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16 The Arizona Republic Sunday, April 23, 1989 Rad Kids, adult rockers help teens develop positive rap about life Popular Music out earlier this week as American Continental, the company that owns Estrclla, headed into bankruptcy court 1 to seek the protection of Chapter 1 1 of federal bankruptcy laws. The acts for the free festival, which include Alabama, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, already have been paid, said Michael Owens, KNIX's vice president and general manager. Estrclla, a new community develop mcnt, lies 25 miles west of downtown Phoenix raphy Long Time Gone and solo album Oh Yes I Can were meant to signal a comeback, has canceled several concerts, including one at the Celebrity Theatre on May 7. "He's been on the road and he's really tired," said Marlcl Pastor, a publicist for the label that released Oh Yes I Can. "It doesn't look like he's rescheduling." Crosby's state of health has nothing to do with drug use, Pastor said; the singer has stayed clean Crosby's decision is part of a bleak month for local promoter Dan Zel-isko.

His company, Evening Star Productions, also has had recent cancellations by Poison and Rod Stewart. Dank on KNIX fest KNIX's two-day country-Western festival at Estrclla on Saturday and April 30 will go ahead as planned you can bank on it. That's the word KNIX was putting By Andrew Means The Arizona Republic Most of the time, pop music gets a bad rap for its influence on teen-agers. Rap and heavy metal, in particular, have been accused of making kids anti-social and even, in some cases, suicidal. But, as suicide prevention specialist Cheryl Splansky has been finding out, it doesn't have to be that way Pop music can inspire kids, too Take the Rad Kids, foi example This quintet of Scottsdalc second graders may not be ready for MTV yet, But as far as Splansky's con cerned, they're definitely a happening act.

As a program manager for the Intcrfaith Counseling Service, Splansky was disturbed last year when she heard kids reciting what she considered to be the negative verses of commercial rap songs. Why not write their own, positive, rap, she suggested to the kids. "We worked on it for about three months," she said. "They made tapes, and they were singing it constantly They have just blossomed, They feci good about themselves It really worked It was neat." Trying to reverse kids' negative outlooks is business as usual for Splansky, who oversees Interfaith's Suicide Prevention Program. This afternoon, pop music has another chance to show its positive on mental health.

"I think it's much harder for kids today," she added. "It's very competitive. There are a lot of families that have moved a lot. (The kids) don't feel very connected to much." Research is inconclusive, Splansky said, on the role of certain heavy-metal lyrics in driving teen-agers to Satanism and suicide. "There's a linkage," she said.

"If you have a kid who's been depressed for a long time, who's been using drugs and alcohol and is contemplating suicide, and then listens to songs with negative connotations, it could have an effect. "I think it's progressive. The music alone will not cause someone to become suicidal or even to become interested in the occult." Even in the hard-rock arena, there are groups like Stryper that make a point of writing positive lyrics. All the same, Splansky said, kids today have to face a lot of pressure from many directions. "Kids are bombarded by negatives," she said.

"There's not much of a balance of opposites. They don't get it through the media or from their friends. To try to counteract that is a major task." Oh, no: Crosby can't David Crosby is having trouble keeping up with his own rhetoric. The singer, whose recent autobiog- side when three top Valley groups perform in a benefit for the program's teen hotline, Teens Talk to Teens (461-8888). Progressive rock from Radio Architecture will open the event at 1 p.m.

in Mesa Amphitheatre. Blues and rock from Chuck Hall the Brick Wall is scheduled to follow at 2 p.m., and Caribbean-flavored pop from Walt Richardson and the Morning Star Band is at 4 p.m. Admission is $5. The event, the second annual Festival of Life, has. two main aims, said program manager Splansky.

The goals are to raise money for the program and to acknowledge the work of the program's 100 tccn-agc volunteers. Splansky said she would like to double the amount raised last year, which was $800. Funding for the teen line is no longer available from the Governor's Office on Substance Abuse, she noted, but other state funds are available from the East Valley Behavioral Health Association through June. "I know we aren't going to raise enough to go all year," she said. "We need a few other sources.

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