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ETCETERA Supplements from page A8 have to undergo any research before it goes on the market. And Andro does not have to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration because it is considered neither a food nor a drug. 1 Andro is legal in Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Associ ation and the National Hockey League. It is banned in the National Football League, the Olympics and the NCAA. Androstenedione is a performance enhancer that was developed by the East German athletic drug program in the 1970s. Since then, athletes such as Mark McGwire have used it to run faster and build stamina. Because it became known that McGwire was using the supplement to enhance his performance on the field, sales have skyrocketed, according to a September 1998 article in U.S. News and World Report. It has become most popular among high school athletes who want to build up muscle mass and stamina. There are dangers involved in taking the supplement at a young age. The risk of side effects is increased due to the young age of the person tak ing them. ( If a person takes Andro too early, growth can be stunted because the in crease in testosterone fools the body into thinking it is older. Creatine Creatine is an amino acid that is produced by the body in small amounts and helps promote muscle contractions. It was originally produced in the 1950s by an American pharmaceutical company, but didn’t become popular until the 1990s.. Synthetic creatine is made from a salt (cyanamide and sarcosine) and wa ter mixture. It is used by weightlifters and athletes to build up muscle mass. Weightlifters can do more repetitions because they don’t feel the burning sensations in their muscles anymore. The ingested creatine washes away lactic acid, which causes muscle fa tigue. Results can be noticed within two weeks as long as the person taking it works hard. 1 Creatine is legal in all professional, collegiate and Olympic sports, unlike its counterpart, Androstenedione, which is banned in some leagues. Some of the side effects of Creatine include cramping, tears and pulls of muscles, gas trointestinal distress and seizures, dehydration, nausea and diarrhea. Five Way Friday comes to town by Mackenzie Craven Assistant etCetbra Editor If your musical tastes lie in the area of organ tinged uplifting, radio pop, you might be interest ed in checking out Five Why Fridayls, newest al bum Run Like This. The band successfully celebrated the release of Run Like This to a laige crowd Friday at the El bow Room concert hall. The album includes a variety of pop tempos and enjoyable rhythms that make you want to bob your head to the beat. Pace sounds a lot like a Matchbox 20 outtake. Itfs about a guy trying to save a failing relationship. Despite the depressing subject-matter, it can be fun to sing along with. It starts out with a nice percussion interlude, then it rolls right into the main part of the song. Another song on the album, Does Anybody Care, combines creative guitar chords with long winded vocals. It throws some Wallflowers-style keyboard arrangements in with the traditional line up of guitars and percussion. The song questions if anyone cares about a re cent heartbreak. The end of the song proves to be the most pow erful as Michael Helmlyis vocals come to a climax and harmonizing closes out the song. No Time For Lonely is one of the slowest songs on the album. Helmly urges the listener not to become sad should a relationship end. Keyboards accompany the violin piece to produce a rain-like sound effect. The band includes two sets of broth ers Randy (lead vocals/rhythm guitar) and Michael Helmly (vocals), Mac (lead guitar) and Gibbs Leaphart (bass, vocals), Joe Good (drums/per cussionist) and Michael McWhorter (keyboards). The album was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, the same studio as albums from REM., Sister Hazel and the Gin Blossoms. iFive Way Friday! took their name because the five ' members would drive down Highway 55 to meet for practice while coming from five separate areas of the southeast each Friday. Overall these guys bring local rock and roll home, their music is entertaining and their lyrics are interesting. Bill from page A8 He grew up in the mountains of southwest Vir ginia, where he heard the music even before he heard the radio. In nearby Norton, Va., Wells and his family would go shopping and see acts performing on the street. “They’d have maybe one or two musicians or a family standing on the corner playing music,” he said. When he turned 17, Wells went into the Navy, where he picked up playing the guitar and stayed with it. Later, Wells served in the Army. But, after more than 20 years there and several more working for a pharmaceutical company, Wells decided he wanted to do something for himself. In 1985, he moved to South Carolina and set up a small music shop and concert hall in Cayce. “When we moved down here, I couldn’t find any bluegrass. So I decided to start my own,” he said. As more visitors came in, his little building be came a bona fide outlet for acoustic guitars and a well-known venue for local bluegrass artists. Eventually, he moved into his current shop, a structure whose main room is lined with guitars and whose concert hall seats around 300. “This is what it has come to now. We’re well our culture,” he said of bluegrass. Wells can back up the cultural aspect. Well-versed in the musical realm, he plays in a band himself, one that used to open shows for late bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe. Wells talks fondly of Monroe’s influence, re gretting the fact that he never lived to play Wells’ shop. “He was one of the first ones to start giving each instrument a break, a solo,” Wells said. “Bill used it, and of course other bands started noticing that.” The first part of the title of Wells’ shop is cor rect. It is a music shop above all, with Wells being one of South Carolina’s major dealers in Martin acoustic guitars and Gibson banjos. This goes in hand with one of Wells’ stipulations. He doesn’t sell electric or percussion-oriented in struments; just the raw, natural-sounding tools he grew up with make it into his store. But what sets the shop apart are its Friday night jam sessions, in which anyone, famous or not, can come in and play or just listen. “People who come out to our jam sessions, you don’t know if the person next to you might be a judge or a lawyer or a plumber or a ditch-digger,” Wells In their hand or they come in to listen to some good music.” Wells says that liking for good music is the com mon thread of people who come into the shop. Age and class differences don’t matter. “Nobody comes in here and says, ‘I’m this,’ or ‘I’m that,”’ he said. If Wells, a past winner of the S.C. Folk Heritage Award, has one complaint about owning a shop in the area, it’s attitudes toward the bluegrass genre. “It’s very hard to do in Columbia,” he said of in fluencing tastes. “You can go to North Carolina or Georgia or somewhere like that, and bluegrass is thriving. South Carolina is just like a pocket. It’s hard to sell.” Wfells said he’s even had radio stations add drums and other effects to advertisements for his shop, which have bluegrass playing behind them. But he’s not planning on giving up what he does anytime soon. “When I first came here, you know, you men tion bluegrass, and they sort of turn away from it or turn their nose up at it,” he said. “Now you have people who are prominent people in the city that come over to the jam sessions.” “The attitude has changed, and it keeps chang ing,” he said. “It just takes a lot of cultivating.” \foT&( VOTE FOR THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND SENATORS. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 16 & THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17 ) • pi_ogontovip.sc.edu pEnter your student id and pin number pctick the personal tab pchoose Student Government Elections E1V0TE! ► m FOR CANDIDATE PLATFORM INFORMATION VISIT THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT WEBSITE AT: www.sa.sc.edu/sga/sg.htm yt>T&(ybrg/ , *—- jflpmi -II