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h e Fairgrounds anc
hard-core are back in "95
with .a show sponsored
thr! "truck driving hacks A.
Diesel." Raunch and Stim
Boy used to book these
things fifteen, years ago in
,&$-empty hall. A roller
skating rink, the Indian
center or the Fairgrounds
.kwhjlny hhd-core outfit
.m 6 m&&%iff-stage. The
inm;$rq&ed€ed to Any numkkF$cc!ubs
(all of which
,#i&d)with the ell-ages for-
.@if per the years. The.
araqitd pi?h@~'s and ancid logc inted on Davis a classically trained multi-instrumentalist;
tke~~~6~;iackets and mohawks UF-
. r--:, as a member of Korn he provides the vocals and
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plays the bagpipes for one song. The song,
?d2%$~6@& becoming a little excited as I '$Shoots and Idders," opens with the bagpipes
1{s%n%o iheef3's ofthe scheduled bands and and degenerates into the rhythmic..disquieting
think about driving down to Tenth West and noise heard throughout the album. The lyrics are
North T~qple to participate in the festivities. segments taken from the nursery rhymes of child-
There's nothins like an old fashioned hard-core hood strung together for a chronicle of their his-,
$$$$~t t&% blood pumpjng. 0f course, hard- toric basis and a critique of modem times, Two
~fd~chikged a little over the yew and 1' other songs of special interest are "Faget" and
+$&rporate !@k journalist now so the Ski "Daddy." "Faget" is not a gq bashing song. It is
ed ers woad pummel me to death if they kr Davis lashing out at the jocks from high school
.fat 1 look like. I'm n ~r afraid because eac1.1 mu and their name calling, bullying ways. "DaddyYY is
every band scheduled has signed to a major label. the most tightening, disturbing piece of music on
They're all"'sel1-out" bands.
the disc. The song concerns child abuse and
..,Opening the sh& is Korn, who sold th Davis becomes the abused child as the piece
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sdu1s.F !my. I've l$ad their album since the last 4; &proaches its finish. Weeping and wailing he
tib'e' e$$&d through. I listened to it once and ,;brings the pain of the child through the ears and
dism&&& thing rts another mediocrity. since! '. into the brain of the listener. "Daddy" is the closthey
$e returning and I plan b use my impres- $' er, when it ends my response was to sit in
siv&edia credentials or suck up to a major label shocked ailem. That is exactly the reaction Korn
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representative in order to avoid the drain on my desires because the disc continues to spin until a
fiances actually paying $10 for a ticket would hidden track is revealed. It's a conversation
create. I searched my home for the disc, the between an obvious redneck (Km is from
glossy photo, the bio and listened. looked and Bakersfield) and his girlfriend ,or wife. He
read ag&nn. ". attempts to explain the mechanics of their truck's
Two g ~ & a ~ drummer, , a bassist and a choke while verbally abusing the female. It is
singeribagp$e~ &ay= went into Malibu's Indigo hysterically fumy andoffensive at the same time.
Ranch stud'iasto record the heavy grind of their After Korn pounds brains and bodies into
ylf-titled deb< I'm not sure what mood I was in mush Orange 9mm will take over. They are
(probably-my usual drunken stupor) the rust time newly signed to eashvesi and their first album for
I listeaed+~~$w disc because it is not mediocre. a maior label arrived in the stores on February 28.
Inchrded, the new album, features
the clang and k g of
Gang uFT~ur wii&tl&@brasive
rendencies of Livitl$
Colwr and the funk of a hd-
er v&#.r~f the Red Hot
ChilP'P&ppws. Their hardcore
roots are not polishdQp for
mass consumption. Thetnusic
is as raw as the inner thighs
on&kf&&$$man after a long
wa . ~af"&z, bruising.
create a frenzy inside the
Fairgrounds Arts& Crafts
building. &.;
Headliners Sick Of It All are
a pbpular group in Salt Lake
City. They Taleased two
albums on the indie Relativity
before making the move to
be bigs. Several quotes in their bio lead me to
believe their days in the minors were not wholly
their treatment at eastwes
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Koller. There are a ton of good sqqspn the
One of them deserves a little extrz attent:-- &"*
before they arrive. "Who Sets The Rules &
these lyrics and they are addressed to you ..A
more appropriately to me. "Fly by night scer.
ester, fly by night hipster. never suffered, never
paid the dues, living contradiction, live a lie, oh
so fashionable, what a god
Most of the good pun
heard lately were done by
I'd almost forgotten the pl
good punk record dqne by
has me in love with the mug
Some of the best punk records
came from bands appearing in s~kcalce. Texxas
put one out which recal
years and they played at
might receive some pre
and they will also plqy 8tEp~ky"k~Mgv
It All releases a h'wdcere CD on a major 46bp.rh4-
which proves once and for all that punk is not
ages.
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