Summer Haze descending.Byline: Serena Markstrom The Register-Guard G. Love has a new DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. out, "A Year and a Night with G. Love and Special Sauce Special sauce is the sauce used in the McDonald's Big Mac hamburger. The name derives from a 1975 advertising campaign featuring a list of the Big Mac's ingredients: Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. ." Slightly Stoopid has a new CD, "Chronchitis." And Ozomatli is fresh off a United States government-sponsored tour of the Middle East. All three bands have gained fans for their tenacious touring and the ability to keeping their musical independence. Now, they are traveling together under the banner of the Summer Haze Tour. Getting Slightly Stoopid A consummate college band, California fusion group Slightly Stoopid makes frequent Eugene stops, most recently to the big room at the McDonald Theatre. The band's publicity describes its sound as a mix of acoustic rock and blues with reggae, hip-hop and punk. A news release says the band, which releases CDs on its own label, has exceeded 250,000 in sales. Miles Doughty dough·ty adj. dough·ti·er, dough·ti·est Marked by stouthearted courage; brave. [Middle English, from Old English dohtig; see dheugh- in Indo-European roots. and Kyle McDonald share the lead vocal duties. Slightly Stoopid's influences include such old-timers such as Cat Stevens, Tom Petty, Django Reinhardt and the Grateful Dead, plus newer bands such as NOFX NOFX Negative FX (band) NOFX No Effects NOFX No Freaking Straight Edge (polite form) and Sublime. The band has been together since 1995, when the two vocalists were in high school. Sublime singer Bradley Nowell heard them and signed the band to his label, Skunk skunk, name for several related New World mammals of the weasel family, characterized by their conspicuous black and white markings and use of a strong, highly offensive odor for defense. , which released its first two CDs. "Chronchitis" is the band's fifth album, and the third on its independent label. G. Love and his mates G. Love & Special Sauce also have been on the college circuit for almost a decade. The new DVD allows fans a peek inside the hip-hop and blues hybrid's touring world. Interestingly, there are no shortage of scenes where other members of the band, particularly that surly bass player, are mad at G. Love for what they consider to be unreasonable requests - such as not walking onto the stage with drinks in their hands. In the DVD, G. Love says it looks unprofessional. There's also an emphasis on how fans don't tend to know who the other two band members are. So here's your cheat sheet in case film is rolling at the Cuthbert show: Garrett Dutton III is G. Love. He sings and plays guitar and harmonica harmonica. 1 The simplest of the musical instruments employing free reeds, known also as the mouth organ or French harp. It was probably invented in 1829 by Friedrich Buschmann of Berlin, who called his instrument the Mundäoline. . Jeffrey Clemens is the drummer. He's known as "The Houseman." Jim Prescott is on upright bass. He's the one with the long hair. Straight out of East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. Ozomatli made a big impression on the University of Oregon campus The University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon has around 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics sites such as Hayward Field, which is the site for the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials, and McArthur Court, and off-campus sites such as nearby Autzen Stadium and the last year when it performed a free show on a mobile stage in a huge field of grass. Word-of-mouth promotion led to a huge crowd. More recently, the U.S. State Department, with support from corporate sponsors, asked the funk-infused Latin band from Los Angeles to represent America to the rest of the world in a series of concerts in the Middle East. According to a feature in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , the two-time Grammy-winning band regularly plays at antiwar an·ti·war adj. Opposed to war or to a particular war: antiwar protests; an antiwar candidate. rallies. Ozomatli, which opened for Carlos Santana at the Cuthbert in 1999, is an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's policies. "These things cost a little bit of money," Francis Ricciardone, the U.S. ambassador to Egypt, said in the article. "But compare it to the cost of not having the standing we had in the past, when people thought they knew us and what we stood for. `People talk about it as soft power. But it's real power." CONCERT PREVIEW Slightly Stoopid, G. Love & Special Sauce, Ozomatli What: Fusion bands with Latin, blues, hip-hop, ska and punk influences When: 6 p.m. today Where: Cuthbert Amphitheater, 555 Day Island Road Tickets: $35 at the gate |
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