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hampion and an overall each other more than usual h: 7 L »r iu.ho atiu ai a. 10. 16 At Ease, The Battalion Friday, September 10, 1982 Your Move returns to B-CS \ \ I m I I r. it I IS L % $ 1 7* c- & ) Foot-stompin' band rocks Rebels by Rebeca Zimmermann Battalion Staff The last time members of Your Move, a band from Au stin, performed at Rebel's Re staurant and Bar in Bryan in Feb ruary, they were well-liked by the audience. Hand-clapping, foot- stomping and whistling by the crowd accompanied the group's Hand-clapping, foot- stomping and whistling by the crowd accompa nied the group's music. Waiters and waitresses danced around the tables. music. Waiters and waitresses danced around the tables. A few patrons liked the rounds of drinks. Your Move is back in town. The group is playing again at Rebel's tonight and Saturday night, and Tuesday through Sept. 18. Your Move plays everything from bluegrass music to songs by the Police and the Kinks. Lead singer and guitarist Lar ry Villegas said they usually play country and western songs early in the evening and move to rock as the night progresses. "We like all kinds of music," bass guitarist and vocalist Mike Rieman said. Four musicians make up the group: Villegas, Rieman, Mike Jackson, lead guitarist and voc alist, and Darrell Melton, drum mer and vocalist. The group started out four years ago as a jazz group with six musicians, including a sax ophonist and keyboard player. It has gone through a lot of per sonnel changes, Villegas said. Villegas, 28, and Jackson, 29, grew up in Laredo and have played together for some time. Rieman, 28, joined the group two years ago. Melton, 30, is the newcomer; he joined, the band about a year ago. The band's name. Your Move, came from a song of the same name by the band Yes, Jackson said. The group mem bers like the song and named their group after it. The group has played at nightclubs, fraternity and soror ity parties, fashion shows, wed dings, conventions and did four songs for ACTV, a statewide cable station. "We're more in our element at a dance floor," Villegas said. "We've been traveling a lot this summer," Villegas said. The band performed about five nights a week in Corpus Christi, Port Aransas, Laredo, Kingsvil le and "all the little towns in be tween." Your Move was the opening band for a group called Poco at the Liberty Lunch in Austin two months ago. Villegas said the group received better reviews than Poco, the main group. Generally the group plays a variety of familiar songs, but does use some original songs. All the band members write ori ginal songs, he said. He said the band has not had enough time to rehearse its own numbers, but "the next step" is to record its music. Rieman said audiences have been "pretty receptive here" to their songs, which Villegas said show strong Latin influence in rhythms and themes. They also do risque adapta tions of traditional themes; they put on somebreros and do their own rendition of Freddie Fen der's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights." "Reiman is on a good comedy roll now," Villegas said. Villegas said the group's favorite bands are the Police and Tom Petty. All four group members Your Move staff photo by David Fisher attended college; Villegas has a bachelor's degree in biology The group seemed to have a great time while performing. They did rumba steps, wore som breros and added sound effects on some num bers. from Southwest Texas State University and Jackson has a business degree from the Uni versity of Texas. Villegas said he applied for dental school after he graduated but decided he would rather go after his "first true love — music." He said the first year the group was in existence, the members did odd jobs to them from starving. They have to do that anymore. They have played in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Au stin. Villegas said they try to be in Austin as much as possible because they "get homesick real easily." Villegas and Jackson do a "Monday Night Live" routine every Monday at the Steamboat in Austin. Villegas calls it the keep don't "hot spot of 6th Street — a mini- Bourbon Street." The group seemed to have a great time while performing. They did rumba steps, wore sombreros and added sound effects on some numbers. Jack- son in particular appeared to en joy hamming it up. He does a Mick Jagger imitation — com plete with wide lips and hop ping around the stage. A sure crowd pleaser was the addition of the Aggie War Hymn melody as background in one song. The group members joked and flirted with Rebel's patrons. As one spectator put it, "They really can entertain." The tough-guy girls are making it big by United Press International NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Can women save the music busi ness? Yes, there have been women singers in the past, but nothing like those who have been rack ing up gold records these days. These are the girls with the tough-guy image, the platinum blondette pinups, the whiskey swillers, the offspring of the Hell's Angels. As the cigarette commercial proclaims, "You've come a long way baby." Sorry, Marie Osmond, but in nocence and lace just doesn't get it anymore. Some executives, looking ahead to the possible explosion of the video recording artist, seem to be looking to women as the industry savior. The Go-Go's is one of the more successful all-female bands to have emerged from the West Coast this past year. Their image is borderline beachy clean-cut, sort of like the bad girls who still made the high school cheerleaders squad, but they still represent a role change for women in music. They sing 'their own songs and play their own instruments. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Schoolgirls —the first all-girl, heavy metal band out of England. The four girls who forego lace for leather rep resent the state-of-the-art of female musical violence. Joan Jett, who looks as hard as a piece of iron pipe, could prob ably take on some of the aging Hell's Angels who have been camping in Frisco, Colo., and win. Her grinding remake of the sweet song "Crimson and Clov er" would make Tommy James and the Shondells quiver with fear. In between the the Go-Go's and Schoolgirls is "Calamity Jane." Its three members point to the recent explosion of allfe male bands. They say women are finally achieving equality in the recording studio. "I guess it's just that it's time for that to happen," says Pam Rose, a graduate of Florida State University where she stu died voice and classical guitar. "In the last 20 years you look at society and it's not so weird for a little girl to say, 'Mom, I want to learn how to play the trumpet.' Before it was just tot ally out of the question. In some E laces it still is: 'No you should :am how to cook.'