Page 8- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 21, 1989 I McGuane makes grade Hippodrome (Itift to right, Chris Richards, Doyle Dean, Keith Klingensmith, and Todd Holmes) show bravado in the way they play onstage and in the way they brag about wearing their unmentionables. Hippodrome ignores drone BY MARK WEBSTER DETOIT-based rockers Hippodrome will romp through Club Heibelberg's music corral Thursday night. Their chiming, propulsive, original composi- tions make this a rising band to catch in perfor- mance. The guitar-fronted foursome plays impas- sioned songs about the complex joys and anguish of life nearing the '90s. Chris Richards' lyrical lead guitar cries out in refrain to his vocals, while Keith Klingensmith cuts a signature swath on rhythm gui- tar. Todd Holmes keeps a driving beat on bass, and Doyle Dean pounds, leaps and splashes on the drums. Despite their relative youth (they've just passed drinking age), Hippodrome plays with a seemingly long-found confidence onstage. "We could go out there and play in our underwear," says band founder Richards (no known relation to Keith). Hippodrome has an impressive catalog of origi- nal tunes which will be released on a compact disc later this fall. Richards and Dean collaborate on the songs, Richards penning tunes and Dean handling lyrics. According to Dean, "Our songs try to touch on all situations in life, including the happy ones. Much of the New Music scene today is so moody; we think there's more to reality than doom and gloom." HIPPODROME' plays Thursday at Club Heidelberg, 215 N. Main St. For information call 994-3562. BY JAY PINKA "I haven't been here since I flunked out," smiled nine-times published author Thomas McGuane, pouring water into a crystal cup at Rackham Auditorium last night. "There's a part of me that thinks maybe I can get back in this way," added McGuane, inciting contagious laughter in both students and profes- sors. The experiential philosophy and accessibility of humor revealed in his latest novel, Keep The Change, showed in the refreshing rapport he quickly developed with the audience. McGuane was here for the first time in 30 years "to talk, not read," said Professor Nicholas DelBanco in opening remarks to the listeners who, having occupied every seat, overflowed into the emerald-carpeted aisles with anticipation. McGuane first took the audience on more than a psychic journey with his funny newsreel clips of the coun- tryside between the Florida Keys and Montana, seen through the eyes of his roving main character, Joe Starling. His phraseology includes somewhat lyrical descriptions of nat- ural landscapes, symbolic of Joe's changing nature and uncertain fate by dramatic fluctuations in weather. McGuane's wry, comical commen- tary about humanity and its cultural quirks emerges as Joe drives by "Elvis portraits in black velvet," lis- tens to radio commercials for "a fash- ion center for babies," and spots a bumper sticker "Don't sleep with a dn, call a plumber." The author, dressed in beige blazer, black hair glittering with sil- ver highlights, hinted at deeper truths about Joe's wishes to be invisible, while the character engages in an escapade spanning the semi-wasteland Southern states "filled with phantom vehicles." "This is Dallas," stated McGuane, as the city, personified as a declara- tive, accusatory voice, interrupts the detatched reverie of Joe's vagabond narrative: "We see you passing, you ghost." McGuane, with a good-natured comment on the lens he lost from his glasses prior to the reading, gladly opened the floor to questions.- N 'f'', 'IC\ C M J.!H MO RF10i Thomas McGuane read from his latest novel, Keep The Change, Tuesday ny nRackhaimsAditorium. 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