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172-178 WEST FINE PASTRIES LIGHT BREAKFASTS DELICIOUS SANDWICHES FROZEN YOGURT AVAILABLE HOURS Mon-Thur: 8am- lam Fridays: 8am-2am Saturdays: 1 Oam-2am Sundays: 1Oam- 12am I0DINING Page 2 SLUG Septemper Dearest Dickheads, wedid have. We would also like to and we feel the days spent were It's all an accident, you know. thank therest of the sponsors who worth our time. None of it means anything or has were also very generous in their Thanks again to Jo, Clarke, any significance beyond simple donations and help. Doug and the staff at The Pompa- cause and effect. It's all a big glop A big applause goes out to all dour for all of your support. The of chaos that we've imposed a veil of the bands who put up with the $500 we will be donating to the of order upon. hassles of playing. All the bands ADL will help to fight against Rac- There is no God, no Allah, no played freeso that wecould donate ism and Prejudice. Please feel free synchronicity, no implicate order. as much as possible to the ADL. A if you didn't make it to the PUBLISHEREDITOR It's just accident after brutal acci- big no thank you to Hate X9, who Sabbathon to send your donations J.R. Ruppel dent, coincidence after meaning- chose not to play this year without to the ADL, every little bit helps. lesscoincidence.Any meaningthat any warning or notice. I hope your We hope we have helped... See You SALESIPRODUCTION we put on it (outsidephysical con- show got rained out. next year for,,.yet another nection) is a lie to make the whole The ADL was kind enough to Sabbathon. Natalie Kaminski thing seem barable. Even normal. send a representative to Salt Lake. PHOTOGRAPHS You only live once, so get rich She put in a lot of hours to tell SLUG Staff and enjoy it. As we live the lives people about the organizationand Robert DeBerry we'verandomly inherited, the only lead discussions on racism and Rick Egan guideline is Do What Thou Wilt. prejudice. People were responsive Steve Midgley Any conformity to Their laws makes no sense. We will live our CONTRIBUTING WRITERS finite lives within the boundless- Eric M. Zsebenyi ness of infinity, die, and then cease Rick Ruppel to exist. There's no point in won- t part2 (of 10) Imorant. Ignorant 8 Ignorant dering what the world will be like Matt Taylor after we're gone. Or before we got Chris Robin here. There is only Now. Scotk Vice Nope, no Tao, no Fountain- head, no "One." Just this. That's it. SPECIAL THANKS Don't ask, "Why?" Don't worry Clarke / Jo / Lara about it. Just live out your biologi- I cal accident of a life, and die. SUlO is a free publication to Iho public. ALL Robert Putney Drake witing within is conttibutod by writem like yausslf who take advantase of thc fact ch.1 (a cynic) we mly on hair opinions. AU auhnissions mwt be kvedby the 2% of the month. SLUG is phbd monthly and is available by Dear Dickheads the 5th Rsrss fwl hac to arbmit your Thanks for the cover story on I opiaions. lctren. wims, to Fractal Method. We hope that folks DICKHEADS 63 SLUG will come see us at the upcoming Pompadour gig. P.O. BOX 1061 One minor correction. Fractal SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Method has never been nor prob- 84110-1061 ably ever will be considered by A&M. The original copy alluded The opinions expressed in this to consideration by major label Newspaper are those of the A&R - Artists & Repertoire, ie., contributing writers and are not talent scouts. necessarily those of the publishers. We remain flattered by the in- I accuracy, however. Q 1991 SLUG Productions Fractal Clan SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE Dear Dickheads, BY SENDING $1 0,00TO: Just a quick recap on what happened at our 4th annual SLUG Sabbathon.This years event didn't P,O, BOX 1061 SALT LAKE cm, have near the success we have had in the past. Howewr, it was a good time and a lot of people turned out ADVERTISING to enjoy the festivities. Our special thanks to the INFORMATION ,sponsors of the benefit, with a re- ally big THANK YOU to Crandall Audio and Matt Taylor who was very instrumental in the succeps September SLUG Page 3 in a playground. It feels a bit imma- as as Wre, a littleimpulsive but it can be this underappreciated fun. band has committed to vinyl. For ~LAYGROU~~debut cas- example, Hendrix's "Burning of the sette features seven selections of Midnight Lamp'' lets L-C. guitarist offbeat pop played with ragged Vernon Reid (the best axeman in straightfonvardness and undeni- mainstream rock) his fluid fingers do the talking. Likewise, the live able energy. sincevocalist J~~~~ stutzneggersings in a lofty child- cover of the Heads' "Memories like voice and the band offers up Can't Wait" out shines L.C.'s rather trebly unimposing bacbng, cover-with a some easy comparisons are to frutrated charge as compared # * --> -.. 10,000 M~~~~~~,T~~~~~~ Muses, to David Byrne's ultra-neurotic Play~wndUveAt l'b Pompadour Salem66 and The New Bohemians. version. Opium Den begins with a The band (Stephen Rose-gui- But foremost is GLADBIRDS lovely guitar whine, then adds tar, Adam Allen-bass, Brad istCoreyG1over'ssmolderi%cover jazzy bass and drums. Some good Butterfielddrums) obviously as- James Brown's "Talkin' Loud ObtUZO flOCOrdr, pire to join the league of collegiate and Sayin' Nothing," which adds a effectsare throwninas well. A little +-,+ mellow in the beginning, then funky punksters. PLAYGROUND great funk the band's Theseboysare from theProvo/ building up to a powerful succeed in exactly this genre. music (takethattothosecriticswho Orem area, and have been around Zeppelinish riff. Smooth rhythm The tape's opening track charge play "black for almost a year. If anyone's heard changes, with a coolas-hell Jimi/ "Mimmick" is probably the best. enough"). of Slinky Fink, it's the same band. jazz guitar solo. Definitely one of Adam plucks a good groove, This is a (yet delight- Who we have here are: Jason Rabb the most impressive points of the Stephen'sguitar weavesin and out fully loose) effort that makes the on guitar, Grant Ja~son bass, Dan song. nicely and B~~~ ~~~~~~fi~~~seems wait for another album almost in- Day on drums and Jerrod "Spanky" The instrumental on the EP is contentedwithaslowertempo.This Take a bite of Rowan on vocals. This EP is their jazz Deluxe,and most jazzy indeed! allows Julietoenunciateandpresto, cuits/ first effort and a damn good one. The influences of these boys really the listener gets a solid, danceable, Chris Robin Gladbirds' EP contains six shine through on this onesome alternative pop song. songs-five with vocals and one in- serious fun guitar/melody, PLAYGROUND is certainly a strumental. The tape starts offwith groovin' jazz bass and excellent quality local band. Thegood songs FRACTAL METHOD Hesitate, one of my favorites. Very drums with lots o'cymbals. One of that PLAYGROUND writes are intense, heavy, powerful. Sort of the high points on the EP, espe- executed a little passionless. Given old Black Sabbath meets Living cially since there are no vocals. a good studio, I'm sure PLAY- Colour. The song starts out slow, What I'm really notimpressed GROUND could become more es- There for a while, during the increases in speed a tad, and this by are the lyrics and vocals sential. Lars "fractured method" days I gofr wonderful riff spews out of Jason's throughout the entire EP. Spanky Darryl Smyers really sick of hearing about ~racta$+ guitar. only sounds whiny and strained Method. Since that Another song is Fist. This one and the eff&s used on his voice a lot of time to listen to the music is fast, movin', groovin' and damn really don't help any. The entire and even see them live. I. .- good, though I wonder about the sound and M of the vocals just WING COLOUR I personally think thdhs, lyrics: "So just get on your knees, seems to muddle up the songs Fractal Method's second effort, iq, and I'll grab your hair." rather than strengthen the com- BSCU~S one of the best local releases in ri, plexity, precision &d talent of this long time. This five-song tape is a band. great sample of what the band i$: This band is damn good. The about. What the hell kind of a mes- EP is damn good. BUT, it would be Clarke Walker, the writer- sage is Epic sendind with the ad- even better with a different vocalist producer, and driving forcebehina vertising for this mini-album? who would be able to bring out the this band, has created a style o# , While a streamer bears the wonderfulness of the band. And in music that isunique from any otherA notenEat Me!" backnotes from L.C. case you were wondering, yes, I in the area. , give us a Santa Claus-like message believe you should go out and buy Chaos i$& of,"Dear Virginia, here are some of this. It's only four bucks, and well dudon , but the things we found in the pantry. worth it. What else can I say but you could never tell. The produc. Hope you like 'em." decide for yourself. tion value is incredible. Clarke ha$ Friendly or threateningly, I Be w. combined modern technology wit9 decided to venture forth, remem- live instrumentation to create hif bering the all-too-brief glee of a music.