^K ^y . ,^_- ^|hY^., ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B ' ' ; J i ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ g T ^ ^ r ^ ^ 3 ^ / ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^p^^i M M M s \Sr^ lrfl<2 Josephine Ochej | Diary of a M u s k Waster.-. ' 51 Music W a s t * started off pretty much as r* expected wooooay bock on Wednesday. Sep- • lumber 2 with a firm emphasis on the Wqsle part. I /P«vv I shouldn't nave gone to that raunch/shmooze party with all that Bowen Islond Brewing Co. hemp cream (god, is it leBlues. Just what is The blues? For many It's a gal to use those two together?) ate flowing I' style of music easily identified by a certain beat, am just a free booze slut and I proved it amply such as the 124x>r, or a sound, a distinctive mat night. Then I hodtocome back to the ofmoan. A lot of this music Is boring and samey, fice and write 0 column. Never tried to do that with more than a couple of beers in my sysyou've heard it in bars everywhere. But is il retem. Never wont to try that again. It was not ~ally the blues? Or is it just the idiom. I hear the Eetty. I gave up at about l :00am and vowed , blues in all kinds of music, in songs that tell a return early the next morning to finish. Tortale of sorrow or of loss, ft could be losing one's ture getting up. but I did it. So, Music Waste • money, job, love, but most importantly It is a started oufon the right note, as tar as I'm con- ; true tale and that's what makes it authentic: if cerned. you've lived it. The blues Is a feeling, apd It it It carried on Thursday. September 10 with."; ain't got that feeling then It ain't blues. •* • on,audience-pleasing set by, the Travis Raker P I saw an artist last week wfv* u* right Tno (Baker, bass-Francois Boole, clarinet; - to sing and play blue* * .. . . . -i\ oresDylpn v a n dor Scnyff, drums! at the Sugar - enrly think of )? * ' J. -• ' • ' >\ Refinery It drives me insane when musicians • say they butchered' songs and I peak of how bodly they played, and 1 thought it sounded pretty damned pood (as did the rest of the packed house This night). Perhaps things weren't ployed exactly as written (kinda tough with such little rehearsal time in this case), but . there was 0 good, wired sort o^energy going •' on amongst the three and that's what Moo* for, anyhow. I'd much rather feel something. than near every note and nuance be precise.' In the old audience ears vs. musician ears war, this night the oudience winsl During the second song, Moose Colls, Houle was going . squeaky, sguawlcy insane with the round ana round and round we go circular breathing while van der Schyff anchored with a simple bang-bong-bang rhythm on the cymbal, piercTRAILER PA A5 ing all ears on both fronts, and when it all Who: Jeyn Roberts (Is \ came to a halt, a person opening the door Kind ol scary when you decided it wasn't over and sent a smaller, fi(with Shag 57) Why: A nal-word squeak into the room that was perfectly timed and almost perfectly pitched. Cool, I'Ub oh/ I thought at this point, TfeelSlisn 'n' Slosh coming on... yahool') Song three (of a ready for the big sleep, s \ mere four - tells yo now long they were, but Another time. .1 ' didn't seem it). Buttemy Wings, had a beautiSaturday the mid-way A ful romantic rhythm that tool me for 0 fall I B r i c k y a r d with the gr \ • didn't want to get up from. Nice down here. Saturn ina, who recently rt» Fun watching Surface Tension's Joel Lowe Zealand. J don't know whe \ so so into, tiead bopping big smile, eyes two. You first notice the out! i closed. Wonder how much of it fueled his later oured leotards with bikini-st\ , set... By the way, the Travis Baker Trio plays top is a circle with a babya. this Saturday, September 19 at Lo Q u e n a around it. bottom has a little with the Tony Wilson Group (8pm, $6 d Jwait tor it... there s more) oni » % doorl). Was pretty blissed ouf by the music II really want the guitarist s she V . 1 and cozy confines of the Refinery that I couldn't the feel and huge black beehi\ \j *, ' even think pf going anywhere else. Stayed and with BIG red bows in the hair. . * ' , chilled with Surface Tension, but was zoning that the singer is female and the V.J out so completely on vibe, imbibe and atmos- He looked fucking fantastic. So dk .*£*" phere and the anticipation ond lovely reality there was substance,too.Attitude »• . pf the Boker Trio's set, I wasn't quite available Just guitar and vox can be spore 01 \ fpr the second fl'pup. Next lime. Next night at wasn't much room floating around \ the Refinery a little mellower. Caught only tailHands For Borbie (I'm assuming ti V end of Broken Record Chamber, new {he spng), charming in a sickly twist \ project with our Jim Black (Van guitarist as jf a bit repetitive, is a darktv cynic\ opposed Ip New York drummer). Liked the mix hopelessly perfectly unreal idol of mi ] )f live and techno-ey programmed beats, and ions of little girls. Well, don't you fea tow just when il storiedtoget a little repetitive or my impalienl nature, they'd move il along... looked up ogain to find the vocalist wit, l .\ fiextl Musi see more for more opinion, lemme strap-on (so that's what that circle waA * J now when. Dashed on to The Brickyard ing it to Borbie as deep and forcefully t l , or last couple songs from Threat From voice. It was funny, but she was serious o l .'; Outer Space ond what caught my ear most 0 shtick. She meont it. No point in bnl ;' , was guitar player's lolin-innuenced vibe that washy, and Satina Saturnine certainly V > had me thinking of hot, earthy Santano-like only I 1/2 songs Will see more. Uh Ja _ rhythms launching other trippy expeditions rubber to more rubber as I swung by thl within the bond right off the planet. Moved on Hotel to (finally) see what Lee Aaron's I to hook up with the Animal Family for one of to, after having heard about it for, like, c * , our semi-annual birthday gatherings and hod two now... ? And while her punchy phras^ to pry the Bird owpy from tier beer (you try itl husky vpcal style could never be described \ she's a tough little thing) to carry on to Framus care, who'd want it to? Her metal, screomii* Haus where il seemed most of Music Waste queen background transfers into o sassy cl •Km I n i u t t t n n a u / r i H . h *Aa *r\ m » i n T T rtnA r J t t A t V i hod descended for the late-night portion of the m o i g i v e s a n e w u n i r u u e I U mo l " £ * u"»M V\ / ^ ^ f f t VV3»JW . L f J Q U C M 1 ^ ^ .. B could not decode it. as volume and heavyness factors combined to Middle-Eastern-mfluenced3 tunes that led lea to some 1i . ', /^.CsX^J » w t X \ 0 \\ \ c£)£frfB^^^wnaerstood. Music is about com sink me Into 0 gentler mood that wasn't to be lush, gorgeous twisting, winding moments, espe- 9\ „• (j\ V I -r t Q V. , - \ \ v l J U p * l ^ ^ ^ ^ - a h o n - 9n<^ blues is about feeling No one carried along on such a raucous wave. By ciolfy rrorn Samworth, noule >ule ana and Nodwell Nodwell himself, himself, I4 iVvTi©l I| 1 ttflP^ I can think of has the right to sing and play the about 3:30om I'd been up too long and was coming down here and there there and and revealing revealing perper- \ -J.T; f \ J W * j ^ 1 \Q , » f — blues more than Peter Green. TERMINAL CITY POSTER C H I L D\ Phil Oats f | f I I I I