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JOHN LYONS Music Editor
Four bands will play their variations
of the Southern circuit jam-rock sound
for 1996*8 Cockstock Friday night at the
Carolina Coliseum.
While much of the attention will be
on regional stars Widespread Panic,
inree nne uoiumDia bands will also be
taking the stage.
Sourwood Honey, a six-man band
from Lexington, will be sharing the main
stage with Widespread Panic, while
Shades of Grey and Mountain Express
will perform on a second stage.
Sourwood Honey is the longest
standing of the three local bands, and
Cockstock will be one of their first
Columbia shows in support of their new,
self-titled album.
The band got its start playing
Columbia's clubs, and their sound is
deeply rooted in the jam tradition of the
Allman Brothers Band and the Grateful
Dead.
Bassist Bob Hylton saifl that while
such comparisons are rooted in truth,
they do not indicate the band's various
influences.
"We don't like to be tied down to one
thing," Hylton said. "It makes it a lot
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Have you been feeling a little down
lately? Have your eyes felt tired? Is the
fuse on your temper a little shorter than
it used to be? Maybe your computer's
monitor is the culprit.
At least, that's what some research
is starting to suggest. Although you may
not know it, the cathode ray tube in your
desktop monitor is emitting positive ions,
and there is research to show prolonged
exposure to these ions can be blamed for
eveiything from stress and irritability
to fatigue and depression.
Whafs even more interesting is that
exposure to negative ions may actually
help to alleviate these problems in
humans.
What turned me on to the issue of
ions is a compilation of research made
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concentrating on one
style."
Drummer Cale
Hernandez said his
musical background was
in heavy metal, and the
other members of the
band also had different
backgrounds.
Although the band is
jam-oriented, Hernandez
said its audience is diverse
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everybody in the crowd,"
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setting up the tour.
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professionalism," he said.
"It really opens the door for you." i
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will be playing between Sourwood Honey '
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samples of research and press coverage
he has gathered about the effects of ions.
According to Stapleton, the ion issue
really entered the mainstream last
February when CBS News (still with
Connie Chung!) reported on a Columbia
University study that showed exposure
to a high-density negative ion generator
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depression" in humans as medications
such as Prozac.
Stapleton's research also references
an article that appeared in a California
newspaper with the headline, "Beating
a case of the VODS: Negative ions maybe
an answer to the video blahs."
VODS stands for Video Operator
Distress Syndrome. The article quotes
a consultant with the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration as saying VODS
occurs because cathode rays tubes create
a "hazard zone" of positive ion emissions
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about a foot long in front of monitors.
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a real problem for people who sit in front
of a monitor all day. It's especially bad
for me because, as anyone who knows
me can tell you, I don't see veiy well.
I often have my face closer than a
foot to my monitor and I don't think
I will ever rub my weary eyes again
without thinking about all the ions
they may have absorbed.
Up to this point, all of the
information I have used in this article
has come from Stapleton's compilation
of research. This is because there
seems to be very little information
out there about ion effects on the
human body. Web and library catalog
searches turned up nothing for me.
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I posted to two Usenet newsgroups and
to ProfNet, asking anyone with
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Saxist Chris Bussell
said while playing in the
band as a full-time student
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"If anything, it's
facilitated the formation of
the band," he said. "A couple
of us are in the School of
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serious about being
musicians," he said. "A lot
of hard work has gone into
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already started working on
its first album, which should
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on the second stage before Shades of
Grey.
Mountain Express's music is split
into two categories, according to Scott
Coggins, who plays mandolin and sings.
"We do a lot of traditional bluegrass
songs, and then we do some psychedelic
Grateful Dead-inspired stuff," Coggins
said. "It's basically extended jams and
then plugged-in versions of bluegrass
songs."
The band has been playing together
for the last eight months. They had
played together for about a year before
splitting up and reforming between six
and eight months later.
The five-man band is considering
adding a keyboard player, but Coggins
said they started as a much smaller
group.
"Mountain Express originated with
me and Dave Amos (guitar and vocals)
playing around town at different bars,
pretty much acoustic," he said.
Coggins cited the Allman Brothers
Band as a big influence.
"Our crowd is definitely a hippie
crowd," he said.
That may well be true of the crowd
at Cockstock as well. Allman Brothers
Band influences will be in abundance
Friday night, and Columbia's Southem4A
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hot spots, as a cool site. Staffers have
also received e-mail kudos from local
businesses and even The Poynter
Institute.
I knew The Gamecock Online would
be impressive, since Online Editor Ryan
Sims is my roommate. I think Ryan and
his staff have exceeded all expectations
in creating a layout and structure that
rival many commercial online newspapers.
If you haven't visited The Gamecock
Online yet, it can be found at
http://www.gamecock.sc.edu.
Marc LaFountain, a journalism
senior,; can be e-mailed at lafountainr
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