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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1975
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Entertainment sings ...
Crowds boogie to the music
P£T£R ARNOTT
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preaents:
By JOHN VANORE
Battalion Staff Writer
It has been said that there are
no PR men in heaven. If, how
ever, Friday’s Town Hall Series
performance was any indicator,
that old saying is on its way out.
The press release handouts
made Mandrill & the Hues
Corporation sound too perfect
— as they always do. But, for
anyone looking for entertain
ment, G. Rollie White was the
place to find it.
A crowd of some 4,500 people
saw the headliners, the Hues
Corporation, go through their
highly polished paces as they
danced and sang their way
through an hour-long show,
which included a few selections
from their upcoming release.
The Love Corporation.”
Right at 8 p.m., a tape record
ing of jungle sounds set the
stage for Mandrill, the warm-up
act. According to their press re
lease, they play a bit of rock,
folk, latin, gospel, jazz, soul,
calypso, and classical.
Close, but no cigar. For their
musical style was really none of
these. Rather, all these types of
music were blended into a un
ique style that defied strict
categorization.
Mandrill’s set opened with an
intense drumbeat that drew the
audience in like ants to honey.
The drumming led into
“Everybody’s Got to he Some
body,” which was oriented to
wards Santana’s guitar/percus
sion combination.
The second of their five songs
was from their upcoming al
bum, and featured Tommy
Trujillo playing some fine guitar
which sounded like it was
fashioned after Jimi Hendrix.
A strut followed and was a
vehicle for some extended sol
os. Ric Wilson, M.D., a
graduate of Harvard Medical
School, led off with a jazz-
flavored sax solo. Trujillo
cooked again on guitar, and
Brian Allsop wrapped things up
on bass.
The calypso beat distin-
Prison reformer
calls walkout
‘over-reaction’
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The top officer of a prison reform group said
Monday he thinks prison director W. J. Estelle Jr. ‘‘over-reacted’
Sunday in walking out of the group’s convention after Estelle’s
speech was interrupted twice.
Charles Sullivan, executive director of Citizens United for Re
habilitation of Errants (CURE), showed reporters a video tape of the
“so-called Estelle incident” at a news conference.
Although the question from the audience was barely audible,
the tape showed a member of the audience asking Estelle about
“foul play” in the 1974 shootout at the state prison in Huntsville.
Two inmates, including South Texas drug king Fred Gomez
Carrasco, and two prison employes being held hostage were killed
as the convicts tried to escape.
Sullivan said, “I was stunned, myself when Estelle suddenly
turned and left the room at the Walker County Courthouse (Hunts
ville).
Carrasco was “only one of many matters we wanted to talk
about,” said Sullivan. He mentioned medical treatment and alleged
abuses suffered by the inmates.
jSullivanrrfaid 4l«' , ft»d known Estelle for four or five years, and
“1 hS£ve never seen him more nervous*' than'just prior to his aborted
speech to CURE’s first convention.
guished an instrumental jam
and rolled into some blues rock.
It was conspicuously played
without the latin-style percus
sion which had marked their
previous selections. In the in
strumental break of this Alvin
Lee-ish number, Claude “Cof
fee” Cave came out from behind
his keyboards barricades. His
“Say ‘Yeah’s ” got the audience
up and dancing pretty quickly.
“The vibes were beautiful.
The response of the A&M audi
ence meshed in with the com
munications onstage to result in
a high energy level,” said “Cof
fee”, who studied at the Brook
lyn conservatory of Music.
Coffee and Wilson also de
scribed their varied musical in
fluences. “I began to pick up
styles when I first started listen
ing to music,” Coffee said. Wil
son added that their influences
range from Hendrix and the
Beatles to the Moody Blues,
Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane
and even Stravinsky.
The almost total instrumental
sound of Mandrill sharply con
trasted the ever-present vocals
of the Hues Corporation. For in
that band, the four musicians
serve only to back up the three
vocalists, H. Ann Kelly, St.
Clair Lee, and Tommy Brown.
The first thing one notices
about Hues Corporation is their
choreography. Although it’s
slick and well-rehearsed, it sets
them apart from other similar
vocal acts such as the Tempta
tions. The motions of all three
singers vary slightly to the de
gree that they establish their
own individual identities
onstage, rather than blending
into a mechanical oneness.
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Their act is extremely
audience-oriented. “We want
to make the audience a part of
the whole scene,” said Lee.
“We want them to come here
and be happy. Everybody who
comes is a member of the Love
Corporation.” Lee said this in
reference to their forthcoming
album.
“Get Down to your Rock and
Soul” kicked off the set. It also
laid down the framework for the
rest of the concert in terms of
singing, dancing and the band.
Early in the set, trouble with
the sound system gave the
members of the group a chance
to establish a tight, personal
rapport with the audience,
which probably explained much
of their success.
In stark contrast to Doug
Kershaw’s inflexible and tem
peramental reaction under simi
lar circumstances last fall, voc
alists Lee and Brown ad-libbed
and joked their way through the
technical problem. A couple in
the front row set off the “He’s
grabbin her leg!” issue, when
St. Clair Lee spotted a couple
getting cozy during the break
which helped the band keep up
their momentum.
Two tunes from the new LP,
“He’s my Home” and “The
Love Corporation,” the title
tune, led into some examples of
the Hues’s interpretative ta
lents. An up-tempo version of
the Temptations’ hit, “Papa was
a Rolling Stone” rolled right
into “Touch Me in the Morn
ing,” a Diana Ross number
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beautifully sung by H. Ann
Kelly.
From “One Good Night To
gether,” a soft soul ballad, the
band rocked into the O.J.’s
“Love Train,” which got a good
part of the audience up and
dancing. “Freedom for the
Stallion,” their first hit single,
met with a roar of applause and
after a brief instrumental to in
troduce the band, the whole
audience was on its feet for
“Rock the Boat.”
After their set, Lee com
mented that “Rock the Boat” is a
part of the past, despite the fact
that many fans come to a concert
expecting to hear “forty minutes
of “Rock the Boat.
“It was basically a teeny-
bopper song that can’t be re
peated. In order to survive in
the music business, you have to
grow with it,” Lee said.
Lee also noted that, as a part
of this growth, the Hues Corpo
ration is still about four or five
years from becoming the ideal
band they hope to be.
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committee members this year. Membership will be decided from an applica
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the student programs office in the MSC until Friday, October 3, 1975 at 5:00
p.m.
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