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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981
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By GARY BARKER
Battalion Reporter
The Shake Russell/Dana Coop
er Band thrilled an audience in
Rudder Auditorium Wednesday
night with its impressive mixture
of harmonies, humor, and foot-
stompin’ music.
The band, led by Shake Russell
and Dana Cooper — both guitar
players and vocalists — rocked the
capacity audience early in the con
cert with their popular tune “Song
on the Radio.”
Bass player Michael Mashkes,
affectionately known as “Marcello
Marconi” to his fans, nearly stole
the show with his humor and
monologues during the band’s
songs “Pretty as a Picture” and
“Galavantin’ Galveston Gal.”
Russell and Cooper, whose
voices blended flawlessly, were
backed up by band members Riley
Osbourn on piano, Jim Alderman
on drums and accordian, and Jim
Tiemann on guitar.
The band, playing in College
Station for the fourth time in the
past year, got standing ovations
several times during the show.
The audience seemed to enjoy the
band’s versatility, which included
such musical styles as bluegrass,
jazz, country-western, and rock.
And to a hushed crowd the band
performed its softer tunes. One of
the band’s best slow songs was
“Silver Hearts,” written and play-
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ed by Russell. He said he was in
spired to write the song, about two
life-long lovers, when he saw an
older couple holding hands in a
bus depot.
Cooper also played a slow solo,
but his voice seemed slightly in
complete without Russell’s to
accompany it.
Singer-songwriter Jean Kil-
born, who sang with the band on
two songs, warmed up the crowd
with several of her own songs be
fore the band came out. Kilbom,
who played guitar and piano,
wooed the audience with her vocal
range. After Kilbom played for 50
minutes, the band appeared and
was greeted with a warm wel
come.
The most ironic song of the
evening was the band’s “So Hard
to Find a Smile,” about a man who
leaves town because he can find no
smiles. This was hardly the case
with the Shake Russell/Dana
Cooper Band, who left miles of
smiles when they left College Sta
tion.
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Band strives for
intimacy with fans
By TOM SOLOMON
Battalion Reporter
Although the Snake Russell/
Dana Cooper Band plays to con
sistently bigger audiences in big
ger concert halls each time it re
turns to Bryan-College Station,
the band members don’t think
they are growing distant from
their fans.
Russell and Cooper, along with
other band members Michael
Mashkes, Riley Osbourn, Jim
Alderman, and Jim Tiemann
talked Wednesday about the
growth in their popularity during
an interview before their near
sell-out concert in the 2,500-seat
Rudder Auditorium.
Although the auditorium is one
of the biggest halls the band has
played in, Russell said its size
doesn’t take away from the close
ness the band feels with its fans.
“This (Rudder Auditorium) is
nice — it’s 2,400 seats but it’s still
intimate,” Russell said. “We like
this kind of environment — the
acoustical setting, the lights.”
“We still play some smaller
clubs in Houston,” Alderman
said.
The band plays about 15 dates a
month, Russell said, and spends a
lot of time on the road traveling to
the concerts.
Although the band spends most
of its time giving concerts, it does
have plans for another record,
while the band’s self-titled current
album is still selling well at many
Texas record stores.
“We ll have a new album out in
the next three or four months,”
Russell said. “We re still in the
planning stages. It’s going to be a
collaberative album with John
Vandiver and Michael Marcoulier
and his band.”
Vandiver and Marcouher are
two Texas musicians Russell and
Cooper have performed with be
fore.
“John will pick two or three of
his songs we usually do together in
shows, and Michael will do the
same,” Russell said. “We’re going
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to get into the studio (to record the
album) in November and have it
out the first part of December, if
there’s no hangups.”
Among the songs to be included
in the album are Cooper’s song
"Jubilation,” a familiar tune to
those who attend the band’s con
certs, but one not on the band’s
two albums.
“We’ll be selling it at our shows
and ... stores we’ve made contact
with.
“We’d like to do a live album on
down the road, (but) no time in the
near future,” Russell said.
While the band has no further
concerts scheduled in Bryan-
College Station this semester, it
will be playing in Houston at the
Rockefeller Club tonight and
Friday.
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Missionaries air concern
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By STEPHEN M. WARD
Battalion Reporter
Two-thirds of the world’s 4.5
billion people lack the basic hu
man needs to survive, two Mary-
noll missionaries said Tuesday
night at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church.
Sisters Jane Heekathom and
Josephine Lecker told parishoners
these 2.7 billion people live in the
Third World countries of Africa,
Asia and Latin America.
“What we are trying to do is
make people aware of facts about
situations which they often don’t
hear about,” said Lecker, who has
worked in Africa as a missionary
for the past 22 years.
Sister Heekathorn said the the
World Health Organization says
70 percent of the earth’s popula-
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tion — almost all of it Third l^i f 1 g ur(
— doesn’t have the fivebasiA jq q(
man needs: shelter and j m
food and water, medicalcareA e sort
and education. Sister He • in( j ;l (j 0ut:
spent 11 years as a missioEp () i v j n g
the Philippines. Ay p a y
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