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SHOW PREVIEW
The Main Line takes classic rock to New Brookland
ByJENNI DILLARD
THE GAMECOCK
On a late Thursday afternoon in
August, many college students are
either still stuck in class or getting
ready for an evening of partying; But
in a practice shed not far away from
campus, four musically driven
students can be found ripping it up
on their instruments to prepare for
Tuesday night’s show at New
Brookland Tavern.
Maybe it was just fate that in the
early spring break days of 2004,
four music-loving guys came
together to form the bluesy, classic
rock band that would come to be
named The Main Line. But
whatever it was that first sparked it,
the chemistry they share is
something they knew was
remarkable.
Longtime friends Matt Ginley,
who plays drums, and bassist
Gregory Wooten met guitarist
Jeremy Kolmin through a mutual
friend, and after many tedious
hours of auditions they found
singer Scott Long. During late
summer, Ginley left to study in
Japan and Ben Dimond stepped up
to fill in on drums for the fall
semester.
The band writes and plays all
original music, which Long
describes as “heavily classically rock
influenced.” They cite rock greats
The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led
Zeppelin, Jimi Flendrix and myriad
others as influences. “Personally I
like a lot of blues based stuff such as
Lightnin’ Hopkins and Robert
Johnson,” Kolmin said.
Over the summer they recorded
an album, “SP,” that boasts 10
songs including the guitar solo
driven “Speak to Me” and “The
Girl,” an upbeat tune about the way
it feels when you find someone you
like.
Inspiration for their music is
drawn from several places. “These
three guys that 1 play with inspire
me,” Dimond said.
“We all sort of feed off each
other because you’ve got to be there
for the other guys more than just for
yourself,” Long said.
Kolmin added, “An inspiration I
have is just to make music that 1 can
be done at the end of the day and
be able to say I wrote a decent
song.”
All agreed that file sharing online
is a benefit for the industry.
“The whole concept behind
music is to have other people listen
to your music,” Kolmin said. “A lot
of bands feel that way and they
want people to be able to
download their songs because
they’d rather that somebody
listen.”
“There’s so much music that I got
into and never would’ve if it wasn’t
for” downloading on the Web, Long
said.
Wooten added “Bands like
Metallica would’ve killed back in
the 80s to have had something like
that to get their music out when they
were trying to hand out copies of
their music during shows.”
All the members of the band are
full-time students at USC, which has
its positives and negatives. “I think
we do a lot better than high school
bands,” Kolmin said. But finding
time to get together to practice can
still be a challenge.
“If we were able to devote
ourselves to our art by itself we’d get
so much further so much faster if all
we had to do everyday when we
woke up was play music.” Kolmin
said.
But being students does have
benefits, too. “It helps with getting
people out to shows,” Kolmin said.
“We never would’ve met and
become a band if it wasn’t for
school,” Long said. “Just as long as
you don’t let your studies get in the
way of your music you’re alright.”
After six months together, The
Main Line will finally get a chance to
showcase its talent. “I look forward
to having people to perform to
besides the ants that gather out here
where we practice,” Long said. “I
love performing for people,
whatever it may be. You get a
connection with the audience. They
get enjoyment out of music and I
love being able to do that for
people.”
Although it remains to be seen
what the gods of rock have in store
for The Main Line, for right now the
band members are just happy with
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The Main Line is made up of USC students Ben Dirruond, Scott Long, Jeremy Kolmin and Gregory
Wooten.The classic rock-inspired band will perform their original songs for the first time this Friday.
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Peter Krause’s rare triple
play: stage, screen, TV
By MOIRA MACDONALD
KRT CAMPUS
If you happen to be in New York
on a Sunday this summer, you can
watch Peter Krause agonize in three
different places: on television as
rebellious son Nate Fisher in the HBO
series “Six Feet Under,” on Broadway
as tormented lawyer Quentin in
Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall” and
on-screen as unhappy husband Hank
in “We Don’t Live Here Anymore.”
And how does an actor manage to
pull off a triple play? It’s all in die
scheduling.
On the phone from New York,
Krause described how he squeezed in
the film “We Don’t Live Here
Anymore” last summer, just after the
emotional final scenes of the TV
series’ third season.
“We were filming the scene where
I get beat up in the bar, and the scene
in back of a limo where I’m beings
terrorized by my dead father and dead
wife, filming until 2 in the morning.”
For those not familiar with the
delights of “Six Feet Under,” a dark
comedy/drama set in a family-owned
funeral home, rest assured that this
kind of familial interaction is par for
the course.
“Then I got on a plane and flew to
Vancouver, that very day. That night,
(director) John Curran and Mark
Ruffalo and I sat down and started
rewriting the scene we would shoot
next day. John said later, ‘I looked at
Peter, and I thought, ‘Oh my God,
what have I gotten myself into?””
Exhaustion aside, Krause’s star
has been rising ever since “Six Feet
Under” debuted in 2001.
He’d originally gone in to read for
the role of David, Nate’s gay younger
brother, until series creator Alan Ball
convinced him that Nate was a better
fit.
Until then, he was mostly known
for playing sportscaster Casey McCall
on' “Sports Night,” and occasional
small movie roles.
“We Don’t Live Here Anymore” is
his first starring role in a high-profile
film.
Based on two short stories by
Andre Dubus (“In the Bedroom”) and
filmed in Vancouver, B.C., “We
Don’t Live Here Anymore” is a two
couple character study about married
life and infidelity.
Krause plays Hank, an English
professor. Naomi Watts is his wife,
Edith, who’s having an affair with
Hank’s colleague Jack (Mark
Ruffalo), whose wife Terry (Laura
Dern) is Edith’s best friend.
Krause said he was drawn by the
simplicity of Larry Gross’ screenplay,
“a story about people’s lives and
relationships, not a lot of bells and
whistles.”
He was also impressed by Curran’s
previous film, “Praise,” and by the
early commitment of Ruffalo and
Watts, “a couple of actors 1 greatly
admire.”
Hank, a writer who’s become
emotionally distant from his wife, was
a character Krause obviously enjoyed
sinking his teeth into.
“The redeeming thing about him
is, he doesn’t expect anyone else to
behave any differently from him ... I
understand Hank’s feelings of the
struggle in the moment-to-moment
nature of life — the rigors of a social
institution like marriage, with its
shoulds and should nots. (The movie
is) a different exploration of the
problems that a lot of people face.”
On stage this summer, his biggest
challenge is adjusting his screen
honed technique to fit a live
performance.
“There’s a lot that I can allow to
happen in my mind that registers on
film that doesn’t register on stage,” he
said.
“You have to make sure that the
people in the back row are feeling as
much of your performance as they
possibly can.”
“After the Fall” continues through
September, and Krause looks
forward to a break before “Six Feet
Under” starts up again later in the
fall.
“I’m overstimulated!” he says,
with a sigh that sounds part happy
and part weary. Being an in-demand
actor has its rewards, but rest isn’t
one of them.
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