U V V MUSiC The The Minneapolis bi Replacements had expe classic success story. Af critically ignored relea small record label, produced 'Let It Be,' collection of songs whic the band national atten band then signed with S ds, and their first m release, 'Tim' made itt position on the colleg Weekend editor John Lc with Replacements bassi Stinson about the ban and how the band's st premier college act ha them. Daily: Are you touring nc you been on a break? Stinson: We've been on about two months now. We ting around practicing songs. and stuff. D: Any plans for an albu soon? S: Not probably 'til the: to summer. D: Listening to you chronologically, the first strikes you is that the te gradually slowed... S: Yeah, when we stz towards our second re Replacements Stink) we v Replacements and The sort of like hardcore tendencies. We 'rienced a were flirting with the idea of being in ter several with all the hardcore groups because. ses on a that was the hip thing at the time. Af- the band ter a while we realized that it was" a diverse pretty much a fluke, and we pretty h brought much backed out of it.k tion. The D: One of the songs on your first ire Recor- record is called "I Hate Music" and in " ajor-label the liner notes it says "Tommy says to the top so." Is that true? Do you hate music? ge charts. S: No, I was just a bratty little kid.. ogie spoke I was thirteen. st Tommy D: Is the Replacements' reputation d's music, as a hard-drinking band justified? tatus as a S: Not much of it. We've definitely s affected had our benders in the past, but we've pretty much calmed down. We've grown up a bit, and we're getting ow, or have bored with getting drunk all the time. A When we started touring it was like a break for party all the time, y'know getting re just sit- drunk, and going to parties after the Writing shows and then wake up the next day and you go to the next town. It was im anytime sort of routine at the time. But we grew out of it real quick. It's not realy mid... close that bad anymore. Sometimes we'll get drunk y'know, and people will rag .r records on us for that, but other times, we'll thing that just look drunk, and be totally sober...a mpos have D: Even die-hard Replacements fans admit that the band is pretty 1 arted out... erratic, when one buys a ticket for one fn cord... (The of your shows, just about anything were having can happen? S: I th - a big bad 'bar band' CATCH OF THE DAY Passivist fights for apathy LAST WEEK, during the Michigan Student Assembly elections there were students on the diag passing out campaign leaflets for their respective parties. Apart from the campaigners was a student who passed out sheets of blank white paper. It turns out that the student was a member of Student for Campus Apathy (SfCA). I inter- viewed the SfCA member to find out about the organization, and the people in it. The text of that interview follows. Daily: Firstly, why are you out here passing out pieces of blank white paper? And secondly, if you consider yourself a represen- tative of apathy, what are you doing passing out leaflets? Isn't that hypocritical? Student for Campus Apathy: Activists spur people to action, educate people. I tell them to sit down and get comfortable, andrthen I don't teach them anything or tell them anything. I give them a leaflet with VINYL nothing written on it. I don't do anything and they don't do anything. I just like to share my apathy with others. Sometimes I sit in the Diag and I ask people, "What's up?" and they answer, "Nothing." Sometimes they ask me, "What's up?" and I say "Not much." We don't do or learn anything yet we share that feeling. It's not exhilarating or anything, I just sort of do it. D: What other methods do you use in your campaign to share apathy with others? SfCA: We use some of the same techniques as activists. For example, we have sit-ins all the time. Me and some of the other members will go to a bar and we'll sit down, and one of us will say something like "Let's get a pitcher," and the rest of us will go "Okay." Then we'll just sit-in the bar until it closes.. We like to put ourselves in hypothetical situations that test our apathy. I mean like one guy will say "If you were asked to fight in an un- just war what would you do?" And then we all answer "Who cares?" One night we were even going to have a candle-light vigil but we didn't have any candles so we went to the bar and did another sit-in. We're planning an Apathy Day with an all-campus 24- hour sleep-in. D: What is that petition for? SfCA: I tell people they can sign it if they feel like it. If they don't sign I give them a sticker that says "I didn't sign because I don't care." What I like best is when people just drop the sticker on the ground. That shows they really don't care. D: What does a person have to do to join your group? SfCA: Nothing. People who like doing things shouldn't join our group. We want the person who thinks student organizations are a stupid waste of time. Someone who isn't ashamed to listen to his walkman on full volume during lectures. D: Do you have any advice for students who want to join Students for Campus Apathy? SfCA: I don't care if they join. I guess all I can recommend is that they stay uninformed and try not to use their brains if they can avoid it. D: Can you give to a charity and still be a member of the SfCA? SfCA: That's a sticky question. Sometimes I look back to that old saying "Give a man a fish he eats for one night, teach him to fish he eats for a lifetime." As long as people don't teach the man to fish then I figure they can still be in the organization. The' text 0of the leafliect I(tdd tl t'i !ud.ei(Wl 1)(s' !. m m e Repl~acem~ents are tie/i to right) ( hrix Alars, Ho/i.Stinso,,. Munli Nc'sterheis', and 211 S. STATE Try Our Breakfast/ Dinner Specials .. . * Deli & Deluxe Sandwiches " Salad Bar " Submarine Sandwiches " Pizza " Soup & Chili Homemade Daily FREE DELIVERY 662-9611 t NET u gi I ownifi ' Stinlsonl. I her ill perC- and present SHOAH A FILM BY CLAUDE LANZMANN April 6-10, 13-17 at the Michigan Theater April 6 & 13: Part I, 12 noon; Part 11, 6:30 p.m. April 7-10; Part I, 6:30 p.m. April 14-17; Part II, 6:30 p.m. "EXTRAORDINARY... 'SHOAH' IS SIMPLY ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS EVER MADE, DON'T MISS IT!" '-Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert At The Movies D: Sor way you Fans) st ten quit It seems time an S: Th were ju goofing we'd nev D: Wi rm ia the Michigan Theater tomorro ink that's part of our charm. Mme people are bothered by the ur live tape (The Shit Hits the tops and starts. The band of- s songs after the first chorus. s like you were having a good d the songs just got boring... at's exactly what it was. We ust having a good time... off. Half the songs on there ver played before in our lives. ll the band release more live material in the future? S: I don't know. We tried. They tried recording us live in Hoboken, New Jersey, but... it didn't turn out too good. D: What's your favorite Replacements record? S: I think Tim. Actually Shit Hits the Fans is my favorite, but if I were going to listen to any one of them it would be Tim I think. D: On the earlier records, the whole band often gets writing credits, but on- Tim, all but one of the songs are credited solely to the band's lead singer and rhythm guitar player, Paul Westerberg. What happened to the rest of you guys? S: When my mother moved, we couldn't practice in her basement anymore. It kind of became incon- venienttopractice. Now e have to get a place downtown, and we have to catch a bus, or get a ride there. It's just inconvenient, so the songs get written at Paul's house, when he's by himself, rather than with all of us there to participate. D: When the band was on Saturday Night Live you all changed into one another's clothes between sets. What brought that on? S: Paul was sick of the smell of his FORGET LIST PRICE! Buy from MUSIC TO YOU: Home of the $3.85 cassette tape The Clash Elvis Costello Spyra Gyra EarthWind & Fire Elton John Bruce Springsteen ...over 700 CBS & MCA titles Send for our FREE catalog. You'll never buy any, place else again MUSIC TO YOU: 612 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 217, Chicago, Illinois 60611 shirt, I think. D: Sometimes you switch in- struments too. What else can you play beside bass? S: I switch to guitar. D: What about the other guys? What else can they play? S: Nobody can play anything. We're just flirting with the idea of playing different instruments, I think. D: Do you ever play drums? S: Yeah, I can play drums as well as the next guy, I guess. D: What if the next guy is Chris (Mars, the band's drummer)? S: Uhh. I probably couldn't play as good as the next guy. I can keep a beat. I can play guitar, and I can play bass just well enough to where I can have fun with all three. It's no big achievement at this point. D: Do you think the band is a good live act? S: I don't know, it's not like going to see a 'live band' it's more like a show... more like a carnival. Going to see a band at, like, the Met center ... they're all real organized... huge stage show and everything. We're too unprofessional for that. It's definitely a show, as opposed to performing the record. The recordsrdon't really reflect a whole lot from our live shows. D: Has your move from Twin-Tone to Sire Records changed the way you go about making records? S: Not really. It maybe makes us a little more defensive, because we don't like a lot of their ways of doing, things. We don't want to do a video and all this stuff. It makes us a little more on edge, because they don't really want anything to do with a band that doesn't want to make a video. We're just trying to convince them that we want to do something else. p. 0 = when the horns lay-out ("Gerbil," "Comin' and Goin' "), reducing their joyful boogie to a raunchy, unexcep- tional rock. Nonetheless, selected tracks from this irrepressibly energetic collection contain enough gritty R&B to earn Mr. Miserable a place or two on your next party tape. Nightcrawler Records, 418 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y., 11215. -Joe Acciaiol i Rainbow - Finyl Vinyl (Polygram) Be warned: this is not an album for those with a fragile ear. Finyl Vinyl, the new-old one from Rainbow, is a double album set of previously released tracks re-recorded at various live concerts. Only one song, "Bad Girl" was never released. The album is pure heavy metal, featuring metal masters such as Ronnie James Dio of Black Sabbath and Dio fame; and Roger Glover and Ritchie Black- more, both former (and current) Deep Purple members who also produced the entire album. As with most albums of a similar format Finyl Vinyl lacks the ex- citement generated by an album of new material. The cuts are simply dif- ferent, louder versions of old familiar songs that have been around for years. Surprisingly, even "Bad Girls" - the previously unreleased cut, is rather dull. The track is little more than a Ritchie Blackmore solo with one lyric repeated over and over again until it gets downright an- noying. Finally, the album falls short (as many live albums do) of achieving that real, live-concert effect. This is especially noticeable in the track "Long Live Rock 'N' Roll" where Ronnie James Dio sounds almost as though he is singing to himself. The album does have its merits however. The listener gets the advan- tage of hearing a sampling from various stages in the band's career, from Dio to Joe Lynn Turner; while including those infamous, screaming- guitar solos so familiar to concert goers. The addition of the instrumen- tals, "Weiss Helm" and "Difficult To Cure" add a quality touch. The band also comes across loud and strong. Overall, however, Finyl Vinyl leaves the heavy metal fan rather un- fulfilled; wishing he/she had seen the real thing. .- Beth Coleman The Turbines - Last Dance Before Highway (Big Time) Last Dance Before Highway presents a band with a lot more to of- fer than what is captured on this vinyl. It seems as though if perf or- ming live, The Turbines would ex- plode, letting go off all their sur- pressed energy. The three songs.on this album which most . display this potential are "Highway 51," "Slop," and "Throw it Down," where the old Chuck Berry rockin' guitar pulls the band up beyond the abyss of mediocrity, and into the realm of ex- citing rock 'n' roll. Unfortunately, the remainder of the album does not retain this ability, and consequently falls off into the boring category. It is on these other tracks where it is dif- ficult to decide whether The Tur- bines are trying for the Cramps sou~nd-alike aswaird or the New York l I 1 t l c I t t t 1 i 1 1 1 Dolls revival. Still, the three previously mentioned songs do demonstrate a potential for a great live show, but The Turbines reach this a peak only when they allow themselves - to be The Turbines. \ -- Katie Gentile Swans - Time is Money (Bastard) 12" (k.422 Records) FI L * Swans do a dance song. Yes, a dan- at the Michigan Th( ce song! It writhes and thrusts and pillages the body with a splattering of 7:30 FRIDAY, APRIL 4 Dir - drums,Bma chines and industrial 9:15 "MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRA noises. But it still has all of the yin- (1974-British) tage Swans's abuse of form and Regulars of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" ta humanity. And you thought New Or- Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in ar der made a big beat. This is the spoof of chivalry, love. Ingmar Bergman and the biggest beat ever. Swans are messin' with you. They are daring you. Do you SUNDAY, APRIL 6 dare back away? Only if you are a and weakling. SUNDAY, APRIL 13 Dir.-Claud Yes, I can see Mr. Simonian smiling "SHOAH" (1985) at the U-Club on a Friday night, just Will be shown in its entirety waiting to put this on, so that he can Part I Noon to 4:45 with a ten minute interm blow you away. So he can scare you. Part II 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Simply, this record makes dogmeat with a ten minute intermission. out of the rest of the inane dance MONDAY, APRIL 7 music that is only 1976 disco in new through wave clothes. This is for the strong in THURSDAY, APRIL 10 mind and spirit. The other song, Part I 6:30 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. "Sealed in Skin" is quite slow, but still with a ten minute intermission. packs a wallop, indeed. The guitar MONDAY, APRIL 14 coughs, the drums diverge, and the through piano chucks. And vaguely hum- THURSDAY, APRIL 17 mable, too. Part II 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Dare to hide. Hide in the closet. Shut with a ten minute intermission. the door. But there is no place to hide. See all these great films roected on the lar e screen in t the oor.Butther isno paceto hde< Michigan Theater. Call 66&'8397 for more informat ion. Ad This is without a doubt single of the films is $3.00 for a double bill or a single bill. Students year so far. citizens $2.50. Tickets go on sale one-half hour before -Richard Williams^ "AN EXTRAORDINARY ACCOMPLISHMENT..." -Vincent Canby, The New York Times iMGETRATNG Kathleen Carroll.Daily News -Leo Seligson. Newsday -William WolfGannett Newspapers Admission: $10 Student, $15 General. Tickets available now at Michigan Union Box Office, Michigan Theater Box 0fce and Hillel. (Visa/MC 763-8587) 8 Weekend-April 4, 1986 w 4..