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After a slow August, months of uncertainty. The club, some blockbuster releases are owned by over 60 shareholders, either on your dealers' shelves or has made a down payment to pur­ on their way. chase the building at SOl Bustin Loose and Stir Crazy Napoleon it has rented since 1977. with Richard Pryor; Neil Dia­ The club had to come up with mond's The Jazz Singer; Car • - $20,000 by September IS to com­ Wash with the Pointer Sisters; plete the down payment, and ac­ Dressed To Kill with Angie complished this by attracting Dickenson - a Hitchcock thriller; numerous small investors to Love At First Bite; Night. lfawkes become new shareholders. It is and F.I.S. T. with Sylvester still seeking investors so that it Stallone; King Of Hearts; Coming may make physical improvements Home; Blue Lagoon; Hot Stuff; to the riverside property. Uptown Saturday Night; and Ti)ilitina's general manager and more will be available for your treasurer John Kelley explained home viewing. the move to purchase the building. Sony and Toshiba are ready to "The lease that we were renting introduce their new lightweight under was up at the end of 1981. portable Beta, VCRs. These por­ Initially we had a one-year lease, table Beta units will have all of the then another one-year lease with a special effects that until now were three-year option. This is our fifth only found on the expensive top­ year of operation. Knight Studios Lands Gold Record of-the-line home units. ~ - "The new lease offered us by When you play prerecorded the landlord requested a substan­ Knight Studios in Metairie was Other than Regina Bennett, a tapes on your VCR, and the top tial raise in rent. When we got awarded their first gold record Memphis keyboardist and ar­ two or three inches of the screen around to negotiating a purchase September 3 for Joe Simon's hit, ranger who worked most closely seems to drift sideways - there is price for the building, we realized "Love Vibration." Simon flew with Simon on the cut, all the nothing wrong with your VCR; that the note we would pay would down from his home in New York sidemen were local people. "It this problem is called Skewing Er­ not be significantly different from last November to cut the disc at was something to see him working ror, and it can be adjusted by a the requested rent. So we decided Traci Borges' Metairie Road with the young sidemen, going qualified TV serviceman. to try to raise the down studio, and within 10 months the over the individual parts, and then Clean the heads on your VCR payment.'' record has sold more than standing on a box to conduct every thirty to forty hours - or The new investments do not im­ I ,000,000 copies them through the track," recalls anytime that the machine has not mediately rescue the club from its "I think it's safe to say this is Borges. "The record was made been used for several weeks. annual fall shortages in working the first time, in, oh, eight or nine relatively quickly and efficiently. Cleaning the heads is a simple pro­ capital. "Because of old debts," years that a gold record has been Joe knew exactly what he wanted; cess with the new cassettes that are Kelley says, "things are likely to entirely produced in New he had it all worked out ahead of now available. Insist that your remain pretty tight until next Orleans," says Borges. "Simon time." dealer sell you a cassette that is February. That is one of the was very enthusiastic about com­ The record was engineered by non-abrasive such as the Allsop or reasons we are still seeking in­ ing here to do a record and is mak­ Bob Lawrence, Knight vice­ Bib. If you have a Sanyo 9100-A, vestors. ing plans to do some more record­ president, and is available on do not use the Allsop cassette - "But I think there is a lot of ing in New Orleans. " Spring Records. several of our friends have had potential for making money that problems with the Allsop and we have yet to explore.