April 6, 1999

SOUNDSCAPE

Over The Edge Page 5

Topless girls, spit and guitars

by Dan Shugar

In the eighties, they
were the undisputed
gods of the glam metal
arena. Come _ the
nineties, where angst
rock, lacking even the
slightest scrap of musi-
cal prowess, is the
norm, Motely Crue siill
manages to pack a
punch. Motley Cure
rocked the audience
Friday, March 26th at
the Prince George
Multiplex.

Kings Incorporated, a
local Prince George

band opened the show,
with a short 4-song set,

consisting of two heavy
tunes, followed by two
acoustically — inclined
ballads.

Next to plug in their
guitars was Noise
Therapy. The Vancouver
foursome has opened
for such bands as
Marilyn Manson,
Brother Cain and Filter.
Noise Therapy hit the
stage complete with
banners, smoke
machines, and spiky
hair. Also adorning the
stage was an inflatable
sex toy, in the shape of
a cow, which guitarist
Kai Markus
“played” with
throughout the
set. The band
certainly did not
disappoint when
it came to stage
presence. Too
bad the crowd
§ was less excited
than a tamed
kitten. Markus
tried fruitlessly
to get the crowd
on their feet.
“Are you guys
allowed to

stand, or is that against
the fucking rules around
here?”

After Noise Therapy
had finished their set,
we had about an hour
wait before the Crue
was set to hit the stage.
The tension was thicker
than the smoke from the
many joints being
passed around. All of a
sudden, the lights
dimmed and a profusion
of smoke escaped from
the sides of the stage,
turning the metaphori-
cal clock all the way
back to 1987. Four
leather clad men magi-
cally appeared on stage
to the delight of the
thousands people who
began hooting and hol-
lering. In an instant, the
formerly submissive
mass metamorphosed
into a true throng of
metal heads. Vince Neil
took the mike, wearing a
leopard skin cowboy
hat, and a hearing aid.
The band looked just
like they did in their hey-
day, albeit without the
big hair.

The gods of glam metal, Motely Crue, take Prince George
back to the 80’s with Dr. Feelgood in the Multiplex March 26.
photo by Dan Shugar

The Crue opened their
long awaited set with Dr
Feelgood, and contin-
ued with classics like
Live Wire, Shout at the
Devil, and Same ol’
Situation. Perhaps the
most memorable part of
the concert, for most of
the men there, at least,
was the throngs of top-

Border Cross Taken by UNBC Student

By Jeremy Fung

On March 27 Mike
“tug” Landahl took the
north by surprise. Mike
finished first of our 32
competitors in the bor-
der cross competition at
Powder King.

There were six heats
leading up to the final
event, Mike placed sec-
ond in all the heats until
the final run. In the final
race Mike was in third
place until the second to
last kicker, “Il had been
taking the straighter left
kicker the entire time,
but | liked the exotic
right kicker” Mike
explained in a slightly
inebriated fashion.
(Mike, his manager
Adam Hoffar, and his
trainer Tom Avery had
consumed about 8

beers by the time | final-
ly got to talk to them)
To pass the second
place finisher Mike tried
another new move. He
had always checked his
speed over the last two
humps, however, this
time he kept going full
speed and it panned out
for him as he passed
just before the finish
line.

Adam the manager,
said “I got him his gin-
gerale. The only other
thing | could have done
was gone out and
clubbed the other guy
for him. So | prayed.”
Kevin Cathers, another
UNBC student finished
in third place.

Mike has been snow-
boarding for six years.

Before coming to UNBC
he taught snowboarding
at Mount Washington
for four years. He has
been known to take
entire semesters off to
go snowboarding. tn
fact one winter he lived
in a 12-foot trailer with 3
other people and a dog,
just so he could go
snowboarding.

The prize for first place
was a $600 Option
snowboard (with a cari-
bou on it) donated from
Ruins board shop.

In the off-season Mike
wake boards, golfs, and
does hand exercises to
keep his wrists strong.
He claims he will be
back next year to
defend his title. He
would also like to send

a thanks out to Mattias,
Par, and Johann: The
Swedish Connection,
and to the Multi.

Profile:

Hair: Dirty Blond
Height: 5’10”

Weight: 165
Hometown: Nanaimo
Major: Forestry

Rides: Solomon goofy
style

Favourite move: Gainer
Favourite movie: Anita
Favourite beer: Pilsner
Hey ladies, he’s a
Scorpio

Favourite car: Nissan
Multi

Favourite event:
40athon

less women on stage. In
addition to their own

dancers, drummer
Tommy Lee was invit-
ing, well, pestering is

more the word, girls to
take off their tops and
come up onto the stage.

They rocked long and

hard, and closed the
evening with an encore
of Anarchy in the UK.

The Crue are set to
tour again this summer,
alongside veteran rock-
ers The Scorpions.
Long live the decade of
revival tours!

Mike “Tug” Landahi displays his ability to
sleep the velcro wall anywhere at anytime.
-Photo by Jeremy Blouechen