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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 1, 1991
EXCURSIONS
Fall Harvest
Joe Gesink (far right) pours apples into a grinder where they are ground to a coarse pulp. Several types of apples are used, including Winesap and Golden Delicious. As the pulp falls (above) from the grinder, it is wrapped in a nylon press cloth and placed in a wooden frame. The cider is siphoned into a large dairy tank where a preservative is added. Potassium citrate is added to the liquid from fermenting. The cider is then siphoned into jugs and sold in grocery stores and at various fairs and festivals in the area. Gesink's market in Baldwin will be open daily until Thanksgiving. Gesink also sells other fruits, preserves, honey, grains and cherry cider.
photos by Jennifer Hoeffner
Lawrence Nightlife
Jazzhaus, 926 $^{1/2}$ Massachusetts St. Nic Cosmos will perform at 10:00 tonight and tomorrow night. Cover charge is $3.00.
The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. Common Ground will perform at 9:30 tonight. The cover charge is $3.00. Blue Dixie will perform at 9:30 tomorrow night. Cover charge is $4.00.
Just A Playhouse, 806 W. 24th St. Bad Intentions will perform at 10:00 tonight and tomorrow night. Cover charge is $3.00.
Bogarts, 611 Vermont St. Black Cat Bone will perform at 9 tomorrow night. Cover charge is $3.00.
- Down & Under, 801 New Hampshire St. Cry Out will open for Interface at 10 tonight . Groovehead and The Ritual will perform at 10 tomorrow night. Cover charge is $3.00.
'Bonin' In The Graveyard'
Fishbone's sell-out Halloween performance shakes Union crowd
Bv M. Olsen
Special to the Kansan
Halloween. It's cold, it's rainy and you can smell it as soon as you stoe outside: trouble.
As the elevator doors open, Angelo Moore, Fishbone vocalist, saxophonist, and all-around madman, nearly topples into us as he wrestles with a member of his road crew in the lobby.
He stumbles about, oblivious to the fact that he is the evening's "star." He eventually straightens up and wanders off into the crowd, engulfed by the many, many of whom don't seem to recognize who he is.
As all this is going on, the opening act, Primus, is doing its thing, delighting many and severely annoying others. The group's style 'is't original as some would lead you to think, however, and frankly, its influences seem too obvious to mention. Bassist Liesl Claypool seems to rely too heavily on cheap mimicry instead of developing an actual style. His playing just isn't soulful? There's no bottom to it. Also, in the world of post-Flea college rock bass playing, whatever happened to the Bill Wyman school of rhythm playing? Must everyone prove his or her worth through joke theatrics and jock-rock posturing? At times it felt as though I had wandered into the Yes reunion tour, what with the way Primus would play on and, bludgeoning a riff and never actually getting anywhere with its music.
Following a general rule of thumb for opening acts, the band did provide some amusing covers, playing the opening riff to 'Smoke On the Water' and 'I'll Be There' as well as one other P.E. track, Watch Channel Zero' as well as one other P.E. track.
After Primus, which began nearly an hour and a half after the shows "official" starting time, there came the obligatory between set-hull. By the time the "Tonght Show" theme came over the P.A. system to signal the opening of Fishbone's set, a sense of weariness already had begun to settle over the crowd. They were tired, they were worn, they were ready.
The band opened with an extended version of its classic "Party at Ground Zero," and the crowd began to move. You could feel that something was about to happen.
As the set continued and the band tore through "Those Days Are Gone," *Susmel Saturday* and "Behavior Control Technician," all songs off its latest release, "The Reality Of My Surroundings." It became clear that was no standard rock-and-roll show. Souls were being saved here.
The band seemed to break free with its playing, launching out of its skin and taking the crowd with it. This is essentially music of freedom, meant to liberate and educate.
At times it seemed doubtful whether the crowd, lagging behind, would live up to its end of the bargain, which caused the band to try that much harder. Keyboardist, trombonist and vocalist Chris Dowd told the crowd the band was "on a mission," demanding the crowd completely follow the message of George Clinton's P-Funk mob, "Free Your Ass and Your Mind Will Follow."
Formed in Los Angeles more than 10 years ago, Fishbone is not merely posing. These guys can play, swing and band can literally stop on a dime and then switch to waltz time, which isn't easy. The horn playing of
Moore, Dowd and trumpeter "Dirty" Walter A. Kibby II has grown tremendously over the years. They are as fearsome a horn section as will ever encounter, each player spinning off dizzy soles before snapping back together with the power of a hydro-electric plant. Bassist Norwood Fisher does all the cannoli up to his handmates accolade of the greatest bass player this generation. "His playing is highly informed, moving from Bootsy Collins-style groove to flashy, outlandish sung within seconds. His solo on 'Bonin' In The Boneyard' was an undeniable highlight, thrilling and amazing all who saw it. He also has spectacular fashion sense, donning the Fly Guy salad from the film 'I Gonna Git You Sucka' for the group's encore, complete with the fish-tank platform shoes.
The band easily could have quit after it finished the first set, already having played for well over an hour.
Angelo Moore came back out first, singing a beautiful hymn by all himself that held the crowd spellbound. He was then joined by his Fishbone brothers, who treated the crowd to literally more than it wanted them to hear. He was lying crazed, Parliament-style jams that locked onto a groove like a guided missile, never letting go.
Even after playing for nearly two hours the band wasn't ready to quit uplifting songs and moving butts. Fishbone wasn't going to let these people go out of them of them had been won over to the Fishbone family.
To quote Brother J.C. Crawford, "Brothers and sisters, I present to you a testimonial!"
Idol retains values
Lake Perry may be a teen idol now,
thanks to his role on "Beverly Hills"
90210, "but that doesn't mean he acts
like one.
Dealing with unauthorized biographies and screaming mobs of teenage girls "makes you crazy once in a while. But all of that fantasy..." I simple guey, "he says in the latest issue of People magazine."
Perry, 25, is determined to keep himself grounded by remembering his small-town roots and protecting his privacy.
Perry, who grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio, refuses to buy a fancy car or expensive clothes. He rents a two-
Actor Jimmy Stewart was among hundreds of people who paid tribute to the popular vision of Frank Capra, the man who often championed the common man.
Caprahonored
If stardom ever distorts his values, he says, "I'm going back to Ohio and getting a job driving an ambulance. I'll be out of here."
bedroom house
More than 500 colleagues, family members and friends attended the memorial service for Capra on Saturday at the Directors Guild of America.
"I can't tell you the exhilaration of what he gave to all of us in the cast of 'It's a Wonderful Life,' "Stewart said. "And, it was based on our feelings of humor and feeling of living and being alive."
Capra was the guild's founder and three-time president. He died Sept. 3 at age 94.
Jimmy Stewart
Stewart also starred in Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
Capra won Academy Awards for directing "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," "It Happened One Night" and "You Can't Take It With You." The last two films also Oscar's for best picture.
Tomlin movie opens
After six years, Lily Tolmin's one woman show is coming to the nation's movie theaters, allowing millions more to share "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe."
Has she found any?
Occasionally "she says"
"Occasionally," she says,
"although the bag lady in the movie says, 'Maybe we should stop search for the meaning of life and enjoy
"So maybe intelligence is just the tip of the iceberg. And whatever it is
the mystery instead.'
makes us communicate as a species in some kind of commonality, like gosse bumps or bumps in the throat or tears in the eyes or knee-slappers; maybe that's
more important." "The Search"
Lily Tomlin
opened on Broadway six years ago and had a prosperous run and even
greater success on a nationwide tour One-actor shows have been performed by Hal Holbrook, Julie Harris, James Whitmore and others. Though most concentrate on a single character, Tominil offers a gallery of eccentrics: Trudy, the "world-class time traveler, social observer and creative consultant-contracte to aliens from hyperspace"; Chrisy, whose self improvement has self-destructed; Kate, "a jaded socialite with a bad haircut who suffers from 'affluenza,'" among others.
All were created by her long-time collaborator, Jane Wagner.
From The Associated Press