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PULSE EDITOR: MONICA HANDE Shake your pelvis with the Red Elvises tonight Courtesy Photo The Red Elvises make a stop at the WOW Hall tonight to promote their seventh album, “Shake Your Pelvis.” They blend Russian in fluences with elements of surf music and add a flair of fun to deliver roudy, outrageous shows that attract large audiences. BOARD POSITION OPEN lie Oregon Daily Emerald, the independent student newspaper at the University of ()regon, is seeking a volunteer to serve on its Hoard of Directors. The hoard meets monthly (exeept during December, duly and August) to oversee broad policy issues including financial, legal and personnel matters. It does not get involved in day-to-day operations, and it is not involved in content decisions. This three-vear term is open to any community member, including a student, faculty member, or employee of the University of Oregon. 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The band is returning to Eugene with their outrageous costumes, oversized guitars and a notoriously raucous live show in support of their seventh album, “Shake Your Pelvis. ” If last year’s show is any indica tion, the band will bring the same sweaty, sequined party rock to the WOW Hall, and perhaps bring along a few Halloween surprises as well. The band formed in 1996, when Oleg Bernov, Zhenya Kolykhanov and Igor Yuzov all met up with a Texas drummer and started cranking out their unique blend of Russian in fluences and elements of surf music. The combination of surf music, traditional Russian music, and rock ’n’ roll is not supposed to be taken all that seriously. “It’s a joke, to make the music sound happy,” said Kolykhanov, the Red Elvises’ lead vocalist. “It’s like Dr. Zhivago on steroids.” Bernov, who plays a giant, trian gular bass based on the balalayka, a traditional Russian instrument, said that the Red Elvises play “hap py, party music.” “It’s music you play when you learn how to play music,” Bernov said. “We get out and have a good time, and it’s infectious.” He said the band enjoys playing in Eugene because the crowds are “always very, very happy and re sponsive.” Avi Sills, a former resident of Eu gene and the band’s current drum mer, said, “It’s really fun music; we take everything fun about music and put it in our shows. “We’re all about takin’ it back to the origins of music —having fun,” he said. “It’s not about standing on stage and looking cool. We’re not cool at all; we’re a bunch of idiots.” Sills played the WOW Hall as a drummer many times before he hooked up with the band, and said he enjoys playing in Eugene. With their new album, the Red Elvises have tried to take their mu sic in a new direction, adding some electronic influences to their tradi tional rock. “It’s kind of disco-ey, and it’s got some samples and electronic drum ming,” Kolykhanov said. “The vibe is different, but it’s still a party al bum.” The Red Elvises play the WOW Hall tonight. Tickets are $8 in ad vance and $10 at the door and are available at the WOW Hall, the EMU ticket office, Face the Music, House of Records and Taco Loco. Doors open at 8:30 p.m., and the show begins at 9 p.m. Costumes are strongly encouraged. For more in formation, call 687-2764. The true meaning behind Halloween SCRIBBLES OF SANITY JAYNA BERGERSON ■Although it is now the second biggest retail holiday, Halloween has humble beginnings Halloween: A day for scary movies, plastic masks, delicious sweets, elaborate costumes and huge parties. Halloween has been observed for more than a millennium, but the original Halloween had nothing to do with fake blood or sugar highs. Its roots are unrecognizable to those of us who are used to the mega-mar ket holiday of today. Halloween was recognized in Celtic tradition Oct. 31, but it was originally known as “Samhain,” which means “end of summer.” On Samhain, Celts be lieved supernatural forces such as ghosts, devils and witches were free to wander where ever they wished. To combat the influx of evil pow ers, a priestly class of Celts known as Druids carried out certain rituals. Bonfires, which represented the sun to the Celts, were lighted on each hilltop surrounding the village to help the Druids in their fight against the dark powers. On Samhain the people would dress up and paint their faces to “blend in” with the ghosts, witch es, devils and fairies that walked among them on this day. It was be lieved it might offer them some pro tection against mischief. This was where the tradition of dressing up in a costume came into being. Trick-or-treating also is rooted in ancient custom. People would leave treats on their doorsteps for fairies and good spirits for luck in the coming year. The custom of carving jack o’ lanterns is believed to have come from an old Irish custom of creating lanterns out of vegetables. Once a lighted candle was placed inside, it was believed that the light would drive away evil spirits. The ancient traditions were changed as Christianity spread across Europe. According to Histo rychannel.com, Pope Boniface IV designated Nov. 1 as All Saints Day. It was believed that he did this in or der to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related but church sanctioned holiday. Variations of the traditions of Samhain continued. The Halloween holiday as we know it became popular for the first time in the 1920s and 1930s. Cos tumes became more detailed and decorations were suddenly in de mand. Today, Halloween is the sec ond biggest retail holiday, next to Christmas. According to the Hal loween Association Report, sales in 2000 are estimated to be about $6 billion in costumes, candy and dec orations. The National Confection ers’ Association has projected that candy sales alone will reach $1.93 billion this Halloween.
