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The Gargoyle, Page Ten, October 20 , 1987 Music Weekend Getaways

By RITA ·HIEMER Review You sit and watch as your roommate and With nothing but an LD. hi hand, saunter friends pack their bags for another weekend down to the gym an~ request a tent. Four, By MIKE SANTUCCI at home, away from the intellectually soaked two-n:,an tents are lymg dormant, waiting to walls of Flagler College. Maybe this weekend be enJoyed. You can spontaneously run to the The last time the Grateful Dead put out a will be wasted on a cloudy beach day or a gym on a Friday morning and get a tent .or studio album was seven years ago when they movie in the lounge (one you 've undoubtedly you can be sure to get one by reserving a few · released " Go to Heaven." The last time the seen five times before). days before. A few days before would also Dead recorded a great studio album was in Whether your excuse for spending one end- · give you a chance to air the tent before leav- 1970 , when they released "Workingman's less weekend after another in your dorm is ing on your quest. . Dead" and "American Beauty" within a. because you live too far from home, or you You now have a tent but you have no car month of each other. Those two albums yield­ know no one in Florida, your imagination has and you _know you can't live in the courtyard. ed Dead classics like "Uncle John's Band," obviously been overcome by Accounting or A_nastasia State Park, which is a mere 3 mile "Casey Jones," "Sugar Magnolia," " Ripple," Economics. hike from your dorm room, has camping only and "Truckin' ," the Dead's anthem. If you are not from Florida it is even a big_. one mile from the beach. They allow two ger crime to throw your weekends away. This tents/_eight people per space at a rate of $10. 75 per mght. Restrooms and showers are includ­ With a recordi~g schedule like that, most state is part of your college experience. Take advantage of it. . · ed. bands don 't survive. But the Grateful Dead If Anastasia is too close to home there are isn't like most bands. Because they've always So far this may seem idealistic. By now, relied on their live act, and not their record the thought of jetting down to the Keys for the yarious_~~tional Parks in Florida ~ ith camp­ weekend has crossed your mind, and you are mg facihties. Everglades National Park· in ---S--ales, tbey can afford to have an erratic re­ Homestead (247-6211 ), Gulf Islands National cording schedule. Dead tours repeatedly fea­ now humored by entertaining a $500.00 week­ end. If you care to break free on a low budget Seashore (932-5302) , and the Ocala National ture sold-out shows, thanks in part to the Forest (878-1131) are examples. All parks are band's loyalists known as the Deadheads. jaunt, here is one of many suggestions. Picture yourself sitting around a glowing obtainable by car, and some by Greyhound. · camp fire with a few of your closest friends. For any information on these parks, call This summer, the band finally released an Nature surrounding you on all sides. Fresh the numbers hsted or contact Rita Hiemer at album that, along with guitarist Jerry Gar­ air that leaves you feeling rejuvenated. Box 532. cia's recovery from a heroin and cocaine problem, seems to have given the Grateful Dead a new audience to complement the Deadheads. SAM Club Looking Forward To Busy Year The new album, "In the Dark," features some songs that the Dead have played on tour but never recorded. The album's first hit . By DAPHNE STERLING ''Touch of Grey," is two years old. Garcia ol fe~s the lines "Oh well a touch of grey/kind of Last year's club of the year ·starts off Some of the usual events which will take smts you anyway," before exclaiming " I will strong again with a · possible sixty-member place again are a limbo contest, SAM's ver- get by/I will survive." roster. Flagler College's chapter of the Socie­ . sion of the Newlywed (or Newly-Couple ) ty for the Advancement of management Game, and the Dating Game. Fundraisers on Other older songs include guitarist Bob (SAM) , is aiming to hold their position as the agenda include credit card sales which Weir's ·'My Brother Esau" and Garcia's number one club on campus. give students an opportunity to start building "West L.A. Fadeawav." credit early. Also, with each properly filled SAM's award for Club of the Year was pri- out application sent in, the club receives a . marily due to its dramatic improvements profit. . What makes " In the Dark" a great album from. the preceding year. It was the fastest lies in the new material. " Hell in a Bucket" growmg club on campus, more than doubling Lastly, SAM will sponsor its annual Push­ by Weir sums up the Dead's attitude toward its membership and active participation - a-Thon, in which club members join together everyth: .. g with the lyrics "I may be going to thanks to Tony Fernandez as president, and to push a car through downtown St. Augus­ hell ,., a bucket/But at least I'm enjoying the · Mr. Lou Preysz, the club's sponsor. ride.· tine, the nation's oldest city. All students are sponsored. This fundraiser for· the United This year's president, Jackie Grim; and Way was started two years ago, and it will The last song on the album, " Black Muddy her executive board are introducing new continue to be an annual project. Rive~," describes the Dead's, and especially ideas to the club. Among the list is a program Garcia's, new-found life. The lines "When it emphasizing a different theme each month The enthusiasm of last year's president seems like the night will last forever/And that the club will publicize and promote by seemed to motivate SAM members in a spe­ there's nothing left to do but count the showing films and inviting relevant guest cial way. Ms. Grim and her executive board years/When the strings of my heart start to speakers to the weekly meetings. will continue this past success as well as ex- sever/And stones fall from my eyes instead of plore new territory. . tears" offer an optimism that one seldom saw A new fund raising idea this year is the in the Dead's previous work. They convince "birthday cake" sale. The club delivers a the audience that they will survive, whether cake, as a gift from home, to each student on anyone wants to come along for the ride or campus celebrating a birthday. not. The song concludes with the lyrics "I will walk alone by the black muddy river/And sing The board will also encourage the senior me a song of my own/Sing me a song of my members to prepare resumes to be sent off all own ... " at once, in booklet form, to various corpora­ tions. This will help to motivate the students The Grateful Dead will tour into late 1988. to start pianning ah_ead. Ms. Grim also con­ STANDARD Rumor has it that the tour will conclude at the firmed that this method would increase their Printing and Office Supply, Inc. bottom of the Great Wall of China. ( Some chances of getting an interview. things are hard to top. The Dead have already "We 're proud to have Flagler played at . the foot of the Great Pyramid in Finally, the introduction of a local campus Egypt durmg a full moon.) Combined with the newsletter will circulate this semester, and College in St. Augustine!"· new album, the band, and the music world club member Daphne Sterling will be its pro­ have experienced a new dawn of the Dead. ' ducer and editor. The letter will include 829-6488 events of the club, interviews with business people, and features on relevant issues in the 62 H polita St. 829-5362 community.

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