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1 C6 Asbury Park PressFriday, July 1 3, 1 990 CLUBS Ticket Window Band seminar overflows onto Shore A folksy fj open-nukei evening i t'll be raining rock rollers in New York this week, thanks to the New Press Staff Report It was a real down-home and folksy kind Of night in Asbury Park on Wednesday. The New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts launched its first open-mike night at Convention Hall in an evening filled with folk, rock, country, and rhythm and blues fun. Music Seminar, which will overload the city's clubs with more than 300 bands from around the world tonight through Wednesday. Some choice examples: The Original JBs and the New JBs, Tuesday at the Lyric, 213 W. 42nd pairs James Brown's band the Original JBs, who are calling themselves the Pee Wee Ellis Assembly, with rappers the Jungle Brothers.

On Monday at Wetlands, 161 Hudson St, record company exec-for-the-night Mojo Nixon presents four bands he says are "too good to get signed." Pick a club and take a chance: There'll be rai music from Algeria, pop from Spain, rock from the Soviet Union and rap and underground rock from all over America. A New Music Nights pass, available for $95 by calling (2 1 2) 473-6 1 25, gets you into most of the shows, or you can pay for individual shows at the door. If you can't make it to the city, it's possible to experience a bit of the New Music Seminar at the Jersey Shore. The crowd was meager but enthusias tic. The small turnout did not faze Midge Guerre ra, the executive director of the New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts, which recently moved to Asbury Park.

She and her group are leading the effort to bring performing arts back to Asbury Park. 'Our objective is to use the art's to help with the revitalization of Asbury i j-A-ii. Dance-music diva Janet Jackson bypassed New Jersey on the first leg of her current world tour, but she's scheduled to finally make it here on Sept 8. Tickets for her concert that night at the Meadowlands Arena go on sale at 9 a.m. tomorrow through Ticketmaster, (201) 507-8900 or (212) 307-7171.

Prices are $22.75 and $20.25, with 25 "cents from each ticket sale to be donated to the Cities in Schools program. If any remain Sunday, they will be sold at the Meadowlands box office as well. Tickets are also on sale at the box office and Ticket-, master for concerts by Robert Plant and i Allanah Myles Thursday at the arena ($22.50 and $20, behind the stage only); New Kids on the Block July 20 and 21 at the Giants Stadium ($25, upper sections only for July 20); the Budweiser featur-' ing Lather Vandross and others July 22 at the stadium ($33.50 and Fleetwood Mac and Squeeze July 24 at the arena ($22.50, upper sections); Aerosmith July 26 at the arena ($21.50, upper sections behind the stage); David Bowie and Joe Satriani July 29 at the stadium ($28.50, upper sections); Rich-' aid Nader's Doo-W'op Spectacular Aug. 4 ($20, with a third ticket for $1 if you buy two at full price); Eric Clapton Aug. 7 at the arena ($22.50, upper sections); Hank Williams Earl Thomas Con-ley and the Kentucky Headhunters Aug.

9 at the arena ($20 and and Phil Collins Aug. 1 1 at the arena ($25, upper sections behind the stage). Tickets went on sale this week for "The Johnny Cash Show," which fea- I tures Johnny Cash and his family, July 28 at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park. Tickets, at $25, $19.50 and $12.50, are available through Ticket-master and at the Peanut Shoppe in Convention Hall. 1 As of Wednesday, a few seats under the roof remained for tonight's concert by Whitesnake and Faster Pussycat at the Garden State Arts -Center ($22.50, or $15 for lawn seats).

Seating also remained for shows by Erasure and Louie Louie tomorrow ($22.50 and $15) and Anita Baker Tuesday and Wednesday ($27.50 and 1 5). Lawn seats only were available for Heart's concert with opening band Giant Sunday and Monday 'Tickets for arts center concerts are available at the box office and through Ticketron, (201) 480-4200. Several bands who are performing for Park and to provide local performers with an audience," she said. the music bizzers and fans at the with the Hounds opening and backing him up. Expose, the all-female dance-pop trio that's at Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park, Jackson Township, tonight, shares only a producer with the all-female dance-pop trio named Expose that stormed the charts with "Point of No Return" and three other singles a few years back; the band's second album, "What You Don't Know," features all new singers.

But in these days of producer-driven pop, that doesn't necessarily Left-wing thrashers Dirge and psychedelic guitar-hounds Monster Magnet offer some of the area's best and most aggressive local rock tonight at the Brighton Bar, 121 Brighton Long Branch Another interesting local double-bill tonight pairs Nobody's Business and And So Are You, two bands that have their feet in both '60s hard rock and new wave styles, at Joey Harrison's Surf Club, 1990 Ocean Ortley Beach, Dover Township. Reggae singer Jah Love performs an early set at the Surf Club, at 8 p.m., and the rockers go on at 1 1 TLC, a slick top-40 cover band from Matawan, celebrates its third anniversary tonight at the Osprey, 201 First Manasquan The Biases and the Minx play high-energy garage-rock tomorrow at T-Birds Cafe, 707 Main Asbury Park Also tomorrow, the Straight Sa-tans play loud and fast pop with Loose and Motel Shoot Out at the Brighton Bar. Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson brings his solo tour to the Stone Pony Sunday, with Australian hard-rockers Kings of the Sun opening. The show is open to ages 18 and up The same night, the Osprey hosts a rock-a-thon with five bands the Nerds, Street Band, Bums in the Park, Turnstyles and Rhythm Method from 7 p.m. till 2 a.m.

Drumming legend Bernard Purdie sits in with the Jazz Lobsters Sunday afternoon at Donovan's Reef, Ocean Avenue, Sea Bright British reggae anger Pato Banton is best known for his toasting on the English Beat single "Pato and Roger A Go Talk." But he has three albums of his own, including the new "Wize Up" on I.R.S. Records. Banton is at the Green Parrot Tuesday Olson's in Dover Township has suspended live music bookings on orders of the local fire inspector, who says the bar does not meet fire codes for a nightclub. The bar remains open, however. TJ.

Moskalski, master of ceremonies seminar are paying their way with tours that will find them in local clubs this week as well. for the evening, eased the crowd into Among the ways to pretend you're The Strawberry Zots, an Albuquerque, N.M., band who revive 1960s garage-rock and psychedelia, appear at the Green Parrot tomorrow. singing, clapping and foot-stomping1 as the singers, songwriters and instrumentalists performed. there even though you aren't: The Austin 4-Alarm Tour includes four up-and-coming bands from Austin, Texas: Crazed roots-rockers the Calling the evening a "dress rehearsal Club Crawling Neprunes, '60s-ish poppers Big Car, funksters Bouffant jellyfish and ian- bringing together talent and artists," Ms. Moskalski called upon the audience to help spread the word about future open- gly art-poppers State of Mind.

You may remember the Neptunes from three ripsnorting, anything-goes (did Matty karas mike performances to attract both performers and patrons to Asbury someone request Madonna? Sure, we The music ranged from the calypso can do that) shows at T-Birds Cafe over the past year. Their first album, Nocturnal Habit, is just out on beat of opening act Leigh's Kids to the more melancholy tone of multi-instru Austin's REC Records. All four bands mentalist Adam Brzostoski, who plays can be found on another REC album, with the Jack Rubies Sunday at the Rock Academy, 234 W. 43rd is one of the New Music Seminar's featured shows, and tonight the two bands are at the Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Asbury Park. Nine Inch Nails, an industrial dance band from Cleveland, is at the Rock Academy in a featured show the day after Modern English.

Tonight, you can see Nine Inch Nails at City Gardens, 1701 Calhoun Trenton (granted, that's not exactly the Shore, but it's not exactly far away either). Gimme the Gun, the Hoboken band that won the Green Parrot's Original Band Competition last week, showcases its British-pop-from-America sound in a seminar show Wednesday at the Limelight, 660 Sixth New York. The following night, Gimme the Gun is at the Chatterbox, 514 Boulevard, Seaside Heights. Austin 4-Alarm Taster," released at the Stone Pony in Asbury and The in conjunction with the current tour. Walt Street Pub in Red Bank.

They perform at Kenny's Castaway's, 57 Uleecker St, New York, on Perennial favorite singer-songwriter Bob Killian, known for his appearances Monday as part of the seminar, and at the Fast Lane 2, 207 Fourth Asbury Park, Tuesday. at the Clearwater Folk Festival, treated the crowd to his originals on acoustic Lava Love, an Atlanta band whose guitar. Green Parrot tomorrow (with Beatnik Pop, a former New Brunswick-area band now based in Los Angeles). The Zots are an Albuquerque, N.M., band who revive 1960s garage-rock and psychedelia in a way that shows equal reverence for the Troggs and the Partridge Family. "And You (Drive Your Pretty Car)," a typical song from their debut album, "Cars, Flowers and Telephones," is a dated, kitschy hippie sentiment, but the Zots play and sing it with such earnestness you can pretend it's 1966 and polka dots and long hair are still a fashion statement.

Modern English, British poppers best known for the 1983 MTV smash "I Melt With You," broke up in the late '80s, but have resurfaced with a new album that includes a new, almost identical, version of "I Melt With You." Modern English's show debut album lands somewhere between the Go-Gos and the Cucumb Open-mike nights will be held from 7 ers, is at the Green Parrot 1 927 Route to 9 p.m. Wednesdays and 3:30 to 5:30 33, Neptune, tonight (with Wooden m. Sundays through August. Soldiers and Shakin' the Pumpkin), in advance of its seminar show tomorrow at CBGB, 315 Bowery, New York. The two-woman, three-man Admission is $3, and performers are encouraged to audition in all categories, including music, comedy, acting, singing and magic.

ALSO CRAWLING AROUND: For a blues legend, Chicagoan Otis Rush is woefully under-recorded. But he's not at all under-heard at the Shore, where he's becoming something of a regular. Tonight, he's at Jason's, 1604 South Belmar, band sings slightly off-kilter songs about relationships, with jangly guitars and giddy harmonies. Ticket availability is based on reports at press time. Information for this column should be directed to Matty Karas, Press music writer.

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