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GEMINI
AMAY21 - JUNE 21
Date with destiny:
Libra Aquarius
Run for the hills: Virgo,
Pisces
What makes you tick: Trivial Pursuit
Best accessory: A shrug
What's my line? It takes two to tango.
A sure thing: Doing two things at
once
Pleasure: Options, ambidextrous,
knowledge
Pain: Being on time, commitment,
red tape
Run for the hills: Aries, Libra
What makes you tick: Nostalgia
Best accessory: Photo album
What's my line? Home is where the
heart is.
A sure thing: Best dish at the potluck
Pleasure: Baking, comfort, children
Pain: Snide remarks forgetfulness
LEO
JULY23 - AUGUST22
Date with destiny: Aries,
Run for the hills: Taurus,
What makes you tick: Leading
Best accessory: I airbrush
What's my line? Too many cooks
spoil the broth.
Pleasure: Daydreams, courage
Pain: Keeping up appearances, losing
VIRGO
AUGUST 23 -- SE PT 22
Date with destiny:
re Taurus, Capricorn
Run fo the hills: Gemini, Sagittarius
What akesyou tick: Efficiency.
Best accessory: Lint brush
What's my line? A stitch in time
saves nine.
A sure thing: Perfect pleats
Pleasure: Organization, routine, dedi-
cation
Pain: Messiness, inefficiency,
+Ni 4 ...= ; LIBRA
A SEPT23 - OCT22
x sDate with destinv:
Gemini, Aquarius
Run for the hills:
Cancer, Capricorn
What makes you tick: Charm
Best accessory: Bottled water
What's my line? Beauty is in the eve
of the beholder.
A sure thing: Flirting
Pleasure: Cooperation , fair play
Pain: Disharmony, decision-making
SCORPIO
i" OCT23- NOV'21x
Date with destinti
Cancer, Pisces
Run for the hills:
Leo, Aquarius
Best accessory: Magnifying glass
What's my line? Yeah, Baby,
Yeah!~
A sure thing: Magnetism
Destination: The Netherlands
Pleasure: Mvsterv, calling the
shots, passiont
Pain: Exposure, simplicity, inter-
ru pt ion
SAGITTARIUS
NOU 22-DEC. 21
Date with destiny:
Aries, Leo
Run for the hills:
Virgo, Pisces
What makes you tick: Airplane
tickets
Best accessory: Backpack, safari
vests
What's my Ilie? Don't fence ne
in.
A sure thing: Magnetism
Pleasure: Travel, philosophv, day
dreaming
Pain: Responsibility, commitment
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22 - JAN 19
Date with destiny:
/fTaurus. Virgo
Run for the hills:
Aries, Libra
Arhat makes you tick: Hard work,
committment
Best accessory: Palm pilot
What's my line? The one with the
most toys wins.
A sure thing: Managing a stock
portfolio
Pleasure: Patience, respect, success
Pain: Disorganization. miscalcula-
tion, boredom
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CANCER
JUNE 22 -. JU
Date with
Scorpio, Pisces
'LY 22
destiny:
Budnick sez: A professional jamhead
By John Uhl
Daily Music Edito
Since Labor Day, John Scofield
played at The Ark and The Slip and
Deep Banana Blackout performed at
the Blind Pig. Ekoostik Hookah and
The String Cheese incident were at
the Michisan Theater last weekend.
while the Disco Biscuits will play
there this weekend. Medeski, Martin
& Wood and moe. will swing
through town before the end of the
semester.
Since the break-up of the Grateful
Dead and the rise in popularity of
the group Phish, an entire subculture
has evolved around bands that mix
several types of music and a pen-
chant for lengthy improvisations into
a groovy, rock-heavy stew. And Ann
Arbor has become a standard stop on
the criss-crossing routes of these
bands' many tours.
The following is from an inter-
view with Dean Budnick, editor of
the Website jaunhinds.com and
author of the books "The Phishing
Manual" and "Jam Bands."
The Michigan Daily: In a couple
sentences characterize the "jam
band" scene. What makes a jam
band a jam band?
Dean Budnick: The jam band
scene of today encompasses a range
of different sounds. Bands that are
committed to improvisation but
draw on a number of elements,
including folk, funk, bluegrass, jazz,
psychedelic rock, electronica and
that are sort of unified by their com-
mitment to bring improvisation into
a live setting.
The jam band thing is also unified
by the fans, because there's nothing
inherently similar between The Slip,
the Disco Biscuits and String Cheese
Incident, except the fans of all those
groups are certainly looking for sim-
ilar things in terms of what the
bands produce in concert.
TMD: Would you say that this
movement got started at one particu-
lar time?
DB: I think it's sort of come in
waves. I was a big Phish fan, actual-
ly I grew up in New England in the
late-'80s. In '92 they had the very
first H.O.R.D.E. tour. They only did
a couple dates, but it was Phish,
Widespread Panic, Aquarium
Rescue Unit, Blues Traveler and
Spin Doctors. And that was to some
degree the first sort of unifying of
the scene and that was done on a
very grass roots level before the
H.O.R.D.E. tour became the big
amphitheater bloated monstrosity it
would eventually become.
I would say that something has
changed in the last two or three or
four years where there just have
been many, many more bands. It's a
very sort of chicken and egg circular
relationship. There are many more
fans who are being drawn to this
type of music, partially led by bands
like Phish and Widespread Panic and
certainly String Cheese is coming on
strong, gaining momentum. But as
there were more and more people
going to these shows, this offered
more and more bands the opportuni-
ty to quit their day jobs, to focus on
their craft, which only made their
music and their stage shows and
their performances better.
TMD: l've been listening to the
Allman Brothers forever and when I
entered high school I really started
listening to Phish a lot and tried to
catch a couple of their shows a year.
But in terms of this current thriving
scene, it's really something I've
noticed fairly recently.
DB: I think there's no question
that the scene is exploding, but I
think it has a long way to go as well
in terms of getting more mainstream
recognition. I think it's great to have
a vital, supportive scene. On the
other hand, I think it's great when
these musicians can make albums
and sell hundreds of thousands to
really help support their art.
TMD: I wanted to ask you just a
bit about the question of whether or
not Phish is breaking up. I talked to
John Polansky of Ekoostik Hookah
last night, asking him how he
thought that might impact his fan
base or the scene's fan base in gen-
eral. He thought that the middle-
level bands, not any one of them in
particular, but that a whole bunch of
them might pick up some of the
slack leftover from Phish not touring
as regularly. He felt that sometimes
the fans get disenchanted when the
arenas get bigger and they don't get
to see the bands in as intimate of a
setting.
Do you have any opinions on
whether this is such a grass roots
phenomenon at this point that people
are going to be more faithful to the
medium-famed bands or that the
scene has the possibility to produce
a slew of bands that sell a million
records and sell out huge arenas or
stadiums?
DB: I think this is an interesting
time for that very reason. There are a
Bands that incorporate lengthy
Panic, are rocking more and n+
lot of great bands that I
potential, I won't go so far a
play stadiums, but that cou
up to arenas.
There is an immediacy
gets from the clubs or the
when you can see what th
player's doing. When you
the energy, when you can fe
cally what the drummer's de
it vibrates off your chest
bands thrive in the living set
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