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Other Press

Monday May 29, 1989

 

 

Crusade Cool

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Director: Steven Spielberg
Paramount Pictures

by Brett Bonderud

 

 

Opening action theme: Da dee da da dah deeeda dum dee da da
dum deeda da...Whooosh! Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade! Da
Deeda! Starring Harrison Ford! Da da Na na! Denholm Elliot! Na-
na! John Rhys-Davies! and Sean Connery as Professor Jones! Bum
be da bum! Topic: Review of this action flick.

Music: "Indy Love Theme." Let it hum in your ears while you
read, (na dee nana na bum deda...). That’s it.

Setting: Exotic locales, preferably someplace where you get fan-
tastic Bghting about the face.

Villians: Plenty. Main "Baddies"- those dorky, inept Nazis.

Romance: Yep. Sorry though, I can’t tell ya with whom.

Reviewer’s state of mind: This movie turned my mental age of 14
to 9.

Still humming? (Da-daah da da...) Was the moving picture show
swell fodder or what? I’m thinking. It was ..............00 Super-
calafrajelisticexpeealidoshis. And really cool too! And no, I’m not
getting paid for this.

Readers reaction to review: YOU SUCK!

Reviewer: Yah, well, who’s the guy that saw the movie on the
opening day, at the very first show with DOLBY and THX sound?
HUH?

Readers reaction: Get a life! This review sucks! I could do better!
What about the movie? Is this guy mentally deeeeeeeranged?!

Reviewer: If I tooooooold ya, it wouldn’t be a surprise.

Things reader should do: GO SEE THIS MOVIE!

Why: Because this movie’s the best one one of the "Jones" tril-
ogy. It’s packed with plenty of action, it’s loads a fun, and it has bad
guys, good guys, romance, chases, and it REVEALS SECRETS
ABOUT INDY’S PAST!!

Most importantly though, what with todays screwed up world, a
person kinda needs an escape from reality. Ya know?

Parting notes: If you haven’t stopped humming, (de deeda bum...),
you either work for the O.P., or you’re just stupid.

Roll end credits and fade out to music: Daadee-daada...

PaaS AL VALID OR
DEMONSTRATION

ioe. epee bs tem Le

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Ramones to Rock Vancouver Soon;

Bohemians Impress

Preview
The Ramones
June 14, Commodore Ballroom

 

by Tim Crumley

In the 70’s, rock and roll real-
ly sucked. Hyper-huge stadium
rockers like The Eagles and
Fleetwood Mac virtually control-
led the airwaves in the early part
of the decade, only to be replaced
in the latter half by the mind-li-
quifying technothud of disco. In-
ventiveness and originality was
looked upon with disdain, and
people were needlessly tortured
with Journeys and Totos and
Gloria Gaynors.

However, events would take
place to change the face of music
forever. In 1976, a rowdy bunch
of hoodlums entered CBGB’s, an
avant-garde music club in New
York. Some of their equipment
was stolen. They auditioned on
the small stage for only five
minutes, but played three or fours
songs. The owner didn’t under-
stand them, but agreed to let them
play anyways. The Ramones
were born.

. RamonesMania is coming to
the Commodore July 14. And
they’re going to bring the
AAAARRRGH back into rock
and roll.

The Ramones were the

 

pioneers of punk music, starting

a trend that is still alive today.
The Ramones (along with the
New York Dolls and MCS) were
immensely influential in the
sound of bands like the Sex Pis-
tols and the Clash. Loud, fast,
and stupid, their music was little
understood by the mainstream
music industry - many of whom
had started the original rock and
roll revolution themselves.

Punk was not interested in
style or fashion, or even
popularity. It was interested in
anger. The optimistic ideals of
the 60’s, and its music, had been
destroyed by frustration, govern-
ment backed violence, and drugs.
The music industry’s packaging
of 60’s bands in the 70’s made
people wonder if the bands that
cared in the "summer of love"
only did so because they were
being paid. Punk was an answer
to the lividity of music.

 

 

 

 

 

The Ramones play the Commodore June 14

The Ramones were an instant
hit in the New York under-
ground. Combining the happy
harmonies of the fifties with the
angry powerchords of Black
Sabbath and the like, the
Ramones and their twisted sense
of humour were a panacea to all
the kids sick of the same old gar-
bage on the radio. With songs
like "Now I Wanna Sniff Some
Glue", "Beat On The Brat", and
"Gimme Gimme Shock Treat-
ment", they were almost guaran-
teed notoriety in some fashion.

The Ramones even got some
Billboard acceptance, hitting the
Hot 100 in 1977 with "Sheena Is
A Punk Rocker". Since then they
have under gone major changes
and trials, surviving member
changes, heroin dependancy, and
the 80’s music scene. They’ve
done some work with Phil Spec-
tor, the producer famous for the
"wall of sound"; they’ve done
some hardcore; and they’ ve done
some metal. They celebrated
their tenth album with a two
record compendium entitled
"RamonesMania", released in
1988. And more recently,
Stephen King asked them to con-
tribute some songs for the
soundtrack of "Pet Sematary"
(they did the title track, and threw
in "Sheena" for good measure).

Now the Ramones are com-
ing to Vancouver. It’s the

eighties. Music still sucks. And
the Ramones keep going. Thank
God for that.

Edie Brikell

and the New Bohemians

Review

When I first heard this group
on the radio, I thought, "Oh great,
another neo-hippie-air head
band. Just what we need. You
have to admit that the lyrics to
"What I Am,” their first single,
shows just a little bit of apathy
towards the world. But after
seeing Edie et al in concert, I’ve
decided that the band is kinda
cool.

Edie, by the way, does not try
to steal the show from her more
than competent fellow band
members, which might be ex-
pected. She is a New Bohemian,
not just the front-person for the
band. Which is nice. Of course, it
is her distictive singing voice and
way-out lyrics which attract you
to the band in the first place, but
on stage, Edie is very unassum-
ing.

They played both the lighter
songs off their current album
"Shooting Rubber Bands at the
Stars", and some deeper, stronger
new stuff which will probably
make the next. Over all, the gig
was enjoyable and fun, and
showed signs of a singular future
greatness for the New Bohe-
mians if they can keep it up.

Metal Double Header

 

by Tim Crumley

Thrash-metal greats Metal-
lica are bringing unexpected
guests to the Coliseum on May
31 - and they’re planning to
party.

In an unanticipated turn of
events, the Cult was asked to
open for the group, whose latest
record, "...And Justice For All",
has been on the Billboard Hot
100 list since its release in Sep-
tember 1988. Commenting on
their choice of openers, drummer
Lars Ulrich said "we went after
the Cult because we really like
and respect what they do, and ap-
parently the feeling is kinda
mutual."

Starting out in the early 80s,
Metallica became the vanguard

 

group representing the new wave
of metal - a punk/metal hybrid
aptly named thrash metal. Their
mercurial style quickly gained a
loyal following, and after some
staff changes (which included
guitarist Dave Mustaine leaving
somewhat acrimoniously and
forming his own group,
Megadeath), the four bulletheads
from San Fransisco had a con-
tract with Elektra Records.

Following the tragic death of .

bassist Clive Burton in a bus
crash in 1986, Metallica hired ex-
Flotsam And Jetsam bassist
Jason Newstead and began prac-
tising. Then came the aforemen-
tioned album and now this tour.
After spending some time as
an "alternative" band, the Cult

have now gained a wide follow-
ing with their Led Zep Revivalist
Church Choir. They have a new
album, "Sonic Temple" (as if you
didn’t know that already), and
they are ready to please Van-
couver. Let’s hope that the show
isn’t like their last, ending with
singer Ian Astbury’s arrest for
punching out a security guard for
being too rough on the fans jump-
ing on the stage after he invited
them up.

But then again, if that hadn’t
happened, Ian would never have
enjoyed an extended stay here in
our fine city. And accordingly,
the band wouldn’t have made
Sonic Temple here.

This show promises to be one
of the top ten blowouts of ’89.

Pnow CUUTESY NUMINE stene