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Show 4 twitch Thursday, off for awhile. Then, I started playing with Giant Sand. Then, Joey Burns got involved with it after that and the whole lounge thing got going, so there was a lot more interest,'' Elm said. Record label interest was garnered when recordings made for a future 45 single reached an East Coast Sub Pop representative. 1 Sub Pop then kicked the band money to record. Following the recording of The Shadow of Your Smile, the May 8, 4997 Champaign Tastes Better Before Failure . y S H. a n. Fo w lex -- h V v s a Friends did little touring, to Elm's chagrin. "Everybody else had several different things going, and I wanted to do it full time. And they weren't interested in doing as many things as we could, which is one of the reasons that we parted ways," m m U mr "W lit j l said Elm. Now touring with a new band consisting of Elm, Woody Jackson (guitar), Jorge Diaz (bass) and Dave LaChance (drums), the Friends promises to be a solid live act. The lack of a vibe player should mean a different sound. "We do some stuff off the album, but we do a lot of other songs too," said Elm. "We try to do a little more upbeat stuff to try to make the show a little more mterestins'. is the current tour ''danceable" "It's weird because some- do dance, but sometimes they just sit on the floor rch. It depends on the crowd and what they're into," show tonihr at the Zerhvr Club will he his !irst musical visit to Sait Lake. ceen to Salt Lake once, wa? wrier, t was w ith we played some place led DV8. I remember ir was - oetuhy. the Dane c , I - hi cket "here bee ause ih.eic were the roof, so there as water dripping on the kind or miserable really." Elm said, any luck., the roof will hold. Salt Lake should also be coming around to The Friend's music by now. The Shadow cf cu- - wi7c was released in 1995. Tin- Friend of Dean Martinez flay the Zephyr Club, tonight, Thursday, A lay S at 10 y.m. The occasion also marks the club's fourteenth anniversary. Call for details. ? ih.e? in $5-CLV- 't 41 a- v"x i? r - r t i j 51 s B i usic fans tend to use the "college band" classification liberally. It's easy to do since there's no tain college clique. Opening the show was Summer Camp, whose college clique is kids who get average grades and go to average parties. They're the gliders, never making waves and trying hard to fit in. No risks were taken in the clear definition of college bands as those bands whose members 'tVI 1 (TrmTTW) : - j.? o ? (MED Lisa Johnson are in college or those bands who cater to college students. It's confusing. Summer Camp camp. The band just belted out simple guitar pop that couldn't decide if it wac - - nnnlr r " " a lo" Green Dav 6 .v Take the Failure, Poster Children. . and Summer Camp inow friaay, May- Z at the Bar and Gnll. Either none .of the three bands fit into the college genre, or all of them fit a cer- - Next came the Poster Children, a band from the real live college town of Champaign, III. The Poster Children's college clique con sists or those who ace classes ,..with solid, resume-buildin- g experience. Get valuable experience useful for any field. As the leader in our industry, our clients are Fortune 500 companies from a variety of without trying, and spend weekends m the park with a boom box and a cheap case of beer. A member of the Poster Children clique always says industries. something interesting, yet . ...with $9.50 per hour and excellent benefits. Earn a starting pay of $9.50 per hour with potential for added incen tives. Benefits include tuition reimbursement for undergraduate and graduate courses after one year, medicaydental, paid vacation, sick leave and more for e employees. full-tim- .. .with long term advancement opportunities. We're growing! Last year, 75 of our staff-level a.c lam lo rnem because they're too "nerdv." A cheesy opening stunt, in which a "random audience member replaced the band's "passed-out- " drummer, made agement, training, Human Resources) were filled by our own employees. entry-lev- For details, call Tim in our Human Resource office at m g crowd's lack of interest Sure; everyone cheered after each song, but a song as furious and fun as "If You See Kav" deserves was touch T" set, w waavww t,. vAtv Poster Children weren't headlining. Failure held that dubious distinction. Failure's clique consists of guys who wear black turtle-neck- s in the middle of the summer and spend evenings in corporate coffee shops, speaking unprofoundly about philosophy ("When Nietzsche says 'God is Dead,' I think he means God is no longer liv- ing-ex- cuse me, but I ordered this double Iatte without whip- pmg cream! 1 It was culture shock rain? from the Poster Children's uplifting and extra-mess- y gui- tar hooks to Failure's drown- Cess comatose halfway through band had fun, and blew away the sparse crowd m the pro- ' Valentin's perfectly d L uglg"a?d edVut ,U5 fUnd' inZZI $Cream" the uJi,n,. k ""'5""- Town,htg!l ""'ete her frenetic bass playing gave FaiIure would have imP"sed, if they switched sIots the Po ChUdren. "lore bearable, When fo"owed by joy. The Poster Children were happy were deadly wrious. 579-241- 1 f ....... - Failure's' set. TS!'BTl,ftiguito.rk DePre"io !ZJS!nhMk Connect yourself with Matrixx Marketing and come to know all the advantages of working for an industry leader. The Poster, Children attacked their instruments with a smile, despite the ing rhythms. Failure thickened the air with an onslaught of heavy guitar riffs. Had it not been for intricate drumming, bnennB-nVOCa,SJteetere- el possible. it clear the Poster Children were there to have fun. The Rs'ri, positions (in man- faster than seemed humanly a sweatv crowd uu pusnmg against " a a Simrrrhnnl j UOJH.UIJ ktIu indie-Do- n .j j.. Call it Wonder Bread Instead, the crowd chose to rock any musical nutrients heave praise from a distance, are strictly supplemental. After such an incredible it 1 Summer Camp was an "oDeni oana in ootn time slot ing and posturing. Get Connected... her room to pose. Howie Kantoff, the "random" drummer, ripped through the set ar t |