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Ha Ha Tonka braves tornado sirens at Beer:30

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Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:13
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Freddy Rodrizuez sings in a passionate tone at Beer:30 on Friday night. He overwhelmed the audience with his high-pitched tone. Yo Han Kim/The Bulletin

Emporians braved a deadly weather threat for an energetic performance by Ha Ha Tonka at Beer:30 Saturday night.

Tornado sirens sounded as the band was about to perform, delaying the set by a few minutes. An hour later, about halfway through the set, lead singer and guitarist Brian Roberts praised the audience for staying for the show.

“You guys are the cream of the crop,” Roberts said.

Opening up for Ha Ha Tonka was a band that had just formed two weeks beforehand. The quintet, which includes guitarists Taylor Anderson and Ean Kessler, vocalist Freddy Rodriguez, drummer Jorge Alcarez and bassist Chandler Dean, has yet to be named, but the members have experience with the local music scene.

Alcarez and Rodriguez were previously members of Kansas City-based band A Weekend In December. Rodriguez and Anderson were members of Anfield, based in Missouri. The members describe their newfound sound as “heavy pop.”

“It’s a very heavy sound with a melodic feel,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez said their influences include A Day To Remember, Secrets and Underoath. Rodriguez said they were happy to play at Beer:30 and “like the postmen, we always deliver.”

“It’s just awesome getting to play our first show at Beer:30,” Alcarez said.

Ha Ha Tonka have released three albums – “Buckle in the Bible Belt” in 2007, “Novel Sounds of the Noveau South” in 2009 and “Death of a Decade” in 2011 – since their formation eight years ago. “Novel Sounds of the Noveau South” and “Death of a Decade” were recently released on limited edition vinyl. Drummer Lennon Bonn said that the most recent album was produced in a very different way than the albums that came before.

“‘Death of a Decade’ was recorded in upstate New York in an open space of the attic of a barn,” Bonn said. “The original recording had a reverb that was natural as opposed to an added effect in the studio. We sent the tracks to Ryan Tist and Kevin McMahon – a producer and engineer both based in Kansas City – who added a synthetic bed to the tracks. The final result had this very open vibe.”

Guitarist and mandolin player Brett Anderson and bassist Lucas Long said recording in the barn was “a good experience.”

“It was a very interesting environment to record in,” Anderson said.

The members of Ha Ha Tonka are from Springfield, Mo., and have varying musical influences among them.

“I grew up listening to the blues and jazz, as well as some Dwight Yoakim,” Bonn said. “Brett was really into The Pixies. Lucas was into a lot of ’80s music. Brian was into Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver.”

Bonn also said the band is influenced by a lot of their peers, naming Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Murder by Death and Yanghorn Slim as influences on the band. The band also acknowledged the influence of Americana in their sound.

“The Americana thing wasn’t a planned reaction; it just kind of happened,” Bonn said. “When we brought in the harmony, it was just a natural progression.”

Steve Edwards

Beer:30 keeps it bumping with Tommy & the High Pilots

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Thursday, 08 March 2012 16:15
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Fans of Santa Barbara rock outfit Tommy & the High Pilots flocked to Beer:30 on Saturday night for a two hour performance by the band. Opening for The High Pilots was local musician Taylor Kline.

“It was great opening up for them,” Kline said. “I really enjoy just seeing them play live, so it was awesome getting to do that.”

Kline performed his songs “Time No More” and “The Man That’s Never Alone,” as well as covers of The Band’s “The Weight” and Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold.” Kline recently released an album titled “Jar of Times.” Kline said his influences include Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Neil Young.

“Taylor is an awesome musician – he was great up there,” said Mike Cantillon. “He really engaged the audience with a lot of positive energy. I liked his mix of originals and covers on the set list he played tonight.”

Tommy & the High Pilots then took stage and played songs from their albums “Everynight,” “American Riviera” and “Sawhorse Sessions,” seasoning the two hour set list with covers of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and U2, as well as Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me.”

Early in the set, between songs, the band told the audience about the meaning behind their album’s name “American Riviera,” saying that their hometown of Santa Barbara is nicknamed the American Riviera, and the album in particular is heavily influenced by the city’s music scene, as well as their experiences there.

“Every album is sonically different,” Tom Cantillon, frontman, said. “American Riviera has a more vast production with horns, organs and just lots of different sounds. We want to do every song justice. There’s nobody saying, ‘Eh, that’s good enough.’ It’s finished when our desired sound is found and recorded.”

Drummer Matt Palermo, who also plays drums for St. Louis power pop quartet Ludo, joined the High Pilots after their debut album “Everynight,” roughly a year after the band’s inception. Cantillon recently joined Ludo as a touring member. Tim Convy, synth player and backup vocalist for Ludo, is the High Pilots’ manager and is considered by the band to be the “fifth High Pilot.”

“‘Sawhorse Sessions’ was recorded at Sawhorse Studios in St. Louis,” Cantillon said. “We recorded with producer Jason McEntire, who we knew from working with Ludo.”

Cantillon said the band’s biggest influences would be David Byrne, David Bowie, Roy Orbison and Bruce Springsteen. He said there is also an influence of country and hip-hop, despite their straight up rock sound.

“The wordplay of hip-hop influences our lyrics in a great deal of our songs,” Cantillon said. “It makes the songs a little more interesting.”

The High Pilots said they enjoy the energy of the shows in Emporia, especially at Beer:30 in particular. Bassist Steve Libby said he considers Beer:30 to be one of his favorite venues to play.

“Beer:30 is awesome,” Libby said. “This show is what I’ve been waiting for since the beginning of the tour.”

Libby is not the only member of the High Pilots who shares this sentiment. Other members seemed to confirm that the band was in consensus that Beer:30 is one of the best stops while on tour.

“Every time we play Beer:30, it’s always really energetic,” said Mike Cantillon, backup keyboard and guitar. “We’ve played here three times now, each time in a different room. It’s always a privilege to play here.”

The High Pilots expect to play another show in Emporia by the end of this summer.

Steve Edwards

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‘Slackers’ bring eclectic grooves to Emporia

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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 19:54
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Courtesy photo of Colin Jones

When you throw dance rock, funk and jazz influences together, you get the recently-formed local band The Slack Theory.

Officially formed last spring, the genre blending live group consists of Emporia State University students P.J. Stephenson, sophomore music major, on saxophone and vocals; percussion performance graduate John Gilmore on drums; graduate music student Jason Brooks on keyboards and vocals; sophomore music major Colin Jones on bass guitar and senior music major Riley Day and local musician Wade Krump on guitar.

Regarding their influences, Day said their biggest ones include Parliament, Bad Rabbits, Cannonball Adderley and Gnarls Barkley. Day said that he would describe the band’s sound as “party funk rock.”

Jones said there is also a definite influence of free jazz and bebop on their live performances.

The Slack Theory only plays shows locally and intermittently right now, performing about once a month on average at bars and house parties in Emporia. The most recent show they played was on New Years Eve at Beer: 30. But the dance-funk sextet is planning to play more shows this spring.

“We would like to play at some bigger venues,” Day said, “because with at least six people in the band, you need the space.”

Day and Jones said The Slack Theory plays originals as well as covers at their shows, though they are not sure what the band’s set list could consist of in shows to come. Day said the group plans on playing shows outside of Emporia later this year.

The band would like to release an album in the future, but there are no plans to do so right now.

Day and Jones said The Slack Theory’s main focus as of now is to just play more shows in the spring and work on new music.

“Recording is a definite possibility, and we are working on some new material,” Jones said, “but there are no plans to record any material as of yet. We just started doing this nine months ago, and we would like to play more shows before we work on recording anything.”

The Slack Theory will have formed one year ago this May, and although they have only performed a handful of shows so far, it’s a challenge to work around each member’s individual schedule.

“We all have school or work, so finding time to record would be hard.” Day said, “Our saxophone player P.J. has to travel for work pretty often.”

Stephenson said he works for Flint Hills Music.

The Slack Theory is planning on playing shows at Natasha’s and Beer: 30 in March.

Steven Edwards

The Paperclips speak music at Beer:30

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Thursday, 15 September 2011 09:40
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The Paperclips perform at Beer: 30 last Friday. ESU students praised the Paperclips for their live performance. Yiqing Fu/The Bulletin

For Jake Briscoe, vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for Missouri-based rock band The Paperclips, music is much more than just playing notes and singing. The Band performed last Friday night at Beer:30, 402 Merchant St.

“Music means everything because music can tell stories that you could not speak,” Briscoe said. “Emotion is something that is told through body language, but even more accurately, through music.”

But for The Paperclips, performing is also a method of self-expression.

“You can put on a song that you love at any point in your life and it can make you feel better or it can make you feel terrible,” said Jason Richards, bass guitar and backing vocals. “You associate music with certain people in certain moments, it’s a stronger, more sensual memory than smell…we are not talkers, but through music, we can communicate with each other and always know what the other one is saying.”

Briscoe said the Paperclips first performed at Beer:30 while on tour with John Henry and the Engine.

“We fell into it,” Briscoe said. “It was a good opportunity at the right time and since then we have had a good relationship with Josh Olsen (owner) and everyone at Beer:30. We have been here several times and it is always a blast.”

Zack Daniel, bartender, said The Paperclips usually “put on a great show,” for the bar’s patrons.

“They have a good following, and people like to come watch them play,” Daniel said. “The band has a good time and everyone has a good time watching them.”

The band originally formed for a talent show at the University of Central Missouri and decided to continue performing from there, according to Briscoe.

“We did fairly well in the talent show, we got third place, but the most important thing is we had a blast doing it,” Briscoe said. “We were all stage musicians but we had not played collectively in a band since high school and then we had an opportunity to play together and we enjoyed it, stuck with it and kept trying different things and it eventually lead to this line-up.”

The Paperclips were inspired by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones, according to drummer, Chris Evans. Briscoe classified the band as heavy blues-metal.

“I love listening to the Paperclips every time they come around – it’s a great show,” said Austin Schopper, senior English secondary and physical education major. “They bring a lot of energy, they have good sound and they are a great band to listen to live…The Paperclips re-guide my interest in live music.”

The Paperclips said they plan to perform again at Beer:30 and in the Emporia area, but currently there is no specific date or time set.

“Whatever comes up and sounds good at the time, we will do,” Briscoe said.

Simon Cosper

NO THREE FALL ON THIS NIGHT, JUST A FREE FALL

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) November 22, 2001 | PETER MAY, GLOBE STAFF No turkey jokes today. But it’s not for a lack of material. The Celtics gave us plenty last night.

They lost, at home, to an Atlanta Hawks team that had not won a road game since Feb. 18, a stretch of 21 straight setbacks away from cozy Philips Arena. They lost, at home, to an Atlanta Hawks team that had played the night before in Indiana, blowing a 21-point lead in that one. Boston, meanwhile, had had three days since its last game. They lost, at home, to an Atlanta Hawks team that had beaten them four days earlier. website iron man games

They lost because, for the second straight time against Atlanta, they insisted on relying on 3-point shooting to bail them out. They hoisted a franchise-record 37 treys last Saturday. They followed that up with 29 last night, missing a mind-boggling 25.

Jim O’Brien encourages what he calls “open threes,” but what’s the point if they aren’t made? Erick Strickland had an open three last night, pulling up in transition with no one even close to getting a possible rebound. He missed, and the Hawks got the rebound. That’s an open three – and a dumb shot.

The next team that wins consistently relying on 3-point shooting will be the first. Almost one of every three shots by Boston last night was a trey. Last Saturday, nearly half (37 of 81 attempts) were treys. They lost both times.

The Celtics are averaging an astonishing 25 three-pointers a game. Twenty-five. That represents 31 percent of their field goal attempts. Only one other team – Milwaukee – is averaging as many as 20 treys per game. The seducing stat for the Celtics is that they are connecting on 39.7 percent. (It was 43.6 percent before last night’s Bob The Builder performance.) “We are going to continue to take them,” said Antoine Walker, who took eight last night, a little below his average. “We miss, we miss.” You miss, you usually lose. The Celtics have taken more threes than free throws in four games this season (including last night), and they are 1-3 in those contests.

But the 4-for-29 submission from international waters was only one of many mystifying things that happened to O’Brien’s crew last night. You’re going to see missed treys again. Some of the other things were (the Celtics hope) one-time occurrences that pointed to a bizarre night and an inevitable result.

The calendar may say it’s Thanksgiving, but at times last night you would have sworn it was Halloween. Or the night of the Sports Illustrated curse.

We saw Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker work a pick and roll. Walker broke to the basket. Pierce threw a pass that hit an unaware Walker in the back and caromed out of bounds. ironmangamesnow.com iron man games

We saw the generally sure-handed Walker bring the ball up the floor and inexplicably lose control. As the ball was rolling out of bounds, he jumped to grab it and hoped for a timeout call from the referees. No chance.

We saw Pierce try to throw a downcourt bullet to Strickland, but the ball took off as if it had a mind of its own. No one was near Pierce or Strickland, but the pass went out of bounds.

We saw Pierce play in foul trouble all game (33 minutes) while Walker played his usual iron-man game (45 minutes) and somehow had seven shots blocked. For all the times we like to see Walker down low, he was smothered repeatedly last night.

Those two, incidentally, are featured rather prominently in this week’s SI (although they are not on the cover). The timing could not be worse. The story talks about their bonding on and off the court. Last night, they looked like utter strangers at times.

“I don’t know. It’s weird,” Strickland said. “We played like we haven’t played in a long time.” In truth, they hadn’t played in a long time – four days. The Celtics are finishing up a stretch of only three games in 13 days, and they were 1-2 in those games. On all three occasions, they had time between games while their opponent played the night before.

And, amazingly, they had a chance to pull this one out, which would have made for a richly undeserved victory. They got to within 87-85 with 100 seconds left, but the estimable Shareef Abdur-Rahim followed with a tough turnaround over Tony Battie 20 seconds later. The Celtics would not score again, and the Hawks salted it away at the free throw line.

When O’Brien tries to cue this one up on the videotape machine, he’s going to get one of those warning boxes with the red exclamation point and a message stating that there has been a system error and he is going to lose all the material. Then he will smile. Or at least he should. This one isn’t worth the disk space.

PETER MAY, GLOBE STAFF

Ha Ha Tonka kicks off tour at Beer:30

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Ha Ha Tonka kicks off their tour at Beer:30 on Friday night. The 4 man Indie-rock band from Springfield promoted their new album “Death of a Decade.” Jennifer Pendarvis/The Bulletin

Ha Ha Tonka, an indie-rock band from Springfield, Mo., helped Beer:30 celebrate its fifth birthday by kicking off their largest headlining tour at the bar last Friday night.

“(Ha Ha Tonka) has been coming here, beginning or ending their tours in Emporia, for years now,” said Josh Olsen, owner of Beer:30. “We just lucked out – we had them booked for October but they had a conflict so we switched the day.”

Olsen said Ha Ha Tonka is popular because they put on have a high energy shows and always interact well with the crowd, making them easy to watch and enjoy.

“We started playing here a while ago, and we met a lot of good people who enjoy music and it was just rowdy from the get-go and it’s always been that way,” said Lennon Bone, drummer. “(Emporia) has been notorious from day one to be a really rowdy crowd, and we’ve always enjoyed coming here for that reason.”

Band members said that towns like Emporia are fun places to play.

“It’s towns like Emporia that have their own university that aren’t in a major metropolitan area that are more fun to play because not every band on tour comes through the market,” said Brian Roberts, guitarist and lead singer of the group, “so when you come to Emporia, it has that extra energy,”

Bone said the most flattering way he had heard their music described was “indie rock meets the ‘O Brother Where Art Thou?’ soundtrack.” He said they are still striving for that type of sound.

The band is excited that their sound is continuing to grow and feel that they are still improving as a whole.

“If we come back to a (place we have played before) more people will be there or more people will know the words to our songs,” Roberts said, “and we see that (in) a lot of places around the country and it’s really exciting.”

The band said that once they all could afford motorcycles, that they would feel they had made it as musicians, even though guitarist and mandolin player Brett Anderson said he could afford one, but just didn’t want one.

Ha Ha Tonka is touring in support of their new album “Death of a Decade” and were recently featured on Anthony Bourdain’s TV show “No Reservations.”

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Ha Ha Tonka ends ‘Novel Sounds’ tour

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Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:07
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Lead singer of HA HA Tonka Brian Roberts performs Saturday night at Beer:30. Erica Cassella/ The Bulletin

The stage lights of Beer:30 were lit yet again when Ha Ha Tonka came to entertain about 200 people last Saturday night, finishing up their 2010 tour in a city that they feel always gives them a warm welcome. Antennas Up from Kansas City, Mo. was the opener band.

“It’s a great college town with a really rowdy crowd and it’s just a great place to play,” said Brian Roberts, vocals and guitar for the band. “We’ve been coming to Emporia for close to four years now and we always look forward to that stop on tour.”

Their first album, “Buckle in the Bible Belt,” was released in 2007 and their second album, “Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South,” was released in 2009. And, according to the band, they sound like, “indie rock meets ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

“I thought it was really good,” said Lainie Harber, senior communication major. “I like their music, I think it’s really fun, but what I really enjoy is the crowd they bring in. People are so excited to see them and they bring a really neat atmosphere.”

They also plan to release a third album in the spring of 2011 titled, “Death of a Decade.” The band plans to return to Emporia in April when they go on tour for that album.

“The end of the decade is an obvious reference point to the first point in our lives that we felt that passage of time,” Roberts said. “It’s not a funeral procession for the last years, it’s more like that morbidly optimistic praise that the passage of time is better than the alternative, we’re peaking around the corner to see what’s coming next.”

The band consists of Brett Anderson on keyboard and guitar, Lennon Bone on drums, Lucas Long on bass and Brian Roberts on guitar. While Roberts sings most of the songs, all of the other members also pitch in vocals.

“They’re our biggest crowd pulling band, as far as straight entertainment music,” said Josh Olsen, owner of Beer:30. “We keep having them back just to bring something to Emporia. For a three dollar cover, you can see a nationally touring, signed band.”

Ha Ha Tonka was signed by Bloodshot Records in 2007 and they are very proud of their Ozarkian heritage, a very important influence in their music. In fact, they take their name from a state park in the area.

“We’ve always tried to sing about what we know and where we’re from so there are a lot of Ozarkian trends in both the music and the lyrics,” Roberts said. “I think if there’s any prevailing theme throughout our music, it would be that we are a band from the Ozarks.”

The band has been together for around five years so they are no strangers to Emporia, having played here several times. And according to Roberts, Emporia is one of their favorite places to play.

Alex Pederson

The Art of Bartending: Student bartenders balance work and play

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Thursday, 07 October 2010 15:36
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For Natalie Denton, junior secondary English education major, the best part about being a bartender at Beer:30 is the fast-paced environment where time flies by rather quickly.

“With some jobs, your three hour shift can take forever, but three hours at (the bar) feels like a second because you’re always busy doing something,” Denton said.

Denton has been bartending for three years, and she enjoys the adrenaline and excitement that comes with the job. She also likes the social aspect, in that she will often see her friends at the bar.

But Denton said that being a female bartender is not without its drawbacks, and that girls tend to face more challenges than male bartenders.

“The guys (customers) can be very ‘handsy’, and because I’m a woman, I’m not taken very seriously when I try to kick someone out – I’ve been laughed at before,” Denton said.

Zack Daniels, senior political science major and bartender at Beer:30, said that women bartenders do get hassled by unruly drinkers, and they often have a harder time cutting off drunk people than a man would.

Fortunately, Denton said that the bouncers at Beer:30 are helpful in these types of situations and that there is always an extra guy on hand to “watch out” for the bartenders, male and female alike.

“Since the girls tend to be harassed more than the guys, we’re definitely a little more protective of them,” said Trent Line, sophomore biology major and Beer:30 bouncer.

Daniels said that the biggest downside to being a bartender is dealing with rowdy customers, but the bouncers on hand will step in when need and that it’s also crucial to know observe the actions of drinkers and to know when to cut people off.

Line said that things can sometimes become physically violent, but there is usually more than one bouncer present to handle to the situation.

Denton said that she does witness a lot of fights at the bar, but she usually isn’t aware of the circumstances involved.

“People get drunk and fight – I don’t know what they fight over, but it’s generally over something stupid like they’ve accidentally bumped into each other or one of them was talking to the other’s girlfriend… stupid stuff,” Denton said.

There are some social implications for student bartenders. Denton said that occasionally on campus, someone will recognize her as the girl who kicked them out of the bar the night before.

Since she works until about 3 a.m. on some school nights, Denton said balancing classes and work can be tough, but she has learned to adapt her schedule to the routine by napping in between obligations. She also drinks a lot of coffee.

Denton saidthat bartenders need to be able to work well under pressure, multitask, have patience to deal with drunk and rude customers and think fast to serve drinks quickly and efficiently.

“You’ve got to keep your cool because people will be rude and say things, but you can’t lose your focus,” Denton said.

Daniels said that a benefit to bartending at Beer:30 is that he can still enjoy the social aspect of being in a bar atmosphere without spending any money, and that she gets to meet a lot of people.

“You can bartend for someone all night, and they’ll tell you their life story, but when you see them the next day on campus, they have no idea who you are,” Denton said.

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The Deedles to play at Beer30

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Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:22
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The Deedles

For the first time since May, Emporia’s The Deedles are playing at Beer30 on Friday at 10:30 p.m. Bassist Adam Smith said the band has some new material that they’re excited to play and that he never knows what to expect at the local bar.

“Usually the next morning you find random articles of clothing, flip flops, stuff like that all over the bar, which is definitely proof that people had a good time,” Smith said.

Bar owner Josh Olsen said he’s known most of the band’s members for about nine years and they frequently play at Beer30.

“They just bring a professional side of music to whatever bar they play, just from being on the road,” Olsen said.

Guitarist and vocalist Garret Briggeman said the band has gone through various changes over the years as far as members, style and name. Originally, it was called Locamachine, then the Dewayn Brothers and as of last August, they became the Deedles. Briggeman said it started out as an experimental rock band, and then moved into more bluegrass.

“It’s all just kind of been an evolution from one project into the next,” Briggeman said.

Smith said he had been involved with a band called Oakhurst in Colorado, and after touring together in 2007, he made friends with the members of the DeWayn Brothers. In April 2008, Briggeman called him to see if he could play bass for the Deedles.
“I played mandolin and electric guitar in Oakhurst, but Garret called me up and asked if I could play the bass and I said ‘No, not yet’, and he’s like, ‘Well you want to play bass in the rock band? I said sure,” Smith said.

Smith said the band’s sound hits everything from modern rock to classic rock. He said its blues, country, and the band’s bluegrass roots are still visible.

“It absolutely is different than anything we’ve ever done, I mean it’s basically just rock. It’s everything that the word rock which is also a pretty broad word, encompasses,” Smith said.

Jamie Briggeman, guitarist and vocalist, said a lot of the band’s songs are ones that she and Garret would perform acoustically because they didn’t quite fit in with the bluegrass feel of the DeWayn Brothers.

“We’ve had these songs for a long time, it was just kind of like they were on the shelf, you know, so once the bluegrass band dispersed we finally had a chance to really focus on it and make it our goal to do the songs full time,” Jamie said.

Smith said it’s difficult having the experience that the members of the Deedles do and having to start with a new band that nobody’s heard about. Despite having to start from the beginning, Smith said he thinks with all of the touring and experience they all know what to do this time.

“We have to take what we know about it and just start from the ground up, but we’ve learned so many lessons about what to do what not to do that we feel really good about this being the one,” Smith said.

Lauren Walbridge

Muffington to perform at Beer:30 tomorrow

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Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:06
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Local musicians Muffington are planning to rock the halls of Beer:30 with their reunited group tomorrow, with Stacy Kumberg opening for them.

“We haven’t had Tyler Stephens, our rhythm guitarist, for a few weeks,” said Riley Day, junior music education major. “He’s coming back from Ohio to practice with us this Wednesday, so that’ll be very refreshing.”

Muffington, an experimental rock band made up of students from fifth floor South Towers dormitories at Emporia State, has been in the Emporia music scene for over two years now.

“The local music scene is a tight knit group,” said Glenn Woolard, junior percussion performance major. “We owe a lot to the guys at Flint Hills music.”

The group’s distinctive style combines elements of jazz, reggae and alternative rock. At previous shows, they’ve covered Grateful Dead songs and Beatles songs.

Stephens, former ESU student and guitarist for Muffington, had left the group to go back to Ohio with his father for a time, but is returning to play with the group for the show this Friday.

“My dad lives in Ohio and I am moving back with him,” Stephens said in a previous interview. “Hobo Monk is made up of my dad’s friends from Ohio.”

Part of the group’s goals for the reunion is to practice together for a tour that would include Kansas City and Ohio.

“Our plan is to go up to Ohio where Tyler’s dad has some connections to make a CD,” Woolard said. “After we get our CD out, we can fund our tour, or use the money so we don’t have to eat virtually nothing.”

This summer is going to be integral in the band’s growth, Day said.

“We’ll hopefully get our CD made this summer,” Woolard said. “Then maybe we’ll be able to get to Lawrence, Ohio, or Kansas City.”

The band attributes its success largely to the collaboration it has had with Josh and Jared Olsen, owners of Beer:30, particularly with Josh’s volunteering to play bass.

“We wouldn’t be anywhere without them,” Woolard said. “They’re awesome guys, and they’ve helped us out ever since the open-mic night.”

In a prior interview, Josh Olsen conveyed his enjoyment at being invited to play with Muffington, and described how he believed the local music scene was trying to grow.

“I’ve been friends with them for a while, and they needed a bass player for some songs,” Olsen said. “I think the local music scene is trying to grow.”

The concert at Beer:30 starts at 10:30 p.m. with Kumberg and Muffington’s keyboardist Greg “Greenhorn” Drummond performing together.

“Drummond is a great keyboardist, and he is a baller,” Day said. “Also, everybody should watch Stacy open, since she has such a beautiful voice. After that we come on around midnight, and get to play after everybody’s had a few drinks.”

John Henry and the Engine bring ‘Americana’ music to Beer:30

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Thursday, 17 September 2009 15:34
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John Henry, lead vocalist and guitarist, sings late Friday night at Beer:30, 4th and Merchant streets. The band is planning a tour of Europe in 2010. Jennifer Baldwin/The Bulletin.

On Friday, John Henry and the Engine performed onstage at Beer:30. The St. Louis/ Columbia, Mo based band is touring about 100-110 dates a year and has had shows in Emporia for the past few years.

“We’ve been playing in Emporia for about two years off and on,” guitarist and vocalist John Henry said, “more on lately. We were introduced to the scene by Ha Ha Tonka. They just showed us this market here in Kansas and it was pretty close to home and the people cared about live music, so that’s why we’re here.”

The band classifies itself as “Americana” music and keyboardist and vocalist Wes Wingate said their influence is American music of all kinds, including country, soul, gospel and rock and roll. At the show, they played covers of Credence Clearwater Revival.

“You know, the stuff they’re doing is pretty late 60s-esque stuff,” said John Shell, music major. “I mean, it is what it is and they play it very well. When you do covers, you want to hear somebody that can nail it.”

Henry and Wingate said they like playing in Emporia because there’s always a crowd of people that care about the music.
“The best thing about Emporia is probably the fact that there ain’t much to do in Emporia,” Wingate said. “So we are gathered here and everybody who is going to be out tonight is going to be here, really and that centralizes it which is harder.

“The bigger the city, the more it’s like a hotdog down a hallway, but here we can just really get a lot of people at once. And you know that they’re going to care about what you’re doing most of the time, so that’s a really good quality of this town.”

Eric Nelson, a member of The Whiskey Trio, which opened for John Henry, said he was honored to open for a band that the crowd really enjoyed.

“I thought it was great,” Nelson said. “It’s nice that there’s touring musicians coming to Emporia that care enough to stop here. It’s just good that we have musicians from other parts of the country coming through here.”

John Henry and the Engine plan on touring Europe in 2010. They are also coming out with a new EP on vinyl in October and will be back in Emporia towards the end of that month.

“The goals that we have are to constantly write better songs and to expand the radius that we tour in and to build up so that everyone can hear us,” Henry said. “We want people to hear the music that we do because we feel like what we’re doing is honest American music and we’re not trying to bullshit anybody.”

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Fexofenadine, loratadine supported for reactions, but not chlorpheniramine.

Clinical Trials Week January 27, 2003 2003 JAN 27 – (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) — “The extent of the distribution of H-1-antihistamines into the skin and H-1-antihistamine activity in the skin are clinically relevant in the treatment of allergic skin disorders,” researchers in Canada report.

“In a prospective, randomized, double blind, parallel group, multiple dose study, we gave fexofenadine 180 mg, loratadine 10 mg, or chlorpheniramine 8 mg to 21 men (7 in each group). Before dosing and at 1, 3, 6, 9, and 24 hours after the first antihistamine dose as well as at 168, 192, and 216 hours after the first dose (12, 36, and 60 hours after the seventh and last consecutive daily H-1-antihistamine dose), we measured fexofenadine, loratadine, or chlorpheniramine concentrations in plasma and in skin tissue samples obtained through use of punch biopsies, along with suppression of histamine induced skin wheals and flares. in our site loratadine side effects

“Loratadine metabolites, including desloratadine and its metabolites, were not measured, and chlorpheniramine metabolites were not measured,” wrote F.E.R. Simons and colleagues, Winnipeg.

The researchers found that “all 21 participants completed the study. Skin/plasma fexofenadine ratios ranged from 1.2[+ or -]0.5 at 1 hour to 110[+ or -]74 at 24 hours, and skin fexofenadine concentrations exceeded loratadine and chlorpheniramine skin concentrations at each test time. This was reflected in significant wheal and flare suppression by fexofenadine in comparison with loratadine at 3 hours and in comparison with chlorpheniramine at 6 hours and 9 hours (wheal), and from 3-24 hours and at 192 hours (flare).

“Compared with fexofenadine, loratadine significantly suppressed the wheal at 192 hours, and compared with chlorpheniramine, it significantly suppressed the wheal at 9 hours and the flare at 24 and 192 hours. At no time did chlorpheniramine suppress the wheal or flare significantly more than fexofenadine or loratadine.” The researchers concluded: “In skin disorders for which H-1-antihistamines are recommended, these results support the use of fexofenadine or loratadine, and they indicate the need for reexamination of the use of chlorpheniramine.” Simons and colleagues published their study in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (Clinical pharmacology of H-1-antihistamines in the skin. J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2002;110(5):777-783). website loratadine side effects

The contact person for this report is F.E.R. Simons, 820 Sherbrook St., Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9, Canada.

To subscribe to the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, contact the publisher: Mosby, Inc., 11830 Westline Industrial Dr., St. Louis, MO 63146-3318 USA.

The information in this article comes under the major subject areas of Allergy Medicine, Dermatology and Pharmacology.

This article was prepared by Clinical Trials Week editors from staff and other reports.