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He recalls the obsession of elec tric riffs as a reason why he started his former rock band, Damone. “I did a lot more on electric guitar then... That’s the one thing I miss,” Alexander said. The termination of Damone sup ported Alexander’s “evolution as a writer” and aided his ability to use a high-range voice within his solo music. The turn from band leader to solo artist has been a giant step for Alexan der toward finding his place in the musical community. “I think with ‘The Middle Way’ I’ve found my voice, and now I think my voice is my best attribute. Also, song writing-wise, I think my songs are get ting better and better.” The songwriter insists that his goal in music writing is for his songs to be honest, sensitive and pure. Alexander said he will always “try to have a level of commitment to the music.” Alexander began his singer/song writer debut on the Los Angeles club circuit and quickly became a club fa vorite among the folk scene in southern California. “There’s a really flourishing singer/songwriter scene in L.A. I mean, there is just a bunch of badass singer/songwriters down there. We all developed relationships with one an other and it’s very encouraging, it’s not competitive at all.” Los Angeles has allowed this young artist to mature and flower in the folk and singer/songwriter community. As a regular performer at the “nexus of the L.A. folk scene,” The Hotel Cafe, Alexander has become a seasoned live performer. He said that to play a great show, “It has to be a combination of me feeling really good and loose and having my voice and my fingers with my guitar playing work together forme.” Alexander is confident that the beauty of his music and voice will draw in a new audience. “My music is pretty and has a strong melody; I think that will pull in the audience at first, and then, hopefully, the lyrics will resonate on some level,” he said. Alexander’s popularity as an artist in the singer/songwriter community on the West Coast and in Europe has grown. When asked about the pop mainstream fads in the music industry and what the future of folk and singer/songwriters will be, Alexander said, “I think we are in a culture of dis posability, all this (pop) stuff is just stuff that comes and goes. I like to think that real singing and real song writing will always stick around and that all this (pop) shit is just sort of a phase. It’s a tough time to be an independent (artist), in a commercial sense, but it’s a great time to be an in dependent for the long run. ” Shane Alexander will be playing at Luckey’s today at 10 p.m. is now open 2588 Willamette Si. 541-087-8201 340 Alder St. 541 087 0355 Nyburg: Guilt trips make people rebel Continued from page 7* with them and not advanced to more difficult works. J.K. Rowling makes another gajillion dollars and the world goes on being the same place it has always been. Anyway, where were these “magic of reading” people when I was a kid? I had no one to ad vance my cause when I was yelled at for reading ahead of the class, nobody there to defend me when I got ostracized for spending more time in the library than on the football field, no one taking my side when I thought the school ought to stock up on some Franz Kafka or Virginia Woolf rather than Leon Uris and Stephen King. It might be that most of the “reading good/TV bad” crowd only really cares about the appear ance of literacy. They guilt trip kids into reading books, make the entire activity feel like a forced march through a sun-baked desert and generally suck the sense of personal discovery and mental en gagement out of it. This personal and private activity becomes rote, dull and exhausting. The idea that reading for pleasure is something that you MUST do turns people off and they rebel. 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