Remember Wishbone Ash? Here's a chance to hear 'em.Byline: Carolyn Lamberson The Register-Guard The '70s were famous for many things. White polyester suits. Big afro haircuts. Blue eyeshadow. The decade also was famous for hard, dual-guitar-driven rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. . And during the early to mid-'70s, Wishbone Ash Wishbone Ash are a British rock band who achieved particular success in the early and mid-1970s. Formed in Devon in 1969 out of the ashes of the group The Empty Vessels, which had featured Wishbone Ash's founding members Martin Turner and Steve Upton, the original line-up was was among England's most popular rock bands. Now, three decades and many lineup changes later, the band is back on the road, with a Monday gig at the Jungle, 23 W. Sixth Ave. Guitarist Andy Powell For the Welsh rugby international rugby player see Andy Powell (rugby player) Andy Powell (born February 19, 1950 in Stepney, East London) is an English guitarist and one of the founding members of rock band Wishbone Ash. is the only member left from the original lineup. He's joined by Ben Granfelt on guitar, Bob Skeat on bass and Ray Weston on drums. The band's most recent album is `Lost Pearls "Lost Pearls" is a collection of out-takes recorded by the rock band Wishbone Ash between 1978 and 1982, released in 2004. Track listings
Tickets are $13 and are available at the Jungle, CD World, Face the Music or any TicketsWest location. Show time is 8 p.m. John Doan Now in its 18th year, `A Victorian Christmas With John Doan' spends Sunday at the Springfield Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church (abbreviated "Adventist"[2]) is a Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished mainly by its observance of Saturday, the "seventh day" of the week, as the Sabbath. , 1630 12th St. Doan, an associate music professor at Willamette University Willamette’s College of Liberal Arts is the undergraduate school on campus. The oldest of the graduate programs is the College of Law, founded in 1883 and located in the Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center. in Salem, will present a live version of his Emmy-nominated Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary public broadcasting network for most of Oregon as well as southern Washington, with (as of 2006) over one million viewers throughout that region and an average of over 380,000 radio listeners each week. special of the same name. The show explores Christmas traditions started in the Victorian era The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. Although commonly used to refer to the period of Queen Victoria's rule between 1837 and 1901, scholars debate whether the Victorian period—as that have endured, as well as those that have been forgotten. It will feature 20-string harp guitar, classical banjo banjo, stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. and ukelin, among other instruments. Admission is a suggested donation of $10 for adults and $8 for seniors and children younger than 12. Seating is limited. Marcus Eaton When Marcus Eaton played Eugene last spring, he took home with him more than fond memories. He took some material for his latest project, a five-song live EP (`Marcus Eaton Live') that was recorded April 30 at the McDonald Theatre, where he opened for the Derek Trucks Band. Now he's back, taking the stage Saturday at Cafe Paradiso, 115 W. Broadway. Eaton, who hails from Idaho, mixes groove rock with funk, reggae, world beat and hip-hop overtones. Think John Mayer meets Dave Matthews and you'll be on the right page. Opening for Eaton at 8 p.m. is local troubadour troubadour One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians, often of knightly rank, that flourished from the 11th through the 13th century, chiefly in Provence and other regions of southern France, northern Spain, and northern Italy. Justin King. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. The ShapeShifters The hip-hop collective ShapeShifters has a new CD, "The ShapeShifters Was Here.' To celebrate, the crew is on the road, hitting the WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave., on Wednesday. The Shifters - Akuma, AWOL-One, Circus, Die, Existero, Life Rexall, LA Jae and Radioinactive - emerged out of the Los Angeles graffiti scene in the early '90s. Their influences range from Johnny Cash to Run DMC DMC Devil May Cry (video game) DMC Detroit Medical Center DMC Darryl McDaniels (rapper) DMC Destination Management Company DMC Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, TX) , and they aim to `shape shift' between hip-hop, reggae and electro. Or as Mean Streets magazine put it in the November issue: `Just when you're ready to relegate rel·e·gate tr.v. rel·e·gat·ed, rel·e·gat·ing, rel·e·gates 1. To assign to an obscure place, position, or condition. 2. To assign to a particular class or category; classify. See Synonyms at commit. them to the oddball (or lunatic) fringe, the Shifters kick out some serious jams with the hard rockin' `Run the Crowd' and the guitar-driven `Rockin These Mics.' ' The Shifters are on the road with Pigeon John, who appears on `Was Here.' Added to the WOW Hall bill is the local hip-hop group 3 Blind Mics. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door, and are available through the WOW Hall and its outlets. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. Edie Carey and Brenda Weiler Two singer-songwriters on opposite sides of the folk spectrum will share the same stage tonight at Cafe Paradiso. Edie Carey's a little bit country, Brenda Weiler's a little bit rock 'n' roll. Both are award-winning performers. Weiler hails from Portland, but was raised in Fargo, N.D., and made music in Minne- apolis/St. Paul. She didn't decide to pursue songwriting and learn the guitar until the summer after her high school graduation. Her fifth album, "Cold Weather" was named a 2003 top 10 local pick by The Oregonian. Carey's also a transplant, having recently relocated from New England to Atlanta. She's had songs featured on the WB's "Charmed" and MTV's "Road Rules," and has shared stages with Leo Kottke, Ani DiFranco, Lucy Kaplansky and Sandra Bernhard. Her latest album is "When I Was Made." Admission to today's 8 p.m. show is $8. Queercore Blitz Dominatrix, Triple Creme, the Dead Betties and Jack Queen have several things in common. First, they're all-gay bands. Second, they all play punk and hard-core music. Third, they're all part of the Queercore Blitz Tour hitting the WOW Hall on Sunday. The tour was organized by Anna Jacobson-Leong, a Eugene native who now lives in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . It bills itself as the first and only organized tour of "all-queer lineup of punk, rock and hard-core bands.' Admission is $7 at the door; doors open at 8 p.m. and the show begins at 8:30. Holiday USO USO: see United Service Organizations. (UNIX Software Operation) AT&T's Unix division before it turned into USL. See Unix. Tour The sights and sounds of a 1940s-era Christmas will swing through the Hilton Eugene, 66 E. Sixth Ave., when the Blue Skies Big Band and the Jewel Tones host their annual Holiday USO Show on Sunday afternoon. Held annually to mark Pearl Harbor Day, the USO show aims to bring back the music and spirit of the entertainment tours of World War II. The concert will feature big band tunes written by Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller and others. Tickets are $6 and are available at the door. The show will run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Swing Shift Swing Shift will celebrate Count Basie's 100th birthday Monday at John Henry's, 77 W. Broadway. The music begins at 7:30 p.m.; admission is $5. This is the third Swing Shift Basie celebration. The night will feature solo performances from saxophonists Bob Ragan and Sean Flannery, trumpeters This article lists notable musicians who have played the trumpet, cornet or flugelhorn. Classical players
CAPTION(S): Triple Creme and three other bands make up the lineup of Sunday's Queercore Blitz Tour. |
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