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Fusion — a local
forced by circumstances to hide
out with a Northern black man.
8:00 ffl ★★ “Man And Boy” (1972)
Bill Cosby, Leif Erickson. A black
man tries to make a home for his
family on the Arizona desert fron
tier.
11:00© ★★★ “The Band Wagon”
(1953) Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse.
A star reluctantly agrees to do a
Broadway show that becomes a
hit.
1:00Q3 ★★★★ “The Homecom
ing” (1973) Cyril Cusack, Ian
Holm. Based on the play by Harold
Pinter. A man rekindles old family
feuds when he brings his new wife
home to meet the clan.
1:35© ★★Vi “The Outer Space
Connection” (1975) Documentary.
Narrated by Rod Serling. New evi
dence appears to suggest that
human life on this planet began
with the arrival of “ancient astro
nauts” who settled in the Peruvian
Andes and the Bermuda Triangle.
2:00© ★★★ “Ryan’s Daughter”
(1970) Sarah Miles, Robert
Mitchum, After having an affair
with a British officer, the wife of an
Irishman is suspected of being an
informer.
3:30© ★★ “Dick Tracy” (1945)
Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys.
Based on the Chester Gould comic
strip. A crime-fighting detective
sets out to trap a deranged killer
known only as “Spitface.”
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AFTERNOON
4:00© AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL
"Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of
Your Parents?” A young girl learns
about family pride and envy when
her mother is forced to take a
summer job cooking for a wealthy
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by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
Being a college student or working full
time is exhausting enough, but the four
members of Fusion, a local rock 'n' roll
band, somehow manage to find time to
practice and perform.
Fusion members—a lead singer, a lead
and rhythm guitarist, a bass guitarist and
a drummer — have been playing together
since November 1981. Adam Gaither, the
lead singer, is a sophomore electrical en
gineering major from College Station. Len
Carlton, 20, plays lead and rhythm guitar
for the band when he isn't working full
time. Bryan Foster, 21, plays bass guitar
when he's not working full-time. Both are
from College Station. Mike Maloney, the
drummer, is a junior agricultural econo
mics major from El Paso.
"We're a basic rock band with a touch of
new wave," Gaither says. "It's almost a
heavy metal sound like the Police."
Maloney says the name Fusion is signi
ficant of the many styles of rock-n-roll the
group "fuses" together in its playing. But
he says the name was a last-minute deci
sion. The group had been together about
four months, had a performance soon and
needed a name. Fusion was the choice.
The band plays music by the Police,
RUSH, Joe Jackson, Van Halen and the
Vapors, to name a few.
"We all like RUSH," Carlton says. "It's
complicated music, with a feeling in it.
Most music today doesn't have that."
The band also plays some original
songs.
"Right now our emphasis is writing
original stuff," Foster says. "We're sear
ching for our sound."
The group members' search for their
own sound includes writing original
songs. They have written five original
songs and are working on a single record,
to be finished in April. Songs on the re
cord are "Crusader" and "Open Your
Eyes." "Crusader" was written by Carlton
and Foster while they were in high school.
Carlton says "Open Your Eyes" is more
dance-oriented and it's brand new — only
two months old.
Foster writes lyrics and then he and
Carlton work on the music. The whole
group then ties up loose ends in the piece.
"The main ideas come from Bryan (Fos
ter)," Maloney says.
"We don't want to copy (music) all the
time," he says. "Our goal is to play all
original music."
Fusion's first appeared as a group at the
Alamo (now Sebastian's Tavern), but its
big debut was at the Battle of the Bands
last April in the Grove.
"They (the other groups) looked like
musicians and we didn't," Maloney says.
"We're definitely unorthodox in our
appearance," he says. "People don't al
ways take us seriously. We're clean-cut."
But Fusion won the Battle of the Bands
despite its clean-cut appearance.
The group is unorthodox in another
way in that it practices in one of the band
members' small bam. There's not much
space, but the music flows anyway. Pas-
sersby often stop to listen to the group.
Maloney says one time a College Sta
tion policeman stopped by because some
one had complained about the noise. But
rock band
the policeman stayed and listened to the
music for awhile because he enjoyed it so
much.
The band usually practices about 10
hours a week.
"We haven't gotten to practice enough
now with work, school and the band,"
Carlton says. "It's hard to keep your mind
on one thing."
Band members also work on original
pieces at practices.
"Sometimes ideas really flow and
sometimes it's like beating your head
against the wall," Gaither says. "Every-
time we practice and play, we grow a little
more."
But practicing and working on new
songs aren't all the band does. Maloney
says the band members also "get together
for grins and play and party."
"The band really is our social life," he
says. "We look at it as fun — that's the
only reason for doing it."
Gaither says performing for an audi
ence also is fun.
"If they're (the audience) having fun,
we know for damn sure we're having
fun," Gaither says.
"Being on stage is the best high," he
says., He says the band has a professional
attitude toward performing; no one goes
on stage stoned or drunk.
All the band members are basically self-
taught musicians. Carlton has been play
ing guitar five or six years and Foster has
been playing guitar for about four years.
Maloney has been playing the drums
since he was nine and Gaither began sing
ing in a church choir while he was in kin
dergarten.
EVENING
7:00 0 © THE MAGIC PLANET
Olympic skating star Toller Cran
ston appears as an astronaut who
becomes involved in a romantic
love triangle on a mysterious plan
et.