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G • The Red and Black • Fnday, June 1, 1990
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Sunday show: Bands but no booze
By COLEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
A new trend may be born
Sunday when the Georgia Theatre
presents one of Athens’* first non
alcoholic, all-ages shows.
The Ellen James Society, Rev
erend Martin’s Alliance and Pylon
will perform at the event, which is
sponsored by Frank Mason, presi
dent of Frank’s tog Production and
Entertainment management.
Each of the bands has a different
reason for playing the show.
Reverend Martin’s Alliance is a
two man rap duo consisting of
Noah Ray and Mark Bell, who at-
•ond local high shools. Ray, 17, de
scribes himself as the band’s
philosopher articulator.”
He said the white population is
ving ‘misrepresented in black
music and the block community"
nd this "supports the separatist
dea.
I attended a show by a famous
rapper and he said rap music is
predominantly black and it needs
o be kept that way,” Ray said.
That sounded pretty racist to me.”
Rav wtints the white population
o >;**? more involved in rap music.
He s.ud he wants "to spread the
rd that racism is a thing of the
•cast and should be kept that way.
The reason I’m doing this show
is basically because I just want to
get my point across — that’s all I
m’!v want to do,” He said. “Money
is not an objective."
Chris McGuire sings and plays
guitar for The Ellen James Society,
a hard-rocking Atlanta band that
regularly plays Athens dubs
She described the Wind's music
os "punk-jazz" because the sound
is hard and fast but not written in
the usual rock and roll style.
“We don’t have a songwriter. We
do it all through improvisation and
then put structure on the songs af
terwards,* McGuire said. “It’s a
jazz philosophy."
The Ellen James Society fre
quentlv performs at the Mas
querade club in Atlanta, which
often has all-age shows.
McGuire said such shows are
great for people too young to see
the band in other clubs, but she re
alizes why few are put on.
‘The fact is, the venue loses
money from bar sales by having an
all-age show,” she said. "It’s impor
tant for people to come out and
support this show because it’s the
only way this kind of thing will
spread.”
Pylon, a local band, was part of
the Athens music scene when it
first developed.
Bassist Michael Lachowski said
the band started around 1979,
“broke up several years ago and
then reformed about a year-and-a-
half ago with a show on Legion
Field”
Since then Pylon has played
around the country. Lachowski
said the band will open for the
B52’s this summer at a few outdoor
shows.
He said Pylon has worked hard
on its music, which he described as
“round with textured holes” and
'really beat-heavy.
‘‘Our music has a real standard
beat and therefore a lot of the stuff
is danceable but not in a disco beat
way," Lachowski said. “We write
songs with a strange song struc
ture because we dornt know how to
write and play music in the tradi
tional sense.”
Lachowski said Pylon has
played several special event shows
recently at the 40 Watt, which
doesn’t hold a lot of people, so the
band “felt it was important to play
a place this quarter where people
who couldn’t get into those places
could see the band."
He said he doesn’t think it’s fair
that teens get shut out of the live
music scene and that many all
ages shows “feel like non-events.
“When a band plays an all-ages
show early in the evening before
the later 18-and-over show, it
makes it seem like the early show
is for the toddlers," Lachowski
said. Then it seems like a special
event for the kindergarteners and
not like a real show.”
He said the Georgia Theatre per
formance takes place on a Sunday,
so parents can be sure no alcohol
will be served.
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The Ellen James Society: Three members of the hard-rocking Atlanta band, which will play
for some sober youngsters at the Georgia Theatre
Because the show starts at 5:45
p m., “People who can’t stay out
until one or two in the morning can
get home early enough to satisfy
their parents,” he said.
If tne first all-ages show is suc
cessful, Mason said he plans to con
tinue having Sunday shows at the
Georgia Theatre, and he said he
hopes other people will get inter
ested in the idea.
“I’m taking a chance," he said. T
hope it’s going to pay off.”
The doors open at 5:30 p.m. and
the show starts at 5:45 p.m. Ad-
vance tickets are $10 and available
at downtown record stores and the
Georgia Theatre.
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