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By Shea Wiggins
The Battalion
adden Sayers’ degree could
have taken him to the hal
lowed newsroom of the New
York Times. Sayers could
Pave been the next Tom Brokaw or
s] eech writer for the president. In
stead, Sayers set his journalism career
; were f 0[ aside and followed his true passion.'
Monday '1 Playing music.
)rt Worth fl Sa Y ers - 28 > began playing electric
student : J? litar w l li l e attending A&M as an agri-
cr Itural journalism major.
I The musician said a lack of interest
in his field led him to pursue a career
b a rocker.
I “I wrote for The Battalion, but I was
lever into journalism in the profes-
spnal sense,” Sayer said. “But in the
Inisic industry there is a lot of public
- which react
ce,” police:
id at the
of stude r
relations work, so I use my college de
gree to do all the work myself.”
The singer, songwriter and guitarist
began his career in Austin with Silent
Partners, a group that included former
members of B.B. King’s band.
After two years, Sayers moved to
Houston with hopes of keeping a day
job, and he later joined the blues group
Miss Molly and the Whips.
Sayers formed his own band, the
Hadden Sayers Band, after three years
of performing with Miss Molly.
Sayers said his influences came di
rectly from Aggieland.
"If I had lived anywhere else, I
would have never become a musi
cian,” Sayers said. “I befriended many
entertainers there, such as Ian Moore
and Chris Duarte.”
Sayers said many other famous bands
helped him create his musical style.
“I was influenced by John Cougar
Mellencamp, Billy Gibbons from ZZ
Top and the Steve Miller Band,” Sayers
said. “I also learned a lot from ‘alterna
tive’ bands in Bryan local clubs.”
Sayers said his music is a combina
tion of blues and guitar-based rock,
called Texas Rock.
“My lyrics are about the trials and
tribulations of being 20-something,”
Sayers said.
Sayers’ band mates include bass gui
tarist, Charlie Knight, and drummer,
John Hamilton. The trio was named
“Best New Act” at the 1994 Houston
Music Awards ceremony and “Best
Pop/Rock Band” at the 1995 ceremony.
The Hadden Sayers Band produced
its first self-titled album in 1995. Its lat
est album, Retrofutura, was released
this month. The band performed in Eu
rope from February to April this year.
"Retrofutura is where we are at
now,” Sayers said. “Learning from the
past with all eyes on the future. It’s a
collection of songs that represent who
we are and where we are heading.”
The band will play at the Dixie
Theatre Saturday at 9 p.m. Then Had
den Sayers and his band will tour the
East Coast and Europe again at the
end of November.
Sayers said he received valuable ad
vice while he was at A&M.
“People tell you all the time not to
give up, and even though it is a cliche, it
is the truth,” he said. “If you stay focused
on what you want to become and start to
play the role of your choice, you can be
come anything. If you want to be a TV
anchor, act like one. If you want to be a
rock star, then act like one.”
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oriay’s ExpftM Tnllegp Station, get ready for a rock
High I ’n’ roll assault complete with lots of
gQof iLJsmoke and pyrotechnics, six-inch
Bis, and outrageous black and white
xlay’sh; aakrtip.
u™ Black Diamond, a KISS tribute band
ZZr Bn Canada, is playing Saturday night at
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/ the AssocefBurt Frohlich, who plays
gBs member Ace Frehley,
■v. Id the full-time tribute
insemble, which has
opened for KISS, focuses on
Biging back the charged-
L ip theatrics that made KISS
Bous in that band’s hey-
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fts was back when they
;;; Ire young, hard working
^ Frohlich said. “It’s
energy, crazy rock ’n’
■Frohlich said he and the other mem-
Is of Black Diamond tiy to bring to the
■ge what they would want to see — an
lergetic performance, not just a bunch
ifguys “sitting there.” Covering KISS
rgs lets Black Diamond incorporate
K classic blood-spitting, smoke bombs
,md makeup into its shows.
Hlomorrow’s show will be the band’s
|Bond performance at The Tap. Scott
tiimpy” Keesler, a manager of The Tap,
aid it is unreal how closely Black Dia
mond replicates KISS.
“After I saw the first show, I thought it
s awesome,” Keesler said. “I saw the
real KISS in San Antonio, and it blew my
mind how close they were.
“I gained so much more respect for
Black Diamond. There are a ton of KISS
tribute bands out there, but this is the
only one endorsed by KISS.”
Benny Doro, who plays KISS member
Paul Stanley, and Frohlich began Black
Diamond two years ago as an original
band. Stanley managed Doro and the
band, and he suggested that the new
iths
band’s songs might not
be widely accepted in the
’90s music scene. The idea
of becoming a KISS tribute
band was tossed around, and with full
support from KISS, Black Diamond hit
the road.
Since then, Black Diamond has played
over 400 shows.
“Even the KISS crew thought we were
crazy for how much we played,” Frohlich
said.
The current U.S. tour will run for an
other month, and in September, Black
Diamond will take its show to Japan. The
band hopes to play more original music
in the future.
Frohlich said most people either love
or hate KISS but those who are not KISS
fans are sure to like the energy and py
rotechnics of the show.
“We’ve turned lots of people into KISS
fans,” he said.
Frohlich also said the band enjoys
hearing the positive feedback it gets from
KISS fans.
“I think
we’re doing
a favor to a
lot of KISS
fans,” he
said.
Fans
thank Black
Diamond
for putting
on a show
that is not
only true to
the origi
nals, but
solid and
entertain
ing, he said.
We come
hang out with the crowd,
because people are people, right?”
Frohlich said. “They just want to see a
rock ’n’ roll show.”
Keesler said Saturday night’s crowd
will get more from Black Diamond’s
show than just a good rock performance.
“Their stage show is extremely in
tense,” he said, “Your eyes don’t leave the
stage until they do. You’ll leave The Tap
thinking you saw KISS.”
Trainspotting
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen
Bremner and Kelly Macdonald
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Rated:R
Damn independent films. They
never get the big distributor deals,
making it necessary for fans of serious,
good filmmaking to trek halfway across
the planet to see a good movie.
This year’s art-house doll,
Trainspotting, will force movie
connoisseurs to sojourn to far-off
theaters to catch a glimpse of what
may be the year’s best film.
Trainspotting is the tale of Mark
Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young
junkie trying to clean up.
Renton spends his time midway
between unconsciousness and clarity,
between diving back into addiction
and dumping his junk habit.
His clean-up efforts are thwarted by
his friends — a cadre of thieves,
psychotics and addicts — who draw
him back to the needle time after time.
Buoyed by brilliant performances
by a group of little-known actors and a
healthy dose of symbolism,
Trainspotting roller-coasters along,
spiralling down through heroin
dementia and up to the clarity of going
clean.
McGregor provides a youthful, yet
convincing turn as Renton, the addict
trying to “Choose life.”
Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller,
Kevin McKidd and Robert Carlyle
alternate between frightening
psychosis and sympathy-driven shame
as Renton’s cabal of misfit friends.
Renton and his crew don’t crawl
under a rock and disappear. They don’t
vaporize into thin air when you aren’t
watching.
Grabbing you by the throat and
forcing you into the depraved mind of
a junkie, the film hammers home the
one idea no one seems to want to un- I
derstand — junkies are real people
too. A+ -WesSwift
Trainspotting is playing at Hollywood 16
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