THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1977
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By JULIE SPEIGHTS
Battalion Staff
ying hard to appeal to an Aggie
ence, B.J. Thomas and his
piece orchestra gave a polished
enthusiastic performance at
Hall Friday night. Yet they
bring the roof down.
iomas wore an Aggie hat part of
time, got the audience to sing
gto his oldie, “Somebody Done
lebody Wrong Song,” and in-
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one song. But somehow, the
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mas!” loudly and repeatedly
ed some off.
perhaps it was that Thomas’
performance was so refined com
pared to that of Meisburg and Wal
ters, the group preceeding him, that
it was almost anti-climatic.
However, when Thomas an
nounced about half-way through the
performance that he was going to
give his testimony, the crowd fell si
lent and then cheered.
He sang one song “in praise of his
Lord” and it was well received.
Thomas said he turned to Jesus
after wrestling with drugs for over
10 years and nearly dying several
times.
In an interview after the concert,
he said he would have probably
been dead by now if he hadn’t ex
perienced Christ.
Thomas said he doesn’t see him
self as a crusader but rather an
example to others of what Christ can
do for a person.
Thomas said he will try to keep
his music “up” or lively and tiy to
make a positive statement with his
songs, but overall, his style won’t
change.
“My thing is to make pop records,
and that’s what we re going to do, ”
Thomas said. “In the pop music we
make, it may not be easy to glorify
God so we ll just make sure we don’t
un-glorify Him.”
He added that he does have a
separate contract for making gospel
records.
Thomas said his biggest problem
in his career recovery will be getting
air play. To do this, he has been
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feisburg and Walters, a duo no
had heard of, stole the show at
Town Hall concert Friday night,
hey just seemed to naturally ap-
to the crowd of Aggies packed
G. Rollie White Coliseum,
jhn Walters, the bearded banjo
er, and Steve Meisburg, guitar,
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was outstanding.
The mood of the performance
changed from slow and serious to (in
their words) “a little crazy.
“This is one of the friendliest
places we’ve ever been,” the singers
told the audience.
Both Meisburg and Walters are
natives of Tallahassee, Fla. Meis
burg was a campus minister and
Walters was working on a degree in
music therapy at Florida State Uni
versity before the two paired up.
Meisberg said the two began sing
ing together occasionally and people
became interested in what they
sang.
One of their songs was a hymn
with no instrumental accompani
ment. But Meisburg said he doesn’t
try to inject a religious view into his
songs or use performances as
crusades for Christ.
Their second national album,
“Love’s An Easy Song”, will be out
around the first of October on the
Casa Blanca label and judging from
the enthusiasm the group generated
here, it should do very well.
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tOWNWOOD — Workmen
right hurried to repair a 36-inch
line so that this city of 20,000
d not have to go without water.
lepipe was an emergency mea-
to pump water to the city after
idslide Saturday closed a 40-
old concrete canal connecting
lity’s water source, Brownwood
with a purification plant. The
line was implanted but had to
moved to repair leaks.
s gone from bad to worse,”
e dispatcher Ted Smith said of
water situation. “We’re defi-
y getting down to the critical
It’s about gone.“
ie critically low supply forced
ing of businesses, rationing and
ring of the city to catch residents
ing water.
mith said 500 feet of canal had
|n buried and the southern por-
of the city, as well as two
;hboring towns, were without
:r.
fficials estimated it would take
or three days to repair the ca-
A spokesman said the hospital was
»t experiencing any shortages yet
nil so far “no emergencies” had co
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ith the water available.
Although official rationing of
iter had not begun, Smith said au-
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nste the little water in their pipes,
hnwhile, officers policed the city
King for citizens wasting water.
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“Any time we catch them at car
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Smith said most businesses, such
as restaurants which use a lot of
water, had volunteered to close
until the crisis was over.
“Most resturants are closing
down. Anything like a Dairy Queen,
which needs a lot of water and ice to
operate has already closed. ”
Firefighters reported three minor
grass fires which were extinguished
by trucks with independent water
supplies. A Fire Department official
said several private companies and
nearby towns had promised to sup
ply water for emergencies.
“The water in our tanks is the
only thing we have, a fire depart
ment spokesman said. “We have a
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visiting disc jockeys and hoping his
current No. 16 single, “Don’t Worry
Baby” reaches the top ten.
H is wife Gloria who was back-
stage with him accompanies him
on about half of his trips. She
was instrumental in helping him re
direct his life and seems optimistic
about B.J.’s future as a singer and
as a person. And so does he.
Mr. and Mrs
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