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DIVERSE ORIGINAL rock rolls into Whispers
July 8 to 10 in the club’s third edition of its New
Sounds North side series.

Opening Monday will be :
Seattle’s Range Hoods, a
Quartet of gyrating penny-
loafer shod rockers with a drums—for six months.
penchant for hollow body Despite this relatively short
Gibson guitars and 80s run together, the band has
acoustic rock. The band hus moved to the front end of
been in its current incarna- musical popularity in its
tion—Steve Pearson, lead home town.
vocals, Pat Hewitt, guitar Range Hoods sprang from
and vocals, Bruce Hewes, the ruins of another popular
bass, and Don Kammerrer, Seattle-area band, The

THE ACOUSTIC Gibson guitar assault of Seattle's Range
Hoods. will lead off Whispers’ third New Sounds North Side
Series, which opens Monday night. New Sounds will also
feature local acts, Grapes of Wrath and Fabulon.

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Heats, when the band's main
temperature generator, Steve
Pearson found himself at
loose ends for 24 hours after
The Heats had cooled.
Pearson, drifting into the
inertia that results from too
much free time, tracked
down ex-Doug Kershcw, ex-
Heuts band member, Pat
Hewitt. The two decided it
was time to toss off the
leaden chains of serious rock,
put on some blue jeans with
cuffs, and whip out some
freewheeling country music.

Try as they might,
however, country came out a
twanging cross between Tom

etty, Graham Parker, and
Hank Williams. The band
has since released the five-
song EP, “Rough Town”,
on Exploding Records and
moved beyond the well-worn
Seattle club circuit.

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to do with being badass ap-
pliance salesmen, the band’s
name refers to prairie
toughness.

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Triple-header shakes local stage

Steinbeck-inspired Grapes of
Wrath bring their Okanagan
roots and single guitar, bass,
and drum sound to Whispers’
Stage.

The trio is a musical
cooperative of close friends
and high musical ideals.
Guitarist and Grapes of
Wrath lead vocalist, Kevin
Kane, says the philosophical
glue that has bound brother
Chris, (drums) and lifelong
friend, Tom Hooper (bass)
together for eight years as
musical compatriots is the
shared commitment ‘to
make honest personal
music."*

““We have to feel, collec-
tively, that the music is true
to each of us. Maybe that’s

“ why we don’t produce a lot

of music.”’

The band, originally from
Kelowna, put together its
first. four-song demo in
August 1984. The demo led
to a record deal with focal in-
dependent Nettwerk Produc-
tions label. A subsequent
Grapes of Wrath EP has
since gone into its fourth
pressing and has sold 2000
copies across North America.

A full fledged album,
“September Bow! of Green’’,
will be released in mid-
August.

Rounding out the third
helping of New Sounds
North Sides on Wednesday
night will be the seasoned yet
spirited sounds of Fabuion.

Having disposed of two
lead singers, Darren Simco
and Joel Parks, since recor-

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ding “Life On An Island”,
Fabulon's 12-inch single on
Luv-A-Fair Records, the
band has settled on ex-
Billboard Heroes vocalist
Brian King to lead it onward
to rock and roll glory.

Fabulon combines an un-
diluted enthusiasm for new
music and its technology with
the industry savvy of players
who have been around the
musical block.

Both Fabinion guitarist,
Martin Higgs, and drummer,
Rick Eden were once af-
filiated with the Payold$,
Higgs as the band’s original
bassist, Eden as its drum
technician.

The band, which also
features David ‘*Bud"’
Olmstead (bass) and Randy
Paar (keyboards), knocks out
a commercial, dance-friendly
beat delivered with no frills,
says manager, Paul
Gruenwald.

Fabulon does not play
covers, and though it makes
use of modern musical
technology, it does not rely
upon that technology to the
detriment of its
musicianship,

Band money goes imo
band improvement before it
gots into members’ pockets.

“We're not concerned
about sucking every nickel in-
to bank accounts,’ says
Gruenwald, ‘* we put it into
stage production first.’*

New Sounds North Side
opens Monday. Ticket infor-
mation: 986-5010.

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