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By WENDY BOGGS
Staff Writer
You can't turn the dial on your
TV to channel zero, but if you
look down on Evans Street, the run
down but quaint little neighborhood
below the water tower past
USC's Bates area, sometime during
the day the sounds of Channel
Zero can be heard echoing across
the train tracks.
Channel Zero is a local band
comprised of singer and guitarist
Frank Robinson, bassist Jeff Able
and drummer Scott Frey. Al
though their name is not as recognizable
as some of the other bands
around Columbia's growing music
scene, they are slowly gaining
more popularity. A young band,
they have done almost 20 shows
since August, which they call their
official beginning.
Channel Zero is not a cover
band. Besides Jimmy Hendrix's
"Hey Joe," and maybe a few other
covers (it has been rumored that
they do a reggae version of "Stairway
to Heaven"), their hour long
set is original music written by all
three band members.
When asked to classify what
kind of music they play, no member
of Channel Zero could really
come up with an answer. Their
music is hard but meaningful and
slightly melodic. Scott is a big fan
of heavy metal, but Frank will
quickly tell you that they're "not
Metallica." Frank cites many different
musical influences like the Police,
Husker Du, jazz and rap,
while Jeff likes Fetchin' Bones,
the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the
Hoodoo Gurus and the Grateful
Dead.
If you pursue Channel Zero ab
out identifying their music, odd
terms like "boot-knockin" and
"head-janglin" are thrown around.
"Our music makes your head
jangle (not bang) when you listen
to it," said Frank. The "bootknockin"'
description is possibly
more of a inside joke than a serious-description
of their music.. V
,Frank, who writes the lyrics,
said, "We're not a message band,
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but it all means something." Although
they have no burning message
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Frank said in a WUSC interview
that they say a lot more than "I
lost my keys in the back seat and
you lost more than that."
The best way to find out what
kind of music they play is to listen
to it. They can currently be heard
on WUSC 90.5 FM, and there is a
three-song demo tape available at
Manifest Records and Tapes.
Although you can easily buy
Channel Zero's cassette at Manifest,
it may not be so easy to hear
them play at the popular clubs in
Columbia. Many bands say it is
difficult for new, non-cover bands
to book shows in Columbia. Even
when they do get shows, they usually
don't know until the night before
or even the day of the show.
"That makes it difficult for us to
promote ourselves with posters and
things," Frank said.
They recently did a show at
Club Dog Alley in Charleston to a
full house of about four hundred.
This was one of the only shows
that brought them any revenue: a
whopping $75. Scott said, "We're
not in this for the money, obviously."
Channel Zero plays more
for exposure rather than profit at
the moment and besides not being
paid, they don't even get free beer
when they play. "Sometimes we
get happy hour prices, said bcott.
According to Jeff, "any money
we make goes directly back into
the band." Channel Zero did a successful
benefit show a week ago
for a disabled children's camp
where Frank used to work, and he
is hoping to do another one in the
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playing drums ever since junio
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music major at USC but was un
able to receive a scholarship. Scot
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ways fooled around with friends."
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find commercial success, or a
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which they play, but until that da;
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