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Gov. Geor address the Texas A&M University community • Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. Page 4 • The Battalion Aggielife Friday • March 29,19% The Extinct works to create, perform long-lasting music the Extinct By John LeBas The Battalion A ugmenting funky, driving rhythms and tough guitar dynamics with folk and rock melodies, the Extinct is play ing tonight at The Tap to promote its debut album, Ouch. Now veterans of the Los Ange les contemporary rock scene, the Extinct initially formed to play a show in anticipation of vocalist Natalie Wattre’s pen pal’s 1989 visit to California. Vocalist Jennifer DaRe, who along with Wattre and guitarist Dave Williams remains from this original incarnation, said the Ex tinct ended up playing for the next eight months without a rhythm section. “Now I can’t even picture that because we’re so diverse,” DaRe said. The current band lineup in cludes Doug Townsley on bass and Scott Sadlon on drums. In the years following this start-up period, the Extinct began to play extensively throughout Los Angeles and the surrounding area. “There was one year when we played four or five times a week,” DaRe said. With this experience, the Ex tinct developed its sound and style, melding the different backgrounds and talents of each member. DaRe said Williams’ rocky re lationship with his father and his driving, emotional guitar work, combined with DaRe’s high, clean voice and Wattre’s throatier vo cals, create harmonious songs of self-realization. “Some of the stuff is more emo tionally based, and some is more groove-oriented,” DaRe said, “with as many harmonies as we can shove in.” The songs, although often about “getting screwed over,” are more upbeat, DaRe said. “I think because there’s a heavy sense of groove, we want to get songs across in a way that people can get the point of song, but not feel down after hearing it,” she said. DaRe said she cannot compare this style to that of other bands, but fans have told her the Extinct has elements of Concrete Blonde, 10,000 Maniacs and even Sly and the Family Stone. She said the members’ var ied personal musical influences do not obviously affect the Ex tinct’s sound. “I like a lot of the new stuff, like Blues Traveler,” DaRe said. Other influences include Live, Dave Matthews Band, James Taylor, Van Morrison, Lou Reed and Sam Cook. “But we don’t directly corre late our influences to what we do,” she said. Interested instead in promot ing its own unique rock, the Ex tinct expanded its exposure re cently as the opening act fora Pauly Shore tour. This afforded the band valuable experience of playing before large crowds. “We played for a total of about 70,000 people on that tour,” DaRe said. “One of those shows, we ended up playing for 11,000 people at once.” After that, the Extinct was psyched up to begin its own ma jor tour. After recording Ouch and filming a video for “You, OnMy Mind,” the Extinct hit the road. DaRe said successful touring and the band’s growing fan base are encouraging. “I think that good songwril ing and audience response has kept us going,” she said, “Things are better now than they have ever been.” The Extinct has become a full time job, and DaRe said sheis now looking toward the “nextlev el” of success. Of course, this will be then suit of more hard work and wjj of mouth among loyal fans. “The most important thing about this is that we’re doing it independently, and we have a hand in everything we do,” she said. “I think we’ve proven that we can persist. “If people dig what we’re doing, pass the word; because the more people we have pushing, the more it will take.” VOL: Band adjusts style to venues Continued from Page 3 no rush to push the growth of the band, though. “I’m enjoying the fact that the growth has been slow, but at the same time, it’s been exponential,” he said. “When people get inside the music, they seem to get in too hard, and it means something to them. It’s nice for people to under stand the music.” This week, VOL has been bringing this understanding to Texas in a simple format. Mallonee said that every night’s show is different, depending on the members’ mood. “It also depends on how big the place is,” he said. “It could be pop- pier, or stripped-down acoustic — which can be fragile.” This is the reason for the acoustic set scheduled at Hastings, prior to the Dixie Theatre show. “At the Dixie Theatre show, we’ll probably play a pretty cranked-up set, with a few acoustic songs,” he said. “But we like to ho sets like the one at Hastings. “We like to maintain that inti macy, to make people feel that we’re glad they are there.” The 1996 Fay Lecture Series in Analytical Psychology Gender, Myth, and Desire Polly Young-Eisendrath Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D is a clinical psychologist, feminist, and Jungian psychoanalyst who practices in Philadelphia and Burlington, Vermont. A Conner professor at Bryn Mawr College, she is currently a research psy chologist at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital where she does research on resilience. A well-known lectureranh author, her books include The Gifts of Suffering: Lessons from Jung and Buddhism (1996), You're Not What I Expected: Learning to Love the Opposite Sex (1993), anh Female Authority: Empowering Women throng Psychotherapy (1987), co-authored with Florence Wiedemann. Friday, March 29 • Opening Reception and Introduction to Lecture Series by Polly Young-Eisendrath, Clayton Williams Alumni Center, 5-6:30 p.m. • Banquet/Entertainment, Clayton Williams Alumni Center, 6:30-9 p.m. Saturday, March 30 • Lecture 1: Gender: Self and Other, 9-10:30 a.m., MSC 206 • Lecture 2: Why Jung? Why Feminism?, 1 1:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., MSC 206 Sunday, March 31 • Lecture 3: Pandora as the Object of Desire, 9-10:30 a.m., MSC 206 • Lecture 4: Self and the Subject of Desire, 1 1:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., MSC 206 Ticket Prices Tickets also available for Receptions and Banquets, maybe Student: $4 per lecture $12 all four lectures purchased at the MSC Box Office (845-1234) after March 18^ Non-Student: $7 per lecture $24 all four lectures at the door preceding each lecture. 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