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By Crystal Dobson
THE BATTALION
The .word “grass” has multiple connotations in
the lyrics of the band Grass.
Grass is scheduled to play at Coffee Station for
net cover charge at 9 p.m.
The difference between Grass and other inde
pendent musicians is the unpredictable angle it
brings to music. Grass’ songs are marked with depth
and unusual harmonies.
Marvin Pair, called “Mo,” Jarle Lillemoen and
Carlos Lopez wanted to start a band to communicate
ideas. Lillemoen said ReBelieves there is more to a
song than just playing music; he said band members
also can communicate thoughts to the audience.
“Being in a band is a powerful position to geigia
certain point across,” Lillemoen said. “There may be
music playing, but „thexe« is always some sort of
underlying emotional idea within the song.”
Pair serves as the bass player and vocals;
Lillemoen, vocals and electric or acoustic guitar;
Lopez, drums. Grass’ claim to fame is the band
members’ ability to interchange instruments with
each other mid-show.
Doug Snyder, the newest addition to Grass, is
helping phase out Lillemoen, who has a doctorate in
biochemistry and whose future plans include post
doctoral research.
Snyder is a full-time musician from New Mexico,
who hooked up with the band when he met Pair an at
open-microphone night at Cactus Cafe in Austin.
Snyder and Pair have solo albums on mp3.com.
“t am so excited about the opportunity the mem
bers of Grass have given me,” Snyder said. “These
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Jarle Lillemoen, Carlos Lopez and Marvin “Mo" Pair of Grass.
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guys are the most top-notch musicians, and it will
be interesting to see what happens when they
learn my music and 1 learn theirs.’
Grass is often compared to Blind Melon, Rush
and Frank Zappa.
Each member of the band gives their opinions
on potential songs, Lopez said, and this is known
as the “grassification process.”
“In general, we all have input into our songs,”
Lopez said. “Usually though, Jarle or Mo will
come to practice with a skeleton of a song and the
rest of us may reinterpret, add or subtract to it.”
Their favorite places to play include Austin, at
the Continental Club, Cactus Cafe and Saxon Pub
because this is wherd the majority of the band
attended college. The band said they also gen
uinely enjoy playing in College Station as well.
“College Station is not as competitive as
Austin, so we can have more fun while relaxing
a bit more,” Lillemoen said. “It is also a very
cool town with tons of intelligent people that we
enjoy playing for.”
Grass has three albums that can be found on
the mp3.com Website. The first album, ...green
er, was released in 1997. Grass, the second
alburn, was released in 1999 and the latest release
is The Grass Big Bisquit Oogie Machine.
As a whole. Pair said he believes the greatest
part of the band is the differences they share.
“The one thing we do have in common is our
brains; we all have some sort of math, engineer
ing or science degree” Pair said. “Otherwise, we
are completely different people that enjoy slam
ming each other around knowing how much we
really do respect each other.”
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