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le Battalion A GGIELIFE Page 5 • Thursday, September 30, 1999 larriesfat ; - the* Hensoofl on~atof ted effec ing the Is nearly ly )ut morei icallyadvi ng, it’sii HEATHER BRONDY The Battalion its Friday night, the Monkee jrmerly known as The Theatre, is with its first concert of the se- ir, showcasing Tripping Daisy he local hands Kid Fantastic 2th Egg Conspiracy, le members of Tripping Daisy, known for their radio song, “I i Girl,” said they are excited t the changes the band has ’ since its mainstream success. Pirro, bassist for Tripping /, said the band now sounds r than ever. ’eople who heard us five or six ; ago and didn’t really give us a ce need to come out and see we’ve got going on now,” he “The band really is the best it’s been.” ipping Daisy, once a four-man i,us now a five-member band. Njupi. 1 members are lead singer Tim tighter, Wes Berggren (guitar keyboard), Mark Pirro (bass), p Karnats (guitar) and Ben Cur- Irums). The band’s latest CD, Je- lijs Like the Atom Bomb, was ibuted by Island Records and in- es all five members, nfortunately, the mainstream •rience left a hard-to-swallow n the band’s mouth. Pirro said ping Daisy has left Island, and ted a Tecotd \abe\ oi its own, d Records, to help put an end le band’s big label blues. We’re no longer with Island jrds, which is an unfortunate g in one way and a fortunate g in another,” Pirro said. “We led having trouble with the label, so we decided to start up Good ords so that we could be more in trol of our own s--t. It’s just a ve- e for putting out our own irds, as well as other people’s. ” Zhris Penn, tour manager for iping Daisy, said Good Records lot only about making music, t also about making it available others. “Me,Tim [Delaughter], his wife d Webmaster Eric Carson decid- sual eta kertond te plays or Farm, i Holm an! ig thevotj Napoleon ' and (lit resi ihusn henal iP)-fa tenjamin! eedforai table Isn )ub(ics$ feufe LOGO pea inceTuesi ler Pres') aomiJndt rational s fciJ * how to M a spokei yahu'sfirS mdont d $60.0(1 ch. Israeli iperreport to lost his V the cron ed to take Good Records to the Web, as well as make it a store,” Penn said. “We got some space in downtown Dallas for the store and a large Web domain that Eric helped us put together.” Pirro said the Web site includes the skinny on Tipping Daisy and Good Records and also features the band’s newest music-promotion scheme, trippingdaisy.com. “Basically, if you have a comput er, you can get into Tripping Daisy radio,” Pirro said. “What we’ve done, basically, is taken our favorite music or bands that we think are re ally valid or worthy and put not just one or two of the songs on the Web miy mor£| nldboutt oocfian$ :om/ nat me. (AP ' ameap rid after ^ n the $ ancy Ker| sional ( Skating ed a I ure Ska'll <ate pro'] tionede as Od- skaters] ititrdrr. je SOTTit j trveals| on'tfTtf paid ml in Wedf 'If peopj know I'i j heart.' nager. The . she's j stumesi 1 gnos die 11 ningt° i n inermj i sordei i rs pt°i sterol diagn« ;: | th P^J a rare ori's glskiTI Mootc =arly -] 3 ion I ep in ', was-'] «ch tl^l cor n a skj stand 1 guffet'J m o,o rors^l I tin . ^ con 5 '] snonjl Drot® 1 -\G he World’s Largest Collection of Dead Elephants. Come and be amazed! Class of 2000 Don't miss your chance to be a part of A&M history! Get your FREE Senior picture taken at AR Photography. No appointment needed. Extended sittings available for $10. Visit AR Photography at 1410 Texas Ave. South or call 693-8183. Open M-F 9-12, 1:30-5. (409)845-268 1 site, but we eventually play the whole album. It’s all mixed together so you just never know what’s going to come up. 1 don’t even know what I’m going to hear.” Daisy Radio is a source for music lovers looking to find and buy new music. Pirro said there is a link con necting listeners to information on PHOTO COURTESY OF TRIPPING DAISY the songs played and where listen ers can go to buy the CDs. “There’s a lot of good music out there that people would like if they just had access to it,” Pirro said. “So if you’re listening to Daisy Radio and you hear some thing that you’re not familiar with, you can hit a window that will tell you the artist and the link where you can buy it.” Nathan Mc-Kown, bassist for Kid Fantastic and a senior industrial dis tribution major, said Tripping Daisy had a big impact on his choice to be come a musician. “For me 3t»d Tim [lead singer of Kid Fantastic], Tripping Daisy was the first concert at a club we ever went to,” McKown said. “We took his [Tim’s] mother’s car and saw them play at the Agora Bar with the Toadies and Adam’s Farm when we were like fourteen years old. It really turned us on to that type of music, and 1 would even say that before that show, neither one of Us had really thought much about be coming musicians.” Pirro said fans should look for ward to some old sounds, some new sounds and even a little eye-candy in the background to keep fans aes thetically happy while listening. “We’ll be playing music from Je sus Hits Like the Atom Bomb even though we’re no longer with Island because we obviously still want to turn people on to it,” Pirro said. “We’ll also be playing songs from our new record due out in January, as well as some songs no one’s ever heard before. We have a full- on media show with a projector, too. It’s always nice to have any kind of visual stimulus.” Sean Close, a junior mechanical engineering major, said he has en joyed watching the band in the past. “The last time I saw them play was at the Curtain Club in Dallas, and it was the best show of theirs I’d seen,” Close said. “They had these big balloons up, and cartoons and public service announcements were being projected onto them. “There were like twenty bubble machines over the audience — it was really cool.” Doors open at the Monkee Bar at 8 p.m. 12th Egg Conspiracy will kick off the show around 8:30, with Kid Fantastic following around 10 p.m. and Tripping Daisy closing out the lineup at 11:30. 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