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Show TffUNBEKBMD LY THE THUNDERBIRDDSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY!! MONDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1991 PAGE 13 Jones wants to teach, share art with others BY CHERIS TUCKER Thunderbird Arts Editor stay alone, so I would stay with her. I ended up playing around in the clay the next year I took the class and after that it just took off. Jones has since won several awards in the annual student art exhibit, including Best of Show and other top honors. However, he notes, I dont think about art shows when Im creating something. Its actually quite therapeutic. A lot of times its so that I can prove it to myself that I can do it. When I started doing ceramics I was having stress-relate- d health problems now I find creating things as my way out. You can just beat on the clay for a couple of hours and get it all out. He also says that the act of creating gives him a feeling of accomplishment. Jones has now branched .ut to include drawing and illustration in his palette of artistic ability. I love art Ill do it all my life, but Ill change from sculpture to painting... I just bounce around, he says. Ive always liked to draw, he claims. I just never felt any confidence until I took my first class from Hong Yu Ji. Of the art department, Jones says that SUUs is one of the best in the state. We have good teachers and learning. What else can you ask Located in the ceramics showcase area of Steve Jones home is a photograph of him teaching a young boy how to throw a pot. The picture describes Jones attitude toward art. I want to share it, he says. Jones is a senior majoring in commercial art education who plans to teach art in a secondary school. All of the really influential people in my life have he explains. I been teachers, looked up to my graphic really art teacher in high school. He would take anyone and make them feel confident, like they could do something, Jones says. He claims he wants to be a teacher so that he could have the Most same effect on students. artists are so consumed in their own work thats all they do, I want to share it. he says. Jones developed his roots in art when he was in high school. I was really shy and I had no social life, he says. I took about three graphic arts classes and would stay in the graphic arts room from the morning until sometimes 10 p.m. Ceramics came later, when his mother took the ceramics class here at SUU. She would stay until really late sometimes 2 a.m. and she didnt want to one-on-o- Guns ARTYFACTS modern dance company, Orchesis, will hold auditions tomorrow from 6 p.m. in the dance lab of the PE Building. Auditions are based on a combination dance and dancers individual techniqueskill level. The company has openings for 6 new dancers. For more information contact Terri Lauterbach-Cott- s at 4-- 15-1- 586-781- TRY-OUT- S: Auditions for Acclamation, an SUU performing vocalist group, are Tuesday and Thursday from 7 p.m. Cathleen Castle, director of Acclamation, wants a company of 6 talented individuals. Those interested should leave their names with Laurie Hulet at the Student Government Offices. 5-- 12-1- N of his pots. He says sculpture and ceramics are a way out for him. Roses disc may disillusion ALBUM REVIEW BY BRADY H. PETERSON Thunderbird Staff Writer ORCHESIS AUDITIONS: SUUs ACCLAMATION Steve Jones works on one for? Well kids, its finally here. The new Guns N Roses disc has hit America harder than an entrance exam to Harvard Law. The only difference between the two is that Harvard is more impressive. Use Your Illusion 1 purports extremes of good and bad rock and roll, most of it hinging on lead vocalist Axl Roses screeching or singing performances. The Gunners have been the boldest band in the business ever since hitting the scene big in 1987. They still are. How can they be considered otherwise after releasing two full length albums at once? Right Next Door to Hell kicks off their new album with an annoying Rose screaming at the top of his lungs and sounding as if he forgot to put in his dentures before as well singing. He is incredibly lispy throughout this tune, of the Most time, heavier the though, lead as most of songs. Rose. the out drowns Slash deafening guitarist The climax of the disc comes quickly. Dust N Bones is a romping tune conceived by rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin and performed by an excellent sounding Rose. Its hard to believe that its the same singer. The theme of this in a lost and stranded song is one of hope of finding a ride the entire society. It is a theme that recurs thoughout sixteen song course. Dont Cry and Perfect Crime should have been left on the cutting floor. These songs are uneventful enough to be labeled as fillers. You Aint the First is a welcome change of pace. It is a bluesy number in which Rose rips apart a current girlfriend by telling her she is the worst lover he has ever had. November Rain marks a first for Guns N Roses with the debut of synthesizers. It also lasts nearly nine minutes long. Personally, I see this song as the point in the concert where everyone sways their hands high above their heads and offers up their own flammable butane for ol Axl. The last song on the album which is worth mentioning is The Garden. Rose shares the vocals with the polished up Alice Cooper. This is clearly the best song on the disc. It is raunchy, rhythmic, and it blows ones ears off without trying to do so. In fact, when Guns N Roses does things spontaneously, there isnt a band that compares. It is only when they try to live up to the Guns N Roses stigma that they disappoint. So the advice from the listeners desk is this: For all of the die hard fans of Guns N Roses, this probably wont excite you into a convulsion, but it wont disappoint either. For anyone else slightly interested, go out and get yourself a blank tape. |