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Show Bl2 The Salt Lake Tribune ae CLUBS & CONCERTS Friday November23, 2001 Philadelphia-based quartet's soundis v OUT & ABOUT described ‘by its Big Hassle label like this: eerie as it amiable, the twelve songs of ‘Sugar Sort of like the band Yes meets “The Bluesy Surf Rockabilly: Santa Cruz Blair Witch Project,” but without the terror. roots rockers Sean Kennedy and the King Kats rockthis town with a stop at the Dead Goat Saloon onSaturday Kennedy sends word that the band just finished a gig with Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros at San hered’ create a-conceptual forest breathing with melodies familiar and forgone Compiled by Dan Nailen Asperaplays at Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), on Thursday; call 320-9887. Francisco's Fillmore. Their blues-tinged rocka billy is influenced by Kennedy's long: timeaffection for the Stray Cats calls it he “Americana backyard music for the working class,” but also in cludes ‘such covers as one of Kennedy's fellow native Texan Buddy Holly's “Not Fade Away.” They perform the Dead Goat Sa: loon, 165 S: West Tei ViV brings its shim- S mery pop showtime is 9:30 p.m. sound to the Zephyr Club on Sunday for a bargain Sunday Stunner: ViV, a slightly psychedelic’guitar-pop outfit from the Bay area, was hailed by one over. heated writer as potentially “the next Radiohead.” Unless Radiohead has some underground Beach Boys’ cov $5 show. The CowboyWay: Michael Martin ers circulating on the Internet, the comparison doesn't fly. What does, though, is the solid collection of shim mery pop ViV included onits self titled CD. ViV's $5 showaf the Zephyr Club, 301 S. West Temple, at-10. p.m. Sunday could be the deal of the cen: tury if the band is as good live as it is onrecord. Flick That Bic: There was no ques tion which competitors true music fiends. wanted to win on VHI's “Bands on the Run,”a glorified and televised battle of the bands: Harlot may have been metal babes with attitude, and Soulcracker-might have been betterat pimpingproduct, but Dallas’ Flic! stick was the most-recognizable ¢ true rock band; plenty of dri buffoonery and pissed-offgirlf seemed to follow the band whereverit went, and Flickerstick was totally inept at self-promotion, like most good bands. Most importantly, though, was Flickerstick’s music. Intensely soaring at times, brutally aggressive at others, the tunes deliver the goods HOG WALLOW jonwwood Canyo toniglfiChon Brown;Sai delity; Thursday, Ghost Lab: ro LQUDJOES Murpheyis a legend amongfans of down-home cowboy tunes, usinghis fame for a good cause when he brings his “Cowboy Christmas Concert” to the SCERA ShowhouseII in Oreminabenefit to raise moneyfor SCERA’s-Foundationforthe Arts. E: Drippers (funk); Mon- pect a mix of mate performance with only 500 re- MEXICAN CIVICCENTER available, and tickets Ibex Throne, Obliterate lack Earth, Yaotl Mictlan; all range from $50 to $100, with all contri butions tax deductible. Michael Martin Murphey headlines the SCERA benefit Tuesday, started at 6 p.m. The~ Pain tar, Angel eensTaiglewood (funk-rock); 9 Pineee: The band’s none is Genitorturers. The female lead singer is Gen;C! rains plays guion drums and Evil D plays bass, Someone somewhere has called them “the world’s sexiest rock band.” TheirCL Machine Love” contains such tracks as AS ate” and a rough and tumble remake of the Do , self.” Their fans arecalled “Gen Heads” andtheir Website www.genitorturers.com — boasts halfa million hits each month. at 10 p.m If that sounds like yourcupoftea, find 28. Nowtouring in support of its ‘majorlabel debut, “Welcoming Home the Astronauts,” Flickerstick plays Ligquid Joe's, 1249. E, 3300 South, Monday THIRDAND MAIN BAR AND GRILL fain St.; 364-4600 Lyman(acoustic); 5 to 6:30p.m. THEWESTERNER CLUB Redwood Road; 972.54 tonight and Saturday Legend pm) ‘Thursday, El Dorado(9 p.m.); country Flickerstick will play Liquid Joe's on Mondayat 10 p.m. the band at the Zephyr, 301 S. West sound isn’t quite Pink Floydbut the intentions are the same on “Sugared & Feathered,” the new poppy psychedelic CD from Aspera (formerly Temple, on Tuesday; showtime is 10 p.m; call 355-CLUB. The Light Side of the Moon: The known as Aspera Ad Astra). The McCartneyStill the Ace of Bass, But Mick’s Latest Is TooSlick BY DAN DeLUCA KNIGHTRIDDER NEW At least “Driving Rain,” Cartne Ibum of newsongsin fouryears, has a reno for being. The left-handed Beatle, 59, lost his wife, Linda, to ‘cancerin i 8, and earlier this year he got engaged to former fashion model Heather Mills. Theo: retically at. least, Macca has some- thing to sing about. That is more than canbesaid for Mick way,” Jagger. “Goddess in the Door: the Rolling Stones mouthpiece’s fourth slo album, which comes out Tuesday, s becat well, because theSones aren't doing an; thing just now(though there's talk of (For the record, neither of these Brit businessmen needs to work to keep himself in cucumber sandwichs: According to the Times of London, back-catalog holdings brought in $30 million last year for McCartney, and half that for Jagger.) A couple of months back, I discussed Rock Til You Drop, a booklength screed by John Strausbaugh arguing that once theyreach acertain age, cla: ers who. have lost theirus s should,in essence, be sent to thegluefactor; I argued that this was unjust: what carefully worked-over — note the studied growl in “Lucky Day” or the iat’ 's “Goddess” depressing that it follows the Carlos Santana “Supernatural” strategy, downto collaborating with Rob Tho- stand to ty had methinking that sbaughhasa point. “Goddess” never runs the risk of Santanahit “Smooth”) on three songs, including the utter hackwork of the lead track, “VisionofParadise.” seemingthe slightest bit human. Bycontrast, riving Rain’? (Capitol, 3stars) is rough andlooseinall the Star collaborators abound. Bono sings along onthe U2-ish gospel-rock right places. Me, I'm a Lennon guy, and I was remindedof the visionary Beatle’s genius yet again as McCa exhortation “Joy.” Wyclef Jean provides the global go-go on “Hideaway. And Lenny Kravitz serves up Me Everything I Want.” (Andstill, fs would have been a highlight on any Stones albumofthe last 20 years. But mas of Matchbox 20 (who sang the modern-rock firstlisten to e “Goddess” careful show of vulnerability in “BrandNewSetof Rules.” The album has its moments: “Too Far Gone” about Cohenand Bob Dylan, winnersof this season's geezers-going-strong award? Oth-anniversarytour next year), and the58-year-old satyr just can’t sit still. To his credit, Jagger knows that without Keith Richards, he needs help. of Neil Young,not to mention Leonard But I must admit that ney, left to his own devices, w: able tocomeup witha betterly “1-2-3-4.5,let’s go for a drive/6-7let’s go there and back again.’ Is Bernie Taupin available? Elvis Cos- crunch on “God Gave Mick wants more.) daggeris a pro, and “Goddess”re- tello? Please, somebody! veals itself as not nearly as awful as it at first seems. He put himself out to But never mind the scrambled eggs; it’s not about the lyrics anyway. The deliver this product. Each track feels Tue Dransand Taba amrsday Slap Down; rock;10 pam, important thing is that while Sir Paul careers from down-in-the-dumps to over-the-moon(sampletitles: “Lonely Road,” “Back in has wisely kept to the spirit of 1999’s rockabilly cover album “Run Devil Run” by teaming-him upwith a small combooflittle-knownsandjustletting themplay. The results may fall short of the planet-aligning miracle described in the insipid “It Must Have Been Magic,” but are not without their warmly inventive charms. The newly enerized McCartneybellows as if it were “AbbeyRoad” all over again, and even minusculetrifles such as “Tiny Bubble” are pleasantly diverting if you don’t pay attention to the words.Silly love songs,to be sure: But as Sir Paul himself once observed, the world apparently hasn’t had enoughofthose. EXTRAORDINAIRE =) Save up to 50%offlist! by osegl WV. 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