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look to have fun, not please crowd The Darkness, they're not. But members of The Prostitutes sure wish they could be. "All of us love them," said Johnny Kazanjian, a senior English and textual studies major and lead singer of The Prostitutes. "They're not a joke band, they're only made into a joke because people are afraid to admit what they thought was so cool for so long. It's back and they're keeping it real." The glam-rock '80s cover band opened for Catch 22 last night in the Schine Underground in a fit of sparkle makeup, spandex and mic-stand scarves. While the band's performance was passionate, audience members seemed unprepared for the "Kickstart My Heart" and "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" covers that ensued. "They give rock a bad name," said Stan Long, a junior computer art major. "They were funny, but they didn't add pizzazz. It didn't seem like their music was unique in any way. It was more just show or look. There wasn't enough substance." "They ought to try growing real mullets the next time they give a show," said Adam Davison, a junior in the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Kazanjian, bass player Jarod Bushey, guitarist Sasha Shenoy and drummer Neil Roberts have only been together for a few months but are united by a vision of bringing the past back to life. "Sasha and I had been friends for a while, and were sitting in Kimmel one day looking at the toolboxes around us," Kazanjian said. "We said, 'This place needs a kick in the balls more than any place we've ever seen before.' We both had sort of a partying problem. Our lives had become the height of decadence. Every weekend we were coming close to the edge. So we said, 'Fuck it, let's start an '80s hair band.'" "I was sitting in my room quietly one night when Johnny and Sasha came bursting in," said Bushey, a senior aerospace engineering major. "They broke the news to me that they were forming the ultimate rock 'n' roll group ever and needed me for a bass player. Only problem was, I didn't play the bass. So the next day, I went out and bought a bass, and two weeks later we had our first show." From:
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