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Fish HfilSl and Disks Ttavfow* r The Georgia Satellites, Keep thf Fnith \1: i k i n u Waves Rccords (UK) Students will have a great entertainment opportunity Saturday night on Intramural Field A. Nashville's Jason and the Scorchers will appear in a free concert as a part of CPU's Spring Fling. The band has an explosive show, as anyone seeing its recent Columbia appearance can attest. Opening for the band will be Atlanta's Georgia Satellites, which has just signed a recording contract with Elektra Rccords. The group's first record, Keep (he Faith, is out as an F.nglish import. The record is a smoking six songs of rock 'n' roll's forceful roots, clearly influenced by such rock notables as the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry and Creedencc Clearwater Revival. Primary emphasis in the Satellites' sound is placed on the dual guitar attack of Dan Baird and Rick Richards. The guitars twist and burn throughout the record, snaking in and out of solos and combining for a sonic artillery barrage that compares favorably with the best guitar acts from the United States. Keep the Faith is easily six cuts of the best driving guitar music to come from the South in a long time. Judging from the sound of its record, the Georgia Satellites is quite likely to be the perfect complement to Jason and the Scorrhprc' pvnlncii/p l?\/r? chr>v?/ Cactus World News, "Years Later," MCA RecordsLast fall, Cactus World News became the first band to release a record on U2's own label, Mother Records. Shortly thereafter the band signed a deal with MCA Records, and "Years Later" is the first U.S. single from the band. The oddly named quartet hails from Dublin, Ireland, and plays an infectious brand of upbeat pop that calls to mind such bands as U2, Simple Minds, and Echo and the Bunnymen without becoming a sound-alike clone band. "Years Later" is the first single from the upcoming album, Urban Beaches. The song is filled with sharp pop hooks and displays the band's dynamic, textured sound in a promising light. It's certain to fare well for the band in Europe, if not in the United States. For those who didn't catch on to the group U-know-who until its third or fourth album, don't make the same mistake with Cactus World News, a discovery of U2 singer Bono Vox. American Girls, American Girls, l.R.S. Records Gas prices may be down, but not far enough to justify Review Sammy H make exci By SEAN KEEFER Assistant Photography editor lor those who questioned the Halen alter David Lee Roth left, hand is in very capable hancS u Hagar and Eddie Van Halen team. i no nanu s concert at C an Wednesday night was more than ci even the most discriminating fan. For nearly two hours, the band only material from its new album fairly complete collection of pre-H show opened with the band's unit Kinks' "You Really Got Me." It u band was ready to entertain tl crowd. The major difference from the < was in the band is the addition ol and vocal abilities. During the sli Halen and Hagar often dueled t displaying some incredible play performers. Another asset to Hagar's presenc an additional guitar player gives R< tiddie is free to expand his playin newest venture ? keyboards. He 1 the keyboards on such songs as 4 By JOHNNY FISH the squandering of valuable petroleum products on such sheer vinyl trash as the American Girls. The band's debut record on the once proud I.R.S. label contains 10 of the most disposable songs since Toni Basil's "Mickey." The music is heavy on electronic percussion and an allegedly funky bass beat that is little more than boring. Four of the five American Girls sing, each in a strident voice neither beautiful nor powerful, but with a peculiar grating quality. The end product is a bland and mildly annoying sound with little to recommend it, but fair potential for i mainstream success. Translator, Evening of the Harvest, 415-Columbia Records San Francisco's Translator has been trying for four years to match the brilliance of its 1982 debut, Heartbeats and Triggers. The band seems to be catching up vith itself on its fourth album. The music on Evening of the Harvest shows a new maturity in the band. The songs seem to have more depth and complexity, abandoning the more straightahead pop sounds of previous records for a heavier guitar orientation. Almost every cut features a solo by one of the band's two guuuiiM^, i cvccumg it ucMcruy previously unknown. Pacing A the cuts is thei'consistently sharp and punchy drumming of David Scheff, who uses a variety of percussion instruments to embellish the sound. The songs range from the quick tempo and almost rockabilly feel of the opener, "Standing in Line," to the mellow and more reflective title cut, each achieving its own individual level of success. The end result is a consistent album of beautiful and well craftcd music with some great melodies and typically good harmonies. But more than anything else, Evening of the Harvest reestablishes the promise Translator showed on its debut ? and in its invigorating live appearance at IJSC in late 1983. Translator is a band yet to release its best record and fully deserving of the acclaim destined to come. I agar ana ting conci Walks In" anc sacrificing the The band s future of Van might be becai rest assured the national recor /ith the Sammy chart-topping crowd. alina Coliseum I he show rc nough proof for Van Halen de lesson." For i I performed not the style and te 5/50, but also a one of the besi agar works. The Near the enc |ue cover of the scaffolding ab< /as clear that the catwalks far ic ncar-capacity delivered such "Ain't Talkin' Jays when Roth F Hagar's guitar The band's iow, Eddie Van covers of the >ack and forth, Zeppelin's "R ing from both Bachman-Ti with a set that :e is the freedom a cover of M ddic Van Halcn. "Takin' Care g to include his pop dominate) was able to play band such as 'Jump," "Love from the 1970: Police Ride. Columbia, feeds on that. If students werc^just more careful or used common sense, we woman i nave nan ot tne calls wc get." He presses on the horn and pulls up to five kids who are walking through the lot. He opens a brown leather bag of personal materials and pulls out a pad of Field Interview Cards, called "FICs" bv the officers. "We've caught kids breaking into cars here that can't be more than 13 years old." The F1C system has helped keep the crime problem low on campus, he says. Each person tounu on campus who shouldn't be is "FlCed," with as much personal information as possible written down about the person. The card is placed on file, and if the person is found on campus again, he or she is automatically arrested for trespassing, no questions asked. 7:51 p.m. Couick has pointed out various problems along his patrol route. The area near Bates, Bates West and Cliff Apartments is generally quiet except for two problems: cars parking in the fire lane and stolen items being hidden behind Bates West, he says. He talks to a fellow officer in the Blossom Street Parking Uarage, saying an officcr is on duty there always because of auto break-ins and other criminal incidents. He drives by the Towers area and mentions the high number of thefts occuring in unlocked rooms. He pulls into the parking lot next to Russell House and points to a number of people sitting and walking nearby. "Look at all those people. Can you tell me which of those are students and which aren't? "Neither can we, and that's our biggest problem," he says. "This time of year, it's quiet until about 2 a.m. Then the bars close, and you've got city people and students coming back from there. We get more volume and variety now ? usually alcoholrelated incidents, checking out suspicious people, and responding to fights,"he says. 8:32 p.m. Couick has barely finished dinner when he gets a call to go to the Coker Life Sciences building. Someone turned off the lights on the fifth floor, then fled when he was approached, the dispatcher says. A search of the building reveals nothing. He later drives back to the Booker T. Washington building and writes tickets for cars without handicap stickers parked in the "handicapped only" spaces. Couick meets a fellow officer on patrol in the parking lot at "the Bubble," across from Bates West. Even they admit the evening has been unusually quiet and slow. Bored, he tells the other cop to "find me a booger" before returning to the Washington building and calling tow trucks for the illegally parked cars. Couick says the police department gets some slack and hard feelings from students. "It's because we're mostly mistaken or associated with the parking tickets, but that's an entirely difVan Halen ? A 3ri team I "Why Can't This Be Love" without lead guitar sound. eemed to be in a good mood. This ise 5150 became No. 1 Wednesday on d charts, becoming the band's first album ever, Hagar told the cheering :ached a climactic point when Eddie livered what Hagar called "a guitar learly 10 minutes, he demonstrated chniques that have established him as t rock guitarists in the business. I of the solo, Hagar climbed into the avc the band's light system. From the above the coliseum's floor, Hagar songs as "1 Can't Drive 55" and ' 'Bout Love." encore included "Jump," as well as 1960s classic "Wild Thing" and Led ock and Roll." irner Overdrive opened the show ineluded "Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," ountain's "Mississippi Queen" and of Business." In an age of a technoJ market, it was refreshing to hear a B.T.O. display a driving rock sound s that can still please a crowd in 1986. / "" Continued from p. 5 ferent department. If I had a nickel for every time some student came up to me and bitched me out because of a parking ticket, I'd be a millionaire. "Students are also under the impression that we're on the job Monday through Friday 9 to 5, ana mars just not so. lhis department is open and on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year." 10:03 p.m. Couick is checking cars parked in the pit and behind the Washington building. A man is walking by with a few girls. He looks at the car and yells, "Sooey!" They break into laughter; Couick just rolls his eyes and shakes his head. "Yeah, and we'll be the first ones you call when you're in trouble," he quips. "I notice people clam up when they talk to a police officer. They don't realize when it's 12 a.m. and I go home, I am just Michael. I'm not a cop when I'm rtff :~u 1 .i ui uut; ? mi. juu anu me altitude don't stay on when the uniform comes off." 10:24 p.m. Couick pulls a paper out of a manila folder full of papers in his brown bag. It is a court summons; he is to appear as witness for a case on May 2. "This is where a cop spends most of his off-duty time," he says as he turns onto Sumter Street. Six youths are walking between the Coker building and the Sumwait College of Engineering. They stare at him, and he stares back as he puts on the brakes. He pulls back into a lot to see where they're headed, and they run at the sight of the car. He zooms out of the lot and yells into his radio that "they're moving." The chase is on. Couick turns on the blue light and races down streets around the buildings, searching for the youths. Other police cars have now joined in the search. Suddenly, a call comes in that the youths are running behind the South Carolina Bookstore. He says "ten four" and races toward the building. He drives by the bookstore ori North Main Street when he suddenly spots the youths. His cruiser spins around and squeals to a'S.top in parking ldf tfdjaceht' to the building. "Hold it!" he CAROL! N I C A nCDPLl LLMutnon PROGRA ] use E C S A Applii CLP Offic For Infori Applicatic Don't w B bellows to the youths, but they leap over a fence and run from the car. He grabs his restraining nightstick and climbs over the fencc in pursuit of them. Four of the six youths were apprehended and "FlCed." One was carrying alcohol under his jacket, and one ran into the Fast Fare convenience store on Assembly Street and flushed something down the men's room toilet, he says. After one of the boys' mothers arrives at the station to claim responsibility for them, the youths leave, their names on file. Couick, his injured finger bandaged, drives to the Washington building to lock doors. The drivers of the towed cars approach him; they were judges in the body-building contest, and they want to speak to the lieutenant about the tickets. They're about to follow him back to the station wnen he gets another call. A brown Pinto is "suspiciously an SffWin wlffiHKf ;AaHl eg; ; \ , RMKL ifl ^ " Tf m . ? ?'vi vr^Vv^gH ! BL oB InWlB \s fl I I ': * -^JH P.niiirL ifioriiceao am inniilani iwUU P?%I T vw-.wn MiuwuuUlid Mil lllblUDIK Willi Opi. I CPU's SPRING "A Week Oi featuring: An Out Door JASON and the SC< Saturday, April 19th, 6pm, Free to Students with * No alcoholic beverages, no glass con devices permitted. Coolers are su LEADershiF lust Hold An 01 e A LEADER!!! Getaway Weekend 8th Annual Leadership Gonfei September 19 - 21 1986 Camp Long ? Aiken, SO lecome motivated for the 86 - 87 ye levelop valuable leadership skills ?hare ideas fleet new friends cations Available: Ap :e - Room 206 Ruj nation - call 777-7 in deadline - April 1 0 driving" around a parking garage on Sumter Street. He zooms to l.? lllfl turilPS (InVVIl flip iiiv; 5?i??,v uiivi license number of the car before it leaves. 11:45 p.m. Couick returns to the station and shows the contest judges inside. He waits at his car for the next officer, who is still in gfc roll call. One last call conies on his radio. "Turns out that Pinto might be a stolen car ? something else we have to be on a constant lookout for," he says. All Couick has to do now is turn in his equipment and hand the keys over to the next officer. As he pulls his materials out of the cruiser, another university police car zooms down Main Street, its blue light flashing. Another cruiser zips through the station's parking lot and joins in the race to an unknown location. 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