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Friday, September 10, 1982
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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.'