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Shake your pelvis with the Red Elvises tonight
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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.
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■ Russian surf rock quartet
will deliver a raucous show
at the WOW Hall just in time
for Halloween in Eugene
By Josh Ryneal
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Red Elvises, hailing from the
desolate expanse of ice and snow
known as Siberia, are bringing their
self-described “kick-ass rock ’n’ roll”
to the WOW Hall this Halloween.
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.