The Daily Tar HeelThursday, October 8, 19875
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By JAMES BURRUS
Stalf Writer
The Attitudes are not a single
minded band.
This Chapel Hill band combines
many music forms jazz, reggae and
funk with straightforward rock V
roll to play a slew of originals and
a few covers.
Members of the band are: Dave
Rutter, lead vocals and guitar; Al
Young, saxophone; Nat Smith, bass;
and David Schwartz, drums. When
Rutter isn't delivering tunes to
Triangle audiences, he delivers mail
to dormitories on campus for the U.S.
Postal Service.
While The Attitudes do play some
covers, Rutter said the band is
committed to making its own music.
"We don't try to copy anybody else,
and we don't try to do stuff that
doesn't fit right to each individual,"
Rutter said. "It's challenging, what
we're trying to do."
By combining various musical
elements, The Attitudes have been
able to produce a distinct sound that
has gotten the band airplay on
WXYC and WRDU.
"We use a lot of ska-like rhythms
and a lot of jazz breaks," Rutter said.
"We've got some reggae, and we use
a lot of off-rhythms in the other stuff
we do."
"What we're shooting for is com
bining our talents to develop our own
sound, which would include a lot of
different elements from post-punk,"
he said.
The Attitudes music is aimed at
getting the crowd to dance.
"One of our goals is to stay
danceable, and that's a little trickier
than it sounds," he said. "Sometimes
it is difficult for an audience to follow
with a whole lot of changes (in music
styles)."
Rutter said a French record com
pany has expressed interest in releas
ing the band's original tune "Up and
Down" in France.
"They want to hear some more
studio quality work," he said.
That's one reason The Attitudes
are returning to Lloyd Street Studio
in Carrboro to record some new
songs for another demo tape.
While the recording contract is
kind of indefinite, Rutter said, the
band is still hoping to release some
recorded material.
Some of the new songs that might
be put on the demo are "Burger with
Everything," "Streetwise" and "Wrat
Around Crazy."
Even when The Attitudes play
covers, the members convert the
songs into the band's own mold,
Rutter said.
"When we do covers in a club
setting, we kind of adapt them to what
our strengths are," Rutter said. "A
couple of the songs we do are songs
that most people arent familiar with
anyway, so they're almost like not
doing covers."
Some of the band's covers include
"No Parking on the Dance Floor" by
Midnight Star and "Wild Kingdom,"
a song from Alex Chilton's jazz
period.
Rutter said the band usually does
80 percent covers in clubs and 50
percent covers at fraternity parties.
The band played its first frat party
this August at Tau Epsilon Phi, of
which Schwartz is a brother. The
other band members are graduates of
the University. Schwartz is a senior.
The Attitudes are a relatively new
band on the Triangle music scene.
Rutter and Smith used to play in a
rhythm and blues experimental band
called Megalon. Half of the band's
demo tape . included experimental
tunes by Rutter, and the other half
was straight rhythm and blues songs.
Musical differences with the
drummer led Rutter and Smith to
leave the trio, and six months later
the two hooked up with Schwartz and
Young to form The Attitudes. The
band members got their first gig after
only two weeks of playing together.
They've been jamming and gigging
now for 1 1 mqnths.
All the band members contribute
to the songwrjting. Rutter said songs
usually begin with him writing a tune
that he can play on guitar and sing
at the same time. He then tries the
. new number out on the other
members of the band.
"If they like it, we work it into some
form," Rutter said. "After a while that
evolves into a sort of baseline version
of the song, and each time you play
it, it makes it a little different in one
way or another, but in general you
get The Attitudes' version of a
particular piece of music."
The Attitudes will perform tonight at Cat's Cradle
- Jammine together keerjs a distinc- of Chanel Hill's thriving music scene.
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tive thread running through the though it can be frustrating finding The Attitudes will perform tonight:
music, Rutter said.
"It's really a team effort as far as
the instrumentation goes, he said.
places to play. at Cat's Cradle and tomorrow night
"You just hope that you get a at The Fallout Shelter in Raleigh
couple of decent gigs and people start Call the Cradle at 967-9053 for ticket
Rutter said he enjoys being a part to know who you are," Rutter said. information.
Campus Calendar
Thursday
4 p.m.
12:30 p.m. Carolina Committee on
Central America will
meet today in the
Union.
Women's Forum will
meet in the Campus Y
Lounge. A mayoral can
didate, Anderson, will
speak.
The Representative
Committee of the Exec
utive Branch will meet
in 205 Union.
Association of Interna
tional Students will
meet in 211 Union. A
debate between AAA
and the College Repub
licans about South Afri
can divestment will
5 p.m.
ensue.
5:30 p.m. SARR will meet in the
Black Cultural Center
in the Union.
6 p.m. Presbyterian Campus
Ministry will have its
undergraduate dinner in
the Student Center at
110 Henderson Street.
7 p.m. UNC Outing Club will
meet in the Union.
Rampage 7 and Black
Greek Council will
sponsor a step show in
Great Hall.
7:30 p.m. UNC Equestrian Club
will meet in the Frank
Porter Graham Lounge
in the Union.
Carolina Gay and Les
bian Association will
hold a general meeting
to put together
"Lambda," the
newsletter.
9:30 p.m. UNC Scholarship Fund
Organization will hold
the Stephen N. Guld
Scholarship Fund
Benefit at La Terraza,
above Magdalena's.
Homegrown and Mit
chener Kruppenbach
will perform.
Carolina Men's
Lacrosse Club will prac
tice on astroturf.
Items of Interest
Students may vote for homecom
ing queen from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Bands to play benefit concert Mr. UNC
for UNC memorial scholarship
from page t
By STEPHANIE MARSHALL
Staff Writer
A benefit for the Steven N. Guld
Scholarship Fund, established in
honor of former UNC student Steven
Guld, will be held Thursday night at
9:30 p.m. at La Terazza, above
Magdalena's on Franklin Street.
Two bands will be playing at the
benefit, according to Phifer Crute,
organizer of the event. Both bands
are composed of UNC students and
will be playing for free, she said.
There will be a $4 cover charge, and
all proceeds will be donated to the
scholarship fund.
Guld, a business major from
Raleigh, would have been a senior
this year. He died in August, of a
viral heart condition caused by
chemotherapy treatments for cancer.
Crute said the fund will provide a
full scholarship, renewable for four
years, to a North Carolina student.
It will provide the student with funds
for tuition, books, room and board
and spending money.
Guld's family will meet personally
with the applicant before he or she
is granted the scholarship, Crute said.
While a student at UNC, Guld was
social chairman of Zeta Beta Tau
fraternity.
Contributions to the scholarship
fund can be sent to: Steven N. Guld
Scholarship Fund, care of the Uni
versity Development Office, UNC
CH, P.O. Box 309, Chapel Hill, N.C.
27514.
lick, said he was not going - to set
himself on fire to be Mr. UNC
Starting with one ball, he demon
strated "a movement" by juggling.
Between tosses of an apple, orange
and egg he took bites out of the apple
and tossed what he claimed was a
real egg into the audience. In the end,
he mixed up a real egg with the apple,
and it broke in his face when he
attempted to take a bite. . -
Finishing off the competition, Gray
again serenaded the audience, singing
the Muppet song, "Rainbow Connec
tion," with the, help of the record
album and an array of character
impersonations.
"A lot of work was put into
Homecoming week," Warlick told the
crowd after being crowned. .
The brothers of the Lambda Chi
Alpha fraternity, which sponsored
Warlick; then lifted him on their
shoulders and carried him out of
Great Hall.
Parrish said the contestants had
lot of fun, supporting each other
backstage. "All the guys had great
attitudes," he said. "It was a contest.".
Congress
from page 1
After the meeting, Friedman said
the bill was tabled because it probably
would not have received the two
thirds majority vote needed to place'
constitutional referendums on the
election ballots. If the congress
rejected the bill, he said, the action'
could confuse students, since a bill
to place the referendum on the Oct j
6 ballot had been approved at a"
previous meeting. 1
"We didn't want to contradict
ourselves," he said.
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