University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 7, 1988
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Bands vie for spots on album
By Michael Carolan
Kansan staff writer
They were bouncing, slamming,
swinging and flying. The crowd at
"Quest for Vinyl" at the Bottleneck,
737 New Hampshire St.
danced so hard to the music late
Saturday night that the ceiling
nearly came down.
Actually, part of the panel ceiling above the dance floor did fall after a member of the audience jumped off the stage and hit the soft ceiling panel while the Homestead Grays cranked out the closing tunes of "Quest for Vinyl."
"The last half hour of the show. I watched everyone dancing and felt that all of Lawrence came together," said Brad Schwartz, KJHK station manager and the one who developed the show during the last month and a half.
The scene was an appropriate closing for the three-day recording event, sponsored by JKHK. The event featured 20 of Lawrence's finest bands trying to win a spot on the album "Live from Lawrence."
From cow-punk rock to rhythm and blues to reggae to rockabilly, the many musical faces of Lawrence was seen by about 1,500 people.
"We certainly have a potpourri of musical talent in Lawrence," said Jef Morrow, Lawrence resident, who listened to the five bands that played Saturday night. "The Lawrence music scene is as active now as any where in the past potential was there, and now it's been realized."
Stephan Simmons, drummer for Drowning Incident, a local band that played Friday night, said the three-day event was similar to Woodstock, a huge weekend music event in 1969.
"It's kind of a mini-Woodstock." Simmons said. "This has been a great opportunity for people who don't see shows to come and see the many different sounds Lawrence has to offer."
With only 45 minutes allotted to each band to play, band members and several JKHK staff members shuffled drum sets, guitars, keyboards and amplifiers hourly.
Matt Kesler, bassist for the Kansas City-based Pedal Jets, who played Saturday night and were featured on the last KJHK album. "Fresh Sounds from Middle America Part III," said the show was put together well.
"It's surprising how smoothly bands are getting on and off after their sets." Kesler said.
Kesler said the album, should go over better than the last one because it's live.
The album should be out by late April, said Bill Rich, owner of the Fresh Sounds record label, which will promote the record.
"We are working on the six-month plan. It is crucial to have this album out by the end of the semester." Rich said. "We hope to have the mixed done by the end of spring break so we can get any remixing, pressing and shipping finished and stay on schedule."
The album will contain about 55 minutes of music, limiting the number of bands that make it on the album to about 15. Rich said. He said he planned about 500 copies of cassette tapes, which could hold 90 minutes of music, and 1,500 copies of records.
their songs on last year's album.
Rich said ticket and T-s shirt sales probably wouldn't cover the $8,000 cost of producing the album. He said some type of benefit fundraising concert might be scheduled.
Other college radio stations said they had never finished a live album.
"We don't really care if we get on the album," Newman said. "We just wanted to play."
For example, Howard Zimmerman, station manager of WVUA at the University of Alabama, said that he hadn't heard of an entirely live album done by a college radio station but that he would like to hear one.
Jerry Landers, drummer for the Lawrence-based Ultraviollets, who played Thursday night, said the quality of the sound system, which was provided by Ramaon Studios, 646 Locust St., and The Music Shack, 1023 E. 23rd St., was the best he had ever heard.
Todd Newman, vocalist for the Topeka-based Todd Newman Band, which played Friday, said he was pleased with the band's performance. The band had one of
Members of the audience seemed happy with the sound system but more so about the loudness and audacity to hear local and regional bands.
Ann Polizzotto, Manhattan Beach, Calif., sophomore, who attended all three shows, said she had come to hear the diversity of music offered in Lawrence.
"It's too bad that the bands only play for a short time, but you get to hear more diversity," she said.
Melissa Jones, Lawrence freshman, said she hoped Lawrence would keep its music for itself.
But Lawrence didn't keep the music to itself completely. The three-day show sparked the interest of a major recording company.
A representative from Elektra Records, a label that has signed the college band Guadalcanal Diary, said that he had heard about the event and that he went to Saturday's show.
Top; The Homestead Grays, who closed Stairday night's Quest For Vinyl show, worked the crowd up to the point that bouncers had to keep people from smashing into the stage.
Above left; the keyboards were lively during the 3-day festival as 28 bands performed in hopes of having a spot on the album
Above; Karl Hofmann, recording engineer for the shows,
watches a television monitor of the stage while he adjusts sound levels in the sound room. The make shift recording studio was set up in an office next door to the Bottleneck.
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