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BRIEF EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
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GENERAL ELECTION
NOVEMBER 6, 1990
PROPOSITION NO. 1 ON THE BALLOT
Senate Joint Resolution 2, Sixth Called Session, 71st Legislature,
proposes a constitutional amendment to provide that if the Senate, at
any special session, does not take final action to confirm or reject
an appointee of the Governor made during a recess of the Senate, the
appointee is entitled to continue in office until the Senate rejects the
appointee at a subsequent session or until the Governor appoints
another person to fill the vacancy, but such a nominee whom the
Senate does not act to confirm or reject at a subsequent regular
session is considered to be rejected when the session ends.
The proposed amendment will appear on the ballot as follows:
“The constitutional amendment to clarify the authority of
the senate to consider certain nominees to state and district
offices and to provide for filling vacancies in those offices.”
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Tommy and the Tomahawks feature (l-r): Will Nunez, Mike McCallister and Tommy Smith.
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Tomahawks sing the blues, for smiles
By JOHN RICHTER
In a town of few music purists, Tommy and
the Tomahawks represents a return to the roots
of Texas’ true music — the blues.
Besides featuring a full blues repertoire, in
cluding selections from Freddie King, Albert
Collins, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray
Vaughan, the Tomahawks also contain more mu
sical experience than any other local band.
Guitarist, singer and band leader Tommy
“Thunderin’ T” Smith is one of Bryan-College
Station’s most respected artists, having per
formed with the popular High Chicago in the
early ’80s, as well as with the Locomotives and
Thunderin’ T and the Storm. Drummer Will Nu
nez, another B-CS veteran, has performed locally
with Flipside, the Side Effects and the Scroocs.
The Tomahawks is the first local group for key
boardist and Louisiana music veteran, Mike Mc
Callister.
The Tomahawks relation to blues is a natural
one, the group says.
“Everybody’s been influenced by the blues,”
Smith says.
“It’s kind of hard not to hear the blues when
it’s on,” McCallister says. “It has a lot of staying
power which is why it’s as fresh today as it was 15
to 20 years ago. It doesn’t go away and it doesn’t
change much.”
Smith, who spent several years toiling in the
Austin music scene, is the star of the Toma
hawks. Blending a natural blues voice, soulful
and sturdy with a slight twang, with his precise
guitar picking and good-natured crowd banter,
Smith guides the group from one era to the next.
“We play songs that were recorded in 1900,”
Smith explains. “We play songs that were re
corded in 1965 and we play songs that were re
corded in 1990 — all timeless.”
Smith says the Tomahawks play only covers
because today’s musical programming doesn’t
gear itself enough toward that format. Family
and work commitments also make it difficult for
the band to practice and develop original
material. Finally, Smith says he loves adding his
own flavor to the classics the group performs.
“Blues is a form that allows interpretation by
the performer,” Smith says. “I don’t play ‘cryin’
blues. Mine is up tempo, designed for the listener
to have a good time.”
Performing upbeat blues is an important dis
tinction for the Tomahawks. The group ac
knowledges the genre’s many forms, but McCal
lister says the Tomahawks’ focus has always been
toward an upbeat appeal.
“Everybody who listens to blues has a different
agenda,” McCallister explains. “They’re eilk
listening because they feel really good and
low or because they feel really bad and wantem
miseration. As a band we just prefer playing
happier format than providing commiserate
It’s more fun.”
The group’s fun approach toward music
most evident in the title Tommy and the Tom
hawks. The culmination of a brainstorm f
fiest name, Tommy and the Tomahawks was
longtime joke between Smith and his wife. Wk
Nunez and McCallister heard about thejoi
they immediately changed the group's nai
from the Amazin’ Blue Rhythm Band to Toro
and the Tomahawks.
“It’s a mistake,” Smith says. “It was never si;
f >osed to be used. But (Nunez and McCallistn
ound out about it and now it’s kind of ajoke.
Stuck with the name, Smith hopes to use
much as possible.
“People keep asking me ‘Hey Tommy, wk
you goin’ to quit acting like a kid and stoi
ing?’” Smith says. “I tell them ‘When tl
stops and the smiles fade.’ Until that time,
never stop.”
Tommy and the Tonuihawks will perfor
Wednesday at Tippy’s in Bryan and nextThui
day at Kay’s Caberet at Post Oak Mall.
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KAMUpremiers
Civil War series
History 105-106 students and
others who study the Civil War
need to program their VCRs for
Sunday night.
KAMU-TV premiers the crit
ically-acclaimed 11-hour series
The Civil War. Every night next
week, Channel 15 (TCA cable
channel 4) will broadcast episodes
of the series produced by Ken
Burns.
The series took five years to
make and blends photographs
taken during the war with the
voices of prominent performers
and public figures such as Sam
Waterston, Jason Robards, Mor
gan Freeman and Jody Powell.
Episode I: The Cause intro
duces the major players of the
war and the issues behind the
conflict, such as states’ rights and
slavery, in Sunday’s premier.
The series ends Sept. 27 with
the aftermath of Lee’s surrender
at Appomattox and Lincoln’s as
sassination.
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‘Thursday Night Live!**
9 p.m.
Comedians from the Comedy Workshop
in Houston
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For more details call 693--1736
1503 Texas Ave.
Inside Holiday Inn
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The metalwork of Austin
chitect and craftsman Lars Stank 1
featured this month at the Memo!
Student Center’s Forsyth Gailerifl
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Texas A&M with a bachelor’s deg>
in environmental design, hasstui
under the masters of metalwork
in Scandinavia, Great Britain, M
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Stanley, who is a blacksmitt
well as an architect, said that mf
has always fascinated him.
“Metal records every process,
ery hammer mark, every touck
the hand required to express
idea,” he said.
Included in this exhibition
metalworks that fuse the decora:
and the utilitarian, such as ligk
fixtures and furniture.
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8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday,*
noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday andk
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