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DRIVI Kinney drives rock'n'roll band By BRIAN McCARTER Staff Writer Kevn Kinney of drivin'n'cryin' is an odd man. During the course of my brief interview with him, I sought answers to questions on a wide range of topics, but got something more on the order of tentative speculations and rock n' roll epigrams. I sought for obvious reasons to skip the obvious questions (e.g., "how long has the band been together?" and that sort of thing), and to get right to some more substantial inquiry. Not that I desired pearls of sage-like wisdom from him ? he is a rock musician, not a philosopher, after all. I merely wanted to know his opinions of some of the goofier aspects of today's rock music ethos, something of which he is, here in the South, anyway, preeminently a part I began by asking him about the worst of what I call the rock music "hand raisers:" PETA. I knew many of his friends were involved with the group, and I asked whether he wished to make any criticism of them nr nf snmp. snerifir asnprt nf fhp.ir hp.1ip.fs T p.ninvp/1 his rpsnnncp* "WpII you know, I wear leather, and if I were stranded out in the woods and couldn't find any berries or anything to eat, I would kill an animal and put it in my mouth. But hunting, you know, I don't know. I mean, is a cow really an animal? I don't know." At this point, I decided that I liked him very much and would ask him only questions of the teeny bopper bio' stats variety. Here is what I learned: Kevn Kinney is 30 years old and more impassioned about playing rock music than ever. His basic philosophy is that "you should be arrogant enough to be yourself." He writes all the songs for the band, though he has never sat down with the formal intention of writing one; they just come to him as spontaneous self-expression. When not on the road, the band practices five days a week and four hours a day. Kevn never practices on his own, however. His hair is brown, and his eye color is uncertain. He does not care much for rap music. He likes to do things by himself. And he has two creeds which he says nicely supplement the one given above: a) "Turn it up, or turn it the f? off' and b) "A full cup of coffee, a fiill tank of gas, a steady job and an open road is all you need". I neglected to ask just how one can pursue the open road and at the same time maintain a steady job. Somehow his thoughts on cows had answered that for me. I ?? I fcggTL We Love Our Alpha Class ?y> Missy Laffey Jennifer Bagwell Terri Lancaster Tracy Baker Marie Lovelace Angela Bell Nicole McBrayer Mason Best Piper McLean Emily Black Ann Morrow Ashlee Blyth Natalie Nichols Barbra Brignoli Michelle Porter Kim Busterna Maxi Powell Lesley Canady Abi Raymond Ashley Catoe Amy Robertson Courtenay Chilton Nikki Robertson McKenzie Combs Jennifer Robinson Lucinda Dorset! Kristi Rogers Tar a Durham Pam Schumacher Lisa Frank April Skeen Kim Gantt Tracev Stokes ; mmw?wj - - Dana Hill Christie Terrell Nikki Johnson Dana Thomas Dolly Justice _ Sherrill Turner Michelle Klingman Kristin Nertheimer IHlsoiZZZrHI I Wfeach Plasma Donation I IH H $160 Minimum BBB I Per Month | Males with B blood types. Special Bonus program for students. /^Y^\ 2739 Laurel St. %L I I Suite 1-C S B H Columbia, SC Sc'rSL 254-6537 J__ N#I\H m fh 1 ?2jg?} g yj?? Drivin* n* cryin' will perform at B.L. Roosters Thurj tickets will go on sale at 8 p.m. at B.L. Roosters. RESERVE OFF VfllT IT IUU LL Build Army class ( withe regis . ? CRYIN %r.Vwmj^L ' ? W ^fik ^h|B| 'IP t - v- '%*&$* JSr m% \* it * wr r f I ' sfll^HBHIV* 1 #flH m?iiiil^ f K >*' ,lipillWPIl^M^ Hi ' % II J^ JhEEt Jjjjtt,^P^HKnik TBI '"; ' '-;* J : ' ? ' 9lw < jnHni^ i:: ?Hfc# : ii i ^hk||k. tuHt : >day. If the weather Ts good, the concert will be outdoors and an additional 3000 ICERS' TRAINING CORPS mniNG FEW HOURS j SPEND ALL WEEK. 14 September 1991 CAPTAIN VIC HOLMAN 777-6542 your self-confidence in this exciting r ROTC elective. We'll get you out of the room and into adventure. }pen to all freshmen and sophomoreis >ut obligation. Class size is limited so ter today. AfflvlloTC THE SMARTEST COLLEGE COURSE YOU CAN TAKE. 4 <