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Show The Park Record : Sat/Sun/MonATues, April 2-5, 2005 C-5 Upstate NY jammers playing PC ed and appreciated bands who can't muster enough MTV popularity or album sales to make a home on a major label, moe. owns its own record company. Fat boy Records. While that means thai moe. has to do more work, that also means that they have complete control By MATT JAMES over things such as promotion, recordOf the Record staff ing and distribution. In short, said Amico, the band faces fewer obliga"I'd put us somewhere between Led Zeppelin and ihe Grateful Dead," said tions. "You stand to make a lot more moe. drummer Vinnie Amico about his money doing it,M said Amico. band's style. "It's rock *rf roll." The band needs to sell fewer units to Amico's placement of his band break-even, he noted, and once an acknowledges its improvisalional nature and its more focused rhythms. album does break-even, a much greater Moe. strikes a balance between its percentage of (he profits go back to the appreciation of pop and a love for tunes musicians. farther outside the mainstream. In line with their independent bent, The band will bring its eclectic jams moe. sponsors and produces its own to Suede on April 5 for the third night music festival in Upstate New York, each Labor Day weekend, "moe.down," on its current tour, which takes it from Denver, Uirough Park City, down the as it is called has attracted artists as diverse as the Flaming Lips and Ani West Coast, and across Japan. Di Franco and gives moe.'s fans a whole "We're going out West, and that's cool because we only go out there once weekend to hear the band play multiple sets on different days. a year," Amico said. At the beginning of March, moe. Additionally, the band will be breaking new ground during the tour. On its released the fourth album in its ongoing April 1 and 2 dates at the Fillmore "Worms and All" series of live recordings. Volume 4 of the series featured the Auditorium in Denver, the band is scheduled to film its first-ever concert band's show in Carbondale, 111. on July 18, 1998. Tlic band hopes to begin work DVD. The main reason it has taken the group so long to make a DVD, on a follow-up to its last studio release, 2003 s "Wormwood," in the near future. explained Amico, is economics. "We're hoping to get into this studio "We don't have anyone backing us," he said. "Because of thai, we have to this June to make an album that will come out at the end of the year," said pay for it ourselves " Like a host of other widely respect- Amico. 'moe/ improv, tight rhythms to Suede this Tuesday ## IRRESISTIBLE! MM - The M»* Yt*t Timet * n J m STOMP ft III m APRIL 5-TD-KINGSBURY HALL en 355 ARTS r581-7100 PHOTO COURTESY OF MOE wwwil(nnpooliw.(om 'moe.,' shown here, will play Suede this Tuesday, April 5. For now the band's task is its April tour of the West and Japan. Moe. consists of Amico, Rob Derhak on bass. Chuck Garvcy on guitar, Jim Loughlin with percussion and Al Schnier on guitar; Derhak, Garvey and Schnier all share lead vocal duties. On the bands website, Schnier said the band's performance style comes down to a solid framework of songs works that are funky and cohesive - and the whims of the moment in a concert. And that's what moe. will bring to Suede this coming Tuesday. "We don't talk about how long the segues are going to be, or about the improvisational parts the show - that's the number one rule of improvisation," www.Wn8sburyHafl.ort Sclinier said on the site. "We know where point 'A' is and point ' Z ' is, but all the points in between are subject to inspiration and spontaneity. In any given minute of the song, you should never be able to detect where we change gears. It should always be a seamless transition," Shnier continued. "It comes down to being comfortable enough onstage, and confident enough with our instruments for our personality to come through." Moe. will play Suede Tuesday, April 5. Doors open at 7p.m. and the show is for those 21 and over only. Tickets are available through Suede at 658-COOL. For more information, visit www.suedepc.com. SMART REAL ESTATE What's Hot in Local Real Estate on Park City Television Channel I 7 (Wasatch Back) Saturdays & Sundays 7:00- 7:30 AM 1:30- 2:00 PM 6:00 - 6:30 PM Dirty Dozen brings the brass Tuesdays 5:30 - 6:00 AM Thursdays 5:30 - 6:00 AM 10:00- 10:30 PM Efrem Towns (center) the trumpet player for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, serenades the crowd last Saturday at The Canyons. 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