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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APR. 7, 1976 Page 3 rood Kottke bores P f 1 By JOHN VANORE ice the inception of the art every great film maker has fol- I a lew simple rules to produce enduring films. One of those |«ys “Masturbation is not a 3eingpi a tj )r sport.’ Perhaps if Leo cson is s«pwas a film maker he would .•onfronl g infant '.zlingjet /ions, way. rter’s'ciil Carter's ains of 'ond the politicii as, ins seen able lly, Jacks nue to dt| _ maries ass’t I WEDNESDAY te persotfJDENT Government Blood ic nig, infwill be in 225-226 MSC from 8 's, "hec.to 5 p.m. xeetwitlBLEGE of Agriculture Cen- ues. ihTOl Tower, 8-5 p.m. well iiipONAL Association of Con- wYorkismce Stores, 501 Tower, 8-5 those stall 1 e recess* GENT Developments in Light :son says,Microscopy & Spectroscopy, lustbealjoyver, 8 a.m.-ll p.m. e. FI ED Students Seminar, 302 i roadmaxJS a.m.—noon. ;ylvaniamDENT Svc. Weekly Staff ayltoklfng, Conference Rm.-MSC., [ersey, Oa.pi.-noon. 8. EveniONTIER Re-Examined, 206 ion famiH-11 p.m. comprislADEMIC Council, 601 To uch budw5 p.m. B.F Coast State Sanitariums, thenomvISC, 2-5 p.m. rk his irlPARTMENT of Economics ;on, the are, 301 Tower, 3-4:30 p.m. supinli#DENT Y Association, Con- hes Mi« Rm-MSC, 3-4p.m. aed if I VIN ERSITY Traffic Panel, 607 :r| 3:15-5 p.m. lPoslC<l mX Orientation Conference, Bwer, 5-6 p.m. ■■■■^DENT Government Spring pj tidns, Conference Rm-MSC, V- U-Bike Repair, 228 MSC, have had a chance to follow that maxim. As it was, Kottke’s Special Attrac tion in the Rudder Auditorium last Friday night was a spectacular dis play of excessive self-indulgence. No doubt about it, Kottke is an outstand ing guitarist. But he used up his bag of tricks in the first two numbers, lEE LS 8 sons Km MEGA Phi Alpha, 410 Tower, •7:30 p.m. PAS Interviews, 216-L MSC, ).m. RADUATE Student Council, grO MSC, 5:15-7 p.m. )RK Producers Board of Direc- -352 MSC, 7-8 p.m. REE-U House Plants, 228 ], 7-8 p.m. 1 Qg REE-U Bass Fishing, 229 MSC, l.m. REE-U Pets, 230 MSC, 7-8 13 D9 IAL UVCSVILLE-Bishop Home nClub, 301 Tower, 7:30-9 p.m. iOTORCYCLE Club, 308 To- . 7:30-9 p.m. YMIANDLE Home Town 3, 404 Tower, 7:309 p.m. ISSIAN Club, 604-AB Tower, -9 p.m. AMAC, 607 Tower, 8-10 p.m. THURSDAY Student Government Blood , 225-226 MSC, 8a.m.-5p.m. y p TERCOLLEGIATE Flower " ; ng Preliminary Conference, 137 MSC, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. AMERICAN Frontier Re- Examined, 206 MSC, 8 a.m.- 11 p.m. STUDENT Government Spring Elections, Conference Rm-MSC, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. RECENT Development in Light Microscopy & Spectroscopy, 402 Tower, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. FINANCE Department, 140-A MSC, 10-11 a.m. BASIC Grants W/S, 228 MSC, 1-4 p.m. ENGLISH Graduate Students, 145 MSC, 3:30-5 p.m. SPHINX & Polaris, 228 MSC, 5-7 p.m. TEXAS Animal Ag Conference Banquet, 224 MSC, 6:30-9 p.m. ALPHA Zeta, 301 Tower, 7-10 p.m. DATA Processing Management Association, 402 Tower, 7-9 p.m. FREE-U Exercise, 601 Tower, 7-8 p.m. FREE-U Woman & Guns, 229 MSC, 7-8 p.m. FREE-U Amanda Marga, 230 MSC, 7-8 p.m. CRAFTS and Terrariums B, 137-A MSC, 7-9 p.m. PHI Alpha Xi Dinner, 203 MSC, 7-9 p.m. COLLEGIATE 4-H Club, 139 MSC, 7:30-9 p.m. FREE-U Arabic, 141 MSC, 7:30-9 p.m. EL PASO Home Town Club, 410 Tower, 7:30-9 p.m. FLYING Club, 308 Tower, 7:30- 8:30 p.m. CEPHEID Variable, 701 Tower, 7:30 p.m.-midnight FREE-U Guitar, 228 MSC, 8-9 p.m. Rabies shots available soon Rabies booster shots will be made available next week at Texas A&M University for students, faculty and staff who work closely with animals. The shot will be administered at € p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at the A. P. Beutel Student Health Center. The cost for each shot will be $4, payable by the individual at the time of the injection unless the person’s name is included on one of the de partmental lists to be submitted prior to Tuesday. and the rest of the show was repeti tion ad nauseum. Perhaps the biggest factor against him is that he tries to go it alone. Kottke admitted he didn’t have a great voice and that was why so few of his songs have any vocal parts. A one-man show of instrumentals on a 12-string guitar gets old pretty fast. Compared to other guitarists who play with a full back- up, such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton or Rory Gal lagher, Kottke sounded pale and shallow. True to form, only six of Kottke’s 19 numbers were vocal composi tions. On the others, he just showed the audience what a fantastic and versatile performer he is. One can only take so much of a musician hon king his own horn. And an hour and a half is definitely more than enough. The vast bulk of Kottke’s set con sisted of fast and furious chord play ing, complemented by a lot of fine slide work and some spirited pick- Revieiv ing. His style defies classification and is a blend of so many others. It contains elements of rock, blues, country, Latin and classical. Although Kottke writes most of his own music, he still plays some bor rowed tunes such as Procol Hamm’s “Power Failure,” which he played Friday night. He occasionally does the Byrds classic “Eight Miles High ”, but said he couldn’t do it be cause the guitar he needed for it was being repaired. The deficiencies of a solo guitar came to light more thoroughly when there was a chance for comparison. Procol Hamm’s full use of instrumentation puts Kottke’s feeble attempt to shame. There are a lot of good guitarists around today, but Kottke’s refusal to play with a back-up makes him un ique. Straight from the horse’s mouth, I found the two big reasons for this are lower costs and fewer people to get along with. I’ll skip over speculation about why he never found anyone he wanted to work with. But if Jeff Beck, probably the world’s most temperamental musi cian, can always put together a band, then what is Kottke’s problem? What matters is whether the reader would take the word of a jaded old impartial critic over the 1800 die-hard Kottke fans in atten dance. The audience loved the show, and gave Kottke three stand ing ovations amidst thunderous applause. Now I need to find out how his fans can tell one song from the other. !£§<S) CATCH TOCO live:’ On Epic Records and Tapes m ® ••EPIC." MARCA REG. © 1976 CBS INC. y AGGIE CINEMA The following is an Aggie Cinema Film Poll for the Fall semester 1976. Please turn in polls at the Student •’roarams Office, or the Ballot Box in front of the Annie Cinema disnlav case nn the first flnor nf the MSC. e or li are al rograms Office, or the Ballot Box in front of the Aggie Cinema display case on the first floor of the MSC. POPULAR .'$i Pick 12 of the fof/otvfng: Nashville Godfather II Mahogany Earthquake The Black Bird Bite the Bullet The Exorcist Alice In Wonderland Magnum Force Death Wish Freebie and the Bean Three Days of the Condor The Return of the Pink Panther Day of the Locust Hard Times Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore The Tamarind Seed The Front Page Pick 5 of the following: Monty Python and the Holy Grail 0 Lucky Man The Conversation Mean Streets Night Moves Harry and Tonto Pick 8 of the following: Bringing Up Baby Adam’s Rib Singing in the Rain The Bad Seed Mr. Smith Goes to Washington The Mark of Zorro Gone With the Wind East of Eden Rebel Without a Cause Inherit the Wind Moby Dick Pick 8 of the following: The Emigrants A Man and a Woman The Passenger Lies My Father Told Me The Trojan Women Roman Polanskis Macbeth Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob Hamlet Day for Night MIDNIGHT CLASSIC The Four Musketeers The Wind and the Lion Mandingo Love and Death Bananas Once Is Not Enough Cabaret The Way We Were The Drowning Pool Tommy Man Who Loved Cat Dancing The Eiger Sanction Funny Lady Rooster Cogburn The Other Side of the Mountain The Odessa File Farewell My Lovely French Connection II The Killer Elite The Parallax View W. W. and the Dixie Dance Kings Royal Flash The Night Porter The Trial of Billy Jack Some Like It Hot Arsenic and Old Lace Jezebel Dark Victory Dames I Could Go on Singing A Star Is Born Little Caesar Wuthering Heights Treasure of the Sierra Madre Psycho Ben Hur INTERNATIONAL Lacomb Lucien Discreet Chaim of the Bourgeosie The Adversary Lord of the Flies Tom Jones The Lion in Winter Great Expectations Oliver The Little Prince Brother Sun, Sister Moon The Beauty and the Beast SUGGESTIONS 6 scholars to hold frontier symposium Six leading scholars on America’s frontier will share the podium at a two-day centennial academic as sembly Thursday and Friday at Texas A&M. The symposium, “The American Frontier Re-examined,” provides the public a chance to hear Dr. Gay Wilson Allen, professor emeritus of English, New York University; Dr. Howard R. Lamar, William Robertson Coe, Professor of Ameri can History, Yale University; and Dr. Gerald D. Nash, history chair man, University of New Mexico. Also appearing will be Dr. Wil liam A. Owens, professor and dean emeritus, Columbia University, and writer-in-residence, Texas A&M; Dr. Henry Nash Smith, English pro fessor, University of California at Berkeley; and Dr. Arlin Turner, James B. Duke, professor of En glish, Duke University. Owens begins the assembly in the Memorial Student Center 206 at 8 p.m. Thursday. His topic is religious music. At 2 p.m., Lamar speaks on the trader. Smith concludes the first day’s speaking at 8 p.m. with an ad dress on “Mark Twain, Turner and the Myth of America.” A 3:30 p.m. reception Thursday will honor all six participants in MSC 145. Friday, Nash reviews the 20th Century West at 10 a.m. in 106 with Allen and Turner sharing a 2 p.m. lectern as they discuss Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Hawthorne and their roles in the frontier. Allen has been a U.S. State De partment lecturer and a Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations fel low. Co-editor of “The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman,” he has authored “Anterican Prosody,” ' The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biog raphy of Walt Whitman, ’ “William James: A Biography” and “The New Walt Whitman Handbook.” Lamar has held Morse, American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council fel lowships . Campus 846-6512 COLLEGE STATION STARTS FRIDAY APRIL 9 "Best Film of the^fear” NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW STANLEY KUBRICK O’NEALandTVlAR^SA c BER£NS0N° [PGj-S- from Wa/ner Bros ©A Warner Communications Company STARTS FRIDAY APRIL 9 EXHIBITION AND SALE ONLY full-color reproductions of MASTERPIECES. . . . featuring the works of Chagall. Dali, Matisse, Gauguin Van Gogh, Breughel, Cezanne, Frankenthaler, Homer, Klee M«ro, Monet, Magntte, Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, Toulouse Lautrec. Wyeth, and others. over 1200 different prints and MASTER DRAWINGS. New Publications DATE: flON.— FRI. -5"—7 TIME: 9 a.m. tj p.m. PLACE: memopiaL stwIent cemter Fine art committee