THE BATTALION
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1980
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Jessie Sublet, bass player for the Skunks, sings his own brand
of new wave music. The Skunks performed Friday and Satur
day night in the MSC Ballroom. The concert, billed as College
Station’s first taste of new wave music, sold out both nights.
Skunks bring
A&M new wave
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Public hearings on a number of
rezoning ordinances are scheduled
for the College Station City Coun
cil meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The areas under consideration in
clude:
— a 9.2 acre tract located on the
north side of Southwest Parkway
and approximately 1,000 feet east
of F.M. 2154 from Duplex District
R-2 to Apartment Building District
R-5. The application is in the name
of Paul Wahlbert & Assoc.,
Architects.
— the following lots in South wood
Valley Section 4B from General
Commercial District C-l to Apart
ment Building District R-5: lots 10-
20, Block 17; lots 1-4 and the ad
joining 20 feet of Lot 15, Block 18.
TCUdorm
fire Sunday;
no one hurt
United Press International
FORT WORTH, — It took 50
firemen about three hours Sunday
to extinguish a blaze in a dormitory
at Texas Christian University, offi
cials reported, and none of the 152
women who lived in the dorm was
injured.
The dormitory was built in 1972
and was the newest on the campus.
Authorities estimated damage at
$55,000.
The fire started at about 4 a.m. in
one of the rooms on the top floor of
the three-story building and sleep
ing students were awakened by a
smoke detector alarm system.
By SCOT K. MEYER
Battalion Staff
j And a good time was had by all...
Writers often use that phrase at the
ind of stories — generally those con-
ping social events — to indicate
kt the event being described was
not dull, and not dreary.
But the words belong at the front of
is story, because if there is any one
ing to distinguish the Skunks con-
Irtsfrom everyday concert fare, it is
die fact that everyone had a good
time.
■The Skunks performed in the
Memorial Student Center Ballroom
Way and Saturday nights, before
ell-out crowds.
he Skunks perform “New Wave’
music, a rather non-specific label
Such covers everthing from the spa-
v, electric organ dominated music
ofDevo to the simple, back-to-basics
rock music of the Ramones. The
Skunks’ consist of a bass guitarist, a
ead guitarist and a drummer, and
die music they play is rather basic
rock-and-roll.
To pogo one only needs a steady
beat, which the Skunks obligingly
provided. And although more tickets
were sold than their were seats set
up in the ballroom, anyone who
chose to could have sat down be
cause so many people were dancing.
A good sociological study could
probably be done to determine why
music dealing with pain and anger
and such, whether rock and roll,
rhythm and blues, jazz, ska, folk,
punk or new wave, has so often
appealed to young people who were
not interested in pain at all, but only
in having a good time.
Whatever the reason, the Skunks’
audience showed up wearing home
made new wave costumes, and many
of them danced thoughout the entire
concert. The theme of the concert
seemed to be “let’s listen to some
good, loud music and have a good
time,” and the Skunks did their part
by providing the music.
The audience did the rest, and if this
concert was any indication, College
Station is ready for more new wave
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he songs were all about adolecent
love, or more precisely, about the
jiger, frustration and confusion
11 T |§ sociatecl l° ve - New wave
11 IMiri )us j c j s 0 f ten either the music of
is that noi ^ or a li ena t| on , and in the case of
; SWC tlii i e Skunks it is mostly the former.
lie crucial thing is to actually sound
Rick Sul ngry, because otherwise the songs
rand campy rather than authentic,
ke Skunks managed to sound, if not
« ngry, at least annoyed, which is
VeSSli P ro b a bly close enough.
/ Ilieir audience, though, was neither
. | ngry nor annoyed. They were here
ncerbocie j]) ave f un> anc j mos t 0 f them did.
ke to e# To the audience, new wave music is
Texas Aw lot about anger or alienation so
» Fourth* nuch as it is about cheap plastic
i V er 3001# unglasses and narrow ties. And of
• or 24 ho® nurse, pogo-ing.
Novefflh' The P°go is the authentic dance of
’ i ri-ifi lew wave music, consisting mostly
1 jj f bouncing up and down as though
s °™ Lin pogo sticks. There are other
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The application is in the name of
Southwood Valley, Inc.
— a 2.38 acre tract located on the
northeast corner of Sebesta Land
and East Bypass from Single Fami
ly Residential District R-l to Gen
eral Commercial District C-l, ap
plied for in the name of Mrs. Jo Ann
Atkins.
— lots 1-15 of the Chalet Village
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man Drive and Concho Place from
Single Family Residential District
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the name of Dr. W.E. Crenshaw.
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ordinances rezoning each of the
above items after the public discus-
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