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UCI Our G::Mspeafzeth scene KUCI boasts of being an report alternative radio station. However, Kuel there is a side of KUCI that relatively few people are aware of. The immense variety of So, you may ask yourself, does programming is made possible anything ever really happen down at 88.9 FM through the efforts of our diverse UCI? Well, when people aren't volunteer staff. Every day requires passing out flyers with their faces at least eight different, dedicated on them, quite a bit goes on around disc jockeys. Additionally, staff town. Every Monday at noon has members are responsible for their been Amateur Jam Day on the ATTENTIONALL LISTENERS own training, programming, Backlot slab featuring rock'n'roll promotions, engineering and from bands such as the Rubber station upkeep. Very few outsiders Rugs, Kickfire, Remnant, Club Tune into informative radio weekday mornings with KUCI's realize the dedication that keeps Adobe, plus others including a public affair shows including California History, Financial News, KUCI broadcasting at such an crowd pleasing solo debut from Back to Basics, Beyond Therapy, Local Arts, Mind of Man, and intricate degree from week to week, Bryan Flaig. Speaking of such GPACS, Wake up while leaming something! everyday of the year (including people, EI Grupo Sexo is playing finals and holidays) . This same the Heritage Room on May 23, Also at the same time on Monday and Friday, takes staff has also banded together to supported by the same Rubber ~ help raise funds for our new Rugs and the one and only Bryan you on a tour of the history of jazz with a little flavor of soul and transmitter to be purchased Raig. Be there or don'\, The Little gospel mixed in. (hopefully) during the summer. To Sisters of Necessity led by Eric each of these people, as well as Mayron debuted (with the Rugs Good news! Miss Holliday is back on Saturday evenings with every listener who makes our work again) over at Close Encounters in her Club Soda Spoken Word Broadcast. Listen up. worthwhile, I'd like to say thank you Huntington Beach to an unbridled for supporting your Orange County audience a few days before their alternative voice. unforgettable appearance at Classical, Israeli, metal, jazz, gospel, talk, reggae, African, KUCI would like to following Wayzgoose. Heather has been Chinese, Indian, punk, local news, blues, spoken word, businesses for their generous booking an incredible list of acts on French, raging rock'n'roll, British pop, guitar heros, mellow donations of prizes for our fund­Wednesday afternoons such as synth stuff, local music, serious OJ's, silly OJ's, old OJ's, new raising raffle: Albertsons, Alva fiREHOSE, the Lexington Devils, OJ's - how can you possibly go wrong? Skateboards, The Backlot, The and others. Electric Cool-Aide has Barn, Baxter's Newport, Body begun playing bigger and bigger Builders, Chinatown Restaurant, places so keep your tongue, er, you All exact times appear on the back page. Digital Ear, Domino's Pizza, Enigma eye out for them. Out of sterile Records, Goldenvoice Promotions, boredom rises passionate Haagen Daaz, Kinko's, Marie creativity. Bill DeRouchey Callendars in Newport, Metalblade Records, Nautilus Plus, Papa Bilbo's, Paradise Cafe, Shaved Wave Sports, Skull Skateboards, Twohey's Restaurant, White ~wn.. ~Wn.. Mountain Creamery, and finally, Woofies. We would also like to thank the ~w'l\.eH1NATOWN~w'1\. New University and the Macintosh Lab in the library for the use of their facilities. ~Wn..~Wn.. You've all been swell and we love you very much. Really . . . this isn't ~w'1\.NT AND BAR a joke, this is serious stuff. We've RESTAUR.A all learned quite a lesson in economics by running a radio 4139 Campus Dnve station, believe me. IrYine, California 92715 (714) 833-8696 Robin Snyder

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Redd Kross Roy You can't see me without my Jeff Well that cut stems from the KUCI Well musIcians have been hair-piece. I've actually been bald fact that practice doing it for centuries. for example Neyrotica on Bigtime Records since I was sixteen. not just going around here and they're notorious there are ancient masses for the through the usual slow process. for lilting riffs from famous songs. Catholic Church that are written on Steve McDonald- Bass KUCI Lets talk about your new and we thought. "we'lI really outdo this simple chant melody and the Jeff McDonald- Guitar plastic pancake that you have out. her. we'lI just steal the entire song same chant is simply used over and Roy McDonald-Drums the title with lyrics and all·. It was a really over again. Robert Hecker -Guitar is "NEUROTICA". what spumed that obscure song from the Partridge Roy Plagirized religion! title? Family that was on some episode, KUCI The cut "Play My Song" is an Well. you could say it was your Jeff Well • it happened when Roy but never on an . and it was a interesting...... typical kinda day at K U C I • MacDonald didn't show up for really cool song...... it sounded Jeff Well "Play My Song" was Alexandair and Filmore West were rehersal. kinda like the Doors. and we said, kinda like along the same lines of entering the radio station at the and we all had been listening to ·Iet's just steal the whole thing·. modern pop as R.E.M .• or the crack of dawn and were arguing "Sgt. Pepper's" every day for the You see. I wrote a song that Rolling Stones meet the Beaties, over what evasive action Japanese last six sounded a lot like it. and it basically but they won't let us make a video widget producers were going to take months...... and we thought. God was the same song. and we said . for it because we say "rock'n roll against Oral Roberts and his band we need a title that will tum this into "let's just steal the lyrics too and sucks," in it and they're afraid radio a concept album•...... this of psycho-ducks when suddenly put a title on it and claim that Roy programmers will bum. s~ying. album was originally going to be a and Ozzy Osbourne wrote they were physically transported ·KNAC pure rock and roll:· and then double album set entitled "The it,"...... But we were told that through time and space a lush afterwards our song is going "rock'n 10 Shroud of Laurie Bono Christ" and we might be sued so we just said Shangrila in Beverly Hills. And roll sucks". we couldn't release that so this was "shine it," ...... but .then and behold who is rehearsing in this KUCI Well, it's not like your saying spontaneous inspiration. again.the suit probably would have dubious mansion but none other rock and roll music sucks. than four guys who look exactly like Roy Yeah . "Neurotica" is basically been great pUblicity. crazy people having sex . Steve No . We're saying the rock ! ..•.•.• Jeff A lot of this inspiration that we and roll industry more or less Steve We are Redd Kross you KUCI Boy. weill can't wait to get got for this album was from listening sucks. nimrod! home and read them backwards and to the radio and going to recording Jeff It's like you're playing rock KUCI (Alex & FII) How long has lind out all your hidden meanings. secessions....Like for the song music and you dig it and it's your life ·Neurotica· Redd Kross been in existence on Steve Ohhhh yeah.... .it says and you've got all these things this planet? Stryper is Satan. that one line •....the long-haired driving you crazy. friends of Jesus in the chartreuse J E F F Seems like 7 • 8 • 9 KUCI Is Redd Kross now assuming Roy There's all these people telling micro-bus." is from...... years...... 1 mean we started to a harder edge? Because cuts like you what to do. and how to sound. play our instruments the same time Stevel Roy "Convoy!" "Frosted Flake" and "Janus. Jeanie and what to wear. Rob Grrrrreat song from the we were recording. so that's why and George Harrison" really come Jeff It all comes back to when we we've taken a long time . most seventies.. 011 and assail one's earlobes with were recording "Puss'n Boots" we Jeff We heard it on the way to the bands have to learn first. We had on tenuous veracity. were still a very group vocal session and said. "lets steal the job training. Jeff Well a lot of that comes with with Beach Boy harmonies and KUCI If you had the opportunity to that!" our influences. and I mean this is tambourines....and we would go to Steve It's great to procrastinate do it all over again. what would you what happens when the flipside of our shows and people would say, have done differently? on writing your lyrics and then steal your AC/DC "Powerage" is the ·Boy your song sucks. it has I probably would have them from vintage KRLA tracks on Steve Beatles' "Revolver". tambourine in it!" trimmed my hair as I let it the way to the studio. KUCI Now what happened to the Steve It all goes back to the grow...... 1 haven't been using cut "Bodacious Tatas" that was Jeff I mean we only use them as a creative lifting. standards thing. PREFERENCE long enough. suppose to appear on the album? Jeff We try 'not to be too bitter Jeff Or PRELL. about it. because you still have to be functional. KUCI Well . you got to keep your sense of humor about it. 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88.9 Mhz. KUCI is non-profit and operated by volunteer "'-'\.... UCI students. KUCI is ovned by and licensed to the .19712 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 120 • Regen ts of the Uni versi ty of California. Irvine, CA ~2715(714) 752-0232 another evening of t'Od~,'n'sludgeElla can still scat We arrived on the planet Irvine 10 newer nelgms wl1n occasslonally Request a Song that Saturday to begin a wonderful sporadic fast beats of yet more Of course I was late but this time evening of rock'n'sludge and rock'n'sludge. Singer Merrill Ward it wasn't really my fault - the girl in Request a Song swinging hair. Aher a force feeding ran about the stage like a hellion the box office gave me lame of sides two and three of ~ While bassist directions. Waiting and anticipating Request a Song ~ in the Heritage Room, pounded the bass with consistent this concert for at least two weeks, finally, the Love Dolls gracefully passion just like the ole Black Flag I finally got to see one of the took the stage and rocked dat beat days. Actually, the intensity of goddesses of goddesses, Ella ala Redd Kross and Aerosmith. these two rockin dudes did reach Fitzgerald, one of female vocalist Before calling that magic request Glitzed up but not glammed out, the level of Black Flag on a couple idols, maybe the only one still alive. line, 856-KUCI, check to see if your these four girls are both visually of tunes. Some might know that she has been song might be in your own musical and musically exciting - boppin hair With three hot sets under our very sick for the past few years and archives. If you have it, you can be and blue leather miniskirts belts, things could only get better. this was her first tour in ages. the DJ and play it for your own goose bumped our spines. The Voted top U.S. act live by the At EI Camino College, which is in personal enjoyment. If not, be sure set's standout was a cover of the Village Voice, drove Torrance or Redondo Beach but it to tune into KUCI to hear what's Brady Bunch's "Sun Shiny Day" but in from Minneapolis, took the stage doesn't really matter because they being played. This will save you unfortunately the set was cut short in their non-challant jaded fashion are the same, on Saturday March some embarrasment of requesting to accommodate headliners and then proceeded to produce a 21 st, I went by myself because punk during classical, classical Precious. set of blistering guitar and vocal Chris didn't have the money to go. during metal, metal during new Gadnlum's world premiere show shrills, featuring songs from both This small junior college has a very wave, new wave during reggae, and was mighty impressive. Led by the Made to Be Broken and their new posh concert hall - when is Donald so on. Be aware of the disc charismatic sex god Mark LP, While You Were Out As well as Bren going to donate money for one jockey's individual show style and Maldonado on vocals, Gadnium brilliant live renditions of lame 70's at UCI? The usher reminded me of try not to request a tune that won't rocks as hard as the best of the covers, the Soul Boys set included someone's grandmother. Anyway, I compliment what's being played. 70's rock'n'sludge groups. a Dave Pitner soliloquy of Jim was excited to say the least. When you do call up, be patient. Flashbacks of "The Nuge" mixed Croce's "Time in a Bottle: a Sitting in my velour chair, sighing The DJ's are doing many things at with Iron Maiden would be a fair thrashing version of the Bangles and smiling to myself, I thought once, usually, and might not get the description of this band, definitely "Walk Like an Egyptian," and the "yes I was here listening to Ella phone on the first few rings. Most worthy a look-see. Leaving the show's cardiac finale, "Juke Box Fitzgerald singWOW'" She sang importantly, make sure that your of show early to keep another Hero." Describing the,Soul Asylum "Take the A'Train" (one of Nancy's request is a REQUEST. Demands, sound to a virgin listener? Pure faves), "Crazy He Calls Me", "Mack threats, shouts, and howls won't appointment, we missed c to our extreme energy flailing about. Combine the the Knife" and she teased the crowd get your request played any Pre lou s, advantage aher hearing slagging worst of the 70's and translate that with the smash "A Tisket A Tasket" sooner, and maybe not at all. Be entire wacky era into a forceful as well as her other standards and courteous and concise and your reviews of those glam-cheese primadonnas (maybe post­aggressive grind with the intensity scatting - voice playing, using her chances of hearing your request will Madonnas?). voice like a musical instrument. increase immensely. Then, finally, of older Husker Du and the stage Corvairing off to the planet One of the most emotional concerts lay back and enjoy KUCI. presence of the current Redd Hollywood, aher a peep at a goofy I had ever been to, thankful I Kevin Stockdale Kross. Soul Asylum is definitely birthday dance and a double-park experienced it, I can tell my job for refreshments, we entered one of the best bands of the USA. grandchildren that I saw the famous Tony Ray Ozmo the Club Lingerie just as SWA took Ella Fitzgerald when I was a mere the stage. With Gadnium's sludge Jeff Bagel lass of 21. The Paul Smith Trio, her still ringin9 in ?ur ears, SWA took us William Thomas backup band cooked and Joe Pass Tfie .Lady 'Encfs the jazz guitarist was one of the best and most talented players I have ever seen. Yes, she was a bit rough around the edges, but it didn't The forest, a daze of choking matter. Everyone in the audience green brown, settled down with an was just ecstatic to have her back unreliable clatter, the sounds, and .in good health. Ella Rtzgerald murmurs of the end of the kingdom. is a loved performer and I love her The lady, a glaze of the charming as well (ahhh). natural, rode beside her mount, with Reggie Munoz the heartbeats of life coming, of she ICUCI going to unfaithfulness and treachery. The life, a maze of carelessnesses, inhaled its last ration of what was to make history ROCK live but a moment. The hoofs crackled over the wet IMPORTS branches of the Frafile trees and noted only those that dared valiantly to fear for the kingdom. NEW A GE Large black leafless tress sailed away into the oblivion that made JAZZ natives await the one that was to save them. Yes, for in the white THE FINEST'IN forest of traditional trunks, the roots have their meaning, yet not DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY the power nor the passion nor' the Featuring: life to resist weakening their soil. DENON • HAFLER • PIONEER The one trees forced themselves PROTON • MAGNAT • BOSE upon. G.E.A. 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MEGADETH was interviewed by what's happening don't appreciate it KUCl 's Kevin Stockdale after their as much. show at Fender's Ballroom back in DE When you first start, it's good . December. All four members, Dave People trade tapes like that and it Mustaine , Dave Elle fson , Gari gets your name out. But then as Samuelson and Chris Poland, were you get more successful, you have present. to keep a grip on it so that people don't know what you're gonna be KS Does anyone want to volunteer putting out on the next record. a little information about how the OM Like bootlegging of T-shirts, (818) 994-4744 band got on its feet? buttons, anything . . OM Basically, I leh about CP Yeah, that hurts us I think. As three years ago and this current far as tapes, I thought it would give line -up was completed and us more exposure. concreted about two years ago. We OM It did , it helps exposure-wise, OM It's more of our personal lives then started a year ago December but I think that within trading tapes, Scratch Acid with Killing is My Business and we instead of congressmen that rule it took a lot of potential from our first the country. toured about three times through album, sales-wise ... . . It's just I had been waiting to see this the U.S. for that album. In the DE That's why the audience can getting better and better, with the sing all the lyrics along with it, band for at least a year, well not spring of this year [1986 ] we video coming out, just a few days quite a year, but seven months. recorded But Who's because they can relate. "What do ago. Just this afternoon I was you mean I don't get to work on time Scratch Acid was finally coming to , which came out late ~ taking a nap before the show and - what do you mean I don't pay my L.A. and they would be playing at summer, and we've started touring Chris screams "Dave get upl" I run the Whisky on Wednesday March to support that album. So, we've bills." out to the front room and here's my KS So where do you plan on taking 11. SNFU played as well and they toured the U.S. four or five times. teeth on T .V. The "Peace Sells" jammed but this review will be in KS How was the response to the the band from here? I mean you've video was on MTV. gone from the underground to praise of Scratch Acid . first album and its tour? CP Vinnie Vincent was their guest Before the gig Stephen called me OM The album drew a little bit of the breaking above ground. You've VJ and he was alone and had gone from an independent label to a from Tempe to say that I must see underground people, you know, the played Cinderella or something. I them because there was a slight real denim and leather type . Now major label. You get a lot better was thinking how they [MTV] treatment and promotion, video and chance that I wasn't going to be we're starting to draw all types of consider us thrash or speed or able to, being it the week before people , not just dedicated so on. What are you looking at whatever and figured we 're not now? finals and I had a night class with a headbangers . Basically, it's a going to get on the metal hour. The quiz that evening. Well, (deep really vast contrast of lifestyles ­ CP I think that we'll probably just last thing I thought was that I'd see stay in the vein that we're in, except breath) I went after the quiz you have people with short hair and my video. So all of a sudden, the because my teacher had the good long hair ­ our production will get a lot better whole Vinnie Vincent band comes and we'll eat better. We want to do sense to end the class early so I KS - people with no hair ­ out, all cute and looking like the was at the Whisky by 10pm. OM - people of all racial and cultural anything we want to do and we will. Monkees, and then they go "And KS Now do you have goals in terms Everybody with any sense was backgrounds. here is a video from Megadethl" I there, meaning my friends were CP I think the first record, when it of playing bigger arenas? just paused - I was stunned. It's a OM I think our goals right now, there (Not all, Reg - ed.) as well as came out, was underground, like good video. Robert Mongo, out of the people that I see at every gig I Dave said, but something happened other than an arena-type band, New York did it. The reason we met would be utilizing different go too. This DJ from another to the underg round. All these him was because he'd made this college radio station was there and underground bands are on the approaches towards the outrageous statue that I couldn't instruments. In , he told me that they JAM live. We charts so now it's just like it's a new even begin to describe . . . waited and waited and waited. Of music. people don't really use the slide, OM It's like an alien gladiator people don't really use a wah-wah course I was at the front near the OMit 's like underground and CP Yeah, but it's out there - it takes stage because these guys ROCK aboveground. peddle. They don't use a lot of that an hour to look at it all. It's made all stuff because they just don't know and I didn't want to miss a beat. KS So now you're starting to see out of brass. Like the average lead singer, this the light as you break above how to . KS So, when did you get the idea to CP Now we were even thinking one was drunk. He fell on me twice ground? put together a video? but these dudes next to me saved DE This album helped to bring out a about using synth guitars, but OM We didn't even really think nothing drastic, no King Crimson me and my frail self (giggle) from lot more different people that about a video. being crushed. I never stopped normally wouldn't go to a heavy trip. You can do so much with them; DE Capitol wanted us to do the why not have them there for a song moving once which in Reggie terms metal concert or a thrash concert. video. OM We had no intention of means that it was TOO MUCH. One CP The touring pretty much broke or two? So we just want to do ­ filming a video because we had DE - do whatever we want to do and of the best new music shows I had us, I think. When you tour as much always felt deep down inside that a seen in a long time. They played my as we have, you can't help it; word make it . video would not only commercialize CP We'll pretty much stay in the two favorites "Mess" and "She Said" gets around . . . Back when we first the band, but it could misrepresent for their first EP as well as songs started, when the underground same vein till we die. the band very badly. However, in OM We do have certain goals, in a from the their first and latest album. thing was big, we would do a show in this video, it explains us really well, The crowd was frenzied and the Los Angeles and get to New York sense, as far as opening doors for through the riot scenes, through the other bands. Right now, we show lasted a good hour. The bass two weeks later and we 'd go to a bomb drops, all kinds of really weird player kicks ass but all of the music store, a metal store, and ourselves as a thrash metal band, stuff going on. or whatever you want to call us ­ musicians in the band are good as they'd have our tape there, a KS How about the band as a whole, well. Make sure you see them next bootleg tape. So, the underground K S What do you want to call it's outlook -"Peace Sells But yourselves? time around since they are from was really helpful in the beginning Who's Buying" ALL Megadethl Texas. The first EP is best in my for us. OM It's not like nobody's buying it; opinion but you can hear all from OM That kind of stuff can really hurt we just want to know who's buying them on KUCI 88.9 FM. a band or help a band. In the sense it. Reggie Munoz of trading tapes and material a band DE 'Cause there is hope for peace, is playing, its a lot easier to obtain, you know. Peace is there. 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