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The Red and Black • Thursday, February 1, 1990 • 6
Jewry Month begins;
Farber will premiere
By SUSAN HIRSCH
Contributing Writer
Atlanta comedian and night
club owner Jerry Farber will
open the University’s World
Jewry Month with a performance
in Wax Alley at 7:00 p.m.,
Sunday.
World Jewry Month will en
compass a series of programs
that focus on various religious
and social issues. Georgia Hillel
is sponsoring all activities.
University athletic director
Vince Dooley and his wife, Bar
bara, are scheduled to attend.
“Barbara and I are pleased to
be in attendance at the kickoff of
World Jewry Month, and well
enjoy the performance of our good
friend Jerry Farber,” he said.
Reuban Rodriguez, executive
director of Hillel, said Farber’s
act will “start the month off in an
entertaining and positive way.”
“In the past, our activities
have just focused on persecu
tion,” he said. “We want this
month to be a celebration.”
Farber, who has worked with
Dooley before, said he will bring
the former head coach on stage
for part of his act.
Farber said he admires Dooley
for making a team “out of so
many diverse young men from
different walks of life.”
“Dooley is a coach of life,”
Farber said. “He accomplishes
what our ministers and rabbis
would like to do.”
Hillel president Linda Mann
said Hillel was eager to get
Farber, who has performed fre
quently at the University.
“Jerry has a good rapport with
Dooley, and he’s very familiar
with UGA,” she said. “Hell have
a very specialized show for this
audience.
“He is the perfect beginning for
a month which is supposed to
inspire people to question, move
and take action.”
Farber’s act blends comedy
and music to deliver a social mes
sage.
Although he doesn’t consider
himself a “huge activist,” Farber
said he is eager to participate in
anything that helps raise con
sciousness.
“A lot of my show has to do
with opening people up to their
brothers and sisters of different
colors, sexual preferences and re
ligious backgrounds.”
Farber said that as a young
boy, he became alerted to anti-
Semitism throughout the world.
He said he hopes young Amer-
‘A lot of my show has
to do with opening
people up to different
colors, sexual
preferences and
religious
backgrounds.’
— Jerry Farber
ican Jews will remain active in
the world community.
“Some people wear their reli
gion like a badge,” he said. “I
wear my humanity like a badge.”
World Jewry Month is a first at
the University, and Rodriguez
said Hillel wants to “involve Jews
and non-Jews, students and
Athens citizens, to promote social
and religious understanding.”
Hillel is designating Feb. 5 as
“Tikkun Olam," which means
“Healing the World.” On this day
Hillel will work for the homeless
of Athens and host several social
and environmental groups on the
Tate Center Plaza.
Other special events for World
Jewry Month include: Soviet and
Ethiopian Jewry programs on
Feb. 8; a speaker on anti-Semi
tism in Japan on Feb. 15; an in
terfaith Sabbath Dinner on Feb.
16; and a mediated dialogue for
blacks and Jews titled: “Miscon
ceptions: A Candid Discussion
About Stereotypes in the Black
and Jewish Community,” on Feb.
18.
“We want to involve everyone
on campus and open their eyes
and minds,"said. “With all the
events planned, we think ev
eryone can find one thing they’ll
be interested in.”
Andrea Frolich, Hillel vice
president, said diverse events are
spread over a month to keep
people involved and to maintain
interest.
She said such events as the In
terfaith Dinner and the Black-
Jewish Dialogue are aimed at ed
ucating people of different faiths
and backgrounds, as well as
maintaining good relations.
“None of us like to admit it,”
she said, “but there’s a lot we
don’t know about other religions
and cultures.”
Jerry Farber tickets are avail
able at Hillel for $2 and for $3 at
the door. For more information
about World Jewry Month, call
Hillel at 543-6393.
ENTERTAINMENT
Headhunters have traveled long road
By SHANNON BLAND
Entertainment Writer
The Headhunters will be per
forming at the Gettrgia Theatre
Feb. 3.
At the age of 14, Greg Martin got
into his old Falcon and drove to
meet his cousins, Richard and Fred
Young, at the “practice house.”
That was more than 20 years ago.
Today, the Kentucky Headhunters
have a hit single ranked six on the
country charts.
These country boys started
playing in 1968 and adopted the
name, The Itchy Brothers.
Growing up in the hills of Ken
tucky, it was only natural that they
rehearsed in the biggest building
around, a rustic barn they affec
tionately called the “practice
house.” Doug and Ricky Phelps
joined the band in 1984, and The
Headhunters were born.
Guitarist Richard Young
laughed as he told the story of how
The Itchy Brothers first started
pursuing record contracts in 1977.
“I didn’t know anything about
the music business, but I liked Led
Zeppelin, and so I decided to call
their label, Swansong. I called on a
Friday at 6 p.m., and Mitchell Fox
just happened to still be in the of
fice. We got to talking, and two
months later, he flew down to see
us,” said Young.
Fox, who is their manager today,
liked what he heard but felt that he
would not be able to market the
INTERVIEW
band and suggested they wait
awhile and head to Nashville.
From 1981-1984, the band drove
back and forth from Tennessee to
Kentucky and wrote songs in be
tween their gigs backing up
country artists. However, they still
wanted to play their own music, so
they regrouped in 1984. The band
was very close knit, and when bas
sist Andy Kenney chose to pursue
other interests they became dis
heartened, Young said.
They found a new bassist in
Doug Phelps and spent time
playing and just getting to know
each other, he said.
Although they had a bassist,
they still needed a singer, and
Phelps suggested his brother
Ricky.
“When Ricky began to sing,
there was an expression of rejuve
nation on his face. It was like he
came alive,” Young said.
In 1988, they made their first
tape and cut eight songs in three
days on what they call “the pink
tape.” They had 500 copies made
and passed them out to friends.
‘We didn’t think about pub
lishing them,” Young said. We
just wanted to give them to our
friends.”
Major labels started showing in
terest in the band, and Polygram
signed them in 1989. Two songs
The Kentucky Headhunters: Roll into Athens Feb.3
were added to “the pink tape,” and
Polygram released it as “Pickin’ on
Nashville,” which has already sold
more than 250.000 copies.
“Our music is rock and roll with
country vocals. All of us are
country people, and we grew up
with rock and roll. It’s just all nat
ural, from God,” drummer Fred
Young said.
After touring throughout the
states and opening for Sweethearts
of the Rodeo and Jerry Lee Lewis,
the Kentucky Headhunters come
to Athens to play at the Georgia
Theatre. With their video at
number two on the Country Music
Channel, and their album at 73 on
Billboard, the band is finally
reaping the benefits of their hard
work from their days at the “prac
tice house.”
Doubts Even Here in the ‘new stream’
By COLEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
Doubts will be celebrating their
new record release at the 40 Watt
tonight.
Three guys and a female lead
singer who are “chaos on stage” —
that’s Doubts Even Here.
Doubts Even Here is a local
Athens band that got its start
about three years ago, when lead
guitarist and vocalist Amy Romes
burg started “playing around on
guitar” with rhythm guitarist John
Hunter, during their freshmen
year at the University. Hunter
soon recruited bassist Christopher
Thurston, whom he had gotten to
know at orientation. Hunter said
the band “wore out two other
drummers” before they got their
present drummer, Dusty Edinger.
Their new album, “So Few,” will
only be available as a five-inch CD,
containing the songs “So Few” and
“Like The Wind.” The band’s man
ager, John Jackson, said this
makes Doubts Even Here the first
unsigned band to release a CD here
INTERVIEW
in Athens.
Hunter said their music could be
best described as “new stream” -
definitely not mainstream top 40,
but not exactly alternative or pro
gressive. Hunter said the band
sounds like early music by the db’s.
“I think our music is pretty ag
gressive — more like tne Primi
tives but maybe even busier-
sounding,” Romesburg said.
Doubts Even Here play covers,
but Hunter and Romesburg write
original songs for the band.
“Our songs really don’t have
much of a message. I just like to
sing and play guitar and every
once in a while I’ll come up with
something interesting to write
about,” Romesburg said.
Thurston said, ‘We definitely
don’t write about the places we’ve
been, because no one wants to hear
a song about The Smithsonian or
Colonial Williamsburg.”
The band has toured the east
coast twice — losing money the
first time and barely breaking even
the second. Hunter said this was
due partly to the naivete of the
band when they first started.
“But even though we played to
very small crowds it’s strange that
we did get to play some of the
places that we did when we didn’t
even have a record out,” Thurston
said.
Hunter said that the band has
made a video that they plan to send
to MTV’s alternative music pro
gram, 120 Minutes, once the first
single is released. He said that
their friends in the Connells and
Miracle Legion both got tremen
dous response after their videos
and singles came out, and he hopes
Doubts Even Here will be as lucxy.
The future seems full of bright
prospects for Doubts Even Here
with the impending release of the
video and album. Band members
say that even if neither pans out,
they still plan to continue working
ana striving to improve as a band.
“1 figure if each time we play
some people come up to you and
say, ‘Man, that’s awesome’ they’ll
come again and that’s just what’s
happened and made it great for the
last two years,” Romesburg said.
So, Thursday night at the 40
Watt Club you won’t get songs of
revolution but what you will hear
is upbeat, high-energy “new
stream" music that you should
dance to.
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