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The Battalion
Reviewer’s opinion:
A OR station would fill
gap on B-CS radio dial
Pucker up
By PATRICK HAYS
Of The Battalion Staff
I love music. It’s as simple as that.
I begin the day with it, listen during
the day and end the day with it.
If I’ve had a hard day at school,
nothing helps me more than going
home and cranking up the tunes and
relaxing.
If I don’t get my daily dose, I feel
incomplete or a little sick. I can drive
for hours and hours if I have music.
The majority of music I listen to is
from recorded sources (albums,
CDs, tapes), but I also like radio.
The spontaneity and unpredictabil
ity of radio is unique to it as a me
dium.
It’s a great feeling when you hear
your favorite song when you didn’t
expect it. The spirit of radio cannot
be replaced.
I happen to like rock music, so
when I turn on the radio I want to
hear it. However, that’s wishful
thinking in College Station. Turning
on the radio and trying to find rock
music is like trying to find a banana
in a barrel of monkeys.
The bottom line is that Bryan-Col-
lege Station needs a rock ’n’ roll ra
dio station.
I can’t for the life of me figure out
why a town with 40,000 or more col
lege students doesn’t have an Album
Oriented Rock (AOR) station. There
has to be a demand for it. Record
stores such as Hastings and The Re
cord Bar have no trouble selling
rock albums, and many people go to
Houston and Dallas to see rock con
certs. There IS a demand.
Other college towns such as Lub
bock, Nacogdoches and San Marcos
have rock stations which do quite
well, and I have to believe it would
work here.
Roger W.W.W. Garrett, program
director at KTAM and KORA, says
there is a place for an AOR station.
“There’s a hole in the format for
AOR here,” Garrett said.
He said he thinks the reason one
doesn’t exist now is simply because
no owner has tried it.
However, Garrett cited some pos
sible problems. He said an AOR sta
tion is aimed at ages 12-34, but that
most advertising is aimed at ages 25-
49, a category that includes few col
lege students.
He also said seasonal variations
could affect the market, with fewer
students in town during breaks and
summer. But those towns I men
tioned are supporting AOR stations,
so what’s our problem?
Despite the possible problems,
Garrett has confidence that an AOR
station would make it.
“I believe an AOR station would
do very well in this market,” he said.
Still, people in B-CS who want to
hear rock ’n’ roll are simply out of
luck. One turn of the radio dial lets
them know that we have plenty of
country and dance music, but no
rock.
I’m not knocking those types of
music, it’s just that those of us who
want to hear rock sit in deafening si
lence. '
I have discussed this issue with
many people and some of them tell
me to listen to Houston’s 101 KLOL.
That would be a feasible alternative
I happen to like rock music,
so when I turn on the radio I
want to hear it. However,
that’s wishful thinking in
College Station. Turning on
the radio and trying to find
rock music is like trying to
find a banana in a barrel of
monkeys.
if I could consistently receive a
strong signal. But I can’t always get
it, especially in my car.
I also listen to KTAM on occasion,
and their nighttime format is pretty
close to AOR. But still, it’s not a full
time AOR station.
Both of those alternatives help to
some degree, but it’s ridiculous that
anyone would have to resort to
them. Doesn’t it just seem logical to
you that you should be able to turn
on the radio in a college town and
hear some rock music?
Can you imagine turning on the
radio here and hearing Pink Floyd’s
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond?”
No, you can’t, but it should be a real
ity. Or hearing Metallica, Led Zep
pelin, or Ozzy Osbourne (which
would be the heaviest stuff played by
an AOR station)? No dice, not here.
Campus radio station KANM is
trying to get an FCC license and
when they do, maybe it will help. But
we can’t place all the responsibility
on them.
Also, their format is alternative
music, not AOR, and I don’t think
they should have to sacrifice their
E rogramming to replace the vacuum
:ft by B-CS radio.
I’m hoping someone with a lot of
money will read this and realize
there’s a market waiting to be
tapped. I have to believe that a sig
nificant number of people out there
want to hear rock ’n’ roll.
So do what Ray Davies and the
boys said and give the people what
they want.
And what we want is rock ’n’ roll.
Local jazz musician Don Pope performs at the annual Col
lege Station JazzFest Saturday at Central Park. Photo by jay]mt:
‘My Left Foot’ captures subtleties
emotional complexity of disability
By DR. BARBARA GASTEL
Special to the Battalion
Writing. And the living and feel
ing and thinking from which good
writing is drawn. They can be so
draining that you feel you’ve written
with your left foot.
Irish author an artist Christy
Brown, much of whose body was dis
abled from birth, did write with his
left foot.
Throughout much of the film,
Brown is mute or nearly so. Yet it is
quickly clear that he has a remarka
ble mind and will — and that he and
these actors have rare gifts for com
munication.
That Day-Lewis’ performance
won him an Oscar as best actor is not
The much-acclaimed film based
on his account of his early years fi
nally has made it to College Station.
And “My Left Foot” was well worth
waiting for.
Playing the deep and complex
Brown, whose cerebral palsy se
verely limited speech as well as
movement, presented many special
challenges.
Nevertheless, Brown is master
fully portrayed, both as a child (by
Hugh O’Conor) an as a teenager and
adult (by Daniel Day-Lewis).
surprising.
Nor is it surprising that Brenda
Fricker, who plays Brown’s mother
(and bearer of 21 other children, 12
of whom survived), was named best
supporting actress.
Her character may well become
one of the classic maternal figures of
the screen.
Other memorable performances
include that by Fiona Shaw as the
doctor who teaches Brown and be
comes one of his romantic interests.
As the film progresses, Brown is
shown managing to type and paint,
to play pranks, to flirt, and even to
brawl and take part in sports.
But had “My Left Foot” only de
picted such achievements it might
have been merely interesting.
What gives the film much of its
power is its portrayal of Brown’s
emotional life. Although his hand
icaps and talents are exceptional, he
contends with nearly universal is
sues.
Indeed, he often seems more like
us than ourselves as he struggles to
function in a family, to escape ste
reotypes an establish an identity, to
find a mate, and to understand and
be understood.
Brown does not go gentle. Al
though he can be tender, he often is
sulky or nasty or naughty. He drinks
too much, and his language is fre
quently foul.
Certainly, he is no poster child.
The portrayal of the stubborn,
brooding Brown helps save the film
from sinking into the maudlin. So
does the subtlety with which this
muted-hued film is crafted.
This is a piece that works, not la
bors.
MY LEFT FOOT
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis
Brenda Fricker
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Rated R
Various themes suit "My Le(l
Foot” for discussion in the class
room.
The film seems a natural formed-
ical humanities courses. It alsocoul
find places in, for example, so®
courses in writing, psychologyd
education.
But primarily, “My Left Foofiste
be seen and savored. Foritisoneol
those rare films that moves
mind, grabs the gut, and unset
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Front Porch Cafe site of midweek funk fest
By JOHN RIGHTER
Of The Battalion Staff
Skeptics of the live music scene
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in College Station should take no
tice of the funky happenings
scheduled for midweek at the
Front Porch Cafe.
Two of the hottest funk (a term
used loosely) bands in Texas will
lay down some serious grooves
Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Denton’s Ten Hands and
Houston’s Panjandrum, recent
runners-up for Best Urban-Con
temporary Band in Public News’
1990 Houston Music Poll, offer
an amazing first-hand look at the
recent expansion and diversity in
Texas music.
Ten Hands is arguably the
most talented unsigned band in
Texas, continuing to teeter on the
brink of major-label status.
The group’s delivery of scath
ing tongue-in-cheek anthems
funneled through a collage of
tight, spicy funk, scratchy ballads
and suburban psychedelia speak
highly of the possibilities for
Texan musical style.
Ten Hands will perform songs
from their popular and critically-
acclaimed releases Kung
Fu...That’s What I Like and The
Big One Is Coming, as well as sev
eral unknown gems (the workings
of a new album, perhaps?).
The group comes together in a
vibrant, demonstrative ensemble
of genuine musicianship that suc
ceeds not only to astound, but
also to question and answer.
The group’s intelligence is
equaled only by their groove-con
scious rhythms anchored by Steve
Brand’s guitar and Gary Muller’s
unorthodox Chapman Stick, a
deep-toned, 10-string bass instru
ment that doubles as a keyboard.
Keyboardist and vocalist Paul
Slavens dishes out the band’s Zap-
paesque lyrics in typical frontman
fashion with the coordinated sta
ple of drums and percussion
buoying the band’s raucous beats.
If not the most impressive act
on the regular Texas club circuit,
Ten Hands is certainly the most
enjoyable.
The question that remains is
when they will they be signed.
Panjandrum, a relative new
comer, is another part of the re
cent surge of Houston under
ground acts.
The band’s strong funk styling
is more conservative than let
Hands’, but just as enjoyable.
The fivesome harvested higfc
marks at Waivers last semester
and judging by the buzz they’ve
created in Houston, Panjandrum
quickly should follow in the steps
of Bad Mutha Goose, Ten Hanos
and Sprawl as favorite hipsters of
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