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TSOL back to that awkward teenage girl who false- ly idolized the Bad Girls. The Gore Gore Girls play with Electric Six and We are the Fury at 9 pm Friday, Oct. 12, at the WOW Hall. $13 adv., $15 door. — Deanna Uutela Return of the Living TSOL One look at the cover photo of TSOL’s 1986 album Revenge, with the band in black eyeliner and coifed hair, one member looking suspiciously like a short-haired Vince Neil, was proof that this was not the same TSOL I knew from my cassette copy of 1981’s Dance With Me. Founding members Jack Grisham (vocals) and Todd Barnes (drums) had depart- ed before ‘84’s Change Today, and Revenge was politely considered an embarrassment amongst my friends. Being an open-minded music lover, I gave it a chance, and while it didn’t become my favorite TSOL album, I credit it with leading me to many other bands thanks to a merch insert prompting me to pick up a comp LP by Enigma, their label at the time. Enigma Variations contained tracks by 45 Grave, The Effigies, Leaving Trains, Tex and The Horseheads, Redd Kross and Greg Sage, which in turn led me to the Wipers and other Northwest punk like Poison Idea. That music so good could emanate from the land of loggers shocked my punk friends in Pensacola, Fla., where Southern California hardcore and skate rock reigned supreme. Years later, when I moved to Eugene in ’91, I felt an already established kinship with the scene here, thanks to TSOL. The band’s three surviving original members — Jack Grisham, Ron Emory and Mike Roche (Barnes died in 1999) — won’t play any songs from Revenge or even acknowledge its existence, but they will put on a great show nonetheless. TSOL, Mercy Killers and 19 Limbs play at 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 13, at the WOW Hall. $12. — Vanessa Salvia S TO P CU L T UR AL CA RN A G E! !! Stop the Bulldozers!!! $40,000,000 to fill a couple holes??? Vote NO on 20-134 OR ELSE New Zone Gallery – GONE!!! Tango Center – GONE!!! John Henry’s – GONE!!! Horsehead – GONE!!! Jameson’s – GONE!!! Get out the vote!! V OTER R EGISTRATION D EADLINE O CTOBER 16 TH Lane County Elections • 275 W. 10th • Eugene, OR. 97401 682-4234 • www.lanecounty.org/elections No on 20-134 For more information visit: SensibleDowntownDevelopment.org OCTOBER 11, 2007 39
