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cally acclaimed Indiana
rocker.

“I haven't said this before,
but this is a blues record,”
Mellencamp continues in a
voice raspy from cigarettes.
“When you heard Cross-
roads, and the guy sings, I
believe I'm sinking fast —
you know that feeling.”

It’s been a while since
Mellencamp, 36, has known
that feeling.

After l-d: d

the years, he says its source
remains the same: boredom.

“I don't live to write; I
write to live,” he said. “I
cannot write unless there's
absolutely nothing going on.
Writing’s a painful thing for
me, but once I'm there, I'm
there. Six or seven months,
every day down in the
laundry room, for this last
album.”

For The Lonesome Jubilee,
the music changed — dobro,
accordion, -and fiddle are
prominent — and the lyries
“were blue lyrics, sad songs
about the sad times we live
in,” said Mellencamp, who
says he'll be glad to see a new
face in the White House.

“The end of the Reagan
era? I feel wonderful about
that. A few years from now,
nobody will want to admit to

ting for the guy,” said

changed since those days.

He still lives in Seymour,
Ind., his birthplace, but now
he has three children. He has
become a star but, at the
same time, his celebrity has
grown and his perspective on
his music has changed.

“It's more rewarding for
me now. The rewards are
seeing people my own age,
people 14 years old, people 50
years old, and they're all
digging these songs,” said
Mellencamp. “I started out
selfish in the music business,
doing it all for me.

“But now I'm really there
for them.”

However, don't be misled.
The changing attitude

doesn't mean the feisty Mel-
lencamp has mellowed. In
fact, the mere suggestion
annoys him.

“T've seen that twice, and
T'm aghast. Mellow Mellen-
camp? The record was ma-
ture at first, but now it's
mellow,” he says, voice ris-
ing. “Well, put it up against
any other rock record today,
and see how it matches up.”

The ire soon disappears,
and is replaced with detach-
ment.

“Hey, don't get me wrong.
After all is said and done, it is
just a rock ‘n' roll record,” he
said. “I mean, I’m not kidding
myself — it's not a world-
changing thing.”

NEC showing
Groepler works

The West Kootenay Na
tional Exhibition Centre is
featuring the recent pastel

it of Robson artist

and performer at all three
Farm Aid shows.
Yet Mell whose

problems with his manager,
his image and the critics
early in his career, he has
produced some of the finest
rock ‘n’ roll albums of the
decade: Uh Huh, Scarecrow
and now The Lonesome Jub-
ilee.

“After 15 years of making
records, you've got to get
better,” Mellencamp said
during a Manhattan stopover
in his national tour. “If you
don’t, buddy, you're in the
wrong business.”

While Mellencamp, and
others, feel his writing has

latest single Cherry Bomb
takes a wistful look at the
past, says he still believes the
current times of crisis will
someday become the good old
days.

“Oh sure. That's the funny
thing about nostalgia, about
memory. I remember being
in college, hating every
second of every day. And I
remember talking to a guy I
lived with, and he said,
‘Yeah, but 10 years from
now, we're going to think this
was a good time,” he said,
laughing.

P' is over

Mell "s life has

Sandra Groepler.

A graduate of Cornell Uni
versity and the University of
Mexico, uroepler moved to
Canada in the early 1970s.
After i her two

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possibilities and directness of
application.

Recent Pastel Drawings
include local scenes captured

professions of artist and
teacher Groepler left her
position at Stanley Hump-
hries secondary school in
Castlegar to concentrate
solely on her art.
Commenting on her work,
Groepler explains: “My pri
mary goal is to convey my
appreciation of the world
around me. I have a strong
feeling for pattern, texture
and rich color, and a pref.
erence for the intimate

scene.

through the changing sea-
sons, settings in the south.
west United States where
Groepler lived, and still life
scenes.

Groepler’s work has been
exhibited in various galler-
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Kootenay.

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Screenplay awards.

Brooks is no stranger to
newsrooms. In the early
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Brooks worked as a copyboy
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any layoffs and the push for
higher ratings, but Brooks
says the movie is not a
commentary on the industry.

“This movie tries not to
make the call, saying what
broadcast news. should be
and where it should go.”

Brooks really wanted to
make a romantic triangle
about people doing well.

“I wanted to write about
romance and see what's
changed. I wanted to write a
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EVERYTHING
OLD WAS NEW

By TIM O'CONNOR

In 1977, rock was pronounced dead. Not everybody
believed it, but critics and punks said the old guard of
rock had killed it by making it corporate, elitist and
boring.

Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten showed his disgust by
wearing a Pink Floyd T-shirt with the words “I Hat
scrawled on it.

But 10 years later, on one particular night in 1987,
rock appeared to be twitching. Eager fans crowded
around a table outside Toronto's Exhibition Stadium to
fork over $25 for T-shirts bearing the name of the night's
sold-out attraction: Pink Floyd.

Commercially, rock is better than ever. But whether
it is alive in an artistic sense is still subject to debate.

In 1987, almost everything that was said to be killing
rock was thriving: the corporate mentality of industry,
discos, stadium concerts and idol worship.

Everything old was new again. With the exception of
Irish rockers U2 and Madonna, the year was dominated
by aging rockers and a hankering for the past among the
public.

Perhaps it was just a time to reflect. After all, rock
‘n’ roll is more than 30 years old and its fans are spread
across three generations.

Nostalgia took form in strange ways. The biggest
hype of the year was the release of the Beatles albums on
the format of the future — compact discs — and many
baby boomers visited record stores for the first time
since they got a mortgage.

To make sure the boomers didn't tune out, radio
stations continued to woo them with good vibrations from
the ‘60s and ‘70s, mixed with proven hit-makers like
Whitney Houston.

An exciting medium begame bland. Gold and glop
didn’t leave much room for the new blood that rock needs
to stay healthy. Unknown groups fought fire with fire by
reworking old hits into new hits.

OLDSTERS THRIVE

While many new bands were frozen out, the climate
was right for dinosaurs to spring back to life. Pink Floyd,
Yes, Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead and
Aerosmith all enjoyed Top 20 albums.

Even the bad boys of heavy metal finally scored on
the sales charts. In June, five of the top six selling albums
were hard rockers.

In stark contrast to the head knockers stood U2, four
Irishmen whose potent mixture of polities, spirituality
and bone-crunching rock made them the world's most
popular band.

U2's Joshua Tree album was No. 1 most of the year.
With its denunciations of U.S. policy in Central America,
the album arrived with perfect timing — just as the
Contra-Iran controversy was raging.

QUEEN OF POP

Helped by a husband who punched paparazzi,
Madonna emerged as a mega-celebrity in a league with
Lisa and Liz. But she earned her crown as the queen of
pop with a world tour that proved she's got powerful
pipes and loads of talent.

In the aftermath of Bruce Springsteen, a whole slew
of American “heartland rockers” sang compassionately
about hard times in the land of plenty, notably John
Cougar Mellencamp.

As for Springsteen, he returned with Tunnel of
Love. It was a marked departure from working-class
anthems, but a brilliant collection of songs about love.

Michael Jackson reappeared with a new nose, chin
and album. Bad has sold briskly, but a backlash is
building against his fey weirdo image. Jackson must stem
the growing tide or his spring tour of North America
might be a disaster.

ADAMS ARTISTIC

Meanwhile, Canadian superstar Bryan Adams
shifted to more serious songs with his Into the Fire
album. Sales stalled, but it’s an artistic breakthrough that
will help his career.

It wasn't Corey Hart's year. His Fields of Fire LP
sold poorly and the Montreal star collapsed from
exhaustion in late spring and cancelled a Canadian tour.

Edmonton's K.D. Lang joined the big leagues of
country music and capped her year by taking the Juno
Award for top country female vocalist.

While country enjoyed a resurgence, pop music was
marked by an increasing use of electronics. A lot of new
music sounded spiffy and modern, but cold and
mechanical.

And those who lament the current state of radio can
take heart in the cyclical nature of the medium. It's
slowly swinging back already.

Artists like the Nylons and Pseudo Echo, who
changed old gold into new gold in order to crack radio,
must now make it with their own songs or become
novelty acts.

Even though heavy metal rockers don’t get any
airplay, hard rock will never die as long as there are loud
guitars and boys with plenty of aggression to burn off.

While the use of electronics will keep increasing in
music, more bands like Los Lobos that harken back to
more traditional sounds should also prosper.

In the face of new technology, artists like R.E.M., U2
and Springsteen are trying to ensure that the passion and
excitement that makes rock ‘n’ roll important is not for-
gotten.

But to stay alive in 1988, rock really needs some new
blood, a new movement, a new leader.

There's probably some kid in a basement somewhere
banging on a guitar or piano who will kick rock back to
life. But whoever it is, that person better show up soon.

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ONE YEAR
OF GOOFY
NEWS TOLD

By PATTI TASKO

The year 1987 certainly had its share of important
events — from the weighty free-trade deal to the summit
between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

But it also had its quota of goofy stories.

It was the year a Frenchman travelled the world to
raise funds to build an embassy for extraterrestrials. The
man, who calls himself simply Rael, told a Halifax
reporter it seemed like only yesterday when friendly
aliens picked him up on his way to work and took him to
their home planet for a day.

It was the year Conservative MP Don Blenkarn
suggested — seriously — that Canada should seize control
of Mozambique and Angola to eradicate communist
influence in southern Africa.

And, it, waa. in 1987, that. Normelia Paul of Toronto
was kicked out of her bridge club because she insisted on
saying “no bid” instead of “pass.

“Tve been treated outrapeoasiy® said the indignant
Paul, a senior who cited her right to freedom of speech
under the Charter of Rights.

TOAD TUNNEL

But it was a banner year for toads in Hambleden,
England — government officials built a special toad
tunnel under a busy country road.

The tunnel was an attempt to save the creatures
from being splattered as they made their way from the
woods to spawn in a nearby lake.

“The cost of it works out at about one penny a toad,”
said Tom Langton, toastmaster for the Fauna and Flora
Preservation Bact

pet i in Hamilt
decided to pa the confines of his owner's apartment.
Unfortunately, he headed down the building’s drain
pipes, poking his head up in another resident's toilet
bowl.

The shy, two-metre-long boa attracted crews of TV
cameras and caused days of commotion for his unwilling
hosts, who were forced to move out as authorities tried to
lure the boa out of the bow! with snacks such as guinea
pigs. Despite the momentary fame, however, a rescue
was not meant to be — the boa died, apparently of

suffocation, amid the muck of the drain pipes.

A pet tarantula in Camber, England, came to a
happier end. Firefighters rescued the hairy pet after it
was overcome by smoke in a burning bungalow on -
England's south coast.

“The spider didn't appear to be moving so we
gingerly manoeuvred an air bottle from a breathing mask
into its tank to clear the fumes,” firefighter Brian Pope
explained later.

It was also a wacky year in the courts. Witness:

— The case of a Montreal man who sued his barber
for $25,000, after he allegedly developed a health problem
and was teased by friends because the barber cut his hair
too short.

— the 29-year-old man in Brockville, Ont., who was
awarded $13,000 after he sued his mother for
because he asked her to dance and she fell on him,
breaking his ankle.

— the judge in Florida who ordered a 77-year-old
man — who had killed his wife and then tried to kill
himself — to watch the movie classic It's A Wonderful
Life. It's about a man who decides not to commit suicide
after an angel shows him how difficult life would be for
others without him.

OH, MY CORN!

Police had their share of weird cases to pursue,
including, one..in New Orleans inyolying.a man who,
deliberately stomped on women’s feet. “I thought. it was
an accident,” said one of the victims. “But now that I
think about it, it hurt much too much for it to be an
accident.”

And, in the what-is-this-world-coming-to category,
there was the story about the millionaire who, alarmed
by high teenage pregnancy rates, offered to pay high
school girls in New York $1,000 each to remain virgins
through age 19.

The news that the transmission of AIDS could not be
avoided by using condoms was used by creative — if not

ily tasteful —

One Montreal manufacturer devised a shirt with a
special pocket for condoms. An Australian pop group
released a record called Roll It On, Robbie.

And in Seattle, a condom boutique called The Rubber
Tree offered 50 brands of condoms in a variety of styles,
shapes and colors, but put purchases in bags marked
“Popcorn” to avoid causing embarrassment for its
customers.

Said clerk Tess Rolfe: “One woman came in and her
face fell.

‘Oh, I thought you were a plant shop.’ ”

It was also the ‘fen the cea haonian ly Institution in
the

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The winning numbers in
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The bonus sumber was 31.

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and 51.

The winning numbers in
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The bonus number was 46.

There was no winner of the
jackpot prize of $2,068,953.-
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Thrums

opens for

direct

access to Valhallas

will still have to be reached
between the Ministry of For-
ests and Mr. Streichert for

resident

passes away

Fred L. Perepolkin of
Thrums passed away on
Thursday, Dec. 24 at the age
of 79.

Funeral service was held
on Sunday and Monday at the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel
and Tarry's Hall with burial
in the Shoreacres Cemetery.

Mr. Perepolkin was born
July 1, 1908 at Prince Al-
bert, Sask. and came to B.C.
with his parents settling in
Pass Creek. On July 5, 1928
he married Wailisa Verigin at
Pass Creek and after their
marriage, they lived at Glade
until moving to Thrums in
1959.

During his life Mr. Pere-
polkin worked in--sawmills,
mostly for Waldie’s‘and for a

lasting the

Future

Castlegar and
Area since

1948.

short time with Celgar until
illness forced his retirement.
He enjoyed working on his
hobby farm and tending his
animals.

He is survived by his wife,
Wasilisa; two sons, Joe and
Fred of Thrums; 11 grand-
children; and 11 great-grand-
children. He was prede-
ceased by one son, Pete; one
daughter, Vivian Gevatkoff;
and one sister, Helen Nevak-
shonoff.

Funeral arrangements
were under the m
the Castlegar
Chapel.

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