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D-4 September 12,1996 Green Bay Press-Gazette Band of the week Tr1 llttf I Ik. I Mi, Doses Fun More mJS R.E.M. 's strategy Too tired to rock? Gins, you can do Cmon better taps new energy By Tom Moon Knight-Ridder Newspapers at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Arena, Ticket Star outlets and 494-3401. Bruce Springsteen brings his much-anticipated solo acoustic show to The Milwaukee Riverside Theatre Oct.

2. Tickets are $36 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday through Real, live Smugglers: You'll what The Smugglers are supposed to be good at live shows when the band performs Tuesday at Concert Cafe. Chuckles Comedy Club Presents The JeFF DunIiaivi Show. get to check out Ventriloquist Extraordinaire" featuring Jose Jalapeno on a Stick, Peanut Walter With more personality than most people have! mony included several sing-alongs of The Bears Still Suck Polka, an oath rather be pushed down stairs than root for the and an offering of Packers memorabilia (a 1960s Packers yearbook, cheesehead, Weber and the Turks were apparently so touched by all the hoopla that they said Green Bay is now their favorite city to play in the entire country.

Forget about any more Killdozer shows in Green Bay. The well-known indie band from Madison is ending its 13-year-career with hometown gigs Friday and Saturday. The band told Madison's weekly newspaper Isthmus it may play one more shows later this month in Wausau, because band member Michael Gerald "figures it would be an appropriately obscure place to die." A home Packers game generally means a busy weekend on the live music front: Big Mouth with The Power Tool Horns plays after Sunday's Packers-Chargers game from 4 to 8 p.m. at Heroes Club, 401 S. Washington St.

Fun WAtoms goes unplugged from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The 2nd Century Band, third-place winner for best band in MORt's Best of the Bay Readers' Poll, plays Friday and Saturday at Brogan's in the Ramada Inn. Pat McCurdy plays his final gig at The Zoo at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

That's the Washington Street nightclub's last day of business. Don Mackie celebrates the release of his CD, The Mack Attack, with The Slick Watts Band at 7 tonight at Stadium View Sports Bar Grill, 1963 Gross St. The CD features his Packers ode, Title Town. Kendra Meinert writes about cool stuff happening on the local nightlife scene. If you know of something big (or small), call her at 431-8347.

fj Friday Saturday September 20 21, 1996 Shows at 10 p.m. Advance Tickets $15.00 Tickets at Poor (VIP cards Discount coupons not honored) Ticket Outlets: Subway (First floor of Park Central) Chuckles Comedy Club Guess the Gin Blossoms had Green Bay in mind when band titled its current CD Congratulations I'm Sorry. Just three days after tickets went on sale for the Gins' Oct. 8 concert at the Weidner Center, the rock band canceled the show. Oh, it's not what you think.

The band didn't back out because of lack of ticket sales. The Gins sold a nice chunk of tickets when they went on sale Saturday. And no, it's nothing personal against Green Bay. It seems the Gins are equal opportunity slackers. They didn't cancel just one date.

They canceled their entire fall tour, citing "physical and emotional exhaustion." Pardon me, did they say "exhaustion?" Gee, the fiftysome-thing Rolling Stones can still get out there and rock stadiums, but the young punks in the Gins play a few state fairs with the Goo Goo Dolls in the last few weeks and they're too pooped to Whatever. Sounds to me like they better just head back to their home state of Arizona and rest up this winter with the shuffleboard crowd. The cancellation is a bummer particularly for Green Bay rock fans who are hungry for the chance to see a a popular mainstream act here but it doesn't appear to be anybody's fault on this end. The local promoter has been working for three years to get the band here, and it looked like this time was it. Fans expressed their excitement by showing up at the ticket office with cash in hand.

If you want to blame someone, blame the guys in band. They're the ones who pulled the plug on their fans. Should the Gins ever decide they might want to play Green Bay again, maybe fans should sing them a familiar tune: Congratulations, We're Sorry. People who bought tickets should call the Weidner ticket office at 465-2217 or (800) 328-8587 for refund information. Now, onward and upward to better news.

The fall ticket flurry is beginning, with a variety of shows getting penciled in and tickets going on sale. Here's the rundown, with more action expected in coming weeks: Brooks Dunn play Brown County Arena at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, with opening acts David Lee Murphy (Party Crowd, Dust on the Bottle) and Jo Dee Messina (Heads Carolina, Tails California). The rowdy country duo hasn't cooled off since its last concert here in March 1995.

In August, they celebrated five years together, 3.5 million concert tickets and album sales of more than 14 million. Tickets are $23.50 and go on sale wwm i Singles (Green Bay-Appleton area; national ranking in parentheses) 1. (1) Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio 2. (4) C'Mon 'N Ride It, Quad City DJ's 3. (6) I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis 4.

(7) It's All Coming Back to Me Now, Celine Dion 5. (2) Loungin', LL Cool 6. (23) That Girl, Maxi Priest 7. (45) Guys Do It All the Time, Mindy McCready 8. (13) Change the World, Eric Clapton 9.

(18) Where Do You Go? No Mercy 10. (31) Who Will Save Your Jewel rimnrfiiiiiinniiTiiinffiffiiiilli iiltitw yliii Ticketmaster outlets and 494-1414. There's a limit of four. Metro Goldwyn MayerUnited Artists and Ice Capades are combining creative forces for an interactive, multimedia show on ice Nov. 1-3 at the Kendra Meinert a Arena.

The Magic of MGM will feature Leo the Lion and his family of cubs, 31 skaters, gymnasts, bungee jumpers and guest stars showcasing music and moments from MGM movies and musicals, including West Side Story, The Pink Panther and Rocky. Tickets are $10 to $25 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Sept. 28. Concert Cafe, 1116 Main is expecting Smugglers, Wives, Exotics, Queers, Horshacks and Probers for four separate shows in the next week.

On Friday (the 13th), it's The Wives, an all-female, hardcore band from New York City, with Remission, The Vanilla Jacksons and Maximum Vacuum Power, for an all-ages show from 6 to 9:30 p.m. At 10:30 p.m., it's a 21-and-older CD release party with surf band The Exotics, who just released Go Go Guitars, and The Probers out of Milwaukee. For people who prefer alternative to punk, it's Decodering, The Coolhand Band, Pulse and Fez Petting Zoo, along with a retro fall fashion show, at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tuesday's all-ages, school-night show begins and ends early.

Featured punk bands for the 6 p.m. gig are The Queers, who claim they just picked that name to offend people (and it usually works), and The Smugglers, a Canadian, outfit known for great live shows. Last Sons of Krypton and The Horshacks. Tell Mom and Dad the show will be over by 10 p.m. For more info on any of the Concert Cafe shows, call 435-0880.

Well, it's official: Jim Weber is now a Packers fan. The guitarist for Ohio-based punk band New Bomb Turks and a former Cleveland Browns backer became a newly anointed Packers fan last weekend at Concert Cafe. The 10-minute cere Albums (Green Bay-Appleton area; national ranking in V- U(1) NpCode, Pearl Jam 2. (3) Falling Into You, Celine Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette 4. (2) Tragic Kingdom, No Doubt 5.

(17) Jock Jams Vol. 2 6. (7) Blue, LeAnn Rimes 7. (15) Load, Metallica 8. (12) 1999 Eternal, Bone i Thugs-N-Harmony 9j (9) Crow: City of Angels soundtrack 10.

(11) Score, Fugees Copyright 1996 SoundScan, Inc. Distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate. i Cr When R.E.M. began its "Monster" tour in late '94, it had a big agenda: The Athens, quartet not only intended to promote its current work, it wanted to write and record a new batch of songs. Everything was documented: rehearsals, soundchecks, dressing-room jam sessions and more than 110 two-hour concerts during which the band performed at least a few new tunes each night.

From that massive tape library comes the 14-song New Adventures in Hi-Fi, which arrived in stores Tuesday. One of the new selections, the instrumental Zither, was recorded during the band's Oct. 12-14 engagement at the Spectrum in Philadelphia last year. "We knew we'd be there for a few nights, so we could set up the room and leave it," guitarist Peter Buck recalled late last month, days after the band signed a lucrative new deal with its longtime label, Warner Bros. Records.

The actual location was the visiting hockey team dressing room. "We had the guitar amp in a shower stall, the tambourine in the bathroom itself, the autoharp in a hallway, and the organ was in the (dressing) room. The bass went directly into the (soundboard)." The band knew that some of the material would only work in unconventional surroundings, said Buck. Zither, for example, required a "live" room, audio talk for a place that gives even the smallest sound zing. "A fully tiled room is an amazing thing," Buck said of the oversized Spectrum bathroom.

"You wouldn't have wanted a drum set in there, but we could tell when we walked in that we could capture something like Zither there. It was nice and spacious. i "So between the soundcheck and the show every day, like around 6:30, we'd go and try to record it a few times. It was live so no fixing was possible. When we left town, I think we had 12 or 14 versions." Not only did the Hi-Fi strategy allow R.E.M.

to work outside of the antiseptic studio environment, it kept the band and crew engaged during the process of touring. "There's good energy when you're playing well," Buck said. "But it can turn into bad energy if you're playing the same songs over and over. We wanted to channel that into something that was creative. It got more and more exciting as we went along.

After you've been out for a while, y()u never see the crew watching asoundcheck. But they were there every night." Buck, who said that R.E.M. has no immediate plans to tour, admits that he and his co-horts were spared the job of sorting the show tapes and over 100 hours of soundcheck material. That job fell to producer Scott Litt and supporting guitarist Nathan December, who assembled "highlights." The band made the final selections, then went into a Seattle studio to try a different approach to four tunes, including the first single, E-bow the Letter, which features Patti Smith. But most of Hi-Fi, including memorable tracks such as The Wake-up Bomb and Undertow, come from soundchecks or live shows in Memphis, Detroit and Phoenix, among other locales.

"If we record a song 100 times," said Buck, "we're going to get 80 pretty decent versions, some erratic ones and three really fine takes. Sometimes we'd finish a show and tell somebody, 'OK, mark that down, that was a "That made the whole thing an amazingly cool experience. It's nice to walk off stage going, 'We couldn't have played that any better at Local songwriter is contest finalist Green Bay songwriter Dana Erlandson is a finalist in the 1996 Songwriters of Wisconsin International Contest. Two of his songs, Missing You and Kim Loves Animals, were recognized in the adult contemporary and open categories, respectively. Winners will be announced at the SOWI awards banquet Sept.

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