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October 25, 1982
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jlttee also is trying to secure for-
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negotiated with any of the
lakers yet. Ted Koppel, of
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The council also will hear an
entertainment program studies
report and approve several
speakers.
The entertainment program
studies committee will present its
report on programming prob
lems for science Fiction/fantasy
films. The committee decided
such films as “E.T.” and “Pol
tergeist” deserved weekend
times to generate more revenue
and larger audiences.
In the past, Aggie Cinema and
Cepheid Variable co-sponsored
the films, or Cepheid Variable
allowed Aggie Cinema to show
the films. Cepheid Variable cur
rently has one weekend a semes
ter for programming. Aggie
Cinema has rights to all other
weekends, so films could not be
brought to the University under
these conditions.
Under the compromise, an ad
hoc committee will determine
which films deserve a weekend
slot. These films would then be
co-sponsored and profits and los
ses would be divided according to
each group’s budget dependence
on film revenue.
In other business, the council
will hear vice-president reports
and speaker approvals. Proposed
speakers include H.R. “Bum”
Bright, chairman of the Texas
A&M System Board of Regents,
and science fiction author Vicki
Ann Heydron.
Review
set the mood for the first half of
Friday night’s performance.
The music crashed and roared
and the lyrics horrified as Davis
— dressed in a multi-layered
black outfit, Medusa hair and
wicked makeup — assaulted the
audience with stark visions of
love and life gope bad.
But then she sang her first
ballad, “Total Control**; the tem
po slowed and the emotion
deepened. With a few gestures
— a drop of a cigarette, a wave of
the hand — Davis expressed
more feeling in one song than
most performers can in an en
tire show.
And when she dropped to
her knees and held her mic
rophone to the bell of Marty
Jourard’s saxophone, her en
chanting mix of vulnerability
and surrender captivated the
crowd.
From that point on, the inten
sity kept building. Performing
like a cross between Shirley
Temple and Jezebel, Davis drew
her listeners into her world: a
California planet where con
men and the cocaine set make
surviving lost romance a chancy
proposition.
Whether her songs are auto
biographical or not, Davis ob
viously sang them with some
specific incident or person in
mind — and she almost trem
bled with the memory.
But the Motels weren’t all
tears and thunder. “Tragic
Surf” provided a light-hearted
moment near the end of the set,
withjourard, guitarist Guy Per
ry and keyboard player Scott
Thurston running and clowning
around the stage.
The group proved versatile
— Thurston, the newest Motel,
doubled on guitar; Jourard also
played keyboards; and Davis
picked up a guitar from time to
time. That flexibility, along with
Perry’s imaginative guitar work
and the solid backing of Michael
Goodroe’s bass and Brian Gla-
sock’s drums, gave the Motels a
rich sound that varied from New
Wave stark to swing band lush.
The show was loud — rock
concerts are, by definition — but
the volume itself managed to
overcome much of the acoustics
problem in G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
And the Motels proved that
their records may have mel
lowed but their live shows still
crackle like a high-tension pow
er line. At the beginning of
“Take the L,” the crowd stood
and didn’t sit down again; when
Davis appeared in the lower bal
cony seats in the first encore, she
caused a sensation. By the time
she got back to the stage, she had
the fans rush the stage where a
near-melee of kissing and press
ing the flesh broke out. The two
encores just left the audience
wanting more.
The Motels generated more
excitement than the coliseum
has seen in years; we owe their
appearance to MSC Town Hall’s
sponsorship.
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