University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 27, 1989
Arts/Entertainment
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Album is in your face, band says
Fetchin Bones will make a concert stop at the Bottleneck tonight on its nationwide "Monster" tour.
By Jennifer Reynolds
Kansan staff writer
The music is drawn from sources as varied as rhythm
The music is drawn from sources as varied as rhythm and blues, rap, classical and pop. The result is an album Fetchin Bones describes as "really in your face."
Glass Eye, an Austin, Texas band, will open the show.
At 9:45 tonight at the Bottleneck,
737 New Hampshire, the band will
make its first Lawrence appearance
on its "Monster" tour.
"We play rowdy music," said Hope Nicholls, lead singer for the Charlotte, N.C.-based band. "You can dance to it or just sit back and be less physical if that's what you want to just good rock and roll party music."
Other members of the band are Aaron Pitkin on guitar, Danna Pentes on bass, Errol Stewart on guitar and Clay Richardson on drums.
The "Monster" album, on Capitol Records, was produced by Ed Stasium, producer of albums by Livingstone, Mick Jagger and the Talking Heads.
"He is a really good producer," Nichols said. "He helped us get the live sound onto the vinyl."
For the first time in the band's seven-year history, every member co-wrote the 10 songs on the album.
"It really makes the album more special to us," Nicholls said. "Five heads were truly better than one."
In the past, writing songs wasn't so easy, she said.
"We had a previous band member who would write the songs and then tell everyone else how to play." Nicholls said. "We didn't like that too much."
Now everyone helps write his or her part in each song, she said.
"After all, they are the ones who have to get up and play it night after night."
Nichols, however, writes all the lyrics for the band.
"I get lyrics from anywhere," she said. "I can be in the car, and something inspires me like a new notion or a new angle of looking at the world."
"Labels are either too big or too small with very little in between," she said. "It is kind of like dealing with the government. There are always so many people involved, and you're not sure whom to blame if something goes wrong."
Nicholls said the performance at the Bottleneck would be worth the $6 ticket price.
"After you've been in a truck all
day, it is kind of nice to get on out the stage and get some exercise," she said. "We'll get on stage and have a good time and not hold back."
Bruce Rowley, program manager for KJHK, KU's student radio station, said Fetchin Bones was on the station's top 10 list a month ago.
At the end of August, Fetchin Bones peaked on the College Media Journal top 100 list at number seven, Rowley said.
"Their album has already peaked with us," he said. "But, it certainly hasn't peaked everywhere. It's still hononing in other markets."
"Monster" also has done well in commercial stations, Rowley said.
"It's in the top 30 in commercial progressive stages," he said. "I."
also in the top 20 in progressive retail stores."
Progressive music is a term used primarily to describe college bands but includes groups like the Rolling Stones, the Cure and the B-52s, he said.
Rowley said the opening band, Glass Eye, would attract a lot of attention.
Glass Eye, on tour to promote its album "Hello Young Lovers," is a band on the rise, Rowley said.
"Their album got quite a lot of play time," he said. "They are definitely not just an opening band."
"Fetchin Bones overwhelms them in popularity, but they are definitely a reason to go out early and see the show."
Birth of Nuclear Age brought to life in Fat'
By Marc Parillo
Kansan movie reviewer
Convincing an audience to shift its focus from the present day and into a different time and place is a concept that is achieved in "Fat Man and Little Boy," Roland Joffe's latest film.
"Fat Man" escorts you from the birth of the abstract idea of nuclear warfare to the end of the Manhattan Project and, consequently, the beginning of the nuclear age. And with the current issue of nuclear disarmament on the horizon, the story of the Manhattan Project couldn't have been released at a more opportune time.
In 1942, nine months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, General Groves, played brilliantly by Paul Newman, is authorized to head a band of the greatest Allied scientists in the world to construct a working atomic bomb within 19 months. Among these scientists are Robert Oppenheimer, played by Dwight Schultz, and Michael Merriam, played by John Cuaack. At first, the task is difficult, but soon he is profiled with whom to be imminumountable obstacles but as months go by in the quiet setting of Los Alamos, New Mexico, these 12 scientists come closer and closer to developing an atomic weapon.
Overshadowing the obstacles behind the "gadget," as the scientists are forced to call it, is a basic struggle with the men who must give their lives and knowledge to the project while considering the moral questions involved in creating the most destructive weapon to date. While Oppenheimer and the
other scientists want only to exhibit the ominous power of the "gadget," the uncompromising and shrewd-headed General insists on a more cataclysmic plan.
Joffe's constant camera movements and unique artistic angles supply the audience with a bird's-eye view of situations that otherwise might be seen only in katchery, two-dimensional history books. The technique Joffe utilizes adds visual power to images of the horrendous consequences of radiation sickness and other "explosive" and dramatic special effects.
Another plus on Joffe's team is veteran cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, who is best known for his beautiful photography in *Encounterers of the Third Kind*. Eleanor Morricone, who has composed for "The Mission," another of Joffe's films.
Paul Newman stands in a class by himself in this film. The screenplay, adapted from Kansas City author Richard Rhodes' novel, titled *making of the Atomic Bomb,"* makes it possible as the page it was written on if it weren't for Newman's well-known abrasive and colorful style.
Actually, "Fat Man & Little Boy" are the names of two historic bombs but it is similarly the title of one completely masterful movie.
Although "Fat Man" deals with the creation of the atomic bomb, it doesn't leave you in the clouds.
> Marc Paritio is a Lenexa sophomore majoring in English and film studies.
Wichita Symphony debuts at KU with renowned clarinetist
By Jennifer Reynolds Kansan staff writer
The largest musical organization in Kansas will make its KU debut at 8 tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
The Wichita Symphony Orchestra will test the instrument Richard Stoltzman in its Current Series.
Julie Falen, public relations director for the orchestra, said the 93-score group had played four or five concerts outside of Wichita but had never left Kansas.
"We try to reach all four corners of the state," she said. "But, we are exploring other areas to play right now."
Michael Palmer, in his thirteenth and final year as conductor, has improved the professional quality of the orchestra. Falen said.
"He has left an indible mark," she said. "He has brought the quality of the orchestra up through his personal professional standards."
Falen said Palmer would move to the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut, an orchestra he currently works with in
conjunction with the Wichita orchestra.
"It's his 13th season, and he thought it was time to move on," Falen said. "Orchestra and conductors need new blood every once in a while."
Besides being the first KU performance for the group, it is the first time Stoltzman has been able to play with KU.
"He is a very big talent," said Larry Maxey, professor of clarinet. "He is the most well-known for the expansion of the clarinet because he is the most visible."
Maxey said it was unusual for a clarinetist
to work independently.
Besides soloing for more than 100 orchestras, Stoltzman is a recital performer, a chamber musician and a jazz artist.
"He is the only person I've heard of who really makes a living doing nothing but playing the clarinet outside of an orchestra," he said.
"A lot of people are better at jazz than he is, but no one is better at clarinet." Maxey Haleen does not play part of his hard ground than classical music but a great interest was in jazz. He doesn't "play it as well
as classical, though."
The concert tonight is unusual because it will feature two clarinet concertos, Maxey said.
"The clairit is featured rarely as it is," he said. "I've never heard of two clarinet concertos from the same player in a concert."
Maxey said he hoped the double clarinet concerto won't have a negative effect.
"I hope his ability will overshadow the possibility of the audience going away with the feeling of a clarinet overload."
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