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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, December 7, 1999
Winter break calendar full of entertainment
Although inactivity seems to blanket the campus and community from Stop Day through finals and to the end of winter break, life does go on in Lawrence. Here are some things to do for those staying in or close to town:
December
December Wednesday, Dec. 8
Thursday Dec 9
Train, Stir, Verbow at the Bottleneck 737 New Hampshire St.
Reverend Horton Heat, Los Straitjackets at the Bottleneck.
Friday, Dec. 10
Here's Love based on the book Miracle on 34th Street at 7 p.m. at the Lied Center.
KU Opera: Amahl and the Night Visitors at 5 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 946 Verm St.
Saturday, Dec. 11
Band that Saved the World and Spacepockets at the Bottleneck.
Tuesday, Dec. 14
Panel donor, the Teriyakis and Photo By Husband at the Bottleneck.
Appleseed Cast, Casket Lottery, Hillary Step and Elevator Division at the Bottleneck.
Wednesday, Dec. 15
Mi6, Slurry and Zippo Moment at the Bottleneck.
Thursday, Dec. 16
Moment at the Bottleneck
DJ. Ran at the Granada
DJ Rap at the Granada,
1020 Massachusetts St.
Thursday, Dec. 16
The Apocalypse Mean Dean the Metal Machine's Birthday Party with Truth, Origin, Wormwood, Soleric, Fullpower and Overture at the Bottleneck
The Elves and the Shoemaker at 7:30 pm at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St.
... Christmas Tour at 8 p.m.
at the Lied Center.
- Swinger Ball with Jeffrey Lee & the Palemoon Kings and Parlay at the Bottleneck.
Saturday, Dec. 18
Ultimate Fakebook, Proudentall and Reflector at the Bottleneck
Friday, Dec. 17
Tuesday, Dec. 21
Lawrence Women's Chorale Christmas Concert at 8 p.m. at First United Methodist Church.
- Planetarium, Centipede and Lunar Beat Theory at the Bottleneck.
The Boys Choi of Harlem
Wednesday, Dec. 22
Touchdowns CD release party with Sufferbus, Podstar at the Bottleneck.
Postal at the Bottleneck
Thursday, Dec 23
Black Water and Wormwood at the Bottlejack
Tuesday, Dec. 28 through
Thursday, Dec. 30
3 Days of Anti Fest with All Together, Fashion Statements, Rayguns, Six Percent, Origin, Elements, Truth, Mi6, Soteric, Sunshine Vandals, Donkey Show, Thulium, Effigy, Slurry, 2 Player Option, Strictly for Rent, Punchline and Planet Arsenal at the Bottleneck.
Arsenal at the Bottleneck.
Friday, Dec. 31
New Year's Eve party with
Star 80 at the Bottleneck.
Millennium Hoe Down with BR-549 and Hadacol at Liberty Hall.
January
Saturday, Jan. 8
Ultimate Fakebook and Creature Comforts at the Bottleneck.
Shemeka Copeland at the Bottleneck.
Thursday, Jan. 13
- Emily Hughey
Beck presides in 'Sexxlaws' court
By Chris Eckert
Kansan music critic
After the tropical acoustic sounds of Mutations, Beck has released what is described as the "official" follow-up to 1996's Odelay, titled *Midnite Vultures*. Phrases like "Becksploitation" and "sci-fi disco" have been used to describe this, possibly the horniest album this side of 2 Live Crew.
Although it keeps up the cultural mishmash of Odelay, this is a far less-produced album, relying more on live instrumentation, even though many of the instruments are synthesizers. If there's one unifying theme to the album, it's sex, sex, sex.
The album opens with self-described "Monday Night Football horns" and the first single,
"Sexxlaws." Next is a nonsequitur The album slows down with a few valentine, "Nicotine & Gravy." more organic numbers, "Out of Mixed with slow grooves, Beck Kontrol" and "Beautiful Way."
promises to do your
massage your soul.I'll
turn you over to the
highway natrol."
The 1970s AM radio feel climaxes with "Mixed Bizness," a funk number that promises to make "all the lesbians scream." The aura of the 1970s continues as a computerized, sci-fi tone takes control in songs like "Get Real Paid" and "Peaches & Cream."
amorous songs about "the girls with the cellophane chests," and how "you look good in that sweater and aluminum crutch."
"Milk & Honey" is a country-western song run through every new wave effects box imaginable, and "Pressure Zone" is a scenic landscape with the most straight-forward rock arrangement of the album.
The centerpiece, the jewel in Beck's carnal crown, is the album's closer, "Debra." The Dust Brothers, doing production work with Beck again, do
their best to imitate Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra, while Beck walls in falsetto, "I want get with you / only you / oh, and your sister / I think her name's Debra."
The whole album is positively soaked in sex, but in a harmless, non-threatening way. It's hard to envision anyone who promises to "cold step to you with a fresh pack of gum" as a predator. Beck is more like a precocious cousin who's repeating some jokes he heard on late night cable, except that he's clever enough to realize it's funnier to mistell them. Mix this attitude, and Beck's more confident musicianship—he produced most of the album himself—and *Midnite Vultures* is an album that will keep Beck in groupies for years to come.
- Edited by Ronnie Wachtel
Jived Turkey provides buffet for the ear
By Emily Hughey
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Jived Turkey has been together for little more than a month. Like most Lawrence bands, its members have printed handbills and posters, played at local venues and tried to spark local stardom.
But they're not the norm.
Berek Awend, Minneapolis senior; Greg Bloom, Lake Forest, Ill., senior; Jeff Eder, Chicago senior; Greg Nielsen, Lawrence resident; are the funk-infused Jived Turkey. The band is opening for Macoe Parker tonight at the Toys for Tots benefit concert sponsored by Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at 8 p.m. at the Granada. 1020 Massachusetts St.
As a self-described funk, jazz, blues, gospel and rock band, Jived Turkey can't wait to meet the "man," Maceo Parker, who's played with artists such as Prince, the Parliament Funkadelic, Dave Matthews Band and Ani DiFranco.
be opening for Parker
"Without him, we probably wouldn't be here today," said Awend, guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist, as he sat, in Birkenstock sandals, in his living room. "We'd all be listening to classical music and the Allman Brothers Band."
The rest of the guys, perched on chairs and couches around the room, laughed.
Nielson, a 27 year-old California native, the KU men's club volleyball coach and Jived Turkey's drummer and lead vocalist, said he was thrilled to
On stage, Jiyed Turkey engages the audience into an unroar.
"I've been doing music for 10 years," laughed Nielsen, who, before moving to Lawrence, lived and toured out of his van in southern California. "And, after a month of playing with these guys, I get to open for Maceo Parker."
"There's nothing like asking a crowd to say 'ho' and they actually do it," Awend said in his Minnesota accent. "Then you ask them to say 'Ho' twice and they say 'Ho ho' and then you ask them to scream and they scream 'so loud that you're like I can't believe this. These people are having a good time.'"
Bloom, barefooted bassist and guitarist, clad in Humpty's vest left over from the Digital Underground show last month at the Granada said he loved performing regardless of the venue.
"It's the best thing ever," said Bloom, the self-proclaimed partner of the group. "It's a total natural high — except for the free beer. Everybody's giving you their full attention and having a great time."
Although they've just gotten started, Jived Turkey will break for a while after Awend's December graduation. While Bloom joked about going on a world tour, Awend said he was unsure of the band's destiny.
"We kind of want to take on the world, Jived Turkey-style," he said. "But we're going to put it on hold for a little while to see if I can succeed in the real world."
Local band, Jived Turkey, will open for Maceo Parker tonight at 8 p.m. at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. Contributed art
For now, though, they're just happy opening for Maceo Parker.
Edited by Matt James
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