Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday August 10 1998 — Page 13 ONE BIG HAPPY The business of making sure weird music makes it to stores CATHY SEVEN Alliance and Bloodshot's sales have doubled Its product has reached stives that three people in a basement couldn't possibly have reached Rob Miller said “It's made a big difference “ Nan War-shasaid “It's given us serious national distribution We can safely tell our bands when they're on tour that their stuff is going to he in stores" ADA which has offices or distribution facilities in New York Minneapolis Los Angeles and Chicago provides an alternative to conglomerates at the same time as it's bankrolled hy one Warner Bros owns 99 percent of the companv and Sub Poo owns the rest For Warner the anangement allows it to encourage the development process — much as major league baseball docs with the minor leagues — at a limited financial risk Distribution companies like Red and Caroline serve a similar purpose These companies also can more easily reach the small independent music stores than most big reciud companies which tend to he more interested in the major chain stores he said Swing music may he hot now hut running this company requires Allen to keep his cars primed tor what's next — for trends that may he years from show ing up on the mainstream musk charts His prediction: Don’t give up on rock ‘n‘ roll just yet Based on what he's seeing in the independent community Allen believes three different rock styles are poised for a breakthrough One would ho alternative country a movement fostered over the past few years hy No Depression magazine ADA distributes Steve Earle's record label whose album “The Northeast Kingdom" hyChcri Knight is one of the year's finest He sees an emergence of hard rock musk led hy bands like Tool Kom and Seven Dust I'nlikc the “hair bands" of the late 1980s heavy metal revival many' new hands are harsher with elements of rap and industrial musk Phish's popularity before live audiences shows an appetite for jam hands who rely on improvisation at live performances Juggling Suns and Moe are two bands with growing followings he said Of course something can happen among teenagers within the next few months to prove Allen wrong laughably wrong That's the nature of his business “The only thing I can count on" he said “is that it will change dramatically" er five-year-o- ld ms WO ID THE SM AND HNKVET- NEW YORK (API — Andy Allen has a rare confession for someone in the musk industry “A lot of the records I put out” he says “1 hate" The president of the Alternative Distribution Alliance is too much of a businessman to name names Besides as head of a company responsible for making sure that record stores are stocked with obscure odd and even downright bizarre music his job is to deliver it not like it Allens company has filled a niche hy capitalizing on two divergent trends in the music business: the consolidation of production in the hands of a few large companies and the fragmentation of puMk tastes into dozens of genres that base little to do with one another The Alternative Distribution Alliance based in New York City delivers the work of 50 independently owned record labels to musk retailers across SOU GAME STRESSED FILLED SHNOH) SPRMKLED forged mdu td simo TO DOVMTD LET 00 SURRENDER TQ THE SUSS OF INNER TRAN9UIUTV YOU OIL ' ' WrT AW! in NC COUNSELED 90tf IMSSA6EDVDU ON SOU CHECKOUT RE TURE TM IS AT NOON PENALTY FINALLY APPLIES AT 12:01 the country These small labels represent musk's grass roots the place where young artists can be nurtured into tomorrow's stars and experiment with music not expected to sell to millions of people Many artists prefer this atmosphere to musk conglomerates where they can get lost behind the Spice Girls and Celine Dion Increasingly in the 1990s artists signed hv major labels get one or two chances to succeed and are dropped if they don't The disadvantage is that ihne small labels don't have the reach of their corporate cousins If their artists become successful the independents often lose them to a major label or else they- sell the company outright ADA gives them an opportunity to survive Among the labels ADA distributes are Tommy-Boone of the leaders in rap musk Sub lip the Seattle-base- d rock imprint where Nirvana started and Mayhem a home for heavy metal and hard rock bands Better Than Ezra and Squirrel Nut Zippers are two bands that grew out of the ADA network to greater success BEETLE BAILEY One of the distributed labels is Bloodshot Records run by three friends in a basement apartment a Mock From Chicago's Wrigley Field It began simply as a way of distributing some of their friends' musk and lias blossomed into one of the leading players in the alternative country movement Acts at Bloodshot range from the like Texas songwriter Alejandro Escovedo and the wild Waco Brothers to the vwy obscure — Grievous Angels and Split Lip Rayfield semi-obscu- re One year with the Alternative Distribution w Few new tricks in ‘Tricky Dick’ PEANUTS By Christopher Thome Associated Press Writer I tndma i JfaiJuiutipur-Mri- i Book review Douglas escapes Mitchell's book with her character intact An actress before entering politics Douglas was one of the first women to serve in the Senate and one of the first US Senators to integrate her office staff Missing is a critical analysis of Douglas The author leaves no doubt she lost her Senate seat because of the Nixon tactics: the whispering campaign offering toasters for votes suggestions Douglas or her husband were Communists But she lost also because of disorganization and a failure to There's no mistaking where Greg Mitchell's sym'Dick1 and the Pink pathies lie Lady"(Random House $25) his overly detailed account of Richard Nixon's successful 1950 campaign for the Senate seat held by Helen Douglas Mitchell does a good enough job setting the context of the California Senate race that drew so much attention to the young Nixon The race came at a critical point in America's history the era of the Red Scare McCarthyism and blacklisting But the book does little to explain Nixon It relics heavily on primary source material — hut slavishly so Mitchell presents chapter after chapter of letten political columns and campaign memos in place of any conclusive observations The single conclusion one draws from the book — and it comes early — is that Nixon was willing to stoop low to win On Page 37 Mitchell quotes a radio announcer who says “If someone threw paint on Helen Douglas he (Nixon) knew about it" l MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM respond to the Nixon campaign and Mitchell doesn't explore that subject Also missing is more exploration of Nixon's character or discussion of what — beyond a desire to win — motivated him Beyond providing a campaign journal the book has little to offer about Nixon beyond what is already known: He was an angry troubled man whose questionable judgment would cost him the presidency day-to-d- Names in the news Parker said he underwent sued Douglas — NEW I WHAT You iPLATtNS : ARE TbMI RAlDER R It COST ME TWO MONTHS' ALLOWANCE SAACk' You “toMS RAWER iNTU THIS PETER How CboiD feufe IWjSE House ARE nsnssrsr BROUSHT A without QUESTION THE THEY'RE A LOT LARA MS- ScHMoRE THE HERO OWMIEft CROFT'S JUST ANY SASoN NT 61 CHECKOUT THOSE Bazookas RoaPUS SNES holM A golf YORK (AP) an in claims million $85 caddy lawsuit that he was struck and injured by a golf ball launched by Michael Douglas James Parker was hit by a golf ball Oct 20 1997 at the 4th hole of the Elmwood Country Club course in Westchester County he alleges in his lawsuit filed Tirarv LESS Sickest most corvimm TWiSTB) 6AMES WMW1M Iter alleges Douglas fired his shot before the caddy moved out of the way Hearing a hall REAL LIFE ADVENTURES whooshing his way Paiker turned and ducked but was hit The lawsuit contends the did not try to comfort Parker but instead staffed $60 in his pocket and made a racist remark as he walked away CLOSE TO HOME BKEBCSBT1BBTBNI Win surgery to remove a testicle raptured by the impact of the golf ball Douglas publicist Allen Burry said the actor was shocked by the allegations “He was part of a foursome" Burry said "He did not hit the ball whkh hit die gentleman He did not know which of die three did hit it but when it happened he went and got help for die man They just wanted to help the guy He categorically did not hit the ball that hit the guy" files suit Rogers — Mimi LOS ANGELES (AP) Rogers filed a $10 million libel lawsuit against Home Shopping Network over executives' allega When South responds three spades over three hearts he is When you realize that you and your partner are heading toward a slam do yon quiver like Ten- nyson's aspens or do you feel red corpuscles aplenty coursing through your veins? In the first of six slams this week how would you play in six lead spades after a from West? Or in six hearts after lead from East? a In the 1960 World Team Olympiad both North America low-diamo- And six hearts seven isn’t bad Win with dummy's diamond ace and play off your two p! top hearts When the queen drops claim all 13 tricks But if she doesn't appear ran the chibs to discard your diamond and spade losers) itp d mm mm Rogers' lawsuit alleges HSN executives falsely told the National Enquirer that she flew into a rage after the network scrapped two of her appearances to peddle “Mimi Rogers Stretch and Flex” The tabloid reported in June that Rogers became enraged May 11 and with five members of her entourage threw two chairs and trays of food against a wall in a waiting room for guests Rogers said die allegations are r false and could damage her career She filed die suit Wednesday A message left after business hours Wednesday at the HSN headquarters in St Petersburg Fla was not returned Cl 996 by NEA Inc a showing a good hand with usuald suit North ly at least a having already shown his heart suit should support spades In six spades die only problem is in the tramp suit The Italian six-car- South Pietro Forquet started with the ace When the king dropped he finessed East out of the spade 10 and scored np an overtrick The American declarer BJ Becker played a club to dummy's jack then he finessed the spade queen On die second and Italy reached six spades (Yes you and 1 would have bid round of tramps Becker cashed and made seven hearts — or the ace so he lost two spade nwmnww niUirnnMMw trashed a studio green room at bridge By Phfflio Akter Tho idM on TV garden itwws tend to woifc batter on TV than thoy do In your gardan tions the “Lost in Space" star Vulnerable: North-SoutDealer West h Hides: one down I think Becker was unlucky Cashing the ace will lose when West has a singleton three four or six which is more likely than a singleton 10 or king And playing to fi nesse twice in spades through East isn't that dangerous T I Opening lead: |