THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APR. 7, 1976
Page 3
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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The following is an Aggie Cinema Film Poll for the Fall semester 1976. Please turn in polls at the Student
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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 .
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