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Last weekend’s Jazz Festival in Central Park featured Karan Chavis
and an Austin band, the James Polk Quartet. Karan, a graduate
from Texas A&M, has been singing with jazz musicians for si»
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hopefully be band's last
By Chris Eklof
The Battalion
KISS
"Revenge'
Mercury
Over the past twenty years, KISS has ridden
the peaks and the valleys of success. The upcom-
May release of their 2 ‘
ing May release ot tneir 24th album, "Revenge/'
will hopefully be the band's last. The album
proves that it is time to put this dinosaur band
out to pasture.
KISS founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stan
ley are the only remaining members from the '70s
makeup and thrill show glory days. Since then
KISS has undergone extensive lineup changes,
going through four guitarists and three drum
mers. Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Vinnie Vincent,
Mark St. John and Bruce Kulick have all spent
time as part of the KISS army. Eric Singer is the
band's newest member, replacing Eric Carr after
his death in 1991 of complications from stomach
cancer.
KISS was a massive juggernaut in the '70s,
selling out stadium shows across the world.
Their popularity waned, but they started a come
back to establish themselves as more than just a
glam band when they wiped off the makeup and
started anew. Success returned in the late '80s,
but once again it has slipped away in the last cou
ple of years.
"Revenge" brings to mind all of the ancient,
dying heavy metal band stories that have ever
been told. KISS even sinks so far as to use lyrics
from Spinal Tap, the parodical symbol of dying
rock bands. On the tender love song, "Spit," they
borrow from Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom" with
their lyrics about "more cushion for the pushin'"
and "I need a whole lotta woman." These tired,
old lyrics mirror the tired, old band members'
lack of originality.
KISS falls prey to almost every cliche in the
book on "Revenge." Their idea of a stimulating
song is "I Just Wanna." The chorus repeats "I just
wanna f-, I wanna f-, I just wanna forget you."
They must think that it is really exciting when
they almost say a dirty word.
"Take It Off" and "Domino" are two more
songs on the record whose chief purpose is to tit
illate the minds of adolescent boys with their sex
ual lyrics.
"Revenge" includes "God Gave Rock 'N' Roll
To You II, which has already appeared on the
"Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" soundtrack al
bum. Evidently writing another song to put in
place of this lame one was too much effort.
The only song that bears merit on "Revenge"
is "Carr Jam 1981." The instrumental features an
extensive Eric Carr drum solo. The solo itself is
not too spectacular; after all, if you have heard
one drum solo you have heard them all. It just
seems like a fitting way for the surviving mem
bers of KISS to give a tangible, lasting tribute to
their deceased friend.
The other interesting thing about the album
was the partial return of Gene Simmons to vocal
forefront. Early in KISS's career, Simmons
screamed and growled on most of the songs, but
eventually Stanley took over the lead vocals with
his more musical vocal chords. Simmons steps
forward on a few songs on "Revenge" and chants
his way through them as lead vocalist.
In 1988, the word in the music industry was
that KISS was history. Their greatest hits pack
age, "Smashes, Thrashes and Hits," was released
to test the waters of the public and see if KISS
could still sell records. The success of that album
encouraged them to continue on as a band. After
this album though, there should not be much rea
son to stay together.
It is about time for Gene Simmons and Paul
Stanley to let KISS die off. The band made histo
ry in its time and has had a lot of success along
the way. KISS turned Simmons and Stanley into
rich men and they should be thankful for that,
but should let it go before they embarrass them
selves any further.
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Jason Williams provided
ic relief during the songs.
Riscain, a modern dance diio,
did an interpretation of Stinji
"Mad About You," expressing!*
pain of lost love.
Finally, Flying High, anil
member acrobatic group tumbled
across the stage and vaulted ii
the air.
Keeping things moving was
master of ceremonies Greg Raj
and the two guest acts, the Agg<
Wranglers and Miss TAMUJC
McClure.
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didn't do the traditional countn
and-western style type of dam
ing, but instead tried somethiaj
different.
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dance, similar to something outot
"Grease."
Overall, the night delivered
the promise inherent in the name
of the program - variety - within
two groups having the same type
of act.
That's fun for the audience,
but it must have made things
tough for the judges - whichim
eluded Frank Cox, author of'l
Bleed Maroon" and Muster speak
er, and parents of the year Barbara
and Ted Coughran.
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to judge the quality of a singing
act against that of a dance act, for
instance.
When it came time to ballot,
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with some sort of gut feeling as to
what they thought entertained
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By Timm Doolen
The Battalion
"White Sands"
Starring Willem Dafoe and Mickey Rourke
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Rated R
Playing at Cinema Three
One wonders if good actors can sense they
are in the midst of a bad movie. I'd have to
guess they can't, maybe because the scenes are
shout out of sequence, or a lot of footage is
shot that's never used in the actual movie.
Otherwise, why would Willem Dafoe,
Mickey Rourke and Mary Elizabeth Mastranto-
nio agree to do something like "White Sands?"
It must be the "Heaven's Gate" syndrome -
good actors and good performances let down
by a bad storyline, bad direction or bad edit
ing.
At any rate, "White Sands" is one of those
curious movies that tries to come off as a great
movie - big budget, big stars, big motives - but
miserably fails.
sheriff in New Mexico who is investigating a
strange suicide in the middle of the desert. Or
is it a murder?
He finds a few clues which eventually lead
him to Santa Fe, and then assumes the identity
of the murdered man to try to find his killer.
He slowly comes to realize he has become part
of an FBI sting to catch an arms dealer, played
by Mickey Rourke. Or has he?
Rourke's accomplice is Lane (Mastranto-
nio), who believes in noble causes and tries to
seduce any man she can, including the married
“White Sands” is one of those
curious movies that tries to
come off as a great movie -
big budget, big stars, big
motives - but miserably fails.
After the first 20 minutes it looked like a
definite Hitchcock homage, but after that part,
it didn't resemble anything Hitchcock would
have put his name on.
Willem Dafoe plays Ray Dolezal, a deputy
deputy. Or does she?
Through an endless series of plot twists
and turns, and a half-dozen insane murders,
we finally come to realize what's really going
on. Or do we? No.
This movie is obviously confusing - not so
much because what's on the screen is that in
comprehensible, but more so because you're
constantly thinking, "there has to be a reason
for all this, and they'll tell us at the end."
they forgot to tell us at the end.
To the credit of the actors, they all didafai
job, especially Dafoe in his first major roleto
quite awhile. But they were let down by Daniel
Pyne's script and Roger Donaldson's direction
It's acceptable for a movie not to male
sense for awhile, especially an action-sus -
pense-thriller like this one. But there has to be
some sort of meaningful undercurren 1
throughout a film to make it something mote
than a pure action movie.
In that sense, this film is more akin I 0
Sylvester Stallone's "Cobra" than anythingb)
the master of suspense, Hitchcock. We seeaW
of guns, money and murders, and even chang
ing characters (wow). But sadly, the parts oft® 1
add up to more than the movie as a whole.
On top of this there are so many impla#
ble events in the first half of the movie, thatth f
whole time we can't really believe whafsg 0 '
ing on. After all, would a deputy sheriff leav*
his post to go undercover without telling0f
body, save his wife and one friend. He nev®
notifies any other officials, including the shat
iff, and we are led to believe he has the skill 10
outmaneuver the FBI, CIA and several arm*
dealers. Come on.
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