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Solid Gol BY HENRY ROHLING Gamecock Staff Writer An evening of the "Midas touch" is on its way! Mail order tickets for Night of Gold are available beginning today at the second hoor Russell House ticket office. In conjunction with Homecoming, the IUniversity Union Contemporary Sounds Committee will present an evening of nostalgia featuring Chubby Checker, the Crystals, the Drifters, and Johnny Thunder at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 10 at the COiliseum. According to Contemporary Sounds Committee Chairman Les Potter, the ticket sale today is open to USC students. The tickets will be made available to the public on September 30 at $5.50, $4.50, and $3.50. "We've gotten the Coliseum to give a $1 discount on the top price for students," Potter said. "Doing this advance sale through mail order is the only way we could get the discount. "Students will pay their $4.50 for a $5.50 ticket. They'll receive a receipt and then on the day tickets are made available to the public, September 30, the receipts will be exchanged for the tickets - all at the Russell House theater." d' tops Sou Potter also explained that if s student wishes to take a date not attending USC a ticket may be purchased at the regular price in advance of the public sale. "We think this is going to be a fantastic show. It's always billed as 'Night of Gold' but the per formers change," Potter con tinued. "And there's going to be a dance floor on the Coliseum floor for the first time. You know, the theme of Homecoming is 'the way we were'-with this show we're trying to create that mood." Contemporary Sounds's philosophy also is to provide, as its budget allows, "quality en tertainment at the Golden Spur. weekly if possible," as well as on 'Alfredo G BY FRANKIE STEPHENSON Gamecock Staff Writer Sam Peckinpah is back in town. The famous director, whose name is synonymous with cinematic violence, has collected another macabre credit with United Ar tist's release of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. For those who have fond memories of a few of Peckinpah's past successes, such as The Wild So don't blame us yearbook. If you were here during in the Russell Hc thing, it only ta a bit . Remember nds Comn free concert a semester at the Coliseum. Major bookings at the Golden Spur this semester include British rock group Caravan on October 8 and 9, and old-time blues artists Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee on Nov. 7. Eleventh House, featuring Larry Coryell, will be presented as the major free Coliseum concert on Nov. 8. According to Les Potter, this progressive blues group "will probably fill the gap left by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I consider him to be on the same level with John McLaughlin," Potter said. In describing Caravan, for which this is a first American tour. Potter noted, "Caravan is rock but dif trcia:' a diso Bunch,The Getaway. and Straw Dogs, this latest effort will prove disappointing. Peckinpah is permanently divorced from all semblances of both taste and in tegrity. Warren Oates, who has shown up regularly during the past decade of Hollywood westerns, shares his leading role briefly with Isela Vega in this inane rehash of the age-old theme of revenge.Kris Kristof ferson's brief exposure was useful only to_sell the final boy-count. rn] if your picture doesn't want to give posterity j the 74-75 school year, g< use IMMEDIATELY. It doet kes a few minutes, and ii - you've been warned. YEARBO0K Box 85132 eittee proA ferent from everyone else. You might say they're like Yes in that when Yes came out, they were different from everyone." Caravan has six recordings out in England and four in the United States. "Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee have been in the blues business since it went commercial, something like forty years," Potter explained. "McGhee has played with Leadbelly and Josh White, and his guitar style is what Clapton copied." In addition to their concert in the Golden Spur, these blues artists will serve as front group to Eleventh House the following night at the Coliseum. ippointing] Set in modern-day Spain, the story is as familiar to us as bad TV movies--a man must be hunted down, whatever the cost, and be forced to pay for his misdeeds. A wealthy landowner, after cruelly forcing a confession from his pregnant daughter, announces he will pay one million dollars for the head of the gigolo father, Alfredo Garcia. To El Hefe's menagerie of malcontents, this very agreeable news provokes immediate get in the '75 roof that you to room 312 in't cost any :doesn't hurt ramming In an attempt to provide a well rounded program Contemporary Sounds also will present comedians and comedy teams once a month at the Golden Spur. And on Oct. 14 and 15 bluegrass will be featured in the form of flat-picking guitartst Norman Blace who has jammed with Bob Dylan and John Hart ford. Concerning rumored ap pearances by Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton, Potter was quick to point out that the rumore are false. "Stevie Wonder will not be there, and Clapton cancelled his tour for Oct. 7," Potter explained. "There was nothing anyone could do." Peckinpah response. Agents begin to scour all of Spain frantically searching for the man with the million-dollar head. Eventually, a couple of these heavies swagger into a bar that doubles as a bordello whereWarren Oates is being featured an piano. Oates, an acquaintance but no friend of Alfredo Garcia, is receptive not only to the seriousness of these gentlemen but also to their money. He wastes no time in agreeing to help acquire Garcia's head.