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Show Thursday, November 16, 1995 twitch ah- humorous introduction to a "song about neighbors who make speed out of chicken feed" also got the crowd smiling. Davies dressed in an orange, Matisse-pat- ; d shirt atop a pair of terned, , denim bellbottoms. Davies' falsetto on The , Operation" combined with harmony from Eickelberg and Hageman for a potent mix. : The cool, calm, collected crowd began to - ? short-sleeve- S-- s iwarm. ' An Eerie SUrprioo Cuto Show i? Shorts i : r--" : . ; .s?wm Christian Arial by the Tortoise" (a Swarts began having problems with guitar strings. He'd popped two strings already and didn t have a replacement. So, while spy-rocke- ' - ; '" Just as TFUL282 hit full gait with "My Pal r), the band "dealt," the audience slung friendly heckling and conversed. Then, just as Swarts' stings received their final tightening a loud thud echoed to my right The thud resounded through the quiet bar. I looked over my shoulder. Lying completely prone on the hardwood floor of the p Garage band in the truest sense T 1 Q of the word, Thinking Feller's Union Local 282 make inventive psychedelia. TFUL282 is composed of five pilgrim eccentrics who left Iowa City in pursuit of a more exploratory audience in San Francisco. Turns out, they chose the right destination. Six albums, eight years and one drummer later, the band continues making vital sound. TFUL282's latest album Strangers From the Universe offers a more digestible version of the band than 1993's The Funeral Pudding. Sandwiched somewhere between Captain Beefheart's blues, Pink Floyd's Piper-er- a psychedelia and Sonic Youth's noise affinity, Stranger's From the Universe is art rock of the highest order. While "art rock " may words evoke four-lettfrom many music critics Blossoms and Toad the Wet Sprocket, Sea of Jones' songs ranged from riff rock, rockap to power billy and balladry, mid-Eatwang and drool. More ryrically country roots-lit- e than most exciting bands, S of J should be signed to a record .label pronto. To the discerning ear, Sea of Jones is far more obvious than the Obvious. After a prolonged tweaking Brit-post bar was "Ian." Ian looked stiff as steel and a female friend of his . and tuning period, The Thinking Feller's began pour- mg out or tne speakers. Featuring Mark Davies on guitar and banjo, Anne Eickelberg on bass, Brian Hageman on er mandolin and guitar, Jay Paget on drums, Hugh and fans, the Thinking Feller's brand has Swarts on guitar and Everyone sharing the vocals, the five mem- become more listenable and vital than ever. Those who lament not being born in time to the Velvet catch bers of TFUL282 form unit one steals the show one egalitarian Spencer Young fur- - Underground in raw, live form, look no ther. TFUL282 will be cited by future rock deities as an influence. d audience In typical fashion, a sat smoking, sipping and smirking beneath the Cinema Bar's pillar palm trees. Locals Sea of Jones opened the show to the crowds mildly enthusiastic mid-size- applause. Sea of Jones harmonized their way through a fourteen song set of pleasant chick-rock"white-bo- y Akin to the Gin ." No from the rest of the band, Eickelberg dressed in an olive green dress and bonnet combo with large, white, oval "eyes" patterned all over them. On her feet e were punk combat boots. In her hands a sticker plastered bass guitar, Wardrobe aside, her bass work and vocals deserved watchinglistening. Her solid melodies, atop die band's sonic wash, creat- ed a cohesion and clarity sometimes missing in Davies and Hageman's vocal efforts. Her tell-tal- was hunched over him attempting mouth to mouth. I got up and asked the woman, "Is he Spencer Young breathing" and "Does he have a pulsed" She answered yes to both questions and mentioned she new CPR. Then, the Smashing Pumpkins' new double CD, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, suggests the Pumpkin's have taken too many sedatives their last, since Siamese Dream album. Don't be discouraged, Billy distanced gawkers came barging a heavy female bartender shouting, "You got to 0 Corgan and friends launch immediately into their trademark arena sound, with Corgan whin- here." She cited warned that the bar could be shut down. After some explaining, it underwas stood that Ian hadn't just out passed from over ing the vocals all the way. . "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," is a classic teenage angst o anthem, utilizing screamed THE SMASHING vocals and PUMPKINS Mellon Collie and the (Virgin Records) ! d gui- just so you can say you have all their albums. If you've never tar. Infinite Sadness it super-saturate- die- hard Smashing Pumpkins fan, you might want Mellon Collie, For Mellon Collie, the band really liked the Smashing Pumpkins, this album won't picked up a new producer Nails Inch Nine and U2 of change your mind. Flood, Jason Warner fame. His influence is noticeable, f I li ' r , :l j; i, $ stop." Ian seemed fine, so the band began again. The musical mood the Thinking Feller's had created before the broken strings disappeared. Things felt bizarre and eerie now. introduced Eickelberg "Hundreds of Years" as "a lullaby for the evening." As the band soothed it's way through the number, paramedics arrived in fire fighting boots and overalls. Ian walked out on his own. He looked shaken, but stable. TFUL282 ended things and began plying their CDs, records, etc. A wave of coolies rushed the band's open suitgreedy case of goodies and spent the $10 they saved by not buying that last pitcher. Despite the great show everyone went home with a weird taste on their tongues.? 2 1 rts Presents SATURDAY, NOV. 18, 7:30 p.m. U OF U UNION BALLROOM Pumpkins' long list of effects. Another nice surprise is guitarist James Iha's input. He wrote a couple of songs for this album, mediocre rehash. If you're a After about three minutes, Ian's eyes rolled open and he woke with a start. Eickelberg came down from the stage and asked in a concerned voice, "Do we have a medical condition going on here? We can Itch's nnwt Mid EastMediterranean Night adding phasing and filtered vocals to the Smashing For the most part though, Mellon Collie mimmicks earlier Pumpkin's albums. It has a few good songs, but is mostly seizure. Fast! fire codes and than Corgan's songs. indulgence. 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