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Monday • September 30, 1996
Entertainment
Briefs
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J NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Leno
|$|ys he’s at peace with how
and former manager Helen
[Kiishnick parted. Kushnick,
lio built Leno’s career as his
janager for 17 years and then
lopardized it, died of cancer
[August.
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[says in the new issue of TV
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(oblems that included Kush-
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lests amid a
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and David
fetterman.
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Ime. I was
ed of pretending there wasn’t
problem ... Helen was the
pewhen she broke something
that was that,” Leno said.
When both of his parents
led Leno said he heard noth-
igfrom Kushnick, who knew
m both. “Not even a note,”
esaid. “If she had written, I
puld have picked up the
tone. After that I thought —
rat's it.”
Marie pays
ribute to father
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tached to a
young
woman’s body.
Lisa Marie
Presley
sports her
dad’s famous
ucktail hairstyle in photos
plashed across an English
ewspaper on Sunday, wearing
1950s-style bikini.
Ten months after her divorce
cm pop icon Michael Jackson,
he told The Sunday Express
ie is modeling for Gianni Ver-
ace and reconciling with first
Psband, drummer Danny
eough, the father of her son
nd daughter.
The tribute to her father does-
textend to some of his excess-
s. She keeps to a minimalist
let and describes her late fa
ir's fashion tastes as “gaudy.”
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was 4!” exclaims Presley, now
“In the heat of Memphis!”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna
ad nightmares that endless
ancing during the making of
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iborn baby.
The singer-actress sum-
■oned a doctor to have the fe-
il heartbeat checked in the
liddle of an arduous dance se-
uence that she had repeated
least 15 times in 36 hours,
lie says in the October issue
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I was pregnant. My reac-
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Burning it up
Kerosene 454
Washington, D.C. band ignites onstage with a
fiery passion for post-punk rock music.
By April Towery
The Battalion
J awbox and Kerosene 454 created the Washington, D.C., punk
style of music in the same way that Nirvana and Pearl Jam cre
ated the Seattle grunge rock.
Kerosene 454 released their second album, Came By to Kill Me,
two weeks ago on the Discord/Slow Dime label. The quartet is
touring the U.S. and Canada and is stopping in College Station
tonight at Vertigo.
Bassist John Wall, 28, a medical and clinical psychology gradu
ate student at the University of Maryland, said the style of the
band is different from the mainstream definition of punk rock.
“Our music is very aggressive, post-punk rock,” Wall said. “It’s
not the alternative radio music, more like fun-loving camp
ground music."
The band members of Kerosene 454 said their music is influ
enced by Minute Men and Meat Puppets. The name of the band
symbolizes the effects of their music.
“Our music is aggressive, but not like Pantera or anything,”
Wall said. "We think it’s abrasive and flammable — like kerosene.”
The close-knit quartet has been making music together for
two- and-a-half years, although Wall and his brother, guitarist
James Wall, 26, have been jamming together since their high
school days.
“Our parents were not excited about the band at first,” John
Wall said. “They wanted everyone to go to school and get a real
job, but now they are very supportive of us.”
Kerosene 454 originated in California and moved to D.C. to get
serious about the music.
Six months after the move, the band put out its first album, Sit
uation at Hand with Art Monk Construction Records. John Wall
said everything quickly fell into place for the band.
“It was a litde overwhelming, but we enjoyed it,” he said. “We got
to be really good friends. We lived to
gether and practiced in our basement.”
The band members’ neighbors be
long to another D.C. punk band,
Crown Hate Ruin.
John Wall said the band decided to
play in College Station after Crown Hate
Ruin played at Vertigo this summer.
The Kerosene 454 tour with Blue Tip
also includes other Texas stops at
Austin, Dallas, Denton and San Antonio.
John Wall said the hand enjoys good
response from audience members.
“It’s kind of embarrassing when
people sing aldng to' our Songs, but it’s
really motivating,” he said.
John Wall said touring is one of the better aspects of being a
musician.
“Traveling and meeting people is a lot of fun, and you don’t re
ally have to work for anybody,” he said.
For now, the Wall brothers and the other band members plan
to continue touring through late November and pursuing their
musical dreams.
“Our music is
aggressive ...
We think it’s
abrasive and
flammable —
like kerosene.”
John Wall
Kerosene 454 bassist
Strike a match
Biue Tip band members promise a rocking show
despite lack of pyrotechnics
By April Towery
The Battalion
T wo seventh-graders became friends because of
their common interest in music. Today, 15 years
later, they are the lead singer and guitarist of
Washington, D.C., punk band Blue Tip.
Guitarist and “backup screaming vocalist,” Dave
Stern, said he had played with lead vocalist Jason
Ferrel for several years before Blue Tip originated in
mid-1995.
“We’d been in and out of bands together for years,
then we met our bass player through a friend,” Stern
said. “We got a new drummer two months ago who
played in the Garden Variety of Long Island.”
Blue Tip’s first release was a 7-inch compilation al
bum on which they had
recorded two songs with
Jawbox’s Jay Robbins. The
band released its debut
full-length album on June 3
with Discord Records. The
catalog number is Discord
101, so the band members
decided to use that as the
title of the album.
“We’ve gotten a pretty
good response to Discord
101,” Stern said. “It’s got-
“Is that where
the University
of Texas is?
Dave Stern
Blue Tip guitarist
in response to how he feels
about playing in College Station
ten good reviews, but we’re just glad to know that
people are looking into the depth of the lyrics and taking it seri
ously.”
Stern said he wants the crowd to enjoy their show with Kerosene
454 at Vertigo tonight.
“There are no fireworks, but [the show] is energetic,” he said.
Stern said he wants the band’s stage performance to attract people
to their shows.
“We try to entertain to a certain point,” he said. “We want to
sound different live than recorded. People should have some inspi
ration to see us live, instead of just wanting to sit at home and listen
to the CD.”
Stern said although he is unfamiliar with College Station, he is
looking forward to the show here.
“Is that where the University of Texas is?” he asked.
“I feel the same way about playing in College Station as I do
about playing in Little Rock — I’ve never been there, but I look for
ward to it and hope it’s cool.”
Blue Tip
Stern said Blue Tip, named after a box of matches, has a personal
appeal to its listeners.
“OK, here’s the stereotypical thing to say, we write about every
day stuff,” he said. “We write a lot of stuff just feeding off each other.
We’re still getting to know (drummer) Joe and discovering his sense
of humor.”
Blue Tip has a particular song, “Nickelback,” one of their fa
vorites to play live, Stern said.
“It’s really fast and has good lyrics,” Stern said. “It’s personal to
Jason because it’s about his living environment — a basement
with very little sunlight. He sings it from the heart.”
Blue Tip will close out the tour with Kerosene 454 in November
and head back to Washington, D.C., where they will begin work
ing on new material. Stern said being on the road has been
worthwhile because of his love for music.
“Making music gives you an overall feeling of accomplish
ment,” Stern said. “You get out of it what you put into it. We do it
for the kids.”