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Mail to: Scientific American, PO Box 3187, Harlan, IA 51593-0378, USA Online: www.sciam.com Fax to: 1-515-246-1020 Call: 1-800-333-1199 Come see the merry side of Sears Our entire store is on sale when you take ! 0 % O OFF* everything...even sale prices WRAP IT UP EARLY SALE November 21 and 22 1600 S. Texas Ave. 693-2627 College Station JfUlki&y 1219 N. Texas Ave. 822-1042 Bryan .99 El Fuego Bueno Cigar (The Bon-Fire Cigar) !00 frillSmi NEW LOCATION NOW OPEN 696-3346 Lone Star Pavillion 721 Texas Ave. S. • Behind Red Lobster FREEMAN improvisational comedy Happy X-giving! Friday, Nov. 21 9 p.m. Rudder Theatre Tickets are $4 in advance (MSC BoxOffice) $5 at the door New Kid in Tow Music publishing company ‘Hopes’ to make st^ By Brandi Ballard Stajf writer I t takes more than just a guitar and a singer for a band to cut a record. It takes effort, disap pointment and most importantly, it takes a publishing company. Hopes Creek Music, Brazos Valley’s own music publishing company, hopes to help local talent land big breaks with record labels. Hopes Creek Music is the only one of its kind within 100 miles. “Hopes Creek Music is the first all-out, fully aggressive publishing company that Brazos Val ley has seen,” said Ron Piwko, president of Hopes Creek Music. The company got started when Piwko and Willie Bennett got together. The two met when Bennet helped Piwko’s band The Texas Woodies get signed to a record label. Together they formed Hopes Creek Music and now plan on expanding the business to take in other local talent. Bennett has been in the music business for 25 years. Bennett has connections within the Texas industry and Piwko met people in the music in dustry during his stint as a staff writer in Nashville. “I have friends in the music business here, and they just do not know how to get a record cut and dealed,” Piwko said. The company has been in business since Feb. 7, 1996, but the word about them is just now starting to get around. “We really got active this past July,” Bennett said. The name, Hopes Creek, comes from the street Piwko lived on next door to Lyle Lovett. Bennett said there is a tremendous amount of talent in the College Station area. “I feel that College Station is the epicenter of the music industry,” Piwko said. But Hopes Creek Music will not help just any band sign to a record label. The band must first sell themselves to the company. Bennett said pub lishing companys looks for originality in bands. “They must have songs that set them apart,” he said. “And they have got to be radio friendly.” Bennett said that if a band cannot be played on the radio, then there is no point in signing them. A really good blues band just will not get any air time. “They (the band) need to bring me a pre-taped demo of good quality,” Bennett said. “Then, if I like it, 1 will send them to a recording studio to record the best four or five songs they have.” Bennett then sends that record to different recording labels around the United States. But first, he has to solicit the biography of the band. Submission, which consists of a demo, a black and white glossy photo, and a brief biography. Bennett must call the record company before the submission arrives and let them know who he is and what he is sending. “If the label likes what they hear, they will call you back and ask if you have anything more that the group has done,” Bennett said. “If they call you back, that is a really good sign.” Bennett says the company now has two bands being published, Texas Woodies and Reel; lion. He soon hopes to get a < ontractwiftlB n | group Haywood. fr' I It is a publisher’s job to get a band a reft I deal. A booking agent’s job is to net iheB e | live shows. Hopes Creek Music is strictly a pubiW 11 company. "The main objrrth cfoi a pub]ishmgcJ 0l l ny is to get their client signed,” BennettsaiiiB 6 ! The process can take from two monthstoN'^j years. Of course, iIhtc is always the possibi™ e j| a band to form their own independent recc i bel. T P Bennett said a band may want to avoid ing their own label because the industry^ fer to them as a “vanity” CD on a “vanity" Bennett and Piwko saw a need in Colleg tion and are trying their best to fill it. A m y l ninnl 2:50, RYAN ROGERS/The Bip Willie Bennett, owner, and Ron Piwko, president of Hopes Creek Music, a music publishing compam of Thursday, November 20 Clay Blaker, a country musician, will be perform ing with Brian Duckworth, a country musician, at 9:30 p.m. at Shadow Canyon. Breedlove, a rock band from Austin, will be play ing with The Texas Woodies, a band from Bryan- College Station, at 9 p.m. at The Dixie Theatre. t- 1 Ruthie Foster, a folk and blues musician from Bryan-College Station, will be hosting her CD re lease party at 5 p.m. at Marooned Records. The Theater Arts Department presents Bertolt Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzuan” at 8 p.m. in Rudder Forum. Vanilla Ice, a rap artist from Miami, will be per forming with Rob Base at Texas Hall of Fame at 9:30 p.m. -a m lege Station, will be performing at 9 p.m.atThe 3rd Floor Cantina. The Theater Arts Department presents Bertolt Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzuan’ 1 at 8 p.m. in Rudder Forum. Friday, November 21 Saturday, November 22 Ugly Americans will be performing with Saucel 9 p.m. at The Dixie Theatre. Hamilton Loomis and the Prime Time Players« be performing at 9 p.m. at The 3rd Floor Cantina BEl addicl tan b| irom! the usl entifkl Thf Xatioij ports t| lire and dl symlui lets fii Coil ludd ol SanDiJ tant t(j cause and '‘oil on the] agenda “We medicil meniil civelyiij ludd sal tion wt| physicil Reckless Panhandlers Reckless Panhandlers, a classic rock band from Bryan-College Station, will be playing at 9 p.m. at Fitzwilly’s. Bobby Hall and The Ice Cold Blues Band, a R&B band from Bryan-College Station, will be playing at 9 p.m. at Fitzwilly’s. Linus, a rock band from Bryan-College Station, will be performing with Squint, a band from Bryan-College Station at 9 p.m. at The Cow Hop. IVISC Film Society will be showing Contact all and 9:30 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. Ronnie Po, an original rock musician from Hobs ton, will be playing at 9 p.m. at Fitzwilly’s. The Theater Arts Department presents Bertolt Brecht’s "The Good Woman of Setzuan” at 8 Gary P. 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