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skiploader
bassist Craig Koozer, and drummer
Jeff Turner - economically com
bines intensity with melodic sophis
tication to produce songs that grab
your attention and hold into it.
Skiploader goes a step further.
Rather than surrender to formula, the
band courts risk by turning against
rock convention. They avoid power
chords, guitar solos, and other trap
pings o f pop songwriting, in favor o f
cropped songs that pack intensity
and communicate emotion without
pandering to the listener. It’s terse,
it’d edgy, but is it punk?
“ I always thought punk’ meant
freedom o f expression,” Ackerman
explains. “ Now it’s come to be a
marketing tool — some body pierc
ing, some Manic panic, and power
chords cranked out in 4/4 time make
you a punk band. Punk rock has
become the heavy metal o f the 90’s:
a bunch o f stupid people dressing
funny.” Ackerman’s principles are a
throwback to the bands that have
inspired him for years.
S k ip lo a d e r: K evin H iggins (guitar, Vocals), C ra ig K o o z e r (bass),
J e ff T urn e r (drum s), Tom A cke rm a n (vocals, guiter)
I ve always liked the idea o f
ta king risks ly ric a lly ,” explains
S k ip lo a d e r fro n t man T om
Ackerman. “ Although at first I was
pretty guarded - showing only the
side I wanted people to see * I ’ m now
trying to get at what’s really there.”
Steven Beals Exhibit To Open
Skiploader'sdebut EP, anxious, rest
less (G effen Records) presents
A c k e rm a n ’ s s o u lb a rin g ly ric s
couched in d riv in g rhythms and
m inim alist guitar womp. The Port
land, Oregon, quartet - Ackerman,
g uita rist-voca list Kevin H iggins,
Leg en da ry p ro to -ra p p e rs The L a s t Poets, touring the e ast a n d the m id w e st b e h in d the release o f th eir
new album , H o ly T error (re lea sed b y R ykod isc on A p ril 18), p la y e d in h om eto w n N e w York C ity on
A p ril 13. The m u sica l lum inaries who cam e o u t in force to p a y th e ir respects in c lu d e d P ublic E nem y's
C huck D, m em bers o f Onyx, a n d Vernon Reid. In the p ho to (beginning from the left) a re : ja z z
p ro d u ce r O naje A llan G um bs, the L a st P o ets's D on B abatunde Eaton, O n yx's Sonnee, that L ast
P oets's A b iod un O yew ole, O nyx's S ticky Fingaz, (unknow n), C huck D, a n d O nyx's F redro S ta rr
K neeling ,n fron t is the L a st P o ets's U m a r B in H assan. The L a s t Poets a lso p e rfo rm the title track o f
P a n th e r," M elvin a n d M ano Van P eebles's n e w m ovie a bo ut the B la ck Panthers, w hich ope ne d
natio na lly on M a y 3.
pho(o credif: Sue Kwon
One o fth e N o rth w e st’ s most
successful and talented p ho tog
ra p h e rs , S te v e n B e a ls o f
Caelestis Productions, 807 N.
Russell, w ill e x h ib it a private
c o lle c tio n o f black and w hite
images e n title d Facets o f H u
m anity.
The show opens June 1, be
tween 6 p.m. and 9:30 p m. at
the Acanthus G a lle ry , 120 N .W .
N in th Ave. A p re vie w show ing
w ill be held on M ay 31 from 6
p.m. to 8 p.m. C ontact M ark
W ooley at 224-6722 fo r details
and p riva te showings.
A native o f the N orthw est,
Beals w orks w ith the re g io n ’ s
largest co rp oratio ns, in c lu d in g
N ike , II.S . West, the U S. D e
partm ent o f Defense, as w e ll as
The Hearst C orp, and th e ir many
p u b lica tio n s. Beals p e rio d ic a l-
A pho tog rap h b y renow ned a rtist S teven Beals whose w orks w ill go
on e xhibit in Portland.
ly w orks out o f N ew Y o rk and
d irects both film and te levision .
The personal c o lle c tio n re-
fle cts his non-com m ercial in te r
est and conunitm ent to p hotog
raphy.
Korn is on to ur a n d y o u sh o u ld care. 2 ,500+ records are b eing s o ld p e r week. Korn is pla ying to
audiences o f 3 ,00 0 a n d m ore a n d b ringing everyone to th e ir feet. K orn rece ntly p la y e d a so ld o u t sh ow
in N Y C in spite o f the fa ct that n e a rb y a triple w ham m y b ill (featuring m em be rs o f N irvana a n d P e arl
Jam ) was taking place. Infact, m a n y Korn fans were left on the stree t with now here to go. The sh o w was
brilliant. Korn sa le s in N Y C w ent up 50% a fte r that s h o w a n d I d id n 't buy'em . No n e e d to keep y o u r ears
to the ground, K orn is shucking a ll hopes fo r a p e rs o n a l life a n d w ill be touring ‘til th ey drop. C all m e for
fu rthe r b a d puns, review tickets a n d intervie w requests. H eather D avis (310) 449-2873.
Photo credit Stephen Stickler
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