Guhnst Discusses New Blind Melon Tour, Nsing Fame
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Apil 1O,1992 ARTSFRIDAY II - -- -I- I THE TECH Page Reveaing c~ip and xquiite ctingin m Ot i u GEO ING OUT crafted by the actors. It is a wonderful play, Pereira '93) who accompanies her home, her many obstacles from her past which come to Written by MarshaNorman. and everyone should go see it - it is deeply former pimp (Tony Le '93), her mother haunt her and lead her astray. It is these obsta- Directedby Julia Soyer. moving, and FREE to boot. (Dawn Nolt '92), and her upstairs neighbor cles which create the amazing interplay of Student Center, Room 407. Getting Out is about a young woman Ruby (Sameera Iyengar '93), all bring about emotions between Arlie and Arlene and pro- April 1-12, 8:30p.m. named Arlene (Charlene Suwanabhand '93); memories which are played out simultaneous- vide the audience with a richly detailed back- when the play opens, she is just being released ly by Arlie. In this manner, we begin to see ground of her life. William Chuang By from an eight-year prison term for murder. beyond the vioiunce that the young Arlie uses The night I went to see Getting Out was a ARtSSTA FF Arlene's memory of herself, called up by her to mask troubles and abuse at home, and learn pre-dress rehearsal. To see such a rich perfor- I found Getting Out enthralling, both in fears and needs, is represented by Arlie the sordid events leading up to her prison sen- script and in execution. Nearly every line in (Joanna Kulik '92). Arlene's various visual tence. mance in such an early stage of the perfor- the play is revealing of character, and good cues, as simple as viewing the dirty floor of We also see how Arlene has changed, mance process can lead one to only one con- acting brings this out strikingly. The play is her old apartment, call up memories which are striving to eke out a new existence for herself, clusion: that this weekend's performances are innovative in its use of a single stage to repre- re-enacted by Arlie as the action develops. even to the point of calling herself "Arlene" guaranteed to shine with talent and heartfelt sent both an apartment and a prison cell, with As the play progresses, Arlene's character and not "Arlie" now that she has left prison. emotions and to provide a satisfying evening action proceeding in two places at once at begins to unfold, showing how suspicious, Arlene is determined to start again, hoping to of entertainment for all theater-goers clever times; However, this is no barrier to under- tensely guarded, and withdrawn she is. regain a son who never knew her and who enough to rush out to see Getting Out. It's standing the play or the characters, whose Various events after her release, including now lives in a foster home and perhaps be quality theater and it's FREE - what more backgrounds are exquisitely expressed and confrontations with the prison guard (Paulo happy in a new, straight life. But there are so could you ask for? Guhnst discusses new Blind Melon tour, nsing fame lind Melon, currently I it's very psychedelic, and three of the guys are from Mississippi, so we have a Southern based in Durham, North influence. Carolina, is preparing to What do you bring to the band 's sound? Weirdness. (Laughs.) I don't know - I take the world by storm. grew up on traditional folk music, and coun- try, the traditional stuff, not modem country. Their quick rise from I listen to a lot of Grateful Dead. At home I always play on an acoustic guitar. obscurity to a spot on I Do you prefer the acoustic? the nationwide MTV tour with major I like it, yeah. On the road now we've got about a half an hour each night, so we can't college bands BAD II and PiL has really slow things down for acoustic, I just have to plug in the electric and plow tagged them as one of the stars to keep through. I Iike playing the electric, it's just that I would play acoustic if left to myself. an eye on in the not-so-distant future. You were signed to a label pretty early on Blind Melon's lead singer, Shannon in your career. We'd been together for about eight Hor, is a friend of fellow Indiana native months when we were signed. I think we had , , . A about four songs. Of Axl Rose and 7i> 1l1 course, we told the company we had fif- . .. .. C appeared in the EO N w ~~~~teen. recent video for How does the song- Capitol Recordis. writing process hap- Guns N' Roses' pen? At Brandeis IUniversity, el we jam a lot, "Don't Cry," and a lot of ideas come April 16. out of that. When Glen which many peo- [Graham] became our With BAD IL, Pi ., and Live. drummer, he turned us ple saw as a har- on to the style of just playing and seeing binger of the what came out of that. By Bill Jaackson Alot of it had to do band's future suc- with North Carolina. _ We'd stay up all night cess. This and just jam. That's Blind Melon is Shannon Hoon and Brad Smith (standing), and one way, but really the Thursday, April 16, the band will be at writing happens in every way possible. We Thomas Stevens, Glen Graham, and Christopher Thorn. actually do have about twenty songs now. Brandeis University as part of the MTV J You moved firom Los Angeles to North (Pearl Jam, Temple Of The Dog). He hung We feel it, and we talk about it a lot, but Tour. Carolinaas a band. Whj,:;' out with us in North Carolina. He's made we have to eliminate that from our heads. We were fed up with Los Angeles. All of some great records, and he really has his act When you go out and get a record deal and us are from small towns. We moved to North together. He works at his own studio up they give you money and say "go out and Is thi~syourfirst tour? Carolina and lived in a house together. It was there in Scattle. I liked it up there - it's a make a record," you don't want to disappoint Yeah, we've been on this for a couple of a really positive thing for us to do, because great city. Fresh, clean, pretty hip. anyone. That's what's so cool about doing a weeks now, I think. We started ... April 5th, you have to be brothers. It really worked out. live show - you just do whatever and then I think. Maybe not. You get confused. On stage, we're a hundred percent better Andyour first video is on 4TV now. forget about it. But in the studio you're Maybe that's my mother's birthday. now. Yeah, Paul Boyd made it for us. It's done thinking "This is going to be around forev- on Super 8. It's psychedelic, it doesn't have er." You get too critical of yourself. You Describe the band s sound, without com- You're recording yourfJirst album now. a glossy look at all. He was really cool and want it to be perfect. paring it to other bands. How' 's it coming along? relaxed. We just hung out and he filmed us That's the hard part, you know, answer- Well, we did seven songs, and now we're and cut it together. I had some Super 8 of the Do you have an intentional "sound " you ing that without comparing. [You] always touring for six weeks. Then from New York band I took myself, and I gave it to Paul and aim.for as a band? hear bands saying "We sound like one band we fly right back to Seattle to record eight or told him "If you can use any of this, go I don't think anything's intentional. The or another." nine more. Then we'll pick the, I don't ahead." and he used some of it. production of our album has a stripped-down We're just five guys, going in completely know, twelve best or so. sound, a lot drier-sounding than some of the different directions, so when we create a With as? albuin on the wav, a video music out there. People shouldn't get an idea song, it's completely unique. The best you Why)' Seattle? already out, sold a tour writh PiL and BAD 11 about who we are, though; they really have could call it is southern psychedelic. I think We really like [producer] Nick Parasher howe do yoau handles the pre~ssuare to succeed? to hear us to know what we're like. Need a bright idea? Weave got just wlat . u ve been look'ing- fhor. A revamped On thelrl0%'757 FilI ret'ttll to Pif-J next bSrida. On thlce' fbw lists arts andi entecrtainmcnt evcsrnts (n c dl111[)1.1sho1hOuil (Xjt I. boststin nm('lropoliltan ar>2,}.