The Violent Femmes to ‘blister’ EMU
The wacky trio and college music
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By Bryan Petersen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Get ready, ill jii fui if mn,
alternative, acoustic pop,
because the band that start
ed it all is coming Tuesday
right here to the EMU.
The Violent Femmes have
been a staple of college music
charts for more than a decade
and were alternative long be
fore that word became a vic
tim of overkill. The trio
hails from Wisconsin and
is composed of Gordon
Gano singing and playing
guitar; Brian Ritchie on
me Dass; ana
Guy Hoffman,
formerly of the
BoDeans, on
drums. (Hoffman
replaced the orig
inal Femmes
drummer Victor
DeLorenzo in
1993).
Even though
this pioneering
outfit has more
than six albums to
its credit, includ
ing one as recent
as 1994 (“New Times”), the
Femmes are still best known for
material they released way back
in the deep, dark '80s. Songs like
“Country Death Song,” “Gone
Daddy Gone,” “Add It Up” and
“Blister In The Sun” represent
the band’s trademark sound: en
ergetic, humorous pop with sar
castic lyrics, played unplugged
long before the term was thought
of.
“Blister In the Sun” may be the
one song that can be called a
trademark for the band. It has
been a favorite ever since its re
lease on the band’s platinum de
but “Violent Femmes” in 1983,
and its popularity has been re
generated in recent movies such
as “Grosse Point Blank” and
“The Wedding Singer.”
Material released in the ’90s
has failed to recapture the feel
ing of those early offerings, and
perhaps the most noteworthy
song the band has offered this
decade was the blistering cover
of Culture Club’s “Do You Real
ly Want To Hurt Me?” from the
1993 album “Why Do Birds
Sing?”
Live, the band has solidified its
reputation by laying down its
material in a tight, audience
friendly manner that tends to get
the crowd really jumpin’. Former
University student Mike Van
Buskirk sums it up:
“I saw the Femmes a few years
Who: Violent Femmes
When: April 6 at 8 p.m.
Where: EMU Ballroom
Tickets: $20 for students, $25
for the general public
ago up in Corvallis.
There were
aoout 4uu peo
ple crammed
into a small
place, and I
thought the roof
was going to
blow off the
place.
“The Femmes
just whipped the
crowd into a
frenzy, and they
got everybody to
sing along with
'Blister In The Sun’ and ‘Add It
Up.’ But they didn't even have to
try, because everyone was
singing along through the whole
show anyway,
"I couldn’t believe that three
guys with acoustic instruments
could rock so hard," he said.
Tickets are $20 for students
and $25 for the general public.
They can be purchased at any
Ticketmaster outlet or at the
EMU Ticket Office.
You can also try your luck at
winning tickets by entering two
separate contests: The EMU food
service center has an on-line con
test at www.emufoodservice.
uoregon.edu, and Face the Music
has a traditional drop-box contest
in its store on 13th Avenue and
Kincaid Street.
Learning Channel presents
‘Intimate Universe’ series
By Bob Thomas
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Want to see
a sword-swallower’s vocal cords?
Or watch a British lord get drunk?
Tune in to the Learning Channel
for “Intimate Universe: The Hu
man Body.”
“Fantastic Voyage,” the 1966
movie showed scientists minia
turized to microscopic size and in
jected into a living body. But that
was science fiction. The BBC, us
ing medical advances, presents
the real thing, peering into the
workings of the heart, womb and
other organs in four one-hour seg
ments on TLC Sunday and Mon
day, April 18-19 at 9' p.m. EDT.
(The final four hours will be
shown Aug. 1-2, preceded by a re
peat of the first segments.)
Robert Winston, the tour
guide, is man of many talents.
He can be addressed as Doctor
(he is a renowned expert on in
fertility), Professor (he teaches at
the Royal Postgraduate Medical
School), or Lord (he holds a non
inherited seat in Britain’s House
of Lords).
But in a telephone interview
from London, he seemed to shun
any such formality.
“What I think we may have
achieved,” he remarked, “is to
demonstrate that you can make
perfectly respectable science en
tertaining.”
He cited some television firsts
for “Intimate Universe”: imaging
of the brain, neurons firing, and
the use of endoscopy, where a
slim fiber-optic tube records such
things as a fetus growing inside
the womb and the vocal cords of a
sword swallower.
“Intimate Universe” took Win
ston from French caves to Egypt,
from Yellowstone National Park
to Kenya.
“It’s a way of re
laxation,” he said. /
But not always. At
one point he was
supposed to film
in Guatemala. But
he and the pro
clucer were too tired to travel there
so they shot the segment on the
Thames River.
To demonstrate the body’s reac
tion toalcohol, Winston did some
thing rather undoctorly and un
lordly: He got drunk, on camera.
The scene was shot in a London
restaurant. Winston drank more
than two bottles of wine, “and
demonstrated that I can’t hold my
liquor very well.
“It’s really quite a difficult tiling
to do. It’s quite lonely, getting
drunk on your own, with a cam
era and a large crew watching you.
You feel quite exposed. ”
Another episode explaining the
effects of morning sickness re
quired him to get seasick.
“That was a bit of a fake, to tell
you the truth,” he confessed.