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Time to
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ego out
of rock
By Ryan Nyburg
Senior Pulse Reporter
Let me relate an incident that J
think illuminates a problem with
modem musical performers. Back in
September I saw a concert at the
WOW Hall headlined by locals The
Rock n' Roll Soldiers. It was a great
show, and I was especially impressed
by the band's attitude toward its audi
ence. The band was playful and
seemed to genuinely enjoy perform
ing for people. No ego, no pretense,
just good old-fashioned rock n' roll
the way it is meant to be.
This remained true the next time I
saw the Soldiers, which was at a rather
disastrous show in October where the
set crumbled into chaos. The band
held out as long as it could, especially
lead singer Marty Larson-Xu, who
ranted and yelped like the bastard son
of Mick J agger, essentially expressing
the fact that he was the coolest S.O.B.
in his zip code. Eventually everything
sort of fell apart. Near the end they
were inviting up audience members
to take over the instruments.
The Soldiers are just part of a grand
tradition in this part of the country.
There seems to be an inclination in
the Pacific Northwest for the low
down-and-dirty as far as rock is con
cerned, from the whole garage rock
trend in the '60s to the grunge rock
farce of the early '90s. From the wail
ing and distortion of the Sonics right
up through the powerhouse riffs of
Mudhoney, it all boils down to the
same noisy, loud, abrasive sound. It
makes for great rock just like great
rock was meant to be made. And one
of its key benefits is a complete lack of
artistic pretense.
Pretension is not something that
fits in well with rock 'n' roll, especially
when performed live. And yet, I see it
day after day in almost every per
former I read about, from the indie
Turn to NYBURG, page 10
Double Dash!! fun
The GameCube version of
Nintendo's classic racer
lives up to its hallowed title
By Travis Willse
Editorial Editor
If any party game series defined the
late 1990s, it's certainly Mario Kart.
With fast action, intuitive controls
and a sharp learning curve, the origi
nal 1992 Super Mario Kart was a solid
racer, and it left its mark as one of Su
per Nintendo's most memorable re
leases. Its sequel, Mario Kart 64, lifted
the series from solid to sublime. Play
ers could duel up to three friends,
hurling turtle shells and banana peels
with negligence or malice in true 3-D
environments that offered nearly
flawless gameplay, indisputably grant
ing the tide classic status in its own
right. (Also in the Mario Kart family is
the Cousin Oliver of the series, 2001 's
Mario Kart: Super Circuit, a Game Boy
Advance release.)
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, the
GameCube sequel to the series, looks
to uphold the franchise's fine legacy
of player-friendliness, intense grab
you-by-the-seat-of-your-overalls ac
tion and all-around racing fun.
For the uninformed video game afi
cionado (in this case, someone who
has appreciated video games for the
last decade, but lived deep enough in
a castle teeming with pits of lava not
to know the Kart series), playing a
round of Mario Kart starts with pick
ing a driver from a selection of char
acters from Nintendo lore. Once the
race starts, metal-frame go-carts ca
reen around a race track littered with
five-foot-wide pipes, jumping moles,
monkeys that throw coconuts at unas
suming driversby, and other vehicular
non sequiturs.
Moreover, drivers can contribute to
the mayhem by collecting items from
Courtesy
'Mario Kart: Double Dash!!' is due out for
Nintendo GameCube on Nov. 17.
prize boxes clustered around each
course, and use some of them to
pump their own kart's performance,
or to throw objects at opponents' ve
hicles in an attempt to impede their
progress. For someone steeped in the
tradition of the Mario franchise and
who enjoys multiplayer action, Mario
Kart is the very manifestation of fun.
Double Dash!! is a variation on
most of the above themes. The most
obvious change is the increase from
one to two drivers per cart. While the
ingenious new system leaves the
learning curve a little more arduous,
and there's much more to keep track
of than in previous incarnations of
the game, Dash more than compen
sates by adding considerable depth to
the gameplay.
Players select two characters —
one driver and one gunner, who can
swap roles on the fly — and a go
cart. Characters include the om
nipresent Mario, Luigi and (Princess)
Peach to relative newcomers like
Waluigi and Daisy to throwbacks to
earlier Mario adventures like Donkey
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