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A// epitaph to the end of an era
For Crying Out Loud’s loyal entourage
gathers for final satirical concert display
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By JOHN RIGHTER
| Of The Battalion Staff
Performing an emotional set that
stretched the boundaries of the crea
tive element, For Cryin’ Out Loud
bid farewell to hundreds of teary-
eyed onlookers Saturday night at
Kay’s Cabaret.
The group’s ever-faithful entou
rage of groupies and scenesters ap
peared in record numbers, primed
for the usual, good-natured
drunken fun of For Cryin’ Out Loud
performances.
Favorites of College Station live
music fans for the past two years,
singer and bassist Chris Cessac, gui
tarist Bob Burrus and drummer
Mike Thompson are calling it quits
because of Cessac’s impending grad
uation and subsequent departure for
law school at Ann Arbor’s University
of Michigan.
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The hugely influential trio dis
played the usual confusion and un
rehearsed madness that has typified
their always enjoyable, audience-in
teractive performances.
Although they may not have been
the best musicians in town, they were
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
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We hoped to make
some people laugh. We
probably made some cry.
But our goal was to make
some stop and ask
themselves ‘Why?’ ”
Four or Eight Week Sessions • Dates of Classes
Morning Classes and Planned June 4-29, 1990
Afternoon Enrichment Activities July 2-27, 1990
• Boarding: Boys Grades 8-12
—Chris Cessac,
vocalist and bassist,
For Crying Out Loud
always the most entertaining, and no
one hammed it up better than Ces
sac, the consummate B-CS rude boy.
Dedicating the night, their careers
and the rest of their lives to Clayton
Williams Jr., the band played re
quests from theii multi-platinum 20
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and It's Rainin’ Hepcats and Dog
mas cassettes, as well as paying hom
age to their numerous influences.
Classic paeans to the Scorpions,
Tiffany, U2, Quiet Riot and Bonnie
Tyler were sardonically intermixed
with more sincere attempts at the Vi
olent Femmes, R.E.M., the Beatles
and Camper Van Beethoven.
Between the creative excursions,
Cessac took time to plead his mes
sage of futility and species intermix
ing, finally pinpointing the evening’s
misplaced emotion by declaring
Molly Ringwald the anti-Christ.
But the band wasn’t the only one
committed to social upheaval. Full
blown sing alongs, cassette toss-
aways and a wild slam-dance pit
guaranteed the kind of top-dollar
entertainment that has become ex
pected of For Cryin’ Out Loud per
formances.
By the end of the night, however,
the tension and emotion had taken
their toll.
In a rare display of community
awareness and fellowship, Cessac
and the band invited the audience to
smoke a cigarette with them in
honor of Earth Day, a touching mo
ment that captured the essence of
the encroaching day’s vast signifi
cance.
In a roomful of smokers, Cessac
paid the ultimate and final tribute,
placing his cigarette on the end of
his guitar in honor of Keith Rich
ards.
“Damn, w'e’ll probably get signed
to a record contract now,” Cessac an
nounced.
The band concluded their final
set by botching a haphazard attempt
at an old Bodacious Gonads’ (pre-
For Cryin’ Out Loud days, before
Thompson came on board) tune that
failed miserably and left everyone in
attendance content that all was well.
“It’s only fitting that our last song
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For Crying Out Loud gave their final performance
Saturday at Kay’s Cabaret. From left to right are
Chris Cessac (vocalist, bass guitarist), Bob Bur
rus (guitarist) and Mike Thompson (drummer).
Deadline for purchasing tickets is Thursday, April 26.
I he hugely influential trio displayed the usual
confusion and unrehearsed madness that has typified
their always enjoyable, audience-interactive
performances. Although they may not have been the
best musicians in town, they were always the most
entertaining.
was an unrehearsed, forgotten, f—
ked up mess,” claimed a satisfied
Cessac.
After the band’s stellar perfor
mance, the faithful entourage em
barked on the farewell pilgrimage to
drink beer, tell old For Cryin’ Out
Loud stories and haggle over which
group would fill the cavernous void
left by For Cryin’ Out Loud’s depar
ture from B-CS.
“We’re leaving, but we feel safe
knowing that Sneaky Pete will carry
the torch,” Cessac says. “Pete rocks."
While unraveling the mystery be
hind the band’s catastrophic rise to
their current position of rock leg
ends and soon-to-be dinosaurs (Ces
sac has expressed interest in doing
reunion shows with Four Hams On
Rye, Street Pizza, Dion and The
Who), Cessac spoke of the band’s
back-alley beginnings.
“Bob and I were just playing,”
Cessac says, “and we saw Music Ex
press advertise this thing for local
bands about having an outdoor per
formance on the steps in front of the
store.
“So we went, ‘Yeah, we have to
play at that.’ So we went over there
and signed up at it. We didn’t even
really have a band. Bob and l had
written some songs and what we’d
done was borrow drums from peo
ple and gone over (the tape) and
played them ourselves.
“So we gave them this tape and
they said, ‘Yeah, you’ll play,’ and we
said ‘Oh s—t, we got to get a band.’
We just went around ’till we found
Mike who had never played the
drums before.”
Two years later and the rest is his
tory.
Cessac claims the band’s only re
gret is that they never attacked the
fertile playing grounds of West Ko
rea and Austin.
“We always went over better in
Austin,” Cessac says. “It’s kind of
our fault, but I think we really could
have gotten a crowd in Austin if we’d
gotten our act together and played
there more.”
After reflecting on past perfor
mances with the Reivers (their favor
ite band), Ten Hands, Bad Mutha
Goose, The Judy’s, Bouffant Jellyf
ish, Trio of One, Retarted Elf, No
I.D. and many others, the group
summed up how they most wanted
to be remembered.
“Like Ray Charles,” Thompson
says. “We try to be like Ray Charles.”
“In a drunken blur,” Cessac fol-
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the energetic funk scene.
It’s obvious that Texas is
screaming for high-energy,
thought-inducing funk that com
mands simultaneous movement
of both the feet and the mind.
The fact that out-of-town acts
such as Ten Hands and Panjan
drum are making a layover in
College Station speaks highly of
the town’s progress, slow as it may
be, toward a satisfactory live mu
sic scene.
Wednesday and Thursday
night should answer some of the
claims that College Station has
nothing to offer in the area of live
music.
Although we’re still galaxies
away from Austin, the opportu
nity to get a first-hand look at the
best of a continually improving
Texas music scene no longer re
quires a sleeping bag and full tank
of gas.
Battalion file photo
/After the band’s stellar
performance, the faithful
entourage embarked on the
farewell pilgrimage to drink
beer, tell old For Cryin’ Out
Loud stories and haggle
over which group would fill
the cavernous void left by
For Cryin’ Out Loud’s
departure from B-CS.
Panjandrum will perform Thurs
day at the Front Porch Cafe.
lows.
Cessac says he plans to do a come
dy/music routine in Ann Arbor
when he begins school there next
fall.
Thompson says he also is plan
ning to go solo, selling all his present
equipment to buy a guitar and four-
track player.
No one is sure what Burrus will
do, though there are rumors he and
D.A. McDowell will form a band.
When it was all over, Cessac closed
the final chapter on For Cryin’ Out
Loud with a last, wonderful, posthu
mous remark.
“We hoped to make some people
laugh. We probably made some cry.
But our goal was to make some stop
and ask themselves ‘Why?’ ”
It kind of just says it all. RIP guys,
and good luck.
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