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*896 8 TH Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1980 MONO hatioi Clu (■ 7 ,l c TC Jl United Pr TRINIDAI and a wallet clues investig an apparent than 30 years Lou Girodi for the state’s trict based ir murder occui killer or killei If not deac or persons < old, Girodo i The inves only physical ton with sevt sing, a bulle and shoes — be Rudolph of Pueblo. Officials sa amateur box< [ r i : Band cuts, distributes own records state United Press International NEW YORK — One Sunday after noon, when Manhattan’s garment and loft district was silent, the fourth floor Dreamland Studios were full of sound — very loud sound. The occasion was a departure from the routine in the cramped booths. Mostly, Dreamland cuts “demo” tapes for rock and disco performers, or would-be performers. This was a full-fledged recording session. U.S. Ape was cutting its own re cord. Except in some Greenwich Village nightspots, U.S. Ape, is about as un known as a rock group can get. But its members have dreams of fame and fortune. “It happened to the B-52s,” said Tom Goodkind, 23. He writes the songs, sings lead, plays bass guitar, and is “fronting the project.’’ “The B-52s are a band from HANKUNMKS o < I JMHIVfIM I > \ W/ * * <o “ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED” PRE-LEASING FOR SUMMER AND FALL SEMESTERS BEGINNING MARCH 1, 1980 Furnished & Unfurnished On Shuttiebus Route Efficiency, 1, 2, & 3 Two Beautiful Swimming Pools Bedroom Apartments Tennis Courts (Lighted) 24 Hr. Professional Maintenance Party/Meeting Room with Sundeck Service Health Spas, Including Saunas for Families Welcome Men & Women ^ Pets permitted Three Laundry Rooms Athens, Ga. They cut their own re cord. It sold 10,000. They became the rage in Greenwich Village — so hot they were signed by Warner’s. ” “Now there are a whole bunch of people making records for them selves,” said Gary Dorfman, rock guitarist turned recording studio operator. “This is the place where it can happen for a lot of the new wave bands. The Dots made their own, got some radio play on it, sold a fair amount of records. “It’s so hard to get a major record label to listen to your band without an incredible rep. A lot won’t listen to unsolicited tapes. “But, if you put out a record on your own, and it sells, gets played, maybe they’ll hear it, give it a chance.” That’s why U.S. Ape cut its first record a year ago—“a one-track tape we had pressed into a single.” The first company they had press the re cord was raided as a record pirate just as the group arrived to pick up copies of the record. After convinc ing authorities they had nothing to do with the outfit’s illicit operations, Goodkind and friends got another firm to press 2,000 copies they then sold door to door. Later, a small in dependent distributor took them on. “We learned from the experi ence,” said Goodkind. “This time we re much more professional.” Shauna Laurie, 23, of Boston, who also sings, was playing a three keyboard organ. Goodkind, Marty Maniak, 23, of Buffalo, N.Y., lead guitarist, and Paul Richards, 22, Grandville, Ohio, drummer, sprawled about the con trol booth listening, their faces stu dies in concentration. Peter Lewis twisted dials at the control board — mixing Shauna’s playing into the group’s music, play ing it back. There would be a discus sion, sometimes heated. Then it would be mixed again. Goodkind looked at his watch. Studio rental was $25 an hour. Up town, the fees range up from $175, Dorfman said. But this was still big money for Ape, even if Lewis, an engineer with a well-known studio weekdays, was there as a volunteer on his own time. “This is out of the mainstream of pressures and craziness of the expen sive operations,” Lewis said. “It’s re laxing for me, trying to help them out.” “The Knack spent $15,000 on their latest album, ” said Goodkind. “Then it went platinum, sold a million.” Compare that, he said, with the $400,000 spent to produce the more established Supertramp’s latest album. Ape’s effort, “Ignorance is Bliss,” is far more modest, even than The Knack’s. An extended play record, it carries three songs, two on one side, one on the other. Production cost about $2,000, everything counted. Trade and barter covered some costs. Recording is on eight tracks instead of the 24 or more used by established groups. Basketball/Volleyball Court Rental office open Monday through Friday 9-5 Saturday 10-5 Sunday 2-5 693-1110 1501 Hwy. 30 KINKO’S That's us. 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No cm sec 5 cvcap 1 R&CORDIMO studio im United HOUSTOI leading the T al investigatic ment briber said no indii turned this v In Austin Speaker Bill not appear be until Friday, they could ol quash his sul “I do not e: But that’s the new wave trend, let ting the music speak for itself, said Dorfman, who became fascinated with the recording process and opened this studio with a friend, Steve Rosenthal. “It’s not like the days of Tin Pan Alley,” he said. “Then, you could walk in with sheet music. In the ’60s, you could make a tape on a recorder in your house and send it to a record company. “That’s still the musician’s dream. But it’s not the reality. The record companies, they want a group with a live show rep and a record before they’ll think about a contract.” Uptown, at Casablanca, a label ranked first in a recent issue of the trade journal Billboard, Irv Beigel, vice president for East Coast opera tions, reviews demos submitted by rock groups. Regarding talk some labels don’t listen to demo tapes, he said, "I im agine there are some companies that don’t, but we do listen. That’s how you find new talent.” Do the likes of U.S. Ape and The Dots have a better chance going the do-it-yourself production route? “You know it’s funny. That’s how I met Neil Bogart (Casablanca’s presi dent who makes final decisions on the West Coast). Some years ago, we were working for different com panies. There was this group, Ques tion Mark and the Mysterians. They cut a record. Distributed it them selves in the Michigan area.Or. own, they sold 61),000 to"fe Bogart bought it out fromuA( . After he picked it up, it sold of a million. "You remember it, '96Ten “These kids, I just wan!- them. There's always a chc they’re determined enough sK and hustle, the best are goingS | vive. Somewhere, there’sabife going to be a giant in thisbusrtT Back in Dreamland, Gooi] talked about the concert a^j dates he was organizing, tie®’, stores he’d talked into carrffiH record, plans to appear a! !fe:{ sign records. “This is it, our big push u going to make it this time, t 350 Texas A&M University . students . Ihave publicly declared their support for John B. Connally 83 council organizes I United GALVEST tury ago the was a gracefr Elissa, the Lloyd’s of Lc ping, is a pit Gone are t . spars and sai ;been choppe 'vious owner order to smu ly to Yugos temporary di ,gine housing 1 But slowh her prime d vate historic dreds of voh 1 Later this for viewing a she will sail first time th “This is nc an old ship assistant res ! is also the re 1 niques that This also aw of life that v Birkholz teers who by joining YOUNG TEXANS For CONNALLY. How about you? Join us at Last National Bank Bar TONIGHtI lat 8 p.m. as we watch Connally on nationwide! Itelevision. It’s time once more for fresh | f 1 to flood the flower shops andb I *' wear rentals — the Class of Si’ on the way. Scheduled for Feb. 22, theii p will be from 8 p.m. to la.m.afl second floor of the Memorial dent Center. Crystal Image, a rock bandr A ' Austin, will provide the nuisi will also play some countryanifr ern songs. Tickets, which cost $8 perff are on sale at the Rudder Towfe office and in the MSC main ball' Class president Dan Stedhauij he expects “a pretty good tumtc the dance, which he says will®'' class slightly over $3,000. “We plan to make a fairpr® put into the class treasury,”Steh said. He said more than 2001# have already been sold. Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 Now Better Than Ever. 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