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■ SOUNDTRACK
Allgood Music Co. will be performing at the Georgia Theatre to
night. The band is celebrating its second anniversary. All ladies
will get in free. They’ve been playing their ’’Southadellic” music
In a tour throughout the South.
The Red and Black • Tuesday, February 27, 1990 • S
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Name influenced hy Van Gogh
New club is hosting
Blue Holland tonight
■ INTERVIEW
By COLEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
They’ve got new members, a
new direction and a band name
inspired by the work of a one
eared painter.
Blue Holland is a local band
that plays a unique combination
of techno-pop, folk and straight
forward rock and roll. They will
be performing tonight at the Ex-
si rlence, a new club on West
Broad Street.
The band started out a few
months ago as a duo. Brian Mac
beth, guitar and lead vocals, and
Joe Largeman, bass and backing
vocals, decided their music was
being limited by the drum ma
chine they were using. So they re
cruited Rich Macias.
"Rich played with us in an
other band for almost four years,
and when we got together things
just worked out really fast. Rich
learned the songs and we did a
show after only two serious prac
tices," Largeman said.
The band then added Joy
Smith, a singer with the added
distinction of the ability to play
the hammer dulcimer, a tradi
tional Irish folk instrument not
often found in progressive rock
bands today.
“I think the new material we’re
working on now is a lot louder
and more aggressive because of
Rich, and Joy adds variety to the
music with the folksy sound of
the dulcimer," Macbeth said.
“We want to make music that
is easy for people to relate to — a
blend of poetry and realism. We
want to appeal to the primitive
side of human emotions by
achieving a more natural sound,”
Macbeth said.
Band members said they try
not to sound like anyone else.
They are looking for an original,
new sound by experimenting
with the dulcimer, guitar and
bass for a fuller musical feel.
Many of the songs you’ll hear
at a Blue Holland show are
written about weighty topics like
suicide and the environment, but
Brian Macbeth, the group’s ly
ricist, wants it made clear that
the songs are meant to be obser
vational, not preaching.
“I hate songs that say you’ve
got to or you must,” Largeman
said.
“I don’t want anyone to say
we’re political. I just hope that
people can hear what we say and
relate to us on a human level,”
Smith said.
When you ask a band how they
got their name, you expect to
hear a strange story. I got just
what I expected when I asked
about the name Blue Holland.
“I was interested in Van Gogh
and the blue paintings he did of
Holland. I’ve been influenced ar
tistically and creatively by the
colors and impressions of a one
eared painter, Macbeth said.
Though none of the band mem
bers are originally from Georgia,
they’ve all lived here for a few
ears and Macbeth said they are
oping to find a place for their
brand of music in the Athens
scene.
Cover bands adding in original music
■ INTERVIEWS
By LEIGH BURRELL
Contributing Writer
Dirty Reign will appear at T.K.
Harty’s Saloon on Feb. 29. Side By
Side will be performing at O’Mal
ley's on March 15.
Can cover bands make it in
Athens?
One band, Side By Side, has
proven that they do have staying
power. Another, Dirty Reign, cer
tainly hopes so.
Side By Side has been playing
together for three years and they
have recently recorded an album.
Dirty Reign has been playing
since November, with its first
paying performance on Jan. 25.
Both bands concede that cover
bands can draw an audience, but
original songs are what give a band
a future.
Both bands perform some orig
inal tunes as well as covers.
“I’d say we do one-third or so
originals, maybe more,” Keith
Spaulding, guitarist for Side By
Side, said.
He said their audience has re
ceived their originals “pretty well.”
“People start to recognize the
songs and three or four get re
quested,” he said.
Lead vocalist Andrew Miles said
the band is not quite ready to give
up their cover songs and shake
their cover band image.
‘That’s our bread and butter,
but we do want to eventually shake
it,” Miles said.
Spaulding said it’s difficult to
describe the style of the band’s
originals because, except for
drummer Kenny Mays and bassist
Kim Minick, who prefer “70s hard
music,” each member has a dif
ferent style.
Spaulding said he was trained in
jazz. Miles prefers the Euro-pop
sound while keyboardist Leigh
Anne Woolley was classically
trained.
Dirty Reign has two originals
and is in the process of writing
more.
“We want to make our song list
big enough with originals and
covers so that we can tailor our
show to whatever gig we’re doing,”
lead vocalist Patrick Ballard said.
Dirty Reign hopes their covers of
songs by U2, the Rolling Stones,
Led Zeppelin, the Eagles and
others will attract an audience
large enough to make it worth
their while, Ballard said.
They have spent more money on
equipment than they’ve earned
from their four shows, he said.
‘This is a paying-off-our-debt
venture right now,” bassist Mike
Millikan said.
However, Dirty Reign is opti
mistic about the future.
‘We had 177 people here and
that was our first time out,” Bal
lard said, referring to their first
performance.
Vocalist Molly McCoy joked that
176 of them were their friends.
Some members had trouble
making a profit in a previous band.
Keyboardist Cook and guitarist
Jeff Faulkner joined another friend
in a gig at Spirits.
Cook saia when they went to
pick up their money after the show
they were told that they wouldn’t
be getting any.
Cook said, ‘The guy said, Well
the way I figure it, you guys made
about $100, but you drank $120
worth of beer.’ So we owed them
$20!”
Side By Side has made an album
of 10 of their originals.
“Each one of them is pretty dif
ferent," Spaulding said.
He said they haven’t selected a
title for the album yet but will
probably choose one of the song ti
tles as the album title.
Both bands have members that
will graduate from the University
soon.
So what happens after gradua
tion?
We all plan to stick with this as
long as possible," Spaulding said.
He added that if Side By Side
doesn’t seem to be "growing,” they
will call it quits and pursue other
careers.
Spaulding said their immediate
plans include entering the 96 Rock-
Off, a band contest sponsored by
Atlanta radio station WKLS-
FM/AM.
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“Whatever happens, happens,”
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