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THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1979 Page 7 l0 \f ihe nioney fetler al, si* ln g’"she sl a el Tillis’ band fiddles, ut Ags don’t catch fire Cuban role in Caribbean worries U.S. ByAVAKING natura l Special to The Battalion SCifj wriday night was a night for toe e * aSi |alpin’, hand clappin’, and two- m is abm itfcp> n ' n the aisles at G. Rollie ston. White Coliseum. wlel Tillis, the stutterin’ boy, 'V Museum brought his show before a near 3232 Brin fUout MSC Town Hall audience. For country music lovers it was an Kning of quality entertainment. Bfllis’ versatile backup band. The ~M Htesiders, opened the show with a M Rminute set of traditional and I | IjlBgressive country music. They got audience clapping with their fcning number, “Stay a Little Riger.” The highlights of their set lllls sion senB uc [ e d “The South’s Gonna Do It ltl0n ' ® igain,” “Boogie Grass Band,” and ‘‘lustryispi Toggy Mountain Breakdown’’ obs, the! featuring steel guitarist Paul the area : franklin. rs j( v svs , e ■ have never before seen a band rstv emp :njoy itself 50 thoroughly on stage, rsity system] to he the M as far as» Statesiders must have come to lege Station with the intention of ing a good time. The antics of :ad guitarist and of bass guitarist, ry Lee, kept the audience laugh- ig as they took turns stealing the 1 se^ pWhen M-M-Mel made his stage ntrance, the crowd rose to its feet, Review use oinping and clapping in time to his pener, T’ve Got the Horse.” That the first, and almost the last, Bropriate response the audience state usuat)L V( , 11 t B'b’ s swung through a string of sury ceibii.jjjs hjt S) including “Burning 1 increaseliB rnor j eSj ” “There Ain’t No ctualh the ■ifornia,” which he refers to as the - e rate is Wy of his life, “Send Me Down to percent,((iffi cson ” “Ruby, Don’t Take Your nts, saidtltR, e ( 0 Town,” and “Stomp Them drapes.” in the prii!ic|gackstage after the show he told the rate olB s tory of his recent single, “Coca then.ever!® a Cowboy from the movie “Ev- ;e interestLy Which Way But Loose.” The eidman. tar of the movie, Clint Eastwood, gh inflat: lear( l the song and made a $1,000 rate o: iet with Tillis that it would be a hit. continue liHWell, I didn’t think there was ■nt many: ny way that song would go any- dream ( ehere, Tillis said. “It turned out d. hat he (Eastwood) was right and I rime inte: ras wrong, so I had to pay up. lercent. It#‘I don’t try to guess on what’s econoniislijoihg to be a hit and what’s not any ioard s st: nofe. ” i pace inlb The entire show went well with nitedStatesfear harmonies and tight, well- gecuted instrumentals. The band ne ratecoPiVen threw in its token rock ^ht moneyPiumher, “Long Train Running,” by scarcity oil® Doobie Brothers, pplyandr'i If there was a flaw in the show it the expert »as the audience. The approxi- jtely 6,000 Aggies who gathered the event were listless and unre- nsive. The general aura of apathy United Press International WASHINGTON — The United States is discovering the Caribbean once again — and finding Fidel Castro’s footprints on beaches that had been off- limits to Cubans the last time America bothered to look. The information coming to light marks the Caribbean as the latest arena for ideological, mili tary and economic competition between the two superpowers. It took the presence of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba to renew America’s interest in the Carib bean — a strategic region gener ally ignored by the United States except in times of crisis. Other crises that have at tracted U.S. attention to the re gion during the past two decades included the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the 1965 civil war in the Dominican Republic and the 1970 discovery of a Soviet sub marine base in Cuba. But there were signs of trouble in the Caribbean even before the United States accused the Soviet Union last month of secretly sta tioning a combat brigade in Cuba. Last spring, a coup d’etat swung tiny Grenada’s govern ment toward the left. Jamaica, Guyana and St. Lucia also took turns to the left in recent years. And the left-wing Sandinista guerrillas took power in Nicaragua last summer, over throwing the right-wing dictator ship of Gen. Anastasio Somoza. Not surprisingly, Cuba, which virtually ignored its hemispheric neighbors since the 1967 defeat of Ernesto “Che’ Guevara’s Havana-backed guerrillas in Bolivia, is again playing an active role in the area. Cuban advisers, mostly civi lians, have been sent to such Caribbean countries as Guyana, Jamaica and Grenada. Some 200 to 250 Cubans are known to have arrived in Nicaragua after the revolution. President Carter has called Cuban foreign intervention a “major threat.” BLCKlco RESTAURANT presents Happy Hour 4-6 (7 days a week) 2 for 1 per person 10% discount for all A&M students with current I.D. Mon.-Thurs. only. 3109 Texas Avenue Bryan, Texas 77801 YOU DON'T NEED GLASSES to enjoy a Tecate Trio Bravo. Just take an icy red can of Tecate Beer imported from Mexico and top it with lemon and salt. Out of sight! Clbco Importing Co.. Inc. Dallas, Texas 75229. TECATE M-m-rn-mel Tillis the MSC CAMERA COMMITTEE presents “THE NATURAL WORLD" Country-western singer Mel Tillis performed for a crowd of 6,000 at Texas A&M Friday night. Town Hall sponsored the concert, held in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. that has hung over the campus since the football team’s loss to Tech last week seemed to have spread to the confines of Jollie Rollie. Mel Tillis and The Statesiders put on a good show and deserved an ap propriate audience response. The audience refused to be fired up. It took a double-timed, four-fiddle version of “The Orange Blossom Special to get the audience back on its feet and clapping. But they didn’t stay there for long. Tillis recited some advice given him by the King of Western Swing, Boh Wills: “If you want to stay in this business, hire you a fiddle player. Tillis took the advice. “I hired every fiddle player I could find. Got ’em on special at K-Mart,” he joked. “You can get you one, too.” It seems Wills was right about the fiddlers. Tillis’ four evoked the greatest audience response with “Orange Blossom Special,” “Faded Love,” and a tune by band member Ken Sears, “Thunder Road. Tillis travels and records with the Statesiders, a 10-piece band of four fiddlers, three guitarists (lead, bass, and steel), a pianist, drummer and horn player. Tillis explained many performers, in order to save money, will hire local musicians in the town where they are appearing to play backup. He thinks that it is cheating the pub lic to perform without a full, prac ticed band because the music is less polished. T owe my fans. I am indebted to them for my success,” he said. “When I can’t afford to hire a good band, that’s when I quit.” Y -! Outdoor & Nature Photography by Blair Pittman at: 7:30 p.m. datd: TONIGHT place: rm. 301 Rudder - Public is invited. 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