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The band will also include Aston “Familyman” Barrett on bass, Earl “Wya” Lindo on organ, Glen DaCosta on sax and Vin Gordon on trombone. Barrett is the only one, however, who played with Marley from the beginning of his career until his untimely death. The song lineup on Friday will include such famous reg gae hits as “I Shot the Sheriff,” “No Woman No Cry” and “One Love,” as well as a few new original Wailers songs. These are the songs that moved peo pie to buy more than 250 mil lion records worldwide. Time magazine named Bob Marley and The Wailers’ album Exodus Album of the Century in 1999. The Wailers’ most recent re lease was an album of Phish covers for charity called Sharin’ in the, Groove: Celebrating the Music of Phish. On this recording, they cov ered the Phish song “Makisupa Policeman.” Other artists, such as Jimmy Buffett, Dave Matthews and Little Fea,t recorded songs on this double CD, released in July 2001 to contribute to chidren’s music education. For a strong dose of classi cal reggae, check out The Elbow Room on Friday night and let The Wailers take you away to an island of tropical breeze and fun. Reggae con certs are great ways to relax and release steam, and who better to satisfy your soul than the group that defined reggae for so long? For more information about the band and its concerts, go to The Wailers’ Web site, www.wail ers.com. — Sex Mob lends sounds to newest Bond movie BY AUBREY FUtiLt T11KUAMEC0CK Some bands need a movie be fore they can make a soundtrack for it. Not Sex Mob, an alterna tive jazz band from New York City whose new CD specializes in songs for a James Bond film, Dr. Yes, that hasn’t been created yet. The band’s current tour pro moting its new album, Sex Mob Does Bond, features a sound that meshes psychedelia with soul. The album contains new songs, such as “Teasing the Korean” and “Bond with Bongos,” along with timeless classics “Goldfinger,” “The Spy who Loved Me,” “You Only Live Twice” and two ver sions of the original James Bond tneme song m the opening ana closing credits. The New York Times wrote, “Sex Mob is what jazz could use right about now. It leaps out at you with a shockingly hot sound.” Spin Magazine agreed: “It brings back all the fun jazz (and lately rock) has forgotten to have.” The Wall Street Journal voted Sex Mob Does Bond one of the top 10 re leases of 2000. The concept album, according to the band, is split into five dis tinct segments, including the opening credits, a four-song first act, an intermission, a four-song second act and the closing credits. Steven Bernstein, the band’s leader, said about making the al bum, “I listened to hours of Bond soundtrack albums, and, by process ot elimination, ended up with the songs on this CD. It is firmly in the Bond tradition, with some Little Richard thrown in.” The album is on rotation at 90.5, WUSC-FM. The band features Bernstein (musical director of Get Shorty and Clay Pigeons) on slide trum pet, Kenny Wollesen on drums, Briggan Krauss on saxophone and Tony Scherr on bass. The bands’ album was produced by Scotty Hard Wu-Tang fame. John Medeski of Medeski, Martin & Wood, who played keyboards on the album, won’t appear with them on this tour. Sex Mob will perform at The Elbow Room on Saturday as part of its Southeastern tour. i Sex Mob’s sound blends soul with psychedelia, photo special to the gamecock Just plain folklife Folklife Festival to feature crafts, bluegrass music BY LAUREN VAUGHN THE GAMECOCK If you’d like a taste of pra lines, boiled peanuts or catfish stew coupled with a lively country-and-Western swing band and mixed in with some Gullah stories, join the McKissick Museum at the sev enth annual Fall Folklife Festival on Saturday, Oct. 27. The festival will bring people representing the distinct tradi tions of our region to the USC Horseshoe from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. People will bring parts of their lifestyle, livelihood and hobbies to this historic venue. “By folklife and folk arts, we mean activities and arts that are passed down from genera tion to generation,” said Saddler Taylor, a McKissick Museum folklorist. “A great ex ample is the sweet-grass bas kets made down in Mt. Pleasant, where the skills are generally passed down from mother to daughter through the generations.” According to the McKissick Museum, folklife is “rooted in family and community activi ties” and “involves song, speech, and dance... belief, rit ual and custom ... music, craft and cookery ... expressive forms of all kinds, communi cated directly by observation, imitation or verbally.” It includes everything from the past, present and future that creates a cultural identity unique to a particular region. In 1985, the McKissick Museum created the Folklife Resource ' Center house photographs, field-notes and other informa tion useful to Southern folklife scholars. The Fall Festival aug ments the Resource Center's ef forts. “A lot of people get it con fused with a craft festival, but it's much more specific than that and focuses on a particu lar group of artists from the area,” Taylor said. “We focus on food a lot, too, because we all like to eat.” More than fifty participants will gather at the festival to share their skills. Some of the activities and booths scheduled include pottery; split-oak bas ket making; beekeeping; chair caning; hash making; Native American song, dance and sto rytelling; and oyster boat build ing. If taking a hands-on ap proach sounds appealing, be sure to check out the discovery tent, where visitors can try homemade pottery; butter churning; cotton carding, weaving and spinning; and gourd painting. “Our education department likes to get kids and adults in volved hands on and get them doing things like making pot tery,” Taylor said. “They can talk to potters and then go to the hands-on tent and make t ♦ FESTIVAL, SEE PAGE 6 use LIFE Being true to my PC mm mm wmm wmam mb i n DENISE LEVEREAUX GAMECOCKMIXEDITOR@HOTMAIL.CDM My computer died. Big surprise. Unfortunately, it didn't go peacefully. It went out spitting, biting and cussing. With the demonic operating system that is Windows 98 Second Edition, I knew it was only a matter of time. After the death, my PC-using friends consoled me: “We'll get you Win2000. We'll have you up and running again in no time.” . My Mac-using friends smiled viciously at the news. “I told you so,” they said. “You need to buy a Mac.” No. No, no, no, no and more no. No way, no nuw. i\yei, nun, men. ■ Notjustno,but“never-in-a million-years-not-over-my-dead body” no. Out of respect for my now defunct PC, I would like to share some of my reasons for never buying a Mac: 1) If you look at it from a Darwinistic perspective, the PC wins. The PC is more popular. You can’t go buy a Mac from Best Buy. You can, however, buy 3 billion kinds of PCs. (Of course, if you have hard-core computing needs, you shouldn't buy your PC from a retail store at all. But that's neither here nor there.) 2) Just because Mac has a great marketing department doesn't mean it makes great computers. Granted, the 1984 ad that ran at the Super Bowl was amazing. Mac advertising can come up with some really great ads - 111 admit that. But if they dump all their money into advertising, where’s the money to offer me an amazing machine at a great price? (This is partly why higher-end Macs are so expensive. If you want a Mac that will actually do something, you have to be prepared to shell out the big bucks.) 3) I refuse to buy a computer from a company whose slogan is grammatically incorrect. Think different. I don't know the proper term for that grammatical error, but I know it's bad. If they can't get their slogan right, God only knows what they're doing when they build my computer. 4) I won't buy a computer from a company that spends more timo follzincr mo oV»r\u+ Vinur many colors I could get than what kind of technology is actually inside the machine. Computers aren't supposed to be cute. They’re supposed to be functional. I want to be able to talk about relevant stuff, like IDE controller buses. I don't want to talk about whether I want cherry, grape or orange. Next, they'll be asking me whether I want fries with my iMac. Mac focuses on selling computers to people who don't know what they need in a computer. It’s a brilliant idea, and I give credit to Mac's marketing geniuses for that. Unfortunately, that leaves people with computing needs besides playing DVDs or typing a paper high and dry. If Mac would start focusing on its technology instead of its marketing, it could probably create a computer that would do everything I need at a price that wouldn't require me to turn to a life of crime. Right now, however, it's nowhere near there. Levereaux is a third-year studetit in the Moore School of Business.