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Lifestyles Thursday, March 4,1993 mwiwmimiimniii The Battalion Page 3 College Station band comes back to home turf Return of the rockabilly Road Kings By JOE LEIH The Battalion The Road Kings will bring their blend of rockabil ly, blues and swing back to the Bryan/College Sta tion area tonight. The band will play at the 3rd Floor Cantina in downtown Bryan. Guitarist/vocalist Jesse Dayton formed the group three years ago in College Station. The band moved to Houston after a year and has been touring Texas. They also appearea twice on the Fox television net work's program "Comic Strip Live. Prime Time!" The Road Kings are planning a month-long tour of Finland followed by a tour of the southwestern Unit ed States. The band's manager, John Huff, a former Texas A&M student, said, 'We are, trying to push out the circle a little farther, expanding our base all the time." Huff, Class of '86, said the Road Kings still hold "quite a few ties to Bryem/College Station." Marooned Records hosted the Road Kings' first cassette release party, and Tony Davidson's KAMU radio show "Rea Hot and Blue'* was a huge promot- "It's music that inmates and col lege girls alike can enjoy." -Jesse Dayton, Road Kings guitarist and singer ly history. cM studen er in the band's early Huff said the A&M student body still comprises a large base of the band's fans. With new upright bass player Jason Burns, Dayton and drummer Eric Tucker have begun to move in a slightly different musical direction. w When we started, we did a lot of straight rocka billy," said Dayton, the band's principal songwriter. "It was good for us." He said the band is now doing "a mesh of rock and blues and old fifties country" along with rocka- e band's first compact disc, self-titled, captures Dc ■" * this new musical style. "Dayton said, "It will be a real cross-over type record. It's music that inmates and college girls alike can enjoy." Despite their progression out of a continuous rock abilly format, the Road Kings still have an unmistak able image of yesteryear. Sporting greased hair, long side burns and black and white wingtips, the mem- The Road Kings (l-r, Jason Burns, Eric Tucker and Jesse Dayton) will return to B/CS to perform tonight. bers personify the 1950s. The band's possessions reflect a classic '50s image as well. The Road Kings all perform on vintage in struments and have even purchased a 1948 Flex tour bus that Dayton describes as just "too cool for school." Despite its image, the band refuses to be cast as throw oacks. "We left the lyrics about poodle skirts to Elvis Presley," Dayton said. He said most of the band's lyrics consist of extremely honest personal stories containing a lot of grit. "What the band really has going for it is its explo sive stage show," said Dayton. He said that in some shows tne bass player climbs on top of his instru ment or plays it behind his head. "By tne end of the show everybody is dancing," he said. "It's real natural. It's wild." Huff said, "It's just high energy music." MSC to host annual carnival By DENA DIZDAR and SUSAN OWEN The Battalion The MSC All Night Fair this Saturday will offer the chance to milk a cow, get a massage, put friends in jail, get married, get di vorced and throw wet sponges at campus celebrities. Fifty-five student organiza tions will set up booths in the Memorial Student Center from 8 p.m. until 2 a.m. and charge up to 5 tickets (worth ten cents each) per activity. All Night Fair chair Keith Swinarsky said, "It's basically a big indoor carnival, and also an inexpensive date." Members of Squadron Thir teen will "jail" anyone at the fair for ten minutes. Texas A&M's N.O.W. chapter will sponsor a "Tape the Condom on tne Stud" booth ard Alpha Phi Omega will sponsor a massage parlor. Fairgoers can go through a mock wedding ceremony at Lambda Sigma's Chapel of Love and then walk next door to the Hughes Hall Divorce Court. Outside in the Rudder plaza, the Texas A&M Dairy Science club will offer the opportunity to milk a cow and campus leaders will have wet sponges flung at them, sponsored by Aggie Lead ers of Tomorrow. Chrisma Jackson, a sophomore mechanical engineering major and Neeley Hall's vice president, said her hall will set up a "King of the Mountain" booth. Two participants will stand on a sus pended log and hit each other until one fans off. "We want to earn money for the hall," she said, "but our main goal is to have a lot of fun." One of last year's most popu lar events, the'date auction, will not be held this year. At last year's fair, the Inkshed Press and the MSC council assis tants auctioned off opportunities to have dinner with campus celebrities including University President William Mobley, Stu dent Body President Stephen Ruth, Miss Black and Gold Erica Davis and the yell leaders. "Due to the racial incidents at the beginning of last semester, people started looking at every thing a little bit closer and it was thought that a date auction was in some ways too similar to a slave auction," Swinarsky said. "Most people thought it could be taken the wrong way too easily and wasn't worth taking the chance on offending people. The MSC council conducted an investigation of the issue and voted at the beginning of this se mester not to allow date auctions at MSC-sponsored events. The fair's tradition of live en tertainment will continue this year, however. Covenant, a local rock band, will perform during the fair, as will members of the Association of A&M Guitarists, other musi cians, singers and a comedian. There will be exhibitions by karate and aikido clubs, a mime group and Mexican folk dancers. Director of Finance Christine Perdue, a sophomore business major, said tne All Night Fair committee will auction off two diamonds for Aggie senior rings and other donated items includ ing car washes, hand-painted clothes and a quilt. Former Miss Texas A&M Jill McClure will sing a country and western song and current Miss Texas A&M Leslie Fisher will perform a gymnastics routine. Swinarshy, a junior business management major, said the committee hopes tne fair will at tract more off-campus people this year, including families from the community. "We've really worked hard on bringing in not just the college stu dents but the surrounding com munity," he said. "We're hoping to bring in over 3,000 people." Swinarsky said the fair's main purpose is to raise money for the participating groups. "It's a good way to get an or ganization's name out, he said. "It's also a team-building, bond ing event for the groups.' Swinarsky said organizations have earned up to $600 at past fairs, and this year ties the 1991 fair for the largest number of groups involved. Conference examines Latin American issues The Southwest Council on Latin American Studies (SCOLAS) will present nearly 90 specialists on Latin American issues today. Dr. Chester Christian, a Texas A&M professor of modern languages and the council's president, said, "The purpose or the conference is to get Latin Ameri can specialists to talk with people outside their area of expertise." The conference, continuing through Saturday at the College Station Hilton, will consist of numerous panel discussions on gender studies, art, literature, language and ethical problems in Latin America. 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