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BEN PILLOW Assitant Features Editor
Riding the wave sDurred bv their first full-leneth
CD release, "Excessive Use of the Passive Voice,"
Treadmill Trackstar continues their tumultuous fall
touring schedule at Rockefellas' tonight, following up
vocalist/guitarist Angelo Gianni and cellist Heidi
Brown's acoustic performance Wednesday at the Courtyard
Coffee House.
Rounded out by Chris Gregg on bass and Tony Lee
on drums, Treadmill Trackstar was "thrown together"
in 1994, Gianni said, a situation that lended itself
to establishing immediate chemistry.
"As soon as we got together, we got on the road,"
the founder of the band said. "We gelled pretty quickly
because we had to."
After taking their "acoustic-based melodic alternative
rock" sound into the studio, Gianni said the
band loved the end result of their October release.
"We thought the album came out very well, especially
with the money we had to spend," Gianni said.
Released under Gianni's own independent Raging
Rose Records, "Excessive Use of the Passive Voice"
was aided in production by Hootie and the Blowfish's
Mark Bryan.
In support of the album, the band has consistently
spent most of this year on the road, providing occasional
backing for Matthew Sweet, Hootie and the
Blowfish and Dillon Fence.
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STEPHANIE SONNENFELP Features Editor
Turning the dial to 90.5 this weekend might put
in shock.
Imagine listening to WUSC-FM and hearing Du
Duran or Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Take a double t
and realize that WUSC is having their first annual 'J
weekend this weekend and if s time relive your past.
"I came up with the idea because last year during
all request annual fun raiser, most of the songs requ
ed were '80s songs," Kerry Mitchell, WUSC promoti
manager, said.
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remember," said Mitchell.
WUSC will begin its "homage" to the time when!
Johnson was king and "Purple Rain" was a cinematic i
terpiece at 6 p.m. on Friday and will end at 12 a.m. S
day, Nov. 5.
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"We play anywhere from three to seven shows a
week," Gianni said. "Ifs been really busy lately though.
Booking has been going really well and we're getting
out there. We've put 60,000 miles on our van since
January."
As a result, each member of the band has made
Treadmill Trackstar their first priority.
We've all quit our jobs," Gianni said. "Heidi was
actually working as an attorney a month ago, but this
is all we do now."
Because they rarely get to just go out to their practice
space and jam, Gianni said their process of coming
up with new material has taken on a variety of
forms.
"Ifs always different," he said. "Someone will usually
have an idea and we'll just take it and work with
it."
In searching for the lyrics to the album, however,
one may be surprised when what is found inside
the booklet is not the words to the songs, but rather
short stories or poems that go along with each song.
The lyrics, though, are there somewhere. A hint: look
behind the Native American.
As if this was not an artistic enough effort, Gianni
has also released a book of short stories and poems
by the album's same name, meant to be a companion
to the CD.
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anvone liked it." Assisted by the Cultural Council, Gi- |
anni is planning to release another such publication
in December.
As far as the band's current direction, Gianni said
the band is leaning toward a harder edge, thanks to
their inability to find the right electric guitarist.
"I haven't been playing acoustically much lately,
which means a lot of songs are getting more aggres- 1
sive," Gianni said. "That's not necessarily bad, though, I
because we definitely want to change and mix it up."
While Gianni said Treadmill are always looking
for that perfect missing link, "we're happy with what
we have and don't want to mess things up."
Certainly not ? the band's touring routine is firmly
in place (their booking is set a couple of months in
advance), and Gianni said their next step is getting
a booking agent and major label.
"We're getting a lot of good radio play in Columbia,
and now we're working on ways of sending out
the CD and getting signed by a bigger label," Gianni
said. "If we don't, well just record again in three to
four months on our own."
Sound of Mind will open for Treadmill Tracks tar
tonight, a show that Gianni hopes will get everyone E
out.
"We always have fun at Rockefellas'," he said. 1
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PAIGE HAGGARD Staff Writer ij
^ Sex, murder, deceit...it's all there in P
USC Theatre's "The Changeling," and Al
all set in the 15th century.
; Opening night for Thomas Middle- r
ton and William Rowley's "The ?
Changeling," directed by Ann Dreher, "
_ was Friday, Oct. 27. There was a mod- 11
? erate turnout for the show. a
> let stu- The play first appeared in 1622. It 0
ening to deals with the moral decay of a noble
woman, Beatrice-Joanna. She has one
is week- of her father's servants, DeFlores, mur- *
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Duran. other man, Alsemero. From there on, *
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The entire space of the theater-in- ^
ere is no the-round of the Long Street Theatre 1
was completely transformed into a dark, I
dank castle. Three of the corners were t
columns, one corner was a balcony. The 1
center of the stage was a pit, surround- I
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'lenty of bawdy humor was provided by
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cenes. Chris McCormick and Frank Malarajh,
Jr. were entertaining as a madnan
and a fool, repsectively. Everyone
lid a wonderful action job, although Nate
Vhitworth's Vermandero was sometimes
l bit too stiff.
The directing was clear and very
rell-done, aptly manipulating the darkLess
of the play. Only the last scene, the
lumb show of Beatrice and DeFlores's
lescent into hell, seemed counterproluctive;
it was rather anti-climatic.
Overall, the performance was amazng.
Don't let the blank verse and Ja:obean
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JSC Theatre's "The Changeling."
"The Changeling" will run through
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