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Show Hungry? Check out the Vittles section on page 19 for up-to-date info. on where to wine and dine in Park City! GALLERY STROLL An open house at Salt Lake Galleries on 3rd Friday of each month. 6-9pm / Free Admission Call 575-8800 for maps —_http//:www-ArtWanted.com/siga MOUNTAIN TIMES Smoky-Voiced Mushrooms Gathering Fungal Tribe By Cornila de Bruin ears ago, local rhythm guitarist Billy 10 Salon Studios Remaining..... 3 Doubles Still Available, Including: © Wet Station eStyling Chairs @Dryer Chairs eCabinetry-Cash Drawer. eCentral Sound _ eCentral Vacuum Parking, Electricity -@Heating & Cooling - @Slat Mirrors for Product eaundry, Break Room ©Coffee, Soda, Snack Machines VISA G E SALON STUDIOS 2006 So. 900 E. Sugarhouse Don't Miss Out on Your Chance to Own Your Own Salon....Call Robert 328-3399 Horenburg played a gig at the Cafe Voltaire in Ventura, Calif. After he finished his set, a listener came up to ask his name. When Billy introduced himself, the listener asked why the café blackboard identified him as $3.95 Sautéed Mushrooms—the house specialty that night. “I decided then that if | ever got a band na I’d name it Sautéed Mushrooms,” the lanky 29-year-old laughed. He did, it is, and they play Oct. 21 at Cisero’s. The six people who make up the band use pseudonyms when they ' play—becoming Hessian on hear the blues styles they have picked up along the way. “Mountain Tribe,” one of the band’s two Southern Cross covers, lets the band get into jam-mode. It’s a long, complex piece of music, with lyrics haunting enough to raise _goose flesh among its listeners. Mountain Times Weekly quizzed Billy a bit on the source of his songs, because the— bass, Red-Eye Slim on key- _ boards, Gordo on percussion, The Kid on lead guitar and vocals, Spanky on drums and Billy on rhythm guitar ond vocals. “It helps with egos,’ ’ Billy explains. Fa | 6661 vl 4490190 |8 “No one can get too stuck » Downtown 155 So. Main 363-0835 -Sugarhouse oe 2190 Highland Drive 487-4138 Codie Mall ‘Holladay 272-8861 up if it’s your alter-ego up there on stage.” Pseudo-egos and alterplayers aside, Sautéed Mushrooms brings tightly played original music to Park City’s ears. Billy and The fungus are among us The Kid write nearly all of the band’s songs. “We do play a couple of songs originally done by some friends of ours, who had strongly written lyrics delve more deeply into a band called Southern Cross,” Billy says. human psychology than the writer’s years Everything else on the band’s recently cut — would lead a listener to believe. The Desert demo tape was penned by the two Sautéed Storm-era vet explained that “waiting in the Mushrooms performers. desert, then watching the firestorm happen “Rain,” a poignant glimpse into the gives you a long time to think ... and a lot to break-up of a relationship, is a sensitively think about.” Billy adds that, for him, the written piece splashing a woman’s pain “most obscene part [of Desert Storm] was against the staccato back-up of a storm. Its watching all those 18-year-olds come home refrain, “whatever happened to yesterto cheering and parades.” day?”—the question she keeps asking— In a town full of cover bands, Sautéed brings listeners close to tears. Mushrooms is a welcome addition to the The band gets funky with “I Like It Like music scene. Although its members are still That,” a solo tune that gives Billy a chance _ working to establish inter-musician commuto flirt with every woman he’s singing to .. “nication, some good tight music—solid stuff ee cs sae them if they'd “take a chance on with both trap set and percussive drum.” The song shows off the smoky, throaty ming, bright piano riffs and pretty, lyrical nuclides of his voice. Although Billy says he guitar work—is already coming from this sixhas never listened to Mose Allison—one of— month-old band. the original white-boy blues piano-playing The freshness is as invigorating as the mumbling singers of the early 1960s—he weather. can sound eerily like him. Playing back-up. _ _ during the song, the rest of Sautéed Mushrooms gives its audience a chance to ee ae |