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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1983)
* l TM( © 6 Movie: "Longshof Movie: "Angel And The Badman" Movie: "Superman II" ■■ its and paigris, well,” t know t won’t Often re sold j tight ;s be- )mmit- nounts uch at e any- id. “A Boston ill a lot /e big hey’re ,'\\ re- Rollie are li- i. Last id the irtain- ’ (1953) Hale. A e Army . peace \nd My 1, Gene audevil- d War I. 58) Dan nytailed s prob- t man. xpecta- Henry cry by 3 boy’s by a scaped Crisis” )ay. Dr. task of young possi- UVJ. UU S&HIULU J At Ease. TLc- Battulion A Friday. September IB. IVJtvi Recording studio expands scope by Angel Stokes Battalion Staff Recording studios usually are associated with big cities, big names and big money. Roadrun- ner Production Company of Bryan doesn’t fit that image...yet. Roadrunner — created by Kevin Bomar, Terry Dossey and the owner of Tip Top Records and Tapes, Tommy Howard — has been doing commercials, jingles and recordings by local bands since its beginning, but the com pany already has expanded its scope. Besides studio work, Roadrun ner plans to produce a series of concerts with nationally known performers that will be financed by Fish Richards Inc. “Fish Richards is trusting us to bring in the groups,” Bomar says. The concerts will be in a build ing previously used as a ware house, but the building has a new name — the Heavy Metal Col iseum. The coliseum, at the comer of the East Bypass and Highway 21 in Bryan, has approximately 48,000 sq. feet inside and can hold 10,000 people. Over six acres out side is available for parking. The building is being leased on a year ly basis, Dossey says. “The building is acoustically better than G. Rollie,” Dossey says. Improvements inside the building include building a per manent stage and reworking the wiring, he says. Reasons for expansion into pro ducing concerts are two-fold: to make money and to bring this area live professional entertainment. The first concert, set for Oct. 29, is the “Full Moon Costume Concert” featuring Joe “King” Carrasco. Bomar says the concert will be different from any other concert held in College Station. “It will be more of a festival atmosphere,” he says, “because there will be no arranged seating. ” The world’s largest hors d’oeuvres tray ever served will be provided by Fish Richards, he says. The tray, which will have fruits, meats, cheeses, vegetables and bread, will be approximately 30 to 40 feet long and will be reple nished continually, Bomar says. In addition to the tray, beer, fajitas and sausage-on-a-stick will be for sale, Bomar says. Carrasco tickets will be $9 and include the hors d’oeuvres tray, Bomar says. Tickets will be sold at Hastings Books and Records and Tip Top Records and Tapes. KTAW Radio also is involved with the concerts, Dossey says, by providing station time and adver tising. Future concerts may include: ZZ Top or Loverboy on the weekend of the Texas A&M v. Texas football game, Sammy Hagar and Billy Squire. At this time, Loverboy is more definite than ZZ Top, Dossey says. Sammy Hagar has been con tacted, but no contract has been signed, he says, and Billy Squire has expressed an interest in hav ing a concert. The studio branch of Roadrun ner, located in the back of Tip Top Records and Tapes, “solidified” in March 1983. Bomar says that’s when he and Dossey decided to “stop cutting each other down and start working together.” The studio has 24-channel, eight-track recording capabilities — eight individual parts can be recorded on one tape with three channels on each part. The studio has full noise reduction, Dossey says, which is unusual for an eight- track studio, and harmonizers and digital delays. The studio uses Sennhieser, JBL and Tascam equipment. He says keyboards — piano, string and synthesizers — also are available for studio use. Bomar says the studio is cap able of making demo tapes (sam ple songs from a band’s reper toire), remote recordings, record ing mixes, albums, 45’s, ex tended-play records, commercials and jingles. Terry Dossey checks recording equipment in Road- runner Productions’ studio. area,” Dossey says. He says be cause there is no place to play in the area the musicians get frus trated and leave. “We want the music to survive and work in this community,” Dossey says. After finishing Brazos Valley Gold, Roadrunner is planning Texas Rocks — a rock album promotion with KTAW. Roadrunner also is the largest disc jockey company in the area, Bomar says. He says that the com pany has the equipment to handle three parties a night. He says the repertoires are updated on a regu lar basis and contained in tape format. Roadrunner also books bands and does referrals on a small scale, he says. Besides having studio equip ment, Roadrunner also has major concert equipment. This includes 10,000 watts of sound, 10,000 watts of lighting — expanding to over 22,000 watts soon — fog, con cussion, sparkle and confetti bombs and all kinds of speakers. Both Bomar and Dossey have other jobs during the day and also play in a local band — Rrackitt. Bomar works at the First Bank and Trust in Bryan as a loan offic er. Originally from Dallas, he has lived in Bryan for four years. Everything but the pressing of albums is done at the studio, Dos sey says. Pressing is done by Rain bow Sound in Dallas. The company is doing jingle work for some local businesses, Bomar says, including Court’s Western Wear, Pepe’s Mexican Food Restaurants and Deluxe Burger Bar. The jingles are writ ten, produced and recorded in the studio. Dossey says the jingles are written either by Bomar, keyboar dist Mark Wilson or himself. “Basically whoever comes up with an idea first,” he says. Roadrunner also is producing its first album — Brazos Valley Gold — as a promotion with KORA. The album will feature 10 local country musicians chosen out of approximately 150 who entered the Brazos Valley Gold contest. Out of the 150 who sent in tapes, 34 are being sent to local judges. The tapes will be judged in 10 categories. The album will be sold locally and part of the money from sales will go to local charity, Bomar says. “There are a tremendous amount of good musicians in the While in Dallas he did studio work as a singer and played in local bands. Bomar attended Tarrant County Junior College for two years and then went to work for a finance company in Dallas. Bomar went into the banking business after he married because the music business is so unstable. Dossey, from San Antonio, has been in B/CS for 10 years. He played with the local band OZ and before that bands in San Antonio. He also did studio work in San Antonio. He received a degree in electronics from Texas A&M and is employed as a pavement design researcher and computer prog rammer at the Texas Transporta tion Institute. Orchestra to perform in Rudder Thursday by Brenda Bivona Battalion reporter The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, recognized in the United States and internation ally for their musical excell ence, will perform here Thursday. Under the direction of guest conductor Maestro Gar cia Navarro, the orchestra will perform works from Strauss, Harris and Tchaikovsky. To be performed are: — Don Juan, composed by Richard Strauss and first per formed in 1899. — Symphony No. 3, com posed by Roy Harris, an Amer ican composer, in 1937. — Symphony No. 5, com posed by Pytor Tchaikovsky in 1888 and first performed in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1891 by conductor Theodore Thomas, has received more Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences than any other orchestra in the world. In 1982 the orchestra won four Gram- my’s, including Best Classical Performance. Paul Hume of the Washing ton Post said of the orchestra, “Chicago Symphony Orches tra... one of the wonders of the world. To describe it would be an idle listing of the kinds of perfection that are dreamed of in imagining an ideal orchestra. ” Full-length concerts by the orchestra are taped weekly, under sponsorship of Standard Oil Company, and broadcast over more than 400 stations in the United States and Canada. The concert begins at 8 p. m. in Rudder Auditorium. *By joining America's fastest growing family of music collectors, you will be able to take advantage of the best value in the music industry today! Members receive 15 certificates; simply redeem one certificate when buying an album or tape from us, at national list price, and receive your second choice FREE. 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