T-TOWN SCENE NEWS

October 6, 2006 by PT Rothschild.

BAND NEWS 

After a successful member change (bass player) and multi-state tour this summer, the band CHAPTER 14 has split up. Was it the ‘yoko effect’, creative differences, egos? No to all three. “He (the lead singer) watched the ‘Invisible Children’ video and decided to volunteer and work with them. I dunno, he might even go to Africa,” said Eddie, the bass player on this tour. “You know, what can I say? It’s for a good cause.” Indeed Eddie would know. Months ago, after just hearing about the children’s ordeal in Uganda from a friend, Eddie organized a trip down to the Invisible Children’s Global Night Commute San Diego protest in a day and a half and met up with some LA friends to camp out that night in Balboa Park. Attempts to recently start another band (Mud Hut) quickly broke down, but some nights Eddie (acoustic guitar) and former CHAPTER 14 drummer, Jack (vocals, with a voice that’s not half bad), can be seen taking the stage for a few tunes at the ‘spot’, Java Jo’z. 

The band INVERSE, playing around here since the first year of the Madlins’ shows, can be seen rocking again since the recovery from cancer by member Paul Bahou. Not one to take a defeatist attitude, as evidenced by his bold bass stance during better days with the band, Paul continued to hang out at JJz and play a set now and then. We all watched his various cycles of chemo treatment and felt tremendous compassion for someone so young to be stricken as such. But sometimes, there seems to be a sort of ‘divine logic’ to things. Paul, who didn’t smoke anything before he was diagnosed, discovered and credited marijuana with providing him an appetite, a will to try, an anti-depressant, a pain reliever and an anti-nausea aid. “I could not have made it to be cured without it,” he said to well-wishers who greeted him with hugs at the news of his recovery a recent night ago at Jo’z. Perhaps Paul was meant to show, once again, just how wrongheaded the Feds are, and how uncompassionate the local councils are, when members who are indicted refuse to step down from power but are too timid to zone a dispensary for medical marijuana. Hopefully voters will remember about Paul when it comes to PROP 7 in November. On a side note, Sal from THE OUTSIDE VIEW can also be seen chopping out some lead and rhythm licks with INVERSE at selected shows. 

D.O.R.K., everyone’s favorite Arvada, CO band that comes through town crushing asses and taking names – pop punk talk for ‘rocking out’ which these guys do in spades – made a recent appearance in T-town, sort of. For all the folks who came out to the ‘Growing The Arts’ Festival and grabbed one of the slick paper brochure booklets, if you turn to page 28, you will find a nice bio and photo of a band we’ve ‘adopted’ here in Temecula (and a fav of writer Jourdan). They are trying to look mean in the photo, as punks should, but they’re too cute to be mean. Tracking down and then impressing Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman in 2003 by ‘bustin’ ass’ onstage and off, the boys played all the stops after 2004, including the just finished 2006 tour. Follow the FVE show schedule to see when this band will be back around. 

Question? What do you say to a band that has only had four local shows but has sold 20,000 CDs online? 

Answer. Welcome To Temecula! 

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