THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1979
Page 5
t. Elmo's Fire a
it at The Basement
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By STEVE LEE
Battalion Staff
I St. Elmo’s Fire.
B There were little black placards
all over campus advertising the
oup’s two shows to be played at
e Basement Coffee House Tues-
y and Wednesday nights.
It was probably easy for those
iho were unfamiliar with the group
to pass it off as just another regular
raction at the Basement. Talking
ith people around campus made it
Jear that there were a good number
of those people.
But the group’s name should have
en in lights.
For St. Elmo’s Fire to even agree
to play in a place like the Basement
is a tribute to its professional pa-
nce. Why, they should have been
a Town Hall attraction in G. Rollie
hite. No, I take that back. No one
longs in G. Rollie except jocks
d gymnasts. Anyway, you get my
int.
This group is extraordinary. And
ieir performance left many in the
dience wondering why the hell
ey are still playing in places like
the Basement. I’m not knocking the
Review
asement — it’s nice. But I was
.sjirprised, and delighted, that a
joup of such significance would
Jay here and in such a small hall.
I So one band member, lead
guitarist Craig Calvert, offered an
jiswer to the puzzle. He said the
jroup is willing to play in small halls
to drum up support before they take
step into the big time. And with
looks of things, that is not very
off.
[For what the crowd saw and
krd in the intimacy of the Coffee
[ouse easily paralleled anything
at has been presented in G. Rollie
lis year.
[The band’s jazz-rock style con-
sts sharply from the more acous-
i mode it established several years
kck when its name was Wheatfield.
[began as a high school talent show
ptry at Lamar High in Houston,
pd the three original members —
alvert, Connie Mims and Ezra
ller — have stuck with it since,
the group made the musical tran-
ition very well, but it is somewhat a
kame that they have abandoned
_Jtch early favorites as “Waxahachie
Woman” and “Seven Bridges
Road,” the former a bluegrass
number and the latter a soft, lyrical
Ian Matthews tune. And Calvert
said they lost several fans when they
made the change. But, he said the
group felt it was time to move up
and out.
And move they did. They
vibrated the Memorial Student
Center with loud rock ‘n’ roll and
jazz, minus the horns, flavored with
flute and guitar solos and impressive
vocals. The jazz numbers featured
Calvert, on flute this time, and bas
sist Keith Grimwood, who thought
he was B.B. King. His powerful vo
cals on the blues numbers were un
believable. But the talent was
evenly distributed among the five
members.
In fact, the group took turns on
lead vocals on the first five songs.
But get a load of this. For the
encore, they did the old Buddy
Miles tune “Them Changes,” and
even slipped in “I’m a Soul Man,”
the recent hit revived by the Blues
Brothers. Idler’s aintics, depicting
Elwood no doubt, brought the
crowd to its feet and left them
screaming for more when the group
made their exit.
But we’ll be hearing more, I’m
sure. They said they’ll be back if
word gets around to our “program
council,” probably Town Hall, and
they can play in a larger facility. And
if the enthusiastic Basement crowd
is any indication, word will defi
nitely get around.
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