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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.
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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
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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
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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
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well as they did Wednesday nigh'
Roger Center, they should last f
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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<
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interest, and we're happy with what
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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
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re been known songs, such as "Hot and Both- P
pilling, ered" and "Stompy Jones."
olay as Another song, "Jeep's Blues" writ- s
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bers of ky saxophonist Shelley Overton Paul a
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Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."
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one for and Maureen McGovern came out. Mc- li
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Lead singer Chris Bickel about In/Humanity's last summer tour
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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
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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. Unless more young people start
ily been performing together for a week, to support Big Bands, it won't be long
ut it proved to be a favorite of the au- before they pass away with the World
ience. War II generation.
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