European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sun s up for greenday by Deedee Doke staff writer t was t the mud the stench the emergency Oral surgery he required afterwards or playing to thousands upon thousands of people that Mike dirt of Green Day remembers most from performing at Woodstock 94. Instead tooling around in a Golf cart got dirndl s vote As Quot a major highlight Quot of the ,. Outdoor fest. / a Quot us and the Beattie boys and the breeders All had a big race and got in a big wreck and we Hurt Mike d of the Beattie boys Quot the wiry bassist reveals As fans clamor outside a Cologne Germany nightclub in the rain to be first inside for Green Day s recent sold out show.,. A a. A. Quot. Quot tie was t hurl that bad Quot dirt continues. Quot he was sore. But it was funny. Green Day and the Beattie boys almost killed each other. We were one Inch from killing ourselves off. We were going head first As fast As we could go a we were playing Chicken a and none of us budged and we missed by one Inch. Every one of us nearly so our  in Case you Haven t been listening to the radio watching mtg or checking out the charts Green Day is an All american breakthrough band of the year with its megabit album Dookie. Combining cheery simple melodies with nihilistic lyrics and goofy stage antics Green Day a consisting of dirt Lead Singer Billie Joe and drummer tre Cool a represents the 14-year-old boy in All of us the class Clown masking anger smarts and boredom with amiable goofiness and silly faces. The Trio s silliness exemplified say by Billie Joe s spitting up to the ceiling during a show and catching Ilie remains in his Mouth when it comes Down a is part theatrics and partly an attempt to let the audience know that the Guys onstage Are just Well regular Guys. How much  can they be Green Days amps Omodeo Doke Billie Joe of Green Day faces a moshing grappling crowd in Cologne Germany. Invites its audiences to heckle them announcing at regular intervals throughout the show Quot hey i m a of a a Moron and so Are  and forget the stereotypical Rock Star excesses dirt says pointing out that the band frowns on Star treatment like limousines. Even More important to Green Day dirt says is making the crowd feel like part of the show. A a a. A a Quot a Quot i think it s time the crowd got involved. That s your 20 Bucks that went into that concert. Number one you should t have paid 20 Bucks. Number two you should t have to idol sic somebody who s onstage Quot they Are the reason you re there Quot dirt continues referring to the audiences Quot it s not because you showed up because you wanted to have people worshipping you. They re not going to put up with that any More. V Quot it s a Little More difficult Irv Europe Quot dirt says of interacting with show goers. Quot there s a language Barrier. That taught us a lot about theatrics. You can t go up there and just talk your usual  it s one thing to interact with the crowd from the stage where a performer sets the Pace and the tone for. Whatever will come. But offstage it s another Issue entirely dirt is clearly shy about wading into a crowd of concertgoers who have come to see him and his buddies play. On the Way to an interview he asks a tour overseer if they can avoid going through the masses huddling outside the nightclub s front door. And he acknowledges feeling Quot kind of trapped that i could t go out and like walk around the shows because i would get stopped by a lot of people Quot. During Woodstock 94. A a a. Quot i m just kind of Claustrophobic Quot he concedes. When asked about the Paradox adding that fans he encounters tend to ask him the same questions All the. Time. That s Why he does interviews he says so that. The message gets to everyone. A a Green Day makes no secret of growing up without in California. Dirt and a sibling were raised by their Mother who had problems with what dirt Calls Quot a dysfunctional  Billie Joe s Mother a waitress reared him and his siblings mostly alone. Dirt is eager to explain that the facts of earning a living today contribute to the pessimistic slant of Green Day s lyrics. A a a a a a a \ a a a. Quot people tap on that Stacker generation x bulls we get plugged with that a lot Quot dirt said. Quot we re not slackers. We just realize that our reality today is a lot harsher. You Don t understand what it s like to go to school and have the Guy next to you say you better give me something or i m going to blow your head off  go to school through a Metal  Quot you know i  work really hard not to work. It makes sense considering i know i la be dead in at least 100 years Quot dirt said. Quot what am Gonna do Well i might As Well go out and Start looking for something now that s going to make me Happy for the rest of my  but there s also a hopeful aspect to the dwindling guarantees of a comfortable life. Quot in any Type of recession in any time of War things like that you get a real cultural outburst. I think that s really code Quot dirt said Quot and we re going to have some really neat things to look Forward to culturally. So i m focusing my energies toward that. I always have  constantly on the Road since Dookie came out earlier this year look for Green Day to soon take six months off to reassert their roots dirt reports that Billie Joe will soon be the father of a son and tre Cool has a baby girl on the Way. Quot we re going to go Home and take care of business Quot dirt says. Quot if you get too far from where you come from Ana who you were and from what made you big you become a parody of what you were. And that s  is Devilish fun by Edward Karam staff writer Hen Dick dudgeon the hero of George Bernard Shaw s the Devil s disciple faces hanging by the redcoats he complains about the method to Quot gentlemanly Johnny Quot Burgoyne the British general overseeing the suppression of the american rebels in new Hampshire in 1777. Quot i think you might have the decency to treat me As a prisoner of War and shoot me like a Man instead of hanging me like a dog Quot Dick protests to Burgoyne. Quot now there. You speak like a civilian if you will excuse  so Quot responds Daniel Massey s suave and witty general in the Royal National theatre s current production in London. Quot have you any idea of the average marksmanship of the army of his majesty King George the third Quot the fun in Shaw s 1097 melodrama comes from subverting our expectations characters in melodrama Are usually on dimensional but Shaw s two heroes a the smuggler and rebel Dick and the upright Rev. Anthony Anderson a find their True destinies by embracing their opposite colors. The Devil s disciple Quot May possibly be the most monstrous piece of farcical Absurdity that Ever made Ari audience shriek with laughter Quot Shaw wrote. A a. A unfortunately time has dulled some of its comic Edge at least in the first half. In our age of anti heroes the notion of a. Scoundrel a Dick the self proclaimed Quot devils disciple Quot a who is really Good is no longer outrageously funny. It was still amusing As recently As 1941, when the most famous example Bogart s Rick in Casablanca a appeared but nowadays the Way a bad Guy hero gets laughs is to toss off quips while reloading his heavy weapons. V Richard Bonneville however brings Welcome Energy to the rebel hero. His strapping sympathetic Dick strides into his Mother s shabby Cabin and scores amusingly off his hypocritical relatives one by one. Mark Benton As his lumbering brother Christy provides some comedy too. But if the laughs Are thin initially director Christopher Morahan wisely emphasizes Shaw s psychological insights into human nature. Dick s cruel Mother Frances Cuka is embittered because her minister steered her to marry Dick s father an upright Man she did t love and disapproved of her love for Dick s Uncle who has just been hanged As a rebel. That her Loveless Union led to child abuse is one of those amazing twists that make Shaw so modern. The main event however begins when Dick is invited to Tea a with Anderson the presbyterian minister and Leader of the Community. Anderson s wife Judith struggles to reconcile obedience to her husband with her distaste for Dick s refusal to Bow to her husband s authority. Ironically she  same. Trouble Quot he insulted you he insulted me he insulted his Mother Quot on disc play the Devil s disciple theater Royal National theatre ticket prices from 7 pounds to 22 pounds a run dates through nov. 30 nearest tube Waterloo or embankment phone 071928-2252a a Courtesy photo Richard Bonneville As Richard dudgeon and Helen Mccrory As Judith Anderson share a scene in Quot the Devil s disciple Quot. Complains Helen Mccrory s pent up Judith As the. Andersons await Dick s arrival. A a Quot Vivell it let s forgive him and then it won t matter Quot responds Paul Jesson s superbly tranquil cleric. During Tea Anderson is called away. Suddenly British troops enter looking for the minister. Knowing the British intend to hang Anderson As an example to the american colonists Dick claims he is the minister and forces Judith to go along. When Anderson returns and realizes what has. Happened the play explodes into c5mic life. Hitherto Cool As a Flea on a Polar Bear Jesson bursts into a wild eyed frenzy Quot get me the pistols i want them. And Money Money Money Quot he yells at Judith. Dick s Noble. Sacrifice demands an equally unlikely response from Anderson a so he s off to Lead the rebels. In the second half in the Shadow of the Gallows being constructed under a map of colonial new Hampshire and a fagade of settlers Cabins designed by John Gunter Shaw s comedy finally soars. Now Judith takes on the role of the Devil s disciple urging Dick to Tell the British the truth at his trial and save himself. But it s the general who will later surrender at Saratoga to whom Shaw gives the Best lines in the play. Quot martyrdom sir is what these people like Quot Burgoyne tells maj. Swindon the stolid thick headed local commander of the British forces Quot it is the Only Way in which a Man can become famous without  a Jeremy Sinden As Swindon provides a stammering foil for Massey who has a Field Day As Burgoyne although he. Smirks a bit much at the  tossing off Many of his Juicy lines. The finale is both melodramatic and subversive As Shaw intended the British Are foiled like americans win and incidentally so does the audience divine intervention Slayer american Ven by the usual blood and guts standards of death Metal the stuff on slayers divine intervention seems just a Tad extreme. It Isnit just the Throat wrenching singing that Powers songs like killing Fields or serenity in murder frankly that sort of. Vocal blood lust is fairly common in the genre. Nor is it the full color photo inside the cd showing How a fan had carved the bands name into his Arm done to try that at Home. And though the bands sound a an ear punishing swirl of snarling guitars and sucker punch Drums a is harder and heavier than before even this does no to raise Slayer appreciably above the death Metal Norm. No what seems most disturbing about divine intervention is the marriage of sex and homicide outlined without any hint of satire in the likes of 213 or . To describe sexual victimization a enthusiastically As Slayer does Here Isnit daring a a its disgusting consequently there a nothing at All divine about this album. A a . Cons Dine Baltimore sun11 tracks of whack Walter Becker giant dozen lost steely Dan demos the arrangements Are sketcher than the Danes and the lyrics Are less obtuse a a though dealing with the same Low life characters a but that s still the impression of this fairly casual sounding set. If you be been waiting for some revelatory masterpiece the silent Dan partner has been keeping inside him All these years you la have to keep waiting. A Steve Hochman. Los Angeles times Amouna Bryan ferry Virgin Ryan ferry has been doing the soulful a a a sophisticate routine for so Long that it May take a few songs before most listeners realize that Mam Una is a new album. That a not entirely a complaint mind you certainly anyone who enjoyed the sound of boys and girls or bite Noire will have few complaints with the Silke grooves and murmured vocals he provides. N.y.c., for instance e a Quot in is a stylish slice of High Gross Funk that manages to convey both the glitter and grime of Manhattan nightlife while the dark snaky rhythm arrangement beneath gemini Moon lends a ferry wonderful sense of sexual v tension to ferry a singing. Trouble is once ferry gets past setting the mood he too often finds himself with nothing to say and apart from the album s haunting title tune there a relatively Little in the Way of memorable music Here. _ a a . Considine Baltimore Sun pop singles 1. I la make love to you Boyz ii men 2. All i Wanna do Sheryl Crow 3. Endless love Luther Vandross amp Mariah Carey. 4. When can i see you baby face 5. Never lie immature 6. At your Best you Are love Aaliyah 7. Stroke you up changing faces 8. Wild night John Mellencamp amp me Shell Ndege Ocello a a a. A 9. Secret Madonna a 10. Another night real Mccoy top albums 1. Monster . 2. Ii Boyz ii men 3. From the Cradle Eric Clapton 4. Rhythm of love Anita Baker 5. Songs Luther Vandross 6. The lion King soundtrack Vario ious artists. 7. Smash offspring 8. Divine intervention Slayer. 9. Dookie Green Day 10. The concert barbra Streisand it a i i a it it v a i a a country singles 1. She a not the cheating kind Brooks amp Dunn a. 2. Who s that Man Toby Keith 3. Calling Baton Rouge Garth Brooks 4.1 try to think about Elvis Patty Loveless 5. Down on the farm Tim Mcgraw 6. She dreams Mark Chesnutt 7. Watermelon crawl Tracy Byrd 8. When you walk in the room Pam Tillis 9. Levin on love Alan Jack on 10. Third rate Romance Samreny Kershaw 20 the stars and Stripe dance Maxi singles 1. Take it easy mad lion 2. Bucko pm Down Black Moon 3. Flava in a ear Craig Mack bad boy 4. Here comes the hot stepper Ini Amoze 5. Short Dick Man 20 fingers 6. Turn the beat around Gloria Estefan 7. July unbelievable the notorious big. 8. Another night real Mccoy a 9. What i need Crystal Walters 10. Afro puffs the lady of rage latin tracks 1. Ella quo me Quler As Luis Miguel 2. Bid Bill bom bom Selena 3. Manana Cristian 4. Pero que be Ceslad Juan Gabriel 5. Lanona Fresa Bandaz 6. Mls Erla Vicente Fernandez 7. Tulo decl late Ana Gabriel. G. Quien Eres to Luis Enrique get Sigo esperanto Ednita Nazario a Joen Las tubes Edgar Joel Friday. October 14, 1994 reggae singles 1. Queen of the pack Patra 2. Yaga Yaga terror fabulous 3. Kids from foreign born americans 4. Reggae dancer inner Circle 5. Bad boy sinner Circle 1 6. Promises amp us ub40 7. Vex steel pulse 8. A Cool runnings soundtrack various a artists 9. Reggae Gold 94, various artists 10. Voice of Jamaica Buju Banto album Rock tracks 1. What s the frequency Kenneth , 2. Zombie the cranberries 3. Interstate love song Stone Temple pilots 4. Feel the pain Dinosaur or. 5. Self esteem offspring 6,1 alone live 7. Basket Case Green Day 8. Fade into you mazzy Star 9. Supernova Liz Phair 10. Seethed Verruca Salt a compiled by billboard focus a entertainment editor. ,.,. Editorial assistant. Deedee Doke Sandee Jones listing contributors staff writers Marian Hamilton Cindee Morrison sue Palumbo Nancy y l. Torner also Ferenc Pajtas. A Send entertain mint news tips Story ideas and. Listings to the stars and stripes entertainment unit 29480. Apo a 09211 or civilian postrach11 14 37, 64278 Darmstadt Germany. Telephone Dan 348-8350, Civ. 06155-601350 Tel fax 06155-601416. A outside Germany the country code is 49. Drop the 0 from the prefix. The stars and stripes