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Beat's" normal air time at the downtown loca Sunday night in a small town in Western Kazanjian says that much of the footage is shot tion, but along with Club Pirahna, the two pubs SKansas. Unlike most evenings, the in Kansas City. The pair present their work at the may turn Westport Sundays into a teaming mass streets are quiet and empty except for a few tum Lithium Gallery and explain that their concept of dance freaks. Just make sure you don't tell the 18 Holiday movies bleweeds skipping down the road or a foraging is new to Kansas City but similar videos are used pizza vendors. 'Tis the season's big event pack of Irish wolves yelping for a cheap beer in a few bars around the country. Excepting London's Sunday night attempt at outside the closed doors of Kelly's. The military The response to Club Pirahna has been posi new music nirvana, the year 1988 is ending ona 3 News dog patrols aren't even out on a night like this tive, but mangament needs to remind the bar plump question mark. Where is live and DJ-spun probably because the Crips, the Bloods and the tenders not to wear their Hearthrob sweatshirts new music headed in Kansas City? 5 Leroi other rumored LA infiltrator gangs are taking a on Sunday. Jazz, Blues and Country availability hasn't day of rest. Even skate punks, street bands and On the other side of the block, London's is changed much, but the uncertain realm of rock 6 Reviews puka -bead vendors have better things to do. picking up the gauntlet by pulling a Bo Jackson tn' roll is currently up for grabs. The industrial But things may be different in 1989 if a few deal. The bar has announced that Eyes groove dance halls are chugging at full steam, but who 10 Radio report ambitious bars have their say. Both the engineer DJ Ray Velasquez has been drafted to knows when that might die off. Except for a brief Hearthrob and London's are offering an alterna begin a new Sunday sound night dubbed the Bacchus bash re-opening, Parody Hall is still in 12 Joe Bob goes to the drive-in tive personality to crumbing Sunday night TV "Electric Circus," a music menu of classic and a coma after it cancelled all shows in October programming. current underground rock, reggae and ska. with no word of rebirth. Management is still 14 Superfan R$!ad carefully because this gets difficult. On Velasquez says that the playlist is "entirely dif seeking new investors, but it's possible that the S~ilday nights, the Hearthrob isn't called the ferent from the Eyes format." Examples of the former heavyweight of alternative bookings may 16 Profile Hearthrob. Now it's Club Pirahna (si~). But artists include the Clash, the Jam, Sonic Youth, not pull through. don't try to come in the front door because no Elvis Costello, Skinny Puppy and Talking After discontinuing the MOdern Mondays 17 Chompin' to please one is at home. To enter this bar just follow the Heads. He explains that the music is more lis music series-which the area heavy metal au vibrating walls to the rear and come in the tener-oriented but as always, dancing is within thority paper, Banzai, called a "modern music 21 Steve Skelton Hearthrob service entrance. Once inside you'll the law. disaster"-the Lone Star replaced it with local find the old bar and its usual pinkness covered in The first night of air time proved to be a bit bands. Mondays are now oral hygiene jam ses- 22 Mondo video black felt with a new attitude (maybe) and loud, rocky because the DJ refused to "lay down a continued page 32 neo-industrial-postmortem music to make your 23 Life in hell (complime~ts oiBJfhe D1)./ ". .d.2:!Y""""'9I!l1&Pi Coffee Express Company Illustrations Steve Skelton Courmet Coffees and Teas 8600 Ward Parkway. KCMO 64114 RIC~iT NEXT to FLIPPED OUT Copyright © 1988 (816)444-7111 Brody Records, Inc. All rights reserved 10% OFF 1 POUND OF HOUSE BLEND OR DECAF HOUSE BLEND DECEMBER-t{( Pitm 3 ~ ~ 'i*' Would like to give you FREE TICKETS to AND L~ THE WORLD'S BEST fxxi106-5 FM · . ANIMATION "FULL OF WIT, I"caturing (Highest Rating) H/FMAN WHO Sophistication and J>lANTFIJ l'Ht."J-:S It " The \987 1\1 visual energy. "SUPERB , Academy Award ENTERTAINMENT • Winner for -Caryn James. **** i...... s Be\! Anima\L>d ShoT! New York Times that is always a celebration of the human "THE 21st imagination. " TOURNEE -Peter Stack. 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Undoubtedly the most imitated, devoutly ad Mick finally decided to make good on his word. But on "Talk is Cheap," Keith proves that his mired aod painstakingly explored musician of Unfortunately the results of his solo efforts have singing can sometimes be a whole hell of a lot the century, the film brought to life, in a sincere been-to be nice about it-a bit unimpressive. more soulful. And if you don't know the and straight-forward way, all the Bird lore that's But now, Keith Richards, old Skeletor-face him difference ... well, you probably already spent been circulating for the last 30 years. self, has decided that talk is cheap. your money on "She's the Boss" anyway. As the movie resuscitated Charlie Parker the "Take it so Hard," the first single, is-there's -David Cantwell man, the soundtrack likewise breathes new life no better way to put it-kick-ass rock and roll. into his music. On his studio recordings, Bird is Like the best of the Stones (that means "Exile," amazing. Live, the man was said to be astound· not "Tattoo You"), it's sloppy and rough around ing, blowing chorus after acrobatic chorus, in the edges, but still polished and crisp and sharp verting chord changes, splicing on different enough to bury the hook forever into your skulL melodies. playing fluid and clean without ever Most of. the rest of "Talk is Cheap," with its repeating a line. jolting.· juke;jointpiano '. and bluer-than-blue His legendary concert performances have. 'guitar, follows the same pattern to only slightly thanks to the 78's time limitations, remained less satisfying results. This is a fine solo debut. At just that. The only sound recording techniques the very least, it's one hell of a lot better than ofthe day that could handle extended perform KEITH RICHARDS anything Mick's done recently. ances left much to be desired in the fidelity Talk is Cheap The one notable exception to the form is department. And though Bird devotees will lis VI ..... 118973 "Make no Mistake." Featuring the Memphis ten reverently to the dozens of live recordings Mick and Keith have been bickering back and Horns, the song sounds like it should have been that have been released, their quality will again forth for decades: "Don't push me, man," Mick one of Al Green's Hi label b-sides. That is until lead the uninitiated to wonder what all the fuss rants. "I'll put out an album of my own." To Keith lays down his gravelly, whiny, worldly· is about. which Keith returns, "Go ahead. Just 'cause wise vocal and we're reminded that great soul To enhance the music's sound quality for the you're the star doesn't mean I need you." singing isn't all falsettos and swoops, it's what's film-most of the music in "Bird" takes place on the bandstand-without sacrificing any of BIRD Parker's performance, producer Clint Eastwood Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and musical supervisor Lennie Niehaus utilized CDlulllllla44299 the latest technology for the soundtrack. ~. For Charlie Parker fans, the movie "Bird" was "(he original tapes were mopped-up digitally, ,.. a two-and-a-half-hour slice of heaven. But the with everything stripped away except for "Hey! ·Where do we sleep? II After your great holiday pa~· "Give +he giff of music." • 'The perfecfgift that will last dU s~mmer long wifh +he same 9t"eat seat for every concer+! ~ ~~~(;4 ~c:,~c1~ l nr.l~ ~~~~.;!¢ VARIETY .~ ~ .,~.)b'\. SSR\tS U'7.J<:l1J .,~.~ CoNceR'T SE~It:S .Alabama .TOM UCJNeS • Ranclr. 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The result -Art Mayo is a treat, giving the "Bird Lives!" cliche a whole new meaning. Not only do we get to hear players like Barry R.E.M. Harris, Walter Davis, Ron Carrer and Jon Faddis Green "in the studio" with Parker, we're also treated to Warner Bros. 25715 four sonically-rehabed live performances that Over the years and many miles of vinyl, we've feature Monty Alexander, Ray Brown and oth listened to the progression of Michael Stipe's ers. And, best of all, a couple of never-released voice from the low asthmatic bullfrog begin tunes from the private collection ofChan Parker nings, over the scattered moments of mood and finally make it to vinyl. These two songs, "All of continued next page Me" and "I Can't Believe that You're in Love with Me," were recorded in Lennie Tristano's apartment withT ristano on piano and Kenny Clarke keeping time with wire brushes and a telephone book. Unforrunately, the producers swept Tristano and Clarke off in favor of Monty Alexander, John Guerin and Ray Brown. But maybe some day (Come on CBS, you've been sitting on these tapes for 10 years. Let's have the whole batch.) we'll get the real thing. Occasionally, the sound is an obvious studio €Oncoction.lt would have been nice to have the cleaned-up Parker recordings accompanied by his cleaned-up sidemen like Max Roach and Fats Navarro. And this digital tampering could turn into the recording industry's version of coloriza tion. But given the film's historical accuracy and CHUCK D,G,TALLY REMASTERED THE ORIGINAL SOUND ••• -ON SALE Now! FROM CHESS/MCA W,LL,E DECEMBEReJ(C Pitch 7 finally to the stage of raspy annunciation attd sent anew, more developed and less original continues to avoid making an album that. is clarity culminating in "Green,"the Athens boys' arrangment, but they can easily get the oldest fan mediocre. With. that kind of standard, R.E.M. latest and most-anticipated LP. Either the pres up and dancing. deserves to be richer than the average Arabian sure of producers'or the whim for change has led More vintage R.E.M. tracks include "World shiek. They should even be given the first bornof Stipe to grace his listeners with fairly audible Leader Pretend," the only cut whose lyrics are Bon Jovi to teach it an ear for quality music. lyrics. printed on the album sleeve, probably because -Anthony Henge But, much like a little boy who is chastized for being politcal is expected of the band. This cut, mumbling and goaded to speak up, the voice as well as "You 4re The Everyrhing," "The doesn't always hold its character when forced to Wrong Child" and "Hairshitt," offer a more be heard across the table. "Green's" vocals may acoustic and melodic approach to a style we are emphasize Stipe's warbled voice a bit too much, not used to hearing. but the quality of lyric and the carefully crafted "Turn You Inside Out" does just that and hap arrangments of Buck, Berry and Millskeeps the pens to be the greatest ftre and fury "Green" has reigning king of alternative in its seat. to offer, mixing the best abilities of vocals and I first heard Bartok's "Concerto fot Orchestra" The bigtime radio presents on "Green" include guitar the band posesses, while "Hairshitt" is its some years ago, an RCA Red Seal digital with "Pop Song' 89," a Buck-Styled song whose inspiring counterpart.in the slow song category. Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia "Hello" lyric has been pegged as a Door's rip-off, "I Remember California" has to be the most Orchestra, one of the first digital recordings and and "Orange Crush," a song about the evil of cutter that created "The One I Love" for a curious usage of writing, nearly comparable to one of Ormandy's last. I've listened to many Agent Orange and another product ofthe cookie simple-minded radio audience. Both cuts repre- the unique wording of "It's The End Of The other versions after hearing that performance, World As We Know It." The ode to California and none of them have ever compared. Until (possibly after it's been nuked) recalls "redwood now. trees, wolverines, Trident submarines, lemons, Absolutely every bar of this recording has limes and tangerines and traffic jams." musical direction. Not a note goes by uninter Posessing its ominous overtones, "Green" is preted.' The woodwind players' sense of en quite a good product that will keep the new semble is unlike any I have heard; every phrase is father Warner Bros. happy, and refuse to offend together. Dutoit chooses perfect "affect" sounds the fans that placea so much faith in R.E.M. for idiomatic Bartok phrases (on the ~pening of since the days of "Chronic Town." The band the second movement, for example-what a ~ IMPORT & RARE POSTERS ~.l!.. LPs, Cassettes, CDs and music stuff ~ GIFT CERnFICATES AVAILABLE ]RlECY CLlED 3941 Main SOUNDS 531·4890 THE ELECTRIC aRCUS is a celebration. Over the post three decodes, pop music has evolved from adolescent fodder to art to industry to .odolescent fodder. Along the way many brdliant moments have been long forgotten or left undis covered. Underground music has always paved the way for the hits and the hitmokers. THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS is a tribute to underground rock and pop music from Iggy Pop to the Embor rossment, Bowie to the Buzzcocks, Television to SOnic Youth, Marshall CrtHJShow to the Mighty Lemon Drops and from XTC to R.E. M.lf you're left cold by the impotence of commercial radio and MTV, plug int~ THE ELEartlC aRCUS. , OJ Roy Velasquez December, 1988 REGGAE AND SICA 510 WESTPORT ROAD 816-561-2222 9:30 P.M. TO· 2:30 A.M. 8 IC PlkheDECEMBER interesting of the whole piece. The "Intermezzo music ("More Ballads") to the hottest in white interrotto" is dreamy and placid, while the fifth boy R&B ("Blue-Eyed Soul") to scorching movement, "Finale," shows off the incredible dance-floor classics ("More Dance Party") and technical ability of the string section. the sultriest ladies ofsoul ("Sweet Soul Sisters"). Obviously, Dutoit paid very close attention to Each LP is full of gems, with not a dog in the details in this performance. The fidelity ofthis bunch. "Blue-Eyed Soul," revives the hot-and all-digital recording is magnificent, and worth rare-recordingQf ."Goin' Back to Miami" hy every penny. Highly recommended. Wayne· Cochran and the long-out-of-print -Brian St. John "Treat Her Right" hy Roy Head, while "More Sweet Soul" gives us smooth, smoldering classics from Major Lance, The Showmen and Tyrone SOUlaTS Davis, to name a few. Vo... &: ...... Eyed Soul And if you're looking for a soulful party plat IIIIIH 7II4Z ter-hut want to avoid those tired old Motown Vola. 7: Urban IIIIIS hit:s-check out "More Dance Party." With cuts III_781M3 like "0 Wanna) Testify" by pre:funk George Vola. 8: Sweet Soul Sisters Clinton's The Parliaments and "Goodbye, So II1II • .,.... tated recordings by Annette FuniceUo and Long," a frantic soul number from an even more drum sound!). The string textures are almost Vo ... 9: More BaRce party Mamie Van Doren, now gives us the unqualified frantic Ike and Tina circa '65, this one (like its perfect. Technical accuracy is sometimes a prob IIIIIH 78845 best collection of '60s soul recordings, part two predecessor, the first "Dance Party" album) lives lem, but can easily be overlooked for the overall Volu.10: More Sweet Soul (part one being their five-volume debut release up to its name. effect. IIIIIH 78114& of "Soul Shots" from 1987). -Art Mayo The intonation in the celli and bass of the first Vol •• 11: Mora Ballads In putting this package together, Rhino has movement, "Introduzione," is excellent. The dy II1II.711147 concentrated on the cream of the funky crop. namic is an absolute whisper, completely spine The trouble with most old soul packages is that Instead of the biggest names or heftiest chart DAlIEUEDAX chilling. The brass is powerful, in tune and never they give you "Respect" followed by "My Girl" ad toppers, the "Soul Shots" collection gives us Dark Adapted Eye over balanced. "Giuoco delle coppie," the sec nauseum. But regardless ofwhat '50s clubs, oldies some great one-hit wonders, forgotten classics, SIre 25818 ond movement, is very pictoral, showing off this radio and yupster-crisis TV show soundtracks hits that missed, and lesser-known covers ofsolid For musicians, writers and other artistic orchestra's ability to play rhythmically with would lead you to believe, there's a lot more to soul. people, it seems that a colorful childhood is a accuracy. Great amounts of contrast make the classic soul tunes than Aretha and the Temps. The six albums (sold separately) that comprise prerequisite for creative success later in life. "Elegia," the third movement, possibly the most Rhino Records, the same label that resusci- this release run the gamut from soulful make-out continued page 32 SOFA BEDS AND PLATFORM BEDS THE FACTS ABOUT OUR FUTONS! ..VIDA • Our Futons are handmade, Solid Oak converts effortlessly from sofa to bed. not mass produced. 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Joe Bob goes to the drive-in JOE BOB BRIGGS A kinder, gentler Joe Bob supercolliders and yuppie invaders AXAHACHIE, TEXAS, WHICH IS RIGHT if they would transfer his papers. down the road from Grapevine, just "Cletis, Goldang it, listen to me! This is an Wgot picked as the location for the Su entirely different thing! This is a scientific in perconducting Supercollider, which they say is stallation. It doesn't have nothing to do with gonna create 7,000 jobs, which is good news for refrigeration and/or convenience-store prod my cousin Cletis Coverdale, cause he's been ucts. This is something the entire Texas congres living in Waxahachie for 12 years and never has sional delegation has been sneaking around got a job yet. The day after they announced it, Washington trying to get for five years. Now Cletis came over to ask me what the Supercon listen up and I'll tell you how it works." ducting Supercollider was, cause he might "I didn't realize," said Cl~tis, looking sheepish. wanna take a crack at it. Fortunately, they were "All them dozens of Congressmen, huh?" sticking help-wanted ads in the Waxahachie "Full-time cheating, too," I told him. "This is a paper asking for people that know how to run a BIG deal. And, by the way, Cletis, get a haircut, Superconducting Supercollider. you look sheepish. All right, here's the way it "What it is, Cletis," I told him while he was works. Your Superconducting Supercollider has rubbing the grease off his chin and wiping it on got two aspects. One, your superconductor. a doily, "is one of your union jobs. You've got to That's self-explanatory. That's where you take a go over to Video Technical Institute and sign up conductor, like a piece of copper wire that's been for some refrigerator-repair courses, get some frazzled out on one end so you can hot-wire the kind of engineering training, before you can TV to pickup NFL games when they're blacked Roddy Piper demonstrates a little Raybon Fu in "They Live. " work there." out. And then it's not just a conductor, from the Cletis told me how he used to work at the 7-11 Latin "con," meaning "with," and "ductor," matter smaller than man has ever witnessed, Our only hope for destroying the ghoul satellite Frozen Burtito Rendering Plant before they shut meaning "ductor." No, it's a SUPERconductor. guessed at, or known about before this time." dish, which puts everybody to sleep so they can't down and moved to Moline, Illinois, and asked So that means a passel of copper wire the size of "How'd you know thatr' I asked Cletis. tell they're sitting around in hot tubs with pus the Sears Tpwer. (' "Read it in the want ads in the Waxahachie face outer-space aliens, is Rowdy Roddy Piper, "Okay, tI1.ft's the first part. ilfhe seco~~ is paper." , who just got into town ftoj:n,llep,verandhappens you Supercollider. And here's where you come "Well, that's the job you g6t to have TRAIN to be hanging around the shanty town when the in, Cletis. You know what they're gonna do?" ING for. So go over to DeVry Institute and ask Ghoul Police run through it with clubs and "What?" said Cletis. for some proton-firing courses." shotguns, killing blind street preachers for cut ROBERT WALDMAN "They're gonna build a 53-mile tunnel in a "I do believe I'd enjoy that, and it also fits in ting into their profit margins. Fortunately, he circle under Waxahachie." with my personal fulfillment life plan." recovers the anti-ghoul-squad hiding place, full "Good idea," said Cletis. "And one more thing, Cletis." of Magic Ray-bans, sunglasses that reveal the PHOTOGRAPHY "Why is it a good idea?" "Yeah?" TRUE messages behind advertising billboards, "I've thought of building a tunnel under "Let me know EXACTLY which day y'all plan like "Marry and Reproduce," "Consume," "No Waxahachie my ownself. I had a dream about it to turn that thing on." Thought," "Do Not Question Authority," and the other night." "Okey doke." "Buy Neil Diamond Records." Not only that, Like I say, sometimes Cletis took a little STP when you're wearing the shades, you can see oil treatment in his Ovaltine. PEAliNG OF BUG-EYED YUPPIES TUNNEUNG how's a ghoul and who's not. "And then once they get this tunnel built," I around under the ground, "They Live" is Too bad that's not enough info to save the told Cletis, "they're gonna fire some protons S ,probly the best drive-in flick of88, about world. These are SMART ghouls. They'\Te dis around in there till they collide, and you know these outer-space ghouls that live underneath EI covered that the Yuppies will collaborate-for wh~t that'll do?" Lay, where they make Lee Press-on Nails com silk shirts and Mercedes. We're talking "Inva "Sounds like it'll probably reproduce the first mercials, talk to one another through their sion of the Body Snatchers" for the '80s. half second of the beginning of the universe, Rolexes, and send our riot squads to bulldoze the Two breasts. 64 dead bodies. Yuppies from replicating the Big Bang in a controlled environ homeless. They're all from Andromeda, which outer space. Blind preacher clubbing. Exploding ment, and creating a measurement for units of eVidently went 99 percent for Bush. ,TV studio. One of the most hellacious two-man brawls ever put on film. National Guard Fu. Garbage Truck Fu. Meg Foster Fu. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Rasslin Roddy WE'VE MOVED! Piper, as Nada the shotgun-totin cowboy ghoul hunter, for saying "Hey, formaldehyde face!" and "You know what you need? You need a Brizilian plastic surgeon!" and "Life's a bithc-and she's back in heat" and "Well, they ain't from Cleve KC PITCH land!"; Keith David, as Frank the sidekick from Detroit, for saying "Maybe they've always been with us, those things out there"; Peter Jason, as is now located at Gilbert the anti-ghoul organizer, for saying "The world needs a wakeup call, and we're gonna 2 1 Westport Rd., Suite 203 phone it in"; George "Buck" Flower, as the old coot who starts collaborating with the ghouls, for Kansas Gty, M064111 saying "It's BUSINESS, that's all it is-what's the thread-we sell out every day"; and John 816/561-6061 Carpenter, the master, for making a full recovery STUDIO: 931-7259 from "Prince of Darkness." Four stars. Joe Bob says check it out.• 12l("""'" LE WYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES STANDING VOLU~E TWO APART FROM ! t THE SLAGHEAP ~ RECORDED IN BULGARIA It BY MARCEL CELLIER OF GUTLESS (,0 NF 0 RMITY NONESUCH . THE NEW STANDARD ON SALE NOW JOHN ADAMS· POWAQQml NIXON IN CHINA ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY ORCHESTRA PHILIP GLASS OF ST. WKE'S Superfan ED BIELER Superfan tackles Disneyland, Danny Manning and Bo Jackson $50,000 is the exact amount I've dropped at athletes in the magic Disneyland over the years. Still, I resent the Disneyland commercials. In kingdom~ case you haven't seen one, they go like this: y LEAST FAVORITE TV eOMMEROAL IS THE The spot opens with action footage of Harry one featuring the sports hero who is Hero winning the Super Bowl;World Series, Big Mgoing to Disneyland. Orel Hershiseris Event; background music is "When You Wish the most recent star to sign up for the trip. Upon a Star. As hero is shown walking/running Don't get me wrong, I don't consider Hershiser off the field, a warm, upbeat voice says "Harry ~ a ~eedy capitalist pig just because he yelled "I'm Hero, you've just won the Super Bowl! You're on gOIng to Oisneyland" a few minutes after pitch top of the world! Where are you going now?" ing the Dodgers to a world championship. Harry Hero looks directly into the camera and ~Forone thing, it seemed honest. Orel Hershiser says "I'm going to Disneyland." is the kind of guy who probably would celebrate It's cute, I admit it. a great triumph by going to Disneyland, even if But look, TV ads have already ripped off all the nobody paid him to say so. He might even take great rock and roll songs for ketchup and car his son. commercials. They even turned Joe,DiMaggio Mickey and some other characters Besides, the Disney people paid Orel $50,000 into Mr. Coffee. They've taken everything we for delivering that one line. And who would tum honor and love and used it to sell a product. The spot could open with a shot of Manning open the season. Where are you going Danny?" down that kind of work? For $50,000 I'd walk Is nothing sacred? Now even the pristine, shin and his agent storming out of the Clipper offices, "I'm going to Disneyland-as soon as I find naked through a toxic waste dump. And I know ing moment of ultimate athletic triumph is gone, slamming the door behind them. Cue music and where you're hiding and make you eat that the value of money. By sheer coincidence, sold to Disneyland. peppy voice-over: "Danny Manning, you and microphone." OK, the moment isn't actually gone. TV view your agent-that 'dippy guy there in the suit OrwhataboutJaySchroeder? I think a lot of us ers can still enjoy that moment, if they don't have just been insulted by the Clippers' latest can relate to his frustration: mind sharing it with corporate America. contract offer of only $2 million a year ... "Hey, Jay Schroeder, you recently arrived in The Disneyland cOll)ffiercj~ls seem e- "You're obviously trying to take advantage of Los Angeles and were supposed to be the answer ous, but they aren't. Hershiser was asked at the Clippers' history ofbumbling incompetence. to the Raiders' prayers. Instead you've .lobked least four takes as he ran off the Oakland Coli You're banking on the fact that the Clippers more like the winner ofa Marc Wilson play-alike seum field. In most of the news photos of Orel have looked so doggone foolish in the past that contest. after the last pitch, the producer of the commer they can't afford to let their number-one draft "You came to play, but-surprise-the Raiders cia is seen clinging to his side. pick slip away now that they're on the brink of already have a starting quarterback. What now, Fortunately, the Disney film crew got a clear respectability. Jay? Are you going to go quietly back and sit on shot of the final pitch of the game, so Orel didn't "You know they'll do almost anything to sign the bench? Are you heading for the nearest have to go back to the mound and strike out you. You're hoping they wil). even lose ~their tavern, there to sit in the dim light and stew Tony Phillips again. ("Tony, this time when you heads and forget that you're just not that.great,' about the' unfairness of it all? Where are you miss, could you spin around and fall on your that you're no Bird or Magic or Jordan, that you going now, Jay?' back?') went scoreless against the Soviets. . . "That depends. Does Disneyland need a quar I don't expect the Disney people to drop an "Now it looks as if the Clippers, despite the terback?" obViously successful campaign just because one foolhardy ad campaign featuring you, are not Or how about "Gene Autry, you've gone to the grumpy sports guy doesn't like it. But maybe caving in to your unrealistic contract demands. free agent marketplace. You've gone to your they'll consider broadening the concept. Why "The season started without you Danny. You minor league system. Trying to build a league limit the field to the winners? Can't depressed can't even get into a shirts and skins game on the championship team and failing for 28 incredible people go to Disneyland too? How about Danny playground because you might break a leg. seasons, you've gone crazy. Now where are you Manning for instance? "The Clippers have gone to Philadelphia to going?" 14 Ke PikheDECEMBER "I'm going to Disneyland. I hear they have a Talent alone, however, doesn't make a football wishing well. I have some ballplayers I wish to player . Talent is meaningless without durability, throw in." without an understanding that for' better or My hunch is that Disney will stay with its worse, pro football is mostly played by people in proven advertising formula. So next time I'm pain. watching TV and that commercial comes on, There is, of course, no question of JackSon's I'm going to the bathroom. physical courage. He obviously has that. It's a question of attitude. For better or worse, a true football player is one BoJackson update who combines Marcus Allen's talent and atti They made a striking contrast a few Sundays tude toward the game. The one winner in all of ago in New Orleans. There was Marcus Allen this is the Kansas City Roayls, who are lighting running, catching.and blocking with his broken candles each Sunday, hoping Bo Jackson doesn't hand in a cast. And there was Be Jackson taking get permanently hurt.• himselfoff the field after two plays when, he said, a muscle tightened up on him. The scene was regrettably reminiscent of last Audio Recording season. After showing some promise on a Mon and day night game, Jackson limped out two weeks MIDI Studio later with an ankle injury and wasn't heard from again. Classes In modern professional sports, there is a base offered at ball mentality toward injuries and there is a football mentality. Jackson appears to have come to the Raiders with baseball's. Putting it one way, Jackson isn't stupid enough to play football when he's hurt. Putting it another, he isn't a football player. Clearly, to Be Jackson, football is exactly what he said it was, a hobby. Be apparently sees football only as a chance to express himself, to prove that he has a talent for the game at the NFL level. And in his view, this can be done only when he is physically right. HULK HOGAN vs. BIG BOSS MAN HERCULES VS. "THE MILLION DOLLAR MAN" TED DIBIASE TAG TEAM ACTION THE ROCKERS VS. THE BRAINBUSTERS HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN VS. DINO BRAVO Card is subject to change. Tickets available at aU Cats locations, Budget in Topeka, Corky's Records in Mission, Crown Center Ticket Office, Jones Stores (except Oak Park), Kemper Arena Liberty Hall in lawrence, Seventh Heaven, Video Corner in Olathe, Video Venders and the MuniCipal Box Office. For Visa/Me charge tickets call DlAL~A-TICK, (816) 931-3330. DKEMBEMC I'ikh IS r------, TORRE'S PIZZA 4112 PENNSYLVANIA KANSAS CITY, MO IN OLD WESTPORT Buy ANY LARGE, GET SMALL SINGLE INGREDIENT PIZZA FREE WITH COUPOI DIIE II OILY 931·FOOD WE DELIVER PARTY ROOM AVAILABLE Up TO 100 PEOPLE L ______CALL FOR RESERVATIONS ~ <¢~I~S TAKIN~ T¢¢ l¢N~ ? Have you bought a record from this man? .everyone else has CORKY J. CARREL Born February 18,1956, Athens, Greece Occupation Shop owner, Corky's Records, Tapes and Discs, 5732 Johnson Drive, Shawnee Mission, KS, record biz kingpin for nearly two decades. Other interests Watching pro football, movies, collecting Bob Dylan and playing amateur hockey. ~ ixteen years in th~ record business gives Corky Carrel a unique perspective on music and COPIES GUARANTEED ON TIME!! S Ka,nsas City. As parr of the original Caper's Comer team, Corky saw the birth of today's record industry, when the major labels banded together and independent record shops first came into their own as key players in defining trends in music. By the time Ben Asner closed Capers' doors in the winter of '85, Corky was well-known as a record seller who could be trusted never to PRINT·TIME steer his customers wrong, and always have a handle on what was new on the music scene. So when Corky opened his store just two months later, a loyal following took their business to or-.: TIME EVERY TIME Johnson Drive. Upon visiting Corky's, the comfortable atmosphere and quality selection makes it immediately clear that this is a store run by a man with a genuine love for music, working close to 3911 MAIN • KANSAS CITY. MO 64111 what he knows best. (816) 756-3900 After speaking with Corky for nearly two hours about the myopia of rock criticism and the decline of Elvis Presley on one hand, and the subtle growth of Merle Haggard and the birth of new 16 KC PitcheDECEMBER continued page 21 ChOIDpin' to please place a comfortable old-town feel. A stroke of dients-fresh vegetables, large shrimp, real GARY MARTIN design genius is the absence of the ubiquitous crab--and it shows. The portions are large. three-cornered oriental wall lamp with the red You'll probably be packing those little Chinese silk tassels. I don't have anything against Orien doggie boxes home with you. tal interior design, but I have a feeling this item Earlier, I referred to an offer you can't refuse, The Red Dragon House may be more for the American's eye than the and here it is. If you don't like what you've Asian's. ordered, for any reason, Mr. Phan will keep Chinese with an offer you can't refuse The food is the main interest here, though, and bringing food until you're satisfied, or you can tip Mr. Phan knows how to make it work. The hot your hat and there's no charge. But I doubt he's rs FITIING THAT mE RED DRAGON HOUSE, WHICH Originally from China, owner Nam Phan came and sour soup is one of the best in the city: rich had any takers. features cooking from one of the world's to Kansas City by way of Los Angeles and opened chicken broth (but not thick from cornstarch) Red ~agon House, 312 West 8th Street, 221- Ioldest civilizations, is located in one of this the popular Rainbow I Chinese restaurant in and mildly spicy, filled with pork, bean curd and 1388. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thurs city's oldest buildings. You'll find the Ked North Kansas City (currently run by his brother) bamboo shoots. Try this instead of the egg drop day; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Dragon on the corner of 8th and May Streets about four years ago. Mr. Phan opened the Red for a change. 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. Prices range from (directly across from Eyes). Dragon House just four months ago, and was Begin with pot stickeTS-'--€t:led dumplings with .95 to $10.95, excluding beverages and desserts. quickly discovered by the downtown-lunch ground meat and vegetable filling-plump and . Full bar service .• crowd, packing them in to the tune 0(350 plus delicious. One order is easily enough for two.Dr daily. if an Oriental meal just isn't complete without Thirty-seven lunch specials are offered from 11 the crab baboon fix, they offer a very good a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday, rang version of this old favorite. The poo poo platter ing in price from $4.50 to $4.95 and including (for two) is a strange title, but a big combination Free classifieds appetizers, soup, entree and fried rice. This has to platter of Oriental goodies. Even if you don't Send your classifieds to KC Pitch, 207 Westport be one of the most extensive menus in Kansas order it, it's still fun to say. Rd, Suite 203, KCMO 64111. No charge. City. The dinner menu is increased to 125 offer Unless you have something against shellfish, PLAN ON A LIFE IN HELL IN 1989. Foreveryone planning any hellish ings' with a brief description of the dish included the neptune's catch in bird's nest is a real crowd excitement or anyone needing to know when Wednesday is, it's the new and improVed LIFE IN HELL 1989 FUN CALENDAR. Loaded with lots under most items. It's ni~e to have a rough idea pleaser. At $8.95, this is one of the pricier dishes, of useless/full quotes and birthdays to boggle your brain with. One size fits of what the Kung Bao Triple Delight is all about but, combining sauteed crab meat, scallops and most months (except February). $9.95 postpaid. Please send check or money order made payable to LIFE IN HELL, P.O. BOX 36E64, LOS before making a hasty decision. If not for the fine prawns served in a large edible nest formed of ANGELES CA 90036. Please include ad. Yo. Classical guitar lessons: learn to read music! Beginners, all ages welcome. print, I'll bet Jimmy Swaggartwould order this in matchstick potatoes, still a real bargain. The Call Catherine Wilson 931·3665. a minute. orange chicken is another good bet; pieces of Chiropractor for ti)e stars! Dr. Mark Calandro invites you to a compH· l T The first thing you notice is that this doesn't lightly-breaded, boned chicken, sauteed with ::OOGd:::: &::'i:::t tV:!d30: ta:::: ?~~ilAcient, look like a Chinese restaurant. Exposed brick orange peel in a spicy sauce with scallions, it's near park, fantastic neighbors/school. Owner desperate. $69,750 (below appraisall. Financing! 361-0301. walls, ultra-high wood c~ilings with exposed $7.95 and very good. Bass lessons: all levels, all styles. Instructor has toured and recotded with pipes and large windows at table level give the Mr. Phan stresses the high quality of his ingre- three national acts. C311531·4915 or 931-4638, ask for Ted. CAPITAL AUTOMATED TICKET6ERVICES now offers GIFT THANK GOODNESS IT'S FRIDAY FANFARE! CERTIFICATES Just in time for the Holidays! Available in amounts from $5 to $25 and are redeemable at any CATS outlet regardless of place of original purchase. Make things easy on yourself this year... Give your friends and family CATS gift certificates. AVAILABLE YEAR 'ROUND Introducing three special right-after-work concerts at 6:00 p.m. BEGINNING DECEMBER 1, 1988 AT: on FridaYs, perfonned by The Kansas City Symphony with tell-it-like-it-is commentary by William McGlaughlin ~ S in the Lyric Theatre, 11th and Central. h d J' rATS outtels aJ Budget in Topeka, Corky's Records in Mission, Crown Center. The Money Ticket prices: ~. Place, Jones Stores (except Oak Park), Kemper Arena, Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Season (all three concerts) $25.00 Municipal Auditorium, Seventh Heaven Stores, Sf Joseph Civic Arena, Video Corner eN) in Olathe and Video Venders, (KC, KS). Tickets sublect to service charge. Individual concerts $10. 00. CAPITAL AUlOMATED TICKET SERVICES For ticket information call (816) 931-7878 Januaty 13; Januaty 27; March 10. TO ORDER BY PHONE: ~o~ CALL DIAL·A·TICK • (816) 931·3330 Special promotional support provided by KY-lOZ. Me/VISA Concerts 600 p m at the L) ric 'I11eatre Call 471-0400 for tickets DECEMBENe Pikh 17 .,.- ,'().~~ ~" \.~ t.e' 18 K( P"lfm-DECEMBER + DECEMB~( !'"ltch 19 TEQUILA _RISE Directed by Robert Towne, TWINS Directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Ar WHO'S HARRY CRUMB? Directed by Paul OLD GRI_ Directed by Luis Puenzo, starring starring Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell and Michelle nold Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito, from Flaherty, starring John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck and Jimmy Smits, Pfeiffer, from Warner Bros. Universal. Annie Potts and Tim Thomerson, from T ri-Star. from Columbia. Mel Gibson is a drug dealer. Kurt Russell is a Verile, strapping Julius (Schwarzenegger) and John Handy is inept detective Harry Crumb, An excitable revolutionary (Smits), a re cop. They're old friends from high school. They short, dumpy Vincent (De Vito) are scientifi trying to solve the kidnapping case of a wealthy pressed teacher from America (Fonda) and an both love Michelle Pfeiffer. Big trouble. cally generated twins, separated at birth, who young heiress (Potts). embittered, expatriate writer (Peck) meet up in unite to find their mother. turn-of-the-century Mexico. Tequila Sunrise Twins Whos Harry Crumb? Working Girl TORCH SOIIG TRIlOGY Directed by Paul Bogart, THE NAKED GUI Directed by David Zucker, star RAil MAN Directed by Barry Levinson, starring JACKIIFE Directed by David Jones, starring starring Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft and ring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, from United Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Kathy Baker, Matthew Broderick, from New Line Cinema. Montalban, O.J. Simpson and John Houseman, Artists. from King's Road Studios. Fierstein's Broadway hit comes to the big from Paramount. Conniving Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) tries to 'Tis the season: yet another buddy movie. De screen in this story of a drag queen with an What a cast! Montalban plays an LA business swindle a $3 million inheritance away from his Niro and Harris are Vietnam vets whose friend adopted son trying to pick up the pieces ofhis life man who is recruited by terrorists to assassinate dim-witted brother, Raymond (Hoffman). ship goes bad when one falls for the other's sister. afrer the murder of his mate. New Line's market the Queen of England on her trip to Southern Producer Robert Schaffel says "This is not a ing head, Ron Wanless says "Torch Song" California. With cameos by Reggie Jackson, an Vietnam film; it's a post-Vietnam film." Glad we shouldn't be perceived only as a gay movie. "It Idi Amin look-alike and director Zucker's mom asked. has a poignant, human-relations kind offeel, like as Nielsen's nagging secretary. 'Kramer vs. Kramer' had." IEODER DEIITO Only their lIIother can "The most profound exploration of an artist's soul ever to be put on tellthelll film. VINCENT is an experience no apart~ presumably civilized moviegoer can afford to miss!" -Andrew Sarri~, THE VILLAGE VOICE "Notoriously entertaining ... again Almodovar works wonders with his attractive, uninhibited cast." STARTS DEC. 8 ..Joel E. Siegel, qty Paper 20 K( PikheDECfMBER Profile continued from page 16 tance of a mom-and-pop shop like Corky's in an Can you pinpoint the moment you first knew kind of ironic that here I am, 20 years later, sounds in today's industry on the other, it's clear age of identical shopping mall stores and MTV how much you loved music? The first record I selling copies of the same song by Tiffany. that this man really does have a passion for his driven marketing. went out and bought was Tommy James & the work. This is evidence enough for the impor- Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now." It's Have you noticed a change in the musical au dience over the years? I think maybe MTV has been too much of a good thing. People see artists around the clock, and, with concert tickets alwats going up, I'm seeing people walking on prices for the first time. It also seems like maybe this has turned concerts into social events more than musical events. I like to see mucic in a small club where an artist can just get up and playa song, where the emphasis is on the music. What is the most exciting thing happening in rock today? I think artists like The Desert Rose Band, Graham Parker and John Hiatt, to name just a few, are important because, musiqllly, they are straddling the fence between forms. And they each offer a genuine slice of life, which is o what it's about. o Why do you think Corky's is successful? The o location is good, with a deli next door and a o barber shop across the street-it's a nice, quiet o shop. But, I guess people just know that if they come to me, I watch out for them. I won't let them make any big mistakes. And I tend to remember my customers' tastes and can often point outthings that might interest them. Also, I really share their interest. When a new record comes out, I'm as excited as anybody. -Danny Alexander GoI- 'Veli' ...... I I COUPON-----~ WORTH I IP---~ PARTY I-+--+--+--f--+- $2.00 TRAYS TOWARDS ~~~RCHASE OF I 1FROM OUR DEUI-+---l----1f--I--+- PARTY TRAY FOR ANY 1 I' I SIZE GROUP 1-'-4-1--+--+--1- WITH ECKRICH MEATS I 1OR OCCASION! 1 AT THE FOODWAY DELI, CALL --+--4--+--+--+- BROADWAY & VALENTINE 1 1561-50261 &;. _ _ ~lIIIIIIIIiiiii DECEMBER-K( Pitch 21 Mondo video PROF. FRED HOPKINS ing, intellectual masterpiece. Unfortunately, 2. Blood Feast; Gruesome Twosame; .. most of Craven's fans lack an intellect, so it Maniacs; WIzard of Gore; Color Me Blood Red bombed. (New Star). To call the late '60s gore films of "Rock 'n' Roll Mobster Girls" runs 101 minutes 2. A lew LHe (Paramount). Ann Margaret is HerscheU Gordon Lewis amateurish, incoherent Homemade mondo and features punk/metal groups Cat Butt and always watchable, but Alan AIda's gucci-bag and repulsive is to damn them with faint praise. Crisis Party as well as Scott McCaughey (of The liberalism is awfully hard to digest. If Dukakis Don your mondo bibs and pass the ketchup. OVIE AND VIDEO ames OfTEN DO BAFFUNG Young Fresh Fellows) and Jeff Simmons (former had been elected, we'd have seen a lot more 3. When the Line Goes Through (Congress). things. Roger Ebert freely admits to baSSist/rhythm guitarist for Frank Zappa and The movies like this. Martin Sheen is a pathological liar who stumbles M writing Russ Meyer's "Beyond the Mothers). Borrowing from Ozzie Nelson's cast 3. E.T. (MCA). I met him at the Video Sofr upon two beautiful blonde twins who are caring Valley of the Dolls:" and Rex Reed even gave ing philosophy, we inviegled the Doll Squad to ware Dealers Association convention in Las for their 130-year-old grandfather who lives on what could liberally be called an acting perform play themselves. Of course, their characters are Vegas. Helluva sweet guy. their front porch and periodically shouts "Hello ance in "Myra Breckenridge." We all have this exaggerated-to my knowledge they've never 4. Scavengers (Academy). As far as films fea there!" to imaginary passers-by. nutty, vainglorious urge to vomit our talent all really decapitated anyone-as is my personifica turing stuntmen driving motorcycles out of air 4. 10 Violent W.... (World Video). Only two over an, unsuspecting public. I succumbed last tion of the bloodthirsty mobster, Bruno Moul-, planes go, this is one of the best. are violent, the others just pout a lot and run May, when I produced my very own mondo trock, whose character I loosely based upon the 5. Vice Versa (Columbia). The 43rd "identity around in peek-a-boo nighties. Directed by Ted film-"The Rock 'n' Roll Mobster Girls." insane capitalistic puppet, Mr. Bluster, from the change" movie to be released this year. If you've "Astro Zombies" Mikels, so if you're looking for It all started with an idea about an unyielding old Howdy Doody Show. ever had any doubts about Hollywood producers restraint or taste-boy, did you get a wrong gaIlJster with a hemorrhoid problem who cold The film has been well-received critically and being on drugs, this picture should resolve them. number. bloodedly eliminates all opposition to his man advance sales have been impressive. (Well, some 6. Sbootto Kill (Touchstone). Sidney Poitier is 5. Return of the Kill. TOIII8toes (New aging an all-girl punk band (played by Doll copies have been sold, anyway.) In fact, "Rock an FBI agent who chases a psycho to the Pacific World). John "Gomez Addams" Astin, looking Squad-a real-life group). He gets them a top-40 en' Roll Mobster Girls" is out-renting Arnold Northwest. Next he should go after cheap film like Captain Kangaroo with jock itch, is a lech hit, lots of gigs, and name recognition, but he Schwarzenegger at the outlets that carry it. Who companies that shoot in Canada and pretend it's erous old scientific crank who's turning toma never really wins the ladies' hearts or minds, so knows, maybe we'll clear enough to make our the United States to save money! toes into people. Can he be stopped by the Killer they decapitate him. It's sort of a Lydia Lunch second pictu~e-"Attack of the Hideo-Poid!" 7. Swltcblng Cbllnels (RCA/Columbia). If Tomatoe Task Force? meets-The Godfather type of scenario. "Rock en' Roll Mobster Girls" is available from watching Kathleen "Body Heat" Turner bully, 6. Dead Heat (New World). An electronic I told two friends, Rick and Diana, about it and Demolition Films, 5339 25th NE, Seattle, W A browbeat and bellow at Burt Reynolds for 104 "resurrection machine" re-animates zombie cop we all agreed, in an inebriated haze, that it would 98105, (206) 524-0529 for $19.95 plus $3 ship minutes really starts your engine, you might Treat Williams, a socially-aggressive chicken make an epic motion picture. A month later, ping. enjoy this. Otherwise, do like the tide says and an insane, cannibalistic side of beef. Best these two, schlemeils had written a script, and switch channels. line: "Zombie duck heads-what a concept." soon afterwards we shot the whole movie on a 8. And God Created Woman (Vestron). He also 7. Kill. Klowns from Outer Space (Media). mind-bending three-day schedule. Two months this month's hits created non-actors Rebecca DeMornay and John "Animal House" Vernon is terrorized by and forty hours ofediting later, our mondo movie 1. The Serpent lid tile Ralnllow (MCA). Wes Donovan Leitch, son of the super-mellow '60s obscene, asexual clowns armed with pop-corn monster was ready to be unleashed. Craven's Nightmare on Haiti Street is a disturb- folk-rocker. DeMornay will always be lousy, but ray guns and creal"!l-pie projectiles. Aren't the at least Leitch can ask his famous dad for guitar '80s a fun decade? lessons. 8. The KIlling of Satan. A Filipino/Hong Kong 9. ATI. of Destiny (Nelson). Timothy Hut religious-martial-arts-exorcist-revenge drama tofi~dWillitm Hurtin a prerentious, pedantic with computer-generated special effects and WWII romance which would have put audi snakes turning into naked midgets. ences to sleep--if it would have drawn any. 9. Dlnosaurus! (New World). While setting off FOR THE RECORD 10. Bright Lights, Big City (MGMjUA). Mi some explosives, an American engineer un chael J. Fox is a Manhattan yuppie who worries leashes two giant dinosaurs and a caveman upon about his identity while wearing $400 suits and a small Pacific island. Some Republican peasants driving his new BMW. This is about as gritty as try to help him round up the critters, but an Staffed over Fox ever gets. exploitative, grouchy, anti-A\llerican bureau 10 years with crat keeps lousing things up. 10. G.ma Versus Guiron (Celebrity). Two people who know mondo top 10 tiresome tots are abducted by gorgeous space your music! 1. Free, WhHe and 21 (All Seasons). A licen cannibal ladies with dubbed Brooklyn accents tious, utterly worthless, demeaning and com who want to eat the twerps' brains and thereby pletely irresistable sex trial movie by Mondo acquire all the knowledge on earth. A flying Hall of Famer Latry "Zontarr-Thing from space tuttle intervenes. 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"I think we would all like to be successful and have the influence that they've holidays achieved, but when you place that burden on a band to be the next whatever, you reallyconjure If you've been wondering how to classify them, up a lot of stylistic expectations and we're not a The Balancing Act plays "That Kind of Music." band who has the capacity or the desire to be The Los Angeles quartet was issued this genre mysterious like R.E.M. and shroud themselves in while trying to solicit airtime for a cut off their that 'rock star robe' thing. But if someone wants new album, "Curtains." Drummer Robert to give us a quarter of a million dollars-to make Blackmon recalls that while speaking with a our records, that's fine with me." major commerical station in LA, the DJ re Even if they don't become Stipe-like, the Act sponded "we only play 'that kind of music' on has much to bounce on its knee. The debut EP, Sunday and Tuesday at 11 o'clock." "New Campfire Songs," established their bent As the pioneers ofTKM, The Balancing Act is for off-center folk-rock, and the debut LP, entering a new phase in their existence as a semi "Three Squares and a Roof," used greater pro acoustic cliffhanger quartet with receding hair duction and set their style in concrete. lines and a taste for non-convention. Their boss. "Curtains" signifys a significant jump into a Miles Copeland and I.R.S .• has begun to culti more commercial potential, yet it remains faith vate the stigma that the guys could be the next ful to the original core. Former Gang of Four R.E.M., and in due course, make everybody a lot brain Andy Gill was hired as producer for the richer and happier. new album and serves as a cattle prod forcing the "1 don't think any of us in the band want to be Act to realize its potential. the next R.E.M.," says Blackmon. "They've been "We wanted to go as far out in left field as 50 influential but we've already heard a lot of the possible to find a producer for this record," ex next R.E.M.s. There's millions of them out plains Blackmon. "We were interested in work there. I think I.R.S. is just wanting to notify the ing with somebody who had no obvious relation musical world that they are a label that is still ship to what we were doing." interested in bringing a band from nowhere and Blackmon says that the band went the whole making it something." gamut in looking for a producer. Brian Eno (U- But, since the label swap R.E.M. pulled with 2's button pusher), Tom Waits (the sandpaper The Balancing Act croaker), find others not connected to folk music were corisid~ied for tile job: Gill was highly Grand American respected by The Balancing Act and his tesponse Act is a result of the members' frustration with only covers seem to be hits," says Blackmon. "We to the offer was "very enthusiastic," so the mar playing in various cover bands around LA. It is didn't want to be a band whose first impression riage was set. ironic, however, that "Curtain's" emphasis track was that of a cover band." Shows "Making this record was no cup of tea," assures and MTV entry is a cover of Funkadelic's "Can Few people remember the Funkadelic version PROUDLY PfJESENTS Blackmon. "Andy was good at encouraging us to You Get To That." so the Act considers itself lucky to escape that rethink songs and get new ideas. The album is Blac.kmon responds rather sheepishly that horrible stigma. But as time tells, the single has artistically and commercially beyond anything using this tune as the lead single was not their in grown on the band enough that they can leave we'd ever imagined happening and it stands up as tention. Evidently Uncle Andy and Papa their terrible angst by the side of the road. a product we can be proud of. We can still wake Copeland wanted it that way. When Gill heard Ofcourse, when multiple talents merge, sparks TOMMY CONWELL up and look ourselves in the mirror and say the band's version of the tune, he pushed for its often fly. Blackmon explains that the band's life 'you're okay.'" inclusion on the new record. I.R.S. needed a can often be competitive when everyone wants The band was skeptical about how the new quick single for its New Music Seminar sampler to give input. AND THE record would be received, but according to CD so the cover was reluctantly recorded. Afrer "We create this myth within the band that Blackmon, "everybody's been very kind." With Copeland heard the cut, and a Chicago station therets complete harmony, but in reality, there tags in Spin and Musician magazines, "Curtains" started playing it, the tune become the advance is a lot of dissention some times," says the drum YOUNG RUMBLERS is getting its share of pats on the back. single of choice. mer. "There is a bit of contentiousness, but I The drummer explains that The Balancing "There. is this horrible trend right now that think everyone has the ability to influence the band and everybody wants the band to be what they want it to be. But that's only natural." While he may do most of the talking and have the most tWisted insights, Bob Blackmon is indifln,/Je!si.fln,flfflkif, not a card-carrying Dadaist as his press informa lelxJnese.~fI{I,Zf%:d tion may indicate. In comparing himself to the .~dMrlnwna0 World War I era cult representing abstraction and anarchy, Blackmon emphasizes his ten dancy to be "fairly unpredictable and hard to WEST ~.~.~. read." "We do have a tendancy to be real self satisfied at times and I'm pretty impatient," explains Blackmon. "I like to throw things off a 123 s.w. Blvd. KeNO bit." The Balancing Act is approaching the gun SIDE lune" 11- barrel that most bands of any intelligence usually J mM-fri experience; that being record company interfer DECEMBER 13 9 PM dill1ler 6:J()-I():J() ence in the name of money. lIIars, 'fl,S(/1 fJ/Ily "We are at a point where 1 think we wish we CAFE didn't think so much and could back away from TICKETS AVAILABLE AT it and be more like the kind of people that are e~pected to be in a band," comments Blackmon. ALL CATS OUTLETS "I think we stumbled onto this thing in a way aI·ter-l1a·tive Col tHr'n,} tiv) adj. pro~ vidillg a choice bet\Veeh things -n. 1_ a choice bet\veen things that was not very premeditated." country rock sound. And these talents are as "Curtains" proves that the band can indeed solid in Southern Pacific as you're likely to find. Tlles· day (tooz'de, -da) n. rOE. hold back the tide of commercial sludge and it Not only does the band produce the rough-hewn Tiwes dceg, day of the god of \var Tiu] appears that they will continue to exemplify an country sounds you'd expect ftom a band of this act that can make a major label happy and still be background, they also convincingly rip through the third day of the \veek able to look in the mirror each morning without some rock and roll numbers as well. aI·ter.na·tiveTues-day(ol tHr'n-a tiv puking. Catch Southern Pacific's country rock sound tooz'de, -da) n.featuring the best As a part of their exclusive three-week holiday in two shows at Guitars & Cadillacs in Westport, tour, The Balancing Act will host the KC Pitch Tuesday, Dec. 6. local original bands only at Christmas Parry at the Grand Emporium on December 19. Blackmon recalls the Emporium as "a totally happening place" when the band ate rock with the rumblers __JM~_ Grace's chow after a previous KC show. Without Check your samplers and sequencers at the good barbeque inKansas City it's entirly possible door. Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers that the music would suffer terribly. play straightforward, on-the-edge rock and roll, -Anthony Henge with no special effects or gimmicks to get in the aURRICANS way. This band relies on raw playing, clear sing ing and crisp songwriting to put their point rising again across. -DEC 5 PARLOR FROGS -DEC 20 ART BAND The entire progression of the country-blues From their early days in the trenches of -DEC 13 -DEC 27 rock genre-the music of sunny, Southern Cali Philadelphia's local-rock scene, the group has ABSOLUTE CEILING MAHOOTS fornia pioneered by groups like Creedence had a reputation for musical honesty. And their Clearwater, Crosby, Stills & Nash and The new album for Columbia, the aptly-titled Byrds over two decades ago---<:omes to a strong "Rumble," proves it. 50¢ DRAWS ALL NIGHT ftuition in Southern Pacific. Unlike most recordings, "Rumble" is true to The talent that makes up this band reads like a the sound of the band. Through the sensitive ALSO CHECK OUT THE HOnEST history of California rock. Their roster includes production of Rick Chertoff (Cyndi Lauper, NEW MUSIC WITH OJ STEVE HALLEY EVERY THURSDAY John McFee and Keith Knudson of the Doobie Patry Smythe, The Hooters), the energy of Brothers, David Jenkins of Pablo Cruise, Kurt Conwell and the Rumblers was brought back Howell of Crystal Gayle's band and Stu Cooke, alive. "Some people think producers force the bassiSt· and founding member of Creedence artis.t to do what they want or think will sell," says COMING SOON: THE PEDAL JETS, SIN CITY DISCIPLES, THE Clearwater Revival. Conwell, "But Rick is just the opposite of that. Tight vocal work and strong songwriting are He tried to get me to be my best, which Is a very HOMESTEAD GRAYS, THE EYES, 11M•• AnECH two elements that have always distinguished the continued next page D R~U A 3832 MAIN 531-1504 NEW WEEKNIGHT CONCERT HOURS DUE TO THE NUMEROUS REQUESTS WE RECElVED FROM lAST UONTH"S QUESTIONAIRE. WE ARE GOING TO TRY CHANGING OUR WEEJ UPCOMING EVENTS TERRANCE SIMIEN AND THE MALLET PLAYBOYS' TAJ MAHAL W C CLARK SON SEALS LUTHER "GUITAR JR" JOHNSON FOR 24 1Q1t1Il:iIMjI~WITH lHE FERNEST ARCENEAUX AND THE THUNDERS ~~~~~ BOOG~ STREET BLUES BAND DRINK SPECIALS MONDAYS ••••••••••••••••• OLD STYLE DRAWS TUESDAYS •••••••.••••••••••••••••••••••• MICHELOB WEDNESDAYS ...... IMPORT BEER INSTIGATORS THURSDAYS ••• LADIES GRAPE HITE IOWACITV the· original guitar hero under his own name and with Wells. "Eric Clapton is God" is a cliche graffito found A European tour in 1970 produced an associa on the mens' room walls of rock and roll clubs tion between Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and the coast to coast. So who, then, is God's favorite Rolling Stones, which led to tours, albums, a film guitar player? "Buddy's ... by far and without a and some legendary jam sessions, most notably at doubt the best guitar player alive" was Clapton's the Checkerboard Lounge, which Buddy bought word in a 1986 interview in Musician magazine. in 1972. "I don't know what it is-it doesn't stand up in Whether re-inventing the Chicago sound, a recording studio, you couldn't put him on a hit grinding out some older standards, or dusting off record, but if you see [Buddy Guy] in person, the way he plays is beyond anyone," Clapton said after a jam session with Guy at Chicago's fabled Checkerboard earlier that year. This jam session, which Clapton claimed to tally revitalized his playing (and no doubt helpeded some adman dream up that Michelob commercial), is not a rarity in the career of Buddy Guy. Other guitarists as diverse as Jeff Beck, David Bowie and the T-Birds' Jimmie Vaughn, have been equally revived by Guy's playing. In a Guitar Player interview, Vaughn said "One of my favorite records ... is that live album 'This is Buddy Guy' (Vanguard 79290). That's the wildest guitar playing I've ever heard. It's actually berserk-to the point where ifhe'd done anything else, he'd have gone straight to hell or something." George "Buddy" Guy was born in Lettsworth, Louisiana in 1936. By age of 20, Guy was in Chicago, where he immediately established himself in the blues community and became Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers known for his intense style of playing. At this time Guy began his partnership with Junior BiJddyGuy important goal, and the amazing thing is that he tantly," says Conwell, '''Rumble' sounds like us." Wells, which has continued for 30 years. succeeded." But as powerful as the new album is, Conwell In the early '60s, Buddy Guy was a mainstay of some haunting Hendrix-style blues, Buddy Other collaborators, including Jules Shear and and the Rumblers pack their most potent punch blues recording sessions, providing the electric Guy's soul and spontaneity make the music come fellow Philly rocker Robert Hazard, added to the live. See for yourself, Tuesday, Dec. 13 at the drive behind such greats as Muddy Waters and to life. See him at the Grand Emporium, Friday, band's raw, distinctive sound. "Most impor- Lone Star. Howlin' Wolf, as well as recording solid tunes December 9. DECEMBER L---D_E_C_E_____ M_B_E_R_l_9_8S-:---'1 • SPECIAL EVENTS • MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAV • Tues. Dec. 6- 29 30 1 l TRIP SHAKESPEARE NOV. 28 II with MILE ONE 40UTOFS TRUE oJ FIFTH CLIFF DENTISTS STORIES JAM NIGHT • Tues. Dec 13- KXXR PRESENTS 5 6 7 8 9 IU TOMMY CONWELL and THE YOUNG RUMBLERS 4 OUT OF 5 TRIP TRUE DENTISTS SHAKESPEARE ..... ~ FILM AT ELEVEN JAM NIGHT WITH MILE ONE STORIES • Wed. & Thurs .. Dec. 14 & 15- I I n IS 17 THE NEWSBOYS 12 141 16 KXXR PRESENTS I 4 OUT OF 5 TOMMY CONWELL DENTISTS AND THE ~ THE NEWSBOYS THE HOLLOW MEN JAM NIGHT YOUNG RUMBLERS I ]'4 19 20 22 21 UPCOMING EVENTS 211 4 OUT OF 5 DENTISTS SATIN RAGE • Wed .. Ian. I I-Sat .. Ian. 14 JAM NIGHT AlRKRAFf I I 26 27 J() II 28\ 2Y I • Tues .. Ian. 17 4 OUT OF 5 SACRED REICH with ATROPHY DENTISTS JAM NIGHT THE CLIOUE I I For Private Parties, Call Tim at (816) 561-1881. 261(( PiIdaeOEaMBER incredibly cool For starters, the band members all list "The Hoo Ha's Creeping Terror" as their favorite film. And if that's not enough to tell you these guys are super TOP 0' THE TROOST nip, check out their LP "That's That". (Rounder 9015). The 13 tunes on The Incredible Casuals' 5526 TROOST· 333-0710 debut album range from superb guitar rock to OPEN NOON TO 1:30 A.M. love songs to '60s pop, with a hot back beat and a lot of fun wedged in. HAPPY HOUR MON-THUR The group, comprised of guitarist Johnny ALL DAY, ALL EVENING Spampinato (brother of NRBQ founder Joey), Chandler Travis on bass (who lists "Chariots of DEC 2-3 Fire" and peple with real jobs among his dislikes) NIGHTCRA WLERS and a drummer named Vince Valium (his solid beats do not live up to his name), got its start as DEC 9 a musical-comedy aggregation in the Boston SAVANNA area, opening for acts as diverse as George Carlin and Elvis Costello. These days, ho~ever, the DEC 10 Casuals claim to be making the switch from THE LOBSTERZ laughs to becoming serious musicians. "We've become 99 percent music and one percent DEC 16 comedy," says bassist Chandler Travis. (Now, NIGHTCRA WLERS Trip Shakespeare Travis' humoris confined to his other band, Bozo Presley and the Perfect Love Balloons from DEC 17 Hell.) "We want people to thinkofus asacoher CHRIS CAIN & THE what a trip that. ent rock and roll band. We have fond memories Trip Shakespeare, another in a long line of top The new release is a total Trip endeavor. The of the old days, but it hurts when people think RHYTHM METHOD notch rockers from Minneapolis, is returning to nine-song record was produced and recorded by that's what you're still doing." . DEC 23 Kansas City. the band and released on the Trip Shakespeare Why would anyone think that these guys are But that should come as no surprise to their label. anything but hard-edged rockers? Could it be OLIVER RILEY & THE loyal local fans. Those in the area who are Aside from trying to fill the vinyl needs of avid Travis' claim to have "committed suicide by "Shakespearienced" know that the three-year fans, the band also seems to be perpetually on the flyswatter on the Tonight Show, 1977" on his BLUES NOTIONS old quartet, always a KC favorite, schedules a road. They've played Kansas City numerous bio sheet? Or maybe it's their video, which DEC. cowtown gig whenever they hit the road. times, picking up a larger following whenever features the band ~ating hamburgers to one of This time out, the Trips are touring in support they pass through. their songs ("The song is 'Don't Tell Me' and we THE APOLLOS of their second LP, "Are You Shakespeari Initially , Trip Shakespeare was a mainstay at eat-synch to it," says Travis). DEC 31 enced?" which was released in mid October. The Parody Hall in the River Quay, always packIng Regardless of these quirks, The Incredible STEVIE & group's debut album, "Applehead Man," re- the place for their weekend engagements. But Casuals are exactly what rock and roll's all THE ~/teased two years ago, was a regional smash and with that club's recent dormancy, the Trips have about-major fun. Check 'em out Tuesday, Dec. JIVE TONES ~~ sold out its initial pressing in a matter of months, moved south to the Lone Star in Westport, 1Z at the Grand Emporium. with a second pressing disappearing quickly after where they play Tuesday, Dec. 6. DECEMBER MON. o::t Zl Zf3. CX) CX) o K.C. I Blues M 1.0 r--. Band - • o ~ • .~ U en ro en C ro ~ • 3/. "-J (J1 w I o .HOLLOW.me CX) CX) ~ DECEMBER-KC Pitch 27 The world's oldest "Rocky Horror" is back. The Unicorn The· atte, 3820 Main, plays host to a wonderful per teenager formance ofthis spunky rock musical, and, under No, it's not Dick Clark, though he does look the direction of Fred Goodson and the musical the part. Rufus Thomas, a perforiner for over 50 direction of Susan Kingwell, makes the show years, is known as the oldest teenager on Beale come alive. Stteet for his forever-young Memphis soul. This.musical is not for the faint-of-heart. The By the time he hit it big with "Walkin' the' bizarre characters and eerie sets create the per Dog," "Do the Funky Chicken," "The Penguin" fect mOod for the sequence ofstrange events that and numerous other animal hits in the early '60s, is "Rocky Horror." Thomas was already a veteran of the music The adventure opens with Brad and Janet, a scene. young newlywed couple who, seeking a tele Born in Cayce, Mississippi in 1917, Thomas phone and refuge from the rain, find themselves was moved to Memphis just after his first birth in the midst of a dreary castle filled with strange day, and the city has remained his musical home characters. base ever since. He" began performing in amea After engaging in a frenzied version of "Time ture shows at Memphis' Palace Theater at 14 Warp," the young couple is surprised by the and, after a stint" with the traveling Georgia dramatic entrance of Frank N. Furter, a flamboy Dixon Show, returned to the Palace as master of ant transexual from the planet Transylvania, ceremonies. Through the '40s and into the early who is celebrating the creation of a monster '50s, Thomas teamed with Robert Counts for the named Rocky, his latest project. singing/dancing act Rufus and Bones, and also Combining monsters, music a~d mayhem, I hosted his own shows on Memphis' famed "The Rocky Horror Show" offers an evening of WDAlradio. exceptional entertainment, and promises a Rufus didn't begin his recording career until night out that won't soon be forgotten. As al the '50s, but once it got underway, he became a ways, audience participation is encouraged. consistent top seller. His recordings with his daughter Carla Thomas, as well as his solo ef forts, cemented his title as one of Memphis' soul kings. Throughout the '50s and '60s, Rufus CONCERTS Thomas was a frequent guest at the Apollo Rufus Thomas Theater and was a favorite on American Band- stand. fans went wild. And this month, Alligator Rec 2. Deidre McCalla, blues singer, Unity on the In the years since, Thomas hasn't slowed down ords is releasing "That Woman IS POIson!" let's do the "Time Plaza, 8 p.m. Call CrossCurrents, 221-9865. a biL He continues to record and tour (Alligator 4769), Rufus' first new album in sev extensively" Rufus still puts on the type of ener eral Warp" again 2. Bob Brookmeyer, trombonist, with the getic shows that made his name over 40 years brings his Memphis soul stew to the If you've never seen "The Rocky Horror Pic UMKC Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. at the Folly ago, such as last year's Chicago Blues Festival, Grand Emporium, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 16- tureShow," here's your chance. The ever-popu Theater. Tickets are $10, $8 for students and where he strutted his stuff in matching tour 17, backed by S.D.I. lar cult film. whICh was originally created for the senior adults. 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Her brother was the album's overall sound. And Dax's voice-as the town with ocassional heavyweight college the Clint Eastwood film on the life of jazz great a Hell's Angel, her father was a banker and her shrill as Cyndi Lauper's but without the range acts. Charlie Parker. The premier saw nearly 400 grandmother was a fortune teller. Dax herself did is overmanipulated on several songs. On occa But the outlook isn't all that bad for '89. The people turned away ftom the big screen when it unusual things like joining the punk Lemon sion her vocals are twisted into sounding like a Uptown Theater is carrying a good batting was discovered the event was either over-sold or Kittens and packing up her easel to take a paint Chipmunks choir. She should just sing. average with its recent bookings of noteworthy someone. was overly zealous in handing out ing tour of Kenya. Even the lyrics can be too much of a different perfonners. Promoter Greg Tilton dispelled any complimentary passes. So what can be expected of Danielle Dax? Her thing. On "Fizzing Human Bomb," she sings of a rumors that a December 15 foreclosure auction According to Foundation spokesman Eddie publicist describes "Dark Adapted Eye," her first "rotted martyr's bone, ringed with worm." at the theater will affect bookings in '89. "We'll Baker, the final tally of money figures still isn't American LP, as "Liberace meets heavy metal Unusual? Obviously. Interesting? Not espe operate as we always have," said Tilton. "We're resolved. Baker said that a number of bounced Hindu." But publicists do have a tendancy to go cially. looking for good things next year." checkes from movie goers has held up the over the top. But on·"When I was Young," the one slow song New West Presentations, who handles many accountant's bean counting. The organization The album is unusual, but not as inve~tive as in the collection, Dax successfully combines her of the Uptown shows, even appears to have a re still declines comment as to the reason why so you would expect. "Cathouse;" the first single, is background noises, distinctive vocals and de newed interest in booking new music perfonn many patrons were denied entrance to the a dance tune that borrows heavily from the B- scriptive lyrics. The waltz is simple and melan ances. screening. 52s, featuring the sa~e type of descending chro choly, with enough rough edges to add some On Main Street, either Grace's food or the new matic lines as "Rock Lobster," but throwing in bitter to the sweetness. neon blues mural is keeping new music support some heavy guitar for a different effect. On "Inky Bloaters" and "Touch Piggy's Eyes," ers out in force at the Grand Emporium. The Psychowelder plus Unfortunately, "Dark Adapted Eye," which Dax proves she can produce infectious music. New Music Deal on Mondays has featured a combines new material With songs from Dax's The sound is eccentric, but not gimmicky. Ifonly number of outstanding perfonners from the col Pedaljets earlier British albums, tries too hard to be differ the rest of the album was this exciting. lege circuit. First there was Cream, now it's the Traveling ent. Backgrounds are littered with gimmicky -Shane Shanks Kansas City's first classy country bar, Guitars Wilburys. Even Kansas City is getting into the noises (spacey sounds, marching feet, etc.) and CadilIacs, is even attracting a high level of "supergroup" craze with some of its' hometown new country perfonners. It just goes to show that favorites. Meet the Catherines, a pairing of Lee's Summit likes to parry in Westport too. Psychowelders' singer Ala Mandlebaum and Hot tunes for a cool Yule Let's just hope that the 'first mediocre Pub members of the star-seeking Pedaljets. Crawl in Kansas Ciry history and a poor showing The vocalist is happy to report that the forma "White Christmas," Merle Haggard (from "The I at this year's KC Blues Festival isn't an omen for tion is working on a demo tape and soon hopes to tis the season Nashville Christmas Album," Epic). next year. If jazz breaks down, we might as well be jaming on area stages. Two heads are better For a season that's supposed to be the most This is "White Christmas" like you've never sell our children and move to Alaska in shame. than one; so somebody had better call the record joyous of all, Chrisrmas produces some of the heard it: a truly melancholy vocal and jazz guitar. labels. most dismal music you'll ever hear. And not all "A Very Special Christmas," various artists of it has been recorded by Ray Coniff. Rock, (A&M). birdwatch blues and country and westetn have cranked out There are some stinkers on this album, sure. The word is still mum at the Charlie Parker some pretty worthless suff themselves. But Springsteen's "Merry Christmas Baby,"Run I mean, if I had to choose between Steve and DMC's "Christmas in Hollis" and the Pretend Edie's "Winter Wonderland" and Joan Jett's ers' "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" ',!be Little DrumI!ler Boy," Mr. Lawrence and constitute as good a bunch of holiday cuts as ~., G . ~~~~ ...... •...... 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