Slack Shack Album in Typical Ash Fashion, Mood Is Immediately Changed by with a Medium-Paced Song About "Hometown," a Light-Hearted, a Movie Star Grown Old
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Sidelines, Jan. 21, 1975-9 European trip offers fun, credit ASB resurrects library bill How can you pick up six hours along with about 25 Eastern said. "What better way to study of history credit while spending Michigan students and one pro- the Renaissance than from a fun-filled weeks in Europe? fessor, will spend two weeks in centuries-old villa." Members of the ASB Legisla- ture resurrected a dormant re- History professor Ronald Mes- Vienna, two weeks in Munich, Cost of the program will be sier has the answer in a joint Germany, and two weeks in $1,000 plus MTSU's registration solution Thursday that would program with Eastern Michigan Florence, Italy, with weekends in for six semester hours. That clear the way for an extension of University. Salzburg, Austria, the Austrian payment covers round-trip library hours on Friday and Sun- day. "It's not simply a guided tour Alps and a tentatively scheduled transportation from Nashville, stop in Prague, Czechoslovakia. all rail fares in Europe, admis- Passage of the bill had been of Europe, but it is an academic blocked last fall by the Senate due program," Messier stressed. In addition to daily morning sion at each site, rooms and breakfast and lunch meals, Mes- to a disagreement as to whether About 15 MTSU students will classes, the group will visit sier said. the Friday extension should be leave Nashville June 26 bound for museums, monasteries, concerts added. Rep. Jeff Combos op- Vienna, Austria, and other Euro- and operas, Messier pointed out. If students already have credit in Western Civilization, Messier posed the extension at that time pean capitals to study the Re- saying that a Friday extension naissance period. "While in Florence we will stay pointed out, they can still gain in a 15th Century villa in the hills upper division credit hours from might endanger the chances of Messier said the MTSU group, overlooking the city," Messier Eastern Michigan. getting the originally asked for Sunday extension. Wishbone Ash album features Wisefield Prof finds cash by Steve Huhman is new to Wishbone Ash; this can sional vocal undermixing, this is A substantial sum of money "There's the Rub" is Wishbone probably be attributed to one of the album's very few weak has been found in Old Main by Ash's first studio album in a year Wisefield. It is as close as the points. Although many interest- Thomas Forrest, associate pro- and a half, and many listeners group ever comes to a real speed- ing ideas show up here, they don't fessor of math. The money may have wondered if it equals the burner. really fill up the time, rendering be claimed in OM 306 if it can be group's usual performance since Next is "Persephone," the the song repetitious and boring. identified, Forrest said. the band has experienced a per- apex of the album. It is a slow, sonnel change. emotional song, with the best of New member Laurie Wisefield the involved double leads and relieves all doubt, however, with guitar harmonies that Wishbone his contributions as guitarist and Ash built its reputation on. Man- ^ow in Progress composer. Wishbone's charac- dolin, organ and synthesizer lead teristic harmonies, double leads to a tremendous climactic swell and rounds are all there. at the end. "Silver Shoes" leads off the Flipping the album over, the The Slack Shack album in typical Ash fashion, mood is immediately changed by with a medium-paced song about "Hometown," a light-hearted, a movie star grown old. 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