Page 4 • The Battalion
Aggielife
Friday • May 3, 1996
Jackopierce, Jack Ingram
make Aggie Final a tradition
By Michael Landauer
The Battalion
thinks of College Sta
tion, memories come
flooding back of past
performances.
He remembers one time when
his girlfriend picked him up
from ROTC training in Arling
ton, and they drove to Carney’s
Pub in Bryan.
He made it just in time to
join his friend Cary Pierce on
stage for an acoustic set. With
out even pausing for one drink,
he drove home, got a couple
hours of sleep, and then took a
final at the University of Texas
at Arlington.
“It was just a show that
couldn’t be missed,” he said.
But finals will be over, and
Jackopierce will be ready to take
part in another show that “can’t
be missed” next Wednesday at
the third annual Aggie Final.
O’Neill said he is looking for
ward to being part of the post-fi
nals celebration.
“That totally puts it in per
spective,” he said, noting that
Wednesday also will give the
group reason to celebrate. “It’s
the last show of our tour, and we
will totally be in sync.”
While on the road, O’Neill
said, the members of the band
jump from town to town without
taking much note of where they
are. They usually get on the bus
and move on when the show is
over. But O’Neill said College
Station is different.
“We’re gonna be back in
Texas with old friends,” he said.
“Something like that we’ll get
prepared for mentally — it’s like
a homecoming and we’re gonna
be ready to rock.”
One old friend O’Neill is look
ing forward to seeing is Jack In
gram, a Texas-style country
singer who has opened for the
folk-rock group the last three
years at the concert.
“I just know that every time I
go to A&M, there will be people
there to welcome me — kinda
like a second home,” Ingram
said. “It’s not like we have to
prove anything to anyone there.”
Ingram said he enjoys the Ag
gie Final because it gives him
and his band a chance to be part
of something big at A&M, a far
cry from the days when Ingram
performed in College Station by
himself with one guitar.
“It’s always such a blast,” he
said. “I love playing at A&M,
anyway. But there always seems
to be a zillion people there (at
the Aggie Final).”
Mark Shaberg, one of the
show’s promoters, said the
crowds keep getting bigger, mak
ing the concert a sort of tradition
at A&M.
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