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HILLARY KAPLOWJTZ/Dtily N m Why Are These Guys Smiling? Because Their Acoustic Guitar Band is the Hottest Act at Local Clubs. As Los Guys, Jeremy Donaldson (left) and Harold Lee, Are Finding Success With a Stripped-Down Sound. Interview, pg:..fiA — 2A Thursday, March 5,1992 ■icore Generation Rap Burn This Examines Societal Angst

he Dramatic Arts Department pre­ sents a searing T look at contempor- ary society tonight with the SAT • IvlAFf • premiere o f Lanford W il­ son’s controversial play A celebration of AIDS and B u m This. Directed by graduate stu­ Sexual Awareness dent Victoria Gilbert, B u m in Isla Vista This is a confrontational A piece dealing with the com­ plex issues of sex, ho­ mosexuality, violence, rela­ tionships and the stresses of the thirtysomething genera­ tion. According to Gilbert, the unique production fea­ tures something which will affect everyone in the audience. N “The play has to do with the inability o f the charac­ ters to maintain intimate re­ lationships,” as a result of the alienating society in which they live, she said. Each o f the characters is forced to deal with aliena­ ROGUE CHEDDAR tion on some level during the course o f the play. Because the play deals Miranda Holmes as Anna (left) and with adult themes and con­ Michael Sulprizio as Pale in B u rn This. MILGRAM’S PILGRIMS tains severe language, Gil­ bert cautioned that viewer vertising writer and a vich, and later Eric Roberts, discretion is strongly screenwriter — Gilbert said as Pale, and some consider advised. she tried to avoid turning it a tour de force for any ac­ LOS GUYS the characters into ste­ tor in the lead role. But G il­ The play begins when Pale, an angry man of con­ reotypes by creating them as bert disagrees with this idea. temporary society played by multidimensional human “Every single actor and EARL Michael Sulprizio, enters beings. Each o f the actors character is important,” she s the life o f his dead brother’s was required to research said. The play is more of an roommate, Anna, a modem their characters to trans­ ensemble, focusing on the dancer/choreographer form them into genuine lives o f all four characters played by Miranda Holmes. people rather than mere and the problems they en­ The story develops with characters on a stage. counter, not just Pale’s Anna’s attraction to Pale, B u m This is a workshop story. despite her serious relation­ production, using limited ship with Burton, an in­ space and lighting. Gilbert B u m This opens tonight creasingly successful described the production as in the Old Little Theater at 8 Q' screenwriter played by Jeff “actors’ theater” — the fo­ p.m. It will also be pre­ SHOW STARTS AT Graham. The play also de­ cus being detracted from the sented Friday, March 6 at 8 lves into the life o f Anna’s production and setting and p.m. and Saturday, March 7 current roommate Larry, a concentrated on acting and at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. A $1 do­ gay advertising copywriter. directing. nation will be collected at Despite the nature of the Wilson’s play was origi­ the door. N N characters — an angry man, nally performed on Broad­ a modem dancer, a gay ad- way starring John Malko- — Karen Skanderson 0 Local Bands Featured At Awareness Concert Anisq’ Oyo’ Park will be the site o f ened age group, and we still don’t know the “Wake Up,” an AIDS awareness concert frets about how AID S is transmitted,” Ka­ Saturday afternoon, featuring local bands plan said. Y Rogue Cheddar, Los Guys, Graceful Park veterans Los Guys — who, like Punks, Made of This, and Milgrim’s each o f the participants, are donating their Pilgrims. time — are planning some topical set The event is being sponsored by the A.S. changes in honor o f the event The taller Program Board and the A ID S Awareness half of the band, Jeremy Donaldson, said, Task Force. Speakers from several organi­ “W e’re absolutely not doing it for the mo­ zations involved in both A ID S and sexual ney, because there is absolutely no awareness issues will be giving brief educa­ money.” tional talks between the sets. The concert is scheduled to run from 0 Marc Kaplan, the event’s organizer, was noon until 6 p.m. and is absolutely free. W ÊÊÊIÊÊÊÊ^^Êm BÉ involved in a similar event in Northern Ca­ Complimentary condoms will also be lifornia and has since become eager to available. For more information, call bring something like this to the Santa Bar­ 893-3536. PARK bara college crowd. “W e ’re supposed to be the most enlight­ —Alex Maclnnis

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■ CONCERT REVIEW Word to the Masses In an Explosive Show at the Anaconda, Public Enemy Lets Loose on Racism, Their Image, and Arizona By Bonnie Bills and Charles Hornberger

t took over an hour for Public Enemy to get to the stage Wednesday night at the Anaconda Theater, but once the spotlights hit Flavor Flav, Chuck D and Ter­ I minator X, there was no doubt that everyone was go­ ing to get exactly what they paid for. They rocked the Anaconda to its knees. They pumped up the volume past all acceptable levels. They soliloquized. They dissed Arizona. And Flavor Flav even took his hat off. Stalking the stage like a barrel-chested panther for over an hour, Chuck D belted out the lyrical assault P.E. is fam­ ous for, while his bony-kneed partner strutted around in classic Flavor style, grinning and slapping hands with fans. Though Flavor's birdlike prancing — and an impressive headful of dreads — may have caught most of the crowd’s attention, his solo performance o f “Y o ’ Nigger” proved he can stand up against Ice-T, KRS-One or anyone else you’d care to name. Aside from some unfortunate skips on Terminator X’s turntables (due to the Anaconda’s snaky stage), the show was seamless from start to finish. H ie only problem was that it had to finish at all. Heavy touring apparently hasn’t tired Public Enemy, who looked — and performed— as if they just came back from a weekend in Phoenix, where they d efinitely wouldn’t have worn themselves out bringing down the house like they did in Isla Vista. And when Chuck D started droppin’ knowledge, you knew Governor Mecham wasn’t far from his mind. And he d id dis’ Arizona. As political as ever, Chuck D put the hip hop on hold for 15 minutes for a litany on rac­ ism, the media’s portrayal o f P.E., Christopher Columbus BBSS mw r % and the historical destruction o f Black culture in America. “W e’re agents for the preservation o f the Black mind,” he told the cheering, mostly white audience. They may be the one and only group that can stop a roof­ shaking show for a political speech without alienating the audience. In fact, P.E.’s politics were as welcome as their music. After Chuck D finished, Flavor took the mic and con­ tinued with the lesson, talking mainly about the allegations that Public Enemy is racist. “H o w can we be racist when we ■ ■ ■ bring all these Black and white people together and pro­ claim them brothers and sisters?” he asked. And then he said it. “Yeaaaaah Boyyyyyyy” As Terminator X ’s beats pounded through the thick, 90-degrec air of the Anaconda, the crowd exploded. Heads bobbed, a sea o f arms waved and some guy fainted in the mm front row. In the end, all you could do was marvel at the band’s abil­ ity to not only pump out some of the best hip-hop ever made, but also leave their audiences with a powerful politi­ cal message. Too bad Babs couldn’t make it

Front top» clockwise: Chuck D addresses the crowd, tit th eiiA n acon da Theatre Wednesday about a variety of topics, including Public Enemy’s image and a * Black: culture; A member of the SIWs (Security of the First World) surveys the m scene; Flavor Flav plays to bis audience; Chuck D busts a rhyme; Flavor Flav shows everybody what tip1« it is. Photos-bv Hlllary Kaplowite/Pailv Neaus 4A Thursday, March 5,1992 Score

ne might consider added. “But they were not a sense o f humor bought They were never that refers to for­ bought No one would have mer Soviet Premier told you so, but you under­ OKonstantin Chernenko as a stood very well — Barbara “comic figure” and com­ Streisand was playing a Jew­ munism as “Kafkaesque ab­ ish girl who was openly J ew- surd Soviet reality” as some­ ish and the word ‘Jewish’ what cynical. was mentioned on the The owner of this sense of screen. Norm a Rae was the humor, Marianne Shatemi- same thing. The union orga­ kova, doesn't consider it nizer who came from New cynical at ail. Actually, she York was Jewish. That was doesn’t even consider it a enough.” sense o f humor. “Y ou can call it whatever After the censorship and you like, but I would (call it) angst that artists o f the old bitterness, rather, and dis­ Soviet Union experienced, appointment,” said Shater- Shatemikova looks at rnkova, who is teaching a American artists’ hardships course in Soviet Film this with a little bit o f cynicism. quarter at UCSB. Although she has never She has a hard time com­ taught in the United States paring the terror involved in before, the U C SB film stu­ Stalin’s destruction o f en­ dies department did not tire countries to, say, the have much difficulty in de­ Red Scare o f the 1950s Un­ ciding to give Shatemikova ited States. Specifically, she the job. Her resume is im­ referred to the Hollywood pressive — while she’s not Ten, a group of filmmakers vacationing in the United who were accused of being States, she teaches at the communists. When they Moscow Film School in pleaded the Fifth Amend­ Russia. ment at their hearings, they Shatemikova was bom in were held in contempt of 1934 in St Petersburg, for­ court and sent to jail for a merly Leningrad. Her father year. was well-known Soviet filmmaker Sergei “Well, of course I’m not Yutkevich. saying it (jail) is not hard, Her parents divorced CHRIS FITZ/Daily Nexus but I had been reading the when she was young, and letters o f one o f them, D al­ on June 22, 1941, she was ton Trumbo ... I got this with her mother, a movie ac­ book ... and I begin telling tress, at an audition when my friends what I was read­ the Germans took Lenin­ ing. They began laughing grad. Fortunately, the audi­ Broken English hysterically because I was tion was in Moscow. reading that he was abso­ She was relocated with Lecturer Marianne Shaternikova’s Accent Doesn’t lutely free to write to his her mother and the movie wife and that the warden of studio she worked for to Obscure Her Message on the Reality of Soviet Film the prison was talking to Central Asia. She lived there Bv Denis Fave him like a human being. for two years, until after the .1943 Battle o f Stalingrad, state and all the enterprises the seventies. ‘They even, I think, * when she returned to Mos­ worked under veiy tight “The film ministry had a lowed him to lecture other cow where she lived in a plans. So, by the 31st of De­ special commission which prisoners,” she added. “The two-room apartment with cember, all your quotas had We all know that our opinions didn’t decided whether foreign job he was doing was un­ 11 otherpeoplefor“l l or 12 to be filled. count What counted (was) the opinion of films should be bought,” she loading beef carcasses for years.” “ O f course, people the Central Committee of the Communist said. “I was, for some time, a the prisoners. Eveiyone was After this, she moved into cheated,” she continued. Party. member o f this commission laughing like mad because a three-bedroom “com­ “But on paper, in the re­ and we were writing our meat in Soviet prisons was munal apartment” with her ports, your plans had to be opinions — but, of course, unheard of. It was incom­ mother and two other fami­ fulfilled ... so the film was w e all knew that our opin­ parable, absolutely. lies. It was here that she fin­ ready by the 31st of Decem­ dio just to entertain them­ from working on it. She did, ions don’t count. What ished school and got a job at ber. It was not exactly ready selves and also to see what however, notice that, “it counted (was) the opinion "I’m not saying, once Mosfihn Studios as an inter­ because there existed only kind of films are being seemed to me that some of o f the Central Committee of again, it’s good — it’s very preter, where she had an en­ the Indian version. The Rus­ produced.” (the politicians) were a little the Communist Party. bad — but compared to the counter with then-Soviet sian version did not exist Shatemikova arrived at bit sleepy.” “For instance, tw o Soviet prisons and gulags it Premier Nikita y e t” the studios on time and, af­ After file film, “we were American films were sent. was a joke.” ter a sweep o f the facility by saying goodbye, very si­ the secret police, the pre­ lently, and suddenly a man, mier made his entrance. a big man, stopped in front “Khrushchev came with a of me and said, ‘Good Arti­ big entourage— well not so culation!’ and I only knew big, maybe 10 or 12 of that this man had these big them,” she recalled. “I think bushy dark eyebrows. they were all p o litb u ro “Later I was told that it members. Khrushchev be­ was Brezhnev.” gan shaking hands with The eccentricity o f this everybody and everybody encounter aside, she still was silentbecause he was si­ h a s a re sp e c t fo r lent. The soviet ‘protocol’— Khrushchev. so to say — says that if you “Despite the opposition are not addressed, you from the leadership o f the should keep your mouth party, he had the courage to shut. expose Stalin and to tell the “But when it came up to whole world that he was a me, I couldn’t'help it I said tyrant and to tell much — — only my voice sounded in not all the truth— but much CHRIS FITZ/Daily Nexus CHRIS FITZ/Daily Nexus Marianne Shatemikova was bora in 1934 in St. this room — I said, ‘Happy o f the truth.” New Year, Nikita Sergei- After language school, On vacation from Moscow, the lecturer is Petersburg, U.S.S.R., formerly Leningrad. teaching a class on Soviet Film at UCSB. vichl’ because my mother Shatemikova enrolled in Khrushchev. “Suddenly on the first o f taught me that I should be film school at the age of 23. The Way We Were with Bar­ Shatemikova is insecure Shatemikova was work­ January, the N e w Year’s polite. He didn’t say any­ Since then, she’s hosted a bara Streisand. Ideologi­ about teaching in the U.S.; ing on a Soviet/Indian co­ Day, there was a phone call thing; he didn’t answer but Soviet television show cally, absolutely an ideal she thinks her deficiency in production about a soviet to my place and the studio he shook my hand. His wife, called “The Films o f the film. You know, McCarthy- the English language im­ trader in India called A fan­ told me to come immedi­ Anina, who was following Years of the Past” and has ism in America. The other pairs her from getting her asy Nikitin, which she de­ ately. They said there would him — such a plump, cozy been to the United States one was Martin Ritt’s point across. O n this, she is scribed as, “a nice film ... a be a very important screen­ looking lady— she immedi­ twice. N orm a Rae, a veiy good wrong. Whether it is bitter­ little bit boring, but nice.” ing and I understood that ately gave me a candy.” She has served on many film about the union worker ness, disappointment or “I remember in the Soviet someone from the govern­ The film went without a committees, although their who tries to organize the cynicism, her message Union, until veiy recently, ment would come to the stu­ glitch. Shatemikova didn’t goals have often seemed fu­ textile workers. makes an impact. A s mem­ everything was owned by dio (and that she was to know the Indian language tile, given the nature o f the “For both film s... we said bers of a democratic society, the state— so the (film) stu­ translate the film). Some­ but managed because she U.S.S.R. and the anti- yes, 100 percent, abso­ whether or not we under­ dios were also owned by the times they came to tjie stu­ had the film memorized Semitic re-Stalinization of lutely!” Shatemikova stand it is opr responsibility. 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3/5 No Ugly in Wayne*s THURSDAY PUBLIC ENEMY Just the Good/Bad in Film Soundtrack w/24-7 SPYZ TX STILL AVAILABLE ecause Penelope Spheeris di­ you get Alice Cooper’s “Feed My 3/6 iFRIDAY rected Wayne’s W orld, it has a Frankenstein”). D r a wI* & CRYIN* good soundtrack. Before hitting Fortunately, Mike Myers and Dana W /BLACK C A T B O N E die big time, Spheeris’s crowning B Carvey do a down-and-dirty version of the 3/7 SATURDAY achievement was the documentaiy The “Wayne’s W orld Theme”, and the overly Decline of Western Civilization II: The produced Aerosmith version is absent LAG WAGON M e ta l Years, which was heralded as being from the soundtrack. I 3/12 THURSDAY almost as funny as This is Spinal Tap, de­ The only truly horrible thing about this P A TO "BANTON MÊ spite its obvious handicap o f being about soundtrack is that there are two songs by 3/13 FRIDAY real people. ■fia Carrere, the film’s love interest H er re­ SCREAMING Because she made Metal Years, ndition of Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz” is par­ JAY HAWKINS Spheeris knows bad/good metal. Some­ ticularly disgusting. It’s too bad, since the 3/14 SATURDAY I how, with a few exceptions, she managed original version foils under the laughable to offer us a soundtrack that is a melange of old good rock music category. THIS ASCENSION laughably old good rock music (Jimi Hen­ A noticeable absentee from the sound­ DECEPTION BAY drix’s “Foxy Lady”), laughable old good track is I.V.’s own Ugly Kid Joe, whose Drivin-N-Ciyin ages well, like squishy grapes. 3/15 SUNDAY rock music (Queen’s “Bohemian Rhap­ smash hit, “Everything About You,” was in sody”), laughable good new rock music the background o f the now-infomous “di­ ■MUSIC REVIEW NO DOUBT (Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Sikamikanico”) ner scene.” The boys in the suits want you THE UPBEAT and laughably bad/good new metal music to buy Ugly’s album, and if they put the 3/16 MONDAY ?! (BulletBoys’ “Rock Candy” — had the only song that everyone likes on this band that did this song originally, M on­ FEAR soundtrack, no one would buy UKJ’s Drivin-N-Cryin A ll Original Members trose, done it, it would have fallen under album. the category of laughably bad/good old La st Sho w E v e r metal music— but instead in that category —Denis Faye 3/17 TUESDAY Like Fine Wine JAMES COTTON BAND Fly Me Courageous 3/19 THURSDAY Drivin-N-Cryin ROLLING THUNDER When Five Is Four Island Records 3/22 SUNDAY irst of all, I’ve got to say that the name of this THE HYPNOTICS Nobody Said It Was Easy Horsemen tunes like album is amazing. Fly Me Courageousl W ow l The Four Horsemen “Rockin’ Is Ma' Business,” Secondly, these guys play some pretty good 3/25 WEDNESDAY! Def American Records and “Nobody Said It W as rock 'n’ roll — not the kind where you imme­ THE CRAMPS A second after I put in the Easy” roar off the stereo, out F diately start dancing, but the kind that grows on you 3/29 SUNDAY new Four Horsemen album, of control, and chase you ar- each time you play the album. ICE-T I felt the need to fetch my ound your living room Coming out of Atlanta, Georgia, Drivin-N-Cryin fol­ w/BODYCOUNT trusty ole bottle o f JD and screaming for blood with a lows in the footsteps o f acts like REM and the Indigo 4/9 THURSDAY do a couple slugs. For some slight Georgian accent. Girls. Their sound, however, holds a much harder edge PS LAW reason I couldn't turn the The Four Horsemen may in the style of new college bands like School of Fish and - 4/12 SUNDAY volume up loud enough and not offer any amazing philo­ Nirvana. Lead guitarist Kevn Kinney weaves melodic I dum near blew out my sophical insights or any but tough sounding riffs around themes of world weari­ BAD RELIGION roommate’s speakers in the wildly innovative music, but ness and scarred but wiser survivors. COFFIN BREAK process. they will drive you to drink Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t The ¡ Ü 4/18 SATURDAY I Plain and simple, these in the most positive of ways. first track on the album, “Around the Block Again,” is a SOCIAL DISTORTION The 5 Four Horsemen guys rock out hard. Emerg- And they definitely live up catchy song pounding the age-old image o f man PEGBOY m tng from the swamps of Los power chord. Their songs to their namesake. scorned by woman, or perhaps die difficulties of a rock Angeles and led by an ex­ are familiar three-chord The Four Horsemen w ill ’n’ roll lifestyle. Other songs, like “For You,” try for a TICKET INFO: 685-5901 convict lead singer named blues and heavy metal, but appear at the Savoy more intimate, melodic sound but don’t quite make the Frank Starr, the Four there is something new in Theatre In Santa Barbara grade. The lyrics on this album are not always com­ Horsemen (although there their music — an element on Saturday, March 6. For pletely coherent, but I guess coherency is pretty passe are five band members) which links Southern rock more information, call m this new age alternative music. worship the God of tradi­ and roll with the original 818-973-4545. O n the whole, Drivin-N-Cryin puts together tight tional heavy metal, the metal masters, AC/DC. —Alex Salkever sounding songs which are thoroughly enjoyable, espe­ cially their foster and harder sounding numbers. This is a very good but not spectacular album which will only get better with age. Hopefully, this band will get better Please, Please, Please, Please with age as well. 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Stripped to Their Most Natural Elements, Hungry Dogs Los Guys Have Heard the Soup Bell and Are Here to Feast Interview by J. Christaan Whalen

~w~ os Guys are a fresh-faced yellow well as a big, feke cardboard check for dog, smiling because it just found $200. . a wounded turkey caught up in a For those of you who have never seen 1 « barbed wire fence. They’ve bitten Los Guys, one guy sings while the other into the ripe flesh of UC S B ’s acoustic party guy solos for two weeks. They both smile, music market, and they hear the soup bell one wears a hat, the other wears only box­ ringing with almost deafening tintinnabu­ ers and combat boots. It’s fun music. Sun - lation. Indeed, 1992 is Los Guys’ time to music. Music to play for your friend, Char­ feast. lie, when he comes over at four in the Combining a sonically-naked two- morning after he took some bad acid and guitar-only format with an I.V. cover-song he can’t find his wallet and he knows that sensibility, Los Guys have come up with a it’s all just this big sham. It’s music that formidable attack. And their popularity is might not save the world, but might just waxing like a bad candle. make you glad you heard it Los Guys. Jeremy Donaldson, 21, The following is an edited transcript of a Taurus, rhythm guitar, vocals. Harold “I’m conversation with Jeremy and Harold. sure glad I had broccoli tonight, tomorrow ENCORE: Why don’t you have a drum morning I’ll feel good” Lee, 21, Virgo, and bass? mango-smash lead guitar. Together, they Jeremy. That’s something I want to put may have forever changed the way Isla down for posterity. Vista listens to music. ENCORE: What’s that? Like grapes to wine, people seem hard- Jeremy: Well, people come up and pressed to describe Los Guys’ style. they’re, “So are you guys looking to start a “They’re a rock and roll band without the band?” rock and roll band,” some say. “They’re Harold: Ha ha ha! just two guys playing tunes on acoustic gui­ Jeremy: I mean, it's like, you know, we’ll tar,” say others. Even the Guys themselves play the park or we’ll play at a party some­ disagree. where and people, seriously, I don’t know ------Harold: “W e’re a rock band without the how many times people come up, like, you drums and bass.” know, everybody’s a closet drummer or a Jeremy: “Yeah, but are we?” closet bassist and they’re all, “Hey, you Hmmm. The chi tty-faced Jeremy, the guys looking to start a band?” And it’s like, writer of the band’s original songs, prefers you know, what the fuck? I mean, are we the adjective, “Rockfolkbluesgroovyhi- missing something? You know, we didn’t phopvocalguitarduofearlessenvironmen- notice it. So, it’s like, I don’t know, we are talensemble.” Their fens, however, just call a band. them Los Guys and have seen to it that Harold: I think Jeremy’s just under a lot these dormish heavyweights have risen o f stress. from sofa obscurity to KTYD-hyped lioni- Jeremy: I am. Ha hal Fuck everybody! zation on the local bar scene. H a ha! Their countrified originals span the ga­ Harold: H e’s really a lot nicer than me. mut of clever parody (“Blow job”) to ham- ENCORE: W hy are you so angry at the fisted social commentaiy (“Colorblind”). people w ho want to play music with you, And they do real well with an audience. play wonderful music with you? “...(We can) play *Sympathy for the Devil’ on two acoustic gui­ They’re natural-bom crowd-pleasers, Jeremy: I’m not angry at people who tars and really carry it off with a lot of energy and a lot of fire. seeming not to perform out o f what they want to play music with us, but, but, it’s You might try like, *Pleased to meeeet you!’ You know, like a know would please, but out of what is just, I don’t know. It’s kind of weird to pleasing to each other. They know 70-80 have someone come up and, it’s like, say bossanova type of thing.” cover songs, most of them by Crosby, Stills “Are you looking to start a band?” Because Jeremy Donaldson and Nash, they don’t use set lists and their it totally, just, I don’t know. motto is “When in doubt, do another Dead ENCORE: So you think, you’re think­ cover.” ing, is it their fault then that they don’t per­ “It’s a good motto,” Jeremy says. ceive you as a band, or is it perhaps a fault They don’t practice — ever. That tradi­ of your own? ENCORE: So would you say that the Jeremy: Billy is an amalgamation of tion started at their first public perfor­ Jeremy: I think it’s their fault H a ha. Be­ reason people may not perceive you as a some of my freshmen from last year when I mance, just over a year ago, at the Pub’s cause 1 perceive us as a band. I perceive us band is because they have a closed-minded was an R A on campus and every little kid Campus Review amateur night. Then as a full package. I couldn’t imagine play­ view of what bands are? that you see running around. Just no one in known as Double Dose, Jeremy and Har­ ing with a bass and drums, because the way Jeremy: Yeah. I think, you know, we tty particular. No, I don’t have any cousins or old went on stage completely unrehearsed we play, um. Y ou ’ve never seen us? to not be limited by the definition o f a brothers, although that was a good story and walked out with the first place prize as ENCORE: Yeah. band. W e do our best to not be limited to for a while. Jeremy: Y ou have seen us. that, to say, “OK, two guys with acoustic Harold: I do have a daughter named ENCORE: I’ve seen you twice. guitars, do this. And only this. You know, Billy. Jeremy: Where at? play Peter, Paul and Maty.” You know, I ENCORE: In Storke Plaza and I sawyou think just the feet that we forget that a lot of ENCORE: W hat’s the next step for Los in the park. times allows us to do the kind of things that Guys? Jeremy: Well, then you’ve seen how it we do. I mean, to play “Sympathy for the works. It’s like, it’s all very, it’s kind of like, Devil” on two acoustic guitars and really H arold: W e kind o f get this beer­ that’s why we throw “jazz” in the long ad­ carry it off with a lot of energy and a lot of drinking crowd, right, which is great. But, I jective, because it’s all kind of freeform. fire. I mean, if you think in traditional band don’t know, what I kind of want to do You know, none of that stuff is practiced or terms, you know, you probably wouldn’t eventually is like, you know, do a nice, stuff that we sat down and said, “OK, we’re even try that O r you might try like, mellow gig where people are really listen­ going to make this change here.” It’s kind “Pleased to meeeet you!” You know, like a ing to the voice tone. To the little, intricate o f just, you know, whatever happens and bossanova type thing. I don’t know. parts of our songs. Die words. Definitely however and that came about because ENCORE: Describe your music using the words. You know, like, a lot of the (Harold) taught me how to play. And my terms associated with water sports. good beer songs that are coming out now whole style has evolved, you know, kind of Harold: Splash. are just, you know, “Blowjob,” funny just as a compliment to his. Jeremy: I would call it double-reverse songs. Nice songs. But, you know, Jeremy’s gainer music. got a whole bunch of, you know, a lot Harold: Gurgle. more, I don’t know, serious if you want to Jeremy: Gurgle’s good. call them. Like stuff you want to sit down ENCORE: In “Billy for President,” you and have coffee instead of, you know, Harold Lee (left) and Jeremy mention your six-year-old son. Is that drinking, pounding as fast as you can, beer. Donaldson express zeal over their merely a nod to country music conven­ So that’s what I kind o f like. personal discovery of the tions, an attempt to dissuade raging hordes o f rabid groupies or an interesting personal heavenly bodies. Harold and Jeremy: Coffee music? Oh, Lord. Jeremy are both 21 years of age. detail? Their motto is, “When in doubt, Jeremy and Harold: H a ha! A ll o f the Los Guys w ill be performing this Satur­ do another Dead coven” above! H a ha! > day in Anisq’ Oyo’ Park as part of “Wake Hfflary Kjpiowitz/Daily Nexus ENCORE: W ho is Billy? Up,“ a celebration o f sexual awareness. lucore Thursday, March 5,1992 7 A Past Groovy Columns as Hunt Goes On Keep Looking For Him; Meanwhile, Enjoy An Old One Titled, “I Am Not a Crook.**

d Note: Keep those responses to the Where’s The and that he can’t pin nothing on me. I didn’t do it; I am not a Video Guy Contest coming! We’ll announce the Anyway, we popped crook. winner at the start o f next quarter. However, we Motel Hell and Dirty This may be my last column. I may have to quit, only be­ E would like to take this time to remind readers cause I am so offended. But, I want to prove to you, my that all those letters that attack or patronize The Video ^ The Harry in the Beta- Video Fans, that I am innocent. Therefore I am going to re­ Guy are pointless, in that he is missing and probably w ill max, kicked with view the movie I watched that night, M o te l HeU. never read them. This is the last column o f the quarter— some beer, really M o te l H e ll is set in the pre-Civil W ar South. It is the but fret not, the contest will continue next quarter. Video story o f a couple that own a hotel and kill the guests to In the meantime, we are digging deep into the E N ­ great beer, like make Farmer Vincent’s Smoked Meats, which are popular CO R E files and unearthing the best of The Video Guy Guy? Hamms. all over the county. The trouble begins when this young columns from years past This week’s column was dated chick falls for Farmer Vincent and he tells his o ld old lady Nov. 16,1973. This was the last column The Video Guy that he doesn’t give a damn and leaves her. Her life goes would write for about eight years, until he reemerged in The next day, I was approached by my editor. He wanted downhill from there and someone bums down her house, the early ’80s. Here, The Video Guy explains the scandal to know what we watched last night, so I told him. Here is or something like that. that forced him into seclusion. The affair would go down where it got ugly. The young chick keeps her clothes on for most of the in history books as “Videogate. ” So put on those bell bot­ film, but in the last half hour, she drops her top and it stays toms and enjoy. He says that he got hold of one of the tapes I had rented, off, much to my satisfaction. Another highlight o f this film So Trout and me were cruisin’ the other night I had the Dirty Harry. He then tells me that this film is borderline is Wolfman Jack’s excellent portrayal of a TV preacher and T-top off on myTrans-Am and my hair was looking fierce. mainstream and accuses me of trying to undermine the Clark Gable’s excellent portrayal o f Rhett Butler. W e didn’t pick up any chicks that night, but the hot tub at other reviewers at Swing Time, the art section of the D a ily my bungalow was hot, and we had a couple of good videos Nexus, by watching films in their territory. As if that we­ On The Video Guy Beer-o-Meter, I give M o te l H e ll a to watch, so Trout and I headed back to the pad. ren’t enough, he says that he has it in good confidence that nine, one beer being purely for the fact that one o f the stars Anyway, we popped M o te l HeU. and D irty H arry in the the other tape I rented was Gone With The Wind. was named E. Hampton Beagle. Betamax, kicked back with some beer, really great beer, like I say it ain’t so. H e says that the tape was never returned, Hamms. so I should cough it up. I tell him that I don’t have the tape This is The Video G uy saying, “I didn’t do i t ” ■STAGE REVIEW ■FILM REVIEW Farcical Chaos Lifts Syracuse Chevy’s Movie

The Boys from Syracuse is a Vaudeville-type musical Gigs: Invisible farce based on Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors, but con­ taining the tuneful music o f Richard Rogers and the witty Memoirs o f an Invisible M om. Starring C hevy C hase, D aryl H am ah , Sam NeilL lyrics of Lorenz Hart These two masters enhance the play’s Screenplay by Robot Collector, Dana Olsen, William Goldman. Produced by enjoyment, but the author o f the book, George Abbott, Bxuce Bodnex; Dm KolsnxL Directed by John Carpenter AT THE ARLINGTON does much to decrease it Though the show is interspersed with some very funny Once upon a time, Chevy Chase was a scary guy who lines good enough to have been used by the Marx Brothers, did funny movies and John Carpenter was a funny guy there are simply too many characters in the first act and not who directed scary movies. The two never talked to enough explication o f who these characters are. This con­ each other much because Chevy was busy making peo­ fusion is made worse when some excited actors, at the be­ ple laugh as Fletch or Clark Griswald and Carpenter ginning of the play, rush their lines to the point of incoher­ was busy directing classic horror films like H allow een ence. In spite o f its certain faults, the play stands as a bril­ and They Live!. It was a nice time, and the people were liant production. happy and the sun shone every day. Eric Kaufman and Brad Heberlee, who play the boys Now, thanks to the wonderful magic of the Holly­ from Syracuse — Dromio and Antipholus respectively — wood board room, Chase and Carpenter have come are very impressive. Kaufman’s antics as Antipholus’ idiot together on a film that is neither scary nor funny. It’s sidekick are hilarious; the combination of the two are remi­ called Memoirs of an Invisible Man, and it’s OK. niscent of Abbott and Costello. The slight clownish ma­ M em oirs doesn’t pretend to be side-splittingly hilar­ keup on Kaufman’s face is a magnificent addition which ious or head-splittingly frightening but it does ask to be contributes greatly to his chuckle-headed appearance. taken seriously— a request that can’t be obliged. Chase Both the set and the costumes are good. The tall Greek plays one o f those guys, a commodities broker whose columns, the large marble staircase and the droopy togas low-scale, jiggery-pokery is a way o f life. But when he strengthen the play’s hold over the audience’s imagination. turns invisible, wnoo boyt Indeed, to the play’s benefit, the farce is made even more ri­ Keny Neal (left) and Stacey Plaskett in S y ra c u s e . Bottom line is, the yuppified Chase becomes a lot diculous by having each twin wear exactly the same thing as cal director, once again demonstrates a magnificent capa­ nicer guy after he gets turned into Mr. Seethrough. Be­ his brother. bility to direct a comic play with these elements. In the hind the film’s relatively slow moving plot, there seems In addition, the choreography is first-rate. The ballet hands of a less capable director, the scripted chaos which to be the poorly insinuated sense o f a moral message. A with Pygmalion and the Amazons is a stand-out number makes The Boys From Syracuse enjoyable could have been kind of “Hey, your life may be bad, but at least you’re and the dance during the humorous song “Come With Me” devastating. not invisiblel” type of message. What is unfortunate for about the sergeant taking Antipholus of Epheseus to jail is this occasionally charming, witty picture is that this very entertaining. The Boys From Syracuse continues with shows Friday, “message” seems to be nearly as translucent as the But the best accolades must be reserved for the play’s di­ March 6 and Saturday, March 7at 8 p.m. For more infor­ film’s hero. It leaves you wondering whether it is even rector. During the course of the play, characters run on and mation, call 893-3535. worth seeing. H a ha. offstage, chasing each other up and down staircases and ar­ ound comers. Judith Olauson, a veteran comedy and musi- —Bill Mathieson — Dylan Callaghan and J. Christaan Whalen

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