< 4 LONDON $335 PARIS $345 ROME $399 MADRID $349 TOKYO $508 RIO $380 OME WAY now HOUSTON ALSO TEACHER mnd BUDGET FARES! EURAIL PASSES USSR / Europe Tours Language Lemming Centers CountirYtavd —1 -800-777-2874J (yMl UNITED NATIONAL RANK Guarantee Your Education - ....with a Student Loan Send in the request (below) for a United Na tional Bank Student Loan Representative at (713) 271-7191. Well be happy to answer your questions. We at United National Bank are anxious to assist you in reaching your educational goals. Guarantee your education with a stu dent loan from United National Bank P.O. Box 771708 Houston, TX 7721S Aa E^mI OpportuaHr Cre4H LfSrr Rags 2B The Battalion Wednesday. August 23,1989 Name Address- City .State. -Zip. Phone A Area Code ( Hyour PROBLEMS PARKING ARE OVER When you shop sEJ.OUPOT'S'F BOOKSTORE SOUTHGATE 308 W. Jersey REDMOND 4ni$M 1422 S. Texas AVE. The Nation’s # 1 Hair Styling Salon Now Open in Culpepper Plaza! 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Some are deliberately Westernizing the music, prompting critics to say Americans are missing the real soundtrack of giasnost At one end of the spectrum is Grebenshikov's solo album “Radio Silence.” which Columbia Records ant to release in June. Ten of the 12 songs are in nglish and were written especially for the album. All were recorded in the West by a successful British producer. David Stewart of the rock group the F.u- rythmics. It has poetic, dreamy Ivqg * that are not overtly po litical or even distinctively Russian in content. Aside from the raspy voice of the chain-smoking, ponv- tailed Grebenshikov. “Radio Silence” hears little re semblance to his wildly popular Leningrad hand Ak- varium (Aquarium), which has sold 3.5 million offi cial albums and countless underground tapes ir. the Soviet Union Jack Rovner. Columbia vicepresident for market ing. said Grebenshikov himself decided to do the al bum in English because, otherwise, the music's ap peal "obviously would have limitations.” Some record companies, however, are taking the plunge into Russian lyrics. In late April. Opal-Wamer Bros, released an al bum entirely in Russian bv Zvuki Mu. a Moscow band whose name means “Sounds of Mu” — a tongue-in-cheek tribute both to “The Sound of Mu sic” and to the mooing of cows Like Columbia. Opal W’amer used a big-name Western producer. Brian Eno But the recording was made in a Moscow studio and preserved Zvuki Mu’s homegrown flavor, a blend of intellectual ruck and funk. The initial 50.000 records, cassettes and compact disks have just reached the stores. Zvuki Mu is scheduled to bring its rambunctious stage act to New York's Lincoln (Center in July. Grebenshikov also is planning a U.S. tour, probabiv in the fall Of all the new releases, pcrhai* the most authen tic is “Gruppa Krovi” (Blood Tvpe). a collection of Russian protest songs and dame numbers b\ singer- poet Viktor Tsoi ana his punk group Kino (Cinema) The i in the apartment of one of ns pu album was recorder! in the band members Joanna Stingray, an American singer married to Kino guitarist Yuri Kasparyan. said sne recently sat in a plush Leningrad restaurant with a group of So viet rock performers reminiscing “about the old days when they literalh went hungry ' * Today, she said, top Soviet stars travel bar k and forth to the West and earn tens of thousands of dol lars from record contracts, as well as rommanding thousands of rubles pet (oncert in the Soviet Union Kino's four-track recording was released in April by Ciold Castle Records, a small Lo* Angeles laoel. but has the muscle of (.apital Recotds' distribution network behind it. ”We wanted to make sure it was the real Russian stuff." said tkild Castle promotion director Jeff Hei- man. “That seemed like the hippest thing to do." Woodstock concert fails to match 1969 crowds BETHEL. N Y. (AP) — In the spirit of the concert it’s commem orating. an unofficial Woodstoc k reunion is slowly coming together with borrowed gear and donated services. By late Friday night cars were lining all the roads leading to the farm where 400.000people spent three days — Aug. 1 5-17. 1069 — listening to music, getting high and enduring shortages of food, water and hygienic outlets. Unlike the original Woodstock concert, no rock stars were within miles, but thousands of people were still pouring onto the site re garded as sacred grouncj ,0 those nostalgM for the rock culture of the 1960s. Police estimate this weekend's gathering will attract up to 100,000 people. aiuL.bv Friday some 35,00(kAia<1 defended on the 49-acre rarm 60 miles north of New York City, said Sgt Charles Kulick of the Sullivan Caiunty Sheriff's Department. Most people were willing to pav a S3 “donation” to gain en trance to the farm, although there was no guarantee of enter tainment. Bv Friday evening local musicians were performing on a makeshift stage using donated sound equipment powered bv a donated generator. "We had no idea it would grow into this." said Richard Pell, as he stood on the stage and gestured toward the crowd spread about the sloping field. Pell, the unofficial coordinator of the unofficial event, said the project started earlier in the week with a handful of guitarists plav- mg for a few dozen people A three-day reunion concert, held 12 miles away at the Impe rial Resort in Swan Lake, flopped Thursday when only 250 people showed up to hear performers like Edgar Winter and Woods tock veteran John Sebastian. Bruce Taylor, the vice president of the Imperial Hotel, of fered to move Friday night’s concert to the Woodstock field, but Bethel city officials wouldn't allow it. “It’s not going to happen.” said town supervisor Allan Scott “There’s enough frenzy here al ready '* Authorities had made one drug arrest bv Friday night and two people were hospitalized, one for a drug overdose- and another for ac ute alchoholism The urge to celebrate history's most lanMHis roc k *n’ roll concert at its actual site and not at a Cats- kill Mountain resort drew a cross- section of American culture: hip pies and ex-hipptes. bikers, le gions of Grateful Dead followers known as Dead heads, business men on their lunch hour, middle- aged tourists, housewives and Hasidic Jews from nearby Gatskill communities. "My husband went to the first one and said we should go every dav this week and we have.” said Lorrie Mans, a #3-jrear-old mother from Jyai by^Yqimgcv ill*- who In ought nRr two