The Semester May Be Ending - But the Daily is Just Beginning! WE'RE READY FOR SPRING AND SUMMERI' ARTS The Michigan Daily Thursday, April 12, 1984 Page 6 LEAVE BLANK YES! I Would Like To Subscribe To the Michigan Daily LEAVE BLANK (PLEASE PRINT) LAST NAME FIRST NUMBER STREET NAME APT. NUMBER CITY - STATE - ZIP PHONE NUMBER Color By Joe Hoppe "G ET DRUNKER," yelled someone in the Green on Red audience at Joe's Star Lounge Tuesday night, about halfway through the set. "Hey, my liver can only take so much. I got to drink my whiskey diluted these days," said Dan Stuart, who sang and played the guitar. Then he wheeled his big red Gretsch with the long silver whammy bar around, picked up his glass of watered whiskey, and drained it. And as the night went on, he did in- deed get drunker. By the time they stopped playing, old Dan was thrashing all over, having lots of fun, missing lots of notes, and making a whole lot of loud and distorted noise. That's just the kind of band Green on Red is. They're better live than they are on the album - it's hard to get that reeling enthusiasm down on vinyl. It's also hard to get the kind of honesty Green on Red appears to have so much of down on a recording (talking about Gravity Talks, on Slash, here). The band looked like it was just full of a lot of nice guys. The kind that hangs out at the bar before and after the set, the kind that ;answers thetcallsin ethe audience ,(although they never did play "Freebird"). Then there was the music. It's just so pretty on the album, notes all separated, produced, mechanical. The music on Gravity Talks is mainly baroque, and mainly nice. Live at Joe's, their music was a mon- ster. A mean distorted paisely monster with real teeth. But still a friendly kind of beast, when it came right down to it. Live performance can be a kind of great narrower, a great concentrator so that the songs come out more as the essence of what's on the album. Half the time Stuart wasn't even singing things to the same tune; but everything you could want, and so much more, was there. Green on Red did a couple of covers. They did "Hurricane," by Neil Young, and they gave it the same kind of treatment they did their own songs. Neil Young-stuff got broadcast on a narrow beam, full of keyboard poun- dings and drunkenly missed notes. Other fun cover choices; Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot," and it all ended up with Lou Reed's "Vicious,'' hopped up and almost unrecognizable: That should give you an idea of'the kingl of bandGreen on Red is, look at those nice covers. Oh, it was a fun time. They evep played all the best songs from their record; "Brave Generation," "Ol Chief," "Five Easy Pieces," "Blue Parade," and even "Snakebit" with its silly lyrics (So you think that you know/Religion and Science/What a Show)was tolerable live. An older song they played on one of their many "encores" - "Black Night:" Screaming rocking about living on Hollywood Boulevard. "I know you think that it's all open white shirts and gold chains, but it's really like Times Square," said Stuart. "Full of drunks, and bums, and people who just got released from mental in- stitutions." Green on Red only played for an hour and a half, but they were still lots of fun. Green on Red was the band in Ann Ar- bor Tuesday. coordination Please Check If you Are Continuing Your Subscription D- UNIVERSITY ACCOUNTS INCLUDE P.O. NUMBER SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Town $4.50 Out of Town $6.00 Spring/Summer Three Day Publiation INCLUDE PAYMENT WITH ORDER Return to: 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone 764.-0558 Renting a basement may not be a good deal I /. 5 Y I ." i I .1 AND WE CAN MAKE YOURS A LOT PRETTIER, FOR A LOT LESS. (Continued from Page 1) me up at night." One Ann Arbor couple recently ex- perienced the gamut of basement apar- tment woes, before they moved out when the unit was cited for 17 violations of the city's housing code. According to documents filed with Student Legal Services, the couple, whose names are being, withheld as they can no longer be reached, signed a 12-month lease and moved into their apartment in September 1982. THE FIRST MONTH was the only comfortable one. After a heavy rain in December, drains in the kitchen, bathroom, and outside the door backed- up, and the couple also discovered more drains underneath their living room carpet. There were also problems with insects and poor ventillation. When the city housing inspector looked at the site, the violations in- cluded: low ceilings of six feet in some places rather than the required seven feet; drainage problems; the bedroom did "not meet the requirements of light, size and ventilation;" more than 50 percent of the apartment was below ground level, and numerous other repair problems. The landlord eventually agreed to pay the tenants $1,000 in an out-of-court settlement. BUT THE APARTMENT was dried out and rented to other tenants although some of the code violations were not corrected. In a process called a variance, the city's Housing Inspection Bureau, can allow landlords to rent out apartments or houses even though the units do not strictly meet the city's housing codes. In a letter to the couple's landlord, William Yadlosky, supervisor of the bureau wrote: "Although, technically the basement apartment does not meet the requirements of ceiling height and outside grade, I do not deem the apar- tment as uninhabitable," Yadlosky wrote the landlord. ONE OFFICIAL in the city's building department, who asked to remain anonymous, said variances of this kind are issued routinely. "On paper the place is legal (but) the unit isn't any more habitable because it has an ad- ministrative decree," he said. In the case of the couple's apartment, the unit had been inspected several times, but only in the 1983 inspection was it cited for the low ceilings and sit- ting more than 50 percent below ground. "Ideally every technical violation is supposed to be cited and dealt with," Yadlosky said, but he said there is a shortage of inspectors now. The housing department only has four inspectors now, compared to nine or 10 in past years, according to Yadlosky. ONE OF THE recurring problems with basement apartments according to Lipson of Student Legal Services, is. that they were never meant to be apar- tments in the first place, and the efforts to convert them have not been suf- ficient. "These units look to the prospective tenants to be cosmetically nice but as is often the case, mechanically they are substandard," he said. But for those who like it a little cooler and darker, there is at least one thing going for basement apartments - the cost. Many landlords price their basement units about 10 percent lower, than their other units. "The major advantage to living in the basement is that it is comparatively cheaper than apartments on the other levels," said LSA sophomore Simone Scupi. "The lack of light and colder temperatures are disadvantages, though. I would only spend one year living there," she said, 9 f 3 t. 1 ;.,, It's amazing. There are some people who love win-, dow treatments but don't like to shop for them. 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