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By GREGG FIELDS
Copy Editor

The legions of fans that overran
Bluegrass Field when UK’s
basketde team won the NCAA on
March 27 did not greet Jim Kleier
and Leslie Patterson when they
arrived at Lexington’s airport April
2. But then. the two had not won a
national championship -— they came
in second in the national Client
Counseling Competition for law
students.

The pair became UK’ s
represenatives to the American Bar
Association-sponsored contest by
winning individually in an intra-
school match.

The first step toward getting to the
nationals was the regional tour-

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nament held in mid-March at
Washinfion and Lee University.
After they won there, the din was off
to New York City and the national
finals, which had 12 reg'onal win-
ners compding.

There they were almost un-
stoppable, going undefeated until
the final round, which they lost to
Marquette.

The two were coached by UK law
professor Hamid Weinberg. “Mr.
Weinberg was a big help,” Kleier
said. “When we’d practice, he’d
write up a problem and we’d get
someone to pose as a client. Often
the problems he wrote up we saw
later in competition."

“He provided us enough guidance,
but he didn’t smotha us,” Patterson
said. “I thought he was pafect.”

During competition, “they have a
law office set up and you’ re sup-
posed to advise a client (played by
an actor), ” said Kleier. “Then the
client leaves, and the two of you
discuss among yourselves what you
should do. At this point, what we
were really doing was giving a
presentation to the judges.”

“It (companion) is thinking on
your feet and also picking up the
person’s cues and building rapport
with someone,” said Patterson.

Patterson attributes their success
to the fact that “we did the best job
of listening to people. You’re sup-
posed to look beyond the simple
legal spools and try to figure out
if they have a problem they’re not
telling you abou ."

Competitors are told the general
topic, or area, of law that their
client‘s problem concerns. Howeva,
the specifics of the problem do not
become known to them until the
client tells them in front of the
Judges.

In the finals, the topic was
“Family Problems — Uninarrieds
Living Togaher. "

“We tried to find out as much as
possible about the law of unmarrieds
living together as we could,” Kleier
said.

However, the two still faced
certain obstacles. “They sent two
clients to see us, whereas we’d been
led to expect only one,” Kleier said.
“They also said the man’s girlfriend
would be pregnant, which turned out

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not to be the case."

Despite the fact that they lost in
the finals to Marquette, neither
Patterson nor Kleier seemed
disappointed. “The judges took over
an hour to make the decision, which
made us feel good," said Patterson,
“since they had been orginally
scheduled to make the decision in
fifteen minutes. Apparently it was
very close.”

Patterson is not at all sure that the
two would go as far if the contest
were held again. “For one thing, the
judging is extremely subjective,"
she said. "Also, UK's law school
hadn’t entered for several years and
we didn’t feel the pressures that next
year’s contestants probably will.”

Both were surprised they went as

Kern 21

Still issue at standstill

By DAVID HIBBITTS
Sports Editor

Unlike the long 1976 NCAA probe
that led to costly penalties for the
Kentucky football and basketball
programs, this year’s pseudo-
scandal involving Art Still and his
pro football agaits appears to be
coming to a temporary standstill.

When approached this week for his
comments about a story written by
Bill Brubaker of the Miami News,
Still said he was holding off until
May 1, when he has agreed with one
of these agents, Mike Merkow, to
h a press conference

:39 Snell the agent who claims

- . as the first to reach an

"lament with Still (for a $3,000

now is threaten'm to sue Still

asking their handshake pact
and ing to other agents.

"Snell claims he is going to sue."
Merkow said in an article printed in
yesterday‘s edition of The Lexington
Leader. “But I’ll tell you, so far no
suit has been filed.

“To me, seeing is believing. I can
tell you for certain — Art Still is no
manipulator. He's a tremendous
human being and in no way has Art
done anything to hurt either his
team, his school or himself,”
Merkow said.

"If you read the article (the one in
the Miami News), you’ll see that Mr.
Snell changed his story about three
times. Sure, Art met Snell last
Auguet, and he did shake hands with
him when he said, ‘Hi, I'm Matt
Snell.’ That‘s all it was, a purely
introductory handshake.

“I don’t want to get into a name-
calling thing, but there was a whole
lot of misinformation in the story.
He (Brubaker) quoted Art com-
pletely out of context. The story was
about 99 percent inaccurate, but I’ll
also say this: not all the inaccuracy
was on Brubaker’s part.”

“I talked to Still twice,” Brubaker
said in the Leader story. “The
second call was to confirm the first.
I spoke with everybody involved —
Still, Snell, Berkow, Daniels and
Trope (the other two agents) - and
I quoted them accurately.”

“We'd prefer not to comment until
May 1,” Merkow said. “Right now,
the matter is in the hands of our
attorneys."

The fire on the home front is also
dimming and probably will continue
to do so until Still’s press con-
ference. UK athletic director Cliff
Hagan said he thinks the story has
been blown slightly out of proportion
and that there will not be any sevae
penalties inflicted on the football
program.

“The NCAA wants a report on it
(the University’s investigation),”
Hagan said. “This is more of a
(Southeastern) conference matter;
it has been getting a lot more at-
tention than it deserves.

“Other players on other teams
have talked to ageits. When you
read about it, it’s not all that bad a
thing.

“The players can talk (with
agents) as long as they don’t try to
reach an agreement. The [layers
are interested because in a few short
months, they are going to be out in

Yearbook delivery delayed

The Kentuckian, UK’s yearbook,
was due to be delivered yesterday
but because of production dif-
ficulties, will not be ready until May
8.

Students who ordaed yearbooks
can pick them up at the Kentuckian

office, 113 Journalism Building, on
that date. Anyone who needs to have
their book mailed to them may do so
by leaving the address at which they

wish to receive it and $1.50 for
postage at the Kentuckian office in

the cruel world.”

Hagan said he was not advocating
Still’s financial agreements with
Snell during the season, but said he
did have differences with the NCAA
rule concerning players and agents.

“I don’t personally like the rule to
say you can reach agreement and
not take any money,” he said.
“Becausearuleisarule,lguess you
got to do that (observe it).”

But Hagan also talked about the
preparation that the athletic
department gives members of the
football and basketball teams for a
situation just like this one.

“We’re not really really in that
business,” Hagan replied to a
question about whether players can
receive more advising or counseling
about being approached by agents.

“The athletic teams have no
counselors or placement services.”
He added that they could probably
use some help in those areas,
however.

“It’s gotten to such a highly
competitive s‘tuation that players
don’t want to discuss it with the
coaches,” he said. “They make
connections, probably in the sum-
mertime working out or at all-star
games.

“There is a meeting in late August
during which someone in the con-
ference comes in to go ove- new
rules.”

As the conflict stands now,
penalties for UK would come only if
the University had had knowledge of
Still’s negotiations while the season
was being played. Even with that
knowledge, the worst penalty the
football team could suffer would be
to offer forfeits to the other con-
ference schools.

Hagan reiterated that minor
penalties could be imposed if the
institution is found to be neglectful.

“This isn’t a matter to concern
theglnselves (the NCAA) about,” be
5m .

far as they did in the competition.
‘Originally we had planned to get
plane reservations (for the trip
home) on the afternoon flight before
the second round of the finals."
Kleier said.

Besides gating an expense- paid
trip to New York (‘ ity, which neither
had visited before the two said they
think the competition had rewards
that will help them toward career
goals Kleier who hopes to
specialize in the law of litigation
said, “I learned as much from this
as from any other type of ex-
tracurricular activity related to my
education. “

Said Patterson, “I learned a lot. I
think it improved my interviewing
skills. I'd definitely do it again.”

University of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

Soggy. soggy night

Two students brave April showers and the gloom
of night as they walk near M.l. King Library on
the sidewalk which runs from Stoll Field to

I‘uukhouser Drive. Weathermen are calling for a
clearing of the skies and a warming of tem-
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Kl-IIINEI. STAFF WRITER NANCY DALY gives an inside look of
how WKQQ-l-‘M radio station produces its shows. See today‘s Arts
section on page 3.

local

III. M' KS I-. NCOUNTER WIDESPREAD DISCRIMINATION
when seeking housing in Fayette County, accu'ding to a report
released Tuesday by the Kentucky Human Rights Commission.

The report said that" In two-thirds of the cases in a test last sum-
mer. blacks and whites received racially discriminatory in-
formation when seeking houses or apartments.

Lexington was one I! 40 cities investigated last June by the
National (‘ommittee Against Discrimination in Housing under a
contract with the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban
llevdopment

The information was gathered by hi racial teams of testers. They
found that one of 30 apartment complexes audited here treated
blacks and whites eqmlly and supplied identical information.

The St million national probe also included Louisville where the
report said blacks were given dscriminatory information con-
cerning availablity of housing and financial reqtirements in about
74 percent of the test cases involving buying houses.

state

ALMOST A YEAR AFTER FIRE SWEPT the Beverly Hills
Supper Club killing 165 persons city officials of Southage appear
ready to approve a tough new fire code.

A state police investigation of the May 28, 1977, fire found many
serious violations of state bulding fire and safety laws at the posh
club in this Northern Kentucky city.

The city council meets next week to act on adoption of new
building, fire andlife safety codes. The council met Monday night to
review the codes and also new procedures which will help the town
serve as its own watchdog.

A HEARING WILL BE HELD IN LATE SL'MMER for property
owners along the 12- mile Lexington- to- Paris road as part of a
renewed effort by the Kentucky Heritage Commission to have it
designated a national historic district.

The Paris Pike has been a source of controversy since state high-
way officials announced plans to construct a modern four-lane high-
way in place of the scenic two-lane road, the main connector bet-
ween Iexington and Paris.

Trignsportation officials say the road neetb to be widened to make
it sa e.

Opponents of the project. some of whom have filed suit in federal
court to halt construction, say widening the road would destroy the
beauty and historic character of the area.

A decision on the suit. filed a year ago by the Blue Grass Land and
Nature Trust, he. could come as early as next month.

nation

'I‘llI-I CASE OF TlII-I MYSTI-IRIIILVS lilil'II-IN “Hill of ice that fell
from the sky near ltipley. in West Tennessee. has been solved. a
Federal Aeronautics Administration official said Tuesday.

“We've never had any doubts of what fell out of the sky. It‘s some
ice out of a jet airliner’s lavatory." John Wright. chief of the flight
standards district office in Memphis. said. ”This is not a new
happening. It's been happen'ng ever since we've had jet airplanes
going high altitudes."

Wright said it's likely the seal on the airplane's lavatory was
leaking and ice fomred outside the cabin until it was so large that It
broke off and fell to earth.

“It's not an everyday occurrance. but it happem." he said.

t‘l.t)t'l)Y ANI) ('tml. TIIIIAY with a :10 percent chance of
showers; high in the mid-50s Slowly decreasing cloudiness tonight

will) a 20 percent chance for light showers. lows in the low 405
Sunny and mild Thursday. highs in the 60s

weather

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editorials 8: CW

Nebraska bills set bad precedent

Legislatures not responsible for higher

The state legislature of Nebraska was recently
embroiled over two controversial proposals that
would give it more authority over higher
education. The proposals are not especially
drastic, but they could set a bad precedent for
close legislative involvement with university

functions.

One of items would let the legislature set limits
on the number and type of programs that receive
state funds. It was needed, said the bill‘s
backers, to end “unnecessary duplication” of

performance.

programs, and would give the legislature unique
authority over academic programming and
curricula. The second proposal asked for a
“uniform information system” to collect data on
universities, useful in budgeting and evaluating

Such bills stem from a distrust of universities

and the councils charged with directing them.
It’s an old story, a government agency becoming
nothing more than a spokesman for the in-
stitutions it is supposed to control.

Spring fever. . .

“I‘m through with women," a
friend told me last week.

It was nearly four in the morning,
and he was sitting low in the driver’s
seat of his car, parked in front of my
apartment. A long night of dancing
and Wild Turkey and several joints
of “brain damage" weed had taxed
him considerably. He was tired, and
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“They never quit messing with
you, man — they start trouble just
to make sure they're still there. l
really don't know what could be in
their heads sometimes."

He ptshed up the volume on his
car stereo when the tape came
around to “Do You Wanna ‘ Get
Funky With Me," and he laid his
head back. ., _- .

“This is a hell of a song. This
woman‘s tempting him here. Do-ya-
wannaget-funky-with-me-
doyawanna." The song played on,
but his attention shifted. ”Do you
know what i mean about women?
They just can’t let anything alone;
they’ve always got to play their little
games. You know, make sure you’re
paying enough attention to them —
make you really kiss ass every now
and then. They’re just too much to
handle."

The song ended in a swirl of biz-
zare, eerie sounds and he turned it
up quickly. “Hear that? He gave in
to 'her and she cast him into hell.
What a song" Abruptiy, his at-
tention shifted again, changing the
expression on his face in an instant.

"i tell you though, buddy: one of
the finest, most sensible women We
ever known was in the Library
tonight. That Joan really impresses
the hell out of me.“ He thought about
that for a while unil he suddenly
straightened up and turned the tape
deck off.

"Did i ever tell you howl met her?
My roommate _, bear in mind, he’s
a businessman —was with me at
the Library one night, and she
started talking to us. My roomate,
being the businessman that he is,
talked her into writing a paper for
him. i came home about two nights
later and she was sitting at the
kitchen table working on my
roommate’s papa. Well, being the
businessman that he is, he talked me
into helping her. i didn‘t really want
to, because i didn‘t know her and I
didn‘t have any idea what her game
was like i said, I'm just tired of
women."

“So i sat down there at the table,
and i guess she could tell i wasn’t
sure about her. Anyway, she looked
me dead in the eye with this little
grin and says, “You wanna smoke a

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joint?’ Man, that blew me away.
Here's this woman I’ve never met
before and she starts off wanting to
get high. None of this ‘oh what will
he think about me’ stuff. I just said
‘Hell, let's do it!”’ \

He lit a cigarette and chuckled to
himself about what he had just said.
His eyes seemed to glaze over for a
moment as he lost himself in the
thought of it. The grin never faded.

“I‘ve never laughed as hard as I
did with her while we were writing
that paper. She’s really cool —- and
that‘s something you just can’t say
about most women. She doesn’t have
any games — she doesn’t give a shit
about what kind of image she has, or
who talks about her. She‘s just really
open and honest with you; she’ll sit
and get high with you and talk to you
like a human being; like another

“Damn, I like that. You can have
the rest of the women, though; they
don‘t have any sense at all."

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The Sigma Nu beer blast was
Friday. Despite the cold, wet
weather, hundreds turned out to
listen to music and get sloshed on
cold Pabst, which many toted
around in gloved hands.

Pam Riley wasn‘t there. She
stayed in her room at an almost-
deserted sorority house, listening to
her stereo and reading. Had the
blast been held the day before, or the
day after, she would probably have
been there. Friday, though, she was
depressed.

“I’m not into playing that game
today, i, guess," she told a friend
over the phone. “Aren’t you sick of
it? i mean, it’s so cliche it’s
ridiculous. I’m sick of walking
around wearing a beer on my hand
trading inanities with nerds. Why
can’t I meet somebody different?”

Somebody different. She thmght
of someone she knew in junior high,
somebody “different.” They were a
lot alike, she remembered. They
used to huddle with each other and
secretly ridicule their classmates.
They had shared the same distastes
and sense of humor. She missed him,
wondered what had happened to
him.

“I guess 1‘“ sit home again
tomorrow night," she sighed to her
friend “I never have anything to do
on the weekends."

A half-hour later she declined an
invitation to dinner for the next
night.

“You should’ve asked me sooner
than a day in advance," she ad-
monished her suitor. “We already
got all kinds of plans for tomorrow
night."

Kirk returned home from a
Chemistry test Monday night and
sat down with a beer. After smoking
a joint and reading half his

assignment for the next day’s
History class, he put Ciapton’s
Siowhand on his stereo and sat down
with another beer.

He lost himself in thought quickly
enough to be brooding over a recent
fight with h's girlfriend, Cheryl,

before the first cut had ended. When ‘

the next song started (“It’s late in
the evening...”), he had worked

The state legislature, though, is not the proper
body to give decisions on the academic
programming. The decisions on what a state
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vulnerable to intense political pressure, and

could eventually lead to more authority on other
matters now left to the councils.

' In this year’s General Assembly, for instance,
there was great support from representatives of
rural regions to pass a bill requiring the ad-
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rural areas to law and medical schools. Instead,
the state Council on Higher Education was
directed to achieve better representation without

State legislatures should not be have the

responsibility for coordinating higher education,

because university operations, like judical
processes, should not be run as toys of special
interests, especially interests that can change
with each election.

Of lost souls and

missed connections

himself into genuine depression.
Eyes closed tightly, he concentrated
on the words to the song: “And when
she asks me, do you feel alright, I
say yes, I feel wonderful tonight."
When the song was over, a few
minutes later, he went to the phone
and dialed Cheryl’s number—no
answer.

His head swam with questions —

Where was she? Who was she with?
What right did she have? What if he
needed her? He took a few beers and
went for a drive.

Kirk returned home from his drive
later and sat down with a beer. He
dialed Cheryl’s number again. This
time she answered it on the second
ring. She sounded anxious. ‘She’s
home after all,’ Kirk thought.

“Hello,“ she said a second time and
that, after a parse, “Kirk?" lie
hung up the phone.

‘Hell with her,‘ he said and, as he
pulled on his beer, he found Sticky
Fingers and put it on the turntable,
and lit up a joint.

Charles Main is the Kernel
Editorial Editor. His column ap-
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Letters to the Editor

 

 

Blood boils,

I too am among those UK students
whofeel their “blood boil” (to quote
the “brave” yet anonymous writer
of “Go Home”) upon reading both
the Kernel’s most recent account
(Apr. 13) and editorial (Apr. 14) of
the events surrounding Turner’s
visit, but for different reasons.

I was upset at the lack of com-
petency and truthfulness in the
Kernel article “Arrests made as
marchers disrupt CIA chief’s
speech.” I doubt the objectivity of
any post-Watergate era reporter
who interviews only the UK ad-
ministration and police without even
considering the protesters’ version.
I also resent the glib statement that
three arrested simply didn’t want to
release their names, unac~
companied by any explanation of the
motives behind their refusal.

One obvious reason might just be
that these Iranian students might be
expelled from this country without
being able to finish their studies.
Further, their families could risk
arrest and-or torture by the CIA-
trained secret police in their own
country if their names were
disclosed.

Regarding the Kernei’s editorial
“Outside agitators drew attention
they desired,” 1 think that before
publishing a statement it should be
the duty of every good journalist to
know the facts. For instance,
specifically to know that out of the 12
arrested “outside agitators,” seven
were UK students and one a UK
faculty member.

Focusing upon “outside agitators”
only shifts our attention to people
“btsed in" from the outside and
away from people who work and
study at our campus. It therefore
absolves us from confronting the
reality of CIA.involvement in Iran.
Moreover, the Kernel implies that it
is oh so much fun to be arrested to
attract a little attention to yourself.
Such narcissists, these protesters!

Granted, it is not easy to muster
support for cases that do not seem
to concern us directly. Yet, when the
English were in this country only a
short while ago, a revolution erupted
to throw them out, for which there
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Today in Iran the American
presence is perhaps not as overt as
that of the English in colonial
America. it is through selective
economic pressure and technical
assistance in training the secret
police that the CIA supposedly keeps
its hands clean while guaranteeing a
“free” oil market and a safe terrain
for US. military bases.

It seems obvious to all (except our
anonymous “Go Home” heckler)
that the Iranian students aren’t
asking for help from the American
government— they are asking
instead that the US. withdraw its
support of the Shah’s inhuman
regime.

When they shout “Yankee Go
Home,” they are in my opinion not
putting down individual Americans,
but rather trying to communicate
the blatant oontradictibns of an
American president who ‘~ claims
human rights as a top priority in his
campaign and then receives the
representative of a country where
human rights are daily subverted,
and also allows an agency like the
CIA to go about its gruesome
bisiness.

No wonder, then, that anti-
Americanism is growing throughout

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the world. I think it is the respon-
sibility of every conscientious
American to become better in-
formed (and this includes reporters)
as to the nature of various activities
condmted in the name of freedom
and under the guise of “American
Security."

Alba ()rsi
Graduate student in Counseling

No conscience

Early in\ 1977, the magazine iligh
Times exposed the sale of paraquat
by the United States to the Mexican
govemment. it warned of the effects
encountered by people smoking
paraquat-treated marijuana.

Finally, in March of this year, the
paraquat controversy received
attention from a more recognized
media. On an NBC news program, a
representative of Secretary of
Commerce Juanita Kreps said that
the American government had no
responsibility to protect people
threatened by paraquat because
they were committing an illegal act.

By this overt neglect of the
welfare of the public, the American
government has, in effect, made
their policy one of corporal punish-
ment and occasionally death (from
the effects of the poison) as the
pmalty for smoking this marijuana.
They are sentencing people who
have neither been charged nor
convicted of any crime. indeed,
possession of a quantity of
marijuana (small enough to be
deemed “for personal use") is not
even a crime in some states. And, so.
they have actually pmished people
who committed no illegal act in
some cases.

Since America has declared open
gmocide on a segment of the
population they cannot strictly
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remember that Colombian seeds are
well-marbled black on brown, and
Mexican seeds are larger. rounder
and most usually green.

Mr. lteis‘ suggrstion (Apr. 17,
1978) regarding a marijuana
analysis lab here offers the
possibility of a positive alternative
to anger and paranoia. We need to
help ourselves. The American
govemment has no conscience.

Louanne iiines
Social Professions sophomore

Swan song

This letter is to thank the 2855
students who voted in the Student
(iovemment elections last Wed-
nesday and Thursday. This was an
increase of nearly l000 votes over
last spring's elections. i hope that
this will be a trend that will revu‘se
the apathy-laden student body.

i think the Kernel should have
taken a more responsive role in the
St} elections. it is the most widely
read newspapir on campus and, as a
candidate, I think the election
covrrage was bad. As a student. 1
think it was even worse.

i want to thank everyone who
supported me in my campaign for
vice-president. The diaiienge was
vay enjoyable and one that i would
encourage anyone to undertake. I
want to thank aH the students, from
dorms to sorority row. But i
especially want to thank my
brothers in Sigma Alpha Epsilon. for
their adamant and undying support
throughout the campaign.

Good luck to Gene Tichenor, Billy
Bob itenner and the entire Senate in
the upcoming year. Remember to
keep the students the number one
priority in "the winning com-
bination."

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An inside look

WKQQ records own album

By NANCY DALY
Kernel Staff Writer

Recording sessions are
known to be boring, tedious,
repaitious and long enough to
seriously erode any sense of
excitement that might have
been felt about music.

Statements like those are
made to be challenged. And
an afternoon scheduled for
the recording of two songs on
the upcoming WKQQ
Homespun album provides
the challenge and an insight
of studio session work.

WKQQ contracted Track
16. the second largest studio
in Lexington, to record all but
one song for the album. Track
16 is a renovated house on
Constitution Avenue, a lightly
trafficked street which feeds
into North Limestone at a
point equidistant from Sayre
School in one direction and
the Greyhound Bus Depot in
the other.

The place doesn’t resemble
anything other than a house
until a pason branches off
from the hallway into the
room that functions as a
control booth. Once inside,
the absence of natural light
requ'res the eyes to readjust
for awhile.

Tom Tandy, Track 16
manager, sits at the control
panel at the far end of the
room. From his swiveled seat
of power, the recording
engineer, who is alternately
referred to as Tandy, Tommy
or Doc, has a partial view of
the studio where five
musicians are set up to play.

Tandy can see three of
them through a window

, runn'ng the width of the
; control room. But he can hear

all of them by simple
manipulation of the recording
set-up.

. Wearing headphones, the

nusicians sit in partitioned
_ cubicles and..play thek‘Jn-

struments into individual
microphones which carry
each musician's part, or
track, directly into Tandy’s
tape machine. The partitions
prevent unwanted noise from
another instrument from
coming across each player’s
mike. That unwanted noise is
called “bleedthrough.”
Lexington singer-
songwriter Kent Blazy, whose
tune‘ ‘Spellbound” rs one of 11
Homespun tracks, has free
rein in assembling today’s
crew of musicians. In ad-
dition to Blazy, there are
acoustic guitarist Danny
Williams, bass player Phil
Hall, drummer Steve
DiMartino, and pedal—steel
guitarist John Heinrich.
They are trying to hammer
out an arrangement for
“Spellbound’s” rhythm
track, the song‘s rhythmic
and melodic underbelly to

which more definable gu'tar
leads and vocals overdubbed
later.

The drummer doesn’t know
the tune, so Blazy runs
through it several times until
DiMartino develops his
concept for the rhythm
pattern “Just keep doing
that part, you know, where
the ‘bowm-bowms come rn
says DiMartino.

Blazy plays the in-
troduction several times.
DiMartino improvises his
part, adding stylistic em.
bellishments wherever he
feels. Gradually bass, rhythm
and pedal-steel guitarists feel
their way around the
drumming and add layers of
melody and harmonic tex-
ture.

Finally a workable
arrangement for the entire
tune emerges and they play it
again and again. Without
vocals and lead guitar lines,
the product only vaguely
sounds like “Spellbound”

Midway through the song
during the umpteenth trial
run, a red light flashes at the
top of Tandy’s control panel.
He swivels over to grab the
wallphone which is situated to
the right of the section
plastered with
“Doonesbury’s ” Jimmy
Thudpucker studio sequence
and engages in s udio
shoptalk for a while. The
musicians finish before he
does, but when Tandy hangs
up he joins the post-song
critique as though he never
missed a beat.

Tandy presses a button that
transmits his voice in the
studio. He does so almost
unconsciously that the way
everybody else activates,
only our vocal chords to be
heard.

“I guess there were a few
bad notes,” he says. So they
try it again. Tandy’s
suggestions are couched in
polite terms yet they rarely
go unheeded. Everybody
seems to know what he’s
doing at this session so no
authoritarian power trips are
needed. Simple diplomacy
among peers will do.

“Are your drums out of
tune again, DiMartino?” says
Blazy. ”Your drums are
flat.” Nothing like a little
levity, however corny, to
break the tension.

Through repetition, the
musicians soon have the
whole arrangement com-
mitted to memory. By this
time, flaws are rare and
detectable only to a few
trained ears in the control
booth. They’re ready to roll.
“