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DeLand- St. Johns Rivertown Festival Saturday, September 14 A Day on the River A Night on the Town 9 a.m. The Anything 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. That Floats Raft Race, Woodland Boulevard will sponsored by the DeLand be closed for an evening Firemen's Association and full of entertainment, begins at including dancing, Riviera Marina and finishes children's activities, the at Ed Stone Park.

New and Used Boat Show, Karaoke show, plus live Starting at 9 a.m. entertainment sponsored until dark Family by The Orlando Sentinel. games and refreshments at Ed Stone Park. 9 1 p.m. Indiana Avenue Live music, More food and fun will be closed off to from rock Children's fun celebrate the Rivertown to reggae and games organized Craft Fair, featuring Karaoke contest by the DeLand handmade items from '50s rock and Jaycees craftsmen across the state.

roll block party Food refreshments Water fun Crafts Bargains Prizes 1991 13-19, For more information, call September The Deland DeLand West Volusia Area Orlando I HON DA Calendar Now you've seen everything! Sentinel "People Make The Difference DeLand Firemen's Association 9-15-91 MUSIC Author says Axl Rose won't self-destruct Danny Sugerman, who wrote a biogra- cut a record and then couldn't get anyphy of the Doors, also has written a book body to listen to it." about Guns N' Roses Appetite for De- The name's the same, and the vocal struction (St. Martins, $19.95) and style is the same one that made him a while he catalogs considerable excess pop star. In fact, nothing much about the therein, he has an en- man has changed since couraging prognosis for "Down in the BoonAxl Rose fans: He SOUND BITES docks" became a hit in thinks the big guy's 1966. gonna make it. Royal likes to believe He knows about Rose's tantrums.

He his resurgence (as opposed to comeback) knows Rose has a promptness problem. is due in part to his "new-found home" He knows about the band's problems in country music, which has changed with drugs and finishing records, and he more than he has in the past 20 years. knows Rose can act like a jerk. But Rose Royal's brand of '60s pop-rock appears to knows that, too, Sugerman says, noting be the new wave of country in the '90s. that Rose has seen a shrink to sort some He is ensconced among Atlantic Reof this stuff out.

cords artists and has produced three LPs "You look at Axl and his eyes are for the label, Tell It Like It Is, Looking clear," Sugerman says. "He tells you Ahead and The Royal Treatment. That when he's angry, which is good. You last one earned Royal his first-ever certiwouldn't want anyone to suppress the fied-gold album. anger he has.

Nashville and country music also seem "We're watching him go through hell. to be kinder to an artist whom pop might He's not enjoying this, either. He's not see as a bit past his prime. reveling in being a rock star. He's a guy "I'm getting kind of long in the tooth," who's trying to write songs.

Like Royal says, "and I think you have a Morrison, he's working to be an artist. chance of having a longer career He's trying to be real." country "With some artists," Sugerman says, "the same thing that makes them great Neville Brothers play to can eat them alive." huge crowds in Israel Stay tuned. The Neville Brothers were featured in Billy Joe is back, getting one of the first big shows to play Israel the Royal treatment again since the Persian Gulf War earlier this year. A few weeks back, the New Orleans Six or seven years ago, Billy Joe Royal group appeared in Tel Aviv and Galilee couldn't even give away a demo tape. to crowds.

"I don't know how something like that happens," Royal says. "I just know we'd COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS IN THE BIN Here's what's new in the record roots by tapping into a variety of folk stores: and jazz influences. Dire Straits, On Every Street Also in the bin: Tesla, Psychotic (Warner For their first album Supper (Geffen); Diana Ross, The since 1985's Brothers in Arms, Mark Force Behind the Power (Motown); Knopfler takes his bandmates on an Georgio, Rollin (RCA); Bullet Launderstated, stylistic journey charac- volta, Swan Dive (RCA); Suzanne terized by Memphis-style blues Ciani, Hotel Luna (Private Music); ing Elvis" and "Fade to the Patty Larkin, Tango (Highstreet); Latin-flavored "Ticket to Heaven" and James Galway, Wind Beneath My the Nashville twang of "How Wings (RCA); Keith Whitley, KenGarth Brooks, Ropin' the Wind tucky Bluebird (BMG); Kenny Log(Capitol): The red-hot Brooks with gins, Leap of Faith (Columbia); Eddie two albums in the Top 10 on Bill- Money, Right Here (Columbia); Alex board's country chart co-wrote sev- Bugnon, 1070 in the Shade (Epic); Inen of the 10 songs on this new release, fectious Grooves, The Plague That the follow-up to 1990's No Fences. Pro- Makes Your Booty Move (Epic); Tall duced by Nashville veteran Allen Stories, Tall Stories (Epic); Karyn Reynolds, the album includes the cur- White, Ritual of Love (Warner rent single "Rodeo" and "Against the Ricky Skaggs, My Father's Son Grain," a rebellious number said to be (Sony); John Lee Hooker, Mr. Lucky cut from the same cloth as the rollick- (Point Blank); Texas Tornados, Zone ing "Friends in Low Places." of Our Own (Reprise); Raw Youth, Smithereens, Blow Up (Capitol): Hot Diggity (Giant); Thompson For its fifth release, the quartet steps Twins, Queer (Warner Wild beyond its standard three-chord for- Rose, Listen to Your Heart (Capitol); mula for a sampling of more intricate Strunz and Farah, Mosaico (Rhino); British rock.

Nuclear Assault, Out of Order (IRS); Jethro Tull, Catfish Rising Gary Morris, Full Moon, Empty (Chrysalis): On this new album, the Heart (Capitol). veteran British band returns to its JIM ABBOTT.