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Show PAGE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 4 WEDNESDAY 11/17 Daily Utah Chronicle Leave no genre behind Charlie Hunter and his weird guitar help keep the Ropeadope action coming stitutional ideals of "all genres created equal/' evidenced by his participation in a truly musically democratic The Ropeadope New Music Semi- tour currently crossing the country. nar, a traveling showcase featuring Hunter is "one of the few simultathe talents of a variety of genre-skip- neous guitar and bass players in the ping musical proteges that brought world," according to the ISIC Travits musical menagerie, including elmax Web site. He has also played 8-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, with Michael Franti of Spearhead to Suede on Tuesday, is a tour sur- fame in the Disposable Heroes of Hirounded by the hype of its respective phoprisy prior to forming the Charunderground sensations. lie Hunter Trio in 1993. But, when the tour stopped in Utah Currently Hunter is on the Ropeearlier this week, Ropeadope's was adope music tour, a performance not the only reputation that preced- that consists of Hunter and his group ed the tour—the Beehive state had a Sex Mob, hip-hop artist Lyrics Born, dubious honor to claim as well. rockers Critters Buggin1, and poet "Your state is kind of crazy for Rich Medina, among others. A typiBush, huh?" said Hunter, all-around cal show consists of a nonstop, fourhour set in which some or all of the Ropeadope musical wonder boy. But, while our nation's democratic musicians play together, improvising process may not please Hunter, he on the spot, continually changing the seems at least content with the con- on-stage line-up. Jeremy Asay Staff Writer "We're just going to play and see what happens. It will be different every night, very different every night," Hunter said. "It's going to be a crazy music extravaganza." The Ropeadope musicians as a whole are taking an educational stance to communicate to music students that music does not have boundaries. Clearly, many musicians can hardly be pinned down to only one musical genre, and the Ropeadope New Music Seminar is taking the drivers seat in genre cross pollination. "The truth is we're just trying to get the concept and the whole thing off the ground now," Adam Hurwitz said. "The education part to us is almost as important, if not more important, than the music." While the nature of the showcase is something new for the American Noon Concerts/y/orCcCJArts presents Tast Indian TaBCa Master in concert SancCip "Burman Thurs. Nov. 18, 2004 • 8:00 pm U of U Museum of Art, Dumke Auditorium Admission $10 • Students $5 Funded in part by ASUU, Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake County Zoo Arts & Parks, Utah Arts Council, Western States Arts Federation, Wild Oats and Chartwell's For info or tickets 4 8 5 - 5 8 2 4 or 5 4 8 - 7 4 0 4 music scene, Hunter is something of a veteran—he does this type of thing in New York all the time. In addition to Ropeadope, Hunter has previously collaborated with Medeski Martin and Wood, Franti, Fred Wesley, DJ Logic and many other renowned jazz, pop, rock and hip-hop musicians. Hunter's unique 8-string guitar incorporates three bass strings and five guitar strings. The instrument has a necessarily distorted fret board to accommodate both bass and guitar strings and the space that is required between frets. To play this instrument, Hunter thumbs a bass line and plays a melody with the remaining four fingers of his right hand while fretting both the bass and treble notes with the left hand. Hunter, who studied guitar under Joe Satriani in the 1980s, decided to play his uncommon instrument "to try to get into some different modus operandi." While bassists and guitarists were a dime a dozen, Hunter sought to "occupy a different space in the music than just a guitar or just a bass would," similar to the way in which the Ropeadope festival occupies different musical space than any other tour today. "Someone has got to stop playing the lead," Hunter said. Hunter, who was previously with Blue Note Records, has recently released a record on the Ropeadope label called Friends Seen and Unseen, The minimalist record, with only three players, lucidly features Hunter's skills with smooth bass lines and simultaneous melodies. jasay@ chronicle, utah. edu In Love and Calendar Less than four days left until those...people...from Provo will be going home to a very "un" Happy Valley. It's not our fault you hate fun, children, sunshine, sex, fry sauce, drinking, fun, senseless violence, the ecosystem, democracy, intellectual freedoms, baby seals, America, oxygen, fun, et cetera... maintain) high standards of honor, integrity, language, and morality." Take from that what you will, but we think they hate dancing, too. So when you're gas tank is on "full," then head one block south from Cheers To You to Cabana Club (31 E. 400 South) for D. J. Night to dance your pants off. of Ink." (Which tastes like ass. Seriously.) West Valley City's E-Center (3200 S. Decker Lake Dr.) will host the party, which includes fellow screamowhinofreakos My Chemical Romance, Letter Kills and The Bled. Seriously, we've made so many jokes about them-it's time to just come clean. But until we free Utah and the rest of the semi-free world from any dignity BYU might mistake their "academic" institution for having, we must frrst populate the middle of the week with preparations for said ritual sacrifice. We begin with College Night at Port 0' Call (400 S. West Temple), featuring the infamous 24 oz. Big Ass Mug 0' Beer for $2.50. College Night is something they don't have at BYU. Seriously! Taxis are the devil, they'll say! So catch a Yellow Cab (5212100) over to The Tavernacle (201 E. 300 South), put your pants back on, climb on top of one of their dueling pianos, and sing our fight song. So Mr. Bert McCracken, we here at Calendar are officially offering you a free, one-night vacation at the Betty Ford Clinic, it's a little more expensive than that $19 concert ticket, but hey-you're paying in blood, McCracken. From Port 0' Cali, stumble one block east over to Cheers To You (315 S. Main) for $2 cocktails. Yes, it's true: BYU doesn't get $2 cocktails, either. You should be done with all of that, by, oh, say..J p.m., just in time to watch the most popular band to come out of Utah playing their homecoming show. Watch as throngs of teenagers rage against conformity together, dressed in black-onblack, who have together used enough Agua Net hair spray to mark their own hole in the o-zone layer. Does BYU have a beef with dancing? As its honor code states: "(students must And tonight, The Used and their fans will stand under it and hack out songs like "The Taste Speaking of...what do tweakers and Disney have in common? Ice, that's what. 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