Monday, August 28, 1989
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nd idiot." aJm over the next few months.
Bio, let’s get that information out
Ht. The confirmed concerts are as
follows:
►The Coors Light Comedy Com-
ndos, featuring David Naster and
i Taylor Mason, will kick things off on
|(iday, Sept. 1. Tickets are only
50, and it’ll be over before yell
dice. Crowds have been huge for
se guys the last couple of years, so
your tickets early.
'Judy Tenuta, the bizarre come-
Anne who was featured recently in
Batch of Diet Dr. Pepper comrrrer-
1s, will swoop into Rudder Audito
rium on Oct. 20, spitting gum and
using all males in the audience of
wanting to be her love slave.
(•Please, ladies, don’t scream too
dly, but George Strait — The
I Aice, The Hat, The Wranglers — is
Homing back to A&M. You’ll have to
it until Feb. 2 to see him, but
Hlging from audience reaction at
All) ' * ■ * ast cou P* e °h shows here, it’s
^ »rth the wait.
o NO! /HBThese, of course, are only the con-
Hits that have been contracted. Oth-
e^s are in the works, but aren’t defi-
y et -
(You may be wondering why it’s so
^ Hugh to book major concerts at
/BcM. And why, you may ask, why
Site there so few rock concerts here?
i senior biomedical
is the Town Hall
'Pan for 1989-90.
HMoore explained some of the
iptoblems that she and her commit-
face this year, which are basically
Photo byJay Janner
George Strait is scheduled to perform in G. Rollie White Feb. 2.
Kari Moore,
science major.
the same problems that have always
• DON I Hnfronted Town Hall when trying
r>jy (0book rock shows at A&M:
tH •Country concerts are booked
I much further in advance than rock
Hows (i.e. George Strait — six
Jonths in advance). By the time
■own Hall finds out a rock band is
(ailable on a certain date, chances
the campus facility needed for
concert is already being used by
me other organization.
[•The facilities here (be. G. Rollie
hite Coliseum) aren’t capable of
eeting the production needs of
any rock acts (the size stage the
^(nd wants won’t fit, or G. Rollie’s
JjHof won’t support the sound and
j^v^jliglit equipment the band needs to
' hang from it).
' f j *Rock shows, because of their
J pigher production costs and because
ftlffiey generally draw bigger audi-
»feices than country shows, are more
J||j(pensive to bring. Because the col
iseum cannot hold that many people
|only about 8,000 or so) and because
post of the people here are on col
lege budgets and can’t pay a whole
v loi for a ticket, it is not economical
for a show to come here.
•College Station is in between
'■ 1 jhree major rock markets with nice
cilities — Houston, Austin and
could teach a new advisor, she’d feel
it was O K. to move on,” Moore said.
“Still, it was a surprise.”
MSG Director Jim Reynolds said
that the process has already begun to
replace Croteau.
“What we’ll basically do right now
is go out and find someone who has
had background experience in
working with performing arts and
hopefully find someone who has had
that experience plus experience
working with student volunteers,”
Reynolds said.
Reynolds said he is not optimistic
about hiring someone before school
starts.
I ou can tell (that there
is a demand for alternative
music) by the way people
dress — there are more
groovy-looking people
around campus these
days.”
— Stevie “Ray” Wall,
Town Hall Vice-Chairman
for Club Programming
-$6
—Ii
Jallas. The bands would much
rather play in those towns than here,
so those cities get most of the avail
able dates.
Despite these problems, Town
[all has brought rock ’n’ roll to
"M in the past. Night Ranger,
eap Trick, Huey Lewis and the
ws, Iggy Pop, The Pretenders,
E.M. and Robert Palmer have all
yed here in the last four years.
Moore said she and her Vice-
aan of Concerts, Alan
ompson, are working to bring a
k show here.
|This year, though, Town Hall is
ed with a new problem. Their
[SC Staff Advisor of two-and-a-half
lars, Laura Croteau, announced
tree weeks before school started
t at she would be resigning her posi-
t m as of today to take a job at
I KYS-FM.
I The Town Hall advisor is the per-
s p who does most of the contract
1 gotiations with performers’ orga-
I lations.
I Also, since the advisor is available
I day to take phone calls about po-
I itial concerts, this is the person
I to often makes the initial contact
with a band’s organization, a contact
(lean lead to a concert.
(The loss of the T own Hall advisor
(this point in time, when many of
shows for the upcoming semes-
are being planned, could have a
Itrimental effect on Town Hall’s
'gramming.
aoteau said that the timing of
Brresignation couldn’t be helped.
W'KKYS was recently bought out
a national company and the job
It became available,” Croteau said,
wasn’t seeking a new job, but this
e became available a few weeks
3 and it was a good deal.”
Croteau said that the new position
ered better career opportunities
d a chance for her to further pur-
a career in the music business.
According to Moore, the Town
’’ execs were surprised by the res-
ation.
We met over the summer to dis-
s plans for the upcoming year,
Laura said that when she felt we
Id handle it on our own and
“In the meantime, (MSC Associate
Director) Kevin Jackson and Jim
Reynolds will suck it up and do the
best we can to work with Town Hall
and with other parts of Laura’s re
sponsibilities,” Reynolds said. “The
one thing we will not do is go into
the hiring process and hire someone
we don’t feel really good about.”
Both Moore and Reynolds said
that Town Hall will continue to op
erate without a full-time advisor and
that Town Hall’s programming will
not be affected significantly.
“I picked a good exec team and
I’m real confident in them,” Moore
said. “It will be a little more work for
us. The first Friday after school
starts is our first show, but every
thing for that show is done before
school starts, so Laura will be able to
help us with it.”
Reynolds said, “I’d like to say,
‘Well, we’re just gonna stop and not
plan to do anything until we get the
position filled,’ but obviously we’re
not going to do that.”
Croteau, however, foresees poten
tial problems.
“I think that the programming
may not be as profitable,” Croteau
said. “I think that through the things
we’ve achieved through the last two
years, we’ve been more marketing-
oriented toward our events and
therefore we were able to market
them well toward the students,
where we could break even or make
a profit, so that we could have other
programs.
“I feel like I was trained to know
what an artist was worth and what
was negotiable, whereas someone
who is not experienced in working
with national acts — and national
acts are where we make our money
— may not turn the profit like last
year,” Croteau said. “Town Hall will
still exist, and I hope good concert
decisions continue to be made.”
This year’s Town Hall committee
has a tough act to follow. Last year
Town Hall finished the year around
$40,000 in the black.
One of the most successful aspects
of last year’s Town Hall program
ming was its “Coffeehouse” series,
which featured amateur talent doing
everything from reading poetry to
strumming acoustic guitars. The
shows were held in Rumours snack
bar and were free.
Moore said she hopes to build on
last year’s success.
“Last year, the (Coffeehouse)
crowds were different every time,
with some regulars coming to each
show,” she said.
“This year, we want to build more
name-recognition (for the Coffee
house series), since last year was its
first year. Coffeehouse is free — it’s
for the student body, so we want
more people to know about it so they
can participate, both by watching
and performing.”
Mark Kirk will be in charge of
Coffeehouse this year.
Moore said that this year Town
Hall will concentrate more on the
smaller, more intimate concerts of its
Club Series.
“Hopefully, we’ll have more small
shows that will reach a wide diversity
of campus interests,” she said.
Stevie “Ray” Wall, a junior wildlife
and fisheries major, is the 1989-90
Vice-Chairman for Club Program
ming, so it will be his responsibility
to book the smaller concerts.
“We’re talking eclectic, alternative
music,” Wall said when asked what
he plans to do with this year’s club
shows. “We’re looking for bands you
would hear on college radio stations,
like KANM-FM. We’re gonna wake
this town up.”
Wall said that he thinks there is
definitely a market for this type of
music in Bryan-College Station.
“Given any large college, there
will be different tastes in music,” he
said. “If you look back to when
Eastgate Live (a now-defunct live
music club that was located near the
east entrance to campus) was open,
when they had bands like the Reiv
ers, they always had a big crowd.”
Evidence of the market for alter
native music can be found strolling
about campus, according to Wall.
“You can tell by the way people
dress — there’s more groovy-looking
people around campus these days,”
fie said.
There are difficulties in trying to
land a show of this nature.
“For one thing, no one on the al
ternative music scene has ever heard
of A&M,” Wall said. “Also, to find an
appropriate date, with all the other
committees and events at A&M that
are scheduling things, is tough when
trying to work a date in with a band’s
routing.”
Of course, Wall’s small-show pro
gramming won’t be limited to strictly
alternative music. He said he plans
to try to bring bands from all musical
fields, including quality regional
bands and hard-rock bands.
“If I could get a good hard-rock
band, they’d be here in a second,” he
said.
As of right now, no club shows are
definitely booked. When they are.
Wall says, they will probably be
booked into DeWare Fieldhouse,
where acts such as the Judy’s, Joe
“King” Carrasco and Wazobia have
performed for Town Hall in the
past.
The possibility of Town Hall co
promoting concerts with off-campus
clubs, and then holding the shows at
the club, is also being considered.
If you are a freshman or transfer
student and would like to become a
member of Town Hall, information
will be given out at the MSC Open
House on Sunday, September 3.
Applications can be picked up at
the Open House or in the Town Hall
cubicle in the Student Programs Of
fice on the second floor of the MSC.
Students other than freshmen
and transfer students need to wait
until the end of the spring semester
to apply.
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