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Western Washington University Western CEDAR Klipsun Magazine Western Student Publications 12-2002 Klipsun Magazine, 2002, Volume 34, Issue 02 - December Emily Christianson Western Washington University Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/klipsun_magazine Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the Journalism Studies Commons Recommended Citation Christianson, Emily, "Klipsun Magazine, 2002, Volume 34, Issue 02 - December" (2002). Klipsun Magazine. 218. https://cedar.wwu.edu/klipsun_magazine/218 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Western Student Publications at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Klipsun Magazine by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Klipsun is a Lummi word meaning beautiful sunset. Klipsun is a student publication of Western Washington University, distribute twice per quarter. Klipsun is available free for Western students and the community. Web: http://klipsun.wwu.edu Special thanks to Bill O’Neill, Laurie Rossman and everyone at the print plant. EDITORIAL STAFF: Staff Writers: Editor-in-Chief: Emily Christianson Valerie Bauman, Carise Bogar, Amber Bomar, Managing Editor: Mindy Ransford Robin Duranleau, Tarin Erickson, Josh Haupt, Copy Editor; Sonja L. Cohen Margo Horner, Amber Hurley Leanne Josephson, Story Editors: Alashia Freimuth & James Lyon, Dian McClurg, Heidi Mulhern, Karla Tillman Jenny O’Brien, Evan E. Parker, Kiko Sola, Orion Photo Director: Alaina Dunn Stewart, Taber Streur, Quoc Tran, Cindy Vrieling. Art Director; Stephanie Whitaker Designers: Kit Shaugnessy & Kynde Kiefel Adviser: Shearlean Duke CONTRIBUTORS Valerie Bauman is a senior public Josh Haupt is a seventh Dian McQurg plans to graduate Jenr^r O'Brien is a senior public relations major. She has spent two year senior who has actu from Western with a journalism relations major. This is her first quarters on The Western Front ally made a career out of degree in March 2003. Her work has article published in Klipsun. She and this is her first contribution to going to college. Sadly he appeared in Klipsun, The Western would like to thank Carol Kraber Klipsun. She would like to thank Front, The Every Other Weekly and will be graduating winter for sharing her story and educat- the Margolis family and everyone Whatcom Watch. She thanks the staff quarter. He also identifies ing people about the risks of skin involved for their time and effort. residents and children at St. Francis remarkably well with the Extended Health Care for the time, cancer. color gray faith and patience they extended to her while she wrote this issue’s story. Evan E. Parker is a senior Orion Stewart has seen Taber Streur, a senior public Cincfy Vrieling is a senior pul> journalism major, and free many riders giv e up school relations student, has iilvwiys Ix^en lie relations major. Her jxrson- lance photqjournalist. His for snowboarding and infatuated with ghosts even al exjx'rience with a kunily main interest is making many others give up snovv- though he has nev er exjXM’ienced nxmber w ho committed sui photographs that reflect lx)arding for school. Tie any firsthand. His story investi cide prompted her to vv rite this universal human qualities. story. She ho|xs it will help public relations major gates paranormal events in Some of his work has been pcx)ple Ixtter understaixl, and belicwes that those who Sycamore Scpiare that have published, some of his more ojxnly discuss the com have tlie drive to do both affected those who work there. work has not. plexity of suicide. Suicide is a deserve some recogni He ho|xs his story is as intrigu universal struggle, affecting tion. ing to those who read it as it w as |xx)ple from all w alks of life. to write. lJNl)Rli;SSIi\G TllK lAlUlh s Josh Haupt % special Collections WiisO' -ibra., IJiMilXPlilCTli;]) GIJlilST: JAN 8 THE SPIRIT OP SY(:AN0UP SQUARE Taber Streur TRANSCENMlNti TIMlil Dian McClurg Tllli; ROAD IlOMK... POSTCARDS PROM HIGHWAY 0 Evan E. Parker ROARRIiXG SCHOOL Orion Stewart UARlilARARLli; RIJRDKXS Cindy Vrieling NOT YOUR AVLRAGli; EXOTIC OROCERY STORE Valerie Bauman ____ THli! DARK SIDli! OF TIIF SUN Jenny O’Brien 27 Josh Hau^jj^rneets UndressinG with Dave Crider, -■ the fomdef of Jtiie \ Estrus, to find ■ I? out what makes Bellingham's own \ t loud, in-your-face rock 'n' roll record label tick. Photos by Chris Fulle ■t ^ I fs a cold, gray windy Northwestern afternoon as Estrus Records»rds owner ^ Snide, brash, theatrical, playful, vis- Dave Crider, clad in a black dress shirt and black leather jacket,t, takes a ^O ceral, aggressive, cynical and con- sip from his bloody mary and says, “IVe come to find out over thele years ^ frontational - Estrus bands embody all Ithat my youth was not as typical as I thought at the time. ^ these qualities and more, Crider recounts his earliest rock memory: waiting in line for an hourlour ^ ^ Some Estrus bands are local, but others, with his parents in Harrogate, England, the Criders’ residence for four'ur ^ like The Cherry Valance of North Carolina years, to buy the new Rolling Stones single, “Brown Sugar.” ^ O' and The Mooney Suzuki of New York City, “I just figured everybody’s parents did that,” Crider says. ^ COj are scattered across the country. One of the first albums Crider’s grandmother bought him was ^ “If there’s a band in North Carolina that I like Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid.” She sat down and listened to the ^ ^ anda want to work with. I’m going to,” Crider says, album with him saying it wasn’t her kind of music, but she ^p' / Crider began Estrus while li\ing in Bellingham. was happy he liked it, Crider says. ^ He started the label so his band. The Roofdogs, Just for reference, throughout the rest of this article ^ q/ wouldwouk have a label name to put on their demo tape. when “rock” is referred to, try picturing decibel meters ^ -y Whenwh. a band sends out demo tapes to record labels, (in the red), walls of guitar amps and a drum set on fire, ^ the mormore professional looking a tape or compact disc is - - ^ X O 1 I just for good measure. ^ ^ the better.bette Many independent labels, including Estrus, Welcome to the world of Estrus Records, pur- Xy start with publishing their own music then decide to put out veyors of intense garage rock sounds since 1987. qy other bands under the same label name. Whether it’s a band like Eederation X, The ^ ^ 'S’ But from 1987 to 1989, Crider says he didn’t do much with Monkeywrench, The Mooney Suzuki, Man or ^ ^ ^ Estrus until he put out the first Mono Men single, “Burning Astroman, or Crider’s own DTs, Estrus ^ O Bush.” bands continue a tradition of in-your-face, , x;- ^ The Mono Men, a later incarnation of The Roofdogs, could best no-holds-barred rock ’n’ roll in the vein of V be described as ’60s garage rock revival/surf punk. Their albums, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The Rolling 0^4^ including more than 60 releases, with titles like “Sin and Tonic," Stones and MC5. o ^ gained a cult popularity, helping Estrus recieve a larger audience’s Intensely loud and uncompromis- £? o attention. ing in their devotion to sex, drugs O ^ This is also the band that recorded a live album while playing at a bachelor and rock ’n’ roll, these bands ^ party in Normal, 111. at the extremely upscale Tom’s Strip and Bowl. cleared the way for the introduc- “It sort of became a glorified hobby that started taking up a lot of time,” tion of the punk music scene in - ^ Crider says. ‘And it became pretty apparent tliat there were a lot of other bands .11 the early 1970s. that I lilted that maybe it didn’t seem as easy for them as it had been for me.’ 1 r' 4: S At first ^ eral friends who worked at Touch and Go or were otherwise associated^ FEDERATiONX Crider person ^ through bands. ally called 250 ‘And it’s still the same philosophy of bands and people that I like,” record stores a Crider says. week promoting 10 Being distributed through a well known, independent label has its Estrus bands. This perks, as Estrus band Federation X found out when they decided to was a necessity at the record their next album. Crider helped them get in touch with Steve (\) time since Estrus had Albini, quite possibly the best-known recording engineer in inde- » ML Ck A. W « n’t started using a larg ^ pendent circles, especially renowned for the way he records drums. Mono Men er distributor yet and He also plays guitar in one of Touch and Go’s most famous ' ' ft TiCiO sold directly to record bands. Shellac, and also in Big Black. stores in what Crider Here’s a simple take on a recording engineer’s job. refers to as a “guerilla war The engineer mikes a band’s instruments, routing the signal \ 1^-.- fare” approach to getting to a separated control booth where he mixes the recorded £T>£S?" Estrus bands out there. © sound to tape. Each mike has a track. These tracks, which can Crider says the way the number up to 64 (depending on the instrumentation of an \ » bands conduct themselves as album), are then mixed down by the engineer to a two- people has a lot to do with his track stereo mix. This mixed-down version is the sound 7^ \-j- choices of bands. ^ you hear while listening to your favorite album. “These bands are 110 percent ^ Albini is renowned at being really, disgustingly good when they play” Crider says.