
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 5, 1991                   TAG: 9104040270
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-9   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

KING MISSILE PLAYS SUNDAY AT THE SOUTH MAIN CAFE

Members of King Missile call the group organic and as rockers they feel they aren't getting anesthetized by what goes on in the world today - instead they are constantly changing and adapting to new things.

Good thing, because their following wouldn't have it any other way.

Atlantic Records recording artists King Missile from New York will perform their own style of off-the-wall poetry rock at the South Main Cafe in Blacksburg on Sunday. Virginia Tech's WUVT radio station is sponsoring the show as a fund-raiser.

The group, formed in 1986, has also been referred to as the "intellectual Dead Milkman." The name was thought to come from a Japanese comic-book character, but really it's an idea from a founding member's friend. Whatever.

The band, formed by poet and seer-of-the-absurd John S. Hall and songwriter Dogbowl, has put out four albums, the most recent being "The Way to Salvation."

Cuts from their third album - "Jesus Is Way Cool," "Cheesecake Truck" and "Gary and Melissa" - took the alternative rock scene by storm. College radio stations play the heck out of the group's tunes, which are influenced by Irish folk, punk, hard rockers like Led Zeppelin and various comedians.

In the late '80's, Dogbowl left the group to pursue solo endeavors and today's King Missile consists of Hall, drummer David Ramirez, guitarist and bassist Dave Rick and multi-instrumentalist Chris Xefos.

by CNB