Phish band members are Mike Gordon, Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Page McConnell. They are performing April 13 at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan.. Fans hooked on Phish Jumping on trampoline s and playing a vacuum cleaner keep this eclectic band's fans coming back again and again. By Ezra Wolfe Kansan staff writer phish is a family. Well, rather, their fans are a family. A big family, kind of like the Grateful Dead's audience. You know, lots of people following the band around and selling stickers and T-shirts. Unlike the Grateful Dead, Phish is from Vermont and plays for a much younger crowd. The band is performing April 13 at Memorial Kansas City, Kan. In support of their second major label release, "Rift." The band's main emphasis is on their live show — an amalgamation of music and theatrics. The band travels with two trampolines, which the guitarist and bassist sometimes jump up and down on while playing. It note stranger "I've seen them play the vacuum cleaner," said John Trager, Prairie Village senior. "It was weird. I didn't know you could get all those sounds out of a vacuum cleaner." Trager also said he had seen the drummer play in a skirt. The band is now completing the third leg of a three-month tour. Phish keyboardist Page McConnell said the band had been working on some new songs, but the shows were always spontaneous and different. "We have a hundred or so songs we play, so each show is generally new," he said. McConnell said one interesting facet of the live shows was the band's interaction with the audience. Apparently, those who have been fans of the band for a long time learn signals the band gives to the audience. When signaled, the audience members will spin around, snap their fingers, fall down or make some other motion. McConnell was sure to add that the shows were enjoyable for all listeners, not just the hard-core fans that follow the band from city to city. "Most people that see us just see us in the city they live in or a nearby city," he said. "But there's a handful that you run into over and Continued on Page 8. Pavement, Super chunk excite listeners Pavement "Westing (by musket and sextant)" (Drag City Records) If you consider yourself one of the many to be "wowed" by Pavement's previous long-playing release, "Slanted and Enchanted," then it might behoove you to survey the aural annals of one of this far country's most promising young bands. Thanks to the release of "Westing (by musket and sextant)" by our friends at Chicago's Drag City Records, the history lesson is much cheaper and more concise. This sprawling 23 track collection compiles cuts from Pavement's previous single releases and wraps them in a burgundy bundle. "You're Killing Me" opens the proceedings with screeching guitar distortion, jagged rhythm and strained vocals that sound as if they're being forced through a cheap transistor radio. "Forkish" continues the treachery with its stream-of-consciousness spoken, verse and lifting "La La La" chorus. Other standout cuts include "From Now On," "Angar Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent," "Debris Slide" and arguably the best single from 1981, "Summer Babe," which can also be found on "Slanted and Enchanted." If you've never heard Pavement before, "Slanted and Enchanted" is probably a better starting point, because as with most collections, "Westing (by musket and sextant)." lacks focus. However, for the already initiated, this compilation provides much more than just a taste of what makes this band great. Superchunk "On the Mouth" (Matador Records) Superchunk has finally done it! After releasing a host of brilliant singles and two uneven albums, the Chapel Hill, N.C., quartet has put it all together. "On the Mouth" is a raging, crackling, thoroughly exciting punk-pop masterpiece with nary a stinker in it. Superchunk achieved this lofty height not with pristine vocals and precise instrumentation, but with a diaper-load of raw energy, emotion, and most of all, great songs. The listener, strapped mercilessly into Superchunk's top-fuel dragster. is propelled uncontrollably from "Precision Accent" ("Do not pass me/just to slow down/I have precision auto") to "The Only Piece You Get," a powerful dirge complete with crushing power chords and jagged acoustic strumming in between, "For Tension" threatens to knock my CD player's laser out of alignment with sheer horsepower. The bass-driven "Swallow That" purrs like a jaguar before backfiring only to spit out the crushing "New Low," an anthem that even a youthful Pete Townshend would wish he had written. Besides immediately going out and demanding a copy of "On the Mouth," you have the obligation and opportunity to catch Superchunk with Rocket From the Crypt and Lawrence's ultracool Buttergurt at the Bottleneck, Monday, April 19. There are no excuses because the show's only 6 bucks and it's 18 and over, so be there! THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Your guide to Entertainment in the Lawrence Area. calendar Nightlife Benchwarmer's Sports Bar and Grill 1601 W.23rd St. The Bad Example, tonight Giant Peach, tomorrow, Saturday Bottleneck 737 New Hampshire St. 31 New Hampshire State A Month of Sundays with Danger Bob, tonight Bad Manners and Chubby Smith, tomorrow L.A. Ramblers, Saturday Loaded in Lawrence (18 and over show) featuring Stick, Bagdad Jones, Motherwell, Which Doctors? The Crossing 12th and Oread streets The Crossing SUNK, tonight Arkansas White Trash, tomorrow Lonesome Hounddogs, Saturday Gusto's Gusto's 925 Iowa St. Country DJ, tomorrow The Jazzhaus JUNE 14 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. Adrian Legg, tonight Mango Jam, tomorrow, Saturday Continued on Page 8. 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