Big Noise - Concert Calendar (July 1995)

Friday, June 30

LUTHER JACKSON AND THE LOOSE CANNONS BLUES BAND

Luther has got bloodlines like you wouldn't believe. His grandmother, Gurtrude King, sang and played delta blues on bottleneck guitar back in the '20s and '30s; his parents both sang in gospel choirs; he and his brother Joe formed the Falcons in the '50s and Joe's kids went on to do some cool and weird stuff, too. You've heard of those youngsters: The Jacksons (including La Toya).
Luther has played with Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker and still covers some of their songs today. He also plays original, steamy delta blues. The Chicago Bar, 5954 E. Speedway Blvd. Call 748-8169 for more information.

TOTAL CHAOS, BATTLION OF SAINTS, FUCKO and THE SOCIAL OUTCASTS

Chaos is on Epitaph Records. 'Nuff said. Downtown Performance Center, 530-B N. Stone Ave. Call 628-1650 for more information.
Sunday, July 2

Kyuss with ISCARIOT

Slow, dirgey rock a la' the Melvins. If you're geezed out, a reference point might be Black Sabbath. Got it? Downtown Performance Center, 530-B N. Stone Ave. Call 628-1650 for information.
Monday, July 3
Today's Trivia: Guitarist Brian Jones (born Lewis Brian Hopkins-Jones) of The Rolling Stones was found dead in his swimming pool on this day in 1969. The coroner's report cited "death by misadventure." It had been just over a month since he had quit the Stones. Two days after his death the show went on with a concert in Hyde Park.
The Doors' Jim Morrison dies of heart failure in a bathtub in a hotel room in Paris in 1971.
Birthday Celebrations: Milwaukee Slim (1924)
Lee Allen (1927)
Blind Willie James (1933)
Tuesday, July 4

REVEREND HORTON HEAT with DIRT MERCHANTS and CHICK CASHMAN "The Swingin' Cowboy" presenting a PARADE OF SOFT HITS and GILA BEND, STINKY SLINKY, HELLDRIVER and THE FELLS

The righteously rockin' Rev returns for an outdoor concert. He's crazed and plays unholy rockabilly and that's why people dig him.
Dirt Merchants is a Boston band bent in a Sonic Jesus Lizard Youth shape--lots of oscillating, neo-psychedelic noize fighting off pretty harmonies to buzz your brain.
Along with the Deep Purplish pounding of Stinky Slinky, those two bands will play the outdoor stage, with Slinky going on at 7 p.m. If you want to feel the Heat, don't show up later than 9:30 p.m. or you'll miss him.
The party moves indoors around 11:30 p.m. with Gila Bend, Helldriver and The Fells. The night ends with Chick Cashman (a former drag queen who once had a walk-on role on Bewitched) and his Parade of Soft Hits. He's accompanied by burlesque dancers (no nudity) and a bad comic. Club Congress, 311 E. Congress. Call 622-8848 for more information.
Wednesday, July 5

LOS STRAITJACKETS

Holy frijoles! Four lunatics from Nashville disguised in Mexican wrestling masks and playing primeval instrumental surf rock! Guitarist Danny Amis (previously of Raybeats), Eddie Angel (formerly with Planet Rockers) on guitar, bassist Scott Esbeck (one-time member of Dig Mandrakes) and L.J. Lester (played with Webb Wilder) were obviously influenced by The Ventures, Link Wray, Dick Dale and The Shadows. They also cite Ray Coniff as an influence, but that's probably just to sucker in the high-brows.
If you want to dance and let the animal in you out, be there. The Rock, 136 N. Park Ave. Call 629-9211 for more information.
Thursday, July 6

MERLE SAUNDERS AND THE RAINFOREST BAND

Merle is a true Deadhead--he's actually jammed with Jerry and company. He's back with his own band playing a mix of soft blues, jazz and rock. The Paragon Nightclub, 144 W. Lester. Call 622-5560 for more information.
Today's Trivia: Paul McCartney meets John Lennon and sees The Quarrymen play a church gig in Woolton, Liverpool in 1957. Seven years later to the day, The Beatles premiere their movie A Hard Day's Night in London.
Birthday Celebration: Bill Haley (1925)
Friday, July 7

BAD BRAINS with DEAF TONES and ROGUISH ARMAMENT

The seminal hardcore D.C. band is back with their original line-up. Vocalist H.R., guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Darryl Jenifer and drummer Earl Hudson are out playing their furious funk, razor's edge metal, hardcore and reggae once again.
They've got a new album God Of Love on Maverick Records to promote on this tour, too.
"We did not come together out of financial need or a desire for attention," Jenifer told Billboard in an interview published in April. "The current state of the world is what inspired us to reconnect. It was time for the mission to begin again."
The mission began for these former jazz-rock fusionists in 1980 with the release of the frantic single "Pay To Cum."
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to attend this, the last "big" concert at the soon to be defunct DPC. Downtown Performance Center, 530-B N. Stone Ave. Call 628-1650 for information.
Today's Trivia: The Yardbirds break up in 1968.
Birthday Celebrations: Ringo Starr (1940)
Pinetop Perkins (1913)
Saturday, July 8

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND with RUSTED ROOT

The most popular and influential Southern rock and roll band since the Big Bang comes to Tucson. They added a new, south of the Mason-Dixon line element to rock with landmark albums such as The Allman Brothers (1969), Idlewild South (1970), At Fillmore East (1971) and Eat A Peach (1972). Of course, all of those were recorded before guitarist Duane Allman's death in October of '71 in a motorcycle accident in his hometown of Macon, Georgia (Eat A Peach was released after his death but contains three songs with Duane.)
Of course, the epiphany of the Allman experience was when vocalist/keyboarist/guitarist Gregg married Cher, begat their son Elijah Blue, and released an album entitled Two The Hard Way. The pair were billed in live performances as Allman and Woman. Don't the Seventies just rock?
The band still has Gregg, guitarist Dickie Betts and bassist Butch Trucks on board--still releasing acclaimed and commercially successful albums and still playing for hours on stage.
Rusted Root is a percussive hippie band which has made a name for itself by selling self-produced albums and band paraphernalia and hooking up with big-name groups for tours. Pima County Fairgrounds, one mile south of I-10 on Houghton Rd. Call 792-3930 for more information.
Sunday, July 9

SONIC OUTLAWS (a film)
and FIERCE BAD RABBIT

Fierce Bad Rabbit opens the show 9:30 p.m. This duo is George Rosenberg dressed as a Playboy bunny while playing guitar through a practice amp with a four-inch speaker while his wife Joy Rosenberg dresses in male drag and plays bass.
The film Sonic Outlaws will be shown at 10:30 p.m. It combines interviews, music and stock footage chronicling the Negativland vs. U2 lawsuit. It dissects issues such as copyright infringement and "fair use" of sound and image sampling. Interviews with U2's The Edge, a potty-mouthed Casey Kasem and TV evangelists are sprinkled throughout this documentary. Filmmaker Craig Baldwin and Negativland band member Mark Hosler will be at the screening.
Both are also scheduled to appear at showings of the movie at The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress, on Saturday, July 8 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, July 9 at 7:30 p.m. Club Congress, 311 E. Congress. Call 622-8848 for more information.
Birthday Celebration: Mitch Mitchell of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1946)
Tuesday, July 11

GREAT WHITE

If ever a band has copped more licks and vocal tricks from Led Zeppelin, we don't know of it. We've never even been bitten once by Great White, but we're twice shy. The Wild, Wild West, 4385 W. Ina Rd. Call 744-7744 for more information.
Wednesday, July 12
Today's Trivia: The Rolling Stones take their opening bow at London's Marquee Club. The year is 1962.
Thursday, July 13

NEUROSIS with GROTUS and SPILLBLANKET and LOGICAL NONSENSE

One critic wrote the following after attending a Neurosis concert: "Seeing Neurosis on stage is a lot like reading Dante's Inferno or staring at one of H.R. Giger's mechanized hells. The show begins on the surface of a frightening world and plunges through a terrifying visual and musical onslaught into a chasm so deep there seems no escape."
Sounds like another victim of Freudian analysis.
It should be an interesting show. Neurosis pulls together strands of metal, punk, prog-rock, industrial and world beat (via some tribal drumming). Downtown Performance Center, 530-B N. Stone Ave. Call 628-1650 for information.
Friday, July 14

THE MR. T EXPERIENCE

From "The Mr. T Experience Generic Punk Rock Band Bio": 1986--Bored suburban youths form punk rock combo in basement. Release first LP, Everyone's Entitled To Their Own Opinion. 1987--Band breaks up. 1988 - Second LP, Night Shift At The Thrill Factory, released by Rough Trade. U.S. tour sparsely attended. 1989--Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood EP released. New bass player Aaron joins the group. U.S. tour sparsely attended. Band breaks up. 1990--Band learns to play their instruments. 1992--Milk Milk Lemonade LP released by Lookout! records. European tour sparsely attended. Everyone sues each other. (Skipping ahead) 1995--Bass player quits, band breaks up; band reunites with new bass player Joel. The Mr. T Experience! ...And The Women Who Love Them released by Lookout! records. Downtown Performance Center, 530-B N. Stone Ave. Call 628-1650 for information.

HOODOO KINGS

One of the best blues and roots rock bands to ever roll out of Phoenix hits town tonight and again tomorrow night. The Chicago Bar, 5954 E. Speedway Blvd. Call 748-8169 for more information.
Today's Trivia: The Everly Brothers break up in the middle of a 1973 concert at Knott's Berry Farm. Phil smashed his guitar on stage and then walked off. Apparently he wasn't thrilled with brother Don's performance.
Monday, July 17
Today's Trivia: The Jimi Hendrix Experience experiences opening for The Monkees in a 1967 concert held in New York.
Wednesday, July 19

SNFU with THE BOUNCING SOULS and THE HUMPERS

"Becoming huge rock stars is something we all dream about," says guitrist Bunnt Belke of SNFU. "Free spritzers at all the schmooze-fests, plenty of cheese--what more could we ask for? All we ever wanted out of life was the occasional veggie platter."
The band's album The One Voted Most Likely To Succeed is a raucous punk ride taking you through songs about sex, suicide, drunken bicycle trips and plain, old gibberish.
"It's a fast, aggressive record," singer Mr. Chi Pig says. "Because punk rock is the 'in thing' right now. Yes, we are wagon-jumpers." Downtown Performance Center, 530-B N. Stone Ave. Call 628-1650 for information.
Saturday, July 22

X-COPS

Hey, it's those GWAR guys (the spawn of aliens stranded in Antartica) dressed up as cops doing the nasty things cops sometimes do. You know, kicking the crap out of someone like Rodney King or shooting alleged drug runners in the back, you know, neat-o stuff like that. Should be a gas. The Paragon Nightclub, 144 W. Lester. Call 622-5560 for more information.

THE VANDALS with F.U.C.T. and BACKSTAB GOSPEL

The Vandals bring some of that warm 'n' fuzzy L.A. hardcore to The Pulsating Pueblo. Downtown Performance Center, 530-B N. Stone Ave. Call 628-1650 for information.
Thursday, July 27

ALAN PARSONS and KANSAS

Parson will go down in music history as a producer and engineer, not as a musician. He worked on Abbey Road, Paul McCartney's Wildlife and Red Rose Speedway and produced Dark Side Of The Moon and Al Stewart's Time Passages.
He also had hits with his Alan Parsons Project in the early Eighties: "Time," "Games People Play" and "Eye In The Sky."
Kansas, well, what can you say about this band? They're from Topeka. They sold many millions of albums laden with ornate, pretentious power ballads. They had hit singles: "Carry On Wayward Son," "Point Of Know Return" and "Dust In The Wind." That's about it, except--ROCK ON! Tucson Convention Center Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. Call 791-4266 for more information.

PATO BANTON

Positive reggae man Banton is back in town to groove ya with his band The Reggae Revolution. The Paragon Nightclub, 144 W. Lester. Call 622-5560 for more information.
Friday, July 28

SKANKIN' PICKLE with BLINK and DAVE'S BIG DELUXE

The Pickle has been inaccurately called a ska band, nothing more or less, here and in other publications. The group insists they're much more than that, however. "We are a mixture of ska, punk, metal, rap, funk, speed metal, hip hop, polka and vaudeville," they insist in their band bio. See the show and hear the truth for yourself. Downtown Performance Center, 530-B N. Stone Ave. Call 628-1650 for information.
Saturday, July 29

DREAD ZEPPELIN

The schtick remains the same for this Elvis-does-reggae-versions-of-Led-Zeppelin-and-other-heavy-metal-monsters band. If you're one of the legions of Dreadheads, you gotta be here. The Rock, 136 N. Park Ave. Call 629-9211 for more information.

AVAIL with J. CHURCH

Typical, typical, typical: The guitarist is Lynyrd Skynyrd-obsessed, the singer worships Woody Guthrie and loves hobo songs and they've got a dancer-cheerleader Beau Beau, who doesn't do anything but dance and cheer (and occasionally contribute a backing vocal).
There's nothing worse than another band objectifing humans as little more than sex objects. In this case the objectification of Beau Beau is particularly appealing, considering he's a guy and all that that entails.
Their music? Hardcore punk fleshed out with lyrics about institutional idiocy, societal suicide and political polarization. Downtown Performance Center, 530-B N. Stone Ave. Call 628-1650 for information.

OUT OF TOWNERS

June 29
PEARL JAM (cancelled)
July 1
ARIZONA JAZZ, RHYTHM & BLUES FESTIVAL featuring KOKO TAYLOR, HIROSHIMA, ELLIS MARSALIS, LUTHER JOHNSON, THE REEDS, LIMBS AKIMBO and BURNING SKY at Foxglenn City Park in Flagstaff
ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Scottsdale
July 2
ARIZONA JAZZ, RHYTHM & BLUES FESTIVAL featuring ARTURO SANDOVAL, BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO, RICHARD ELLIOT, SISTER SLEDGE, MARGO REED, MIKE RUSSELL and the NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE at Foxglenn City Park in Flagstaff
July 4
IVAN NEVILLE at the Mason Jar in Phoenix
July 5
SEAL at the Mesa Amphitheater in Mesa
LORDS OF ACID with MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT and PRICK at Party Gardens in Phoenix
SLEEPY LABEEF at the Rhythm Room in Phoenix
July 8
GARRICK OHLSSON at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Scottsdale
July 12
BOSTON at Desert Sky Pavilion in Phoenix
KILLER BEES at Gibson's in Tempe
ROOMFUL OF BLUES at the Rhythm Room in Phoenix
July 15
RADIOHEAD with DRUGSTORE and JESUS CHRYSLER at Nile Theater in Mesa
July 17
DEATH at the Mason Jar in Phoenix
July 18
EARTH, WIND AND FIRE with D-KNOWLEDGE at the Symphony Hall in Phoenix
PETER MURPHY at Hayden Square Amphitheater in Tempe
July 21-22
NAPPY BROWN at the Rhythm Room in Phoenix
July 23
HERBIE HANCOCK, GIL SCOTT-HERON, GERALD ALBRIGHT, LALAH HATHAWAY, DAN SIEGEL, WAH WAH WATSON and FREDDIE WASHINGTON at Red River Opry in Tempe