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GLANCE
Sarandon offers Oscar
statue to Rangers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hey Os
car, meet Stanley.
Academy Award winner Susan
Sarandon of
fered her Os
car statuette
to the New
York Rangers
for good luck
in their quest
for the Stan
ley Cup.
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suggested
Rangers cap
tain Mark
Messier and
the team keep
it in their lock
er room.
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OK," Sarandon, who won for best ac
tress in Dead Man Walking, said in
Thursday's Daily News of Los Ange
les. "Maybe they don't need it."
Grateful Dead mem
bers reunite for tour
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) —
Some Grateful Dead members are
hitting the road again in their first
tour together since guitarist Jerry
Garcia's death.
"The Furthur Festival" tour that
starts in June will feature two bands
led by members of the dear depart
ed Dead: Ratdog with Bob Weir
and Rob Wasserman, and percus
sionist Mickey Hart's Mystery Box.
Also participating in the two-
month, 31-city national tour: "unoffi
cial Dead member" and keyboard
player Bruce Hornsby, Los Angeles-
based Latino rockers Los Lobos and
Jefferson Airplane offshoot Hot Tuna.
McNally said Thursday the tour
takes its name from the "Furthur"
destination sign on Ken Kesey's
Merry Prankster bus of the 1960s.
"Jerry rides with me," Hart said.
"I'll be singing 'Fire on the Moun
tain,' one of my songs that he used
to sing."
The musicians will travel by bus
and perform in 15,000 to 20,000 ca
pacity amphitheaters, structures con
siderably smaller than the ones the
Dead performed in when Garcia, who
died last August, was with them.
Taylor makes one-lin
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DALLAS (AP) — Elizabeth Taylor
pitched her new perfume with
punchlines for
the 1,000-plus
fans who
showed up at
the depart
ment store
where she was
Lollapalooza ’96
Dave House, The Battalion
The Texas World Speedway on Highway 6 may be the host of the Lollapalooza '96 festival on July 25. The festival's headliner is heavy metal band Metallica.
Speedway rumored host of festival B-CS not ready to
host Lollapalooza
By Libe Goad
The Battalion
Taylor
appearing.
Not only
did she talk
about her lat
est fragrance,
Elizabeth Tay
lor Black
Pearls, but
Taylor also an
swered personal questions from the
crowd Wednesday.
"How old are your grandchil
dren, Liz?" asked one.
"My youngest grandchild is 2
and my oldest is 24,'' she an
swered. "So I might be a great
grandmother any second now. Of
course, I've told her to keep her
legs firmly crossed."
A ggieland, get ready. The music
event of the summer may be
gracing the outskirts of Col
lege Station.
Maybe.
Yes, rumor has it the Texas
World Speedway on Highway 6
will be the Texas host of Lolla
palooza '96.
Dave Salmon, MSC Town Hall
adviser, said the tour will be hit
ting secondary markets like Col
lege Station this year, thanks to
festival headliner, Metallica.
Under much scrutiny and criti
cism, Metallica persuaded Lolla
palooza big-wigs to book smaller
venues so it would not interfere with
the band’s arena tour in the fall.
So, instead of having Lolla
palooza in the traditional Houston,
Austin and Dallas areas, it will be
something Aggies can step into
from their back door, making the
alternative festival more non
mainstream than before.
Though it has yet to be officially
confirmed, A&M students can see
the July 25 show without burning a
tank of gas to get there. High school
students without cars can persuade
friends and parents to drive them
the 20 miles to the Speedway.
The community waits with bat
ed breath for the official an
nouncement, and nothing can ap
pease the curiosity but patience.
The owner of the Texas World
Speedway declined to say anything
about the rumored date.
Another contact at the Speed
way said she was fairly certain the
show would be headed this direc
tion, but she was not sure of the
actual date.
Radio station 92.1 FM KTSR
has announced for two weeks that
the rumors were true, but their in
formation also has yet to be offi
cially confirmed.
The festival’s repertoire of mu
sicians has brought criticism to
the show.
Perry Farrell, Lollapalooza
founding father, spoke loudly
when he supposedly dropped this
summer’s tour after it deviated
from his original intentions. Far
rell said he wanted to abort his
creation last summer until he was
persuaded to continue. His disen-
"I'm sure a load of people will go. I would probably go if I
were going to be here."
— ROB LEWICKI
next year’s chair of MSC Town Hall
Rob
Clark
Columnist
Two KTSR sources felt confi
dent Lollapalooza would be billed
for College Station.
But no one knows for sure when
and where the tour will land. A
PACE concerts representative said
decisions were slowly evolving,
and the public will get more infor
mation in May.
It is official, though, that Metal
lica will headline the festival this
summer, a definite switch of musi
cal genre from previous festivals.
Instead of trademarked alterna
tive bands like Sonic Youth and
Jane’s Addiction, among others,
this year’s festival will appeal to
those with a penchant for heavy
metal guitar.
Soundgarden, The Ramones, Ran
cid, Screaming Trees and Psychotica
have joined the touring concert.
chantment helps explain the alter
native nature of the event.
Rob Lewicki, next year’s MSC
Town Hall chair and a senior psy
chology major, said the event has
taken a definite turn from the usual.
“It seems more like a Monsters
of Rock concert than a rock con
cert,” Lewicki said.
Lewicki said the change of mu
sical genre will not change the
numbers that attend each year.
Even the disenchanted look for
ward to having the touring festival
stop at the Speedway, he said.
“I’m sure a load of people will
go,” he said. “I would probably go
if I were going to be here.”
Danny King, a senior mechani
cal engineering major who has
See Festival, Page 4
W hen I
heard
that
Lollapalooza
was coming to
Bryan-College
Station, I fig
ured it had to
be some mu
tant Aggie-
cized event.
Gracing the main stage
would be Jackopierce, Jack
Ingram, Lyle Lovett,
Robert Earl Keen, Jer
ry Jeff Walker and
Rick Trevino.
The site
would be
Wolf Pen
Creek Am
phitheater
and, in
most Aggies’
minds,
would be the
greatest con
cert since the
Monkees reunited.
But dream on country
fans, the real Lollapalooza is
rumored to be here July 25
at the Texas World Speed
way. And with it will be the
gentle sounds of Metallica,
Soundgarden, Rancid, the
Ramones, Screaming Trees
and Psychotica.
Two
questions
remain. Is
Bryan-
College
Station
ready for
Lolla
palooza,
and is
Lollapalooza ready for
Bryan-College Station?
The answer to both ques
tions is a resounding no.
Trying to avoid la
beling Aggieland
and its sur
rounding ar
eas as
* Hickville,
USA, is
quite dif
ficult in
an expla
nation of
why the
concert and
location just
don’t mix. To put
it into Aggie terms,
the exotic appearances
and behavior of those who
attend concerts like Lolla
palooza wouldn’t feel at
home at the Dixie Chick
en, Denim & Diamonds or
Hurricane Harry’s.
See Lollapalooza, Page 4
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