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THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT SECTION OF THE DAILY NEXUS | F o r The Wee k o f January 3 0 , 1 9 9 2] The W ork of Artist Patrick Angus Could Be Overshadowed by Its Effects. Nineteen Explicit Paintings, “Protective” W alls Around the Campus Exhibit, and Protests From Gay Rights Organizations Have Placed the UCSB Graduate at the Center of Controversy. 2 A Thursday, January 30,1992 his week, there’s or costumes. Performances “Much Ado” in are also set for Thursday, Campbell Hall, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. T jazz takes Center Tickets are $15, $13 and Stage, and a bit of histoiy is $10, with a $2 discount for available at your local students. bookstore. Film: Music: event. So it’s free, right? ensemble. Tickets are $5 at Laurence Olivier’s screen The Battle of the Bands “Jazz at Center Stage,” a the door. version of Shakespeare’s will spotlight local talent on spring series of concert jazz, Stage: Richard III will be shown Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 6:30 p.m. kicks off Saturday, Feb. 1 Performance artist David tonight at 8 p.m. in Camp in The Pub. Participants in with pianist Dorothy Done- MacLean will present his bell Hall. The film was pro clude Cinderblock, Circus gan at the Center Stage in one-man show, “Quaran duced in 1955, and tells the Frequency, Circus Life, Evil the Paseo Nuevo mall. tine of the Mind,” tonight at story of the deformed tyrant Farmer, Indica, No One Donegan is known for her 8 p.m. at the Center Stage king. Tickets are $5, $3 for You Know, Rogue Cheddar unpredictable personality, Theatre. The show is a students at the door. and Sleepwalkers. It is ad which often transcends to multimedia pièce using slide Books: vised that audience mem her music. The concert is projections and a series of Author Justin M. Rouge bers arrive on time, as the preceded at 7 p.m. by a vignettes designed , to pre has compiled a 210-page performance order will be “Meet the Composer” sent his experiences as a gay history of Goleta, complete drawn randomly that night. session. man in the ’90s. Tickets are with 81 illustrations. Look The winner will go to com The Schubertians, $10 general, $8 for students. ing Back is a history of pete in an MTV -sponsored UCSB’s premier male The popular Actors from Goleta’s famous structures national competition. Tick chamber choir, will present the London Stage will per and the people who built ets are only $1, and atten a concert on Sunday, Feb. 2 form a complete version of them. The cost is $9, and the dees receive a coupon good at 4 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Shakespeare's “Much Ado book is available through for $1 off any future Pub Concert Hall. The highlight About Nothing” on Tues special order at Chaucer’s, will be a song cycle written day, Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. in Printed Word, Andromeda, for The Schubertians by Campbell Hall. The catch is the Goleta Chamber of their founder, Carl Zv- that there are only five ac Commerce, the Historical towski. Professor Zytowski A scene from Olivier’s R ich ard N , w hich, tors, each of whom per Society Country Store and will conduct the chamber contrary to popular opinion, is not a sequel. forms without benefit of sets the UCen. Restaurant & Nightclub Under the Influence of the Blues Excellent Food, Catering & Great M usic Legendary Mentor Bo Diddley Brings Riffs to Anaconda Theatre EVERY THURSDAY IS COLLEGE NIGHT hat do Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Doors, Bob Seger and Santana— had a hit off of Begins at 9pm Holly, U2, The Smiths, Eric Clapton “Who Do You Love?” If mainstream rock audi JAN 3 0 » CAUTION and die Rolling Stones all have in ences had no knowledge of Bo Diddley’s impor Free cover & W common? tance and influence, rock artists did and still do. Drink Specials They have all had hits that stemmed from the Bo Diddley (real name Ellas McDaniel) was Fri Jan 31st 9pm “Bo Diddley Beat.” Songs like “Not Fade Away,” bom in Mississippi, just like John Lee Hooker, IRIE “Desire,” “She’s the One,” and “How Soon is Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. He and his ITES Now” all would have been impossible if Bo Did family moved to Chicago when he was eight Sat Feb 1st 9pm dley had not developed his riff—bop-na-bop — There, the children made up songs on a.one KEITHYAND bop-bop — in songs like “Bo Diddley,” “Mona” stringed instrument — a diddley bow — that is and “Wno Do You Love.” Besides that beat, Did played in bottle-neck slide style. Thus the name THE 101 BAND dley featured tremoloed guitars, wicked percus (although Bo contends it came from a girl). LIVE AID DIRECT FROM JAMAICA sion — he’s stated that he wanted the maraca Bo Diddley is more than an inventor of a Sun Feb 2nd 6pm player in his band to sound like a freight train rhythmic pattern—he is a great singer and song starting out of die station — and attitude to writer. His voice can go frpm Howlin’ Wolf to SOUL BONZ spare. So much to spare, in fact, that many of his Ray Charles in one song. His songs are funny, songs became hits for just about every English sexual, passionate and sometimes frightening. Sun Feb 9th 9pm Band of note during the British invasion. The Bo Diddley combines the “sanctified” sounds of W V W W W P g Stones covered “Mona,” The Who covered gospel and the rhythmic sensibility of African BOP HARVEY “Road Runner,” and almost everyone took a stab music. Students who go to the Anaconda tomor W /SPEC. GUEST at “I’m a Man.” row will have the opportunity to see one of the T H E S P E C S More recently, Eric Clapton and Robert Cray innovators of modem American music. cut a version of “Before You Accuse Me” for Bo Diddley will perform at the Anaconda W W W ^ W W ^ Clapton’s Journeyman album (Credence cov Theater on Friday, January 31. Call 685-3112 Sat Feb 15th 9pm ered it on Cosmos Factory) and George Thoro- for more information. Bo Diddley: Funny, passionate, COMMON SENSE good, following the lead of The Band, The —Tom Cahill sexual, and som etim es frightening. Caribbean Cuisine 5838 H ollister Ave. 9 6 7 - 7 2 6 5 ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ HEY UCSB! Contributors For the Record ENCORE staff Pat Breitenbach The guitar art which appeared in ROCK Tom Cahill last week’s Local Assistant Editor____________________ Band Issue was Charles Hornberger drawn by Pat Pax Wassermann Stull. Due to an Editor Christian Lincoln editing error, his B#IVU name was EVERY Brian Banks J. Christaan Whalen omitted. F M F U A I D ' Presents... FREE MEMBERSHIP THURSDAY CALVIN $1.00 OFF WrTH ANY RENTAL 6545 Pardall Rd. ' & HOBBES w/this comic MIGHT Is la Vista, CA 968-6059 By Bill Watterson void w/other offer V 9:30 pm - Midnight CAN I HELP TQURSEAE. EVE GOT APRSTf IT STARTED QUE AS A w m . TEAM,TM REAL WAVE SOME THIS S W S GOOD BOWL OR PHANTOM & T , BUT AT SORT THWS V0N PlEASED WITH • All you can Bowl for $10/person CLM? IMfQ&SABLE. scucirne GOING OF SQUASHED, SO NOW GOOD. AT. • KTYD DJ Plays Rock Videos TOWQRKWHH. HERE I THINK \TS A BOWL. • Prizes from • 99< Beer «.TAPE STORE • Domino's Pizza Specials ORCH/D BOWL = • 5925 Calle Real • Hwy 101 at Fairview In Boleta » 967-0128 VKIRQM MM»« ricore Thursday, January 30,1992 3 A ■MUSIC REVIEWS Not Just a Novelty All-Female L7 Rocks By Any Standard Smell the Magic pletely on its punk attitude. “Deathwish” L7 features some very credible work by guitar P e v e n ts Sub Pop Records ists Suzi Gardner and Donita Sparks. And hunky, blistering and ultimately what would “Packin’ a Rod” be without pissed off, Smell the Magic just Dee Plakas’ rumbling drum beat? Rather may be the soundtrack to the out of time, one might think. C middle finger. The vocals, split between Gardner, L7 — the all-female band that made its Sparks and bassist Jennifer Finch, give first local appearance (in The Pub) just ab each cut an added depth, with a grungier BATTLE OF THE out a year ago — delivers an lead on “Shove” and “Fast honest, no-frills punk effort and Frightening,” and a har on their 1991 release. Forget monized chorus on “Ameri # BANDS the “all-girls” novelty, L7 can Society” that proves in would rock if they were a deed the girls can sing. CINDERBLOCK INDICA pack of armadillos playing So give your Nirvana al CIRCUS FREQUENCY NO ONE YOU KNOW the spoons. bum a rest, and throw on There’s nothing stun L7. Word is, they’ve got a CIRCUS LIFE ROGUE CHEDDAR ningly complex in their song new album due out soon on EVIL FARMER SLEEPWALKERS structures (it seems Geddy Slash. If Smell the Magic is Lee wasn’t available), and any indication, that’ll be SHOW STARTS AT 6:30 PM no particularly brilliant guitar work in their worth checking out as well. BE THERE ON TIME - ANY BAND COULD OPEN solos. But that's not what they’re about L7 will be at the Anaconda Theater Sunday, Feb. 2 (call 685-3112 for more (Order of appearance will be drawn randomly that night) This is the kind of band that feeds on adre AADMISSION D M ISSIO N COST: $1.00 nalin—ours or their own—and it's on this info).