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By LOUIS HILGARTNER
Staff Columnist
This past Christmas vacation
I was made privilege some in
formation the whole world
should know. But first, some
background information.
Every year on New Year's
Day, some friends of mine
throw a huge party and serve
up plenty of blackeyed peas
and homemade combread —
along with plenty of New
Year's libations. It starts about
sometime and ends, oh, about
whenever. I haven't missed this
party since 1981.
Among the guests are various
radio and entertainment types
from Dallas and these people
are really fun.
It was at this party that I
learned this all-important fact:
'Rock 'n' Roll is wearing sung
lasses when you don't have to.'
I was, as you could well
imagine, floored by this sudden
torrent of wisdom. However, as
soon as I regained my senses I
knew it would be my quest in
life to search out and pin down
more specifically what Rock 'n'
Roll is.
In my long and patient medi
tations, I have not only suc
ceeded in doing this but I have
branched out to touch other
forms and styles of music.
I can no longer keep these
pearls of wisdom bottled up in
side of me.
ROCK / N' ROLL IS...
1. Wearing sunglasses when
you don't have to.
2. Turning up your stereo so
loud your dishes march out of
their cabinets.
3. Driving a $10 car with a
$10,000 stereo in it.
4. Burning a Boy George voo
doo doll.
5. Spending your last $15 on a
better haircut.
6. Never solving any problem
with words when a flameth
rower will do the job.
7. Treating every day like it was
Saturday and every night like it
was New Year's Eve.
8. Realizing that rock 'n' roll
isn't pretty.
9. Being obnoxious without
feeling guilty about it.
10. Spending your grocery
money on new aloums.
11. A carte blanche to party.
12. Being one of the richest rock
bands in the world and making
a hot video for $600.
13. Blowing off studying for a
test you know you're going to
fail and going to see the Rolling
Stones in concert.
14. Never having to say
"What's your sign?"
15. Taking off the T-tops and
racing down the highway with
Sammy Hagar ringing in your
ears.
16. Saturday night with $100 in
your pocket and a date with an
"11."
17. Saturday night with $100 in
your pocket and no place in
particular to go.
18. Riding around with the vol
ume up and the windows down
Louis
Hilgartner
even though it's only 38° out
side.
19. Not for sissies.
20. Entertainment delivered at
maximum impact.
21. Wearing black T-shirts.
22. Something not to be taken
too seriously.
23. Misbehaving for a living.
24. Believing that Barry Ma-
nilow did not write the songs
that make the whole world
sing.
25. "I don't feel tardy."
HEAVY METAL IS...
1. Setting your wake-up alarm
to Black Sabbath's "Neon
Knights."
2. "What?"
3. Feeling comfortably numb.
Ags act for Disney
By RENEE HARRELL
Reporter
The Disney Channel presents
... Texas A&M? Yes, the top tal
ent from Texas A&M is being
featured on "Coming On!"
April 8, 12, 17, 20 and 25 at 3
p.m.
"Coming On!" is produced
for the Disney Channel by Link-
letter Productions. It features
the top talent from a different
college campus each month.
Some of the talent to be fea
tured from Texas A&M in
cludes: Jim Buchholz giving a
fast-paced comedy routine;
Bubba Latham performing orig
inal compositions on guitar; for
mer Miss America contestant
Susan Spartz singing a country
ballad; an ensemble of Kappa
Kappa Gamma sorority sisters
entertaining on wash tub bass,
saw, wash board and guitar;
The Texas A&M Singing Cadets
opening and closing the pro
gram with chorale work; Cindy
Green playing the piano;
Stacked Deck, a barber shop
quartet of Ken Golden, Wally
Harwood, Steve Ard and Rick
Thurman, singing gospel, spiri
tual, hillbilly and rock 'n' roll
music along with a western bal
lad.
The acts were screened by tal
ent scouts from Linkletter Pro
ductions and later coordinated
for the show by 1982-83 Variety
Show Chairman, Karen Snow.
Snow was also featured in the
show giving a tour around cam
pus while telling background
on the University.
The show was filmed in the
Memorial Student Center and
hosted by comedian Jimmy
Aleck.
"When they filmed the show
last April they wanted to tape it
in a place that represented
A&M," Snow says. "What bet
ter place than the MSC."
One of the Kappa Pickers,
Susan Stinnett, says she really
learned a lot from being in the
show. -
"It wa^ really a learning proc
ess for us," Stinnett says. "We
usually perform in front of an
audience and even though they
had one these for us, it was a lot
different having to get sound
and voice cftecks. We even did
a commercial for the show. It
was a new experience, and I
think everyone enjoyed it. It
was really fun."
Another talented Aggie, Ken
Golden of the barber shop quar
tet, Stacked Deck, says it was
an exciting experience to be on
television.
"I think the show is good be
cause it will give everyone a
chance to see that Texas A&M
has good talent even though we
don't have as big of an arts pro
gram as some of the other uni
versities," Golden says. "I
thought it was an honor to be
selected to be in the show."
A spokesperson for the Dis
ney Channel, Bob Meyer, says
the talent scouts look for the full
spectrum in entertainment in
cluding soft rock, soul, jazz,
gospel, folk and comedy. When
the schools are picked they
keep the region of the country
in mind, Meyer says. He says
"Coming On!" likes to have a
variety of schools from around
the country.
Some of the other schools fea
tured on "Coming On!" in
clude: Kent State University,
the University of Chicago, the
University of New Orleans, Tu-
lane University, Georgia State
University, the University of
Southern California, Southern
Methodist University, the Uni
versity of Pittsburg, the Univer
sity of Chicago and the Univer
sity of California at Los
Angeles.
4. Velcro on your shoes, be
cause you can't remember how
to tie them.
5. Leather and studs.
6. Slicing and dicing Michael
Jackson with a chainsaw while
listening to the pleasant sounds
of Iron Maiden.
7. Bleeding ears.
8. Leather diapers for your
baby.
9. Wearing a pair of handcuffs
for a belt.
10. Eating raw meat off of an
Air Supply record.
11. A leather nightgown.
12. "I can't hear you."
13. More leather and studs.
TOP 40 IS...
1. Never having to stop danc
ing.
2. The same thing over and over
again.
3. Music to worry about your
braces by.
4. "Like totally tubular."
5. Being the world's oldest
teeny-bopper.
6. Oxy-10.
7. Structuring your whole life
around 'Solid Gold.'
8. Playing hard rock tunes and
trying to pass them off as 'hits.'
9. The only from of music rec
ognized at the Grammy
awards.
10. Singles, not albums.
COUNTRY AND WEST
ERN IS...
1. Wearing boots made from
the skin of an endangered spe
cies.
2. A 'Willie Nelson for Presi
dent' bumper sticker.
3. Doing cover versions of pop-
rock hits from the 1970s.
4. Scars on the hip pockets of
your jeans from cans of snuff.
5. Coors for breakfast.
6. Belt buckles the size of serv
ing trays.
7. Having your name stamped
on your belt.
8. Songs about such breezy top
ics as divorce, adultery, run
ning from the law, trains,
trucks, booze, prison and rain.
9. Coors for lunch.
10. Cow XXXX on your boots.
11. Gluing rope around the
edges of your guitar.
12. Beating up a punk rocker
while listening to Hank Wil
liams, Jr.
13. Coors for supper.
14. A gun rack with an axe han
dle in the top rungs and a Win
chester .30-.30 in the bottom.
15. Coors as a between meals
snack.
16. Stage clothes that look like
the demonstration clothes for
the Ronco rhinestone and stud
setter.
17. A cowboy hat that looks like
the result of a high-speed crash
between a large bird and a small
mammal.
Other note-worthy tips:
A big thank you goes out to
those of you who nave taken
time to call or write or what
ever. Your input, no matter
how big, small, or bizarre is al
ways welcome.
CONCERTS:
Pee Wee Herman ... Fri.,
April 13 ... at the Opry House
in Austin. With his slicked-back
hair and childish voice. Pee
Wee has been cutting up on re
cords, television, and the mov
ies. His 'Plastic Surgery with
Scocth Tape' routine will amaze
and amuse you.
The Beach Boys... Sat., April 14
... at the Frank Erwin Center.
Apparently they have recov
ered from the shock of drum
mer Dennis Wilson's death.
The Question is, How dcr they
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