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Friday at the Sol Blatt P.E. Center. Resic
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film The Abyss was shown to view- Arts
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August 27 - Septe:
Bands i
for the
By SEAN MCGUINNESS
Staff Writer
All lights are focused
people are chanting yoi
arms are waving. Youi
name is displayed on ever
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and the audience claps ar
and then...the concert's ov<
Quietly, you collect y<
for tonight's show,
pack up your ^ _
equipment and put ^
it in a van which is
on its last legs and ?1
drive home to your
hovel. ,
You lie down on
Lea Clayton/The Gamecock a musty mattreSS
. for a few scant
Abyss while floahng hours of sleep
d by CPU and RHA. before your shift at
A&P begins.
fyt a Maybe tomorrow you
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the street. You're sick of
f ...every meal, every day..
else can you afford?
This is the real worl
1^3 L3 almost all of Columbia
music groups live. Day ir
out, they scrape a meag
ng for awhile. from a part-time job whi
:n tossed around CPU for supports a part-time, but
f years," she said. Since life,
enter falls under Student Band poverty is a
j year, the event was eas
she said.
aid the goal of the event - - miliarize
both freshmen ^ T-TrvrxT' Y\
rclassmen to the P.E. ^ nuw v
cilities. The event was Need YOl
:view Week, but not listthe
activities. Give the gift of
resident Quen Haigler GIVE BLQOI
90 people attended the
also said the movie had
word of mouth between
idvisors and residents.
or a similar event next
still under discussion. American Red Cr<
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tolerate incoi
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read about in the fanzines of maj(
on you, roc^ musicians. Bands, i
ir name, Columbia or anywhere else, genei
band's a^y do not make much mone
pone's T- fr?m Paying clubs. One night ca
oky club bring in anywhere between $9 an
id cheers $50?- Higher-paying gigs are fe
;r and far between.
3ur $100 T? stretch their dollars, mo
Columbia bar
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lot of money, we'd four othe'r Pe(
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-Darren Gray of 49 Reasons everyone ms
not play in tl
same bands,
can stall Starting a band is not eas;
:an get to Equipment costs as much as $5,0(
spaghetti or more? drum kits being the mo
ant down expensive item. Much of it
spaghetti bought second-hand or in damagt
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But the equipment is rare]
Id where acquired all at once.
j's local "There's no band that just comi
i and day together," 49 Reasons band men
er living ber Chad Conn said. "It usual
ch barely takes each person two or thr<
very real years to practice and get all th(
stuff."
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