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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1978 Cadets to ride on AF planes Five U.S. Air Force planes with motors on both front and back will tty over College Station and Bryan today through Thursday. for The 0-2 planes from Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin will be tak- m ■ ■ • Force ROTC cadets from Ori0H.Lcl, Lion Texas A&M University on orienta tion rides. About 120 cadets are ex pected to participate. Col. Kenneth W. Durham, a pro fessor of aerospace studies, said the Q-2s are from the 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron at Bergstrom. Capt. Fred May is project officer for the orientation flights. ‘ WHERE YOU ALWAYS BUY THE BEST FOR LESS* The 0-2 is a tandem-engined plane with pusher and puller motors. Its primary defense mission is forward air observation. Like the two A-10 Thunderbolt II’s on display last Saturday at Eas- terwood Airport, the 0-2 visit is in tended to update and inform future Air Force officers from Texas A&M. Many local residents viewed the A-lOs Saturday, May said. They in cluded a group of World War II pilots who spoke with Col. Glenn Jones and Capt. Don Allen about the craft. I Britain’s Sex Pistols roll average rock ? * n T \»' e DISCOUNT CENTER 9-9 MON.-SAT. By BOB ASHFIELD I had read and heard so much about the Sex Pistols that when I romped through the store to pick up Jackson Browne’s new album, I de cided to borrow a copy of the Pistols and acutally hear what I’ve been de fending for half a year. I trotted home and slapped the disc on my turntable, turned the volume to a moderate level and lis tened for the first tell-tale sounds. 10-6 SUN. Wha. . . a mere guitar chord, and . what’s that?! . . . drums and base and . . . Oh no!!!! A voice! All doing the same thing! Playing and scream ing their viscious hearts out with four whole chords. Yes, the Sex Pistols are just your everyday rock n’ roll band that shows off unearthly manners but plays with a wave of furor. After I had heard their first grunts and groans against a fantastic metal lic din, I was just amazed at how normal these guys really are. Their ■ET-33S8: THE WIND’S FIRST CMM1ER H CUmMlfD CASSETTE KCK Win AMEMMY. (grttinn iflarru'ii? Bing ter ers- , Not rea music is nothing but average jump. stll< up-and-down-cuz-its-the-only- j 0 ar<l thing-to-do rock of the early sixties jniid t* 1 * and that is really what all this punl quip 0161 bit is about. Take any song withi (prepaid beat out of that period and add i The Te> wave of caucous distorted guitar. i,e event then get a moron who’ll rant and rave pnal Goa about social illusions of Britain’s jnization younger generation and you have „ nu al spr the Sex Pistols. It’s all very typical Witary P British rock reminiscent of very earE on is ly Who, playing after they have alL n j e s: had lower lobotomies. 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Allen Green '72 Gary Green '7 5 Don Shafer '75 (713) 245 -2598 Jewelers Established 1946 ^ tj ^-A on the square in Bay City • v‘ ' \ The main ingredient thatsetstk punks apart from the rest (especial the Pistols) is that their music angry — played with a total distasl and disregard for everybody. Tli« yell in one of their infamously ba ned hits, "Pretty Vacant ”, "Oi we re so pretty vacant, and we care!” Johnny Rotten is the main vocab [ue Sta who must be ranked with otts :er ex] trendsetters and greats of rod i roll voices that could follow tl atypical Mick Jagger role. llBupants games and tricks he plays with in ifeht pla revoluntionary lyrics are those o(i jeved professional rock n’ roller. He sets standard of screaming and yelliii| avy ra e placi im it wa and then contradicts this image» >d tow< various songs. His weak and voice falls to a low distortion ofEhi inated SGD No. P847-9-757 Retails For $ 369.95 SPECIAL PRICE $ 259 97 .00 in “Sub-Mission” and “New YoA He then answers the charge of nti singing understandable words 1 )artme over-annuneiating every syllable EMI. The band is as remarkably tightii Sid Vicious’ bass and Paul Cooli an setl drums propel the noise withi youthful and incessant pulse ch had Meanwhile Steve Jones guitarwoii is almost non-existant amid th u gh fu sounds that he emits, although h ipmen sometimes reels off an impressin ^ce th chord or even a whole two-nd! r e solo. And then Rotten comes insa 1 of yelling at people. It’s remarkable that it all mak ' ec * * n incredible sense on the recorder '>nter though all the songs are just rbcla 1 f written for bar audiences. 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