Pulse
Thursday
July20,2000
Volume 102, Issue 9
Emerald
After decades of rocking, Metallica reigns in ‘Summer’
The rock band
outshines its
successors Korn and
Kid Rock in a
firestorm of
professional heavy
metal
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Reporter’s
NOTEBOOK
By Rebecca Newell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Loud rock, overpriced
food, mosh pits, half-naked
women and the slight aroma
of petchuli. Not quite the
Country Fair. Instead, the cli
max of my summer — Metal
lica performing at 3Com Park
in San Francisco.
In high school, I thought
Metallica was some radical,
hard-rock, head-banging
band. Thank God I came to
college and learned some
thing.
Soon after arriving at col
lege, I was asked if I liked
Metallica. Truthfully, there
hadn’t been a lot of rock influ
ence in my rather backwoods
childhood growing up on a
farm. So I humbly admitted
that I wasn’t exactly sure what
Metallica sounded like.
Needless to say, thirty sec
onds of “Unforgiven” got me
hooked. So when I heard that
Metallica was playing in the
Bay Area on July 14,1 decided
I had to attend. After all, I
wanted to say I did one cool
thing over the summer. And
by buying tickets for my best
friend for his birthday, I killed
two birds with one stone.
The drive to San Francisco
was a long one, especially
starting out at ll p.m. The
drive was uneventful other than be
ing pulled over for speeding — lucki
ly we got off with a warning — and
the predictable rush hour traffic that
began in Sacramento at 5:30 a.m.
But none of it mattered, not even
my state of exhaustion, because we
were hyped up to see Metallica, the
god-father of rock bands! After
checking into our hotel, we headed
for 3Com Park, better known as Can
dlestick Park. Unfortunately, in our
haste, we forgot to bring the contents
of our room’s honor bar with us.
Because of our overestimatation of
traffic, we arrived more than an hour
early. Great opportunity to get good
seats, or so we thought, until we
mounted the stairs to the near-empty
stadium. Entertaining notions that I
was in the wrong place, I practically
napped during the next hour in the
warm sun, oblivious to the steady
stream of fans finding seats and the
tuning of instruments.
The concert kicked off with open
ing bands System of A Down and
Powerman 5000, in what order, I
have no idea, as there wasn’t any
memorable distinctions between
them. The two bands seemed typical
— unusual attire, indistinguishable
lyrics and a lot of bouncing up and
down. But they did succeed in get
ting the crowd riled up, or at least
enough that several young gals began
shedding their clothing.
Ironically, the flesh displayed be
tween sets gathered more attention
than the openers. At least the bands
didn’t have people chanting “Show
me your tits.”
Of course, the antics of Kid Rock’s
strippers didn’t lower the sexual cli
mate any. The self-proclaimed
“pimp” got the crowd going crazy
singing about his white trash back
ground and sexual gallantry while
wearing a wife-beater. And of course,
his midget side-kick Joe C. was an in
Turn to Metallica, page 8
Korn was one of four bands opening for Metallica during Friday’s ‘Summer Sanitarium Tour’ performance at 3Com Park in San Francisco.
Rockin’ Robinson
courtesy of University Theatre
UO $ Mad Duckling Theatre rolls on with its second musical comedy for children and families, titled “Schoolhouse Rock Live.” The show opens
Tuesday, July 25, and features (clockwise from top left) Giovanni Bliss, Lindy Anderson, Jon Sharpy, Jocelyn Fultz, Amanda Dumler and Sara
Tumquist. All shows begin at 11 a.m. in the amphitheater adjacent to the south side of Robinson Theatre and will continue daily through July
Lost Theory
bakes up finger
licking sounds
By Valerie Meldrum
for the Emerald
The house was pulsing with
expectation last Friday after
noon in a home not far from
downtown Eugene. It felt like
Oscar night.
The front door was open and
it was like a beacon of welcome
to this tight-knit group of young
guys in their early 20s. Guys
were wandering in and out. Zak
Hawver, the bass guitar player
for the band, Lost Theory,
bounded through the door and
across the living room with the
visor of his motorcycle helmet
up. Ian Hanley, the lead singer
was asleep in a back bedroom.
Ben Carmine, (that’s pro
nounced “Car-meen-ee,”) Ian
Hanley, Zak Hawver, Luke
Houke and Estaban Mendez are
the members of Lost Theory, the
band that played at Hagen’s
Restaurant & Pub, 50 E. 11th last
Saturday. Fred Hoglund, the
employee who books entertain
Turn to Lost Theory, page 10
Local
musicians
attribute their
style to the
likes of KRS1,
Pearl Jam and
most
everything in
between