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The Red and Black • Tuesday, March 6, 1990 • 7
SOUND
New club boosts new bands
By REBECCA GIBSON
Contributing Writer
Good news for music lovers
who are interested in checking
out a recently opened club or
hearing a new band.
The Exsirlence, located on 840
W. Broad St., made its opening
debut last November and has
since been attracting many newly
formed local bands who are eager
to play.
Club owner Anthony Dye ex
plained, “I’m new and experi
menting right now. I’d like to
strongly encourage new bands to
come down and book with us.”
Dye said he receives demo
tapes but books most of his per
formances spontaneously. Bands
play nightly Monday through
Thursday.
“I’m hoping to establish a reg
ular clientele in the next few
months,” he said. “Right now
there’s a lot of people who don’t
know we’ve opened up, but a lot
of new faces are popping up.”
Brian Macbeth, lead guitarist
and vocalist of Blue Holland said,
“The Exsirlence is a very good
venue for underground bands in
their beginning stages.
“Of course, the small clubs are
the best place to start a fol
lowing,” he said.
Blue Holland, a band self-de
scribed as a blend of rock and
sychedelia folk is an act uti-
izing the Exsirlence’s small club
advantages.
‘The setting here is so comfort
able and the atmosphere’s really
laid back,” said Joy Smith,
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backup vocalist and Dulcimer
hammer player.
“Laid back” is the general con
sensus among first-timers at the
Exsirlence.
Holly Painter, sophomore pre
law major, said she didn’t know
what to expect her first time , but
epjoyed the band and felt com
fortable there.
“It’s nice to get away from the
hustle and bustle of the more
crowded places,” she said.
“When I opened the club my
idea was to have a place where
f ieople could just sit back and
isten, said Dye.
“I’m an entertainer, and so the
entertainment is the most impor
tant part.
‘The size of the crowds aren’t
important to me,” he said. “I feel
like success has already come.”
Lowery disc lacking lyrically
Dead fans wait hours for tickets
Atlanta concerts all sell-outs
The Ian Lowery Group: producing good, grungy rock & roll, but irritating, stupid lyrics
By DAN POOL
Contributing Writer
About 200 University students
and Athens residents waited pa
tiently for several hours to buy
Grateful Dead tickets Saturday,
but Seats officials and Turtle’s em
ployees said that the tickets were
sold as fast as possible.
The delay was caused by the
number of shows and the number
of tickets each person was allowed
to buy, they said. There were three
shows and each customer could
buy six tickets per show.
A Turtle’s employee said that
each show had to be sold sepera-
tely, so that someone buying
tickets for all three shows had to be
treated like three customers and
most of the people wanted all the
tickets they could get.
In addition to the time it took to
call up tickets on the computer and
print them, credit cards had to be
verified when they were used.
Also the computer is set to run
slower to avoid a shutdown when
large crowds are expected, said a
Turtle’s employee — who could not
be named because of store policy.
Tickets were sold using a central
computer that is connected to the
different ticket outlets in the At
lanta area and is used to fill the or
ders which are received by
telephone. There are more than 40
outlets served by this system.
Bob Williams, a Seats adminis
trator in Atlanta, said there were
17,000 tickets available for each
show, but that 6,500 tickets for
each show had already been sold
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before Saturday using a priority
mail order system.
He estimated that the tickets for
the Sunday and Tuesday shows
had sold out by early Saturday af
ternoon, but the Monday show had
taken longer.
After customers had been
waiting in line for about two hours,
a Turtle’s employee asked the
crowd not to block the entrance of
the store and told them to “keep
the faith.”
Most of those students who kept
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the faith and waited got what they
wanted. The people who had lined
up early Saturday morning were
able to purchase tickets for, at
least, the Monday show, if not the
show of their choice.
The tickets were sold by lottery
numbers. With this system, each
customer draws a number which
tells where he will be able to get in
line to buy tickets. Since it was not
first come, first serve, the pushing
and crowding was eliminated.
Ralph Canete, a junior psy
chology major and one of the stu
dents waiting, said he was worried
about getting tickets when he first
arrived at 7:30 a.m.
“When I saw the line, I was
afraid I wouldn’t even be able to
get tickets, but I waited and got
some,” he said. “They aren’t the
greatest tickets, but at least I can
go to the show,” he said.
IALBUM REVIEW
By DAVID WILLIAMS
Contributing Writer
Ian Lowery Group’s “King Blank
To" a Beggars Banquet release.
“And my dreams all end up the
same, smashed like a bug on a
window pane.”
I think that this lyric from the
Ian Lowery Group’s new album
“King Blank To” sums up the
group’s message. The songs are all
of the “I’m mean, I’m tough, I’m
suicidal, and I’m psychotic” va
riety, but they are so melodramatic
that they are funny and couldn’t
possibly be serious. If they are se
rious, they should seek profes
sional help. Just so you don’t think
I’m exaggerating about this, two of
the song titles are: “A Kind of
Loathing” and “Sick Little Minds.”
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Ian Lowery began his career as
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