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; - ______ Features Wednesday. June 1, 1986 THE GAMECOCK 3 fl i -*.^5 Electricity Mark Howell and Bruno Meillier co-founded the group Zei c Shop. Electric ban From staff reports An electric band will ncrform at 9 n.m. June 8 at Bill's Music Shop. Zero Pop, a trio from New York, France and the southern United States, was co-founded by Mark Howell and Bruno Meillier in 1986. Their music blends the French jazz sensibilities of saxophonist Meillier and the American ^ rock 'n' roll roots of guitarist Howell into an original, unique, international sound. Their sound is intellectually challenging, yet musically rewarding. The band has two drummers to juggle. Jim Meneses will play for the band's spring U.S. tour, and Ikue Mori from Japan will play on the European tour. T "1 a * _ 1 1_ _ resuvai unrigs e culture for exchc By MARIA SOPHOCLEOUS M Staff writer | O '(&%/ j No other festival in the United * ' states is so stimulating, so tabuious, 1'""''iiiijagiiiBaaiiBatfM so extravagant as Charleston's window, with Spoleto Festival ? almost three shirts, is good art, 1 weeks of art and culture attracting just passed by on I thousands of visitors from all over iike harlequins, the world. Everything seems The idea of the festival is to bring y/e attended t together young artists and proven camera, a part of performers from all over the world to devoted to chaml share and exchange ideas and ex- organ music. In t periences about art. with its respectful The festival started 30 years ago in thinking that this w Spoleto, Italy. Its founder Gian t0 understand ( Carlo Menotti, a famous director Spoleto. and opera composer, brought it to Enough to sit ii Charleston in 1977. From that comes c. . imncui ttis u 1 01. vthe name of the Festival of the Two an(j hear the gic Worlds. singers, or muse 01 In 1986, a third Spoleto festival oboe or trumpet. T< opened in Melbourne, Australia. quiem wash over i Along with the Spoleto runs Picolo wjth jts harmony. Spoleto which is anything but small. Completeness ani Performances like live theater, jazz Thfintrirai fanfai concerts, dance, folk music and I tioatncai demonstrations of art take place The Spoleto Fest every hour of the day, and most of May 19 to June 5, them are free. gram includes th< The Picolo Spoleto includes artists world premieres, j mostly from the South Carolina area. music events, come | HiLiinn onH rtall^irti UIVIIIU UIDDIII ^A.iiuii The street clown is sitting quietly poetry reading, on the pavement, unimpressed by the vironmental art an people who stop and examine him. and surprises every I THE ALTERNATE TO DORM LIVIN q Enjoy your privacy in a clean, qui ^ & convenient community SPjfL 782-6626 Q/ 4427 BLOSS ? $ EARN CAS Serologicals, Inc. Is In need of all blood ty up to $160.00 per month for 3 hours pe your time. Call for more Information. i _ _ Serologicals, f /\ j 2719 Middleburg Dr. Si Columbia, SC. 29: ^ SerologtaJs 254*6537 1 RSBHSlP^ h ^\.:.r,v-.;y-- . s - W' P . jjf B-jrf 8 b JBF - y2? t( AjJs&keBlBK/m mBS ..^BffS^HlBl^fl . ; - - ^b HT wflf . J| p QV Jl ||P^| \ Jg s > Pop. The band will play at 9 p.m. June 8 at Bill's Music \ I d to play i The band has just released its debut album All the Big ' mysucs in nurope on Kecommena Kccords and on Rift/Rough Trade Records in the United States. The exclusive engagement of Zero Pop is courtesy of Musical Sales Pitch Productions. Zero Pop will have an interview on WUSC-FM at 5 p.m. June 8.Thc band's music can be heard all month on WUSC and at 3 p.m. June 5 on WRLK-FM Public Radio. 1 Concert tickets are $4 in advance and can be purchased at Manifest Records, Superior Feet Playhouse, Peaches Records and Tapes and Joyful Alternative. Tickets can also be purchased for $5 at the door at Bill's Music Shop. For more information call 796-6477 or 791-7378. irt, 1 ;kv? Si? ? The International Brotherhood of Magicians will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 p m Thursday. paintings and T- The theme will be The First 'he two guys who Trick I Ever Learned. aikes are dressed People new to magic are welcome to attend. like a dream. Magic demonstrations, lessons, he Musica da fellowship and refreshments will Pirolo Snnletn tk? ...;n mu - ?I UW JV1 YVU. I lie I IIV. VI 1115 "III lOI\V jer, choral and place at 4649 Fernwbod Rd. he silent church For more information call John audience, I was Tudor at 798-5837. as enough for me Charleston and ? Run DMC, a nationally known rap group, will play at 8 1 a chair in the p.m. Saturday at the Coliseum, uke and St. Paul All seats are reserved. 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Earn r week of ! | I j Eye Exams Are Perforrr H 'Free second pair of glasses are first d IIIV'* other special prescriptions (for contacti I iit? 1 OR Re charfle.) This ad must be presented at tf P j fers are aood only at the 133ft Main Strt 204 | id are not good with any othor i Tribute to r sizzles with i ty CRAIG WRIGHT g laff writer Lynyrd Skynyrd did for Southern Rock what Led Zcp- If din did for British Blues. " Using catchy hooks and common-man lyrics, the band rought the style one step closer to accessibility ? but not oo close like .38 Special did. i The band is both a legend and a critically underrated ock 'n' roll band in this land of instant legends and overatcd bands. Lynyrd Skynyrd's albums are all either gold >r platinum. The band's One More From the Road LP vas done live at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta during a >enefit for the theatre. The band's way of looking at things always showed. rhey played hard, lived hard, and they believed in right ind wrong. When Ronnie Van Zandt and Steve and Cassie Gaines vere killed, Lynyrd Skynryd was over. No mike-stand linging, long-haired cowboy singer, no Skynyrd. After proper mourning, Rossington-Collins band was ormed from the remnants of Lynyrd Skynyrd. They nanaged to put out a good album, and their shows conisted of a L.ynyrd Skynyrd tribute complete with a sans focal, spotlight-on-the-hat, atop-ihc-mikc stand Free 9 ird. When I first heard of the Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute, I eserved judgment. Guitarist Allen Collins had recently 3een confined to a wheelchair due to an automobile accident. This was going to take it even one step further from he original band. 1 pictured Gary Rossington trading licks with two kids straight from the California Institute of Hammer-ons and H nir-Ho'? whi4f? Inlinnu V:?n '/nneit ran uronnri lnrtkino like a cross between his brother and Don Johnson. My worries were over when 1 learned Ed King was rejoining the band for the tour. A talented songwriter and guitarist, King had left the band after two albums because of a severe drug problem. In the late '70s he quit drugs completely and became a major-league computer programmer somewhere in Ohio. King spoke of this saying he was "lucky even to be here." He certainly seemed the healthiest and most inspired person on stage. 1 Not ju the Coliseum box office or charg- -<i ,,, . _ ed to Mastercard or VISA by dialinn /lcq/l A co mg iii -ujou. r\ viv,t v,uai will be added to phone orders. gy KEVIN OLIVE1 Staff writer The Beach Boys will play at 2:30 pm Sunday at the Muck p Ca?, Carowmds Paladium. Joke,. Mcdusa Rec 1 ickcts arc $5 plus C arowinds Remember Billy t theme park admission and can be ,he h me,a, bar purchased m advance at Tickctron B/oom County coil outlets by calling Teletron at b h h , b 1-800-233-4050. two-song iloppy sir ? . Mucky Pup is ap t 1 hc Annual Springs band b(;hjnd thosc U .TJ ' Iheir first album at the McKissick Museum. name Thejr sound It is an exhibit of contemporary of meta| hardcore works by North Carolina and d if South Carolina artists. musjc Th<; rec? A ri m i c c i a n i c f r no I n o , ' , however, by the 1 McKissick s hours are 9 a.m. lo 4 wjth obscenilies. p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Best heard at ear Sundays. Mucky Pup is su ___________neighbors and delij jes for U S C. students and A ers expue July 31, 1988. |l ^ I B I CASH I Hy XTENDED WEAR 1 & LOMB I * ,CT LENSES* 1 7:30 a!m Is special offer includes contact lens. f i . Tinted, astigmatic and bifocal lens H ^ < . ? jin do it? I Call tocu t t i! [_* ') fl vp vj) vP vj) vP vP vP Vp SUNGLASSES I $ in's got'em all. Come to 1338 Main I $ 5 off your new pair of sunglasses ' $ $$2 led By Dr. Mark Taylor I | Ivlslon. single vision lenses Bifocals and |1 s or glasses will Incur a slight additional N i $ firs 10 tlmo of purchase and those special of- H Z, set location These offers oxplre July 31 H $ promotional offer H $ i i ^ (j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ d ock legend iieh enerev The only guy recruited for this tour was Randall Hall. Before the show, I spoke to Allen Collins, who was on the road as an adviser to the band. He told me he recruited Hall himself for his "ability and maturity." This proved true during the show, as Hall seemed comfortable on stage and his Skynyrd-schooled licks made him as big a part of the band as anyone else. Artimus Pyle, Billy Powell and Leon Wilkenson, all original members, also returned for the tour. It's a onetime thing, no songwriting or albums, just one tour. A tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd. On May 25, they brought their tribute to Columbia, and it was clear from the start what they planned to do. Opening with Workin' for MCA to closing with a 30-minute Free Bird (Yes, no vocals, hat on the mike stand) the set list came right from where Skynyrd left off. A real treat was Ballad of Curtis Loew, a song the original band rarely played live. The show was high energy; though at times, it seemed a bit forced. Johnny Van Zandt could never be the front man his brother was, and his trying to reproduce every nuance ? like the famous Turn it Up! on Sweet Home Alabama ? seemed distracting. But for the most part, he sang strong and proud. Lynyrd Skynyrd has always managed to get three distinct sounds from their three guitars ? layering, not merely piling them into some gigantic mush. They are true musicians, not just the go-for-broke guitarists their reputations seem to indicate. The show included video screens used to highlight solos and showed rare, emotional footage of the original band. This worked better than expected coming from a no-frills band. Lynyrd Skynyrd s long guitar jams gave the new bands of 1977 something to revolt against. Perhaps it is time for these bands to learn from the perseverance and pride of one hell of a band. st in comic strips, i band comes to life I Pontiftc Brothers, Johnson; Frontier Records Originally from Michigan, now liv7 You Take A in8 ?n California, the Pontiac ords Brothers have let loose here with md the Boingers, some 01 tne oest American-roots id featured in the rock ilnce the Del Fuegos. nic strip? If you Johnson is full of good songs, >k, you heard the great hooks and draws musical inigle included. spiration from the Bay City Rollers >parently the real flnd the Rolling Stones. There's songs, and this is nothing wrong with being musically under their own derivative, however, as long as is a combination you're not boring, too. and rap, and it's The interest level stays high here, like that kind of from the opening anthem Ain 7 What >rd is marred, / Call Home going straight into Outband's obsession to Luck, then pausing for a second, only to kick into a Replacementsstyle kiss-off called Creep. splitting volumes, This whole record has the kind of re to annoy the songs you'll sing for days. 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