JayplaySeptember 14, 2006

ON THE ROAD 15 Jayplay takes a 5 behind-the-scenes look at the guys 7 behind the scenes. BAND ROMANCE BREWERIES DRIVING TIPS 10 making music together the art of making beer taking care of your ride ÓTABLE OF CONTENTS t o c 3 4 5

I spent a semester in Spain during CALENDAR CONTACT OUT my juniornote. year. My study abroad friends and I would regularly crave Sugarcult and more dating your band mate a look at Lawrence brewpubs things from home like peanut butter, hip hop music and movies. Of the 27 Americans I studied with, we had about 10 DVDs that we would shuffle FEATURE through and loan out to each other. Of these, I watched Almost Famous the guys behind the music repeatedly. I still never get tired of the movie. The carefree adventures of rock stars on the road, and the relationships between band mates, groupies and roadies appeal to my sense of adventure and love for travel. Too bad 7 I can’t sing. Rikki Kite’s feature about roadies gives a behind-the-scenes look at the PEOPLE people who keep the band wheels opera singer with blindness turning. Roadies do everything from managing the band to setting up equipment and stretching guitar strings. So maybe the life of a rock star is not for me, but until I perfect my 8 tambourine-playing skills, I’ll be 10 13 15 reading Kite’s article and watching Almost Famous again and again.

■ Carolyn Tharp, Editor

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Jaybowl, prizes for sexiest and most Gaslight Tavern, 9 p.m., www. 21+, $2, www.replaylounge.com. 10 p.m., 21+, $3, www.jazzhaus. 10 p.m., free with KUID, www. unique togas. gaslighttavern.com. com. suaevents.com. 09.14.2006 JAYPLAY 03 Niloofar (MORTIFYING MOMENT) Shahmohammadi BUSTED BOUNCER BITCH After having a few beers with friends while + watching a KU basketball game, Matt Sager, Shawnee junior, decided to join his friends at It’s Brothers! on Massachusetts Street. Even though the night is still a little blurry to Sager, he recalls running Chris Raine into a guy he had gone to high school with at the bar. The guy held a grudge against Sager and threw Please send your him out. Sager couldn’t find his friends and had to questions andmoan walk 13 blocks back home. After recapping the night concerns to with his friends the next day, he realized that the [email protected] guy who threw him out did not, in fact, even work at Brother’s. ß Megan Heffley CATHERINE COQUILLETTE

of Club Terr. It seems all my friends have no problem finding the Ideal date: Getting together a guy who actually takes interest, but I never CATCH with a group of friends and seem to land the perfect guy, or any guy. They going out all tell me I’m the perfect girl: not too tall, Worst date he’s ever had: It was a picnic, and it was really nice and slim, everything a guy could want. but Name: Georgeweek Regan, Shawnee awkward for some reason no one shows interest. I will junior What he sees in his future: I’d admit I can seem extremely shy, but I try not to Major: Psychology like to get a job and settle down with a family back in be. Is there anything I could do in the hopes of Favorite personal feature: Kansas City. having someone gain interest? Sense of humor and ability to What he’s got that other guys Interesting fact about George: —Bailey, sophomore make people laugh don’t: I’m the best beer pong He wasn’t legally named Favorite feature in a girl: Her player at the University of “George” until he was 4. It was smile Kansas. originally a nickname and Hobbies: Playing golf, watching What his friends say: “He’s one a mix-up at the emergency Chris: So your friends of integrity. Plus, you’d to be in, so use it. No one to sports, playing croquet and of the sweetest guys I’ve ever room prompted his parents tell you that you’re “the have to compete with your select from? Once again, that hanging out with friends met and he’s always there,” to change it permanently. perfect girl,” huh? That’s friends, and it sounds like might have a lot to do with Job: Grounds crew at Lawrence says Alicia Goldstein, Overland funny, that’s exactly what they have a sizable edge your shyness. While in your Country Club, 400 Country Park junior. Megan Heffley how my second stepmom in experience on you. And head, you think you’re just ß used to describe me — at about your goal of landing coming off as a wallflower, least when she was sober. the “perfect” guy? That’s a to men you might be Newsflash, hon: your good one. See, you’re being coming off as disinterested. friends are lying. You’re “sorta funny” already. The men are pursuing, so not perfect, neither are if you don’t give them any they and neither were any Niloofar: Yeah, there is. green lights, how are they of my stepmothers. If you It involves a miniskirt, a supposed to pass go? They want to attract a man, you pushup bra and a lack of won’t. A woman who truly should set the bar lower. dignity. But you said you “can believes she is a prize isn’t Maybe aim for “kind of seem extremely shy,” so I’m afraid to flirt. It shows she’s cute,” “sorta funny” or, if guessing this isn’t an option comfortable about who she you’re feeling ambitious, for you. The truth is, I’m a bit is and that she is interested. “not too annoying.” You concerned with what sounds So my assignment to you could always take the easy like desperation. Just hoping is to be very conscious of route and go for “slutty,” but that “someone” will gain the types of signals you’re honestly, there’s enough of interest is not good enough. sending out. Work up the that in this town already. Men are the pursuers and courage to crack some jokes, And I assume you’d like to women are the selectors. bat your eyelashes and be maintain at least the veneer That’s a powerful position sexy… sans a pushup bra.

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by Lisa Anderson couples band Music-making romances have bad reputations, but they aren’t all fated to fail Sonny and Cher. Ike and Tina. Models Fleetwood and Mac. Couples Andrew who once played together have Winetroub, not stayed together. Although Leaven- some past musical pairs have worth broken up, dating a bandmate junior, and isn’t always a recipe for disaster. Michelle Kurt Lane and Julie Noyce, Gutierrez, KU alumni in Lawrence’s Ad Albuquer- Astra Per Aspera were married que, N.M., last May. The couple began sophomore, dating six years ago, before make sweet the unpretentious rock band, music to- formed near the end of 2001. gether. Noyce, keyboardist and vocalist, was studying in France and Italy when the band began to take shape, but joined when she returned, says Lane, drummer. The situation works to their advantage. One person being away for extended periods of time is not an issue for them and is something they take joy in not having to worry about, Lane says. He doesn’t know if this concept would work out for anyone because each situation depends on the details. However, Lane advises anyone taking the chance: keep things separate. “You can’t let the sort of weird things that happen in a band affect your personal relationship,” he says. Jacki Becker, owner of Eleven Productions, a local music promotion company, works with PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/KIMBERLY WESTPHALL bands on a daily basis. Whether “You can’t let the formed the band. mixing the music and the muse is “I think the main advantage a good idea or not, nobody knows, sort of weird things to starting a band when he and Bedmates on the bandwagon: Other bands that but Becker doesn’t warn against it. that happen in a band I were together was that we have tried out the couple-in-band concept Mates of State is a prime affect your personal both felt comfortable enough example, she says. It is a local relationship.” with each other to share musical Blondie: Mega-foxy and No Doubt: She kinda always Stereo Total: Françoise Cactus band with two married members: ideas, and we were both very tough-as-nails, Debbie Harry knew she’d end up his ex- and her man, Brezel Göring, Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner. — kurt lane, supportive of each other,” Barnett ad astra per aspera dated her guitarist, Chris girlfriend. Gwen Stefani dated met in a Berlin bakery in the Their music met in 1997, wedding says. “We still are supportive of Stein. the bass player, Tony Kanal. winter of 1992. They are still bells rang in 2001 and they are she says. “Mac McCaughan and each other’s ideas, even though Have you ever heard that together. now expecting a child. That Laura Balance were married and we’re no longer a couple.” Culture Club: Boy George song, “Don’t Speak?” Hammel and Gardner do a great broke up but stayed in the band, The relationship ended about dated his drummer, Jon Moss. The White Stripes: Jack fell job maintaining harmony both and that worked,” she says. a year ago and although it wasn’t They broke up and so did the Sleater-Kinney: Corin Tucker in love with the girl, Meg on and off the stage, Becker says. Like Superchunk, many bands the prettiest picture at the time, band but not as a result of the and Carrie Brownstein started White, and married her in Becker recognizes, though, watch members date and divide everything eventually waorked couple’s split. the band and dated until 1997, 1996. They divorced in 2000 the conflicting and classic but decide to play on. Guillermo out. “There were disagreements but the riot grrrl rock band but continued making music example of Carly Simon who Sexo, a Boston and self-proclaimed initially about what should The Fugees: Lauryn Hill and broke up this year. together. dated several fellow performers. “dark, Latin, freakout action” band happen with the band, but we Wyclef Jean dated. No Fugees. The singer/songwriter dated on maintained a steady band bond all ended up being able to move No love. Sonic Youth: Guitarist/vocalist X: John Doe and Exene rocky roads, broke up on an even even though band mates Reuben on,” Bettsak says. Thurston Moore and bassist/ Cervenka were married and rockier ones and “You’re So Vain” Bettsak, guitarist/vocalist, and Don’t let past artists’ downfalls John Lennon and Yoko Ono: vocalist Kim Gordan have are now divorced. The L.A. ensued. However, if couples in Jess Barnett, keyboardist/vocalist, after intra-band relationships The couple began dating in been married since 1984 and punk band remains. bands break up, the bands don’t dated for about a year. The couple discourage. Greatness is possible 1968 and were together until are still together, band and all. necessarily diminish, Becker says. began dating and, four months with on- and off-stage chemistry Lennon’s death in 1980. Superchunk is a good example, into their relationship, readily and everything in between. 09.14.2006 JAYPLAY 05 Little-Known food fact Cry no more, onion cutters. Whether you’re an WESCOE WIT experienced cook or just dabbling with new recipes, Girl 1: I want to put my hair up. Guy1: Hey, you know what’s Girl: My mom called me last before you dice an onion, try soaking it in cold water He likes when I wear it up. crazier than crazy black dudes night and talked my ear off for Girlw 2: Good. wCan I put it up? I in Florida? 45 minutes. for 15 minutes to take away the burn, says Joe Smith, can put it up, and he can watch Guy 2: Crazy white dudes? Guy: I would have hung up the manager and former cook at PepperJax Grill, 947 New while I do it! Guy1: EXACTLY. damn phone. Girl 1: Um, well that would be Girl: You better not ever hang Hampshire St. dumb. Ugh, maybe I will just up the phone on my mom! ■ Erika Bentson shave my head. Guy 1: What did you guys drink Guy: I was referring to my mom. last night? Girl: Oh, yeah, I would totally Girl 1: I hate that song... you Guy 2: I drank two 40s and, like, hang up on her ass. know the one with the anaconda five cans of Bud. Guy: Hey! in it? Guy 1: Oh, so if my math is Girl 2: An anaconda? Isn’t that correct, you drank, like 140 what killed that crocodile guy? ounces, I think. Girl 1: I don’t know. Oh it’s that Guy 2: I don’t want to do DID YOU KNOW... song about liking big butts. math right now. I am fucking Girl 2: Oh, a sting ray killed him, hungover. whether you drank too much or ate some questionable never mind. ßBeth Breitenstein food, aromatic bitters and soda water are a great party foul cure for a queasy stomach. ß ß stock your bar with a bottle of bitters — a mix of herbs, spices don’t DIP YOUR DREADS. The dreaded dip can occur in one of two ways. The first is if someone lets and alcohol. “Something about the herbs in the bitters helps his dreadlock slip into his own beer. The second, and far worse occurrence, soothe the stomach,” says Maryk Mendes, bartender at Henry’s on is when the dreadlocked person walks by another bar patron, dipping their eighth, 11 E. Eighth St. also, if you chug a glass of the mixture greasy hair into the other’s open beer. it will take away the hiccups, he says. Just splash a few drops of Michael Cuper, general manager and bartender at Buffalo Wild Wings, 1012 Massachusetts St., saw a dread drop last week. “This was a guy who let bitters in a glass with soda water and enjoy the benefits. one of them dip into his own beer, but I’ve seen both happen,” Cuper says. “He just pulled out his dread, rung it out and went on with his business.” ■ Erika Bentson ßCaleb Regan

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by Carissa Pedigo The art behind Craft Beer Terms Microbrewery: A brewery Craft Beers: Generally, that makes less than 15,000 domestic beers that are made barrels of beer in one year. with all malted barley by small brewers. Craft beers have the brew Brewpub: A restaurant- a wide range of colors and brewery that sells 25 percent alcohol content. They can also or more of its beer in the have additional ingredients restaurant or bar. Free State added like fruit, herbs or spices. Brewing Company and 75th Flavor is the main goal in the Street Brewery are brewpubs. production of craft beers, not necessarily for mass appeal. Regional Craft Brewery: A brewery whose flagship brand Craft Brewer: Any brewer is an all-malt or specialty beer. who sells mainly craft beers, These breweries produce more and whose flagship brand is a than 50 percent craft beer. For craft beer. example, Sierra Nevada, New Belgium Brewing Co. and Source: May/June 2006 Magic Hat are regional craft issue of The New Brewer, breweries. the journal of The Brewers Association

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Water at the bottom of the cone to be Beer is 90 percent water. reused in another batch. Different minerals are added JACKIE CREMER to the water, or it is filtered to The Brewing Process a certain degree depending on A look into how Lawrence brewpubs create their own craft beers. the style of beer, says Weichert, 1.Malting: This germinates raw head brewer at 75th Street grain to produce enzymes, At the top of a spiral staircase ahead of the competition. equations and come out with a drinks beer at a Lawrence Brewery. Hard water is used to which converts white starch lays a hidden chamber. It is dimly “It’s certainly not sitting beer, I think that earns you that brewery about once a week. The make darker beers, soft water to sugars. lit with wet cement floors. Giant around and drinking beer all title,” he says. Royal Raspberry Wheat at 75th for lights, he says. 2.Roasting: Heat is added to steel cone-shaped containers day,” says Micah Weichert, head Based on percentages, craft Street Brewery is his favorite, but the grain to produce most of encompass the rooms, with brewer at 75th Street Brewery, beer is the fastest growing he also likes to go to breweries Malted barley the flavor and color. tubes and 3512 Clinton alcoholic beverage in the United and sample every beer on the Barley is a basic grain that 3.Milling: The “art” phase of pipes lining the Ales vS. Lagers P a r k w a y . States. Sales have increased 11 menu. “I like trying new things,” creates the alcohol content, color, brewing. Malts imported ceiling and floor. Beers are divided into Brewing is a percent in the first half of 2006, he says. “I’ve been drinking Miller sweetness and flavor of a beer. It into the brewery from other Security is tight. two categories. As there are science; and according to a report by the Lite and those kind of beers since is malted before the breweries countries such as Germany, Only a select few white and red wines, there beers are Brewers Association. Last year I was in high school.” use it. Malts are shipped in from Canada, Belgium, or England work up here, are ales and lagers. designed using sales rose 9 percent, and they rose The biggest difference around the world and can be with other specialty malts to f o r m u l a t i n g numbers and 7 percent in 2004. The growth is between craft beers brewed combined by the brewer to create a specific style of beer. equations to Ales: equations. “I do on the account of the work of at local breweries and mass- make new flavors. Malt comes 4.Mashing: The carbohydrates make their Fruity a lot of history small, independently owned productions like Anheuser- in flavors such as chocolate, and proteins in the malt are creation. No, Fermented in about 3 weeks and reading breweries, like Lawrence’s local Busch are the ingredients. toasted, earthy or caramel. converted to simple sugars this is not at warmer temperatures to try and brewpubs, Free State Brewing The ingredients that make up by the enzymes in the malt. Frankenstein’s Most often bitter recreate a style Company, 636 Massachusetts St., Lite American Lagers — like Hops 5.Boiling: Boiled in kettle for lair. And its Hoppy and then add and 75th Street Brewery. Miller Lite, Bud Light and Coors Hops are fluffy, green pine- about 90 minutes and hops workers are Most styles originated in my personal Free State Brewery was the Light — consist of barley with cone-like flowers of a perennial are added. not mad England flair,” he says. first legal brewery in Kansas since a high percentage of rice or vine. Breweries usually use them 6.Whirlpool: Spins the protein scientists. They W e i c h e r t prohibition. It has four brewers corn as adjuncts. Adjuncts in pellet form for easier storage, chains created during boiling are brewers, Lagers: apprentinced on staff and creates about are any unmalted grain or but can also use them fresh. and hop particles to the formulating, Ferments in about 2 months in a handful 2,500 fifteen-barrel batches per ingredient added to the mix Hops create bitterness, flavor center to clear them out. The crafting, and at colder temperatures of breweries year. There are 32 gallons in a other than malted barley. “Most and aroma. The longer they are mixture is now cooled. creating a Smooth, crisp flavor for about four barrel, which is about two kegs. domestic beers are not even boiled, the more bitter a beer will 7.Fermentation: Yeast converts w e l l - k n o w n Moderate to low bitter taste years before Although Free State Brewery considered beer,” Weichert says. taste. Boil them less, and there sugars to alcohol. The more beverage-beer. Developed in Germany becoming an could expand its business to Craft brewers stick to an old will be more flavor and aroma. sugar, the higher alcohol C r a f t actual brewer. become more mainstream, that German law that a beverage content. Different yeast b r e w e r i e s Source: Micah Weichert, head He first gained isn’t the goal. “We have a passion isn’t considered beer unless Yeast strains are used to create are gaining brewer at 75th Street Brewery interest by using for the art of making beer. We it is made from four basic Yeast, which is a fungus, different styles of beer. momentum in a homebrewing take so much time, effort and ingredients: water, malted ferments the sugar from the 8.The beer is dispensed directly the alcoholic kit. He taught care,” says Ray Dalton, Free State barley, hops and yeast, he says. malt in the barley to create from the brewery’s storage beverage industry. Creating himself the scientific aspect of his Brewery manager. People should Next time you want to the alcohol content. The tanks to the taps at the bar. the brew is tedious and labor- job, and because he doesn’t have come to Free State to enjoy enjoy a brewski after finishing fermenting tanks at breweries intensive, but the brewers’ a degree in brewing science, he the beer, and that’s part of the your biology test, ditch the Bud are cone-shaped because after Source: Micah Weichert, special attention to history and isn’t technically considered a experience of craft breweries, he Light and enjoy a home-brewed the yeast is done fermenting, it head brewer at 75th Street detail in their designer beers brew master. “After seven years says. classic from one of Lawrence’s falls out of the beer and collects Brewery may be what is pushing them of being able to produce those Chad Gray, Wichita senior, brew pubs. 09.14.2006 JAYPLAY 07 GRAD CHECK Whether you’re singin’ along, groovin’ by yourself or just studying in the library, we’ll catch you with the

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Campanile, down Listener: Bryce Jones, Listener: Brian Arnold, The Hill and into the Salina junior Overland Park freshman Tune: “Leave a Clean Tune: “Give Up” by real world. Camp and a Dead Fire” the Postal Service (on We’re here to check by Juno shuffle) Action: Reading on Action: Doing his in on them. Wescoe Beach “Calculus II” homework He says: “They’re just a in Anschutz Library perfect mix of grunge He says: “I think any Steve Doocy and ambience.” music is good music to Year: 1979 study to. As long as there Hometown: Algona, Iowa, is music on, I don’t mind but raised in Kansas studying.” Degree: Journalism

Back in the day: Doocy was Listener: Craig Frint, Listener: Libby Brickson, the first person on the air with Belleville freshman Overland Park junior KJHK when the radio station Tune: “Punk Rock Song” Tune: “Gotta Understand” broadcasted for the first time by Bad Religion (on by Jurassic 5 in 1975. He later became the shuffle) Action: Taking a smoke station manager. KU taught him from 6 to 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Reporter of the Year Award and Action: Reading the break on a bench how to write and report a story Time every morning and covers the Sigma Delta Chi Society University Daily Kansan between Wescoe and well, he says. However, “I don’t news and questions of the day. of Professional Journalists, on Wescoe Beach while Stauffer-Flint know if it prepared me for how He also wrote The Mr. and Mrs. Headliner Award. waiting for class She says: “I think they tough the real world is,” he says. Happy Handbook, which comes He says: “I listen to have a really unique “It’s a pretty cutthroat world.” out next month. He says: A pitcher of beer in everything, literally. style of rapping and New York is $75 so… “Cherish I go from country, to harmonizing.” Today: Doocy is the host of Why he’s a big deal: Through the days of the cheap beer, kids.” rap, to Christian, to America’s number one cable the years, Doocy has received instrumental.” news show “Fox and Friends” on 11 local Emmy Awards, the ■ Katherine Loeck the Fox News Channel. It runs Associated Press’ Feature ■ Katherine Loeck

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A LIFEby Frank Tankard of STRUGGLE, Born with an awe-inspiring voice and a stubborn work ethic, Lynda Anders Canaday tries to make it to the top as a blind opera singer. A VOICE OF HOPE Schelolehzquizx Ross, from had met at a guide dog training the slums of south central Los class, and moved to Lawrence to Angeles, became pregnant in live with him. 1953. Fifty years after her birth, And the great gospel singer her dreams had grown distant, Mahalia Jackson told Ross that her life complicated by health she had received word from the issues that had landed her in a Lord: The child would be a girl wheelchair, and she had sunk and a gospel singer. Ross took into a deep depression after the prophesy to heart and asked discovering she was incapable her friend Jackson to be the of having children because of child’s godmother. the abuse she had received as a Soon the girl was born, child. two-and-a-half months premature. As she lay in an * * * incubator, overexposure to light and oxygen destroyed the A year ago, two students connection between her retina — a boy and a girl — waited and her brain, leaving her blind. for their turn outside Murphy Ten years after her birth, Hall practice room 332. Lynda’s the child, Lynda Anders, was voice, powerful, high, loud, spending summers with Jackson commanded the air. learning to become a gospel The students looked at each singer. She was also running other and smiled. “It’s Lynda,” away from foster homes and the girl said. “She’s a freaking being sexually abused by foster rock star,” the boy said. The girl parents. When she would stay at nodded. “She’s amazing. Then home, her stepfather and brother again, she has quite a few years would abuse her, and Ross would on most of us.” get drunk and tell her “I hate you, Lynda finished her lesson and you blind black bitch.” walked into the hall, leading her Twenty years after her birth, cane in front of her. Lynda was discovered by Seth Her first semester at the Riggs, one of the premiere University of Kansas was vocal technique teachers in the already trying to defeat her. She nation. And she had found that had enrolled in 12 hours, the her colorful soprano voice was minimum to keep her financial best suited not for gospel, but aid, but was quickly finding that for opera. Before Jackson died in it would be nearly impossible to 1972, she had told Lynda, “God finish all of her classes. called you to be a gospel singer.” Most of her books hadn’t Lynda had replied, “God called been translated into Braille me to be an opera singer.” and she was falling behind. The Thirty years after her birth, hope that had brought her back Lynda had sung with opera to music and saved her life was companies in Florida and being tested. Australia, with symphonies Just a year-and-a-half earlier, and in clubs. She had started she had lost her will to live. One to rebuild her relationship with day, she had simply stopped Photo illustration/Ryan McGeeney her mother six months before eating. For five days, she did in vocal performance and go on she could sing in a bumpy car She received an exemption she died. Her mother’s death not eat. She was hospitalized, to give vocal therapy and lessons going over a bumpy road with to the 12-hour minimum had sent Lynda into a deep and her body was nursed back to singers recovering from injury. square tires, and still have that requirement, made it through depression, and she tried to kill to health. She met with her In the 1970s, a vocal chord injury incredible limpid, luscious voice the spring and is enrolled in 9.5 herself but recovered. therapist to work on her mind. from overwork had forced Lynda come across clear and clean.” hours this semester. She figures Forty years after her birth, What she needed, they decided, to drop out of UCLA, where she Lynda finished just five of she won’t graduate with her Lynda’s professional singing was to return to music. was studying opera, and kept her 12 credit hours that first vocal performance degree until career was over. Her friend and “Performing will always be my her from singing or speaking semester. She wasn’t able to stay 2012. manager, Randy Sheriff, would first love,” Lynda explains. Her normally for a year. up all night practicing like she “When your dreams don’t regret that one of the greatest voice is sweet and young and “Lynda always knew what used to. Plus, she had recently come true, you have two opera singers he’d ever heard carries naturally. “But I’m past to do when she had to sing stepped out of her wheelchair choices,” she says. “You can give had not made it to the top. the age where opera companies with a cold, when she had to and was learning how to walk on up. I did that for a while.” Or, she Nobody wanted to take the would hire me.” sing under adverse conditions,” a bad back and a new knee. She says, there is a line in one of her chance of hiring a blind singer for She and her therapist came says Florence Riggs, who, along also started mentoring young old favorite songs: “You either the opera, he would say. She had up with a plan: She would enroll with her ex-husband, Seth, girls who were struggling with give your chords away or you married Jim Canaday, whom she at the University, earn her degree helped Lynda recover. “I’m sure the aftermath of sexual abuse. pick up your pipes and play.”

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Backstage and on tour with roadies by Rikki Kite

Jason Boland and The seat in the immaculate silver sitting around and waiting. “When it’s bad, it still beats of helping haul the heavy schedule has kept Germaine ROADIE Stragglers don’t go on stage Ì tour bus. Jason Boland leans Touring as a roadie with digging ditches,” he laughs. He band equipment, Peliti sells busy full-time. He’s only until 10 p.m., but they’ve back in his seat across the any band, regardless of how says he’s dug ditches before. the merchandise, books been to his new house twice already been at the club for aisle, lazily plucking his guitar it runs its business, is nothing A roadie probably won’t hotels, handles contracts in the past two months, almost two hours. The guitars, while watching a television like working in an office filled tell you that it’s the money and payments, and earns a but he’ll soon have about microphones, drums and above our heads over the bus with cubicles. A degree isn’t that makes this job most percentage of merchandise a month off the road when amps are set up on stage and entrance. I tell Peliti I’ll take a required, but a good deal of appealing. There are easier sales in addition to a salary. Dwight enters the recording Greg Brownd, the bottle of water, and patience is. The job duties can ways to make money. Instead, “Treat it like a business,” studio. For now, he’s happy band’s clean-cut “It’s like working he says, teasingly, include designated driver, it’s the live music, travel or Boland says about roadies. He with this arrangement. “I like sound engineer for the circus “Why? You’re off peace maker, guitar string the fact that every day, every also recommends that roadies traveling. I’ve been traveling in his early 20s, or something,” work, aren’t you?” stretcher, manager, sales rep, gig, every venue is different. learn to cook a lot of different since I was 5 and it’s in my stands behind — Jamie Germaine, It’s true — my friend, cook, mover, carpenter, The idea that it’s all about things with Ramen noodles, blood...It’s better if you do it the sound board, roadie on tour work day is over sound engineer and aspirin sex, drugs and rock and roll is supporting Peliti’s assertion on someone else’s dime,” he adjusting knobs as with Dwight and rush hour dealer. The benefits probably a myth, Peliti says. “It’s rarely that he’s not in this business laughs. the bassist plucks traffic is just won’t include a health plan or drugs, not much sex, and for the money. Although being on the the strings on his Yoakam beginning to pick stock options or a quick and we play country,” he says, Jamie Germaine is a road can be fun, Germaine bass, performing up outside the easy way to earn cash. laughing. seasoned roadie in his says it was more fun 20 his sound check. Brownd’s Grand Emporium in Kansas Peliti wondered about his 40s. He started working years ago. “It’s not all fun and the new guy in this group City, Mo., but for the band Getting the gig job security with his chosen for Motorhead after he games; it’s a lot of hard work... and still has a bit of a deer- members, their work day has Brownd has a background lifestyle until about a year graduated with a music It’s like working for the circus in-headlights look about him, just started. Their “commute” in music, having graduated and a half ago, when Boland degree in 1989. Germaine or something.” having joined the tour in June. lasts from town to town and from Belmont in Nashville entered rehab. He says the landed that gig by word A scruffy, unshaven, gray- It’s his first job touring with a is spent together in a tour with a music degree. Peliti, on work environment has been of mouth — his sister was haired carnie once told me, band and Monty Peliti, road bus with six bunks — three the other hand, got this roadie better for everyone since then. friends with Phil Campbell, “Sometimes I wish I could manager for Jason Boland on each side — covered with gig the old-fashioned way I ask whether he’s heard that Motorhead’s guitarist. Since run away and join a town.” and the Stragglers, says that red velvet curtains to offer — he networked. He was a Metallica has been to therapy then, he has also worked Germaine suddenly reminds the band is still trying to get some limited privacy. On tour, fan of the band first and then together. He laughs, shakes with other artists, including me of that carnie as he talks to know Brownd. there is no such thing as a started helping them carry his head and says, “You know Mick Jone’s Foreigner, Tom about hoping to have his Peliti says he’s never regular work schedule. Pay equipment at gigs, which what we do for band therapy? Petty and the Heartbreakers new home, which he rarely been interviewed before. and benefits vary wildly from eventually led to a full-time We scream at each other.” and now Dwight Yoakam. sees, paid off within 10 He pushes back a wisp of band to band and sometimes job touring with the band Boland leans against a In between touring gigs, years. blonde hair that has fallen even from gig to gig. Being and wearing many hats: tour bar table, discretely spitting he works for a production out of his pony tail, lifts a a roadie is no ordinary job. It manager, merchandiser and tobacco into a can. He company in Los Angeles, but On the road vinyl seat cushion and offers doesn’t always pay well and is any other hat they hand him. says hiring Peliti wasn’t a recently bought a house in “If you want a day off, you a beer from the built-in physically and mentally taxing “I have to be the most positive financial decision; it was a Tucson, Ariz. should fly in a day early,” was cooler behind the driver’s between hours and hours of person on the bus,” he says. business decision. On top Lately, Dwight Yoakam’s the motto on the last Metallica CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 10 JAYPLAY 09.14.2006 09.14.2006 JAYPLAY 11 ÁCONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 European tour, says roadie Justin importing thing is that roadies, managed. Syncrolite Technician, Flaming Lips, suggests that you Crew. Crew has been touring with “Get to the fucking gig on time.” Dimmer Tech, Moving Light Tech, offer to help bands at local bars, bands since 1980 and is currently Chip Walker, former Lawrence Lighting Director, Production such as The Bottleneck, 737 New Ralph the roadie on tour with Tom Waits. He says resident, gets to the gig on Manager and Crew Chief are some Hampshire, or the Granada, 1020 Ralph the Roadie has the biggest change during the time, but not always on the bus. of the job titles 37- Massachusetts rapidly been adding band years, besides the change in Walker worked as a carpenter on year-old Kocurek Jamie Germaine’s St. “Especially in names to his resume. Ralph technology, is that the industry tour with Metallica this summer has held through handy list of what Lawrence — you is a character played by has become in Vienna, Austria. the years as a roadie it takes to be a can’t really spit Chris Bonno, an actor and a business. When his driver for bands including roadie without hitting comedian in Los Angeles. You “Throwing TVs out “It’s rarely drugs, got stuck in the Foo Fighters, someone who’s can see several short, comical of hotel windows traffic, Walker Matchbox 20, a musician,” he films created and directed 1. Being on time is a plus. is certainly not not much sex, and flagged down a Fountains of Wayne, says. by Peter Byck and starring 2. Be honest. If something a c c e p t a b l e we play country.” motorcyclist and Goo Goo Dolls, Although he’s Ralph at ralphtheroadie.com. goes wrong, admit it. anymore,” he says. caught a ride to Vince Gill, N’SYNC, only been home In each episode, Ralph works — Monty Peliti, 3. Have good endurance But this the music festival. Backstreet Boys, in his Lawrence as a bumbling, disheveled, road manager for because sleep is business does A l t h o u g h The O’Jays, Ricky apartment nine incompetent roadie for compromised. not offer benefits Jason Boland and he often works Martin, Pearl Jam, days since March, bands like Dishwalla and seem real at all. While Ralph 4. Do your job well. in the traditional the Stragglers with Metallica, Sade, Baby Animals, when he’s not Bowling for Soup. But, as the the Roadie creates comedy by 5. Be diplomatic and work sense. “You get Walker says that Yes and Michael on tour with The first film says, “Ralph does not perpetuating and poking fun well with others. to choose what this industry is Jackson. Now that Flaming Lips, want to be a roadie. He wants at the stereotypes of roadies 6. Be patient. tours you do, but fluid, and roadies he has a family of his Kliph spends his to be a rock star.” as musicians — waiting to Source: Jamie Germaine, there also is a reality that you get move from band to band. “I get own, however, he down time the Ralph wonders out loud be discovered, on the road on tour with Dwight Yoakam shoved in a bus with 10 other a gig and find out they asked finds that his time is same way many where the chicks are, helps for the sex, drugs and rock guys or gals, and you have to three people before me,” he in short supply, and students do himself to merchandise and and roll — it also shows real work out how to get along with says. In addition to working “Dad” is sometimes a hard title to — hanging out at The Replay offers to fill in for musicians, bands (and their rivalries), everybody.” with Metallica, he toured with fit into the touring schedule. “I am Lounge, 946 Mass., The Love hoping to follow in the live music, the behind-scenes Although Crew admits that Bon Jovi this summer. “Lars working on goals of being home Garden, 936 1/2 Mass. and The footsteps of Bon Scott from drudgery of loading and he has a great job, he says that even gave me shit for going out more with my family so I don’t miss Tap Room, 801 New Hampshire AC/DC and work his way unloading equipment, odd at the end of a long, hard day, with Bon Jovi. Kirk asked me if my son, Ashton, growing up,” he St. He also plays in the local band from roadie up to lead singer jobs a roadie must do and he can still end up standing on I missed them [Metallica]. And says. Rohypnol Rangers. of the band — any band. the real-life characters met a runway in the pouring rain, James asked me what it was Although Spurlock started Along the way, musicians like along the way. Television trying to load equipment with like,” he says. Getting connected working for The Flaming Lips Chris Burney from Bowling viewers might appreciate the help of locals who don’t Walker started off as a roadie Fortunately for out-of- as their roadie in 1996, he’d for Soup give Ralph advice. this original, thoughtful, yet speak English. in the late ‘80s work roadies planned to be a musician. “Chicks dig this,” says Burney spontaneous behind the Bob Cutler’s first tour by helping local Lil G’s handy list everywhere, He played in local Lawrence while he paints Ralph’s scenes, comedic look at the in Europe as a roadie for bands, like Kansas there’s Roadie. bands, including Slackjaw with fingernails black. Ralph asks life of roadies and musicians. Canadian punk band D.O.A. City’s Sin City of what it takes to net. The Web Bob Cutler, before being hired when Burney bought his first Star Chris Bonno agrees. got off to a rough start due to Disciples, haul be a roadie site provides by Wayne Coyne, singer and bottle of fingernail polish and He says that musicians and a combination of inexperience equipment in online roadie guitarist for The Flaming Lips, a later asks about his piercings. roadies love it, too. New and the language barrier. “Take exchange for 1. Common sense. Things can résumés and job couple of months after helping He’s learning something, episodes are in production some Kansas hillbilly who barely free beer. His first get ugly without this. listings, roadie them unload equipment at but his roadie skills don’t and Bonno is still hopeful speaks American (much less official tour was as 2. Listening. Important to get recipes, chat a South by Southwest music improve. that this series will see the Canadian) and just throw him road manager for the job done. rooms, games, festival performance in Austin, So far, the episodes are light of primetime networks, in the deep end in a different Shana Morrison, 3. Be yourself. You can’t get jokes and more. Texas. only available on the Internet or possibly the big screen. country, on a different continent, Van Morrison’s along with others if they M e m b e r s h i p Spurlock sounds like he’s still and on MVSpy (direct TV), But at the end of the and problems are guaranteed,” daughter. A friend don’t know the real you. is free and a little shocked that he’s touring which is unfortunate for episodes, Ralph inevitably he says. was her booking 4. See the big picture. Always includes access to the world with The Flaming Lips, television viewing audiences gets fired. He’s entertaining, Cutler played in local Lawrence agent, which remember you are not the backstage photos, and he’s enthusiastic about the who are swimming in an but the bands all agree that punk bands in the ‘80s, including is how Walker only person trying to make memorials to experience. The Flaming Lips ocean of game shows and he’s ultimately just a bad The Klusterfux and Slackjaw. got the job. His the show happen. fallen roadies, are currently touring with Sonic reality programs that don’t roadie. Since then, he’s toured with favorite thing 5. Multitasking. Makes the tour stories, and Youth. bands such as SNFU, Patti Smith, about this career day much smoother and networking with “I never would have imagined Vice Squad, The Vibrators and UK so far has been faster. p r o f e s s i o n a l in a million years I’d meet them,” people, sorry.” And to further how different and unique life Subs, but more recently he has meeting his wife 6. Never expect the job will roadies. This site he says. Spurlock says that one shatter any myths about life on with the Lips really is.” started a non-profit organization when he worked last. Always remember, is one way to find of the perks of touring with The tour he adds, “A lot of people Life as a roadie, regardless in Topeka, with the goal of with Metallica in everyone is replaceable, out more about Flaming Lips is meeting other think we’re getting laid all of the band or job title, is a opening an all-ages coffeehouse Belgrade, he says, even you. the business if musicians and getting free the time and that just doesn’t different and unique way and live music venue. He also but the lifestyle your interest is music. In fact, after he saw one happen.” The other members of to make a living. It provides says that if the phone rang with can be exhausting. Source: Gregory “Lil G” piqued. The site of Sonic Youth’s set lists he told The Flaming Lips are married, something new each day, in a the right touring offer before his “People think it’s a Kocureck, currently on tour also offers a list of them that he loves the song and Kliph admits that he’s in different city or country, with coffeehouse was established, party, but it’s not. with the Red Hot Chili Peppers frequently asked “Catholic Block.” Sonic Youth his 30s now so things may have strangers and friends, live music he’d take it. It’s probably one questions, roadie dedicated the song to him when been different for him if he were and the musicians you always of the hardest jobs you’ll do in lingo, roadie news, and promotes they played it that night. In many 10 years younger. wanted to meet. And you get to On the résumé your life, if you take it seriously.” the annual Roadie Palooza, a ways, an experience like that Spurlock says that a lot of see the world on someone else’s When it comes to job skills, Currently on tour with the Red social event for roadies that will beats a 401K and dental plan the band’s time and financial dime. If it sounds like the right Cutler says that in addition to the Hot Chili Peppers, Gregory “Lil G” be held in Nashville on Oct. 23. any day. resources are dumped back into job for you, you can try buying ability to work the equipment, Kocurek’s career path was forged If you’d prefer to get your foot “None of us are rich by any their stage shows, costumes, and Spurlock a drink or offer to give trouble-shoot failing gear on when he was only about 10 years into the business locally, however, stretch of the imagination,” video projects. “The more we’re him a hand loading in his drum the fly and being able to drive old, helping bands who played at Kliph Spurlock, former roadie and Spurlock says. He won’t offer around other bands and I see set down at The Replay. That’s for hours and hours, the most a Texas music hall that his parents current touring drummer for The figures but says, “I’m not rich, how other bands work, I realize one way to start. What is a ROADIE? “Roadie” is NOT... • a person working with a musical groups. These services has to count the money and Crews range from a one experience, a roadie can make • an alcoholic beverage taken carnival (that would be a can include sound reinforcement hand out the backstage passes), man “bar band” roadie who anywhere from minimum wage with you in your car. “carnie”). (what you hear), lighting and security (can you spot a stalker?), does everything except play an up to six figures. Generally it’s a • a person who uses a road • a young girl who wants to stage design (what you see), band transportation (a.k.a. truck instrument (well, sometimes thankless job with long hard hours bike to cycle on the road “party” with the band (that equipment (what the artists play), drivers and bus drivers), and they do that too) to the mega of grueling physical work, lightly (although cyclists have would be a “groupie”). rigging (those wires everything on larger shows, they can also shows with dozens of tractor mixed with some of the most taken to calling themselves hangs from at concerts), video be production, staging, spot trailers full of equipment and rewarding moments a human roadies lately). “Roadie” IS a highly trained technicians, pyrotechnics and operators, costume, make-up, over 100 roadies and stage crew. being can ever experience. • a highway department and specialized technician lasers (fireworks and really bright catering, a piano tuner and even Depending on the job Ready to pack yet? worker who repairs roads. providing services for touring lights), management (someone licensed day care. performed, the skill level and Source: Roadie.net 12 JAYPLAY 09.14.2006

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09.14.2006 JAYPLAY 13 RAINE REVIEWS NEWS YOU CAN USE HAWK TOPICS Paris Hilton gets pulled over and arrested for drunken driving. The arresting officer was the third person that night to tell Paris to “spread ‘em.”

Rapper 50 Cent is “The Crocodile Hunter” pulled over and Steve Irwin is killed by a arrested in New York stingray while shooting a on a variety of minor documentary. charges. Steve Irwin joins Dale Earnhardt, Jim Morrison and Michael Hutchence as the Combined with most unsurprising celebrity deaths ever. the Hilton DUI, this was a rough week for no-talent ass clowns posing as Brad Pitt promises to musical artists to marry Angelina Jolie be out driving. as soon as it’s legal for anyone to marry anyone. Deadbeat dads around the globe are A sleep-deprived singing Pitt’s praises for inventing the mother panda best method yet to put off marrying that at a China zoo broad they knocked up. accidentally crushes one of her infant twins to Clay Aiken is death. named to the The mother panda mourned the death President’s of her cub for several minutes, then tore Council for apart and ate the crushed corpse in front of several horrified schoolchildren. People with Intellectual Disabilities. Katie Couric makes Aiken’s primary responsibilities on the her debut on CBS council will be to make sure President Evening News. Bush only drinks one juice box at lunchtime. Couric did a decent enough job, but as far as Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes reveal I‘m concerned, the first pictures of their baby Suri she‘s just keeping in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. the seat warm until Kelly Ripa’s What do Baby Suri and your average ready. American have in common? They both think that Scientology is retarded.

After two weeks of delays, the space shuttle Atlantis takes off from Cape Canaveral. Courtesy of Bill Maher: If America truly wants to reassert its scientific dominance, we can start by designing a space shuttle that can fly in the rain.

A new report finds that contrary to claims from the Bush administration, Saddam Hussein viewed Al Qaeda terrorists as a threat rather than an ally. In a related story, contrary to the results of the 2004 presidential election, more and more American citizens view the Bush administration as a threat rather than an ally. Think you have a better joke? E-mail me at [email protected]. ■ Chris Raine 14 JAYPLAY 09.14.2006 notiCe

Drivingby Jacky Carter along in your automobile Just because you’re not a race car driver doesn’t mean you shouldn’t know some basic driving skills and ways to keep your car in shape

After circling the same streets afraid I’d roll back and hit him,” three times waiting for someone Tice, Overland Park junior, said. to leave, you finally find it. The Now that she’s had plenty perfect spot. And it’s even in the of practice, Tice prefers a stick shade. So you pull forward, back and says it’s more fun to drive in and perform an Austin Powers- because it’s engaging. like maneuver to somehow Tice, whose first car was a stick fit your car into a space that shift, says that it’s important to seems far too short. You come be patient when you’re learning. dangerously close “You’ll get it to hitting the BMW Online help eventually,” she behind you, but If you want some pointers says. opt for running on how to drive a stick and J o n a t h a n over the curb parallel park, these Web sites F r e e m a n , instead. Then you can help. T o n g a n o x i e realize your car is sophomore, took jutting into the Driving a stick shift three months street. 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If you don’t mind the 15- expensive when you neglect Ramsey, author of The Complete Car maintenance of Lawrence and • www.openroad.com. prefers driving and 16-year-olds learning the routine procedures, Fox says. Idiot’s Guide to Car Care and locations stake out the au/motoring_newdrivers_ a stick instead rules of the road right along with To keep your car in the best Repair Illustrated. Doing so can Lawrence provides the perfect parking parkingrules.asp of an automatic you, having an instructor can possible shape during college, save up to $75 an hour in labor option of visiting a car spot. • www.ksrevenue.org/pdf/ because it’s more provide individualized training. Fox recommends finding one costs alone. You may not be able dealership or an automotive It’s not only dlhbsec1.pdf reliable, has better Midwest Driving School, 1152 E. car shop and staying there while to do all the maintenance, but shop. 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The amount of air in tires is oil and inspect other parts that Lawrence Automotive you never know when it’ll in the beginning is important reliable transportation at a something Fox says students fail wear easily such as wind as Diagnostics come in handy to know how to because habits develop through reasonable cost, it needs to be to check before going on a road windshield wipers. 2858 Four Wheel Drive maneuver a five-speed, whether repetition, says Bill Kennedy, cared for, he says. trip or trekking home. When Whether you enlist friends, (785) 842-8665 you’re borrowing a friend’s car or owner of the Topeka Driving Taking care of your car doesn’t there’s not enough air in the family or Internet tutorials renting one. School, 3641 S.W. Plass Ave. have to be overwhelming, tires, they overheat and blow to help you become a more Midas Auto Service Lauren Tice has been driving #6C4. He suggests practicing in as long as you don’t neglect out, Fox says. 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18 JAYPLAY 09.14.2006 sPEaK I am Emma’s sisterÌ I hesitantly lay on the crowded bed for a family talk, facing both Mom and Dad. My mother looked away as my father spoke. I knew that she had been distant the last few days. I figured she was ill or had morning sickness. My father told us my new little sister wasn’t going to be just another sibling. She was a special addition to our family because we were all Accepting my going to help raise a child with Down Syndrome. We had had a family talk just little sister taught a few weeks earlier. My father had announced that another me how to accept child would join our family in September. I tried not to show the world. my disappointment, but there were already five of us, and I was 14 and not too keen on having by Rachel Parker to share more of anything. I didn’t know what to tell my friends. Adolescents can be so ignorant when it comes to people with disabilities unless they have been exposed to the disabled. I was never rude to people with mental retardation, but I certainly didn’t give them the time of day. Months went by, and I found myself studying more, cheerleading at all the basketball games, attending cheerleading and gymnastics practices, competing in gymnastics meets and staying after school for clubs — whatever I could get my hands on. I stayed in denial. It was all just a bad dream. I wasn’t the greatest older sister when Emma entered my life. Some of my friends weren’t even aware that my mom had been pregnant or that I had a new baby sister with a hole SCOTT KASERMAN in her heart and tubes in her have moderate impairments in the U.S. are affected by Down expected because of my learned with her now. She is innocent, ears. I kept her my little secret. in her development, and she’d Syndrome, according to the openness to different kinds of and she has let me into her life I used to walk into her room be more likely to have health Down Syndrome Society. Our people. without a second thought. and watch her as she slept, problems than other babies family could do this. I could do Emma changed the way I Emma is turning 7 this wondering what type of person would. Other than that she this. look at everything. She forced month, and I love every inch she’d be, how she’d change would be a normal person. To my surprise, my friends me to grow up faster. I view of her from her slanted eyes my life. My growing knowledge didn’t care that Emma had people in a different light, but to her love for listening and It took some time to get about Emma’s condition helped Down Syndrome. Because I was most of all I’m less judgmental. singing to music, even though used to a baby in the house me become closer to her, but I so insecure about her disability, I I’ve found that the best things every note she belts reveals again, but I began to notice still hadn’t completely accepted was blind to see that my friends about people are the things she is obviously tone deaf. that my little sister wasn’t her disability. might not be. They loved Emma. that make them different from Emma may tug at people in much different from any other One day, my mother yelled Whenever they came over we everyone else — most of the the grocery store and speak baby. Approximately one in at me for saying something was would ask her questions and time their flaws. Emma’s flaw is in incomplete sentences, but every 800 babies is born with retarded. She told me never giggle over her funny and only one extra chromosome in I don’t care; she is a healthy Down Syndrome, according to to use that phrase. I began to adorable answers. We would her DNA. child. the National Association for notice it in the everyday speech flip her and watch in awe as her Because of Emma, I get to Emma is just like any other Down Syndrome, and these of others, and I realized how limber body jumped into the experience life from a different kid. She wants attention and children can grow up to live degrading and disrespectful it splits. angle. It’s hard to realize what an love. There is no judgment in relatively normal lives. They was. I was now responsible for By the time I graduated high effect she has made on me until her heart. She is just happy can be educated, work, get standing up for my little sister, school, I couldn’t imagine a life I analyze how I felt the moment to be here, and her love is married and live on their own. whom I was going to love and without Emma. The transition I heard she was entering the unconditional. That is what I found that Emma would support. About 350,000 families to college was easier than I world and how I feel when I’m everyone needs to see. 09.14.2006 JAYPLAY 19 4(%2!.#(