Singer's extraordinary style
hits John Henry's on Sunday
Self-described ‘indie/pop/punk' artist Inara George
brings musical background to her first solo project
BY AMY UCHTY
PULSE EDITOR
"Will you take me as your mis
tress?" asks singer Inara George in
the opening track of her solo debut
"All Rise." Sure, it isn'tyourtypical
love song, butthen again, George is
notyourtypical singer-songwriter.
Luckily for Eugene, she'll be making
an appearance Sunday at John Hen
ry's.
Growing up in a home full of music
in Topanga Canyon, Calif., George had
decided early on to not take the road
set out in front of her. Her dad Lowell
George, the late legendary front man
forthe rock band Little Feat had set a
path for her that could have easily
been taken, but she decided to ex
plore her love of classical theater in
stead.
"(Because of my dad), there was a
bit of me that didn't feel like going that
route because it almost seemed that
the path had already been forged for
me," George said. "So that was my re
sistance, and I wanted to take the
road where there was least resist
ance."
So George packed her bags and
headed across the country to Boston,
where she focused her studies on
classical theater, having been influ
enced by her own performances in
Shakespearean plays atTopanga
Canyon's Theatricum Botanicum. But
one summer home was all ittookfor
George's life to completely change.
On a whim, she and some friends from
high school decided to start a band,
which they called Lode. They were
quickly picked up by Geffen Records
and spent the next two years touring.
That was twelve years ago, and that's
when George realized that music was
simply in her blood.
"I kind of just found myself in this
scenario," George said. "When I was
18,1 joined a band, and I had never
played in a band before. I wasn't real
ly completely 100 percent excited
about it And then, when time went by
and I had better experiences and
more fun, it sort of seemed like the
thing that I might be better atthan oth
er things, so I sort of just stuck to it"
Afterthe implosion of Lode, George
found herself tangled in another band,
Merrick, with which she put out two
CDs. When Merrick called it quits in
2002, George decided it was time for
her to do things on her own.
With the help of producer/guitarist
Michael Andrews, who has com
posed scores for Donnie Darko and
Freaks and Geeks, George found her
self back in the studio. This time, she
was doing it on her own, but she had a
team of musicians to back her up
every step of the way, That team in
cluded keyboardist Greg Kurstin, who
has played with the likes of Beck and
Ben Harper, Greyboy Allstar bassist
Chris Stillwell, former Cake drummer
Pete McNeal and of course Andrews
backing her on the guitar.
Although George's home life pro
vided many different avenues of
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Lichty: InTouch ranks last
Continued from page 7
ft's almost impossible notto be at least
somewhat curious about the private
lives of stars. Celebrities are every
where. From the movies to TV to adver
tisements, they put their two cents in
on what we wear, what we smell like
and what we use on our hair. Although
celebrities surprisingly don't influence
me on any of those things, I am in con
stant need of knowing who's dating
whom and who's fighting with whom.
Luckily for people like me, there's a
steady supply of tabloids to feed my
hunger. Just go to the nearest grocery
store and you'll find plenty of choices.
We'll start with my favorite, my per
sonal Bible. I am one of Us Weekly's
million subscribers, and Us Weekly is
definitely the glossy that I trust the
most Although it has gotten a few
things wrong—they reported "exclu
sively" that Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie adopted her second baby, Za
hara, together, which was quickly
proved wrong by paperwork—it
scoops a lot of stories, like Britney
Spears giving birth and Moore and
Kutcher's wedding. But a major prob
lem with Us Weekly is that it tends to
play favorites. I mean—how many
times are they going to kiss Jessica
Simpson's ass by plastering her all over
the best-dressed list? Did you see her
atthe MTV Music Awards? She looked
—as she usually does in my opinion —
like a wad of crap.
People is my second-ranked glossy,
but it definitely takes the cake when it
comes to subscription numbers, boast
ing a whopping 3,350,000 paid sub
scribers. My only beef with People is
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celeb rag outthere: OK! magazine.
OK! magazine has its roots in the UK
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Americans). They just launched their
U.S. edition this summer, which focuses
on exclusive celebrity interviews, with
the likes of Simpson, Hilary Duff and
Nicole Richie posing on the covers—
all eagerto get their mugs spread
across as many magazines as they
possibly can. OK! claimed to have the
first pictures of the Spears/Federline
collaboration, reportedly paying close
to $2 million forthe pics, but when I
snatched up the latest issue, baby
Sean/Preston/Christian (whatthe hell
is that baby's name already?) was no
whereto be seen. So, I'll believe it
when I see it.
There is one magazine that I refuse
to buy and that is InTouch Weekly. I will
tell anyone I know that InTouch has
gotten so many things wrong, it's not
even funny anymore. Even Oprah
pointed it out when she said that a
tabloid had reported that she was giv
ing Pitt and Jennifer Aniston marriage
counseling, a claim that she firmly de
nied. It's the cheapest, andyou really
get what you pay for.
There are even more celebrity
glossies out there, such as Life and
Style and Inside TV, but I preferto stick
to those I can really trust Butdon'ttake
my word for it You've got to choose
which celebrity tabloid magazine is
your personal guilty pleasure. After all,
they say "don't believe everything you
read," but sometimes life's just more
fun rf you do.
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