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THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN RADIO ISSUE 1985 DECEMBER 17 1993 This Week The future is in your hands. At least, i:'s the future as a group of record executives, along with a gaggle of Gavin types, see it. Hey, if Jeane Dixon and the Amazing Peskin can do it, why can't we? And so we get the jump on '94 from Craig LAW! (above), who sees less virtual "I predict that the reality than simple reality com- ing to the music business. On the GAVIN side of the crystal hall, Album Adult Alternative CEO David Dalton sees and hears free -form radio in the new year-or he'll reduce subscrip- tion rates (Just kidding!). And format will change the Ron Fel has a disturbing vision about Billy Joel wayA&R people do their (right). Our Newss.ection is given cver to a wrap-up of a o G.qey'll be ableto phat and crazy year, as managing editor Ben Fong -Torres steals liberally from ook at a4C 50year hisrootsgROMMIlle(which or stole liberally from Esquire) to do the honors. Re -live such great moments as Prince's old artist and think earth -shaking name change and a certa n pretty woman making Lyle Lovett (below) an honest man. F nally, we predict a sea- about workIng with sonal feature in the Gavin Yellow Pages them." of Radio, as Natalie Duitsman canvasses THESE AND OTHER PREDICTIONS, several radio stations- MINX-Amherst, Mass., WHAI- Greenfield, Mass., and Live 105 - BY RECORD INDUSTRY SEERS, ARE San Francisco-to learn how they handle Christmas music. One final prediction: No GAVIN for the next two weeks. We'll be IN THIS ISSUE, AS GAVIN LOOKS back in the offices January 3. Join us as we begin finding out what really happens in 1994. May it be a good, healthy, AH EAD TO 1994...AN D B EYON D. musica and prosperous year for all cf you. Great Songwriting Hasn't Disappeared. Going for Adds January 3 & 4 The First Single and Video from the Forthcoming Album Richard Marx gives you something to believe in again. Written and Produced by RICHARD MARX Direction: Left Bank Management ©1993 Capitol Records. Inc Inside 4 News 6 That's Sho-biz GAVIN AI A GLANCE 14 Looking Ahead Gothic rock! Punk power! Virtual stupidity! An A3 spree! Sub Pop pops! 18 RECORD To 11 1 AlllltilJ la I Wheeler rolls big time! TOP 40 TOP 40 Tanya Tucker muscles up! ALL 4 ONE ROD STEWART from "MTV's No, we haven't had too "So Much In Love" (Blitzz) Unplugged" much nog; it's just a sea of RAP "Having A Party" (Warner Bros.) seers saying their sooths J.G. COLOR ME BAUD about '94. We predict you'll "Put Down The Guns" (Gasoline Alley/MCA) "Choose" (Giant/Reprise) have a ball, crystal or other- URBAN RAP wise, perusing their AARON HALL KRS-ONE "Let's Make Love" (Silas/MCA) "Sound Of Da Police" (Jive) prognostications. ADULT CONTEMPORARY CYPRESS HILL FORMATS "I Ain't Goin' Out like That" OFF LEPPARD 8 Top 40 (Ruffhouse/Columbia) "Miss You In A Heartbeat" (Mercury) 9 Go Chart URBAN 1P 10 Rap XSCAPE KRS-ONE 13 Urban "Understanding" (So So Def/Columbia) "Sound Of Da Police" (Jive) 16 URBAN Adult Contemporary TONI BRAXTON 18 Country TONI BRAXTON "Seven Whole Days" (LaFace/Arista) 19 Chart Connections "Seven Whole Days" (LaFace/Arista) ADULT CONTEMPORARY 20 Jazz ADULT CONTEMPORARY ROD STEWART from "MTV's 22 A' Adult Alternative Unplugged" DARYL HALL 24 Gavin Rocks "Stop Loving Me, Stop Loving You" (Epic) "Having A Party" (Warner Bros.) 26 A' Album Adult Alternative COUNTRY 28 Alternative k.d. lang PHIL COLLINS MARK CHESNUTT "Just Keep Moving" (Sire/Warner Bros.) "Everyday" (Atlantic) "I Just Wonted You To Know" (MCA) NEXT WEEK COUNTRY COUNTRY A3 MARK O'CONNOR ALABAMA "The Devil Come Bock To Georgia" (Warner Bros.) "T.L.C. A.S.A.P." (RCA) A3 CHRIS LeDOUX SANTANA "For Your Love" (Liberty) Sacred Live Fire (Polydor/PLG) A3 JAZZ E Broken Toy Shop (Polydor/PLG) 1994 LAFAYME :HARRIS, JR. You can't avoid it. So, you Lafayette Is Here ,.Muse) CROWDED HOUSE might as well prepare for ADULT ALTERNATIVE Together Alone (Capitol) JAZZ it... with a little help from BILL WATROUS GAVIN. See you next year! The Music Of Johnny Mandel (GNP Crescendo) THE CHRIS WHITE PROJECT (Muse) ADULT ALTERNATIVE BOB THOMPSON The Magic In Your Heart (Ichiban) COWBOY JUNKIES Pale Sun, Crescent Moon (RCA) Next Gavin published will be dated GIPSY KINGS JAZZ January 7, 1994 Love Liberte (Elektra/Musician) JOSHUA BREAKSTONE QUARTET ALTERNATIVE Walk Don't Run (Evidence) POSSUM DIXON ADULT ALTERNATIVE "Watch The Girl..." (Interscope) GAVINFounded by Bill Gavin -1958 OTHELLO MOLINEAUX ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER It's About Time (Big World) COWBOY JUNKIES Eolian Minstrel (SBK/ERG) GAVIN is published 50 weeks a year on Friday of each week. Subscription Rates $295 for 50 issues ALTERNATIVE Pale Sun, Crescent Moon (RCA) ALTERNATIVE or $165 for 25 issues. Subscription and circulation GAVIN ROCKS inquiries: (415) 495-1990. All rights to any or all of THE OTHER TWO COWBOY JUNKIES the contents of this publication are reserved. Materials may not he reproduced in any form "Selfish" (Owest/Reprise) NIRVANA Pale Sun, Crescent Moon (RCA) without the publisher's permission. GAVIN ROCKS "All Apologies" (DGC) GAVIN ROCKS 01993 GAVIN, 140 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 STRIPMIND CANDLE BOX TYPE 0 NEGATIVE A UNITED NEWSPAPERS PUBLICATION "Jingle My Bells" (Sire/Reprise) "You" (Maverick/Sire/Warner Bros.) "Christian Woman" (Roadrunner) GAVIN DECENII3ER17. 1993 QUOTE OF THE YEAR "That man's been wackln9 for years." - Renel of KMEL-San Francisco, in response to GAVIN NW Prince's name change. GAVIN, June 11, 1993 1993: Big Deals & Short Cuts BY BEN FONG-TORRES It was the year of-sorry, no if, ands or buts about it-Private Parts. Howard Stern. Michael Jackson. Heidi Fleiss. John Wayne Bobbitt and his snippy wife, Lorena. Hey, come to think of it,it was a year of butts, too: Beavis' bud, Butt -Head, Joey Buttafuoco, Madonna's movie, whatever it was called. And don't forget William S. Burroughs' first chart -buster, albeit on the college surveys: "Spare Ass Annie." Stern, Stern, Stern It was a crime that being contested by Infinity Somehow, I Feel a Little Used Entertainment Weekly left and by stations carrying Happy 10th Birthday. the American home. Howard Stern off its Power Stern's show, to WLUP/AM- Compact Disc. And what a Meantime, Blockbuster 101 list (EWhad no radio Chicago, which dropped his great year it was, being announced that, in tandem people on the list, for show, to Rush Limbaugh, fought, even sued over by with IBM, it'd come up with shame), but, the way his who had the nerve to sur- record companies and retail-a way to allow record stores 0 pass Stern on the best-sellers book performed, leaping ers and having CD prices to make their own CDs. to the top of the New list. Still, with his show on investigated by the Federal Record companies were not 16 stations (top -rated in New York Times list and caus- Trade Commission. But, in amused. ing near -riots at two York, Philly and LA), with the face of new technology, Manhattan book sign- TV and Hollywood knocking and while vinyl -lovers con- Worst New Flavor: ings, he had little to com-on his doors again, and, at tinue to diss the disc, CDs Barbequed Garth plain about. Of course, year's end, with the FCC's Brooks CDs. continue their march into being Stern, he had plenty indecency regulations being to yell about-from the knocked out by a Federal FCC, which heaped more appeals court, it's been a lines onto the ones already very good year. Down in Front In a year of Smashing Pumpkins, Buffalo Tom and the Lemonheads, cutting edge was redefined most dramatical- 'The Least -Weird Person I Know...' ly by Lorena Bobbin. Michael Jackson's year painkillers. Along the way, Many of us-especially men-feel for her husband, began on a public -relations he had a world tour ridden John Wayne Bobbitt. Well, "feel for" may be a little high, as he staged a spectac-with cancellations and post- strong. Let's just say we've sympathized with him. But, as ular half-time show for the ponements; he lost his spon- usual, no one's gone quite as far in extending thoughtful- At Least She Was Super Bowl, then emerged sorship ness than Howard Stern, who raised $25,000 for Bobbitt's Wearing Something... out of his cocoon to show deal with medical and legal expenses with a "radiothon" a few days On her "Girlie Show" Oprah Winfrey around his Pepsi; before Thanksgiving (and has John, along with Heidi tour, Madonna got flak digs. From there, it was all surren- Fleiss and Joey Buttafuoco, on his pay -per -view New for "inti- downhill, as the `Thriller' dered a Year's Eve blowout). Stern drew $25 pledges in exchange mate ges- moon -stumbled into major for a T-shirt with Bobbitt's name on the front and "Love tures" with humani- Hurts" on the back. Our guess, though, is that Bobbitt's the Puerto tarian favorite song is "Together Again." Rican flag. What's in a Name? .tward, Anyway, enough about John. Here's our idea of Lorena Later, set back Bobbitt's greatest hits: Australian a huge Favorite rapper: Too Short Aboriginal TV special featuring the Favorite Band: Revolting Cocks elders entire Jackson clan, and was Favorite tunes: "The First Cut is the Deepest"/Rod protested her accepting a forced into hiding.