Wednesday, May 24, 1995 - The Michigan Daily - 1i
'White Riot,''White Noise,'
Kirk Miller return of Detroit's adapted favorite
)aily Arts Writer metal band performing for their largest
The most unusual and most deserved crowd yet in their favorite city.
uccess story of 1995 has been the ascent "We were the house band at Harpo's
>f White Zombie into the Billboard Top for awhile,"guitarist J. quipped during a
en for five weeks straight, a fact lead phone interview earlier in the week. "The
inger Rob Zombie let no one forget at show's (eventually) got bigger and big-
ger. Detroit's really good for us, because
everyone's insane ... It's like lead in the
- :< water from the auto factories."
No kidding. Even during the 40
White Zombie minute interlude before the band came
State Fairground Coliseum on, leather clad kids and drunken biker
gang rejects were already moshing to the
May 21, 1995 tape loops of teenybopper '50s b-horror
movies piped in over the P.A. system. By
the time the band kicked into the opening
he end of Sunday's concert. chords of "Electric Head Pt. 1" the front
"We're ahead of all that stuff you of the stage had morphed into a massive
ove to hate," he yelled to boisterous swarm of flailing metal T-shirts and big
igreement from the crowd. "Come on, is poofy hair fighting for space.
here anybody out there that actually Considering the complexity of their
es Hootie and the Blowfish? What is new record, "Astro-Creep 2000," it was
ong with the youth of America today? amazing that the band managed to bring
[hey're becoming a bunch of pussies." most of it to stage and more. Sonically the
However, this "bunch of pussies" band eventually overcame the samples
5,000 of us wacky felines) was clearly (created on record by Rob and the key-
>n Rob's side, witnessing the triumphant board player from Nine Inch Nails) and
White Zombie
programmed beats to showcase their own
skills; highlights like "I Zombie" were
transformed into volumunous sheets of
white noise, while older tracks such as
"Welcome to the Planet Motherfuckers"
showed off their impressive Kiss/Sabbath
roots. As a four time Zombie attendee this
was easily their best stage show and tight-
est musical performance.
"There's so much crap going on this
time, it's impossible to get it together," J.
explained about the extensive light and
video show going on in the background.
Working with a set that could only be de-
scribed as "Ed Wood does 'Cats,"'various
clips of'50s horror movies and syncopated
strobe lights fought for attention next to the
dense layer of sound. What the concert
might have lacked in spontaneity was more
than made up for with its whacked out pro-
duction values. Lights! Explosions! Crotch
thrusting by all the band members!
Drawing exclusively from their last
two records (except for an encore cover of
Black Sabbath's "Children of the Grave")
White Zombie proved that hard music in
the '90s doesn't have to have angst or be
stripped down to acceptable "punk"
Jeff Buckley and his
amazing 'Grace' come
to St. Andrew's Hall
efore singer / songwriter Jeff
Buckley began rolling around in the
MTV Buzz Bin with the likes of
Elastica and Radiohead, he played
14-minute covers of "The Way Young
Lovers Do" in coffeehouses and bars,
including our own Espresso Royale.
After the release of his Columbia
debut album "Grace," however, critics
fell over themselves praising his
astonishing talent and range of
usical influences. Buckley's cover
choices on "Grace" include Nina
Simone's sweet, heady "Lilac Wine,'
Leonard Cohen's desperate
"Hallelujah" and British composer
Benjamin Britten's "Corpus Christi
Carol." While a maddeningly self-
indulgent performer, Buckley still
manages to enthrall audiences with
his voice, an instrument of
astounding versatility and virtuosity
retched to its full capabilities on
race." His strong countertenor isn't
afraid to tremble, swoon or scream
when the music requires such
dramatics, though occasionally he
overdoes it. His performances are
just as rangy as his voice -
sometimes brilliant; sometimes even
his band looks bored. His towering
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talent as a vocalist and songwriter Andrew's Hall with the angst-filled
makes attending this show queen of girly pop, Juliana Hatfield.
worthwhile. Buckley shares the Cold Water Flat rounds out the bill.
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