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Page 4 • Thursday, October 15, 1998
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Dallas band
promotes newest
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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.
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“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.
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