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Snider’s musical influences can be compared to a shoplifter’s loot after a binge at a record store. Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rolling Stones, the Doors and Jerry Jeff Walker play into Snider’s style. The country music influence on Snider’s music is best demonstrat ed on the album’s ghost track titled “Moon Dawg Tavern.” The song is based on an actual bar opened by a man named Moon Dawg. Snider said he used to visit the tavern in Kentucky and eventual ly became the house musician. The bar was an old tool shed that sold illegal liquor to its “regular customers.” Snider revisited the bar after releasing his first album and said it was good to go back, though it wasn’t the same place to him anymore. Snider recently returned from touring with Jack Ingram. Bennett said that each singer has a strong following in certain regions of the country, but when they toured together, they were successes in every region of the country. In California and the Eastern Seaboard, Snider would headline the performance, but in areas such as the South, Ingram would be the headliner with Snider opening for him. Snider and his band, the Nervous Wrecks, will be perform ing tonight at the Dixie Theatre. Willie Bennett, partner and general manager of the Dixie Theatre, said he was exited to have an artist of Snider’s caliber play in Bryan. “Todd Snider is on cutting edge of music,” Bennett said. “In many parts of the country, he is a huge act. “This is the first chance for us to see him before he hits it big.” A press release said that Snider’s newest album makes a listener think that he might be Bob Dylan’s and Janis Joplin’s His abandoned love child possesses the simplicity of protest music of the 60s Southern Rock’s raw edges. Snider attributes his qr Net stud “This is the firs chance for ust see him before he hits it big.'’ Willie Bennett general manager, Di» Theatre success to legendary musi: Jimmy Buffett. Buffet watched Snider peii and signed a contract with fledgling rocker. Snider also appreciates 8i in other ways. “Well, he signs my paycte which I appreciate a whole Snider said. Smashing Pumpkins snatch MTV Video Music Awards attract throngs of peop to Radio City Music Hall for the grand performant NEW YORK (AP) — Where do legions of annoyed, day-weary suits breast-stroke through a rush-hour thicket of washboard bare midriffs, eyebrow rings and hair gelled to withstand cyclones unscathed? Where can MTV take over a chunk of one of the world’s busiest cities for 48 hours and paint a giant logo on the street? Where is the televised version of an event more important than the event itself? Gotta be New York — midtown Manhattan, to be exact, where the MTV Video Music Awards, the Grammys’ frenzied MTV Plaza for the week as they watched forar behind police barricades. They stalked theirpfi no avail. “They should be more accessible to thepei We are who made them who they are Camella Philpott of Queens, standing belr police sawhorse. Some of the more scintillating dialogue: —A fashion evaluation by an MTV reporter: “te prints are good. Anything synthetic goes." —Host De grandchild, convened Wednesday night. And once again, the “TV" in MTV was just as important as the “M.” “This is modern spectacle,” said Eduardo Braniff, MTV’s manager of international pro gram sales. He escorted Sharon Stone to the awards, held at Radio City Music Hall. All the block became a stage for MTV’s program, and all the screaming, thronging men and women outside merely players — and unpaid ones at that, essential though they were to the show. “I’m here — that’s all I care about,” one teen-age girl yelled across a police barricade pressing hard against her waist. Oh — the awards. A I a n i s Morissette, up for best video for “Ironic,” vied against Foo Fighters (“Big Me”), Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (“The Crossroads”) and Smashing Pumpkins (“Tonight, Tonight”), who won on that song for best breakthrough video. Other winners included Coolio for best rap video (“Gangsta’s Paradise”) and best dance video (“1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)”), Fugees for best R&B video (“Killing Me Softly”) and Foo Fighters for best group video (“Big Me”). Smashing Pumpkins, with the most nominations, made their first TV appearance since the heroin-over dose death of keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin in July — an event followed by the firing of drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, reportedly also involved with drugs. Inanities surfaced throughout: We learned comedi an Chris Rock had a turkeyburger for breakfast. We learned Rosie O’Donnell does a hilarious “Ironic” imi tation. And we learned that, no matter how famous you are, genital jokes and profanities remain the shortest route to a cheap laugh. Outside, hundreds of fans lined a street renamed s: Smashing Pumpkins made their first TV appearance since the death of their keyboardist, jonathan Melvoin. Miller: “I thought day would never a - I've been sitting or or 40 Macarena that are as staiea; condom in S Thurmond's wallet —An awed i City Music Hall a as Aerosmith’s 9 Tyler walked by: 1 a job, huh? What When MTV am really arrives - ming up the wort rnidtown Manhat days. Side around Radio Oit) restricted moretha hours beforehand' barricades and officers, snarling® Even period seemed more gi toward the sl» the awards. Me' of Foo Fighters s' when asked if thought they'd Darius '‘Hootie''i shrugged and sa expected to lose. And isn’t this Morissette, whc best new artist® doesn’t like a* though she i // Whe stud perspe lives valb Din Tl the possibility that MTV’s are OK. “It’s less formal, there’s less pressure here,” she said. 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