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Features Monday, October 12, 1987 THE GAMECOCK 5 Band returns to music scene after three years of silence By FIRDOUS HAM JI rights to the Albion cuts, and bassi; ^ Assistant features editor Will Rigby said listeners can loo The name may sound frivolously forward to re-release. mainstream, but the dB's, after three "We're trying to get the mult years 01 siiencc, has finally put its im- track tapes, to remix them," Rigb aginative pop back into the music said. "They're definitely going t scene and arc bringing it to come out again." Rockafcllas' tomorrow night. Lead singer Holsapple wrote all 1 Originally from Winston-Salem, songs on The Sound of Music, an N.C., the dB's have had a career rat- his capacity to produce consistentl tied bv the nnlhnlpc nf mncir< in. *?*?A A: ' , ..aMa>v guuu auu uivcisc music is neariening dustry, but its latest album, The The haunting track, "I Lie," hs Sound of Music, propelled by the In- been released as a single, and th ternational Record Syndicate, band is getting ready to make a vide Inc.(IRS), should give the band its to complement it. rightful place in the charts. Furthermore, there are two track "The future begins right here with on the compact disc that weren The Sound of Music," said lead recorded on the record: "Sharon singer Peter Holsapple. "If anything, and a cover of the song "Fe< what's come before has helped Alright" by the Oklahoma banc ^ temper what the dB's have become." Cargoc. "Nine years with the same band The album was produced by Gre creates a certain heritage, but we Edward, known for his work wit can't chain ourselves to oui past," he R.E.M., John Cougar Mcllencam said. and Hunters and Collectors. "A pre ducer has to get a lot of the final sa The group's former records, in making a record," Holsapple saic r*> 9 y ? ? - - * - - -- oianas jor aecmeis (which inciden- "but Greg (Edward) was never hig tally is the origin of the name) and handed about it. We enjoyed th Repurcussion, were released on a recording experience and I think foreign label, Albion; and the 1984 shows in the grooves." cut, Like This, released on Bearsville "History is in its place; time star! Records, barely made it to the stores with The Sound of Music; the dB' before the company closed shop. are back in the game; an IRS has sincc bought the band's everybody's happy." I Chic^^^ftcks ?By Dwayne Neil Kiss, Crazy Nights, Mercury love/and you're welcome to it/it's Records a dirty job/ but someone's got to As much as I hate to admit it, I do it." actually like parts of this album. Unfortunately, Kiss can't keep 1 know you're saying in disbelief, up the energy of the two former "Dwayne, how the heck could you songs for the other nine cuts. If like this bad imitation of Bon Jovi, they could, Crazy Nights would be Motley Crue and Cinderella?" an '80s male teenage classic. But, as Well, I don't like those aspects of it stands, Crazy Nights is a pathetic Crazy Nights, but I do enjoy the imitation of bands such as Bon Jovi cuts where Kiss forgets about im- and Motley Crue that were in Hating wnimpy pop-metal Dands fluenced by Kiss' early sound, and concentrates on blasting their Crazy Nights is also marred by own style of bad-boy rock V roll. its grossly over-produced crystalAnd Kiss' bad-boy best is when clear sound, which is better suited they're belting out harmless sexist for jazz, not rock 'n' roll. numbers slightly humiliating to Although this album is pretty women, such as their early hits horrid, there are a couple of "Love Gun," "Rocket Ride" and moments which are reminiscent of "Christine Sixteen." Kiss' early greatness. Gene SimAlthough Christine isn't sixteen mons and Paul Stanley aren't exanymore, on Crazy Nights, Kiss is actly in their 20s anymore, but still capable of sexist male anthems there's still enough youthful spirit rivaling their early classics. in Kiss to come up with at least a On "When Your Walls Come couple of good tunes each album. Down," Paul Stanley confronts a And, really, that's all anyone i:u?~J OA- *' ... nucimcu ous woman wnn nis own should expect from a bad-boy band brand of cynical arrogance. that reached their creative peak 10 Bassist Gene Simmons gets his years ago and are now trying to chance to flex his sexist arrogance cope with middle age. on the hard rocking "No, No, No" Editor's note: Dwayne Neil is a that begins with a rip-off of Van disc jockey for WUSC. His air Halen's "Eruption": "It's time for name is the Gnashing Chiclet. dont CHKKEN .t%| EXCUSES DON'T SAVE LIVES. _F1 BIOOODOES I "OT7* A n H O J IJttmLBSL GARNET AND BLi k s jbBP^ d The dB's: Oeft to right) Gene Holder, Peter Holsapple, Will Rtgby and Jeff Benlnato will b jjj AMN OH MN... I WISH MMtN%6%NNieS ffi?/f ^gzj/ mate MS A MILKSHAKE ]S(^ ^Nm?N %Tsiete BfoSA IIT7 ? """SUPS? Y\^ *%? ii ^ o """ W I 0 . I / ^ ^ I / ?/*? III yOW / fOTfiLVY FAD/ WW'THE PHILOSOPHICAL Jjtfk ij W- now how mrr A implications Me K / 200-nuNP GRBBN MP STMiGBRING / C\ .^r\3M ! \ / n im/ve puck smriNC? m/mm ' okav*. <z\ v7*^fsi ' MM mP'"^ ^ mrNe^"' Bloom County's Breath By TRACY M1XSON of humor. summoned Comics editor The collection includes the inside at a special Taking shots at such American in- story on how Opus the penguin falls rock." F stitutions as heavy-metal music, the in love and announces his engage- pressure, D comic strip industry and young love ment to Lola Granola; the discovery name to th is nothing new to Berke Breathed. of Rosebud the basselope, a part- the Boinger And in his latest release, Billy and basset hound, part-antelope creature And the the Boingers Bootleg, the creator of that feasts on Pop Tarts; and the While th Bloom County is in rare form. anxiety closet of 10-year-old Michael Grammy nc The book (Little, Brown and Com- Binkley, who meets his self 20 years metal fans, pany, $7.95), which includes 121 from now and learns he went bald at the music is pages of daily and Sunday strips puberty and will work as a janitor at autobiograj from the past year, has an added the federal self-tying shoelace plant. Boinger," t bonus: a floppy record of two Bo- Much of the hnnW fnmspc nn thf> inHiic?r? ??? ingers' songs, "I'm a Boinger" and title theme, the head-banging rock U" is perha "U Stink But 1 V U." group formed by the obnoxious Steve ever feature A serious aircraft accident that left Dallas. Tired of an unrewarding An excerj Breathed with a fractured spine in career in law, he holds open tryouts "A bird January 1986 left daily readers with for his new band. Prospects must what a face. two months of warmed-over strips "know three chords and be able to be describei from the previous four years. grimace musically." "Sure u Bootleg opens with the first strips The audition produces Bill the Cat whose choi from Breathed's return to the draw- on electric tongue, Opus and his year, maybt ing board, and an update shows that "weighty brass," the tuba, and the "And t Dill the Communist Cat is about to rabbit Hodge-Podge on drums. The track/We'll be executed. name "Deathtongue" is adopted and act/We'll I A stay is called, however, and Bill a single released, "Demon Drooler in 'cus we're t is traded to Russia for the captured the Sewer." from their album Rnnt/po a Cutter John. Thus begins the latest Pimples From Hell. comics, fea 1 journey into Breathed's bizzare sense But problems arise. The group is day strips. I VCK PORTRAITS BEGIN T GETTING YOTTR PHOTO T S TODAY 9:00AM-5:00PM CAROLINA k l f' i M iWBSBSm ^nM" . V ' w .-:; i SEMBBL' jfl m: at Rockafcllas' tomorrow night. rr IV ffitLs III WHOA/TteCMtC immNo Wm? jj W,l&S38?tf*, / RPtNejw W't * $eprw\je Reflcrry/ MIUOMKB. \ / JL,^ IVMSOUKG 'ifv^fcvv -KMHIUN SUUVAN... r,M /Z^^ymi IN **NPCX... ^ hot tub-.. WJTA Fiuev u/rm so sorky. ^ ^ mm J*LL'?' mstpafu^^ ed does it again to Washington to testify ? Senate hearinc nn "nnm I - ' eeling congressional rf "1 \\f alias changes the group's ^ W- w M W* ww c wholesome "Billy and s." record? "The Truth," which "presented e cuts will win neither a itself in a short dream involving talk>r the hearts of hard-core ing coffee pots and a shimmering imthe lyrics are creative and age of Bob Barker's head on Bette , well, heavy. The group's Midler's body." >hical theme song, "I'm a Compelled to enlighten the masses akes a satirical look at the by what he's seen, Binkley shares hile "U Stink But 1 V such truths as: "Knight Rider is acips the only metal song to tually a children's program," "...for ; a tuba solo. the most part, 'The Monkces' never 3t from "I'm a Boinger": played their own instruments" and on the bass/A tongue, "the likelihood of the American '/At best, the music could military ever handing 'Star Wars' 1 as fame technology over to the Communists ve look disgusting/But is about that of Reagan handing os are we busting/In a Nancy over to Bruce Springsteen's ? two, we'll seem tame roadies." hree years down the It doesn't take a twisted dream to be a Las Vegas lounge learn the real truth: Since he began ?e back/We'll be back, Bloom County in 1981, Breathed's he Boingers... " strip has only gotten better, and thus lso has 22 pages of color each of his collections outdoes the turing 44 weeks of Sun- one before it. As his fifth book, n one, Binkley is revealed Bootleg is no exception. lilfl, I ODAY. BEAT I AKEN EARLY. |