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ENTERTAINMENTpage 23 Technique • Friday, April 20, 2001 • 23 A ‘Dozen’ reasons Cross this! Come find out why this atypical If your last test of verbal ability was ENTERTAINMENT brass from is the SAT, check out “Onward and gaining a following. Page 25 Crossword.” Page 27 Technique • Friday, April 20, 2001 It’s hot, it’s loud, it’s nuts, it’s 2001 By Alan Back bill. Look for a few local alumni with more than 60 craft vendors Drinks flat Coke for fun such as and the Josh and its own stage for cultural Joplin Group to pop up during performances. Image Film and Being on semesters has an the weekend as well. Video will exhibit short works, advantage or two over the quar- Hungry? Take three steps in and the PushPush Theater is slat- ter system, especially when it any direction and you’ll proba- ed to put on one-act plays. Pack comes to the 8th Annual Music bly trip over somebody selling the wee folk off to Kids Town in Midtown Festival. Instead of giv- good things to put in your face. SciTrek (5/5 and 5/6, noon to 6 ing up a weekend of valuable Take your pick of German (Edel- p.m.) and let them play with study time to join the party, you everything in sight. They even can wrap up all your finals and get a stage of shows just for them, celebrate by blowing out your Over 130 bands sponsored by Radio Disney. eardrums in style. One-day tickets sell for $30, This year’s hours are: May 4, from all over the or for an extra $5, snag a pass 6 p.m. to midnight; May 5, noon world will perform good for the whole weekend. to midnight; and May 6, noon Visit any outlet to 10 p.m. SciTrek and the At- on a total of 11 or go online (http:// lanta Civic Center lie at the heart stages during the www.ticketmaster.com) to get of the 35-acre site, which reach- yourself hooked up. es from Piedmont Avenue to weekend music To get there, hop a MARTA Central Park Place and from festival. train down to the North Ave- Ralph McGill Boulevard to Pine nue or Civic Center station. It’s Street. Renaissance Park and a short walk from there. You Central Park are also included. cook on the pavement or grass, Over 130 bands from all over weiss), Thai (Bangkok House), the bands cook on the stages, the world will perform on a to- Jamaican (Bridgetown Grill), and the food vendors cook in their tal of 11 stages during the week- plenty of standard and South- carts—are we ready to have fun end music festival; featured acts ern fare. Those of you who want yet? include , the Indigo something a little harder than Girls, , and Live. Coke or bottled water can get it For updates and more informa- If local music is your thing, 99X in abundance; just be sure to tion, call the Music Midtown hot- By Jonathan Purvis / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS has a stage just for you, with the pick up a wristband at the gate. line at (770) MIDTOWN , lead singer of The , performs during a recent likes of Soup, the Forty-Fives, For a break from the music, (643-8696) or visit http:// concert appearance. Walker and the group are slated to return for their third and the X-Impossibles on the cut over to the Artist Market, www.musicmidtown.com. performance at Music Midtown, May 4-6, their second on the 99X main stage.

Sinomatic sizzles with debut release The Spirit of ’76 is alive and well Down Under with By Andrew Pilsch the politics seems forced, not song rolls out of the stereo, and Gobbing in the wind nearly as subtle as anything Joe you almost feel like it’s 1977 Strummer ever sang. After that again. Band: The Living End song, bits and pieces of the record There is some very interest- : Roll On seem to show very great prom- ing genre splicing present on “Roll Label: Reprise ise, but for its first half, the al- On.” Even though the song is Rating: yyy bum wallows in the murky horrible, I think my favorite ex- grunge of 90s rock. ample of this would have to be 25 years ago, four guys from “,” the “Staring in the Mirror,” which Queens tried to record an al- second track, is just bad and will sounds so much like a Police bum that sounded like the Bay probably having you reaching song it’s scary. Most of the songs City Rollers and failed misera- for the skip track button, if not on the album reflect the Living bly, but what they did record stop, which is unfortunate, be- Ends roots as a rockabilly reviv- become one of the lasting mon- cause there are a many more al cover band in be-

By Roy Zipstein / ATLANTIC RECORDS uments of rock music in the last good songs coming up on the fore making it big, so, if Carl Sinomatic’s Rick Deak, Dave Markasky, Ken Cooper, Bryan Patrick, and 30 years. Of course I’m talking album. Perkins had grown up listening Matt Lawrence are a band of boys, but are definitely not a “boy band.” about the and the genre While the first half of the to , Sun Records prob- that their first album got rolling album more or less sucks, around ably would have reverberated By Vivian Vakili the most popular. However, Candys- was punk. the seventh track (“” with the sound of the Living Monarch of sizzle kin deserves some recognition as well. Now, in 2001, there are a which is great), the Living End End. Their lyrics, admittedly, could use bevy of bands with a punk sound really get rolling, and the album As unbelievable as it may seem, a little work. With lines like, “a pic- getting radio and having videos starts to click, and song after See End, page 29 there seems to be a decent new ture perfect match was what we were” in rotation. In 1998, an Austra- band...complete with self-written mu- and every song being about love or lian band, the Living End, had a sic and lyrics, a lead singer with a lust, one wonders as to the originality minor hit stateside with their spectacular voice, and most band mem- of the ideas. Sinomatic could defi- single “” (it bers appearing to sport their original nitely benefit a bit by curbing their was the highest selling single by hair colors. enthusiasm, so to speak, when it comes in Australian artist within Aus- Sinomatic features Ken Cooper on to love. After all, it is about the most tralia during the 90s). Now the lead vocals, Rick Deak on lead and cliche thing when it comes to music. Living End are back with a new rhythm , Bryan Patrick on lead On the whole, however, the band album, titled “Roll On.” and rhythm guitars, Dave Markasky blends likable music with a strong Unfortunately, the Living on bass, and Matt Lawrence on drums leading voice and admirable End’s new album doesn’t cap- and percussion. Amazingly enough, solos. ture the brilliance of some the they seem to have successfully avoid- The band is currently touring with bands they are trying to emu- ed the boy band plague and their sound Buckcherry and they have also previ- late, most notably the Clash. is quite reminiscent of early 90’s grunge, ously toured with AC/DC and Fuel. There are spaces on this album with a new twist. Lead singer Ken There are no Atlanta dates currently that sound positively like out- Cooper sounds somewhere between scheduled, as the tour seems to be takes from “London Calling.” U2’s Bono and the Violent Femmes’ mainly hitting the Northeast. The title track being the best Gordon Gano. It is somewhat mem- Buy the cd? Would not be a bad example of these is an insanely orable and definitely unique. Their idea. After all, we all deserve a little catchy song about a labor strike. new self-titled cd, Sinomatic, consists decent music as a retreat from the It’s chorus of “We’ll roll on with By Danny Clinch / REPRISE RECORDS of eleven tracks. The first two songs, current TRL hell we are being put our heads held high / Our con- The Australians of The Living End, the creators of the highest-selling Bloom and You’re Mine, seem to be through. science in the gutter / Our dreams single in their country during the 1990s, “Prisoner of Society,” are up in the sky” is very catchy, but making another push Stateside with their album “London Calling.” 24 • Friday, April 20, 2001 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT ...01010101101010 10101010101010101010101010...... Two Bits As much as I depend on email, it hit by a bus. 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I would like to repeat that “Ooooh baby the SGA softball team is going down.” SGA, you are the weakest link. Goodbye. ENTERTAINMENT Technique • Friday, April 20, 2001 • 25 Dirty Dozen takes it to (and from) the streets By Alan Back had experience with during our time for nearly 100 years. We said, ‘Real- You name it, they’ve probably done plenty of experience at getting lis- Who turned winter back on? coming up,” Lewis noted. “Some of ly?’ And people started hiring us!” it. Two weeks from now, they’ll roll teners out of their seats. In the 1980s, the guys wanted to play rhythm Three of the founding members up to Music Midtown once again they put in a six-year weekly resi- The words “brass band” usually and or . Most of them (Lewis, Harris, Towns) are still on (their first appearance was in 1996). dency at New Orleans’ Glass House, evoke images of a group of people wanted to play the kind of music the road with the band today. Davis Royal audiences? That, too. Some cooking up red beans and rice to go marching down the street in tight they didn’t have the opportunity to also stays active, though not as much eight years ago, the band found it- along with the music. The combi- formation, playing marches exactly do in other bands. But if we had our as in the past. Terence Higgins self playing for the king of Thailand nation attracted a few unexpected as they were written by John Philip own, we could do whatever we want- (drums), Frederick Sanders (keys), as part of a goodwill tour of eastern customers, including Fats Domi- Sousa or the like. If you’re in New ed.” Sandy Williams (), and Asia. Then in 1999, they hit Beijing no, the Manhattan Transfer, and Orleans, though, things get turned What he and his partners settled Julius McKee () round for one of China’s first open-air pop masters Dizzy Gillespie and on their head a bit; what else do you on was a blend of old-style brass out the lineup. concerts ever. Lewis reminisced on Miles Davis. expect from the town that invented band rhythms and more modern Nearly 25 years of gigs have car- the experience: “Man, it was a trip. “Get all these folks in there; we Mardi Gras? elements of and pop. They were ried the Dirty Dozen all over the What I enjoyed so much about that said, ‘Wait a minute, what’s hap- The “not trying to change anything, just world and dropped them into near- was, we got on the bus and people pening?’” Lewis chuckled. “Being doesn’t use uniforms or worry about having fun, you know? Experiment- ly every kind of venue you can think were still dancing. People walking around these people, doing our stuff, staying in step when in front of a ing. Then all of a sudden, people of. Street parades? They started out out on the street, and they’re danc- we’d try to be as creative as possible. crowd. What they do concentrate said, ‘Hey, y’all sound different, doing those. Arenas? They’ve hit a ing! Because they’d never had that People started calling us up for dif- on is creating a sound that appeals you’ve changed the music’—brass few with the likes of the Black Crowes before.” ferent projects.” to fans of old and new jazz alike— band music that hadn’t been changed and . Festivals? Then again, the group has had One of those projects, the stint something that makes people want on the road with Widespread, turned to dance rather than march. into a collaboration with them on In the mid-1970s, the Big Easy their ’Til the Medicine Takes didn’t know what was about to hit and . “The it. An informal group of players be- Dirty Dozen and Widespread Pan- gan to assemble itself around Roger ic just clicked…The chemistry be- Lewis (soprano/baritone ) tween us—it’s really hip, I must and the Joseph brothers (Charles say, and I’ve been in this business on trombone, Kirk on sousaphone). 45 years.” What makes it possible Once they recruited additional horns, for such different groups to work including tenorist Kevin Harris and together, in his view, is the univer- trumpeters Efrem Towns and Gre- sal nature of music—something that gory Davis, they were ready to get crosses over genres and classifica- the street party rolling. tions. They took their name from the “Once you learn how to play, Dirty Dozen Social and Pleasure you’re not limited to one kind of Club, one of many organizations music. Like the guys in Widespread: that provided Southern blacks with if they decided they wanted to be a resources and opportunities that were jazz band, they could do that. They otherwise closed to them during the could make a crossover. Or if we segregation era. The group started decide to play country or whatever, out playing there, and just about because we’re musicians. Some guys anywhere else a street band was need- prefer to play a certain kind of mu- ed, in 1977. By Alan Back / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS sic; some boys want to play jazz or “We were playing the tradition- Efrem Towns, Kevin Harris, and Roger Lewis helped turn Smith’s Olde Bar into a piece of the New Orleans al music of the city, music that we streets when the Dirty Dozen Brass Band hit town in February. They will return for Music Midtown on May 4. See Dirty Dozen, page 29

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It’s now time for Jelly vs. the Mouse Round II! Bring it on, Imagineering! ENTERTAINMENT Technique • Friday, April 20, 2001 • 27

bubble up from time to time, in- He continued, “If you can play End from page 23 Dirty Dozen from page 25 cluding Lewis’ switch from reeds to and keep it happening for two flute for “Pet the Kat.” hours—you don’t know if you might One thing that bothered me, a bebop or avant-garde or swing. That’s one take each. “I’m really not a flute player; I change somebody’s life. I always like lot, about this album was the Living kind of a personal choice.” The end result of that on-the-fly know the instrument and how it to bring it together at the end, do a End’s inclusion of a “live” version Shifting gears can cause a back- work ethic is a set of tunes that functions…but when I heard the slow kind of song, and say some- of their smash (in Australia) hit, lash, though, as the Dirty Dozen nicely capture the loose vibe preva- playback, it blew me away! Every- thing like, ‘If you want somebody, “Prisoner of Society.” If the case found out after the release of Ears to lent in New Orleans music since body was saying, ‘Who’d y’all hire hold them, put them in your arms. hadn’t said that the song was re- the Wall in 1996. That album trad- to play flute on that one?’ They Make love to your wife, get a little corded live, I would have wondered ed in much of their rawness and thought we’d hired a studio player. something. You might meet your why the band had chosen to re- ebullience in favor of slicker pro- I told them, ‘Yeah, we sure did’— wife in here tonight, or your hus- release that single again. There is no duction and an easy-listening mood, “I’m really not a flute but I didn’t tell them it was me!’ band.’ Coming together—that’s crowd noise and only small differ- and it caught the fans and critics by player…but when I Even a guy who’s been in the what it’s all about.” ences from the studio version. It’s surprise. For their most recent disc, business for 45 years can still throw Whether the setting is as small as an extremely lame attempt to sell 1999’s Buck Jump, they returned to heard the playback himself a curveball now and then. (or smaller than) Smith’s Olde Bar, record, and undercuts the nature of what they knew best and enlisted [of Buck Jump], it Lewis stated that keeping things or as large as Music Midtown, this the record. solid production help in the form fresh for the players and the audi- merry bunch definitely knows a few While far from original and hav- of , keyboard man for blew me away!” ence is one of the main reasons that things about bringing people to- ing a very shaky first half (except for Medeski Martin & Wood. Roger Lewis people come back to see bands like gether and making them groove. the opening track), the Living End Lewis made no bones about his Dirty Dozen Brass Band his. “Most days, we’ve got people And you don’t have to know a thing have a very good album on their opinion of Medeski. “The guy can who want to get onstage and do about marching, either. hands. As a Clash tribute album, it play, and he’s got a lot of imagina- their little dance, and we give them works marvels, and should warrant tion.” (He played backup keys dur- the opportunity to do that. We like The Dirty Dozen Brass Band will be a listen from anyone who has at ing the recording sessions.) “One the birth of jazz. A prime example is to bring the band to the people and performing at Music Midtown on May least some respect for the British thing I liked about what he did was, the 12-minute jam “Old School,” the people to the band. I always say 4. See related story, page 23, for de- punk music of the 1970s. After all, he let the tape recorder roll,” refer- which spins through bits of the genre’s that our music is something for your tails on the festival. Visit the group would you rather listen to Blink- ring to the fact that most of the entire history without becoming mind, your body, and your soul. online at http://www.rosebudus.com/ 182? album’s nine tracks were done in repetitive or tiring. Other surprises Then you go away satisfied.” dozen/index.html.

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