the music, I don’t see any
problem with it getting really big
in town.”
If that happens, Panni will de
serve more than his share of the
credit, and maybe even finally get
a chance to sit back and enjoy it.
LAURA GOSS/Emerald
The happy couple before their Saturday Market u edding.
Wedding: Day’s events
will also feature folk music
■ Continued from Page 5
change vows that they collect
ed from traditional texts. Both
Polk and Cormier are content
with the traditional approach,
though it would seem odd at a
ceremony where the partici
pants will by clothed in hemp.
“It literally made me cry the
first time I read it,” Cormier
said. “We didn’t want to have
a freak scene, we’re doing this
because we love each other.”
The vows borrow from
Protestant, Catholic, Indian
and Unitarian traditions.
“I really like the traditional
ways,” Polk said. “The pagan
rituals are so complicated.”
Connie Bender, a market
member who is also a regis
tered ordained minister, will
perform the ceremony.
"It’s kind of a family thing,
a clan thing,” she said. “What
better place to do it?”
Traditional wedding music
will be performed on die flute
and violin by Robin and Dove
Miller, twin 12-year-old
daughters of Cormier’s friend
Hawk.
“I’ve never been married be
fore and won’t get married
again. So I wanted to do it in a
way I’d always fantasized
about when I was a girl,” Polk
said.
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