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The Classic Battle Crowd input will help decide final winner of Battle of the Bands BY ASHLEiY VAUGHAN THE GAMECOCK The final round of Battle of the Bands kicks off this Thursday at New Brookland Tavern. Out of twelve bands, Captain Easy, King Hippo and Thomas Reed Band re main to compete for the $5,000 grand prize. The second place prize is $1,000, and the third place prize is $500. “We wanted to show that we’re behind the local bands. We wanted to give them an opportunity to make some money,” said Jonathan Dunagin, a coordinator of the event. . Captain Easy is the first to per form this Thursday, followed by Thomas Reed Band on Nov. 15 and King Hippo on Nov. 29. Admission is $5. “Bar sales and attendance de termine the winner,” Dunagin said. This year is the first Ume fans play a role in the outcome of the battle. Whichever baud has the most people attend iti show and spend money, winsJln previous battles, judges voted on their top pick to decide the Winner. “Using judges isn’t really TairbeeaPSelOs based on someone’s opinion,” sUid Matt Alsup, bass player for Captain Easy. Alsup agrees witlyNew Brookland Tavern’s methocrof cal culating the winner. “Youpfans de cide if you win... that’s Where the fairness comes in,” he Mid. David Baker of tWe Thomas Reed Band isn’t concerned about winning. “If we win? we win. If we don’t, we don’t,” he said. “It’s just an honor to be one of the top three.” He doesn’t eveh have plans for what to do with the prize-mopey. “Our big thing was just to make it to the finals,” he said. / Concerning the prize/fnoney, Alsup of Captain Easy sajtl, “We’re going to put it towards buying a van.” Dennis Ware of Kin/Hippo said, “We haven’t decided What to do with the money yet. We may use it to buy studio time to make another §Ibum or to buy a tour vehicle.” / Captain Easy is Ryan |nonroe (keyboard, lead vocahs), Josh Robert (guitar, lead vocals), Matt Train (guitar), Alsup (Mss), Shaun Riffle (drums) and Josh Riffle (per cussion). Two-year veterans of the local music scene/they released their first CD last May: j “Our music has different fl/ vors with a radio-type feel,” Alsup said. “People tell us it’s like qarly ’70s rock.” / For those who have nevar seen Thomas Reed Band livef David Baker, guitarist, describe^ ts sound as “straight up rock androll.” “It’s radio friendly/not jazz or jam,” he said. Thomas Reed Band has been playing me local scene since 1998, and it/ut out its third CD this past summer. “We have Pa fol ders and ipthe Will rheir n the imbia King Hippo members are Jeff Kozelski (lead vocals, guitar); Dennis Ware (vocals, drums); Tom Eden (bass); and Justin Banks (keyboard), who joined in July. They celebrated their two year anniversary on Halloween and released their first CD Friday Night earlier this year. “Our influences are jazz and funk,” Ware said. “We do a lot of improvisational stuff. We play one song for an hour straight or three songs with no break in be tween them,” he said. “We try to cover a lot of differ ent bases. It’s mellow at some points and then loud and rocking at others,” Ware said. King Hippo plays on the 29th, and the band expects to go on at 9 p.m. and continue until 2 a.m. “In the first round we played for six hours, taking only one break. This time we are going to try to play for six hours without a break,” Ware said. New Brookland Tavern will announce the winner of the Battle of the Bands on Wednesday, Dec. 5. SHOWBIZ BRIEFS Black can’t give up music or acting NEW YORK (AP) - Don’t force Jack Black to pick between his musical or acting careers. The 32-year-old performer, who stars this month opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the ro mantic comedy Shallow Hal, also is the lead singer in the folk-metal duo Tenacious D. “You want me to make a Sophie’s choice?” he says. “That’s what you’re asking me to do, and it’s not fair. You’re asking me to choose between two children, the one that pays more and the one that I secret ly love more.” The band’s self-titled debut album, which features such tracks as “Karate Schnitzel” and “Kielbasa,” has put Tenacious D on the road even as Black’s profile continues to soar since a scene-stealing per formance last year opposite John Cusack in High Fidelity. “With the acting, it’s some body else’s brainchild, and I’m just sort of helping flesh it out,” Black told the Daily News in Sunday’s editions. With the mu sic, he says, “There’s a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.” From Sally to Sylvia, sitcoms to broadway NEW YORK (AP) - Kristen Johnston has never let the fact she’s 6 feet tall hamper her act ing flexibility. “If I’d wanted to play in genues, I’d probably have run into some roadblocks, but I’m a character actress,” she said in Sunday’s editions of Newsday. The actress, 34, best known for her work as Sally on the sit com 3rd Rock From the Sun, has taken on the role of Sylvia in a revival of The Women, which opens this month on Broadway. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in a suburb of Milwaukee, Johnston studied drama at New York University and won the role of Sally after a casting director saw her in a stage production of The Lights in 1993. “I think that since I could co hesively form thoughts, I want ed to be an actress, and I seemed to know how to do it,” she said. “It was a long, hard struggle—I waitressed, worked in clothing stores. But fortunately, things kept happening to reinvigorate me instead of making me back off.” Sexy temptress now a family physician ALLENTOWN, PA. (AP) - Alison Dietrich, the sexy temptress on last season’s Fox reality show Temptation Island, has landed a new role: family physician. Dr. Dietrich, 29, newly board certified in family medicine, took a job with the Pocono Medical Center in eastern Pennsylvania. “When I walk into a pa tient’s room, they have no idea,” Dietrich told The Morning Call newspaper on Sunday. “Even if they do know, they do take me seriously be cause I’m the one that’s going to figure out the problem they came here for.” . Dietrich, who will appear on a Fox Temptation Island re union show on Wednesday, wants to parlay her TV role into a career as medical commenta tor. She’s already appeared on a Philadelphia news station to talk about anthrax and small pox. Films Library of Congress hands over films CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 grainy appearance and scarring often associated with old films. “These films are just going to leap off the screen,” Faden said. Each site selects its own pro gram from the National Film Registry. Lewisburg’s program ranges from some of the earliest films (The Great Train Robbery, 1903) to modem classics (Raging Bull, 1980), including several lit tle-known but influential shorts and documentaries. Faden said he chose the films to represent the “variety of American cinema,” as well as its international character. Film noir, for example, has connec tions to German expressionism. “That’s why I wanted a film like Sunrise, which was a very important film in the film noir movement,” Faden said. “F.W. Murnau was a German expres sionist who came to America and made Hollywood films. So what we think of as American film is often an international ex perience.” The 60-year-old Campus Theater is the only first-run movie house in Lewisburg, and was showing its age. “Structurally, it was in good shape, so we’re lucky about that,” said Faden, who bought it over the summer. “But we’re talking 1930s wiring, 1930s plumbing.” He removed about half of the theater’s 700 seats and in stalled a platform in the back to serve as cafe and coffee lounge. Some technical improve ments also were required for the film tour. For instance, be cause silent films run at a dif ferent speed than modern movies and were shown in a square format instead of a let terbox, the Library of Congress requires that the aters on the tour have the proper motors and lenses to show them. Faden went one better. Silent films Big Business and Safety Last were accompanied live by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. Led by Bucknell music profes sor Rick Benjamin, the orches tra used those movies’ original scores. MONEY TALKS " What e^ch bapcTwould do with the money if they won: “If we win, we win. If we don’t we don’t. It’s Just an honor to be one of the top three.” DAVID BAKER THOMAS REED BAND “We’re going to put it towards buying a new van.” MATT ALSUP CAPTAIN EASY “We may use It to buy studio time to make another album or to buy a tour vehicle.” DENNIS WARE KING HIPPO King Hippo, left, and Captain Easy, photos special to the gamecock 5 Days Only! Nov. 6-10! 20 European Cities Available. 1-800-2COUNCIL council tr<sive www.counciltravel.com 9 Lectures 9* Term Paper I^Job Leave ’em all behind and get outta here. 800.777.0112 Battle of the Bands ROUND 2 NEW BROOKLAND TAVERN Nov. 8 Week 1: Captain Easy Nov. 15 Week 2: Thomas Reed Band Nov. 22 Week 3: King Hippo \\ ^ v \ \ If you are ready for a REAL Tailgate Party, then come on by! —-M The next to the last Great Gamecock November 10 (USC vs. FLORIDA) 5:00 - 7:00 PM featuring music by: DJ Rusty Bigham v Seawell's Parking Lot - 1125 Rosewood Drive /across the street from "the ROCKET" at the State Fairgrounds. The best part is that it is all FREE: Music, Lots of Great Food, Drinks & Door Prizes. Souvenirs for the first 250 ISC students in attendance at each Tailgate Party. General Parking is available at SeaweU's for $10 per vehicle. THIS TAILGATE PARTY IS AN ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG-FREE ENVIRONMENT sponsored by the Russell House Alcohol & Drug Programs. 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