Springsteen albumTeen appeal is back

By STEVE GOBLE Contributor

Teen Appeal is back.So are the leather jacket and unkempt beard.“Born to Run” is the well produced third

album one would expect from a talent like Bruce Springsteen. After all, it’s been more than a year since we heard from the kid.

The quintessential street punk-biker, Springs­teen is occasionally trite but generally his music is serious.

Springsteen and his audience don’t question the music’s ghetto-ethnic context.

In that context, “Bom to Run” contains some of the best rock music ever recorded.

Backed by a super-tight musical unit, Springs­teen’s singing is freer and better than ever. His adequate lead guitar isn’t called on to carry any of the eight songs on the album.

An energetic bass line supplies a drive which was sadly absent from the previous “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” and “The Wild, the Innocent and the E. Street Shuffle."

Keyboards are competent, although David Sancious (departed and signed with another re­cord label) could add to them.

Clarence Clemmons' saxes are superb, as al­ways.

The highlight of the album is “Jungleland,” a nine-minute cut which finishes off Side Two. Side Two, incidentally, is by far the better one.

"Jungleland” is a distillation of much of what is

admirable in Springsteen’s work: sensitive voc­als, a love story, lyric imagery, strong instrumen­tals and an incredible tenor sax solo from Clem­mons. Can’t say enough good things about the big hom-man.

Springsteen might not be the next Bob Dylan, as some reviewers claimed when “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.” came out, but he’s defi­nitely a talent who’ll be around for a while longer.

And he’s getting better.There is a great deal of Bruce Springsteen in his albums, but another aspect of the entertainer is revealed in his public performances. Springs­teen was in Houston two weeks ago.

Springsteen seems to burst upon the stage in a flash of light and sound. The music builds and builds and Springsteen jumps and hops and dances and runs and the stage is charged with his energy.

Bruce is the street punk, outfitted in leather coat, jeans, sneakers and an earring in a pierced left ear.

The band, looking like successful pimps, is all white and red satin shimmer.

The music is Springsteen’s dynamic best and the crowd is loving it.

“FEVER! FEVER! FEVER! FEVER! FEVER!” comes an insistent screaming chant from the Fever CheerleadingTroop in the back of the balcony.

Springsteen hates that song, you turkeys, and he isn’t going to play it, tonight or any other night. “Fever”, a promo cut released before Springsteen’s first album, got about a million hours too much airplay in New Jersey.

The music is good tonight, but the response of the crowd is not to the music, but to Bruce. They love him.

They love his jump into the audience. They love his dancing. They love his coat getting caught in the strings of the guitar, while Springs­teen continues to play.

Springsteen is freedom, a symbol of freedom. He is a hero to a generation more free, yet more conscious of repression, than its predecessors.

Springsteen comes back for three encores, in­cluding one after the lights have already come on. He doesn’t play “Fever.”

Undeterred, although the Music Hall is emp­tying and the show is definitely over, the Fever Cheerleading Troup continues its chant.

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Chimp no animal

Raised as childBy STEVE REIS

Battalion Staff Writer“Sweet drink me.”This is one of the things that Lily, a chimpan­

zee, is capable of expressing, when asking for lemonade.

Lily is being raised by Alyse M oore, a graduate student at Texas A&M University. The chimp is three and a half years old, understands about 200 American Sign Language words and has a work­ing vocabulary of 27 words.

It is not unusual to visit the Moore residence and be greeted by a tug on the arm from Lily, followed by her careful scrutinization of your scalp.

She is inquisitive, active and very friendly. She is intelligent enough to understand her foster mother and is as toilet trained as any good Aggie.

Lily is being raised in a home environment. Moore hopes to gain an insight into relationships between chimps and humans. Lily is disciplined just as a mother would discipline a child.

But Lily’s home is unlike any three year old child’s home might be. There are wire screens across the windows to prevent broken glass from hurting her. And ropes hang from the ceiling in the living room. She swings from these when in a playful mood.

Lily spends some of her time teasing her cat, petting her kitten and stealing Rags’ frisbee. Rags is her dog.

Lily’s life is not exactly like that of a three- year-old. It is not often that a child of that age is seen climbing trees, hanging from hammocks or playing on the roof with the cats.

It is these differences and others, besides the fact that Lily is part of a scientific research pro­ject, that make her one of the fascinating inhabit­ants of the A&M campus.

Editor’s Note: This is a lead-in to an in-depth series about the activities, life and problems of Lily, the chimp and her foster mother, Alyse Moore.

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The Captain and Tennille will perform Satur­day. The husband and wife duo will be in the Rudder Auditorium at 8 p.m. The show also fea­tures Kip Addotta.

They are known for their hit, “Love Will Keep Us Together.”

Admission to the show is by purchased ticket only. No season passes are honored. Tickets and information are available in the box office. Rud­der Tower.

“Morning,” a San Antonio trio will play three 45-minute sets with local talent taking alternate 30-minute slots at the MSC Coffeehouse, Friday.

Admission will be $1 and the show starts at 8 p.m. with “Morning” starting at 8:30.

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Lakeview

By DON MIDDLETON Battalion Staff Writer

If your taste in entertainment runs toward the genteel — soft music, quiet dancing and stimulat­ing conversation — then the gang out at the Lakeview is not for you.

For those who are unfamiliar with the set-up at a Kicker dance hall, you may need a few pointers before you make your Lakeview debut.

First of all, to get to the Lakeview Club go out the Highway 6 by-pass to the Tabor and exit. Make a right on Tabor and travel about two miles until you see cars lining the shoulders of the road. Keep going and pretty soon you’ll see a big metal building that looks like a warehouse.

In a sense, it is a warehouse. In it they store cowboys with a Lone Star in one hand, a Coke cup in the other and a conspicuous bulge in their lower lip.

The place opens up at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. To get in on Tuesday guys need two dollars and gals need a tight pair of blue jeans. On Thursday dudes cost the same but chicks have to have one George Washington sticking out of the back pocket of their tight blue jeans.

When you get in the door and into the club itself, it is customary to make your first stop at the. bar to pick up a couple of cold (35c) brews. If you don’t like beer, you better have a bottle and a Mickey Gilley’s humper sticker to prove you’re

mot some sort of subversive element.You may be shocked by the large number J

people on the dance floor and sitting at the tabl around the floor. But don’t worry, there’s plen i of room in both places until the band either tak 11 a break or plays the “Cotton-Eyed Joe.”

It's also a good idea to return your used beer , closely spaced intervals in case the band sto playing. When you have a pressing need to ar wer the call, long lines can be painful and possib disastrous.

Bobby Allan and the Brazos Sounds provi i the picking on Tuesday night with Dennis Iv | and the Waymen doing the honors on Thursda Both groups play a wide variety of tunes, inclu , ing two-steps, waltzes, schottisches (I looked | up), whips and even a little get-down hoogie change the pace once in a while. n]

On Saturday night the admission may run frcy 5 to 7 American dollars depending on the degr of notoriety of the band playing.

The crowd on Saturday night tends to be a lit more mature, shall we say, due to the prohibiti getting-in cost. But if old folks are your thing ai | you’ve got 50 cents to spend on a can of beer, my guest.

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