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Enterta, Skynyrd, Rock To 4 BY R. VANCE BUTTS Of The Gamecock staff Let's see. Take ten thousand people.ready to boogie, three acts, and a large gathering place, and you're ready to roll. It happened Sunday night in Carolina Coliseum, with a special skit by the fun guys, the Columbia Police Department, who were kept busy at first, ex pelling nicotine criminals before setting out to end the dangerous threat posed by several frisbee throwing fans who were running amuck on the main floor. Anyway, once the frisbees had been rounded up, the show was ready to go on, and it did with the opening act of guitarist John Hammond who whipped up the audience with guitar, harps, and fast-paced blues. Many people (including this writer) didn't know it, but Johnny's pretty good: 11 albums to date with a new disc Can BY BRENDA BELL Entertainment Editor July 3, 7:0and 9:30 - Calcott 015. "Play It Again, Sam," directed by Herbert Toss. Starring Woody AMien, Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts. After his wife leaves him for insufficient laughter, neurotic film critic Allen turns to friends for help in establishing a meaningful relationship with the opposite sex. He conjures up shades of his idol Humphrey Bogart who gives him advice on how to handle dames. Allen dates a procession of swinging girls, but they all reject him - even a self-avowed nym phomaniac. $1.00. July 6, 8:00 - Golden Spur. "All About Eve," directed by Joseph L. Mankeiwicz. Starring Bette Davis, Celeste Holme and George San ders. Story of an older actress near the end of a fabulous career, doing battle with a calculating Marshall Tucker Banc Marshall Aoliseum j (Can't Beat the Kid") out on the Capricorn label, and a career spanning 14 years with sessions with people like Jimi Hendrix. Next on stage, to the welcome of cheers was Georgia Rock 'n Roll band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Skynyrd was loud, but they don't huck around. Lead singer and lyricist Ronnie Van Zant had the crowd moving by the end of the first song, and he kept up the pace during the entire set, trucking out with some heavy rockers like Saturday Night Special, The Needle and the Spoon, ("I've seen a lot of people who thought they were cool - and Lord, I've seen a lot of fools.") and their most successful tune, Sweet Home Alabama. Good rock 'n roll. But it was Marshall Tucker that the audience had been waiting for. Marshall Tucker, those "down home" dudes from Spartanburg, and the crowd wasted no time in cheering MTB as they went on ipus Fil treacherous newcomer. Story is told with wit and unfailing candor, employing sharp and sardonic dialog. Fate enters the picture in beautiful irony at the conclusion. Free. July 7, 8:00 - Golden Spur. "Gaslight," directed by George Cukor. Starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten. Set in an eerie London House, this psychological study begins when Bergman marries brooding painist Boyer not knowing he has murdered her wealthy aunt. He embarks on diabolical schemes to drive his wife insane, hoping to inherit her fortune. Free. July 8, 8:00 - Golden Spur. "Grand Hotel," directed by Ed mund Goulding. Starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore and Joan Crawford. Barrymore Is a baron who becomes involved in the lives 'W Steve Sheheen Tucker kudience stage. Before long, both musicians and audience were into the sounds, and it seemed that MTB's tunes had a definite therapeutic effect on the head, so easy does their music flow. MTB performed two sets before being called back for an encore rendition of "Will the Circle be Unbroken" with the audience singing along. Backstage after the concert, the GAMECOCK talked with the brothers Caldwell, Tom (bass) and Toy (lead guitar), about the band, their beginnings as a Capricorn supergroup, and their present status. MTB was signed in 1971 by Phil Walden of Capricorn, after Tommy and Toy dropped by one day with a demo tape. "It was don't call us, we'll call you," Tommy said. "He (Walden) had a bunch of tapes on his desk, so we left ours there and left. The next day he called us and told us to get our ass down there." ms01 of several guests in an upper class hotel. Chief of these is Grusin skaya, a Russian dancer, played by Garbo, who is a lonely in scrutable woman who gives the film an aura of mystery. Free. July 9, 10 -7:00Oand 9:30 - Calcott 015. "2001: A Space Odyssey," directed by Stanley Kubrick.Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and Douglas Rain. A strange monolith throwing off unexplained rays, is found at the bottom of a moon excavation and points the way to something more foreign and distant than man can imagine. Man is shown to have an inability to cope with the new and strange, from the beginning of time up to an age where he is controlled by computers. One is given the ultimate sensory spec tacle of leaving all barriers of time and place while becoming a Ulysses in the quest to find a manningonf life. 1k teve Sheheen Gary Rossington And Allen Collins Of Lynyrd Skynyrd Both Caldwells get along well as their fourth album is released enough with Capricorn, the Macon- (August 6). "There's some real based music center and home of shitkickers on it," he said with a other bands like the Allman wry smile. The album will contain Brothers, whom the MTB has new material plus a live track of a performed with. favorite MTB hit, "Can't You See." Toy Caldwell said the group's main interest was playing. "I'll Promises are good, but critics - play anytime, anyplace, rarely listen to promises. If they anywhere," he said, adding that had been at Carolina Coliseum MTB prefers stage work to studio Sunday night, they would have sessions. When ask if MTB had seen that the Marshall Tucker stalled, as some critics have Band is definitely laid back, but suggested, Toy said no, that that they haven't laid off. They're feeling would be dispelled as soon going as strong as ever. Summer Thesater Continues Three popular and highly lauded p.m.- matinee on Sundays. 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