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Show Friday, November 3, 2000 THE SIGNPOST Page 7 Rock reigns Friday at Salt Lake City's E Center Stone Temple Pilots, Godsmack, and Disturbed come to concert at E Center tonight By Justin Stowers a&e writer The Signpost MTVs Return of the Rock Tour is coming to the E Center tonight. The rock band DISTURBED will continue to advance their success when they open for Stone Temple Pilots and Godsmack during the tour. With the hit single "Stupify" in the top 15 of the "Billboard's Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts", DISTURBED is making waves with their debut album "Sickness" which was released on March 7. The Chicago band is made up of David Draiman (vocals), Dan Donegan (guitar), Fuzz (bass) and Mike Wengren (drums). Since the album's release on Giant Records in March, it has certified gold and features such tracks as "Stupify," "The Game," "Voices," "Down With The Sickness" and "Fear." They have both a modern and primitive sound. Three years ago Dan, Mike, and Fuzz were at their wits' end trying to find a vocalist. The people they were auditioning and rehearsing with just weren't fitting the style and image they were looking for. Everything changed when they found vocalist David Draiman. He even thought up the name for the band. "Since Dave joined three years ago, the three of us have developed incredibly," admits Fuzz. "He was the first singer who came in and said, 'Let's improvise,'" adds Dan. "No other singer who we had worked with had done that. They all wanted to sing covers of other bands' songs." Born into a religious and conservative family that had other plans for him, Draiman is very much used to going against the flow. "My whole life, people have set out a certain path that they wanted me to follow," he said. "It didn't quite work out that way. Our songs and our image are about how the reverse effect has occurred." The band's provocative style along with their disquieting expressions soon made them a hot item in Chicago's South side night club scene. A highly traded demo tape put DISTURBED on the road to success. They are undoubtedly a hard core rock band r 1 "" 1 " " 1 " """-"" ' ... ,.: ; , - w -- - 3 '1 : ii i I r. The band DISTURBED will be opening tonight for Stone Temple Pilots. that could make even the most veteran headbangers give them a wary look. It wasn't long before they were sharing the stage with the likes of Ministry. The band began to hone their sound into some thing all their own. "We wanted to set ourselves apart from everyone else right from the start," Mike comments. 'The electronics and stuff like that? It's there mostly for ear candy. What we like to stress in our music are the guitar riffs, although Dave's voice and lyrical content are the main focus."Following the album's release, DISTURBED hit the road with Danzig in May and then joined the Ozzfest 2000 tour, which began on July 2 in West Palm Beach, Fla. By the end of the summer, 'The Sickness" had climbed into "Billboard's top 100" sitting at 67, and the video for "Stupify" began airing on MTV, MTV2, and The Box. The band has been touring with STP since the beginning of October and will finish the second week in November. "It is one of those catchy, addictive, and ultimately forward-thinking albums that leaves a permanent impression ... The Sickness' is also blessed with pristine production, which allows you to hear every click, beep, and nugget of sound, especially singer Draiman's distinct pipes, which never regress into shrieks. This record is one sickness that will make you deny yourself a cure." (CMJ Weekly Amy Sciiarretto 032700) 'Pay it Forward' pays off for audiences in box offices nationwide By Justin Stowers a&e writer The Signpost "Pay it Forward" is a heart -warming and down to earth movie with an excellent cast and a supreme plot. 'This was an absolutely fantastic and touching movie," said WSU student Heidi Braithwaite. "I cried through the ending and loved it." "Pay it Forward" stars Helen Hunt as Arlene McKinney who is a single mother hanging in there by the skin of her teeth working two jobs, living in a working class section of Las Vegas, and having a hard time raising her son Trevor. Riki, Trevor's father, who drops in once in a while for no apparent reason, and whom Trevor hates with a passion because he hurts his mom, is played by Jon Bon Jovi. Though his appearance is short, it makes an impact. Eugene Sominet, played by Kevin Spacey, is a social studies teacher with everything in his life in order every shirt, every pencil, every person in its proper order. To keep his life placid means never to have anything go to deep especially a relationship. - - Sominet thinks of this class as a normal seventh grade class and gives his normal assignment to "Think of an idea to change our world and put it into action." "Eugene makes the same speech in class each year hoping, yet not quite expecting, that one of his students will take it to heart," said Kevin Spacey. "One student, Trevor McKinney, takes this assignment to heart," noted Mimi Leder, director of "Pay it Forward." 'Trevor takes this assignment very seriously because his own life is so troubled. His father is gone; he has to grow up too soon. He needs some hope in his life and he gets it from Eugene." 'Trevor really took this assignment to heart," said Logan Anderson, a senior at Weber State University. "The amazing thing was that it really took off." Trevor tries to change the world through his method called "Pay it Forward." 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