Well, for the second year in arow, On Thanksgiving-Eve I w<strong>as</strong> atSpanky's Cinema Bar witnessingwonderful live music. This is kind ofturning into a tradition for me.Thanksgiving rolls around and TheCinema Bar brings in some killer bandand I leave the house to start my holidayse<strong>as</strong>on off. right. ' This year The CinemaBar played host to Sky Cries Mary. Thisw<strong>as</strong> their third or fourth time town:And once again, it w<strong>as</strong> incredible.1t's-hard to describe the kind ofmusic Sky Cries Mary creates, If youhave never heard or witness them live.It's an eclectic mix of bits and samples ofeverything you've ever heard, or willhear. No really. You laugh and scoff andthink my description may be a bit toopseudo-philosophical, but it's true. If Ihad to describe it, which I'm not toocomfortable doing, I would have to sayIt's a techno-dance, new-age jazz, teeth- .gn<strong>as</strong>hing feedback popping, lyricaladventure that will take your ears andyour mind on a visionary ride. AnisaRomero, lead and back-up vocals soundslike what I expect heaven to sound like.Not only is this woman beautiful, butshe totally takes me away when she goesto work. Sky Cries Mary bring withthem a light show like one I haven't seensince, oh let me see ... I would have to goback to Jefferson Aeroplane when theywould perform White Rabbit, in the latesixties. I mean this stuff is mindblowing!!!I mean, how can you describe aband from Seattle that h<strong>as</strong> seven fulltime members in it? Sky Cries Mary ismade up of Roderick Romero-Vocals &words, Roderick's sister, theaforementioned Anisa Romero, MichealCozzi-Guitar, Bennett Ireland-Drums &Percussion, Juano-B<strong>as</strong>s, Gordon Raphael-Vox Organ, Synthesizer & a bunch ofother way cool, very expensive instruments,and l<strong>as</strong>t but certainly not le<strong>as</strong>t,Todd Robbins a.k.a. DJ Fallout-Samples,turntables & decks.Anyway, the m<strong>as</strong>ter mindbehind Sky Cries Mary is RoderickRomero. He w<strong>as</strong> shooting pool withChris Noveselic, and in between shots,he would answer my questions I tossedout to him.Slug: This time you are on tour withHoovercraft and Sweet 75. I w<strong>as</strong> t;?lkingto Michael Cozzi earlier and he said thatall three bands are just amazing, somethingvery, very cool to see live.Roderick Romero: Yea, it's really awesome.It's been like the best tour we'veever had. Everyone is playing newmusic and new songs. It's just dot offun.Slug: Tell me the history of the band.Did you and your sister start the band?RR: I started the band back in 1988 <strong>as</strong> atheater project and then it evolved fromthat into an actual band when Anisajoined the group in 1990. Ben Irelandw<strong>as</strong> on drums and Gordon on keyboardsand Michael and Juano came a little bitlater. DJ Fallout w<strong>as</strong> there in band in thebeginning.Slug: So what do you mean it startedout <strong>as</strong> a theater project?RR: I had written this three part, two actplay. I had written the music for it witha couple of friends, Ken and John fromThe Posies, before The Posies wereformed. And I had written this musicwith them for the theater, for the play Ihad written. We recorded that music,then I went to graduate school in Paris.And while I w<strong>as</strong> there I gave this recordstore some c<strong>as</strong>sette copies to see if theywould sell them. It evolved from there.I had this demo and this record company,which owned a record store, liked itso much they signed me for three years.So I did these record's for this label out ofFrance.Slug: What do you have out on WorldDomination?RR: We have two full-lengths, ThisTimeless Turning and A Return To TheInner Experience. Then we also have anEP out on World Domination called Exitat the Axis. We have written 13 newsongs, too.Slug: Are you going back into the studio?RR: Yea, probably in February.
Slug: H<strong>as</strong> World Domination treated youpretty well?RR: Yea, they have really doneeveqrtlung we have wanted them to do,for sure.Slug: Your music is so varied. Tell meabout your concept of music.RR: My b<strong>as</strong>ic concept is there is no rulesto music. There is no boundaries,whatever we vhite, we accept it a$ <strong>as</strong>ong. All seven members must agree torecord a song. And if all seven do agree,we feel it's a good song because all of ushave totally different musical t<strong>as</strong>te. Asfar <strong>as</strong> musical t<strong>as</strong>te goes, within the bandthere is no overlapping. We like'everything from ~raz& music toThe Stooges.Slug: Does your live show vary from therecorded sound at all?RR: We are a little harder edge, I believe.That's what happens when your pushingsound through speakers live, lik; *at.And we are &ways reacting to how thecrowd is. Like if the crowd is really withit, then it's like an absolute mayhem and'it's a great freak-out, ya know? I don'twant anyone to come out our show andwalk out and think, 'OH, that w<strong>as</strong> justO.K.' sWell, if you were there thatnight, than you know the crowd w<strong>as</strong>definitely turned on to them. I don't,know where you were standing but frommy v~tage point people were dancingand literally losing themselves in theexperience.My guess is that Sky Cries Marywill be coming back to the W<strong>as</strong>atch frontsometime in 1996. Probably mid-to-latein the year. I would suggest you keepyour would suggest you keep your eyesopened and watch for their showGuaranteed, it's not like anything you'veever experienced before.-All Local Peopler Teleph~~e Numbers, NpwA Results From 10b7s of Members7Leave Your Ad Free, Call 972-3939UTAH'S FINEST SINGLES11-900-407-6444 1 r$1.99/MIN18 +7Phoneline 977-9508w v?a 'qF,w L l yF &&..;i>+q 4T-shirtse ~iife"r~'k Incense 81Stickers & Patches l CandlesDupne's Dianmd News Badsta)e Pars Video')M-F 11-7 Sat 10-61401 $0. 9th [a. 111m11014Salt Lake City, UTUnholy Unions: Toy Story anc lering Highis. Computer animated characters are inseried &to LheToy StoryA buddy film lor Lhe temporarily short; Toy meets Toy. Toy loses Toy.Toy gets Toy back. Only briefly interesting to adults because it'scomplelely eompuler animatd. like Lhe sword wielding Usterine bottlewmmercials. (Pixar produced ah), only a lot longer. Too long formyone who isn't slap hwpy in love with computers and the brave newcgber centuq Bill is leading us laward.yam's R~W:If you're 7, real fumy and exciting!If you're an adult. you'd better be,mth that 7 pa^ old.. 8-fGj-0L