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■pi ■■■■■ * fi c I * by DOUG ARELLANES t’s around midnight on a Thur­ sday evening in the Graduate, and large muscled men are hauling away the tables and speakers and equipment from I tonight’s concert. There is an unkempt air about the place; plastic cups, bits of paper and a few articles of clothing are strewn across the spacious floor. Less than an hour ago, this place looked more like a riot, like one of those fight scenes in a late-night western, where even the old schoolmarm gets punched in the teeth. Here, however, there are few injuries, excepting hearing damage from the excessive sound system. Less than an hour ago, this joint was jumpin’, literally and figuratively. The “rude boys” were here, in their uniform white shirts and ties and dark black pants, looking more at home at a bible discussion than at a sweaty, skanky throwdown like this. There were the testosterone-pumped man-boys in pastel who would brag that they were able to complete a stage dive without having their head kicked in. This place did not belong to them. Less than an hour ago, this place belonged to Fishbone, perhaps the tightest band ever to walk the planet. Now they are giving it back and moving on. Their show was a warm-up for their national tour in support of their new album, “Truth and Soul,” and they played like they had something to prove, not only with their trademark (See FISH B O N E, p.3A) 2A Thursday, October 6,1988

The Cutting Edge: Movies from Palestine and Elsewhere A&L's film series THE CUTTING EDGE: NEW ADVENTURES IN WORLDCINEMA opens this Sunday with Wedding in Galilee, the first feature film to emerge from the contemporary Palestinian experience. While living in exile in Belgium, director Michael Khleifi made this ambitious film, a complex scenario of escalating tension in which Arab villagers - prepare for an important wedding celebra­ tion under Israeli occupation, and strive once again for the difficult, delicate balance between conflict and collaboration.

Wedding in Galilee Get series tickets and save 50 percent. With series tickets to THE CUTTING EDGE, you'll see seven fine films for less than $2.00 each — and avoid standing in line to buy tickets each week. Series tickets are on sale now, at the A&L Ticket Office in Building 402 (or charge tickets by phone: call 961-3535). The series continues each Sunday evening in Campbell Hall, with films from Tibet, Taiwan, India, Brazil, the Netherlands and Photo by Eugene Richards "Below the Line: Living Poor in America," part of the Poverty in the United States series. France.

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I O 9 6 * 8 8 FISHBONE probably never made the conscious effort to get to (Continued from p.lA) where their kids are at, what’s in their minds. They energy, but with a majority of new material that dealt were saying “Jesus!" and all that, which is cool, you in many cases with racism and its effects. know. I’m as spiritual as the next man, maybe more so, Most of the crowd didn't know how to deal with this. but I'm nota religious man. When lead vocalist John Norwood Fisher did an a So “Slow Bus” came out of an era where we were capella version of “Slow Bus Movin’ (Howard Beach going through all this kind of stuff. Angelo got thrown Party), many in the mostly white audience responded in jail in New Orleans. with a throaty “yeahI” Arts: Really? What for? But the band came away from the show satisfied Charlie Down: We were at Mardi Gras, and he has a that they’d made the point. Keyboardist Charlie Down, Mohawk. Not only did he get thrown in jail, but the the band’s main songwriter, was busy gathering his lead singer of Murphy's Law and him and toe lead equipment when he was approached for this in­ singer of the Bad Brains. Gary (from Murphy’s Law) terview; he agreed, and an edited transcript follows. got thrown in jail that night. They don't like people with dreads. It’s strange to them. It (“Slow Bus”) came out Arts: You have a new album, 'Truth and Soul," that is of all that. Us being an all-black band, and some of toe fantastic. I think it ranks with two or three albums this stuff we’ve had to go through. Color doesn’t make a year, Public Enemy’s "It Takes a Nation of Millions to difference to us, but it seems to mean an awful lot to Hold Us Back” and Boogie Down Productions’ “By All the rest of toe world. We just wrote the song for the Means N ecessary,” as one of the best. movie, and we ended up thinking it was a cool idea. Charlie Down: Thank you. I like P.E. They took our We dedicated it to that incident so that no one would place on tour, when we opened for the Beastie Boys. I forget about it. like what they do. As far as what they say, they should get the facts straight about black history. They know People have to realize that racism continues. quite a bit about black history. But one of the guys that Arts: But in doing songs like “Ghetto Soundwave," you represents th e m .... SHAWN PARKER/Daily Nexus saw tonight, it seems that the message in your songs Arts: G riff. President Reagan. That seems to come out more live. goes completely over your audience’s heads. It Charlie Down: Professor Griff says we should go into Charlie Down: That’s because (playing live) is our seemed like they just wanted to slam. Is that a problem Israel and shoot all the Jews. Israel is wrong in the forum. It's our chance to speak our views, and to for you? context of the current conflict. They don't want to give exercise our ideals right there. On the records, you Charlie Down: That's a problem for me. It bugs me the Palestinians any land. That’s wrong. But they draw your own conclusions. sometimes. But you can't really force any lyrical (Public Enemy) don’t know that the Jews were there Arts: I'm really curious to know how “Slow Bus Movin’ message or idea upon anyone. That's where toe music before anyone. So it’s rightfully their land. He should (Howard Beach Party)” came to be. comes in. The groove. With some people, that's all they know w hat he’s talking about. Charlie Down: There were a lot of things. A year and a want to do. There's nothing wrong with that. Arts: On your album, there are a number of songs that half ago, we were asked to do a film by some friends of A hard thing that's happened with us is that we’ve seem lyrically to be the most conscious so far. What do ours, John Cusack and Tim Robins, called had a hard time getting out of toe identity that we were you think? ‘Tapeheads," that they’re starring in. It's coming out just this local L.A. party band, and always being Charlie Down: They all were. I was 18 when we in about two or three weeks. They wanted us to write a compared to the Untouchables. Always being com­ recorded the first album. You grow. You see a lot of song and score the film, which we did. We wanted to pared to someone. They don’t sound like us. We don’t stuff. I just turned 23. You see a lot of stuff and you write something that reflected that there was a lot of sound like the Untouchables. No way. make a conscious effort to respond to society. A lot of stuff going on, a lot of stuff that we were getting Arts: You stick a Fishbone record next to an Un­ people like to ask questions like ‘Are you guys conscious about, like South Africa. We had just come touchables record, and the Untouchables record will political?' I don’t think it’s a question of 'Are you from the Beastie Boys tour of the South, and we really melt every tim e.. political?' Isn’t it more of a question of 'Don’t you have got to catch the full wrath of what the Bible Belt was all Charlie Down: (laughs) Aw, man. to be political? Don't you have to know what's going on about. There were 200 families in front of a gig, At this point, Nexus photographer Shawn Parker joined the around you?’ screaming, ‘This is Satanic!" And they've never conversation. Arts: Even on a song like “ Ugly," which on the surface picked up an album before. They don’t even know Parker: It's interesting for me to see an all-black band seems like this cute party song but is really about what any of it's all about. These were families who (See FISHBONE, p.4A)

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slobs trying to shoot me. People don't even realize. The cops come into the FISHBONE Parker: You guys are this all-black band, and you’re neighborhood, shoot people. (To Parker) You know how playing that hard rock, and you’ve got it down. the cops are in the ‘hood. They come in the neigh­ (Continued from p.3A) Charlie Down: Harder than most rock bands. That’s borhood and just beat your a ss.... Only now are people on stage. One of you guys has a Mohawk. One why they voted our album (Truth and Soul) the best realizing how organized the gangs are. All this gang brother's sitting up there with a New York cut like heavy metal album in Europe. violence shit, the only reason it's being brought out is myself. It’s so diversified on-stage. What brings you all Arts: How long has it been released over there? because that girl got shot at UCLA by the Crips. And together? When I think of Fishbone, you guys are so Charlie Down: It’s been released in Europe about before that, you never heard about it. A year, two diversified in your music, and I’m a brother and I'm three months. People are finally getting a clue as to years before that, they were cappin’ on each other in sitting here watching people get thrown off the stage, what we’re doing. Our record's been out for about two the ‘hood. (Pauses) because of your band. It’s certainly not Prince. weeks here, and it came out at Number 196 with a Arts: We were talking about the concept to ‘Truth and Charlie Down: You've got to understand something. bullet, and now it's number 176 with a bullet, jumping Soul," and sort of got away from that. Prince is cool to an extent. He got slick. What he does 20 positions in one week. Maybe it’s saying something Charlie Down: It was based on a film by Robert is alright, but I’m not impressed. As far as how we got for people’s intelligence. Downey, Sr. called "Putney Swope." The movie is together? Man, we all went to school in the Valley. I Arts: What in the world possessed you to do the first about an advertising man in the late '60s. The firm is used to live on Adams and Howard (in South Central single, a cover of Curtis Mayfield's “Freddie’s Dead"? all white, and this guy is the only black guy. And he L.A .). I grew up in the ‘hood. Charlie Down: You’ve got to understand the concept of takes over the firm. He said he wasn't going to Parker: But to look at you guys doing that on stage. It's the album. We had written a bunch of songs. It’s about promote cigarettes, alcohol, war toys. And he took this just something that you never see in the 'hood. the neighborhood we grew up in, and it's about all white advertising firm and made it all black people Charlie Down: We were like that in the ‘hood, and sticking to your roots. “Ghetto Soundwave" was and only one white guy, and he became one of the people would bug off of it. Then it became like, 'Damn, written about my neighborhood. Kendall always lived most sought-after advertising men in the country. The well those brothers are down.' Because they knew that in the neighborhood, until about a year ago when his name of the firm was ‘T .S .” which stood for “Truth when I was a kid, I used to be a fool, a lot of gang­ mother died of cancer. He moved out of the neigh­ and Soul.” The company’s slogan was, “If a man has banging and shit. They'd be like, ‘You used to be down borhood, but his brother was doing crack. And the the truth, he doesn’t hide it. He hangs it out on a with the set.' They had to send me away for, like, two song was about how the drugs have directly affected shingle for the whole world to see." That’s what the years to go live with my dad, because I had all these the ghetto. album is about.

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The “Lonely Nights’’ and “Just Single.” sparse audience was introduced to L.A. Here is a chance to check out some based Beta Rydem Band in fine dub fresh faces and licks instead of style. Although difficult for any band, grumbling about the lack of roots rock they put the crowd situation behind in town. Also a word to the wise, the them, got into the swing and pounded producers need to lose the image of the out some good music. Moving from wide-eyed African, it is more offensive recognizable covers to some tasty than Bank of America itself. originals, the boys had a great time despite the empty dance floor. Christopher Junker SALLY FED TOM HANKS SANTANA Hiking up the stone path to the Shrieve-drums; Gregg Rolie-keyboards county bowl one couldn't help but and Alphonso Johnson-bass. AH took PUNCH wonder what surprises Santana might the baton and ran. The music would have in store for the evening. Ad­ swell and stride, roll and pump until all vertising billed the show as the original players would meet at the crest of the band. Could it be possible that the ‘80s guitar and in unison crash down on a UNE Santa Barbara pseudo-yuppy audience single note. This momentum of the might get a backward glance into the Santana band is conducted by the arm bygone days of acid-induced electric- of the guitar held by Carlos. He sets a ■ 1I J 1 Ü H invisioned concerts at the deceased pace, then spurs for more speed, most RESTRICTED “SS> UNDER 17 REQUIRES ACCOMPANYING San Francisco Fillmore? Would the alw ays keeping his back to the crow d. K PARENT OR AOULT GUARDIAN crowd get a taste of the second day of Some of the more innovative ac­ STARTS FRIDAY AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU. Woodstock when Santana played in complishments came from the solos of CHECK YOUR LOCAL PAPER FOR SHOWTIMES. front of 550,000 granola children? the drummer and the bassist. Michael Carlos Santana had been quoted Shrieve playing an electric xylophone e a rlie r a s stating “ I don't w ant to go out extended the range of a drum solo that and just play “Black Magic Woman," had already seemed to transcend the and "Oye Como Va" ... my watch says limits. Alphonso Johnson on bass was it’s 1988.... I want to get into 1988 and the highlight of the night. Playing a not look back." Carlos did look back on Chapman stick while a keyboard some of the old favorites and, as well, sprinkled sweeping, glittering magical U added some new spice to his hot salsa wand sounds, Alphonso wove a bass and Latin rhythms. line and melody that rose above the Carlos began the show with a crowd like the whisps of stage incense dedication to a man for freedom being smoke that sw irled upw ard. held prisoner, Nelson Mandela. At this Tantalizing the crowd with tasty new point Carlos released a wild beast of treats, Santana played their meat-and- freedom ... the Santana band. The first potatoes “Black Magic Woman," “Oya three songs, all instrumentals, featured 'Como Va," and “I Ain’t Got Nobody," the talents of the original band com­ thus making the concert a satisfying prised of: Armando Peraza-bongos; event with only one thing left to say ... The Daily Nexus “Chepito” Areas-percussion; Chester Viva Santana. Thompsen-keyboards; Michael — T re n t Eldridge is nrnnri to nrpcnnt

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co-sponsored by: RocknRoU A.S. Program Board ■ --* V * . • » . ------TTTTTf ì ì lTÌT~ I l 1 1 t i II « hubby (John Goodman) wants a full time mother, not a career lady. Tired of BAGDAD CAFE this role, Lilah sneaks off Looking for the American dream? German director to the club each night Percy Adon finds it, amazingly, in the Mojave Desert. hoping to win from Bagdad Cafe is a film about America. Not the America of strangers the approval McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and skyscrapers, but the and support her husband America of interstate highways and roadside cafes. adamantly refuses to The movie takes place in one of those ‘Towns” you see give. Much like Micheál driving to Vegas, a gas pump-restaurant-motel Keaton’s cocaine addict operation which saw its heyday in the mid-’50s. or Nicholson's R.P. The story builds on the relationship between McM urphy, we have a Marianne Sagebrecht and CCH Pounder. By leaving largely self-absorbed her husband, the very large and very German character. But when Sagebrecht deposits herself out in the desert. She Gold's routine ‘dies’ on forges her way to the only trace of civilization, arriving stage while a major in Bagdad looking for a place to stay. Sagebrecht is network scout is in the visibly afraid of Pounder, the dilapidated establish­ audience, we see Gold ment's black manager, who is overly suspicious of this die with it: Hanks shows strange European woman who appeared from the that the humor of a comic desert. After several strain-filled days, the inner PUNCHLINE can be laced with beauty of Sagebrecht turns her physical and cultural despair. During this and differences into charms. Additionally, a love story develops between Sagebrecht and a charming cowboy Films depicting the speculation. falling back on one of the other scenes when Steve from Hollywood, played wonderfully by Jack Patance. lives of down-and-out Director David Seltzer few things that comes Gold is Tutoring' Lilah Bagdad Cafe is Adon's first English-language comedians trying to hit may have had Scorsese's naturally to him — into becoming a suc­ release and his European perspective gives the film its the big time haven't been failure in mind while humor. Signing his life cessful stand-up, the cutting edge. His unusually placed, inquisitive camera too successful for preparing to direct his away to sleazy comedy viewer sees that Gold is Hollywood. Witness latest release, Punch Line. club ow ner ‘Rom eo,’ not simply the em­ captures the look, feel and beauty of the setting while Martin Scorsese’s witty This picture will succeed, astutely played by Mark bodiment of his own also searching into the hearts and minds of the but largely unnoticed King n o t because Dean Rydell, Gold attempts to acidic wit. characters. of Comedy. Perhaps Martin’s old whipping boy pay the rent in the A well written, beautifully made film, Cafe concludes with a humorous, hopeful outlook on the new world. audiences saw nothing isn’t in it, but because comedy Little League of T h is is nota hard-line Maybe the food isn’t gourmet, but where you can find interesting in the Tom Hanks is. Hanks small-club stand-up. documentary on stand- true love and friendship, dreams do come true. previews. Most likely they plays struggling fun­ Housewife Lilah up, but merely a big stayed away because the nyman Steve Gold, an Krystick (Sally Field), Hollywood flick that’s — W alker “ G u ita r" W ells words “Jerry Lewis"were acerbic yet oddly en­ however, finds herself in unusual and original in its on the local drive-in’s dearing Med school flunk- the comedy underground subject matter. marquis, but this is all out who finds himself for other reasons. Her — Tim Hoffman CUTTING EDGE CINEMA Arts and Lectures kicks off its “Cutting Edge" film down to a bridegroom who finds himself unable in all series Sunday night with Wedding In Galilee, the first- the madness to consummate his marriage. So we see If you haven’t ever Palestinian feature film. that oppression, in Khleifi's vision, is not limited to the Revolving around a wedding in an Arab village political but encompasses the repression experienced been bowling lately, which is under Israeli occupation, Wedding In Galilee in everyday life. attempts to bring a more human perspective to a Wedding In Galilee is not exactly smooth in developing you ought to see situation we mostly know only as headlines. When a Khleifi’s thesis. Luckily, the main problem the film leading figure in a Palestinian village wants to marry could be faulted for is trying to say too much. what you’re missing. off his son in a traditional manner he finds the However, Khleifi should be given the benefit of the ceremony to be in conflict with the laws of the oc­ doubt considering he was operating in exile and AUTOMATIC cupying Israelis. As a compromise he invites the ruling probably under a very limited budget. Praise should SCORERS Israeli magistrate as the guest of honor. The film then be given to him for tackling a difficult political issue not sets out to show the resulting series of conflicts as in a preachy self-righteous manner, but as one that is individuals are forced to choose between productive true to the human condition. Fun and excitement are the name of the game when compromise or th eir loyalty to the cause of freedom . As the first of the series Wedding in Galilee is not you bowl at the ORCHID BOWL! Automatic Director Michel Khleifi, working as an exile, at­ remarkably striking as “cutting edge" in the Scoring keeps score for you and shows it in color ch i tempts to step beyond merely the political. His development of contemporary cinema. It is however a a 25” screen. Watch live T V while you bowl, too! It’s characterizations are not portraits of politicians chance to view a slice of a culture unlike anything you a Ball! arguing about ideals, but rather people caught on both are familiar with, and a style of filmaking specifically Minutes from U CSB! sides of a conflict who are living the political strife intended to speak to a different culture. And besides, OPEN 24 HOURS which surrounds them day by day. Khleifi further as we have said before, it is a chance to see something extends his view on the personal side of politics by that is definitely not Sweet Hearts Dance for half the price. ORCHID BOWL Hwy 101 at Fairview portraying the problems as a series of confrontations _____5925 Calle Real Goleta • 967-0128 between father and son, mother and daughter, on — Adam Liebowitz

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