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GRAMMYS: Rock'n'roll in flux
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re-issues of '60s rockers such as the Turtles.
"I hate to be a doom prophet about current music," he said. "But the scenes are so fragmented these days that buying back catalogs seems to be a common denominator among music fans."
Concert stages seem like a live equivalent to CD re-issues. Veteran musicians, even many who haven't had a hit record in years, are consistently among the top draws.
"If you look at where the big numbers are coming from, there aren't a lot of new acts that are in there," said Gary Bongiovanni, editor of the concert industry magazine, Pollstar.
Only Garth Brooks, a country star who pays homage to '70s rock' n' roll, can qualify as a "new" artist among Pollstar's top 10 moneymakers last year. The list is littered with musicians who came of age during the '60s and '70s: the Grateful Dead, Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Buffett and Billy Joel.
Pearl Jam and Lenny Kravitz show the most potential among new acts to develop as consistent concert draws, Bongiovanni said.
Don't expect anything different this year. In addition to the Stones and Pink Floyd, concert stages will see reunited oldies such as Traffic and Elvis Costello and the Attractions this
year. Rumors of an Eagles reunion haven't died.
The letters page of the most recent issue of Rolling Stone contains mocking letters questioning whether two of today's biggest stars, Nirvana and Snoop Dogg Dogg, will be remembered years from now.
That's a sign of what is a real worry among music business insiders: the ability of artists to build careers.
Few record companies have been known as nurturers, but the pressure for a quick payoff is more intense now than ever, said veteran music manager Ronald Weisner, who counts John Mellencamp, Tevin Campbell and Steve Winwood among his clients.
Producer Was is quick to cite his own band, Was (Not Was), as a casuality of that line of thinking.
"Everyone is looking for this instant, instant response, and they don't give you the opportunity to allow the public to get into anything," he said.
The first Was (Not Was) album a
decade ago was defiantly eserotic, with guest vocals by Mel Torme and Ozzy Osbourne. But Was said he was pressured by his record company to come up with hits.
"We were constantly encouraged to change what we were doing so we could get on the radio," he said. "We were successful at that. We had a couple of Top 10 singles around the world, which proceeded to, lia the long range, alienate the audience that might have really stayed with us based on what we were really about."
Was, busy producing the Rolling Stones' new album, is taking matters into his own hands. Frustrated by the lack of commercial response to some of his projects, suchas last year's Willie Nelson release, he's starting his own record company.
And guess who this 41-year-old producer is turning to?
"Age gives these artists a depth of experience that 19-year-olds couldn't possibly write about," Was said, "and therefore makes them more interesting."
That's right, the old folks. His first signings are Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson, actor and songwriter. Kris Kristofferson and ex-Rascal Felix Cavaliere.
WEIRD: Rubber nipples a good meal
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FETISHES ON PARADE
In November, Sharon Ryan, a former patient and employee of renowned diet doctor Walter Kempner, filed a lawsuit against him in Durham, N.C., alleging that they had a long-term affair during which he physically and emotionally abused her. Among the accusations was that Kempner spanked Ryan's bare buttocks with a riding crop. In December, Kempner, 91, said he once hit Ryan with a riding crop at her request because she said she needed punishment for falling to stick to the diet he had prescribed.
- The London Independent's weekly magazine reported in November on the Hush-a-Bye Baby Club in southern England, whose adult male members dress as female infants and refer to themselves as "Baby Michelle," "Baby Cathy," etc. "Mummy Clare" runs the club, charging about $110 a night ($140 for non-members), which includes baby food, bottled milk and diaper service. Spanking is about $7 more.
- In East Bernstadt, Ky., in December, Jimmy Humfleet, 33, was charged with the murder of his uncle, Samuel Humfleet. According to the local ler shiffy, Jimmy said he did it because he had caught Samuel having sex with one of the two pit bulls belonging to the owner of the trailer in which they had been partying. In fact, Jimmy had called 911 twice that evening to report the molesting. A deputy shot and killed the dog later that evening because it was foaming at the mouth and had attacked him. An autopsy on Samuel turned up no dog hairs or other evidence of molestation.
- In August, the Economic Evening News of Taiwan, China, reported that a woman in her 30s, unidentified in the story, had eaten more than 800 rubber nipples from baby bottles in the last three years. A province health official said all family members apparently liked the smell of rubber.
ULTRA-WEIRDOS
- Walter Kaye, a physician reporting in a recent medical journal, found that
female bulimics retained about 1,200 calories of food after they purged – no matter how much food they had taken in or what their regurgitation rate was. Kaye and his colleagues cante to this conclusion by carefully studying the content of the subjects" "vomitus."
LEAST COMPETENT CUSTOMERS
- In January and February, Oklahoma City police turned up several motorists who had purchased automobile liability insurance coverage under "God's Insurance Policy." The salesmen had convinced the customers that such coverage would comply with Oklahoma's mandatory insurance law. Even though the $285 policy contained mostly text from the Bible, it stated that it was "issued by the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost," and reasoned that since it was "fear" that caused accidents, the policy would protect its purchasers even better than commercial insurance would.
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Lied Center Presents A New Directions Series Event
"The Kronos Quartet is rooted in the classical-quartet tradition, but its members look and sometimes sound more like escapees from the college-music circuit."--Rolling Stone Magazine
8:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, 1994 Lied Center
Tickets on sale at the Lied Center Box Office (864-ARTS);
Murphy Hall Box Office (864-3982); and any Ticketmaster outlet (913) 234-4545 and (816) 931-3330; public $16 and $14, KU, Haskell and K-12 students $8 and $7, senior citizens and other students $15 and $13; KU student tickets can be purchased through the SUA office, Kansas Union; phone orders can be made using MasterCard or VISA.
Partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Kansas Arts Commission, KU Student Senate Activity Fee, Friends of the Lied Series, and the Kansas University Endowment Association. Special thanks to this year's Very Important Partners: Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kief's Audio and Video, Payless ShoeSource and W.T. Kenner Foundation, Commerce Bank Trustee.
Kemper Foundation, Commerce Bank Trustee.
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