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Hard-driving 1960s I '.A I id wviiuc Hiimiciis lie By John VauBh?n Medical School The band's leader and rhythm guitarist is the White Ani a doctor, a bona fide M.D. who gave it up for terms: "we'n rock 'n' roll. The lead guitarist left a blues." General Motors tactory job for his music, Actually, it's his real love for more than 15 years. The what the Whit bass guitarist and the drummer form a sound has bee hard-driving nucleus, pounding out what punk, reggae, band members cair'the dread beat." and great dan This band is something different. described as nc This band is the White Animals, a Nashville-based foursome that believes the APPARENT old-time rock 'n' roll of the 1960s is the rock the lowest con 4n' roll of the 1980s. Whether the band is itself. People < playing old tunes by the Rolling Stones, the music. "We're Yardbirds or the Kinks, or original "Let people material, the sound is Dowered with a 'fiOs sonas thr? dance beat. musicians can more than thai "THE TUNES we do are classics and the have," Collins tunes we write are neoclassics because a guy who was they're trying to re-create the feeling that rebellious heigl you got from listening to the classics," The group according to lead guitarist Willie Collins. "Nashville I "The stuff that we write is definitely a musicians beli throwback in the simplicity, in the feeling, they describe in tho apfanitamontc " hacai/1 -J in u?v Mi i oiigvAiivuio, iiv/ oaiu. lavUint: UuIIlUJ Kevin Gray, the 30-year-old rhythm the group plaj guitarist who left a residency at Vanderbilt the music is the Hypnotist Continued from pagt 10 insisted he would not go ? but at DeLuca's command, he jumped up and did what had been predicted. After the show, some of the subjects talked about their hypnotic experience. Most remembered nothing, though Thorsen said, "you could feel yourself getting real heavy." Moore said he enjoyed the feeling, but described a "strange feeling" in his stomach.1 Holland said she also felt strange and that she wished she had hot participated. PENELftN orif? of thfi most frantir hvnnotizpd "npr formers," took the opposite view. She said she felt "great," \Nee ^\est ^V .1^0 \3- N\e* 1,1 rt\Os' lofo VCO^ fec?rd' ^ P(er pd ^ <lS<ecO^ to found the band, described j mals in even more simple jrlHPl k 3 white kids playing the / J tough to put a finger on just S e Animals are. The group's ' ^ n called new wave, garage m blues, pure old rock 4n' roll Sp m Ife ce music. It has also been iR #1 ne of the above. Jjj| LY, the listener must get to f imon denominator: the beat fliplJ \ (jft). iance to the White Animals' I ^ ?? n :J a ty uctnu, urray saiu. um find the 'message' in our y dance. I don't think today's jgl i realistically hope for any m t. Perhaps they never should said. This statement is from living the music scene at its fl tit. has released one album, iabylon," a record the The White Animals are four eve demonstrates the sound of rock 'n' roll, even in their c . But the White Animals' the Golden Spur tonight. nstrations occur live, where 'S and the people dance and The White Animals will i key. tonight in the Golden Spur, sp OnH HfQP OmonA^ 1tfl%An oWa T^v ~T U?IU naa umatt-vj WHCll IU1U 3I1C SJA/IVC 111 r 1CI1UI1 dllCI' UCLllit'd "returned" her to age five. "I never learned a word of English until I was eight," she said, explaining the authenticity of her hypnotic state. As the crowd filtered out of the ballroom, a "drained" DeLuca talked about the life he has chosen. "I do one of these shows every single day of my life from the end of August to the end of May, with a break around Christmas," he said. He said he gets little sleep with this schedule, but fights that problem with "a lot of self-hypnosis on the plane." ik juw. Billy Joei, I Diamond, Rush, / 3ang arid more. / id cassette Record Bar . jainst defects by the r Tape Guarantee. / MORE *'4LL / \J^bBkbk M I m mmxwmmm juys who concentrate on the 1960s beat and the roots riginat material. The group will bring its dance music to perform at 9 Carolina Program Union's Contemporary rnsored by the Sounds Committee. Admission is free. DeLuca, who earned a master's degree is psychology from Sagemon State University in Illinois in 1978, said he has been touring for about three years. Though much of his hypnotic themes are now standard for him, he said his comedy changes frequently. I He admits the shows are tough, but he also knows he's good ? and there is "competition and pride" involved. With the sort of stuff Tom DeLuca's got, one gets the feeling he's got an upper hand in almost any competition. T fg Mon.-Fri. 7 :OOam-1:00am | I Sat. % Sun. I 1:00am-12:00 midnight S ! 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