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Homeaid helps needy
By COLEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
If you could er\jov a day of live
music, free food and celebrity sur
prises while helping to benefit the
homeless of Athens, would you be
happy? Then rejoice — you’ll get
the chance to do just that by at
tending the Homeaid benefit con
cert Saturday at 2 p.m.
The concert is sponsored by
Classic Screen Print, College Place
Apartments and The Red and
Black and is a benefit to raise
money for the Athens Area Home
less Shelter in its operational costs.
Joel Siebentritt, program di
rector of the shelter, said that
these kind of grass roots fund
raisers call for a lot of involvement
and awareness on the part of the
community.
‘Our shelter has to constantly
depend on these sorts of benefits
just to keep going. Government
funding and support for our pro
grams is very, very sparse,” Sie
bentritt said
He said the shelter is a private,
non-profit organization that has
:>een providing shelter and two
meals a day to the displaced people
of the Athens community for the
last four years. Even giving out the
bare minimum of aid eventually
becomes too much of a financial
strain without community support
in the form of donations and fund
raisers, Siebentritt said.
University student John Ma-
resco is the person responsible for
organizing and promoting
Homeaid 1990. He said he put the
benefit together because he felt the
plight of the homeless was one of
today’s most pressing issues.
“Before I graduated and moved
on, I wanted to find some way to
really leave my mark on this city.
Being homeless is the biggest
problem I can imagine. When you
don’t have a roof over your head,
what can you do° We’re trying to
give these people a chance to get
back on their feet,* Maresco said.
Homeaid will feature nine bands
that represent a wide spectrum of
musical styles — The Tatooed
Dogs, The Woggles, Wet Flowers,
Infomania, Herrold, Jesus Hand-
puppet, Eliott’s Picture Book, 7th
Avenue, and Beast Venus. There
should truly be something for ev
eryone.
Maresco said there will be free
food, t-shirts given away, special
guests and an auction of items
from local celebrities, such as a
shirt worn by Fred Schneider of the
B-52s and an autographed REM
tour program.
The cost of the concert is a dona- ^
tion of $3 and people are also urged |
to bring along any useable house- i
hold items and clothing that the |
shelter can use in their up-coming
yard sale April 7.
So grab a few bucks, head out to
the College Place Apartments out
door park and enjoy a few hours
away from the grind of finals. Re
member — for $3 you can help keep
someone from having to sleep on
the street.
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Infomania is an interesting and diverse band
Weird guys jam for beer
By COLEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
They call themselves the house band for the
s Infomania.
difficult band to try
The group contra-
journalism school — that’s Infomania.
Infomania is certainly a difficult band to try
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to pin down and descib
diets all of the standard stereotypes of typical
Athens bands in almost every way — they’re
not young, they’re not poor, and they don’t
sound even remotely like REM.
As Sonny Dixon, the band’s chief lyricist
and rhythm guitarist, put it, “We’re just a
weird bunch of guys in this for the hell of it.”
From a trauma room doctor to a super
market manager to an electrical technician —
Infomania has it all. Drummer David
Hazinski is also the associate professor of
broadcast news at the college of journalism.
He said that the band is really unique par
tially because, since all of the members are
adults with established careers — making
INTERVIEW
money isn't really a factor.
"We don’t play to make a profit. We play for
beer, which can actually be a serious expense
for this band,’ Hazinski said.
Dixon said that that is also one reason why
Infomania is one of the bands scheduled to
play at the Homeaid benefit concert Saturday
at the College Park Apartments outdoor park.
“John Maresco approached us about
Homeaid and we said yes. We usually cater to
benefits, since we’re not in this for the money,”
Dixon said.
When Infomania’s diverse group of guys
gets together, they hammer out songs of tradi
tional rock and roll, social implications and
“love —bad love,’ Dixon said.
“Rock is the basic foundation — with some
jazz,’ Dixon said.
“Somewhere along the line one of my stu
dents told us that if we were younger, you
could call (our music) progressive,” Hazinski
said.
He said that Infomania is different from a
lot of bands in Athens that do songs with one
consistent, REM-esque Bound over and over
again.
The band has just finished making a video
and recording an album at Mark Maxwell's
studio and, though they say they’re pleased
with the results, they are not sure what they
are going to do now.
The guys in the band say the one thing that
surprises them most is the response they get
from some people when they play, especially
students.
"People just can’t get over the fact that the
same quiet grad student they see in class
every day plays bass for a rock and roll band,”
Hazinski said.
“It always surprises me how people look at
you like you’re one dimensional. No one be
lieves that you can be professional, a father, a
husband and still play in a rock band,” Dixon
said.
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Friday, March 16,1990
8:00 p.m.
Georgia Hall Tate Student Center
$1.00 Students $2.00 General
Tickets available at the Tate Student Center
Cashiers Window.