Emmylou Harris will be at the Universal Amphitheatre July 24, and Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens will be there July 30 with K.D. Tickets for both shows go on sale Monday. 15, 16 and 19, and at the Pacific Amphitheatre on Sept. LIVE ACTION: Barry Manilow will be at the Greek Theatre on Sept. One week, I’m a jerk, the next I’m a genius.” QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Asked in the June issue of England’s Q magazine about continuing complaints by critics that he changes musical styles too much, Neil Young replied: “If Neil Young did do the same thing over and over again and wasn’t a weirdo, then the critics would be going, ‘Oh, Neil Young, he’s so boring.’ You can’t win. I told him, ‘We just write songs that disgust people.’ ” Smiling, Araya adds: “He looked at me for a while, and I decided to have some fun. “In England, I did an interview with one writer and he brought up the fact that I was (born in) Chile and he wanted to know what my politics were and I said, ‘There aren’t any politics in the band.’ ” But then I thought, ‘Who cares what they say-as long as we like what we’re doing and fans come to the shows?’
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“I remember the first review we ever got in L.A. “We’ve always been outsiders,” says Araya, 27. Slayer bassist Tom Araya, who was in town to work with Rubin and Hanneman on the final album mixes, says the controversy over the band-especially in England-bothered him at first, but he has adjusted to it. It’s not that I am one of them or that it’s a sympathetic song. Replies Hanneman, who wrote the song: “I’m into German history and Nazi Germany. They know it is just a story and just fun.”īut what about “Angel of Death,” a song about Nazi death camps that reportedly led some pop journalists in Europe to accuse the group of being fascist. The kids get into it on the same level we do. It’s fun because (the songs and movies) shock you. “Take the song ‘Piece by Piece,’ about chopping up somebody. But they are just stories-not things we actually do or recommend anyone else go out and do. “We write the songs that we do because that’s what we like. “I’d like to think we will get more air play with this album, but I’m not counting on it because it has the same attitude and lyrics,” Hanneman explains. Hanneman, however, denies that there’s any retreat in the new album, titled “South of Heaven” and due in stores July 12. The question as Slayer returned to the studio last month in Los Angeles with producer Rick Rubin (who also worked with the Beastie Boys) was whether the band-now that it has attracted so much attention-will follow the path of so many heavy-metal bands and tone down its music in hopes of picking up some radio air play, the key to wider sales.Īfter all, Slayer’s one foray into the rock mainstream-a remake of Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” on last year’s “Less Than Zero” sound-track album-did get some radio exposure around the country, though it was the Bangles’ winsome version of “Hazy Shade of Winter” that turned the LP into a best seller.
94 on the national pop charts-despite almost no air play on rock radio stations. The album was eventually released by Geffen Records and climbed to No.