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Prison arts
By Skot Garrick
Entertainment Editor
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ine sugma atiacnea to prison
inmates is one that can, and
usually does, last for their entire
lives. The lives of these souls are
usually devoid of any color, beauty
and variety.
The South Carolina Arts Commission
in conjunction with the
Department of Corrections, has
instituted a program to bring some
vestige of the arts to inmates. The
Arts in Prison Program, one of the
largest in the country, is a highly
successful program that has
touched on different prisons all
over the state for the past four
years.
Harry Harrison of the Arts
Commission has strong feelings for
the program. "The program is an
attempt to make creative opportunities
open to the inmates.
The inmates enroll of their own
free will, out of their own interests,"
he said.
THE PROGRAM is made up of
professionals who work with the
inmates in a master-apprentice
type of relationship. The
professionals instruct in
workshops and classes on such
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suDjects as painting, pottery,
guitar, creative writing, percussion,
dancing and other varied
artistic skills.
Success of the program is based
on the rapport established between
teachers and inmates. According
to Harrison, "The inmates who
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background in the areas being
taught. The artists have to be able
to communicate to them. The
teachers are picked by a special
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board on their ability to communicate
and artistic expertise."
The South Carolina program is
one of the largest in the country
and has been highly successful.
"The inmates are willing to learn,"
said Harrison. "They really benefit
Columbia, S.C.
Carolina Coliseum
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Alice Cooper, Ritchie Blackmore's
Rainbow and Ac-Dc . . . June 29
Isleys, Ashford and Simpson, and
Stargard . . . July 1
Jimmy Buffet . . . July 21
Township Auditorium
The Wiz . . . July 1
Greenville, S.C.
Greenville Memorial Auditorium
The O'Jays and Chic . . . June 22
Ronnie McDowell . . . August 17
Charleston, S.C.
Gaillaird Municipal Auditorium
Eddie Kendricks . . . July 1
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THE PROGRAM takes place in
16 institutions around the state. As
well as Central Correctional Institution
in Columbia, the program
is offered in Kirkland, Manning,
Watkins, Campbell and other
locations.
Charlotte, N.C.
Charlotte Coliseum
R.E.O. Speedwagon . . . June 25
Bootsy's Rubber Band and the
Raes . . . June 30
Greensboro, N.C.
Alice Cooper . . . June 30
Electric Light Orchestra . . . July
11
Kansas . . . July 30
Yes . . . September 14
Asheville, N.C.
Asheville Civic Auditorium
Wild Cherry . . . July 3
Bootsy's Rubber Band . . . July 3
Foreigner . . . July 8
Atlanta, Ga.
The Omni
The Isley's . . . July 2
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surprises like the Beatles' "You
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Cassidy played, for after every
number there was arj ecstatic roar
from the audience. After a
seventy-five minute set Cassidy
threw two dozen roses to the crowd
(shades of Tom Jones!) along with
his towel and literally ran from the
stage to escape his fans.
Now it's obvious that I was a bit
Record exchj
By Barton B. Van Beenen
Gamecock Staff Writer
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shop that is totally unique to
Columbia. The sh~p, however, is no
more unique than its owner.
Richard Joseph is a moderately
tall man with roaming streaks of
gray drifting through his neatly
trimmed hair and beard. The 39year-old
hippie runs his store much
as he runs his own life. The shop is
neat, organized, and no bigger than
it needs to be. Its owner wears
clean, but faded cut-offs, and a
loose-fitting T-shirt inscribed with
"I'm just an old hippie."
As you walk in you will immediately
discover that therp isn't
a whole lot of room to walk around
in. Total size, about that of the
average office. Along the
righthand wall are records that are
arranged in alphabetical order, in
natching wooden crates. These
overflow into a bulletin board filled
with hand made buttons, selling for
fifty cents a piece. Hien the
counter, with its ancient cash
register, and Richard's easy chair
parked conveniently nearby. The
record stacks start up again, ending
next to the tPmnPramAnfal
stereo outfit. A small by comparison
collection of eight-track
tapes completes that area. The
walls are adorned with not particularly
well done antiquings of
old movie stars, old stylized baby
prints and rock stars, all of which
can be bought for less than two
dollars.
Richard, like his shop, meets you
with a sincere "hi" as you enter,
but I was not sure at first whether
he was the proprietor or not. I had
brought two albums with me that
were next to worthless. I presented
these to him and got fifty cents a
piece for them. Not in cash, but in
credit towards further sales. As I
browsed through the albums I
checked for two things, one, the
price, the other, the condition the
records were in. The price for
albums almost never went over
four dollars, and on the whole was
around two bucks a piece.
During my search I came across
a Moodv Blues album that RirhnrH
happily told was rather unique. It
had been made in Japan, and came
complete with Japanese characters
on its cover. TTiis got Richard
and I talking. A simple question
like "What kind of person does it
take to run a place like this,"
Drought an answer that was incredible.
"Well, I'm just a bum, and this is
the easiest way I know of to make a
living and still enjoy myself. I don't
like anything that has to do with
society. I don't carry insurance, I
only have a savings account so I
can cash checks, well you know
anything that puts a leash on a guy
is out in my book. With this place I
can open up anytime that I want to,
close when I want or not even open
up at all. I really like to play golf,
I'm practicing for the semi-pro
tour out in California next summpr
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weather is nice, I play golf until
biased when I went into the show;
after all, I'm a good bit older than
the six to sixteen set, the group at
which Cassidy's music is directed.
But I must admit that I was impressed
by Cassidy's
professionalism. The young man
knows his business and he knows
how to please his audience.
Cassidy's vocals are surprisingly
strong, and his keyboard work is
impressive (my hard rock friends
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I'm ready to come into work."
The thing that fascinated me
about the place most was how he
could make a profit, and how he
came up with the idea of a used
record store. Knowing no better
way of finding out, I asked.
"Well this store didn't get here
by chance, nope, I researched it.
Did you know that there are only
twenty-five towns in America that
nave got a college with more than
20,000 students, and don't have a
shop like mine? Well it's true. I
came here for that reason, and
besides, a guy can play golf here
ten months of the year."
"I know, Mr. Joseph, but how do
you make any money out of here?"
"It's Rich, or Richy. Well one
way is through this list of stuff that
I send out all over the country. It's
international, I send it to some
buddies I've got overseas. Yeah,
that would make it international. I
have got over six hundred items in
here, everything from LP's tn 7?'c
The things are rare, valuable or
collectable. As far as the shop goes
it is really hard to say, you've just
got to make a buck where you can
and hope that it's enough to pay the
rent."
1 may be a little slow but I was
beginning to catch on, he was about
to tell me. "What constitutes a
collectable record?"
"Any records that are in condition,
no longer in circulation or
have something different about
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an album that is cut out of red
plastic on the first issue and black
on the rest. That black album is
worthless as far as value goes, but
that red album, in good shape, is
worth more today than it was the
day it was bought. Take that
Moodies Blue album you were
looking at. Normally I would have
sold that to you for about three
bucks, but it was different, so I'm
selling it for five. Now if a record
has got a scratch on it, well it will
go from twenty dollars to fifty
cents just because of that scratch."
"What kind of a man would you
say you are?"
"Oh hell! I'm just an exeverything.
I'm an ex-bartender,
ex-caddy, ex-student, I'm even an
ex'jazz vocalist. I guess that is just
the beatnik that is still in me. I still
do love that Bee bop Jazz. Why, just
the other night those guys that sing
at the Coal Company, you know
them, well they came over here
and bought about two to three
hundred dollars worth of Beebop
Jazz. We just had a grand old time
together. You really ought to go
hear them," he said.
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second location opening up. It will
be like a B class store. This will be
the A class store where all the good
condition albums will be sold. I'll
work here. The other store, I don't
even want it associated with this
one. I'll just get someone to sell the
records that are like that junk you
Drougnt in ? the scratched up and
warped ones. Those will be really
cheap. That is half the reason I got
into this business. I've been
collecting records since 1 was
about this high.
will be appalled.). His band, including
three members of Three
Dog Night, the red head off "Room
222," and Billy Mumie (Will
Robinson on the "Lost in Space"
serial), was very strong.
Every generation has its musical
idol, from Benny Goodman to Elvis
to the Beatles, but for today's
younger kids, there is only one idol,
and that is Shaun Cassidy.