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Tom Leininger / KANSAN
Die Waiting members Chris Nemeth, bass player, and Bob Springer, vocalist, perform at Benchwarmers. Die Waiting formed in May when Andrew Shriver of the Millhous Nixons answered the "guitarist wanted" ad that Nemeth and Springer had placed in Pitch weekly magazine. The performance at Benchwarmers was Saturday night.
"When you're in a band,free time doesn't exist. It's study time. Sometimes I'd bring my books and study during the
soundchecks."
Andrew Shriver Guitar player for Milhaus Nixons and Die Waiting
Tom Leininger / KANSAN
Jeff Cye, lead singer of the semi-defunct band Millhous Nixons, sings at Benchwarmers. Millhous Nixons were together for three years before members of the group ventured off into the real world of jobs. They occasionally play when all five members are in town.
William Alix / KANSAN
Members of Bastard Squad practice in a house on Mississippi Street. From left, guitarist Mike MacFarland, Manhattan senior; in the background, trumpeter Aaron 'Rev' Morris, Wichita senior; and in the foreground, trumpeter Gerry Leopold, Wichita senior.
Of bands and books
Making it in the music business is tough enough without having to do homework, too.
By Cathleen Siechta Kansan staff writer
The first time a girl asked for his autograph, Andrew Shriver of the Milhaus Nixons and Die Waiting laughed at her.
“It's just strange,” said the McPherson, Ks., senior. "I mean, I gave her my autograph, but it's strange. People seem attracted to us just because we're in a band. They think we're already rock stars when we're just normal guys."
Rock stars or not, students involved with bands have less than normal lives. They must take on the enormous responsibility of balancing practices and performances with academics.
"When you're in a band, free time doesn't exist," Shriver said. "It's study time. Sometimes I'd bring books and study during the sound checks before we went on."
The members of Bastard Squad, an up-and-coming "funk-elemented" student band, have been juggling their schedules since last fall.
"It gets really hectic," said Mike MacFarland, Manhattan senior, who plays guitar and keyboards for the band. "We've had to do a couple of gigs without our trumpet players because they were performing with the marching band. But we get by."
MacFarland said that finding times when all six members of the band were available to practice and perform was difficult.
"Last semester, performances were real sporadic," he said. "But since then we've got an agent, and now it seems like things are just falling into place."
See Bands, Page 10.
Melissa Lacey / KANSAN
Creating shadowed figures from behind a lighted cloth screen are Leonidas Kassapides and Christina Navratilova of the Paranio Poor Theatre Company. The two were performing scenes from a traditional Greek shadow play that will air on Lawrence cable TV. They will perform shadow theater Saturday at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
Puppet company performs dying art
By Cathleen Siechta Kansan staff writer
Leonidas Kassapides and Christina Navratilova stood behind a cloth screen, waiting to perform their puppet show for a television camera crew.
The puppet of a gnarled old man appeared on the screen and growled, "Double shadows are our enemies."
Kassapides and Navratilova were filming a sample of their work to appear on the Cable Channel 6 program, "Silhouettes." They are members of the Paranoix Poor Theatre
"They'll make a double shadow," said Navratlova.
"Aren't you going to shut off those lights?" asked Navatilova.
"I don't think they'll be a problem," the cameraman said.
Company, a non-profit touring company that specializes in productions combining shadow puppets, masks and the human form to create a magical, illusionary world.
"Shadow puppets are really the first form of cinema that existed," Navratilova said. "The first cartoons were actually filmed shadow theater. We like to call the contemporary productions with the human form a new, organic approach to cinema. It has the qualities of a movie, but it's live."
Kassapides said he felt adults were not interested in puppy because they thought it was entertaining only to children.
"It's interesting how people see puppetry," he said. "They tend to think of the Muppet Show." People are prejuare due FEBRUARY 15
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
See Puppets,Page 10.
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PERFORMANCES
KU Department of Music and Dance: Faculty Recital by John Perry, piano 7:30 p.m. Monday. Jan. 24, 1994, at Swarthout Recital Hall. Free.
Lied Concert Series: Bobby McFerrin and the Kansas City Symphony 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.
25, 1994, at the Lied Center.
Renegade Theatre Company of Lawrence presents "East Side Comedy Shop" 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, 1994, and 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, 1994, at Renegade Theatre, 518 E 8th St, $5 public.
EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES
Lecture - Music of Argentina: Colonial to modern by Professor Estela Telerman 3:30 p.m Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1994, in the Skilton Lounge at Murphy Hall.
Tour du jour—graphic arts intern Jill Vessely 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, 1994, at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Lecture—Dr. Janis Tomlinson, assistant professor of 19th-20th-century European art and 16th-19th-century Spanish art on "Putting the Caprice back into Los Caprichos" 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, 1994, at the Spencer Museum Auditorium.
Exhibition—"The Sleep of Reason: Reality and Fantasy in the print series of Goya" Jan. 9-Feb.20,1994,at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Exhibition—Dennis Oppenheim: Drawings and Selected Sculpture Jan. 16-Feb. 27, 1994, at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Exhibition—Sculpture by Douglas Wamock Saturday, Jan. 22-Feb. 10, 1994, at The Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. 9th St.
Exhibition—Paintings by Susan Grace and ceramics by Glenda Taylor Jan. 3-20, 1994, at the Lawrence Arts Center.
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