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A ; \i ! I d y r ] r 1 P I ' While it Is difficult to ^ s 1 ;; describe their music, S Columbia's In/HumsLiiity I \ I ^sticks to what it knows. Like W ( it or not, the band speaks " I ?the truth in its own brutal, I R honest language. I c JBy BEN PILLOW f [jAssistant features Editor d i c v r i fhe Mighty IARTHA HOTOP Asst. News Editor said D march] Thp flnlispum is silpnt SuHHpnlv i j, near ai tie percussion and low brass start play- p. ig"2001." As the music gets more intense, the nowd starts cheering. This is the Sounds I^US1C' f Gamecock Spirit concert. short ^ Sponsored by the marching band, Brass < le Sounds of Gamecock Spirit started walk". ist year as a pep rally to motivate stu- conduc ents. song. "We wanted to get the weekend start- In a i and build spirit for the football game," will als us Si ^ I? MS "I.Tfeel WUS *rffl Stephe ALTERNATIVE 90. S 3'??? W*TIS 1. Magnetic Fields iywoit! 2. Clusone Trio 3. Boss Hog trate Tl 4. Mr. Bungle ?ZZ 5. Ace Yalone sirr,pf's *; g* |j.|m f.|i. melodfe 0. John ZOffl jg. can't 9 7. The Sea and Cake 8. Garden Variety of The 9. Freakwater tured b 10. Karp ? >H ? flB sk In/Humanit; calist Chris Bickei ? to describe the b; music and a pain strained look wil pear on his face. He pauses and his head, desper; groping to match language with a s< 1 ? a sound that In/Humanity would n not categorize. Bickei is obviously ann with the interviewer's question. "That's hard to do because we're t g to sound different from anything els there," Bickei says finally. "We're ti to do something that can't be pigeon-1 almost. It still falls within the real punk rock, but has more of a da-da fee is kind of quirky, with a little more < atic influence in the instrumental ^ Good enough. That sound earned Ir manity a number one spot on WUSC1 Top Ten last month following their tember vinvl release "In/Humanitv ? Killed By Robots" on Raging Rose Rec their second full-length seven-inch. The band was formed five years aj Bickel and guitarist Paul Swanson, v both lived in Aiken and were "the onlj A people in town that could relate to i other as far as music." With the recen _ ditions of drummer Ben Roth and ba J Will Z (Bickel claims no one knows his ish last name), they are going throu 9 transitional period after original drun _ Marty Britton quit due to time constn three weeks ago. ^"We're not playing many shows because we're trying to get the new n bers comfortable," Bickel said. Othen the band would be playing their noi "five shows a month, mostly in the tri-i area," according to Bickel. Tbe band has only gone on an ext ed tour once before, when last sumn two-week jaunt took them as far as J las. With the new lineup, though, Bi I said they are hoping to go on the road a once a year, especially after the resp I they received during their debut torn The tour we did was pretty succe: as far as reactions to the music go," I el said. "(Our music) is not for everyb m sound or tne avid O'Shields, director of the the groups that make up the ba ing band. "It's also a chance to coquettes and flag corps will e? 11 of our shows in one sitting." form routines to about six differer ing the concert, audience mem- future twirlers also choreog II hear the entire pre-game show's routines to complement the sh all three half-time shows and S1C'01 , . . , ? i , id yy t ohorter sori^s, plciyGcl s.t the ilechons T_ouie Louie, ^ne Low ^ j7 , or? 1 ?tt?Anr. fv,/i pnarj will help motivate the a ^ Under the Board- for Saturday's game. Many of the A guest conductor, Cocky, will ^ feature the cheerleaders ai :t "Step to the Rear," the fight routines. Cocky will also be at the coi ddition to the music, the concert help get the audience motivate o showcase the talent of some of Saturday's game. Charlie Maci 'SSS Ellingl |? jffij ' MIKE O'CONNELL Staff Writer well as they did Wednesday nigh' Roger Center, they should last f Of course, no original mem B p the orchestra are still playing (] _ .. tJ. . t . ton died in 1974), but the audienc nacpnCuC FtefOS: w Los* ofwhomwere50-years-oldorold n Merritt follows up both tainly appreciated the music, ar's Hoficfay and The Ellington's 76-year-old son, I of the highway Strip with ; conducts the orchestra as he's di r brilliantly depressing the past 15 years. With his slov on into his gay and lone- ting, dancing, jiving, waving an * of electro-pop. This spirited movements, Ellington ka actually allows a few band and the audience loose, ive instruments to pane- Selections during the first hal lie Magnetic Fields' sig- show ranged from jazz to blues t< tfeslmiinrf'^ t0ragtime' ThebandPlayedm X with wonderful 3S and choruses that you B^PHpBBB st out of your head. At m* IJ Ufa} TLfM the music resembles earOrder and the pop side l f Cure with Merritt's tor- B B aritone ever present fl mm if f ?Eric Greenwood ' A1SC-FM Music Director ;tc. fr * jkbsm %l? mm mjm g y vo- ^fii h [how ^iii n iully | Hi a rubs tXhCLy U 5und BH lb tl ither LJ Hnifl toyed Fm always unsure about reactions. I was tying a little surprised actually." e out His surprise may have been the ying byproduct of the band's evolving loled musical directions, changes that JM m of have alienated some of their fens, JH 1 and Bickel said. fl aper- "We've changed a lot," he ion." said. "When we first started we I i/Hu- had a pretty straightforward FNFs hardcore sound. That got old, 1 Sep- so we tried to be more challeng- I Gets ing and a lot of people lost inter- Vj ords, est But, different people also gained " interest, and we're happy with what ?o by we're doing." vhile Happy to the point where the band is j two "definitely doing it for fun above everything each else," according to Bickel. t ad- "Everything we do has a serious meanssist ing though," he added. "It's all about clui Pol- ing other people in to where we're coming gh a from emotionally and philosophically. The uner whole reason we're doing it is not to beaints come rock stars, but more as a release." It is music, Bickel said, usually cennow tered on how Swanson is feeling at any givlem en moment, since he writes most of it. vise, "When Paul has about three-quarters rmal of the song finished I'll come in and put state some lyrics to the mood and we'll just tweek it out," Bickel said, end- The band is hoping to head into The aer's Jam Room in January to record an LP and Dal- CD that will be out the followiner month ickel on Passive Fist. Other than that, Bickel bout said there are no real definite plans ? even onse their next Columbia show, at Senseless Beauty Nov. 27, is unconfinned. ssful Bickel ended the interview in much the lick- same way as it began, again stressing In/Huody. inanity's self-inflicted uniqueness, and even Southeast t nd. The der, the new voice of the Gamecock Spir- i ich per- it, will be announcing each of the songs. it songs. "We hope to have a good turn-out of f jraphed fans and students," Drum Major Elizaow mu- beth Caldwell said. "We hope the con- j cert will show the fans that we appre- f football date their support." c udience This concert brings together all the se songs musical selections that the group spent t id their the season learning. The 298-member s group started practicing back on Aug. acert to 19. t d about In the week before school started, c \lexan- the band practiced almost 40 hours. Dur- s ton hits th Lady," "Mood Indigo," "Satin Doll" and "Caravan." The audience especially liked h Rolling the tatter two as well as a few lesser c re been known songs, such as "Hot and Both- P pilling, ered" and "Stompy Jones." olay as Another song, "Jeep's Blues" writ- s t at the ten by Johnnie Hodges, likewise pleased v orever. the audience. It featured blues singing E bers of ky saxophonist Shelley Overton Paul a Elling- an outstanding trumpet solo by Bar- r e, most rie Lee Hall Jr., 'I er cer- The band also performed George s. Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." fiercer For the second half, Ellington left S one for and Maureen McGovern came out. Mc- li r stmt- Govern is an exceptionally fine singer, ns and known for her Academy Award winning V aps the song. "The Morning After," from "The Poseidon Adventure," and other disas- ii p Pii fpr.tJiomoH mmnoQ mliipVi cravo hop tlio TV/ i oi me - ,..uvu6?,wiv,i ) Latin nickname "the disaster singer." Sheal- oi any 0f so appeared as the singing nun in "Air- b icated Plane!" d Your congenial personal stereo... |M|^ WUSC 90.5FM Friday, November 10,199! uitarist Paul Swan son is own discomfort at talking about the Jjm lusic, preferring to let the listener draw ^ leir own conclusions. jSkI 'Things like this are hard for me to do," e said. "We really can't be compared with nybody else, which is kind of for better or Jml rorse. Some people have to have a label Jam ) stick on something because if they don't, An le^re scared offby it." Am PjTlP ? JjSjf Pllfe /* & ' VRjfliP "(Our music) is not for everybody. I' m always unsure about reactions. T T.xor. o HH-1^ AinrmiTip^ nnhi^lhr" JL VVUIJ LXi ilUUiu U jyjL rj!V jut i ri.i I j/. Lead singer Chris Bickel about In/Humanity's last summer tour oots its own horn ng the semester, the group practices The compact disc will be available iight hours per week, not including their in the band office and in the bookstores Saturday morning performances. ? m^0+ o0 - 7 ouiii^buiic cuwii \yxuioviuao. AU of the practice helps the group for the Sounds of Gamecock jolish each of the three completely diferent shows that they learn through- sPirit can ^ purchased through any >ut the season. Capital Ticket Office or by calling 251The group spends approximately two 2222. o three weeks learning each of its new The tickets will be $6 for adults and ^?7S' .... , $3 for students and senior citizens. The In addition to putting on the concert ? A .... , x onight, the marching band is also pro- money from the concert wdl be used to lucing a compact Hisr featuring the mu- establish a scholarship fund for music iic from this season. students. e Koger Center One of the highlights of the second "The genius of Duke Ellington," she ialf was McGovern's rendition of the or- said, "was the element of surprise. He hestra's all-time biggest hit, Take the never did the same thing twice." i-Train." McGovern also sang a medley from She talked to the audience often, her album to be released in the spring, ometimes a little too sentimentally, but which features Harold Arlen songs. The fas well received. Putting the Big Band medley included "Accentuate the Posi!ra in its World War II context, she sang tive," "Stormy Weather," "Get Happy" medley of songs from that period, a pe- and "Blues in the Night." iod "when people said 'I love you' and Mercer Ellington later came back to '11 wait for you'?and meant it," she the stage to conduct "On a Turquoise aid. Cloud," in which McGovern sang "word The medley included "A Nightingale less vocals," mimicking a flute, ang in Berkeley Square" and "I'll be Both halves of the show were equaltome for Christmas." Later, she sang ly entertaining. The instrumental sofhe White Cliffs of Dover" and "Boogie los were crisp and spirited, especially /oogie Bugle Boy" also from that era. Paul's sax, Hall's trumpet and Thomas Four of the band members joined her James'piano. Unfortunately, music like 1 an a cappella version of Duke's "In this is fast becoming an endangered ly Solitude," a song she said they've species. 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