| Show 1 4A p a' j r-H'ti- WhMijok! 1- -1 g S that in the finest sense of In addition to being anogant and he accused me of having an agenda Preconceived notions I’ll give him Attitude tire But agenda? As if! Like I wai trying to do why it is three grown men would be ought dead in red polyester suits with matching patent leather shoes Maybe I’m a product of my generation After all I grew op with Meatloaf Aerosmith Motley loqg-wind- omehard-hittingpieceo- ACHE ed omm o CraeDefLeppHdACDC And an hour before my interview with Ibny Butala I was tuned into the aometimes vicious wails of Alanis Monissette on my Sony Discman So to say I was a little out of tune with what The Lettermen are all about is a finr statement Actually it goes deeper than that d When it comes to hqppy music Tm a snob Mainstream Ibp 40 prehn love songs ' don't make my brown eyes blue Fm not one to wonder why birds suddenly appear Instead Pm wondering when they're going to get the wind beneath their wings and get the flock out of my listening space In fret I acnib the caked-c-n food off my dishes with a Bany Manilow's Best Hits CD someone gave me But honestly I didn't know beforehand that ' while driving through Wyoming I might have tuned out The Lettermen in my haste to find Ross ' Fenton the AM radio before listening to another minute of regurgitated aoft music hits I didn't know that it until I interviewed Mr Lettermen himself And when Tbny started talking about singing love songs like “wind Beneath My Wings” and “My Heart Will Go On" I must have had my trademark annoying sarcastic grin on my face and in “My Heart” Evre if he couldn’t see it over the phone So I guess I have to admit that when I went into the interview I had an attitude about die music The Lettermen represent which might explain why he was such a jerk You see I've come to realize people who really love something who care enough to speak their mind about that thing no matter the cort are usually the most effective jerita And that's probably what Ibny was doing He loves The Lettermen and what that music means to him He loves love songs I don’t I'd much rather watch John Tesh and Yanni strut their stuff on WWF Monday Night st the Fights than listen to anything they might sing on COZY 101 or whatever those yUcky call letters are And maybe Tony could leu Maybe my questions weren’t the ones he wanted to answer Maybe he wanted me to know more I about where he’s coming from Maybe my musi-- ! cal bias got in the way of a good intemcw Or maybe it was the red patent leathers Either way there’s a story on Page 4 about The Lettermen Hope I was fair And maybe next time Ibny and I can visit a while on why I think Marilyn Manson ii the necessary antithesis to Doris Day —by Nancy Borffy Cache Magazine adNor ft 3 S cn w 3o o feel-goo- CO inside PAGE 5— Uke a mother the Whittier Center takeacareof many of Cache Valey dvic needs but now It needs a Hole orga-nizabo- ‘ : up and coming PAGE 4 — A for Suaan Grey tapa into the artiats pool In Cache Valey fund-raio- er sound bites PAGE 10 — American String Quartet comes to Logan to teach and play on campus RAGE 8 — — Shanahy brings awee bit o' the Irish to town Art atudanla show off their atuff In an upcoming exhUL crossword PAGE 11 — If you dare in ON THE COVER: ' It's big strong and Mte Vie Wnitttor a vlUVlVl — a hugely Important niche but roof Photo by S Center needs a new WHRIVIlIrM vOHnW a - the ddrk PAGE 9 — Michael Flood sounded Uke death wanned overwhen he caVed In this weak to say he wouldn't be In to write hie column corkboard PAGE 12 - y v if I Had Only Known by Carol Baumann of Hyde Park y |
