0 Page 8-The Michigan Daily- Thursday, October 31, 1991 To you, Club Heidelberg, we bid a solemn and humble adieu who what where by Scott Sterling 0 ne of the last bastions of live music in Ann Arbor, Club Heidelberg, is shutting it's doors for the last time tonight. Local heroes Frank Allison and the Odd Sox will grace the stage for the bar's swan-song showcase. The reasons behind the Hei- delberg's closing are so bizarre they'd be funny, if they weren't Stories about Kochendorfer's manic behavior is legendary. He routinely cancelled shows at the last minute, threw bands out of their dressing rooms, fought with the band members themselves, demanded more money from the door - the list is endless true. Jim Gibbons, the Heidelberg's manager, tells a grim tale of the club's demise. "Basically, Fritz Kochendorfer (the owner of the building) chased us out, just like he did to the Mainstreet Comedy Showcase before us," Gibbons said. "He would regularly assault my partner, Roland Diaz-Perez, who eventually quit. I was doing every- thing - bookings, mixing sound, lights, you name it. No one would work for this guy." Stories about Kochendorfer's manic behavior is legendary. He rou- tinely cancelled shows at the last minute, threw bands out of their dressing rooms, fought with the band members themselves, de- manded more money from the door - the list is endless. Gibbons has even filed assault charges against Kochendorfer on two separate occa- sions. "He's basically an alcoholic whose main concern is protecting his liquor license," fumed Gibbons in a recent phone call. Another reason for the end of the Heidelberg is the lack of students attending shows. "I get more re- quests from bands wanting to play in a day than the number of people that attend the shows," Gibbons said. "You do the math." Gibbons explained that he sees this lack of student interest as the result of a disturbing trend he's seen in young people in general. "Kids aren't going out to rock shows any- more. Nobody's partying like they used to," he said. "I guess they're all staying in their dorm rooms and listening to Paula Abdul or some- thing." And so goes another of the few places left in town to see live music. In a city like Ann Arbor, which is overflowing with talented bands and musicians, this is a real loss. It's shameful that bands like Big Chief and Etch-a-Sketch have to go to Detroit or other surrounding col- The Smithereens is one of those bands that cannot have a nickname. "The 'Rines" would be stupid, and "the Smiths" is taken. And yeah, the group's fourth album, Blow Up, was a bit of a disappointment after the classic Smithereens 11, and singer Pat DiNizio's goatee is now much more clean-cut. But great tunes like "Time and Time Again" and "Yesterday Girl" will be at the Power Center tonight, waiting for you to rock along. Tickets are $18.50 in advance from TicketMaster (plus evil service charge). "Each one must arrange his outer mask as best he can. For inside of it there is then the inner mask, which often fails to square with the outer. And nothing is true!" wrote Luigi Pirandello, a turn of the century playwright who devoted his works to the Italian school of the Theater of the Grotesque. All of Piran- dello's plays, which he collectively called naked masks, deal with the idea of humanity's struggle with life and the putting on and shedding off of different personality masks. Appropriately, this disguise-rid- den Halloween weekend, the Basement Arts will be presenting when one of Pirandello's little knowtl works, Man, Beast, and Virtue. t - the play, Captain Perella has left his, wife alone, while he has been away at sea and with his mistress Meanwhile, Mrs. Perella has taken a lover and become pregnant. WhR the Captain returns unexpectcedl? Mrs. Perella must crtice her unin-z terested husband to slce'p with he in order to keep up the charade of her fidelity. Performances are at 5 today, tomorrow and Saturday in the Arena Theatre, located in the, basement of the Frieze buildin Admission is free. and Primus. Do you ever think abut- this? 'an. KH: People do think of us like.: that? AP: Yeah. The average metal fw lumps you with Queensryche ratheW, than Primus or Faith No More, yoiu; friends or whatever.0A K H: I think the people who jt 9 found out about us within the last year or so tend to think that way" And I think the people that have known about us for a while would, tend to associate us with Faith No Kahn METAL Continued from page 5 it's good that it's changing, and I think a lot of bands like Godflesh, which is, like, an industrial metal band, and the other side of the spec- trum is, like, Primus, which is, like, a dance-psycho-R&B-funk-punk metal band. You know, it's good that it's opening itself up to, like, different influences, but as a whole, the word heavy metal is just diluted and very loosely defined nowa- days... But I definitely think it's here to stay and it's not going any- where, music of this caliber. AP: Are you guys sick of being ac- cused of selling out every time you release an album? KH: Well, I mean, we could've, hike, made (an album) that had noth- ing but a bunch of fast songs, music that all our hardcore fans would buy right off the bat. It would sell at least a million right off the bat. But what we wanted to do is, we wanted to experiment, go out on a limb. I mean, for us, to put out an album of fast songs, that would be selling out, you know, in Metallica terms. Because we know our audi- ence is there, and we know that we could stick to a certain formula and have a guaranteed sell. But, I mean, we went out on a limb, we took cer- tain risks and took certain chances and made the album we did. And if people think that's selling out, I mean, come on, I mean, we took some pretty heavy chances. And then, after the album was done and completed, only then did people start to talk about radio songs and videos, andwe were kind of taken aback. We didn't know that 'We're not Guns N' Roses. They play just A. whatever. There is a definite set list, but it's structured so we can go off on different variations of a theme, you know? I think in the' first part of the tour, it's going to be changin a lot, 'cause that's the way it always happens, -Kirk Hammat,; on Metallica's concert identiWy sI "Sandman" would be as successful as it has been. And it's interesting. AP: Are you doing anymore MTV stuff? KH: Yeah, we just did a video for "The Unforgiven." And we did that last month and that should be de- buting on MTV, like, within the next week or so. And it's a different type of video. It's a conceptual video with a plot. And it's going to be in- teresting. It's something that we've never done ever before, and we're very curious to see how it's going to Alternative Music THURSDAYS IN THE UNDERGROUND $3.00 Pitcherst Drink Specials: bok $1.75 shots of Ouzo #12 9 p.m. 1 a.m. The Wesley Foundation at the University of Michigan lege towns to get gigs. We need to' support our music scene right here in Ann Arbor. But, as Gibbons said, "A music scene in Ann Arbor? I didn't know that there was one." FRANK ALLISON performs tonight with BRENDA KAHN tonight at Club Heidelberg. Cover is $4 and doors open at 9:30 p.m. ANA' 5TH AVE. AT LIBERTY 761.700 3 oDALY SHOWS BEFORE 8 PM 1T3-ENALLDAY TUESDAY* -exceptions STUDENT WITH I.D. $350 CITY OF HOPE (R) MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO R Combo Coupon! Present this coupon when purchasing a large popcorn and receive one Expires 11 6, 1 Presents i O e be received... It's not like MTV Video Awards, like, really obvious what's going on. You know, like boy meets girl, they goof around on train tracks and kiss each other un- der a tree, and then, you know, girl meets boy. It's nothing like that. It's a bit more subtle, and a bit sub- lime at the same time. And I really don't want to talk too much about it, but it should be interesting. AP: In the past it seemed like you avoided MTV. Why are you doing so much with it now? KH: Well, I think now's the time for us. I mean, MTV is ready for us, and we're ready for MTV. Let's fact it, back in the Eighties, especially, like, eighty-four, eighty-five, you're typical hard rock video had a bunch of dancing girls and concert footage, and that's basically what it was. Videos have come so far nowadays, as far as creativity goes and as far as technology goes. I mean there's a lot more you can do now. The format has a lot more integrity also. And I think we're ready for that. We've discovered that it's a genre we can experiment more with now. We're ready to work with it. AP: You're from San Francisco. And you're in Metallica, which a lot of people associate in their minds with Motley Crue and Judas Priest, rather than Faith No More More and Primus. I mean, that's'- what I would think. I don't knowif I'm wrong or not. AP: What do you think of Motley, Crue and bands like that? KH: Well you know, they're goody at what they do. It's not my cup pn1 tea. AP: A lot of people accuse metal op being sexist. Do you think that's true? KH: Certain bands are sexist. But I f don't think heavy metal, overall, i sexist. I think it's more the bands than the music, obviously. I think that's a situation that's similar to... saying all men are sexist, when tht'e truth of the matter is that certain- men are sexist. I think they're" stereotyping people when you sayv things like that. r AP: Are there Metallica groupies? a- KH: Yeah, we have a certain numberZ of avid fans. We get approached, bud # you know, anyone that gets a certain amount of spotlight or glamor at- tracts that element. I mean, go6WeL players get groupies. Bowlers get groupies. Politicians get groupies. It's something that just comes wi'6 the territory. METALLICA jams at the Palace of Auburn Hills Saturday and Sundat nights at 8 p.m. Both shows are sold:0' out. .... November 1, 1991 .th 8pm At the First United Methodist Church On the Corner of State & Huron Also "Male Sexuality & Masculine Spirituality: Where are we headed?" 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