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Features Monday, September 28, 1987 THE GAMECOCK ^ Chi<^^^^^cks By Dwayne Neil . | John Cougar Mellencamp, If Lonesome Jubilee is nothing Lonesome Jubilee, Warner Bros. else, it's an album full of near : Records. misses. ; Two years ago, 1 was less self- Every song possesses shreds of indulgent; my hair was longer; quality, but they disappear as \ and I worked in a record store quickly as they appear. 1 where people often remarked The two biggest faults with the about how I resembled John album seem to be Mellencamp's Cougar Mellencamp. I didn't move toward more Springstcenish seem to mind much ? he had in<t? ?ii<v?-r?f_ur?i.~:~ ?-? j?. ?..w vi uiv-aijic iyiics ana nis C released his gem of an album, roundabout way of singing them, j Scarecrow, and I had recently He seems too conscious of his i read in an interview that one of backup singers and too worried his biggest influences was Lou about how good his voice sounds i Reed. to make any powerful rock 'n' i roll. The use of horns doesn't do : I added that to the fact that much for me either. I David Bowie's manager had i discovered Mellencamp, and 1 I don't want to take anything ; partially concluded thar I c m **- ? ?. .... uttuj Hum iviciicucitinp s Dane, I was OK. I had always sccrctly lik- because they arc pretty darn tight, cd "Jack and Diane," even Also, I really like the way they rip though it was a teenage version of off the Rolling Stones on a lot of ; the Velvet Underground's "Sweet cuts. The production work is good | Jane." too, and in fact, the mixture of ! It is two years later. The pro- the music, vocals and horns is j spects of finding a decent job have nothing less than top-notch. forced me to rut mv hair .. ?..v. i guess wnai i really disliked John Cougar Mellencamp's new about this album is that it's a letalbum, Lonesome Jubilee, has down. Lonesome Jubilee isn't a just been released. terrible album, but I really did ex- j So where does my opinion now pect more from John Cougar j stand on John Cougar Mellen- Mellencamp. camp? Well, maybe he isn't that | cool after all; at least his music Editor's note: Dwayne Neil is a I isn't. journalism major who is a disc Inconsistency prompted this jockey for WUSC radio. His air reversal. namp is Chi riot 1 I Rockafellas' plays host to band with new sound *By FIRDOUS BAMJI nakedness of Joni Mitchell. Other Assistant features editor members of the band are bassist Tim Tonight Rockafellas' will play host Sommer, former disc iockev. inur to a musical anomaly in the shape of nalist and punk rocker; violinist a New York band, Hugo Largo. Hahn Rowe, who joined the band als w.J The four-member band consists of a recording engineer; and bassist two bass guitarists, a violinist and a Adam Peacock, who played in the vocalist. This may sound like a house group Sensible Shoes with David without walls ? and it is ? but it is Baerwald of David & David, supported by a solid, surreal The band cut its percussionless foundation. debut HP this year, which is ironicalListening to Hugo Largo is like ly titled Drum. The record is cocatching the last echo of a scream produced by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe after it has bounced off 1,000 moun- and is his first shot at production, tains. It is soft, sparse and sifted, yet Stipe also plays organ and sings frighteningly intense. backup on a few tracks. Mimi Goes^'s voice has the dex- Lav Ouiet Awhilp a rninmh;^ terity of a finely trained gymnast and based band, will open up for Hugo combines the range of Kate Bush Largo. The group released its selfwith the refreshing child-like titled debut EP this month. , Donate Blood. SUPER OPTICAL SALE! 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With these Staff writer tives in mind, Eugene goes off to boot ce The USC theatre and speech department opened Biloxi, Miss. its season Friday night at Drayton Hall with Biloxi The first act starts off slow and continues t Blues, the second play in Neil Simon's only getting up enough steam by its curtain.' autobiographical trilogy. cond act more than makes up for it, with It is directed by theater professor James Patter- upbeat tempo. The play moves well after int son, who also directed the first play in the trilogy, sion, showing that the play definitely deserv Brighton Beach Memoirs during the summer attention it has received. theater season of 1986. Master of Fine Arts candidate Steve Harle Biloxi Blues won a Tony award for best Broad- an excellent job as Eugene, with enough pr way play in 1985. The third in the trilogy. Broad- to make him the focus of the play, despite e way Bound, still enjoys an enormous success on outstanding performances by the rest of the c Broadway, and is also a recent Tony winner. ble cast. |n <u. c:?. _i_.. .i t ? in mi. mi si piiiy, me nero, young tugene Jerome, Dcbra Port, as Catholic school girl Daisy is living in Brighton Beach, writing his memoirs. nigan, and Jan Notzon, as New York book Eugene, who narrates the play, confesses at the Arnold Epstein, are also notable standouts. < beginning, "There are three things I was determin- in the cast are Jeff Jordan, D. Raymond S ed to do in this war ? become a writer, not get kill- ton, Tony Lucchi, Chris Brown, Scott Blanl // jNjkj / dW ? {(Wm M I Celebrate Homecoming '87 with Carolina's 27,000 students, faculty and staff plus USC aLumm by placing your ad in the SPECIAL ( \ y J HOMECOMING MAGAZINE ,0)1 mrm iF s Homecoming '87 edition of V/jA ^he Gamecock will include coverage of the Homecoming activities and a preview of th USC-Virginia Tech football game. Contact Your Account Executiv lubin For An Appointment " iromntiorial otlri | ,V,-_ ~ - ; ^ . J-? _ _ ^ _. . leard them all From "I just got HBffiSgr ico" to "I gave 6 months ago.'' ________ J IsSy ^ ;y to chicken out from doing HBH ' J&Mr a 1 it's so impo*. lane and worthwhile. aga^^, apJel [ A it you helped save a life is a s? gn &*> 1??? Mk 's worth more than the few inin- HE&g|||]^ii |1| Ugl g3k W jr% of your day it takes to give blood. Ma jfBI | L A , don't chicken out. tags IIS g?|| I Sg^gi k |fr ? SlftSSnBRfV;' ??$&$ USC's department of theatre and speech is presenting Biloxi Blues, a Neil Simon comedy, through Oct. 4. . V The play features Jeff Jordan, Chris Brown (top row), Dale Simonton . (center), Tony Lucchi and Scott )ite slow start objec- Elena Martinez-Vidal. imp in Blanks, as James Hennessey, is possibly the only weak link in the acting. He isn't very believable and odrag rather dull. rhese- The comic-book scenery by William Buck and i more the background music from the big band era sets ermis- an excellent atmosphere of the World War II -es the period. The costumes, designed by Nancy Wilkerson, are typical army garb and a '40s teeny-bopper y does look. esence Unlike Simon's first play, Brighton Beach qually Memoirs, the humor is not as cute, but more of a :nsem- black comedy, and since it is set in the Army is filled with latrine language and situations that may be Han- inappropiate for some theatergoers. worm The play is running daily until Oct. 4. 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