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Stereo Components and Matched Systems Write For FREE CATALOG Call or write for price quotes on separate components Phone 515-782-5514 STEREOTOWN 107 N. Elm CRESTON, IOWA — 50801 THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH ANNOUNCES CONFIRMATION CLASSES for those interested in learning about its Life and Worship ST. THOMAS’ EPISCOPAL CHURCH 906 Jersey St., Southside of A&M University Campus 846-1726 ADULTS: Tuesdays, 3:30 p.m. (First Meeting, September 23) OR Sundays, 6:00 p.m. (First Meeting, September 28) CHILDREN: Tuesdays, 3:45 p.m. (First Meeting, September 23) ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 217 W. 26th Bryan 822-5176 Sundays, 8:00 p.m. (Beginning September 21) bUhJTRy C.-TR, Lead singer^ claims BST not rock and THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1975 Page 3 By JOHN VANORE Chicago plays good rock and roll, but we play jazz,” said David Clayton-1 homas, lead singer of Blood, Sweat and Tears. Clayton-Thomas made bis state ment in an informal interview after the I own Hall Series Presentation Friday night. Blood, Sweat and 1 ears played their brand of jazz be fore a near-capacity crowd at George Rollie White Coliseum. 'Jazz-rock’ sounds like a term that Rolling Stone made up,” he said, denying that the term applies to his group. Throughout the inter view, Clayton-Thomas remained calm and friendly, hut he kept an aura of professionalism about him self, just as he does onstage. Clayton-Thomas rejoined Blood, Sweat and Tears late last year after a three-year hiatus. He quit touring because of the strain on his voice, and produced three solo albums in the studio during that time. Both he and the group, with Jerry La Croix filling in as lead singer, fell into a severe slump. Such a slump, in fact, that record sales dropped off drastically. Their first three records, which featured Clayton-Thomas, were certified Gold Records, hut nothing released since then has achieved that status. Now that Blood, Sweat and Tears is hack together, their collective creativity has risen to the point that, in addition to their latest release, “New City, two more albums are forthcoming. One is a studio pro duction, and the second, slated for a November release, is a live record ing. Blood, Sweat and Tears played a very strongly jazz-oriented set Fri day night, with some diversified flavoring from the realms of rock, blues, R & B, and Dr. John, who plays a unique Cajun jazz style. They performed all their hits, and most of the songs included an in strumental slot for a solo of one kind or another. The warm-up act for Blood, Sweat and Tears was Gene Cotton, a Nashville-based folk-acoustic singe- r/guitarist/songwriter. roll 50000000 \M c Laughlin's/ of corpus christi A* 317 Mtrfcto * o O o o r? o a 317 patrfcla collaga station, taxaa Cotton and his fellow guitarist Lenny Curley walked on stage un assumingly, introduced themselves briefly, and broke out in a folk number which met with only lukewarm response. It was followed by “Chapel in your Life,” a nice blues number, which definitely got the audience moving. He then moved to break up the audience with “Sweet Old Country Spirit,” a satirical spoof of coun- try/western music. He drew some isolated hisses from the rednecks in the crowd, hut most listeners got the joke. Cotton next did his biggest single to date, “Sunshine Roses,” which sounds very much like Don Mc Lean’s “American Pie. He fol lowed it with a song dedicated to all the girls in the audience, called “The Teaser. That song drew about as many hisses from those girls as did Olivia Newton-John. “Nineteenth Street Superstar, the next tune, seemed pale in com parison to “Thirty Second Waltz, which wrapped up Cotton’s forty- five minute set. On “Thirty Second Waltz, accompanist Lenny Curley got a chance to really burn on guitar. Curley, who was playing here with Cotton for only the fourth time, opened up in the middle of the song with Cotton hacking him. Cotton s documentary-style lyrics also added punch to the song. After a fifteen minute respite. Blood, Sweat and Tears came onstage to face a fairly astonished audience. Everyone came to the concert expecting to see a fourth- rate acoustic warm-up act, and was howled over by Cotton s excellent performance. In other words, the headliners, Blood, Sweat and Tears, were upstaged by a relatively un known artist. At any rate, Blood, Sweat and Tears (B, S & T) kicked off their set with “Lucretia MacEvil. The famil iar single transformed into an in strumental, which then gave way to a saxophone solo by native Housto nian Bill Tillman. This proved to he the pattern for the night. A given song would evolve into an instrumental first, and then a solo of some sort would materialize. Guitarist Georg Wadenius, a Swede by birth, next eased the hand, minus its horn section, into a smooth Blues number. As it prog ressed, the horns joined in and faded out, leaving Tony Klatka to solo on trumpet. “And When 1 Die” is one of B,S&Ts three gold singles, and it ended up as one of the strangest numbers played Friday night. The featured soloist was Dave Bargeron, whose tuba solo started out like a ease of beans. Although it ultimately came across fairly well, it was not really the high point of the concert. Bill Tillman introduced “Spend, a Chick Corea jazz instrumental, and his excellent flute solo led into a fair electric piano offering bv Larry Willis. Finally, they did “Spinning Wheel,” their first big hit. Its in strumental saw Wadenius shine for a short while on guitar, and then drop out in favor of the trumpets. Towards the end, during “Mean Old World, Wadenius came as close as he ever did to a real guitar solo. Then, Clayton-Thomas re peatedly asked, "A&M, can you boogie?” After a few minutes, he had a fair number of people up and dancing. Quite a crowd pressed up toward the stage and at the same time, a substantial number of concert-goers got up and left. Comments indi cated many people considered their solos and instrumental breaks ex cessive and just got fed up with the grandstanding. The encore was worth waiting for. “You Made Me So Very Happy" brought the house down. 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Chief of Police Morris Maddox said Monday, “there were 600 empty spaces at Lot 50 (h\ Zachry Engineering), 150 in Lot 48 (east ol Kyle Field), and 750 in Lots 56 and 61 (those across the railroad tracks.)” He advised dorm students to park in these spaces before they begin to fill with day students at 8 a.m. Chief Luther, who said the police do as much as they can for the dorm students in the Krueger Dunn- Corps area, looked ahead with a note of optimism. New parking spaces are under construction, he said, most noteahh a 318-car capac ity extension on Lot 24. However, he said, another lot for More area jobs found, day students, Lot 62, officially opened Monday. “This should re duce some of the illegal day-student parking in the other (Lot 23, 24, and 25' area, he continued. He added that Lot 48 by Kyle Field is open to red sticker stu dents. At first it was only for under classman, he said. But traffic citations are still being dished out. Maddox said that although the police were lenient the first week for those dorm students unable to find close parking, that loophole no longer exists. Parking violations are 85 each, with a 85 penalty if the ticket is un settled for more than seven days. SR-51A . SR-5 0A . SR-16 . SR-11 . TI-5050 Plus $2.00 By Air $132 85 52 33 127 Shipping Mail 95 95 95 95 95 And 5% Sales Tax SEND MONEY ORDER OR CASHIERS CHECK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ALL MODELS AVAILABLE WRITE FOR DISCOUNT PRICE LIST DISCOUNT CALCULATOR SALES P. O. BOX 30392 DALLAS, TEXAS 75230 PHONE 214-691-0215 southiiiest Gonperence Associated Press AUSTIN — The U.S. Senate should investigate possible connec tions between Lee Harvey Oswald and the FBI or Central Intelligence Agency, says former Texas Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr. Carr said the inquiry also should cover the possibility that those agencies and the Secret Service knew Oswald was a threat to the life of the late President John F. Ken ned) hut failed to take protective measures. Carr made the request for an in vestigation in letters, released Monday, to Sens. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex., and John Tower, R-Tex. Carr, who conducted Texas in dependent investigation ol the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination, said the Warren Commission turned down his recommendation to take sworn testimony from each CIA and FBI agent who was in Dallas during the months before Kenned) was shot. At the time, he said, there were persistent rumors that Oswald, whom the commission pinpointed as the lone assassin of the president, was in some wax’ connected with the CIA or the FBI, hut the headsofthe JiiiU AEiihJ two agencies denied this. Carr noted the FBI had received a threatening letter from Oswald a few days before the assassination hut destroyed it. Carr said the Senate should con duct a “thorough, independent and public” committee investigation "to determine the truth of I.) whether Oswald was connected in some wax xvith the FBI and 2.) whether the FBI and-or CIA and-or Secret Ser vice had adxance information that Oswald was a threat to the life of the President, yet, for whatever reasons, failed to prqtect the Presi dent from that known threat.’ The former attorney general also contended that the FBI and CIA knew Oswald worked in a building on Kennedy’s parade route, hut did not tell Dallas police of that poten tial threat. Carr said he was motivated by a desire to improve the protection of the presidents and to restore the credibility of government investiga tions. Carr, now an Austin laxvyer, was acquitted of two federal charges arising from the Sharpstown stock scandal. The" Texas Employment Com mission (TEC) placed 440 workers in jobs in the Bryan-College Station area during August. 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