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6 • The Red and Black • Thursday, August 9, 1990
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The Summer Division of the University Union Is sponsoring yet
another FREE concert at Legion Reid. Tonight at 7 p.m., Doubts
Even Here, Roosevelt, and Greenhouse will play an undoubtedly
rockin' show sure to send the summer out with a blast.
Folk singer warrants investigation
George Vest: Plays only when he feels like it
By DAVID WILLIAMS
Entertainment Writer
George Vest and friends will be
opening up fur Vigilantes of Love
at the Downstairs, Saturday at 9
p.m.
George Vest has played in sev
eral Athens bands, \>ut he is now
best known as a solo performer —
only to a few loyal fan9.
‘The audiences are generally
retty small and very intimate,”
f est said during an interview at
the Grit. ‘‘You don’t have to worry
about getting your toes Btepped
on.”
Vest doesn’t perform publicly
very often and ne believes that
this is the reason for the small
crowds.
"I only play around when I feel
like it,” Vest said. “Sometimes I
set up a date and then don’t feel
like playing it and sometimes I
feel like playing and haven’t set
up a gig.
When Vest does play, you can
expect the unexpected. He has
been known to cover artists like
Jonathan Richman and even the
Beach Boys (he tries to sing all of
the harmony parts at once). His
originals are equally eclectic and
wacky hybrids of blues, country,
blue grass and folk songs with ti
tles like “stinky air blues,” “i,”
and “soul glide.”
Vest will be playing with violi
nist Alicia Stallings and
drummer Aaron Powell this Sat
urday at the Downstairs Cafe,
and he expects it to be a little
more restrained than his other
shows.
‘There is a certain obligation
when you are playing in a
combo," Vest said, “You want to
avoid confusion as much as pos
sible as a courtesy to the other
musicians.”
Stallings and Powell play regu
larly with Vest and have become
used to his style.
“First, you have to adjust your
self to the George sense of humor
and to the laid-backness of it,”
Stallings said in a phone inter
view. “He has a peculiar sense of
humor — it’s very subtle."
"It’s kind of goofy,” Powell said
in the background.
Both musicians are very im
pressed with Vest’s talent.
“I think that he’s one of the
best songwriters in town; he’s
definitely underrated,” Powell
said. ‘Tie knows exactly what he
wants, but he’s still very easy to
work with and is open to other
people’s ideas. The funny thing
about George is that he’s so tal
ented, but he doesn’t take himself
seriously as a musician — it’s just
a hobby,” he said.
‘Mo’ Better’ food for thought
By NOEL MURRAY
Entertainment Writer
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam loves three people —
schoolteacher Indigo Downes, chanteuse Clarke Ben-
tancourt, and himself. Mostly himself though. These
are the lines of tension Spike Lee draws in his latest
film “Mo’ Better Blues.”
Unfortunately, Lee never pursues his own premise
very deeply. But, to his credit, he makes an inter
esting movie anyway.
To the Spike Lee fan, “Mo’ Better Blues” is a flawed
masterpiece, even though it would be considered an
outright failure by traditional standards.
Lee is known for his blending of the real and the ab
surd. He creates very real and believable characters
and then makes them do awkward and unnatural
things.
“Mo’ Better Blues” makes these switches often.
First and foremost, it is a movie about music in the
same vein as everything from ‘The Glenn Miller
Story” to “Purple Rain.” But “Mo’ Better Blues” uses a
complex love story to explore the characters’ personal
ities.
It swings wildly. When it sticks to the inner con
flicts of a jazz combo, it hits hard and funny. When it
digs into the sticky nature of art vs. “the love of a good
woman,” it misses.
“Mo’ Better Blues” runs over two hours, yet most of
it is highly entertaining. Denzel Washington gives the
best performance of his distinguished career as the
confused but cool Bleek Gilliam. The late comedian
Robin Harris, playing a character that mirrors his
offscreen personality, lends a lot of energy to the film.
As does Giancarlo Esposito as Bleek’s piano player,
Left Hand Lacey.
The film is uneven, but its inconsistencies stem
from a filmmaker trying to put too much into his
movie.
A lot has been made of the confusing ending to the
film, but think - has Spike Lee made a movie with a
satisfying ending since “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop:
Denzel Washington: Playing egotistical
trumpeter is performance of his career
We Cut Heads”? Not really. His standard modus oper-
andi is to cut and paste his beguiling portrayal of
black life until he knows the audience is getting rest
less, then he stops. Spike Lee’s world is complex and
confusing, much like ours is. We live an average of
seventy years of loosely connected life, then we stop.
And then people talk about our lives in the lobby of
the funeral home, trying to make sense of it all.
The bottom line is that unlike most of the movies
released this year, “Mo’ Better Blues” gives its audi
ence something to talk about in the lobby.
“Let The Love of Learning Rule Mankind”
The University of Georgia Chapter of
Phi Kappa Phi
National Scholastic Honor Society
Congratulates the following students
on their initiation into the Society today.
Laurie Adair Atkins
Lindsey Melissa Atkins
Katherine Bassein
Ginger T. Bauknlght
Deena R. Bell
Marybeth Brennan
Charles W. Browning
Trsvis Allen Bryan
Rdxie A. Carroll
Gary E. Chike
Balance Tin-Ping Chow
Sherri Havert Clark
Bruce D. Cohen
Elizabeth Anne Edwards
Maria Soledad
Fernandez-Garcia
Kimberly Anne Fartney
Kristin Ruth Gaiser
Ruth Veronica George
Thomas Anthony Gump
Sarah Anita Harris
Susan Kinney Hart
Stephen C. Henry
Angela D. Hinson
Sharon Lisa Howell
Gwen Renee Kaminsky
All A. Keskin
Jill Catherine Kinloch
Stefanie Kleimeier
John Kenneth Koontz
Don Curtis Lane
Sadhana Pandey
Anthony Wayne Parker
Penny Lynn Parker
Jayne K. Plymale
Sharon Hoagland Rasco
Patricia G. Sears
Scott S. Seymour
Amanda Elizabeth Stahl
Elizabeth Elaine Stanley
Karen V. Swift
Paul Vincent Tatum
Susan Kathleen Boyd Teel
Ender Ucar
Rita M. Walczuch
Richard Allen Wingate
Phi Kappa Phi recognizes and encourages superior scholarship in all academic
disciplines Students of high character who rank in the top 10 percent ol their de
gree program are eligible lor election to membership in the Society
Shops’ walls keep local art hangin’ around
140 E. Washington St.
3 6 9 - 7 3 1 5
WEDNESDAY
DISCO HELL
DJ Marc Wallace
By DAVID WILLIAMS
Entertainment Writer
If you are an artist in Athens
and are interested in showing your
work around town, you may be sur
prised at the number of restau
rants, cafes and shops that display
works by local artists.
The best way to get your work
displayed in this town is to start
early.
One of the most popular galle
ries in town is the Grit. It has only
been open at its new location on
Prince Avenue for a few months
and its shows have already been
scheduled for this year. Planning
for next year’s shows will begin in
October or November.
The Downstairs has been put
ting on art shows since 1987 and
are very eager to show works by
local artists. The shows generally
last for a month and there is
usually an eight-month to one-year
wait.
Rage, a hair salon on College
Avenue, has a good bit of space and
like to fill it as completely as pos
sible, holding 15 to 30 paintings.
Shows last one month.
Crystal Garden on Clayton
Street is one of several stores with
faster turnovers.
Crystal Garden generally
changes shows every two weeks
and its waiting list isn’t very long.
Figaro’s on Broad Street has sev
eral openings for fall quarter.
Nudes are not allowed because
many people’s appetites are af
fected by them.
Funkadelia on Lumpkin Street
also displays local art. Their shows
begin Saturday nights at 6 p.m.
and run two weeks.
Art Wares on Washington Street
is a full-time art gallery which
shows local art and occasionally
student art. They charge a 30 per
cent commision on the price of the
paintings. They are scheduled
until October, and shows last two
weeks.
If you’re interested in showing
your work, have samples ready.
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FRIDAY
Call for Band
Information
DJ Jeff Halverson
SATURDAY
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DJ Tedd Patterson
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