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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Friday, June 30, 2006

BayFest brings it on

By Derek Paiva
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

Rapper Juvenile starts it all off tonight. There's also country music and Southern rock plus local band Natural Vibrations. The Fourth of July celebration offers carnival rides, games, military displays and fireworks each night through Tuesday.

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Post-grunge band Staind headlines Sunday night entertainment at BayFest at the Marine base.

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38 Special, left, is Tuesday night's headliner. Molly Hatchet, right, takes the stage Monday. Also performing: Chris Cagle on Saturday and Trick Pony on Monday and Tuesday.

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BAYFEST 2006

5 p.m.-1 a.m. today; noon-1 a.m. Saturday and Sunday; 5 p.m.1 a.m. Monday; noon-midnight Tuesday

Marine Corps Base Hawai'i, Kane'ohe Bay

Tickets:

Advance: $17.50 general, $12.50 military and dependents and $5 children 6-12.

At the gate: $12 general, $10 military, $5 kids 6-12 before 5 p.m.; $20, $15 and $10 after 5 p.m.

Free for kids 5 and younger

254-7679, www.bayfesthawaii.com, www.ticketmaster.com

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ALSO AT BAYFEST 2006

  • Natural Vibrations, 7:30 p.m. today

  • Ghost, 6:30 p.m. Saturday

  • Willie K, 7:30 p.m. Saturday

  • Winner of Star 101.9 FM's "Battle of the Bands," 6:30 p.m. Sunday

  • Go Jimmy Go, 7:30 p.m. Sunday

  • Dita, 6:30 p.m. Monday

  • Slug, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday

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    BayFest is stretching out its celebration of our Independence Day to five full days this year.

    The annual Marine Corps Base Hawai'i celebration of live music, carnival rides, fireworks, eats, bathtub regattas and pizza-eating contests begins today with New Orleans rap superstar Juvenile and a couple of car shows, and ends Tuesday with 38 Special. (A band called Slug opens that night.)

    Yes, along with the rides and grinds, there will surely be "Day After Tomorrow"-long queues of cars, trucks and SUVs on H-3 each evening, angling to get onto the base for music and the promise of portable toilets that await. Joy! But each night also promises thundering, Windward sky-lighting fireworks by the world-famous Grucci Brothers, right after the headliners' sets.

    On the main stage this year, BayFest aims to please fans of rap, country, post-grunge rock, Southern rock and, uh, Molly Hatchet. (No word yet on whether organizers will seek to raise from the dead the likes of Black Oak Arkansas or The Marshall Tucker Band for BayFest 2007.)

    It's a diverse collection of headlining music acts, so we've created a guide to performers' hits and moments of life to help you sort them out.

    See you stage-side for the magic of the Hatchet!

    JUVENILE

  • On stage: 9:15 p.m. today

  • Why should you care? After a decade-long career filled with hit singles (1999's "Back That Azz Up," 2004's "Slow Motion"), the veteran Southern-fried rapper, 30, got his first-ever Billboard Top 200 No. 1 album in March with "Reality Check."

  • The hits: "Back That Azz Up" (1999), "Set It Off" (2001), "Slow Motion" (2004), "Noila Clap" (2004), "Rodeo" (2006)

  • On the drive to BayFest, listen to: "Reality Check." Juvenile's eighth CD has the kind of ready-for-the-barbecue, down-and-dirty party anthems — both good ("Rodeo") and bad ("Loose Booty") — that have made him famous. But check out the awesome "Get Your Hustle On," in which the New Orleans native blasts on FEMA and every politician who screwed over the Crescent City post-Katrina, from George W. Bush to Ray Nagin.

  • Juvenile minutiae you should know, No. 1: He lost a brand-new mansion fronting Lake Pontchartrain to flooding, and looters took the rest after the levees broke in New Orleans.

  • Juvenile minutiae you should know, No. 2: Told Blender magazine that he believes local conspiracy-theorist arguments that the government deliberately blew up levees to drive residents of New Orleans' economically-depressed, crime-ridden Ninth Ward out of town.

    CHRIS CAGLE

  • On stage: 9:15 p.m. Saturday

  • Why should you care? Because if you're any kind of a fan of country music, you know Honolulu rarely gets any top acts from the genre. Cagle, 37, isn't in the same stratosphere as Tim McGraw or Rascal Flatts, but he has scored two Billboard country chart Top Five CDs, including 2004's No. 1 disc "Chris Cagle."

  • The hits: "Laredo" (2000), "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out" (2001), "What A Beautiful Day" (2002), "Chicks Dig It" (2004), "Wal-Mart Parking Lot" (2006)

  • On the drive to BayFest, listen to: "Anywhere But Here." Cagle's third album best shows off his affection for mixing up traditional country with classic and Southern rock styles. The dude even throws in a cover of Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive" to prove his point.

  • Cagle minutiae you should know, No. 1: Famed '80s era rock band manager Doc McGhee (Motley Crue, Bon Jovi) is Cagle's current career guide.

  • Cagle minutiae you should know, No. 2: Endured a much-publicized split with his girlfriend last year after finding out he was not the father of the child she had just given birth to.

    STAIND

  • On stage: 9:15 p.m. Sunday

  • Why should you care? The mopey post-grunge band is one of rock's most quietly popular, with three consecutive Billboard Top 200 album chart No. 1 discs: 2001's "Break the Cycle," 2003's "14 Shades of Grey" and 2005's "Chapter V."

  • The hits: "Fade" (2001), "For You" (2001), "It's Been Awhile" (2001), "Price to Play" (2003), "So Far Away" (2004), "Right Here" (2005)

  • On the drive to BayFest, listen to: "Break the Cycle." Staind vocalist Aaron Lewis nailed the cerebral-cortex-full-of-anguish thing best on Staind's multimillion-selling sophomore disc. Everything on it — especially breakthrough hit "It's Been Awhile" with lyrics like "I cannot blame this on my father" — feels like a therapy session set to guitar thrash.

  • Staind minutiae you should know but not hold against them: Blown away after seeing them open for him live in 1997, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst gave Staind its first break by arranging a meeting with first label Flip Records.

    TRICK PONY

  • On stage: 9:15 p.m. Monday; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday

  • Why should you care? The rowdy, honkytonk-busting neo-traditionalist band is one of contemporary country's most-promising.

  • The hits: "Pour Me" (2000), "On A Night Like This" (2001), "Just What I Do" (2002), "It's A Heartache" (2005)

  • On the drive to BayFest, listen to: "R.I.D.E." The title of the trio's third disc isn't the acronym of "Rebellious Individuals Delivering Entertainment" just because it sounds cute.

  • Trick Pony minutiae you should know: Guitarist Keith Burns and bassist Ira Dean were collectively named-checked in Entertainment Weekly in 2002 as one of country music's six sexiest stars.

    MOLLY HATCHET

  • On stage: 7:30 p.m. Monday

  • Why should you care? Call me. I'm open to suggestions.

  • The hits: "Flirtin' With Disaster" (1980), "Satisfied Man" (1984), "Stone In Your Heart" (1985)

  • On the drive to BayFest, listen to: "Flirtin' With Disaster." The Hatchet's second disc is its best and biggest-selling effort, crammed with electric, moonshine-fueled Southern rock boogie and enough Skynyrd-cloning triple-guitar bravado to make Neil Young nervous.

  • Molly Hatchet minutiae you should know: The band took its name from legendary Southern prostitute/ax murderess Hatchet Molly, who beheaded her lovers. Lovely.

    38 SPECIAL

  • On stage: 9:15 p.m. Tuesday

  • Why should you care? They're headlining BayFest's big July 4th fireworks finale.

  • The hits: "Hold On Loosely" (1981), "Caught Up in You" (1982), "If I'd Been the One" (1983), "Teacher, Teacher" (1984), "Second Chance" (1989)

  • On the drive to BayFest, listen to: "The Very Best of the A&M Years (1977-1988)." Contains everything you need from the band's best years.

  • 38 Special minutiae you should know: After embracing music video early on in the '80s, 38 Special became one of the few '70s-born Southern rock bands beloved by MTV.

    Reach Derek Paiva at dpaiva@honoluluadvertiser.com.