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Mt. Vernon-Saturday night at the Den will surely be another semi-fun evening of trippy guitar riffs and praise for Jesus as the band "Roman Candle" takes the stage at 8. Their ambiguous drone of hip-hop heavy rock will blend with the poor acoustics in a deafening roar that will surely leave those who came to the Den to watch baseball mad.
Band member Joey Slater, said that he hopes that 2 or 3 people will form a mosh pit during one of their heavier songs, "Take This, All of You" and a hard rocking cover of "Kumbaya". The band tossed around the idea of a cover charge, but decided that since they’d only be dealing with the half of the students that remain on campus during weekends, admission would be free. The band will make money by selling unlabeled cd-r’s that contain 3 songs recorded in the campus center lobby with an answering machine.
"This is gonna be a great show" said Joey "my man Louis just got this killer new sticker on his drums that has a big Jesus fish eating that lame Darwin fish, the rest of us laughed for 5 straight minutes when he showed it to us!" he added, "The crowd's gonna love it man!"
The members of the Band are Louis Burton, 27, on percussion; Dave Englewick, 37, on lead guitar; Joey Slater, 24 on bass guitar and backup vocals; and lead singer Scott Graham, 27, who also plays the triangle.
After the show, the band’s celebration plans are unknown, but students will probably go back to their rooms to get an early rest for church, if they can contain the nights mundane attempt at riling their spirits that is, only time will tell.
Also, another staff member has been scheduled to work Saturday with the expectation of a somewhat larger than usual crowd. This will bring down the time it takes to make wierd bread from an hour to a mere 45 minutes. The band’s cutting edge, out of this world set of 5 worship songs kicks off at 8 o’clock Saturday night, make sure you get there early to get a normal chair instead of the taller low-backed chairs intentionally designed to curve spines with excessive use.
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