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range of pop, blues, acoustic and
reggae performances held each
week at Piazza Bergamo.
Greenville’s most popular music
venUe, however, remains the Bi
Lo Center. It brings in famous
talent every month.
Acts scheduled to appear soon
include Kenny Chesney, Eric
Clapton, Kid Rock and Hootie
and the Blowfish with Edwin
McCain.
Greenville offers ample oppor
tunities for adventurers. Paris
Mountain State Park has camp
ing grounds and cabins to use
while you explore the 1500
square feet of mountainous
forests and trails. Greenville also
has a fantastic zoo that is con
nected to some of the city’s most
well liked scenic areas.
As the semester comes to a close,
road trips provide an easy es
cape from the pressures of the
end of the semester: If you are
looking for a relaxation destina
tion, Greenville has plenty to of
fer, regardless of your tastes.
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for copies,” a Gaza City video shop
owner who sells bootlegs of new
releases told Reuters recently.
The owner, who declined to be
identified, said he received a flood
of calls after placing an advertise
ment for the film in a Palestinian
newspaper.
Debate over “The Passion,”
which some Jewish organizations
have called anti-Semitic, is high
ly sensitive in Israel.
In February, Israel’s Ashkenazi
Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger urged
Pope John Paul II to speak out
against the film for fear it could
set back decades of Jewish
Christian reconciliation since the
Vatican in 1965 rejected the con
cept that Jews were collectively
responsible for Jesus’ death.
“It is regrettable that a tenden
tious, malicious film should un
dermine the progress that we have
worked for with such great care,”
Metzger wrote. It is unknown how
or whether the Pope replied.
Gibson is a traditionalist
Roman Catholic who reportedly
rejects the 1965 Vatican changes.
Some members of the Knesset,
Israel’s parliament, have been vo
cal in their opposition to the film.
Alan Gorbuz, director of the
Cinematheque in Tel Aviv, a pop
ular art-film venue, said Gibson’s
film “is an aesthetic work and ev
eryone has the right to see it.”
He objected to the idea of peo
ple protesting against a film they
had not seen. He is looking into
the possibility of obtaining limited
rights to show it for a night or two
within the framework of a moder
ated discussion.
One factor hampering a com
mercial release is the film’s rela
tively high cost because of its ex
pected success — more than
$150,000, about twice what it typi
cally costs to release a film in
Israel, Gorbuz said. Given the high
likelihood of protests and boycotts,
that’s a pricey risk on an already
notorious film, he said.
Despite the fervor for and
against “The Passion,” some crit
ics have managed to keep their
sense of humor.
Wrote Yossi Klein Halevi in the
Jerusalem Post: “Given the dam
age he’s done to Christian-Jewish
relations, I wouldn’t want to be
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“SAVE ME”
Pat McGee Band
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BY MEG MOORE
THE (iAMEC.OCK
It’s not necessarily a bad thing
that the Pat McGee Band sounds
unoriginal. They are very good at
what they do, even if what they
do has been done many times be
fore.
The group’s new release, “Save
Me,” is a collection of straight-up,
no apologies, pop-rock songs. The
slightly distorted guitars, the
steady drum beat, the repeated
mentions of “love” — it’s all there.
Some impressive harmonies and
orchestral arrangements are
thrown in for good measure.
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Begging to be filed between
Tonic and Train, “Save Me” fear
lessly treads the middle-of-the
road. While a couple of years ago
mainstream pop-rock records
were seemingly all one could buy,
such a straightforward album
sounds ironically refreshing in
the midst of the alternative craze.
These days whatever is said to
be a little off-kilter, goes. The pop
ular, straight-outta-the-garage
style of deconstructed rock has be
come a cliche in itself; the effects
heavy tracks also hitting the air
waves have gotten dangerously
close to sounding more like com
puter programs than songs. The
comparatively simple-sounding
line between the two no longer
sounds so tired.
The Pat McGee Band tunefully
walks that line on their latest re
lease, combining the best aspects
of singer/songwriter style main
stream rock with slightly south
ern-tinged mainstream rock.
The album opens with
“Beautiful Ways,” a typical love
centered tune that begins with an
easy, acoustic line, growing into
an upbeat, full-band effort. Right
away things start to get pre
dictable.
If the tracks were done with any
less panache, it’d be easy to call
them stale and move on. But songs
such as “Must Have Been Love”
clamor for radio-play and just may
be catchy enough to get it.
Despite the fact that the tunes
mine the same structure and the
same theme, “Save Me” contains a
slew of pop-rock gems, tailor-made
to fit in amongst the mainstream’s
current stars. The beginning of
“Wonderful” wouldn’t sound out
of place on a Goo Goo Dolls record,
while the last — and darkest
sounding — song recalls some of
Train’s more somber tunes.
The Pat McGee Band may not
have the edge to generate indus
try buzz or set indie rockers talk
ing, but they can churn out radio
tunes and have delivered a wor
thy collection of them with “Save
Me.” For all those pop-rock fans
who haven’t moved on to bigger
and stranger things, for all those
softies at heart who take a dip in
the mainstream every once in a
while, this one’s for you.
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