THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1979
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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
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pWhen M-M-Mel made his stage
ntrance, the crowd rose to its feet,
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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.”
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“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.”
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