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Talented guits By Cal Harrison Brandishing a hammer in one hand ar other, Glenn Phillips raked the tool against bizzare, heavy-metal sounds during ar Columbia. Thursday and Friday at 9 p.m., Glenn Ph back in town. The band will play at the Gc sion is $2. The little guitarist, no taller than 5-6, w Feat's Lowell George as "one of the rock 4n' roll." Phillips plays with the preci and the raw energy of Ronnie Montrose. E roll greats are not clear descriptions of the s ly his. He stands on stage wearing red knee pa sweatband around the crown of hair on Donning nothing more than shorts, a tanl tennis shoes, Phillips requires total freedoi 'Junk Funk' mus WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Kennedy Center had never seen anything quite like it ? a bunch of young black kids from the ghetto raising the roof with their irreverent lyrics, fancy dance steps and special brand of music played on homemade instruments salvaged from neighborhood trash cans. omKorc r\ f n rrv Forme 1TIVIIIUVI J VI UIV JLTUI I ^ A Ul IIIJ Junkyard Band, aged 12 to 17, made their debut at the elegant, marbled cultural center on the Potomac one recent Saturday morning before an audience of nearly 400 shouting, handwaving, hip-swinging youngsters attending the center's annual "cultural diversity festival," marking Black History Month. Lead singer Steven Herrion, hip in sunglasses and tight slacks, drew laughs and cheers with his undulating takeoff on Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" routine. The crowd warmed to "Shake It On Down" and "Barry Farms Slide," and went wild when the band swung into one of its most popular numbers: TTTF. ~RT*,gj XXiring March. ergoy a ( FiletrO-Fislv Sandwich, order of hot golden fre: fries, and a medium sof for only $1.49 plus tax Only at McDonald's, 0 Sumter Street and onJ limited time. No coupon necessary. Offer expires March 31 $1.43 y/,r> >./v' _ muisunucus' f \ r\ [ irist plays w he unmercifully sn id a guitar in the He does not star his guitar, creating mike, he uses a ma i earlier visit to and higher octaves passed by the keyb< iillips' Band will be wall behind him. c )lden Spur; admis- finality that even J With the additio as hailed by Little ed the scope of the best guitarists in guitar. ision of Jeff Beck, Phillips exempli! Lven these rock V centrates on the im tyle that is unique- is far from stagnat the Swimming Po< ds and a matching novative music ar< his balding head. c top and high-top "Sex is So Stran r%-? r\ r m Ai.'aninnf ac I f n in ui iiiuvtiuviu ao 15 liiuitauvL ui ic taking Washii Crystal went down to the food stamp place. The man shut the door in Crystal's face. She said, What's hapnin, what's the word. He said, Hey girl, haven 7 you heard? The trip's gettin deep, it's not too funny. Reagan's making bombs with the food stamp money. The infectious, driving beat, which continued non-stop through the 45-minute show, is played on sawedoff plastic buckets, tin cans and cowbells mounted on milk crates and bright orange traffic cones. Abetting the percussions are toy store trumpets, tamborines, snare drums and cymbals, a cheap electronic keyboard and a set of bongos donated by a fan. For the 10 members of the band, the Kennedy Center stage was only a few miles away by rented van ? but a world apart ? from their home in the Barry Farms neighborhood of Anacostia, a poor, inner-city community in southeast Washington. ielicicrus a large nch. t drink ^ Kv. 1984 ith precision tiashes the guts of his guitar. id in front of a microphone. Instead of the ssive array of pedals that create new sounds : to convey his message. His energy is suraardist who does handstands and climbs the rashing down upon the keys with a note of 'erry Lee Lewis would not dream of doing. I n of the keyboardist the band has broaden ir music ? no longer relying solely on the lies a vanishing breed of musician who conpact of sound, not song. However, Phillips ion. His collaboration with Jeff Caulder of ol Q's has achieved some of the most in5und. ge," the title of one of their favorite tunes, ir off-the-wall, instrumental sound. nntnn hw pfnrm S nyiuii uy oiuuu In a neighborhood where men huddle glumly on street corners and passersby walk fast, band members practice their "junk funk" after school in a cramped tenement apartment. Their director is Derrick McCrae, 22, a mail clerk for the District of Columbia police department who organized the Junkyard Band in the summer of 1980. "They started making noise together in my backyard, and I said, 'HEY, I like that. I gotta show this to the world,"' McCrae said. They've played at local theaters, col- jj leges, benefit marathon races, night Q clubs, recreation centers and parks, the j] city convention center and coliseum jj and Christmas festivals at swank shop- h ping malls. 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