Starship------Northside Galleries
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
OUR SPONSORS ------------------------------Cover Story • Steve Holy ---------------------------- 3 Rivers Co-op Natural Grocery & Deli ....................13 20 Past 4 and More ....................................................27 Aboite Grill ....................................................................27 all for One Productions/Ruth2 ....................................21 Alley Sports Bar ..........................................................14 Slow Rise Beats No Rise At All Beamer’s Sports Grill .................................................12 By Mark Hunter such as “Good Morning Beautiful” and Bluffton Street Fair .......................................................3 “Brand New Girlfriend,” Holy has been C2G Music Hall on TV ..................................................19 When it comes to male country sing- in the hearts, if not necessarily the ears, Calhoun Street Soups, Salads & Spirits ................12 ers, the big questions generally revolve of his fans. And given that “Good Morn- Champions Sports Bar & Restaurant .....................11 around headwear. Not whether they wear ing Beautiful” was a No. 1 hit in 2001, and CLASSIFIEDS ...............................................................27 a hat or don’t wear a hat, but whether it’s “Brand New Girfriend” hit the Top 5 years a cowboy hat or a baseball cap. Country later, Holy loyalists, like Holy himself, are Columbia Street West ...................................................8 music boils down to a tale of two hats. Un- nothing if not patient. Digitracks Recording Studio ................................9, 14 less of course you’re Steve Holy. Holy, it Holy came out of nowhere back in Duty’s Buckets Sports Pub & Grub .........................10 seems, prefers to go hatless. 1993 to win the Dallas-Fort Worth area Embassy Theatre/Ron White........................................5 Holy and his hat-free brand of county Johnnie High’s Country Review, a contest First Presbyterian Church/Ashu ..................................9 will play the DeKalb Country Free Fall for country music hopefuls. LeAnn Rimes First Presbyterian Theater/Henry IV ........................21 Fair September 28. was discovered at the same contest. But Fort Wayne Cinema Center ........................................25 Holy’s new album, Love Don’t Run, while Rimes hit it big quickly, Holy took hit the street September 13 with a mild a few years. He signed with Curb Records Fort Wayne Dance Collective .....................................21 boom at No. 19 on the Billboard country in 1997 and didn’t release a record until Fort Wayne Derby Girls/Bust a Move ......................23 chart. Not a bad showing considering the 2000. When Blue Moon finally came out, Fort Wayne Museum of Art ...............................20, 21 Texas native took a five-year break from things started happening, but happening Fort Wayne Musicians Association ..........................21 recording. Such slowly. Gin Mill Lounge .................................................................8 an absence from STEVE HOLY Despite scoring Top 20 singles with The Haunted Cave ........................................................23 the charts and the title track and “The Hunger,” it took c o n s e q u e n t l y w/JOSH KELLEY AND more than a year for “Good Morning Haunted Hotel ..............................................................22 the radio may ALLAN & ASHCRAFT Beautiful” to lurch out of the gate. The The Haunted Jail ..........................................................23 have doomed song reached No. 1, but it took 18 months Mark Hutchins/Liar’s Gift ...........................................11 lesser perform- Wednesday, Sept. 28 • 7:30 p.m. to reach its stride. Billboard later rated the Latch String Bar & Grill .................................................9 ers. But thanks DeKalb County Free Fall Fair, Auburn tune 10th on its list of Top Country Songs Locl.Net .........................................................................26 to the strength Free • www.dekalbcountyfair.org Continued on page 5 The Lucky Moose ..........................................................27 of earlier hits NIGHTLIFE ................................................................ 8-12 NIPR/Sunday in the Park with Jazz ..........................16 -------------------------------Cover Story • Starship ----------------------------- Northside Galleries ........................................................3 Peanuts Food & Spirits ...............................................13 PERFORMER’S DIRECTORY ......................................11 Piere’s Entertainment Center ...................................28 Snickerz Comedy Bar .....................................................8 Sweetwater Sound ....................................................2, 3 Seventeen Years at the Helm Tobacco Stop ................................................................27 By Mark Hunter our singer Stephaine Calvert – guess which WBYR 98.9 The Bear..................................................16 ones – and I do a couple of early Jefferson WEB SIGHTS ................................................................26 Mickey Thomas is a regular old Jean- Starship hits. I like to do songs from all the Luc Picard. For those who may not know different incarnations.” whatzup Musician Finder .............................................13 who either of these people are a quick primer The current Starship lineup includes Wooden Nickel Music Stores ........................................7 is in order. Jean-Luc Picard is the fictional Thomas and Calvert, Mark Abrahamian on Wrigley Field Bar & Grill ..............................................10 captain of the Starship Enterprise from the lead guitar, Jeff Adams on bass and backing WXKE Rock 104 ..........................................................23 television show “Star Trek: The Next Gen- eration.” Mickey Thomas is the lead singer, STARSHIP front man, promoter, and captain of the band Starship, which has seen a few next genera- featuring MICKEY THOMAS tions of its own over the year. And while the w/BIG CADDY DADDY whatzup TV starship may have dry-docked years ago, Published weekly and distributed on Wednesdays and Thursdays by Thursday, Sept. 29 • 8 p.m. AD Media, Incorporated. the rock band version is still going strong, 2305 E. Esterline Rd., Columbia City, IN 46725 Phone: (260) 691-3188 • Fax: (260) 691-3191 driving through cornfields instead of fly- DeKalb County Free Fall Fair, Auburn E-Mail: [email protected] ing through galaxies perhaps, but still out Website: http://www.whatzup.com Free • www.dekalbcountyfair.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/whatzupFortWayne there exploring the boundaries of contem- Editor and Publisher..............................Doug Driscoll porary rock music, keeping in touch with vocals, Darrell Verdusco on drums and Phil Office Manager...............................Bonnie Woolums its past while boldly going where no band Bennett on keyboards and backing vocals. Advertising Sales . Chris Hupe has gone before. Okay, maybe not that last Airplane founder Marty Balin. Kantner left “I joined (Jefferson Starship) in 1979 BACK ISSUES Back issues are $3 for first copy, 75¢ per additional copy. Send payment part, because numerous band have played in 1984 and took the name Jefferson Star- and incorporate everything from over the with date and quantity of issues desired, name and mailing address to the Dekalb County Free Fall Fair in the past ship with him. Thomas and Grace Slick, years,” Thomas said. “It’s funny. When you AD Media, Incorporated to the above address. and on Sept. 29 Starship featuring Mickey another early Airplane member, perhaps the look at it this band had been together longer SUBSCRIPTIONS In-Home postal delivery available at the rate of $25 per 13-week Thomas will be knee deep in the hoopla on most famous member, who was in and out of than any previous incarnation of the band. period ($100/year). Send payment with name and mailing address to the main stage. Jefferson Starship several times over a few Most of us have been together 17 years.” AD Media, Incorporated to the above address. DEADLINES Few bands have the knotty history of years, stayed on and shortened the name to There’s no question that Thomas has a Calendar Information: Must be received by noon Monday the week Starship and getting into it in-depth here is Starship. Kantner later reformed Jefferson great singing voice. But sometimes luck is of publication for inclusion in that week’s issue and, space permitting, will run until the week of the event. Calendar information is published pointless. The short version involves main- Starship and continues with that band today. as important as talent in pushing a career for- as far in advance as space permits and should be submitted as early ly name changes, from Jefferson Airplane If you find this confusing don’t feel bad. It ward. And Thomas has had plenty of luck. as possible. Advertising: Space reservations and ads requiring proofs due by no from the mid 1960s till about 1970 when confuses Thomas too. Growing up in Georgia during the first rush later than 5 p.m. the Thursday prior to publication. Camera-ready or Airplane founding member Paul Kantner “So many changes have occurred over of rock n’ roll, Thomas caught a Beatles digital ad copy required by 9 a.m. Monday the week of publication. Classified line ads may be submitted up to noon on Monday recorded Blows Against the Empire as Jef- time,”