Volume 100, Issue 14
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SPOIUBHT
■ John Henry’s
begins a monthly
series called the
“First Thursday
Swing Night”
tonight at 7:30
p.m.Thetwo-and
a-half hour show
features The
Vipers with Eagle
Park Slim and
costs $2-$5 on a
sliding scale.
■ Boogie Chilian’
plays the Hooly
wood Taxi tonight
at 9:30 p.m. Tick
ets are $3.
■The WOW Hall
welcomes Laurel
AitkenandtheNew
York Ska & Jazz
Ensemble tonight
at 9 p.m. Tickets
are $7 in advance,
$8 at the door.
■ Elemental
Records’ perpetual
search for the
‘next big thing’
continues Friday
with the fourth
round of Sonic
Xplosion ‘98, be
ginning at 9:30
p.m.attheWOW
Hail. The $5 show
includes 1996 Las
Vegas‘Rock Artist
of the Year'(City
Life Magazine)
Karting
Applegate, who is
compared with
Bjork and Tori
Amos, pop-punks
Smooch Knob and
Eugene’s Gregar
ius, which is com
posed of four Uni
versity grads.
■ Soul FunKtion,
an eight person
funk band featur
ing South Eugene
graduates, will
play this Saturday
at 8:30 p.m. at
Cafe Paradiso.
■ This Saturday at
9:30 p.m., Sam
Bond’s Garage will
host a benefit for
the HIV Alliance
featuring Nectar
Way, People’s
Choice, Tom
Heinl, and Peter
Wilde. The entire
ticket price of $1
$25, based on
ability to con
tribute, will be do
nated to the HIV
Alliance. Sam
Bond’s is located
at 407 Blair. Call
431-6603 for
more information.
Big Wheel keeps on turning
COURTESY
John Fogerty is enjoying a successful solo career after leaving Creedence.
John Fogerty Discography
Creetfence Clearwater Revival
Jl Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1968
■ Born on the Bayou, 1968
■ Green River, 1969
■ Willy and the Poor Boys, 1969
■ Cosmos Factory, 1970
■ Pendulum, 1970
Solo
■ Blue Ridge Rangers, 1973
« Centerfleld, 1985
■ Eye of the Zombie, 1986
■ Blue Moon Swamp, 1997
from Warner Bros. Records
John Fogerty, former lead singer of
classic rock icon Creedance Clearwater
Revival, comes to Eugene on Wednesday
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Associate Editor
The scope of popular music
over the last 30 years has
changed to such an extent
that it's hard to believe a
group like Prodigy hails from
the same country as the Beat
les.
The movement from guitar
driven rock to today’s amal
gam of everything but is near
ly complete, and there are
scant artists who’ve managed
to stay true to the roots laid
two generations ago and still
remain popular.
One American artist who’s
managed to do just that will
make a rare concert appear
ance Aug. 12 at Eugene’s
Cuthbert Amphitheater. Ex
actly 30 years after his initial
entrance onto the pop music
scene, John Fogerty is back to
show that good music never
dies, or even fades away.
Fogerty and his band liter
ally exploded into national
prominence in the late ’60s,
when, in a three year span, he
and Creedence Clearwater Re
vival released six albums that
included favorites like “Proud
Mary,” “Born on the Bayou,”
“Fortunate Son,” and "Green
River.” Those classics placed
CCR and their Southern roots
rock at the pinnacle of the
classic rock world, and they
have remained at that apex
ever since.
But Fogerty hasn’t chosen
to live off CCR’s accolades
and collect royalties. Instead,
he has released four solo al
bums with songs like “Center
field” keeping the Creedence
tradition alive.
Fogerty has found himself
unable to match the terrific
pace at which Creedence re
leased albums. In stark con
trast to that two-album-per
year pace, Fogerty has taken
the remaining 27 years to re
lease just four albums, and
only one ot those in the last
decade.
The latest is 1997’s “Blue
Moon Swamp,” Fogerty’s
most personal album yet and
one that includes a wide array
of supporting musicians such
as Red Hot Chili Peppers
drummer Chad Smith.
"Blue Moon Swamp” was
released 11 years after his last
album, but Fogerty said in a
biography issued by his
record company that he began
working on the album in
1992.
“When I recorded ‘Center
field,’ it took a long time be
cause I did it all myself,"
Fogerty said in a biography on
the Warner Bros. Web site,
“including learning to play
instruments I hadn't even
picked up before then. This
time around, 1 went about it
differently, because I’ve al
ways felt that the very best
music comes from the interac
tion of live musicians. Origi
nally I put together a four
piece line-up, but after a few
weeks of playing together, I
began to understand that
there were limitations to that,
as well. So, I went out on an
other search, looking for the
best musicians for each song I
wanted to record. I realized
that while, for instance, one
drummer might be great for a
certain song, there was some
one else who could get what I
was after on another track.”
According to the Hult Cen
ter, Fogerty will mix a few of
his Creedence hits with mate
rial from “Blue Moon
Swamp” and his other solo al
bums for Wednesday’s con
cert.
Fogerty will be joined by
Sister 7 for the 6:30 p.m.
show, and doors open at 5:30
p.m. Tickets are $29.50 and
can be purchased at the Hult
Center Box Office, REI and
the EMU Ticket Office.
Improvisational troupes square off at Lord Leebrick
The University’s Absolute Improv
performs with Wymprov! on
Friday and Saturday
By Cindy Lundeen
Freelance Reporter
In one comer stands a group of Oregon
students collectively known as “Absolute
Improv.” In the other comer stands a group
of four Eugene women collectively known
as “Wymprov! ” Let’s get ready to rnrumble!
Absolute Improv and Wymprov!, two lo
cally based improvisational troupes, will
face off in two separate seven-round match
es at the Lord Leebrick Theatre Company on
Friday and Saturday beginning at 7 p.m.
each night. The show, which will have a
boxing theme, is a fund-raiser for the theater,
located at 540 Chamelton St. in Eugene.
Tickets are $25 per person.
During the school year, Absolute Improv
usually consists of 16 University theater arts
majors and one creative writing graduate
student. During the summer, about 11 play
ers remain in town and perform. The group
began in the fall of1996 with four theater arts
majors who wanted to form an improv
group. The current group has performed at
the Wild Duck, Player’s Cabaret, the Univer
sity Pocket Playhouse, and it currently per
forms every other Wednesday at Chelsea’s
Bar and Grill at the Fifth Street Public Mar
ket.
Wymprov! is a group of four Eugene
women who have performed together in
and out of town for the last seven years. It
evolved from a larger group of women who
originally met at a “healing with humor”
workshop and continued to meet and prac
tice improvisation. Four of the women who
wanted to perform put on a show seven
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The four comic women of Wymprov! will square off with the
University's Absolute lmprov this iveekenci.
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