Northwest plays host to popular summer acts
■The Dave Matthews Band
and Moby will hit the Gorge,
while Ani DiFrancoand Pat
Benatar will visit Eugene
By Dave Depper
Oregon Daily Emerald
Picture this: School’s out. The
weather is to die for. The days are
long, the nights are warm and
you’re ready to be entertained.
Yes, boys and girls, it’s almost
summer, which means that there
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will be live music aplenty ‘round
these parts.
There are a whole lot of big
names coming to the Pacific
Northwest this summer. The
ever-popular Gorge Amphitheater
in George, Wash., is hosting a few
of these heavy hitters. Get your
alterna-teen fix with Matchbox
20 on September 22, or with
everybody’s favorite naked punk
rock trio Blink-182 on August 17.
The mighty Radiohead will be
stopping by June 23 to support
endless possibilities
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their latest alienation-rock opus
“Amnesiac.”
One of the most innovative
events of the summer will be
Moby’s Area: One Festival, which
is coming to the Gorge August 3.
Artists scheduled to appear in
clude The Roots, New Order, Out
Kast, Orb, Paul Oakenfold and
Moby himself. Get out your glow
sticks and be prepared to dance
the night away.
However, the Gorge’s most pop
ular draw this summer will most
likely be Dave Matthews Band’s
three-day stint on August 24, 25,
and 26. With a successful new al
bum (’’Everyday”) and an ever-ex
panding fan base, Dave Matthews
Band appears to be utterly unstop
pable in terms of drawing crowds
to its epic concerts.
Portland’s Rose Garden arena
has its own share of marquee-fill
ing superstars coming through this
summer. Janet Jackson’s “All For
You” tour will be rolling through
on July 7, and ’80s synth-gloom pi
oneers Depeche Mode will stop by
on July 27 in support of their new
album “Exciter.”
Baby boomers should all hyper
ventilate when they hear that God
himself, Eric Clapton, will be grac
ing the Rose Garden August 7 for
his “Reptile” tour. In a recent in
terview, Clapton said that this tour
would be his last, so catch him
while you can.
Backstreet’s back, all right, and
they’ll be at the Rose Garden Au
gust 10. Make sure to ask your par
ents’ permission first.
These acts are just the tip of the
iceberg. There’s tons of other
artists coming our way this sum
mer, from Counting Crows to Cold
play to Ray Charles.
Locally, Eugene’s summer music
schedule ain’t too shabby, either.
Coming to our very own Cuthbert
Amphitheater on July 3 will be for
mer Grateful Dead bassmeister
Phil Lesh. Original Righteous Babe
Ani DiFranco will stop by on July
9, and prog-rock holdovers The
Moody Blues will appear August
28.
The 2001 Lane County Fair, al
ways a good time, will run from
August 14-19. This year’s featured
performers include Collin Raye,
Jaci Velasquez, .38 Special, Oak
Ridge Boys, Pat Benatar and
Wynonna. Yes, that’s right. Pat Be
natar will be in Eugene.
Eugene has always been proud
of its Oregon Bach Festival, and
with good reason: It’s become one
of the most important celebrations
of Bach’s music in the .United
States. The Bach Festival will take
place at the Hult Center and at the
University’s own Beall Hall from
June 22-July 8. This year’s festival
will feature a very special guest:
vocal sensation Bobby McFerrin.
Yes, he sang “Don’t Worry, Be
Happy,” but the musical stylings
of the 10-time Grammy winner
have been decidedly more classi
cal of late.
Finally, Eugene’s local bars and
clubs will be providing the same
low-cost, high-quality musical en
tertainment that they offer year
round. Cafe Paradiso in particular
is completely remodeling its mu
sic venue, upgrading the sound
system and stage and getting big
ger-name acts. They’ll be offering
beer and wine this summer, too.
So whatever tickles your musi
cal pickle, you’ll have the opportu
nity to be entertained this summer.
Whether it be rock, country, classi
cal or guitar-slinging hippies on
East 13th Avenue, musical bliss is
only a stone’s throw away.
Just say ‘oui’ to new Air album
■Air’s latest album departs
from their previous work,
featuring digitized vocals and
dreamy drum machine beats
Air ‘10,000 Hz. Legend’
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★★★★☆
By Dave Depper
Oregon Daily Emerald
“10,000 Hz. Legend” is the new
album by French chill-meisters
Air. It is also the weirdest music I
have heard all year.
Air rose from relative Gallic ob
scurity to worldwide acclaim a
few years back with “Moon Sa
fari,” a record so kitsch-cool, so
Franco-fresh, so bachelor-pad se
ductive that everybody from
teenagers to gray-haired swingers
sang its praises. It was all about
the Rhodes piano vibe, the
acoustic guitar and the string sec
tions. It was so laid back that par
ents used it for after-dinner mu
sic, and stoners liked it for
obvious reasons.
Many people would probably
agree that it was a hell of a make
out album, too.
We last heard from Air about a
year and half ago, when they pro
vided the soundtrack for the film
“The Virgin Suicides.” A creepy
pastiche of funeral organs and
haunted-house vibes, it didn’t ex
actly seem like an official new
Air album per se, but it was a
wholly satisfying effort that made
Air fans salivate over the pending
“real” new Air album.
And now we have “10,000 Hz.
Legend.” If “Moon Safari” was a
cool whiff of pure oxygen, then
“10,000 Hz. Legend” is a gas
mask full of industrial-strength
nitrous oxide.
“10,000 Hz. Legend” sounds
nothing like Air’s previous work.
Gone are the brief flashes of
Moog, the angelic female vocals
and the jazzy undercurrents. In
stead, we have robotic drum-ma
chine beats, vocals rendered un
recognizable by computers and
sound effects that sound like
they’re coming from the neigh
borhood of the Crab Nebula.
Warning: Don’t try making out
with your girl to this album un
less she’s a cyborg.
This album is just so weird that
I’m having a hard time figuring
out how to describe it accurately.
Perhaps talking about some of the
songs will help.
“10,000 Hz. Legend” kicks off
with “Electronic Performers,” a
song designed to make you think
that Air have gone crazy. It’s slow
as molasses, and out of the thick
electronic soup that is the music,
a severely slowed-down, French
accented voice intones lyrics like
“machines gave me some free
dom/synthesizers gave me some
wings/they drop me through 12
bit samplers/we are electronic
performers.” What are they talk
ing about?
The next song is called “How
Does It Make You Feel?” and it’s
even stranger. While a mournful
acoustic guitar plays and a choir
sings in the background, a com
puterized voice whispers sweet
nothings into the listener’s ear.
That is, until the overblown
gospel chorus comes around,
sounding like a vacuum-sealed
holdover from 1972.
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Beck, he of the newfound
“loverman” swagger, shows up
on two tracks. “The Vagabond”'
wouldn’t sound out of place on
Beck’s “Midnite Vultures,” and
he reads a trippy poem over the
song “Don’t Be Light.” He adds a
welcome touch of humanity to
what would otherwise sound like
a rather cold album.
Other highlights include the
Backstreet-Boys-on-bad-acid
swagger of “Radio #1,” the Wild
West tale of a blowjob provider
on “Wonder Milky Bitch” and the
utterly brain-warping psychodra
ma that is “Sex Born Poison.”
Sample lyric: “Who dares to
wake me?/prince from the bio
mass/meet my desire sensors/my
atom juice of joy/you want to fuse
my affective circuits.”
Listening to “10,000 Hz. Leg
end” basically involves one hour
of feeling like your head is going
to explode from information
overload. It is also proof that
French people get high, perhaps
often. While the album is defi
nitely an acquired taste, I would
heartily recommend that you bor
row it from a weird friend, fall in
love with it and then buy your
own ticket to outer space with
Air.. .