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Pop: Hot Ticket
By GINA VIVINETTO
© St. Petersburg Times,
published October 4, 2001
Blues fest in the park
The Hillsborough Association for Retarded Citizens' fourth annual Taste of Blues festival, Saturday at Curtis Hixon Park in Tampa, is a whirlwind of music, food, arts and crafts. Every year local and national blues bands come by to help out the nonprofit organization that teaches mentally handicapped adults and children to live independently. The Damon Fowler Group, Blind Willie and Allen Moffatt, Women's Blues Revue and Bill "Sauce Boss" Wharton will be dishing up blues all day. Skipper's Smokehouse, Cajun Moon, Traveling Soulfood and Alessi's are among the vendors providing food. And a play area just might wear out the tykes so parents can enjoy the festival well into the night. Festivities start at 11 a.m., end at 10 p.m. The park is along the Hillsborough River waterfront at Ashley Drive in downtown Tampa. $8 adults, children 12 and under are free. (813) 273-6364.
Tool gets the job done
Dismiss hard rockers Tool as a dumb metal act and you're making a big mistake. The L.A.-based quartet's music is provocative. Fans know these guys aren't afraid to tackle tough subjects like prison rape and the fact that no one in our culture seems to be able to live a sober lifestyle.
Tool's metal is slow, oppressive, grungy and dense. But that doesn't mean it can't be art rock. Leader Maynard James Keenan -- he also does time in A Perfect Circle -- loves a lyrical rant. Add to the rants Tool's long, noodling instrumentals, and it all sounds delicious to adventurous rockers.
Tool performs with electronica maestro Tricky at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the USF Sun Dome, 4202 E Fowler Ave., Tampa. $35. (813) 287-8844 or (727) 898-2100.
-- GINA VIVINETTO, Times pop music critic
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