22-North Shore News - Friday. Apr! 7, 2000

Case rocks Ri

Bob Mackin
News Reporter
buackin@usnews.cant

WHEN Richard's on
Richards opens its
doors to Hive music. it’s
a great place fora

show.

Its roomy and inturate
And ws a place vou're not
likely to see Neko Case and
Her Bovtriends play

Gases pronted h tu
weeks ago. is a talented punk
rock drumumer who converted
to country singing in the stvde
of Patsy Cline. Once she
expands on her repertoire
shell be tilling theatres.

The only complaint: abesat
her show, the second faston a

th American tour, was its
brevity. Tt lasted shghty
longer than) an hour. Case
exhausted her songs trom her
debut, The Virginian, and her
latest Furnace Room Lullaby.
She sang songs both slow and
up tempo with authority and
grace. Quite the showert,

av the Comune
Now REM wil
Max and. spen.
toy tecord ats

Maydi
sarh,

band will cali ihe
Broan Adams owned
Wateltouse Studies wm
Cristow bots temporary home
word on whether RAI
will play coment while in
Vancouver: the band missed
the ay en its £999 tour,

The Warchouse ws in the
red brick Oppenhenner Block
hertage buihiing.

Guitarist. Peter
basis Keyboardist Ken
Stringteflow od
guitarist /kevboardist ot
MeCaughey all live in Seactle.

nger Michael Stipe is a pal of
West Vancouver author Doug
Coupland.
tijd

Buck,

New

AMTOT

Yorn
Dana

charged

was

swath three Goumnts af
sceurities tracad

Phe as accused ot musappro.

Seonuihen oot hrs

nds Elo was beonk

fh. Strpe. the

ond

nents’ t
keeper ter 1
Smashing — Tampkins
Leonarder Di apie

Tr comacted, he could: be
piled up te 20 years and tined
SI! milhen. The Us
See ws and EAchange
Commission is alse accusing,
him of skimming money front
cherts. Phist apparently lost
$5 million.

Could Phish’s beancounter

Case pulled down her top and
be a phelon?

sang in her bra for several

Photo Aimee Toledano

MEMPHIS lJegend Alex Chilton returns with new Set.

Alex Chilton tears
through raw tracks

“The public loves mv,” Cégiste.
“The public is alone,” Orphee
at the Cafés des Petes. — jean
Cocteau, Orphée, 1950.

Johns Goodman

This Week Editor
fgoodman@nsnews.com

B Alex Chilton — Set
kkk (Bar None Records)
Alex Chilton is one of
those strange animals who
seems stuck in a place where
they don’t want to be. He
doesn't play by anybody's
rules but he has ne intention
of leaving the game. It hurts
so good.

The Mentphis legend was
already a pop star by his mid-
teens with the radio-fnendly
Box Tops. His group was 2
staple on top 40 during the
late °60s and their version of

“The Letter” has been on : : a : . Ul DS Sree

classic rock playlists ever ; P ! , Me - Cg BAB os

since. ee abies FO : cee, ty Talos HE
In the °70s his band Big : ; ‘ : wig ¥ it~. : :

ment!

s

Star were “critics” darlings”
bur they sold few records and
the rock szar lifestyle st
to get in the way. Chee
their tinal CD ‘Third/Si
Lovers (1975) for a case study
of the deconstruction process.
Teo many battles were lost
during this period tor Chilton to continue working as he
been. He would sneak into the studio atterhours and muc
the tapes he had worked on during the day with producer Jim

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