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.
Registration is open to everyone today from 2 p.m.
to 6 p.m. at the Hilton. The fee is $40 for the 3-day
event.
Dean Daniel Fallon will open the conference at
7:30 tonight with his view of Latin America and who
Latin Americans are.
SCOLAS is mainly an organization of 300 profes
sors and graduate students, Christian said, but stu
dents are encouraged to join.
The group alternates its conference location be
tween Mexico and the United States each year and
will select its new president during the conference.
Solutions from your Apple Campus Reseller:
a lot of Macintosh for an affordable price.
The best investments
start with inside information.
Built-in video support lets
you add up to a 16"Apple" display
with 256 colors.
It runs over 4,000 Macintosh
programs, which all work in the same,
consistent, intuitive way
A screaming 25 MHz 68030
microprocessor helps the Macintosh
LC III computer run up to 50% faster
than its best-selling predecessor.
A built-in SuperDrive"disk drive
read < ; from and writes to Macintosh- and
MS-DOS-formatted disks.
Add up to seven external hard disk
drives, scanners or other devices through
the SCSI port.
Its internal disk drive comes in
three big sizes: 40MB, 80MB or 160MB.
So you am store lots of papers,
letters, notes, ideas.
4MB of RAM is standard.
For complex graphics or engineering
programs, you can even expand
your LC up to 36MB.
The new Apple Macintosh LC III.
When you know what we’ve built into the new Macintosh* LC III
computer, its low price tag looks even better. It’s the successor to Apple’s
top-selling personal computer-the Macintosh LC II. And it has even
more speed, power and flexibility. Plus built-in networking, built-in file
sharing and more. See the new Macintosh LC III today by visiting your
Apple Campus Reseller. Where you’ll get special student pricing, as well as
service during college? And discover the power of Macintosh.The
power more college students choose. The power to be your best!
MicroComputerCenter
Open Monday - Friday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. Phone 845-4081
Service is available only from Apple Campus Resellers which are Apple Authorized Service Providers. ©1993 Apple Computer. Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo. Macintosh and "The power to be your best" are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, tne. Sutter Drive is a trademark of Apple Computer, tne. MS-DOS is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.