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The University Daily
KANSAN
April 20, 1984 Page 6
Festival to lessen local-band rivalry
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
The decline of the local new-music scene and the lack of places for bands to play pushed some local music enthusiasts over the edge.
These local music lovers were upset that their one-time Midwest new music mecca was being turned into a battleground among bands, all competing for one of the few places in town to play.
"THREE YEARS AGO, LAWRENCE was well thought of across the nation as a little aisla
Pedaljets, The Blinkies, Pillbox, and Lions and Dogs,
Tomorrow is "Hard-Core Night" featuring Mental Crisis, The Slabs and the OD's from Kansas City, as well as the Gardalls, Non Plus and The Micronetz from Lawrence.
SINCE THAT TIME, GET SMART! moved to Chicago. The Embarrassment broke up, and
Cavanaugh talks sentimentally about the "good old days" when such bands as The Embrassment, Get Smart! and The Mortal Micronetz helped to draw frequent attention to Lawrence as one of the Midwest's capitals of progressive music.
'For the last couple of years, record companies and magazines haven't even given Lawrence a glance as compared to before. The festival will lend a little more validity and exposure to these bands and to Lawrence.'
Terry Cavanaugh
An organizer for the festival
in the Midwest — a hotbed for new music," said Terry Cavanaugh, 615% Massachusetts St. one of four people responsible for "The Underground Music Festival," which will open at 8 ontight and play again tomorrow at The Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St.
The festival marks the first time Lawrence has had a two-day concert featuring 12 progressive rock 'n' roll bands from the Lawrence and the Kansas City areas, she said.
The organizers said that they modestly expected a crowd of 300 people each night.
Cavanaugh and cohorts John Harper, Lawrence High School senior; Jake Glassley, Lawrence sophomore; and Renee Epps, Lawrence have been organizing the festival since December.
THE GOAL OF THE FESTIVAL is to revive
the Lawrence of old" and to draw more outside
into the festival.
Rolling Stone, Trouser Press, and Maximum Rock 'n' Roll magazines all have expressed interest in their work.
Tonight the festival will feature The Yardapes, from Kansas City, and several groups from other cities.
The Pedaljets are just one of 12 progressive bands that will be featured at the Underground Music Festival at 8 tonight and tomorrow at the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St.
Off-The-Wall Hall closed, thus causing a shortage of places to play, she said.
"For the last couple of years, record companies and magazines haven't even given Lawrence a glance as compared to before. The festival will lend a more validity and exposure to these bands and to Lawrence," Cavanaugh said.
Epps said that because of a lack of places to play, the bands had become competitive about when and where to play, leading to much animosity.
The festival organizers thought that they would get the music scene moving again by bringing local bands together in a community atmosphere, she said.
"The bands started to dislike each other, even though they had never met or heard each other play." Eps said. "This way, the festival will get the bands together while also spreading the word that there is a good audience and great bands from Lawrence."
BESIDES THE COST AND EFFORT spent organizing the festival, the coordinators had difficulty deciding the time each band would play.
The Pedaljeets will play tonight. Band members are (left to right) Darrell Laham, drums; Mike Allmayer, guitar; and Max Worth, bass.
Worth said that the festival would help to relieve some of the tensions between area bands.
"It was very hard making sure that all of the bands were happy with the arrangements," Epps said. "They're all high-quality bands, so deciding who would play before whom was kind of hard."
"There are an awful lot of乞ors to deal with, but everyone is handling it very well," he said. Steve Eddy, drummer for The Mortal Micronotz, who are headlining the second day of
the festival, said that the concerts would be a celebration of the Lawrence music scene as a whole.
EDDY SAID THAT many bands that were scheduled to play at the festival were critical of the other bands without really knowing the individuals or their music. He said that once the bands were brought together and were forced to play together, the scene would begin to pick up once again.
Glassey said that a live recording of the
“Right now there are little cliques in the Lawrence scene, where some people will only go and see one band. I wanted to break the cliques,” he said.
two-night show would be made for possible distribution to record companies and magazines.
"We hope that the festival will help people realize that the town is more than just what it was years ago," he said. "People were thinking that Lawrence was dead, but if this goes over well, it will make all the difference."
Horoscopes gain astronomical popularity
By MELISSA BAUMAN
Staff Reporter
Believers in astrology can turn to the comie-strip page of any large newspaper and read their daily or weekly horoscope. Even those with no horoscope can spot a peek at its sign when no one is looking.
If the popularity of astrology can be judged from the number of newspapers that carry horoscopes and the number of astrologers that know it, widespread, then its popularity is beyond question.
MORE THAN 2,000 U.S. newspaper carry daily "star garer" columns. In addition, at least 175,000 part-time and 10,000 full-time astrologers are reporting according to a recent issue of Christianity Today
One reason for the popularity of horoscopes is that people see a grain of truth in these positions. *The Science Bee* escol, author of *Astrology* and *The Science Astrology*, two nationally syndicated columns.
"I personally believe the major reason people will turn to horoscopes in the newspaper is because it is the one place the person can go and read about himself or herself." she said.
But Stella Wilder, author of the nationally-syndicated columns "Your Stars This Week" and "Your Birthday," said that most people had a different attitude toward horoscopes.
`'1 THINK THE AVERAGE PERSON that reads newspaper horoscopes regards it as`
entertainment," she said. "They are accurate within general terms. But they do have a limit."
But they do have a hint. Wilder said that newspaper horoscopes are not as accurate as those an astrologer may chart for an individual. These individual horoscopes are more accurate because they take into account the exact time and date of the person's birth.
Bede-Osol said that the daily horoscopes were accurate in predicting what would happen to a
'I think the average person that reads newspaper horoscopes regards it as entertainment. They are accurate within general terms.
But they do have a limit.' Stella Wilder, astrologer
person. But, these horoscopes might be more accurate for an active person, she said.
"If you lie in bed all day, or course you must live life. So these events might not hit you as often."
ASTROLOGISTS FORECAST TRENDS by observing and interpreting the fixed stars, the sun, the moon and the planets at the time of a person's birth, Wilder said.
Astrological lore was built on the presumption that the sun revolved around the earth. The sun's orbit was divided into 12 houses, each given a zodiac sign.
Variations in time and place of a person's birth allow for infinite differences in horoscopes. Astrologers apply their knowledge of astrological lore to produce a horoscope, she said.
She said astrologers thought that everyone was a part of nature.
"IF A PERSON IS BORN BETWEEN March 21 — the first day of spring, the birth of nature — to approximately April 19, the sun appears to be in the segment of the sky called Aries.
"A person who was born in Aries during the first birth of nature is pioneering. Nature is pioneering at this time, deciding where she is going to plant new seeds and where she will live. This person might be curious because nature is going to happen during the brand-new cycle," she said.
Bede-Osol said she became interested in astrology in college. As a psychology major, she wrote a term paper on the moon's effects on social behavior.
"I started doing charts for friends out of curiosity and was shocked that I revealed things I had no way of knowing. Astrology gave me a much greater understanding of other people and why they behaved the way they did," she said.
Wilder said that her mother was interested in astrology and passed this interest on.
"The way some children learned to read I learned to do horoscopes," she said.
ENTERTAINMENT
News briefs from staff reports
Four bands to rock 'n' roll all day
The return of the band Get Smart! will highlight "A Day on the Green"
*a free all-day rock concert featuring four bands, from 2 to 10 p.m.*
April 30
The concert, which will be held in the southwest corner outside of Memorial Stadium, will be the first live show held at the bottom of Campanile hill in two years, said Stu Wright, KJHK station manager.
"A Day On the Green Hill," which was formerly known as the "Jayhawk Jam," is sponsored by KJJIK radio and Student Union ADA.
Opening the show is the rock 'n' roll band The Opinions, followed by the Motown sounds of Shamu and the Scams and the progressive music of Foo Fighters.
Get Smart!, who played at the last hill concert in 1982, moved from Lawrence to Chicago that same year. They have recently signed to the Reddere record label in Chicago and will release their first album this summer.
Playing between sets will be local artists Rick Frydman and the Jolly Ranchers and Todd Newman.
"We think of this as kind of a gift to the student body from SUA and KJHK," Wright said. "This you're show is a group effort that fully represents our team."
Mega-Keggar III planned for May
Mega-Keggar III, featuring 12 local bands and 100 kegs of beer, will help students celebrate the closing of the school year.
The event, which will be held May 4 and May 5 at the Sue Mateny farm on Leavenworth County Road in Leavenworth, will feature twice as many bands and twice as much beer as last year. The event will cost $10.
The annual celebration is organized by the Society for the Preservations of Wild Life in Lawrence, a group of former employees of Hawk's Crossing, 618 W. 12th St.
The bands performing this year are Sound Advice, Pillox, Shann and the Scams, the Ebeling Bands Band, The Vogues, and Rick Fink.
'The Woolgatherer' comes to Center
The second day of the event will feature Common Ground, The Goods,
The Chance Band, Red Hammer, the Heart of Gold Band, and Mutt and the
Muffin.
"The Woolgatherer," a touching comedy about two people "desperately searching for a girl, will be presented at a p.m. Friday and Saturday evening at the Art Museum."
Tickets are available at the Hawk's Crossing.
Frank Mack, Overland Park junior, plays Cliff, a truck driver, who meets Rose, portrayed by Susan Murphy, Olathe junior, in a five-and-dime store. The play is directed by Bill Trotter, St. Louis graduate student.
Jazz, blues swing into new club
Tickets are available for $2.50 at Act One Ltd., 1025 Massachusetts St.
and the Lawrence Arts Center.
A new atmosphere for blues, jazz, rockabilly and rhythm and blues opened in Lawrence yesterday.
"I would like to keep people in Lawrence who usually have to go to Kansas City to enjoy a blue-jazz nightclub," said Ray League, an
K. C. Blue, a private club located at 101 W. Seventh St., plans on bringing popular Kansas City area bands to Lawrence.
League said he thought that Lawrence would support two jazz nightclubs.
"Lawrence is one of the few small towns that has an excellent appreciation of blues and jazz," he said.
Featured bands, which will play K.C. Blues in the next few months, are The Morells, Houseband, Bon Ton and The Soul Accordion Band, Smoot Mahait, City Light Orchestra, Kansas City Blues and Unidos.
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