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Dead Milkmen Rock to Sold-Out Crowd
Slam N’ Jam
Returns to Civic
Stadium
Anita Baker
Heats Up the Summer with a New Album, and Her
First World Wide Tour
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Six time Grammy Award winner
Anita Baker kicked o ff her 40 city
worldwide tour with 4 sold out concerts
at Radio City Music Hall in New York
City. The anticipation for her appear
ances is spreading across the country
with additional sold out concerts at
Budokan in Tokyo and W embley Arena
in London. Fans all over Europe and
Asia are clamoring for tickets for their
first opportunity to see Me. Baker live.
Anita’s third album for Elektra
entitled “ Com positions” will feature
the single and video “ Talk to M e” as
the first release. She is particularly ex
cited about this album as she is not only
the Executive Producer, but this time
she composed seven of the songs. On
“ Compositions” she strives to recap
ture the spontaneity of live perform
ance by simultaneously recording her
vocals and rhythm section, a technique
more characteristic o f her heroines Sara
Vaughn and Nancy W ilson, than of
today’s singers. The result in a highly
personal reverie that explores themes
o f love and romance in a musical dia
logue that is fresh and unpredictable.
M ichael Powell produced the album
that features such world class m usi
cians as Greg Phillinganes, Steve Fer-
rone, Ricky Lawson, Nathan East,
Vernon Fails and Earl Klugh. The
video was shot in Los Angeles and was
directed by Dominic Sena.
Prior to commencing Tier tour, Anita
perform ed at W embley Stadium for
“ An International Tribute For A Free
South A frica,” honoring Nelson M an
dela. Joining her on stage were Bonnie
Raitt, Natalie Cole, and M ica Paris.
Other luminaries attending that night
were Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman,
Neil Young and Patti LaBelle, as well
as The Reverend Jesse Jackson.
W ith 1990 already producing
Grammy and American Music Awards,
a new album and worldwide our, Anita
Baker continues to prove how limitless
her talents truly are.
Seafirst Bank Blazer Slam 'N Jam
'90 will be held at Civic Stadium on
Saturday, July 21 st. Tickets arc on sale
now at all TicketM aster outlets. G en
eral Admission is $9. A limited num ber
o f reserved seats will also be available
at $19. Children 12 and under will be
admitted for half price. User fees and
agency service charges are additional.
Doors will open at 3:00 p.m.
The Trail Blazers Rookie G am e is
scheduled to tip-off at 6:30 p.m. The
Blazer sum m er camp roster, which will
include Drazen Petrovic.C liff R obin
son, Byron Irvin, Mark Bryant and Nate
Johnston, will play the sum m er cam p
roster of the Utah Jazz.
A three point shootout com petition
has been added to this year’s event
agenda. Drazen Petrovic, who finished
3rd this season in the NBA in 3-point
accuracy, and Darrell Griffith who
currently ranks 6th on the NBA all-tim e
3-point scorers list, will com pete with
NBA legend Rick Barry.
On-stage entertainment includes the
“ Oregon All-Star Jam ” featuring some
o f Portland’s best musicians. A concert
by the world-renowned and three-time
Grammy award winner Robert Cray
Band featuring the M emphis Homs
wraps-up this year's event.
T he schedule o f events a re listed
below:
Doors Open
3:00 p.m.
Oregon
All-Star Jam
4:00 p.m.
M
iller
Lite
Six Pack Sky
5:00 p.m.
Divers
Blazer 3-POint Shootout
5:15 p.m.
Rookie Game W arm-Up
6:15 p.m.
Rookie Game T ip-O ff
6:30 p.m
Robert Cray
8:45 p.m.
10:00 p.m. Event Ends
by Angelique Sanders
A nondescript tour bus with
the words “ nobody you know ” printed
on the front and a punk comic book in
the window pulled up outside the M el
ody Ballroom. The Philadelphia quar
tet, The D ead M ilkm en, had arrived in
Portland.
If nothing else indicated to
passersby that something was unusual
about this band, the concert tee-shirts
would have: a consum er had the choice
between the slogans “ M etaphysical
graffiti” and “ Fear of a Beige P lanet” .
Or, perhaps, the band’s sym bol o f a
dead or inebriated (its eyes are X-ed
out) cow named Elsie illustrates som e
thing that few seem able to decipher,
yet m ost love.
R o d n ey
A n o n y m o u s--h e
changes his nam e more often than
M adonna changes her hair c o lo r-th e
keyboardist, has a keyboard with “ I’m
possessed’ ’ program m ed in as the open
ing display message. The N ew Kids on
the B lock stickers on his keyboard, he
explains less than seriously, are there so
he’ll be sure to recognize them should
he ever run across them.
Jefferson High School
Class of 1970 is
holding their 20 year reunion
August 10, 11, 12.
Pre-registration by June 30,1990
Any questions contact 282-8144
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(The band’s nam e, by the way,
stems from a jo k e the M ilkm en had re
garding a m ilk truck w ith an inexplica
bly missing driver.)
But this band with harm less
antics that people seem to laugh at and
tell themselves, “ funny, but you wouldn’t
catch me partaking” , had the crow d
dancing in im itation o f monkeys.
The D ead M ilkm en’s lyrics
seem, at first listen, to be only halluci
natory, ludicrous reflections on a sur
face level; actually, the four-m em ber
group takes extrem ely insightful sec
tions o f society, transplanting it into
simple w ording that the younger crowd
can understand and relate to, adding
guitars and drums and simplistic crowd
pleasing gim m icks. W hile their m usi
cal talent does not touch upon a wide
array o f m usical styles (nor do they
even exhibit extrem e talent on their in
strum ents), this is not their attempt:
they sim ply convey to the listener the
idea o f ‘ ‘Society ’s w eird...w hat can we
do but sing about it? ” as illustrated by
m any o f their song titles: E verybody's
got G ood S tu ff but M e (a pharce on m a
terialism ), G raceland (a joke about the
hero w orship that follow s Elvis), and
Beach Party Vietnam (which satirizes
the governm ent’s efforts to glorify the
army).
The crow d they draw is quite
socie tally-displeased, and in its extremes,
exhibit this liatred-energy through mosh
ing. M oshing’s alternative nam e, slam
dancing, succinctly describes the proc
ess: it consists m ostly o f bodily sm ash
ing into equally willing parties. M osh
ing is dancing no more than purpose
fully wrecking one’s car is driving.
The M elody Ballroom didn’t
seem to be quite the setting for bands
typically construed as draw ing hyper,
sophom oric crow ds (about 75% o f the
audience was under 21), but the setup
crew did a great jo b o f stripping the set
to m ake it m osh-proofed.
Tw o opening bands brought
the crow d to its feet, preparing them for
the Milkmen: talented D runk at A b
b e y 's and the even more talented local
band C om pletely G rocery. Cigarette-
sm oke m ushroom clouds rose to meet
the scanty light show , as D runk at A b
b e y 's took the stage. T heir style is
rem iniscent o f the rock band Love and
Rockets. Com pletely G rocery's bass
guitarist’s neon-pink som brero was a
fairly representative symbol of the com
pletely happy, energetic tim e they gave
the crow d. T heir offbeat stage theatrics
included pulling an audience m em ber
onto the stage in an invitation to dance,
as well as passing w ater to the audi
ence.
It was a sold-out show, and for
good reason: it was a terrific n ig h t No
one left without earning som e sweat
from three and a half hours o f mobility,
spent betw een three bands. K eep an ear
out for C om pletely G ro c e ry -ih c y ’K
upwardly m obile in the local scene, for
the good reason o f their extrem e m usi
cal ability. And if you h aven’t caught
“ M ilkm ania” , perhaps you’re overdue
for a m usical surprise.
‘Coca-Cola Coup de Hoop”
Unity o f Love
283-5440
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LOS ANGELES, June 25,190-P la y g ro u n d basketball at its “roughand
tum ble" best came alive at Venice Beach in Los Angeles for the first
national “Coca-Cola Coup de H oop” 3-on-3 basketball tournament.
Regional playground champion male and female teams from Atlanta,
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Hawaii and Puerto Rico competed for
more than $160,000 in prize money. In addition, the “Coca-Cola Coup
de Hoop '' was featured on ABC's Wide World o f Sports. Shown at the
check presentation to the winning m en's team are (left to right) Chuck
Morrison, vice president Coca-Cola USA; Eldridge Hudson and Gilbert
Wilburn, Los Angeles; Renny Roker, president, Paradise Sports
Prom otions; Ed Washington, vice-president, Coca-Cola Enterprises;
Wendell Wright and Maurice Griffin, Los Angeles; Jerry Graham, vice
president, Los Angeles Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Mike Steele,
director, Black Consumer Markets, and Harold Stone, promotion manager,
Coca-Cola USE (Photo by Arnold Turner)
T he 35" A nniversary P roduction
PETER PFH
Niecey's
Restaurant & Lounge
5700 N.E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
249-1893
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August 22 - August 26
Civic Auditorium
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Tickets available at
all G.l. Joe's, Galleria Ticket Center, Chiles Center Box
Office at the University of Portland, Portland State
University Athletic Ticket Office, and Memorial Coliseum,
Performing Arts Center, & Civic Auditorium Ticket Centers
Charge-by-Phone 248-4496
236-3932
Co-Sponsored by
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Produced by ECI and Pace Theatrical Group
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Special Discounts for Children 12 & under
Groups of 20 or more call 230-6702
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