S.L.'S LAST CHANCE TO SEE
OINGO BOINGO IS TUESDAY

Deseret News
By Scott Iwasaki
20/10/1995

Webmaster's Note:
There's a mix-up with the Johns in the first paragraph.

While Tuesday, Oct. 24, is "Just Another Day," it will be the last time Danny Elfman, guitarist Steve Bartek, drummer John Avila and bassist Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez - collectively known as Oingo Boingo - will stop together in Salt Lake City.

Yes, after a flourishing 17-year career and 11 albums, Oingo Boingo is calling it a career. The last Salt Lake show will be at the Delta Center on the aforementioned day. The music begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are still available at all Smith'sTix outlets and the Delta Center box office. With the surge of movie soundtrack demands on Elfman - who composed the score for the first two "Batman" movies, "Pee Wee's Big Adventure," "Edward Scissorhands," "Beetlejuice," "The Nightmare Before Christmas," among others, and TV hits "The Simpsons" and "Tales From the Crypt" - Oingo Boingo feel the time is now to bid farewell.

In addition to Elfman, Bartek, who was Elfman's orchestrator on most of the films, is also a composer with projects soon to be released. Avila has already branched off and formed a new band with drummer Hernandez.

Oingo Boingo hit the Los Angeles club scene in 1980 after forming in 1979. The band released a self-titled debut extended play and quickly followed it with a full-length album, "Only a Lad."

With the subsequent releases, "Nothing to Fear" (1982), "Good for Your Soul" (1983), the trademark gold album "Dead Man's Party" (1985), "Boi-ngo" (1987), "Boingo Alive" (1988), "Dark At the End of the Tunnel" (1990) and "The Best of O'Boingo" (1991), Boingo, also featuring the hot horn section of Sam Phipps, Leon Schneiderman and Dale Turner, became the source of a dynamic and eclectic underground sound. The band's last album, "Boingo," stripped off the horns. Elfman renamed the band Boingo to coincide with the changes.

But it will be the original Oingo Boingo feel Tuesday night, complete with the horns. So get ready for a "Dead Man's Party."


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