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Marooned Records taps
into B-CS alternative veil
By JOHN RIGHTER
The newly-opened Marooned Re
cords is trying to succeed where
other local record stores have failed
— it’s trying to tap into the subver
sive vein of Bryan-College Station.
Marooned Records, located in
Northgate at 110 College Main N.,
specializes in alternative music, store
manager Doug Moss says. Moss says
that he and Marooned owner Dave
Risher are patterning the B-CS store
after Hogwild Records, Risher’s al
ternative store in San Antonio.
Moss says that he and Risher were
attracted to Bryan-College Station
because it didn’t have a true alterna
tive outlet and it offered them the
opportunity to work with a more in
telligent clientele.
“It’s wonderful for me to be able
to carry on a truly intelligent conver
sation with somebody on music,”
Moss says. “People are really on a
higher level here, which is our whole
reason for choosing College Sta
tion.”
Moss and Risher opened Ma
rooned two weeks ago. Moss de
scribes the local response as “ten
times better than I expected,” even
though not everyone knows the
store features alternative music.
“I have the occasional person who
walks in here and goes over to the al
ternative-type music section,” Moss
says. “They take a look through it
and have this perplexed look on
their face, turn around and walk
out.”
By alternative, Marooned is not
limiting itself to just rock. Jazz,
blues, international, pop-rock,
dance, hardcore — the focus is on
music that is underground or unor
dinary, regardless of genre.
Vfp.TOOn^^ t L #=» Ion#*
earl ier of vinyl, a treasured coj
diiy for some music fans. Mossl
he plans to carry as much vin,«
possible, in addition to sellingtrff
pact discs and tapes.
Af ter Christmas, Moss says he Jy
Risher plan to double the stores ];
knocking out the current divider!
tween the store front and a t :
room.He says he also plans toil;
lure in-store groups and musi(||
in the near f uture to help sup;
the local music scene.
And of course, change will rer
the key word for Marooned.
“We plan to change constant
Moss says. “The bottem line is ah;
going to be progression. We’rego:
to be very active in keeping ups
student trends. That’s part ofbe;
alternative.”
Aware of the failure of pre,
alternative stores in B-CS, Mosss
experience will be the difference!
Marooned.
“The other stores didn’t have;
experience that Dave and 1 han
Moss says. "We’ve been at thisfe
long time and know who to i
with, how to shop for the lok;
prices and generally what ourn
turners are looking for.
“We also realize that you have
have fun in this business, whidu
really do. Music, especially alien
live, isn’t a money-makingbusines
In the end, Moss says the suta
of Marooned depends on thepeo;
of B-CS.
“Customers come in here andt
me how great the store is andk
exc ited they are to have us hen
Moss says. “But, I tell them wheii
it works or not depends on then I
people want alternative music M
we’ll be here.”
Equal opportunity cum
ills for Jane’s A ddiction
By JOHN RIGHTER
Rock ’n’ roll is the bona fide
American dream.
Not even in sports are the indi
gent, uneducated and criminal pro
vided with as equal an opportunity
for success as in rock.
Jane’s Addiction (Perry Farrell on
vocals, Dave Navarro on guitar, Ste
phen Perkins on drums and Eric
Avery on bass), for example, has sur
vived itself to become R.E.M.’s heir
apparent as the bellwether for leftist
American music.
Heroin addiction, male prostitu
tion, starving artists, runaways —
Jane’s Addiction has squarely kissed
life’s steel-toed boot, smiled, and spit
back their blood, teeth and saliva.
The result of this regurgitation is
the group’s dark, creative metallic
me slap my own face. I looked uf
him then, and I still do. He was
ing to teach me something. No
know what it was. Now I known;
he meant. Now I know how it is.'
Ritual is anchored by its multi-fi
eted rhythms, funneling themii
fluid collage of quick, catchy h
and drawn-out paens.
The album’s first single. "Sti
is an upbeat killer, as is the cam
“Been Caught Stealing,” a horn;
to kleptomania.
Ritual abruptly switches ge;
halfway through. The epic “Ill!
Days,” an 1 1-minute jam that din
and falls with Farrell’s humanii
pessimism, survives any over-emk
lishments through its com
beauty.
The aforementioned “Of Gouts
Heroin addiction, male prostitution, starving
artists, runaways — Jane's Addiction has
squarely kissed life's steel-toed boot, smiled,
and spit back their blood, teeth and saliva.
churn. Not that Jane’s Addiction is
really even a metal band, just as Jimi
Hendrix and Led Zeppelin were
universes away from beingjust metal
buckets. But in an art that requires
order to understand its chaos, I’ll
stigmatize Jane’s with the label of
psychedelic-folk metal.
Ritual De Lo Habitual combines
Jane’s unique creative thrust with a
hard-rock base for a less shocking ef
fort than 1988’s Nothing’s Shocking,
but one twice as good.
Ritual ascends from polished,
straight-forward hard rock to odys-
seyic ballads to Middle-Eastern beat
rituals. The journey is mediated by
Farrell’s insolence, depression and
tempered nihilism, an unsettling co
herency from a man strapped with a
cause.
“Bumped my head,” screeches
Farrell during “Ain’t No Right,” “...
Cut myself, said ‘So what?’. Motherf-
—kin’ took the pain. Said ‘So what?’ I
can’t be wrong. I thought so, but
there ain’t no right! Ain’t no wrong,
ain’t no right. Only pleasure and
pain.”
On “Of Course,” Farrell sings,
“When I was a boy, my big brother
held on to my hands. Then he made
also enraptures instead of bores,! ■
spite its extended length. “OfCm
se” features a serene, Middled
ern-styled chant that buffers Farit
spiritual undressing.
My problem with Jane’s is Farrt.
high-pitched nasal voice that sours -
too studioized. With the slo4
E ieces it’s OK, but on the mores
eat numbers Farrell sounds It!
tortured pig.
I suppose I should acknowletii
the album jacket’s controversy. I f
fortunately, some people can’t iS
tinguish between art and obscer: [
of which this is the former.
On one version of the cover, i |
genitalia of papier-mache sculpti®
of women are exposed. Are you«
fended by that? If so, I’m serioui
disappointed and frustrated. 11
a work of art, my friends.
The group is pragmatic, thoifl
and two jacket versions are avatf [
with the First Amendment m
printed on the alternate jacket,
The group also includes an el
quent article on freedom. Not'Al
bama freedom,” “Florida freedom;
or “Louisiana freedom,” but in
freedom.
Check it out.
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