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Jordan Institute office in the MSC room 223-1 or call 845-8770 http://ltjordan.tamu.edu e-mail: jordan@msc.tamu.edu Jl nnouncemnts Cushing AAentoriais Library October 19* & 20 The Cushing Memorial Library will be closed at 12:00 noon Monday, October 19th and all day Tuesday, October 20, 1998 for the building rededication ceremony. We apologize for any inconvenience. *Open until noon on October 19 Page 4 • Thursday, October 15, 1998 A^ggielife Dallas band promotes newest album tonight i n t ieB O CT BY RILEY LAGR0NE The Battalion S ince the band’s formation in 1991, the members of Tripping Daisy have done exactly what they wanted to do most — they have gotten past being rock stars and be come true artists. Tripping Daisy has suffered through its growing pains in the public eye of both its hometown of Dallas and to some extent, the rest of the country and has emerged as one of today’s premier post-grunge rock bands. Never has this been more evident than in the past few months. The band has restruc tured its lineup, recorded a career-defining al bum and set out on what may become its most ambitious tour. TYipping Daisy began its career with the release of its first album. Bill. on Dragon Street Records in 1992. The band then put its work ethic into prac tice by touring incessantly until it was signed by Island Records the following year. The band’s second record, i am an Elastic Firecracker, followed shortly after. The band had its first brush with fame when the al bum’s first single, “I Got a Girl,” achieved some radio success. It is Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, TYipping Daisy’s newest and third release, however, that has shown the band’s true art-rock greatness. Tim DeLaughter, the band’s vocalist, will be the first to admit that the band’s new al bum is the first one to showcase everything TYipping Daisy has to offer. “Until now, I haven’t been totally satisfied with a release or a finished product we’ve done,” DeLaughter said. “It took making this record to make me realize that.” New to the TYipping Daisy family (and in tegral to the sound of the new album) are gui tarist Phil Karantz and drummer Ben Curtis. Both have been regulars on the Dallas music scene (Karantz has performed with Dallas acts Bobgoblin and 1919 Summit, and Curtis was one-third of the punk trio UFOFU), and both were a natural fit when TYipping Daisy decid ed to change its lineup. Curtis’ powerhouse drumming style and Karantz’s experimental guitar sonics have both added immeasurably to the TYipping Daisy sound. DeLaughter said that with the addition of Curtis and Karantz, he began to see TYipping Daisy’s future in an entirely new light. Q_ Tinf|)elaughter pflj vocals j v, Mark Pirro bass guitarist Wes Berggren guitarist Ben Curtis drummer Phil Karantz guitarist PHOTO COURTESY OF ISLAND RECORDS “I realized that there were no rules for this band anymore,” DeLaughter said. “TYipping Daisy was now an open book and anything could happen.” In retrospect, any and everything has indeed happened to TYipping Daisy. The band has be come a success in Canada, performed on "Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and toured with heavy metal godfathers Def Leppard. In a recent interview with KHLR-FM 103.9, Mark Pirro, TYipping Daisy’s bass player, said he feels fortunate to have been a part of the band since its beginnings. “This whole band has been a really great experience,” Pirro said. "I’ve done a lot of things and had a lot of opportunities to see the country and meet new and different people. It’s been a pleasant ride to say the least.” Luckily for Pirro, DeLaughter and the rest of the band, the ride is far from over. After a three-year, self-imposed break from touring, the band has regrouped and found a new en ergy and focus that can be seen and heard in its new tour and album. During their break, DeLaughter described what he called a “spiritual awakening” that brought him back to the music and inspired him to begin writing new material. “I’m 32, and I think that at some age every one kind of comes to face the person they are always wanting to know and be and under stand,” DeLaughter said. “It was at that point that I started writing songs again.” Tripping Daisy will stop in College^ this Friday at Shadow Canyon to] show with Denton band Light BrightH| Doors open at 8 p.m. Tripping Daisy Jesus Hits Like the Atom M \ Island Records InTh pita Msec In.” It land' After a three year hiatus, Trippingtelired ir returned to the music scene with itstiift son, length album on Island Records. the Atom Bomb. Lvn With its new release, the bandhasSoi :ksg( come full circle, maturing into oneo(tk country’s best art/psychedelicroclu Although TYipping Daisy has been® pared to Flaming Lips many times, the® scription has never fit more perfectly. Like the Lips, Daisy takes all the elide pop music and twists them into somefe both bizarre and strangely fitting. While it is true that the band hascoffi long way from its days of playing; in downtown Dallas, Jesus Hits LikeM Bomb is a reminder that TYipping Daisys beginning to scratch the surface of its® genius. (Grade: A) — Riley L If You Have Something To Sell, Remember; The Battalion 9 Out of 1.0 Kaplan students get into one of their top-choice law schools.’ Competition for law school is tough, and your LSAT score can make all the difference. That’s why you need to take Kaplan. For 60 years, we’ve helped more students gel into law school than all other test prep companies combined. That’s why we’re the )/1 choice for LSAT prep. 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