20 ~- North Shore News - Friday, January 21, 200U

Bell Jar Saunier
through Brickyard

@ The Bell fac at The
Brickyard, Wed., Jan. 12,
2000.

Performing songs att heir

latest CD, The Bell Jar set up

a sonic landscape, sauntering

through pounding rhythins
and haunting: rifts. ‘The band
has an upcoming gig at The
Raikvay, sometime in Feb.
Bass: Jodi Do!f, Guitar and
vocals: Caroline Hamel,
Drums: ce Rose.

i Gob at Mt. Seymour,
Sat., Jan. 15, 2000.

Gob took the stage shertly
after 3 p.m. Despite the cold
and frosty fingers the lads

GOB’S Tom Thacker on
Seymeur Saturday.

were on. Obliging their fans as always.

@ Megadeth: The Commodore, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2000.
Megadeth, hard rock at a sinister volume. The band per-
formed non-stop, slippery licks and surging bass lines. Playing
tracks off their latest release Risk as weil as some classic
Megadeth runes, ie: “Prince of Darkness”, “Paranoid” and
“Holy Wars”. The fans were pumped.

Gl

Bob Mackin
News Reporter

Gans N’ Roses — Live
Era 87-93 (Geffen)
kkk /The Clash
wkK)/2 — From Here To
Eternity Lire (Epic)

The °80s weren't so bad
after all. Rock and roll fans
had it pretty good back then

—eN

because The Clash and Guns
N’ Roses both were at their
peak. These bands were prod-
ucts of their environment

more than the artistic vision of

their members.
The Clash grew out of the

mid-’70s punk rack revolution

in London as a snarling oudet
for disaffected youth who
were smothered in the wake
of the hippy dippy °60s.
Hollywood's Guns N Roses
were the rigt. band for the
greedy ’80s: loud, obnoxious
and excessive.

The Clash’ debuted in
1977 with a seli-tided album.
and became big in America in
1986. The quartet toured
with The Who and played
their own stadium and arena
concerts as headliners. Co-
leader Mick Jones left in 1983
to form Big Audio Dynamite,
leaving Joe Strummer to head
the band until 1986.
Thankfully, tapes were rolling
at gigs between 1978 and
1982. Who would’ve guessed
it would take until the end of
the next century for them co
see the light of day? The 17-
track single-disc is sequenced
faithfully to a real Clash con-
cert set list and the date and
venue of each track is record-
ed in the liner notes. A wel-
come dose of honesty comes
in the form of disclosure that
instrumental overdubs were
made on two songs captured
in 1978, “London's Burning”
and “What’s My Name”.
Technical deficiencies needed
repair, Instead of a history fes-
sor: for the unaware, the liner
notes consist of endless testi-
monials on the band’s superi-
onity from anonymous fans,

- As the Clash faded away in
the mid-’80s, Guns N* Roses
toe. a

assl

— Sprout

were taking over and taking
rock in a different, much less-
political direction. Guns N’
Roses (a.k.a. Drugs N* Booze)
rode the crest of the heavy
metal and giam rock rebirth,
complete with big hair and
mascara. Just Say No and
political correctness weren't
part ef the vocabulary of Axl,
Slash, Izzy, Duff'and Steve.
The headline-grabbing volatili-
ty of the band members fed io
the group's eventual downfall.
By the mid-’90s, the revolving
door revolved no more. Only
singer Axi Rose was left. Lire
Era slams the door on Guns
N® Roses, mark I, with 22 of
the band’s five mainstays. The
quality of production and
playing varies, “Paradise City”
and “Welcome to the Jungle”
sound as fresh as the first ame
1 heard them, bur “Patience”,
the only palatable ballad, is
spoiled by crowd noise and
poor live engincering.

Unlike the Clash, it seems
Gw’R has a future: Rose has
enlisted a new group of back-
ing musicians, including ex-
Replacements’ bassist Tommy
Stinson, to relaunch the band
in 2000. The classic Apperite
for Destruction, a 20-million
selier released in 1987, has
been re-recorded and a new
set of tunes called Chinese
Democracy awaits release this
year.

Bi wrk & Neko Case and
Her Boyfriends — Furnace
Room Lullaby (Mint).

Just when you thought all
the great country songs were
written, Neko Case returns.

The sophomore effort
from Cascadia’s country
sweetheart is destined to be
on more than a few top 10
lists by the end of 2000. But
you'll have to wait until it’s
released Feb. 22 te hear what
the fuss is about (or be lucky
enough to borrow a copy
trom a friendly music critic in
the meantime).

Case, the former Cub and
Maow drummer who calls
Tacoma bome, has picked up
a few more boyfriends since
her acclaimed 1997 debut The
Virginian, For Furnace Rooxt
Lullaby, she split the sessions
between Toronto's Gas
Station in late 1998 and
Vancouver’s Miller Block last
summer with players and col-
laborators like “veteran
boyfriends” Brian Connelly
(ex-Shadowy Men ona
Shadowy Planet), Carl

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tenderness and authority,
guiding her possce over the
foothills and into the badlands
of heartbreak.

x tck te The Smugglers
— Rosie (Mint/Lookecut).

The eighth release from
the Smugglers could also be
known as Rose in Crack tor
the cover shot of foliage
emerging from the partially
exposed backside of guitarist
Dave Carswell. Butt seziously,
folks... the Smugglers contin-
ue a tradition, which began in
1988 at West Vancouver's
Hillside secondary, of dishing
out their own brand of rain-
forest garage rock.

Roste was recorded with
Kurt Bloch of Seattle’s
Fastbacks and Young Fresh
Fellows at Mushroom Studios
over B.C. Day weekend 1999.
The studio and choice of pro-
ducer paid off to make Raste is
the Smugglers’ best album vet.
‘fhe 13 songs include guest
appearances by sulury-voiced
singer Rose Metberg of the

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MEGADEATH’S Dave Mustaine at the Commodore.

Comin’ at Choo
February 5!

8:00 c.m.
Capilano Catiege
Performing Arts

Theatre

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Seniors & Students
$210.00

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