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THfCAZJTTC. M0NTRfAl4 THURSDAY, OCTOBfR 8. I99S he (Si2ttU fl Z3 r1 IV tZ3 LI INTIRTAINMINT IDITOli IUCINOA CMOOAM (JM) M7.JJ4I The belle of the ba 14 Deborah Cox headlines the biggest bash in a weekend of Bad Boy events The IU4 fU art bark, Muntr- I I ftif mt riUi lllrWAUV I I I I 1 mintrrm pan yon tljtui I I I L-v. I I ml V-' -if UM thu wwkmd uh events il wr tin. um ludmt tihrr lull ih Mwlky lomorrow nuht.

lh Military IUU i MiniJu on Saiunby and the maw fveni at no, fx the root tc-u tdkHx jkWiip of in IX but 1 Iaku dt Cungt Sunday night Ilfaitjiiuns ih bi fit Canada's own IVtxif Co ImJa girl from Toronto dun tt, Tryint lo mskt imy kind of ru is luff in parts, bui tryint lo brralt through on th Rifl lp rrally awl asy "li mm vrry rhallenglnc In lh be-rinnint to (ri Cox, on lh ihtuv? from New York City. "It a struggle I mt out lapi nol only lo Canadian companies, but lo In S. and London, When (started femnf reptinkeik people were like, wow, there 'i K1H in Canada." US company Record was the flrti to jump, cutting short Cox'i lour as backup ungrr for Celine Dton, "Actually I ftnl sang backup for Rsxh Voinlne," Cot says. "The mer from thai tig went on lour with Celine. (When I heard she needed an- other background vocalist), I was like, With two Junot (best RiB female artist, 1996 97) and two successful albums (including her Latest.

One Wish) under her belt. Cox's stock rising. But perhaps her biggest nolsemaker aids and most relevant to this week-end's events have been the dance remixes of her top tracks, giving her crossover appeal Ln a totally new max- krt "It all started with the first album when we got David Morales to remix Who Do You Love? The song came out so Incredibly that we decided to put it on the album. The response was so great, we decided that for every single, we were going to have a dance remix." And that suits Cox just fine, "It's given me a lot mot flexibility," she says. "Dance music reminds me of gospel in a sense; you have so much tiredom in the music.

You don't have to be worried so much about structure. You can really do whatever you want "I like songs that I can really sink my Beenle Man has raw reggae ambition. rX'borah Cox "the little girl from Toronto done good." TONE DEF T'CHA DUNLEVY The new album. boasts a more catchy edse and better songwrit-Ing than the Cooks have seen in a while. Simple, pop ready, but with a raunchy edge.

It could be a ticket back to recognlzability. Radio has already been biting at their first single. Raise Your Class, and they have more In store among their 10 new tracks. "We wanted to do a rock album," says Ceorgesco of their approach. "So we worked on the guitar sounds.

We put the keyboards aside, except for one song." "I think we're learning to build stronger melodies and stronger parts for each instrument," d'Anjou adds. Please see TONE, PageBS yeah, they've got the We had maybe half a song and a few guitar riffs." "We weren't even looking for a deal." says d'Anjou. "We were just taking the summer off. restructuring." But there they were, another contract another (their third) record company and a fifth album In the making. Not bad for a couple of guys who were soon to be eligible for the next edition of Where Are They Now? "We've always gotten record deals," offers d'Anjou, "so we never really had time to get discouraged.

There've been bad trips and harder moments, but I've always found a way to express my art and get it out out of my house, out of my head." It's like the story of the Little Engine That Could, except that Montreal duo Too Many Cooks has never quite made it over the hUL The Cooks hit the scene with a bang back In 1939 with their self titled debut, had even more success with their follow-up, Food Fight, and then Richard d'Anjou and Dan Ceorgesco settled into obscurity or Is that mediocrity? -on their next two albums. So here they are nine years later with album No. "We didn't have any songs done until last August." Jokes Ceorgesco of their recording feat (the album was finished last January). "Somebody offered us a record deal, (our agent) said, 'Yeah The DJ may get the party started, but a dance floor diva can really put things over the top. Deborah Cox at the Black A Blut Party, with DJs Rob Davis, Victor Calderont, Mark Anthony, Arkln Allen, Unit Eric and more at Palais des Congris between 10p.m.

on Sunday and noon Monday Tickets art $55; all proceeds go to the BBCM Foundation In support of direct AIDS care and the gay and lesbian community teeth into. There are ballads that can be very pretty and melancholy. But I stuff that I can really sing." Tambourine men to A Havens and McGuinn have learned to love their bell-bottomed ghosts til 1973. Asked the inevitable question about a Byrds reunion, McGuinn said the chances were slim to none, not least because two of the five founding members (Clark and Clarke) are dead. "I don't think it would be a good thing to do.

It would be one of those commercial things that would just be about money and I'm not interested in that. Besides, we've all gone in different directions. I much prefer playing solo. There's a lot of things about being in a band that are burdensome, like traveling with all that equipment I'm happy that I can pick up my guitars and go without a lot of supergroup, McGuinn used his Ricken-backer 12-string electric guitar to create one of the most distinctive sounds in pop music. His chiming intros to Tambourine Man and Turn! Turn! Turn! are Instantly identifiable.

According to legend, McGuinn and band mates had to be persuaded to tackle the impenetrable Dylan tune which clocked in at more than five minutes. The band sped up the tempo and added a rock beat. The song climbed the charts in 1965 and was the Byrd's biggest hit. Within a few years creative differences and personality conflicts saw the departures of Crosby Michael Clark and Gene Clarke. McGuinn kept the Byrds alive with a rotating cast of players (including country rockers Gram Parsons and Clarence White) un MARY LAMEY The Gazette 1 You can't outrun your past, especial-3 Jy as the years pile up.

Just ask Richie Havens or Roger 5 McGuinn, icons of the Woodstock gen- eration, who have long since stopped i running and learned to love the bell-5 bottomed ghosts who dog their steps. "I don't think of the past as a bur-i den," the friendly and talkative Havens feaid this week. "I'm pretty lucky in 3 that I've never had to sing a song that I 5 didn't love." The same goes for McGuinn, whose 1 40-year music career did not begin with the jingle-jangle strains of Mr. Tambourine Man, although that tune wm be the one that follows him to his grave. "I don't look at (Mr.

Tambourine Man) as something I'm doomed to do. I love what I'm doing right now, which is playing and talking about songs. I'm keeping the folk process alive," McGuinn said. The pair bring their guitars and songs to the woody intimacy of the concert hall at Concordia University's Loyola campus Sunday night McGuinn's began playing when he was fresh out of high school. He left Chicago for Los Angeles armed with an invitation to play banjo with the Chad Mitchell Trio.

He later joined the Limeliters and backed Bobby Darin before hooking up with David Crosby and Chris Hillman to form the Byrds. As a co-founder of the first folk-rock i 1 'iilni ii Air i Please see HAVENS, PageB5 Roger McGuinn here Sunday. Top 10 Albums Week of Oct 4 Top 20 Current Albums Montreal Metro Week of Oct 4 Top 20 Singles Montreal Metro Week of Oct 4 This Last Week Week Nationally ArtistTitle ArtistTitle Lauryn HIIIMiseducation of Lauryn Hi 13 Lauryn HIIIMiseducation of Lauryn Hil Jrlbe Called QuThe Love Movement: Various Mc MarioMr Mario Dance 2001- Last Week 4 6 3 2 1 5 7 Various ArtistsNotre Dame de Paris 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 1 2 7 4 6 3 5 10 16 18 Tribe Called QuThe Love Movement Janet JacksonVelvet Rope OutkastAquemlni MonicaThe Boy Is Mine BrandyNever Say Never Jay-ZVol. 2 Hard Knock Life Filpmode Squadimperial Album BladeSoundtrack Keith SweatStifl In The Game Sheryl CrowGlobe Sessions Celine DlonS'll Suffisait D'Aimer Sarah McLachlanSurfacing ArmageddonSoundtrack Janet JacksonVelvet Rope OutcastAquemini 10 I This Last This Week Nationally ArtistTitle Week Week Nationally 1 1 Elton JohnSomethingCandle in 1 i 't2 BrandyMonlcaBoylsMlne 2.1 2 2 3 5 Depeche ModeOnly When Lose Myself 53 5 31 Cypress HHlTequila Sunriso 3' 21 5 15 Stars on 54lf You Could Read My Mind 5 3 ,14,, PrasMlcheleGhettO Superstar 41 27 7 24 AerosmithI Don't Want To Miss A (Import) 7 7 1 42 Spice Girtsviva Forever Parti t. A 9 10 MonicaFirst Night 11 9 39 ,9 25 Beenle ManWho Ami.

18 10 17 9 2 Jennifer PaigeCrush 6 11 10 12 12 Sheryl CrowMy Favorite Mistake -j -52 12 38 4 The CauseStand By Me 13 8 14 32 MadonrtaRay Of Light 34 14 26 666Paradox 12 15 20 f14 "30 BeastleBoyslntergaiactic" 6 15 17 77 Tori AmosRaspberry Swirl 22 "17 22 Bryan AdamsOn A Day Like Today 14 4 18 23 19 29 Brandy Feat MaseTop Of The World 9 15 7 98 DegreesBecause of You 1 13 I 20 80 Top 10 Hard Music Week of Oct 4 Marilyn MansonMechanical Animals 3 Rich OeslardlnsBoom Boom 5 The Beastle BovsHello Nasty 10 PJ. HarveyIs This Desire MonicaThe Boy is Mine 12 BrandyNever Say Never 1 9 MadonnaRav of Light 15 1 2 Marilyn MansonMechanical Animals 1 .2 ,,3 KissPsycho-Circus 2 3 4 KornFollow The Leader 3 A Rob ZombleHeltbilly Deluxe 4 5 5 RammsteinSehnsucht 5 '6 "13 Bllnk-182Dude Ranch 6 7 8 Pearl JamYield 7 ",11 Beastle BoysLicensed To III 7 9 10 Our Lady PeaceClumsy -10 "7 Green DayNimrod 7 Various ArtistsBump n' Grind 8 Spice GlrlsSDiceworld 11 Glnetta RenoLove Is All gating based on retail record sales Source: From SoundScan, Inc..