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Backbeat
THE MAVERICKS RIDE AGAIN
Michael Roberts
Published: August 31, 1994
"The Mavericks are pretty much anything but safe in this business," says Robert Reynolds, bassist for the hottest country band ever to come out of Miami, Florida. "I believe...
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City Limits
CHURCH PLEADS THE FIRST
THE ARCHDIOCESE GETS AN EX-TEACHER'S SUIT THROWN OUT ON CONSTITUTIONAL GROUNDS.
Michael Roberts
Published: August 31, 1994
In legal matters involving disgruntled former teachers, the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver has won one and lost one. And the victory came when a judge ruled that the federal...
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Michael Roberts, Linda Gruno and Jason Horwitch
Published: August 24, 1994
Julian Cope Autogeddon (American) Anyone who wants to know a little bit more about the fine line between insanity and genius would do well to give this a listen. The esteemed...
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Backbeat
TODAY, BOULDER. TOMORROW, THE WORLD
KBCO'S FORMAT SPROUTS UP AROUND THE U.S.
Michael Roberts
Published: August 24, 1994
So you're an affluent young professional. You're smart, attractive--a doer, not a couch potato. You never forget to separate your recyclables, and you make sure that your Lexus...
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Backbeat
WOODSTOCK REDUX
Michael Roberts
Published: August 17, 1994
The news media seemingly has given as much coverage to last weekend's Woodstock II as was paid to the Normandy Invasion. Countless articles and radio and TV broadcasts have...
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Backbeat
SHE AIN'T HEAVY
SHE'S THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES' N'DEA DAVENPORT, A SOUL SONGSTRESS FOR THE NINETIES.
Michael Roberts
Published: August 17, 1994
The pop landscape isn't exactly crowded with divas. While the Sixties produced Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and other flamboyant goddesses on earth, the current decade seems...
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Backbeat
CRITIC'S CHOICE
Michael Roberts
Published: August 17, 1994
Manu DiBango, Friday, August 19, at the Ogden Theatre, has a lot of famous friends, many of whom appear on his latest Giant Records release, Wakafrika. But in spite of the...
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City Limits
GO AHEAD, TOUCH THAT DIAL
BOYCOTTS? NO, THESE LOCAL REFORMERS OF GODLESS TV TRY A GENTLER APPROACH.
Michael Roberts
Published: August 17, 1994
There's a Levi's commercial," notes Littleton political activist Donna Huffman, "where all of these young people are flipping through the air and sitting in a tree. It's...
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Michael Roberts, Nick Roberts and John Jesitus
Published: August 10, 1994
Various Artists The Lion King: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney) On the heels of the relatively strong material from Beauty and the Beast and the okay...
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Backbeat
LET FREEDY RING
Michael Roberts
Published: August 10, 1994
Singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston owes much of his newfound prominence to the fledgling Adult Album Alternative (or Triple A) radio format birthed by Boulder's KBCO-FM--and he...
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Michael Roberts and Linda Gruno
Published: August 3, 1994
Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family (Interscope/nothing) If this is a legitimate effort to piss people off, it's a failure: Although borrowing pseudonyms from serial...
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Backbeat
DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE
Michael Roberts
Published: August 3, 1994
To Rivers Cuomo, singer and guitarist for the L.A.-based guitar pop band called Weezer, the glass is half empty. "I'm a real pessimist," Cuomo says in a dour monotone. "When...
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Backbeat
SAY IT LOUD
HE'S JAMES BROWN AND HE'S PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.
Michael Roberts
Published: July 27, 1994
James Brown knows what he wants to say and he's going to say it whether you like it or not. Ask him virtually any question and he's apt to answer with something like this: ...
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Backbeat
TED'S WORLD
TED NUGENT OFFERS MORE RUMINATIONS ON THE AMERICAN DREAM.
Michael Roberts
Published: July 27, 1994
"In Ted's world, we want the death penalty to be imposed at the scene of the crime," says veteran guitar-slinger Ted Nugent in a voice somewhere between a bark and a howl. "The...
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Michael Roberts, Susan Dunlap and Linda Gruno
Published: July 20, 1994
Vince Bell Phoenix (Watermelon) Bell's singing is quite ordinary: He delivers most of these eleven fascinating songs in a voice he seemingly forgot to clear several years ago....
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Backbeat
NUMBER ONE WITH A PUTTER
Michael Roberts
Published: July 20, 1994
"I've been playing golf for a little over a year," says Vinnie Paul, drummer and producer for the Texas thrash-metal band called Pantera, "and if I hit the first ball of the...
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City Limits
SOLD OUT
SUMMERFEST PROMOTER BLAMES BELEAGUERED TICKETMASTER FOR TINY ATTENDANCE.
Michael Roberts
Published: July 20, 1994
Ticketmaster has been under fire of late--from two members of the rock group Pearl Jam, who charged at congressional hearings in late June that the ticket service gouged...
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Michael Roberts and Linda Gruno
Published: July 13, 1994
Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge (Virgin) Of course, no one expected that this band would sound all that different without Bill Wyman--except maybe Bill Wyman, that is. And it...
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Backbeat
BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL
Michael Roberts
Published: July 13, 1994
Many of us who grew up in the Seventies are convinced that the pop music of that decade is universally wretched. Of course, this isn't entirely true, but it is true enough:...
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Backbeat
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Michael Roberts
Published: July 13, 1994
Slim Cessna, leader and namesake of the Denver-based combo Slim Cessna's Auto Club, is sitting in the cozy living room of his Englewood home, listening to a Lefty Frizzell...
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