Show ma KWlKan'- Mtrwi Puyv 18 Hid Journal Tim - Logan Utah WoOne-sCte- OotoUir2 y Jrtti W'JWi" amwnraNWiif iitri’ iHfiiricnt IjfitBgiii i-- rist iaatti jjMatfiftiiin4 AfrA 1 Z v'Ve-- J s&i MIN tTihy 196 ONE BIG HAPPY Guitarist Eric Johnson is back after a six year break e PWIADEIJ'WA (AT) ktfc Johnson is i Austin Texas perfectionist The 4 J year-old guitarist is to picky tht be'IJ run a wag ragged until il cither bcooit something amazing or doesn't become anything at all This quest for perfection meant records take first-rat- -- CATHY awhile Quite awhile Halley’s Comet comes around more often One guitar magazine recently gave turn d its ''We’ll Wait As Long As It Takes" award because it's been SIX YEARS since be put out bis last record AM Via fduskam The wait is over Johnson finally lias allowed bis third album in II years Venus Isle to see die light of day and for guitar-bead- s everywhere it's worth the wait Its five vocal tracks and six instrumentals are loaded w ith Johnson's sound He started Venus hie in 1W2 but threw out the work because he thought he was repeating himself “J had to kind of Jink bit" metamorphose good-nature- Wei ' J U tfUH J Wt vu Mno IN THAT MT MU HIT 60T U0 J Of CAAlfj "S own n CW1AW5 I CHIB'' J HM‘T rjtlAnf6OWTT MAO (MUTT HMOlX NtlO WOKTi tLflMtt I THMift Tvs i m fHWf! 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IN HOE d ALL THC t intense guitarist said "It was important to me to try to just shift gears a link bit with the way I was playing" That included orchestrating mixes so the guitar the soft-spok- wound up being a bit lower a bit softer “I wanted to make a musical record instead of a guitar record" he said "That was a way that I could personally impart something to somebody that they can enjoy musically rather than going ‘Check out my guitar playing" Johnson’s playing changed in more ways than one He began to experience tinnitus the hearing disorder that's made The Who's Pete Townshead nearly deaf because of the ringing in his ears be turned everything down in the studio and his condition has unproved "I still have it a liuk bit though but it's enough BEETLE BAILEY to scare you for life" be said "I used to play extremely loud just because of the thrill of it I just really want to keep it down — I nryer want to play that loud again" HAGAR THE HORRIBLE His notes almost sound like hubbies they’re i LFCXZTJo uxxr 9A6pOF faftTH ABOUT r!Sl£ PMC0 TA& QH YJOfZf tUat you enjoy W round and fat blending one into the other with no audible seams He spoke of his picking technique which he borrowed from steel guitar players Steel guitar players be said "actually pick up and away from the instrument rather than picking sideways It gives you a smooth bounce of the lone" One instrumental SKV pays tribute to Stevie Kay Vaughan it’s uncanny how Johnson mimics Vaughan’s time while keeping his own intact "J was trying to honor tt" he said "J didn't want Six years after his last album guitarist Eric Johnson has a new CD Venus sk to duplicate A but I wasted to have a certain percentage of that tone put in with my mama sound" Another Sang far Lynette features Johnson on what he admits is his favorite instrument — the piano "I started on piano I've always enjoyed piano" he said "Other than listening to ail the musicians I admire the way that I feed my guitar thing is to play piano" Johnson longs to be on a par with his heroes even though most critics say he s already there and then some "Tbere'rc so many musicians I admire J just I could find a liuk bit of what the have" he wish said Next month Johnson starts the "03" lour with e experimenter Steve Vai and the elegant blues-rocke- r Joe Sairiani Listeners may find Johnson by necessity playing a bit vrfttr than the others though And he may look a liuk funny "If it's really loud I'll just wear ear plugs" be said then added with a cbuckk "earmuffv and a scarf around my head" space-ag- ‘Sunset Express’ is Crais’ best yet PEANUTS by George Hackntt Associated Press Writer i THIS JS JT LUCY WE AP Photo In Sunset Express the Lot Angeles Police HAE Department is a suspect in a slaying that has private eye Uvjs Cole chasing dozens tk bite kads Sunset Express is the sixth in the series and the best yd fojLubert Cjais wtese dialogue adds a lot of zip to the pkrt When the body of Susan Martin wife of a millionaire restaurant owner is found in a garbage bag on a hillside there's no murder weapon at the scene Her husband Terry is arrested after Detective hammer that Angela Kotsi finds a bloody implicate him Cok is hired by defense attorney Jonathan Green TO CONCENTRATE! THE SEASON IS ALMOST OVER baJl-pee- MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM n to check out Kossi’s claim that she found the wtapon in shrubs at Martin’s house Kossi had been cleared of an earlier charge of tampering with evi Review dence to win a conviction in a counterfeiting ease Cole's investigation clears the detective but Green continues bis public attacks on the police and insists that Martin tt being framed Kossi is suspended while the internal affairs department ines Green's allegation Following tips supplied by Green's office Cok goes to an apartment rented by two men where he ' stumbles across photos related to the murder Before Cok can question the men they die in a car crash Cok and Green quarrel then Cole assisted by his sidekick Joe Pike sets out to clear Kossi's name and track down Susan's killer There's a twist at the end with Cole punching Green in the mouth and felling him "So sue me" ‘ : Namns in the news KnieveTs one lucky daredevil Redford lends name LAS VEGAS fAPj — Evel Knievel knows he’s one lucky daredevil d At a gala Sunday night marking the 30eb anniversary of Caesars Palace Hotel-Casin- o FOXTROT £? 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I HUP where Abbey grew up "He has just gotten left in the shadows here" said James Cuba-ta- n an English professor ad Indiana University of Pennsylvania He persuaded the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Gummis-stu- n (o erect the marker Redford a friend of Abbey wrote a letter at Cshalan’ request urging the commission to grant the marker "It made a big difference The first thing the people at the commission wanted to know was: ‘1s Redford coming to the dedica Yesterday wc left the final of the Spmgold Knockout Teams with Nick Nackell ftnixd Freeman Jeff Mccksiroth Fk M-wel- l p West led Againvl three the diam'nd jack overtaken by Fast's queen Forlornly eaptd-into finish one or two down Mcckstrotb won with the king and led a club Much to his surprise the dixmunds were 1 and West didn't have the club ace Si the coco act rolled home In the other room Weat Wolff 0 puim s West s daulik announud hw dLursnuJ strength al 6-1- LAS VEGAS (AP) — Maybe she was at a wedding — or a funeral In any event the booker caught with Hugh Grant Divine Brown didn't show up in court as ordered Monday to face prostitution charges Authorities issued a warrant for Brown She had been arrested Sept by police who said she was trying to pick up customer outside the MGM Grand Hotel Brown and Grant star of Four Weddings end a lunerel were caught in the middle of a sex act in Los Angeles fast year Both pleaded no contest In lewd Paul Sohrway JhdFry Goldman Steve fojbtnson and Ron Smith In the penultimate boaid Schwartz gained four pointt to cur the kad to two This was the f j'iaJ d 1 North s o'ening bid was Mrng arad artificial in pf'jmiMng at kaU 16 prints fkirdweU added roe p'roif ha til g'rrl five card suit ) South's resfiobsc t hoed a bal pnn-Itp- high-car- ie nuirtd t iM hwuiwu 7-- South Schwartz might have bid but he settled Fa three three hearts This didn't play well finishing two down That gave NwielJ’n team 1 1 pMs and an historic m by 13 C rtoryrM husn A a j M j 4 A I J J a i a i EQJtl bat Hcut skill i It t a I Pi Sunk g msuhpcints ahead of opened three diamonds North Packard Schwartz Alan Sontag Sontag doubled for takeout rme-clu- Ob wowt Vi o hwb owourKvionf kryn P fu srsont Tbry gist hod hum boyar Brown misses court Abbey's honor was dedicated Saturday along US Route 119 in Home the western Pennsylvania town anced taut-nation- pteASlJg novelist A marker in By PVutiip ArSor three comecvirvc times ) After 62 of 64 bards they were six US was unable to attend Abbey lived most of his life in the West He died in Tucson Ariz in IWI rr Bobby Wolff and Bob Hamman trying to win for an unprecedented fourth year in a row (No other team has won MEN LEANING ON SHOVELS 3 MILES dip then flipping CAUTION K2XT l7 shows Knievcl's motorcycle lurching out of control after it lands on a rairp at the end of the jump and slow motion of Knievel landing on his head The CAN’T tion?" Cabal an said Redford HOME Pa (AP) — Robert Kcdford lent his name to a request to honor the late Edward Abbey an environmentalist and ItHIl s 4t II C 4 a ia l K K a 4 7 lilt! Vulrsrrahte CsitWrst However suppose diamonds and hearts had been 4-- 6-- 2 Then three would have gone two drrwn and three htsrta only one (Frwn The raich tiavc titan a Uc ard cilra ki?4 p POOR C |