University of South Carolina Libraries
Rhytl About Can By Chuck Cromer Country rock is a music r best performed in sma limited surroundings. 1 mosphere of simplicity ar tentment it creates needs confined so the music's im not lost in a mass of mear re-echoing guitar bouncing ceiling of a cold-steel c( support beam. The Amazing Rhythm came to the Golden Spur T nirthf o n nrJ U m f fn ui?ui anu aiuu uiai ic The (*u Enter! simplicity and contentmenl a very appreciative but soi inebriated audience. Th< from Memphis. Tenn., co f. 1 1. 1. * 1' i* i ioik. ruuK, iraunionai, ; country and blues in their n of music that kept the audiei laid-back dream state, 1 their chairs or abruptly them to their feet in demonium of handclapping calling. Their performance divid two 1-hour sets. The first well-received by the audien the start. The Aces playe their popular tunes, "A Grace Use to be Her F Song." as their third selecti ip hm Ac npus nedium decidedly country t 11 and song was aided by th? 'he at- pedal steel guitar an id con- Tennessean accent i to be Smith, the group's le ipact is founder. lingless The country patt< off the vanced with the inch )liseum gospel and mandolin produce a tradition i Aces sound in "Life's uesday Heaven. lling of With audience app mecock fainmei t before country and bluegra newhat the Aces switched i A /~>np rf ?'r> U n O r* Kr\r> K, i iwo, ?*riut: uiai ^un ut*ai ij mbined barroom blues and n gospel, and roll. lontage It appeared this \ nee in a because a majority < lugging were derived from it. jerked the Aces are talent a pan- perform almost any or hog- the barroom blues se ed into The Aces' versati set was plified in this mus ce from Barry Burton, who d one of mandolin, pedal st mazing guitar, also plays i 'avorite slide when he lives tfr n. The the graceful as k|M^ ^flfl^^S^k^HK2g es deli wang of this Columbia nal ^ addition of a piano, the b d the definite 'Aces in songs t of Russell Satisfied?" ad singer and Next Fool E joyable and 1 ern was ad- Ending the jsion of some most famou: bluegrass to Romance," lal back-hills quickly back RflilWaV tO inlormiceinn ? ^ 111 IV A I1IICUIUU. Aces had ge roval of their first set was i beginning of they never favorable established < even though rapport witl second set w w th their rej some songs r set and son g^i written by ot ISA Si It was a vc II I in the Goldet Rhythm Ace impression c when I saw ss selections, Auditorium to a musical they were us e classified as for Michael lountain rock The Aces although tin vas the style crowded by tl of their songs Spur's small Even though settle down I ed enough to frolic with th musical style, What reall em to be their Rhythm Ace uroc tVioir* oKi VY CA O lilV.ll U K/l lity is exem- audience the ;ical genre. skills in an switches on glorious me eel and lead were strong i satisfactory and their ly le blues. With their instri sistance of superb. m? <%* **- * mm ight Sp tive James Hooker on j arroom blues of the .1 like "Why Can't I Get and "Who Will the >e?" became an envivid reality. I ir first set with their 5 tune, "Third Rate ; the band exited stage for a 40-minute The enthusiasm the nerated during their | snmpwhat Inst hv th#> i the secong set, and j again reached the heights they had fl during the first set, j they maintained their ( i the crowd. The 1| as not well-supported aertoire of songs with ; epeated from the first f ne tunes that were gg her musicians. ?ry satisfying evening 1 Spur. The Amazing s made a far better >n me than they did I them in Township in November when ed as a warmup band I Murphy. I appeared relaxed, ey were extremely S heir equipment on the I stage, and ready to to a night of fun and ? le capacity audience. y made the Amazing s a hit Tuesday night g ility to transmit to the ?ir combined musical uninterrupted flow of lody. Their vocals but not overpwcring, rics were weak, but lmental fusion was .. About Jan. BnHnanH Colisc was v rre Chucl the " price: the p I CJ statei high, pract sume that t per c fact i cost 1 8 p. n i 10 29 j In a prom doing Illllllt rent, help. Ob Sex coupl fered by Rws**tt jHfcMt Servi montl ur ci r :x h V/ # W i w ' ^ * IS I IfV* ^ )liseuir ;plies t( c loH At* 2c on anctiiA* j ao nil aionci Campus column pu 26 concerning Cs !um ticket prices. Th vritten by Coliseum I 't B. Horning Jr. ad with considerable i f Prnmor'c nnmmnnti % \yi V??*V1 ?? WllilllCIIl. rip off" of today's > and the inordinate p romoter. m't quarrel with his ; nent that ticket prices but then so are the p ically everything \v . I do object to his in he promoter took as p ent of the ticket sale s that in addition to th he promoter paid er cent in taxes per cent in building r per cent in advertisi building expenses per cent iddition to these expen oter has his own c business including, id to, things such a: telephone expense, viously then, the lrichmen fered for ual enhancement gro es older than (>0 will at the USC Psych< ces Center beginnin h. *owd HR \ W V **^BI ' Hf 1 I l manag > charge to an received somewh blished cent of ticket sa irolina promoter wou e letter nothing. >irector I don't wish Cromer, but wl "when you book interest the Allman Brotl 5 about risk of losing m concert doesn't understa >rofit to At 2 a.m., Jan. 2 almost cancel general Allman's illness are too serious infection rices of it not responded e con- would have bee; ference that evening. T1 rofit 30 have lost at lea s. The costs of items si e talent building deposi time, etc. Not as a critic Git rprnrH ctrniohf ng and tickets at $7 eac $(> each; and 3 each. ses, the The term "sui osts of around in variou but not apply in certair s office but it darned wc clerical the entertainme set forth above talent clear. it course elderly ups for program may be of- Psychological S ^logical 777-4864 betweer g next on weekdays. begin in Februa The program er is iat less than 70 per les, otherwise the Id have made to nit pick with len he says that a popular band as lers, there is little oney," he simply md the situation. 4, the concert was led because of Allman had a of his eye and had to treatment there n no performance le promoter would st $7,000 in direct ich as advertising, it, ticket selling ism, but to set the there were 6,190 h; 2,(>34 tickets at 1,504 tickets at $5 re thing" is tossed is contexts. It may i social situations, 11 doesn't apply in nt field. The facts should make this call the USC ervices Center at i 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The program will ry. is free .