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From the folks that brought you 'Hot Grog'
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by Bob Brueckner
DTH Contributor
This article is the third in a series of
articles on local musicians.
Jim Wann, Cass Morgan and Bland
Simpson are gathered with friends in a
living room lit only by a Yankees-Reds
game on the TV and a blazing fire in the
fireplace.
Except for the Yankees-Reds game,
the scene is one that could have taken
place sometime last spring. The people
and the situation are the same, but now
they aren't the cast of Hot Grog,
relaxing after a performance, but the
members of a local easy-rock-and-roll
band having a few beers after rehearsal.
The band, Gravy Boat, grew out of
the musical Hot Grog, which was
written by Simpson and Wann and
performed at the Ranch House last
February and March. Wann calls their
music "good-time rock-and-roll as
opposed to heavy metal."
In addition to Wann, Morgan and
Simpson, the members include Joe
"Duke" DeLuca, bass; Michael Sacks,
drums; and Rodney Underwood, lead
guitar. As they did during the play,
Wann, Morgan and Simpson do most of
the vocals. They are veterans of not only
Hot Grog but Diamond Studs (also
written by Simpson and Wann) which
ran off-Broadway for the first half of
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Gravy Boat's music is formed
basically around the ballad.
"In a kind of broad way all our music
is essentially a story," says Wann. "The
person in each of the songs is a person
person, not an amorphous ' modern
man," says Wann.
Although they incorporate historical
references as in Diamond Studs (the life
of Jesse James), some inspiration comes
from personal experience. "Probably
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The crew of "Gravy Boat" following a rehearsal.
who is taking some kind of risk."
Each song represents the viewpoint of
a particular character, such as an outlaw
or pirate.
"The songs come from an actual
the better known portion is just stuff
we've made up about riding around in
buses and cars," says Simpson, "a lot of
more or less small town, rural
references."
The adventurous spirit of the people
involved in the stories is the essence of
Gravy Boat's style of music. Hot Grog
and Diamond Studs translated this
spirit into story form.
Their material is almost totally
original, although they use some old
ballads or songs like "Six Days on the
Road" a truck driver's song that has
been around for ten years. The group
believes that variety is good because
other musicians that they respect the
Beatles, Van Morrison and Bob
Dylan are capable of "a lot of subtle
moods in their music," says Simpson.
So far Gravy Boat does not have any
records on the market. They had a
chance to put one out, but were not
satisfied that it would be what they
wanted. Simpson says that it is virtually
impossible to get beyond the Triangle
area without a record. "A known
record," he adds.
They play locally at the Cat's Cradle
in Chapel Hill and the Pier and Cafe
Deja Vu in Raleigh. The band also took
Mot Grog to Greenville, N.C. last
spring. This winter they plan to take it to
the Big Apple.
Gravy Boat will be appearing with the
Red Clay Ramblers at 8 p.m. today in
Memorial Hall in a program which will
include a Diamond Studs reunion.
Admission is $1.
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Carrboro's alternative theatre
Carrboro may be UNC's answer to off-Broadway.
Although tried and true productions are performed here on campus, there is
another kind of theatre thriving on the outskirts of town.
The Gallery Theatre in Carrboro provides an opportunity for persons bored with
traditional techniques and messages to expand their concept of drama.
Creativity and energy are what the founder and director of the theatre, Martin
Holtz, talks about most. Citing the stagnation of the dramatic arts in much of the
South, he declares that we are ready for a"cultural revolution." He wants to explore
what it takes to make every show vital and important to both actors and audience.
Holtz's ultimate aim may be a unified theory of theatre, but right now he's
working on technique, environmental theatre, and audience participation. For
example, his new production, Dutchman, will be staged, not with the traditional
separation between actors and audience, but in a room converted to resemble the
subway in which the action of the play occurs. By using this technique, Holtz hopes
to make the story more immediate, more real to the audience and to give them a
chance to confront the issues raised.
Dutchman, which won an Obie for its author, LeRoi Jones, is itself the story of a
confrontation, superficially between a black man and a white woman. However, the
work is more than an investigation of racial conflict.
The two parts will be played by Peter-James Thomas and Norma Dunkelberger.
Performances are at 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. on Oct. 29, 30, 31 and November 5, 6 at the
Art School, 150 E. Main Street in Carrboro. For tickets or information, call 942
2041. Marianne Hansen
"When I first came here (in 1956) I was
idealistic enough to think that men nd
women would be treated equally as far as
employment opportunities in terms of salary
and promotion. Out of my own experience,
I've found this not to be so," Lane said.
She agreed with Smith that women faculty
as a whole have never organized as a pressure
group.
"You can say women really haven't
coalesced as an organized group on this
campus," she said. "I guess you could say
many feel very satisfied with their situations
or that they feel they can't change it. It's a
sort of apathy on their parts."
Connie Eble, associate professor of
English, is satisfied with the progress her
department has made over the past five
years. In that time, five women have been
either hired at or promoted to the
professorial ranks.
"We have increased 500 per cent in five
years.SOj; definitely things are better; there ?
are no two ways about it," she said.
Because of the improved climate, Eble
said, women are now able to have special
kind of professional friendship.
"We know each other, we help each other.
That's what's changed," she said.
"In the past, we couldn't have an'ole-girl'
network because we didn't have enough 'old
girls'. The thing is we don't want to have an
old-girl' network that will exclude the 'old
boys'," she said.
"That would be just as bad as the 'old-boy'
network. I certainly would hate to think that
the women in our department would form
some kind of a close-knit circle and that we
don't go outside of our circle," she explained.
Eble said her department now needs a
woman scholar at the rank of full professor,
but such a woman is hard to find.
"Usually a woman of that type has a very
good job right now and is not free to move,"
she said.
Another jeason, she explained, is the lack ,
of availability.
"There was a generation of women
scholars who went into graduate school in
the 30s or early 40s. They have now come to
the age when most of them are nearing
retirement. They're not interested in
moving," she said.
"Then we came to the age of the feminine
mystique (the 1950s). We simply do not have
a generation of top-notch women ready to
takes the place (of these scholars)."
She added that with the better male
female balance of graduate students today,
future generations will not have to face this
situation.
Elizabeth Eddy, hired as an assistant
professor of English in 1973, said that she
has noted improvements since she has been
here, especially in the department's hiring
patterns.
Just look at the junior professors hired in
the four years since I've been here two
women, one black male and one white male.
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assistant professor hirings you might have
looked at ten years ago," she said.
Eddy said she saw no conflict between the
fact that many department chairpersons in
charge of hiring and promotion decisions,
are also departmental Equal Employment
Opportunity Officers (EEOO), in charge of
enforcing the plan's guidelines.
"On the surface it eems unsound, but it
always comes down to a matter of
personality, the personal style of the people
involved," she said.
Eddy said she felt she was lucky to come to
UNC when she did.
"By the time I got here I really benefited
from the fact that I was not the first woman
professor in this department," she said.
She said she believes UNT has made an
effort to successfully implement Affirmative
Action.
The goal of Affirmative Action is to insure
equal employment opportunities for all
faculty members. Since its implementation
in 1973, the percentage of faculty women has
increased from 10.3 per cent to 13.8 percent.
But as the recent report by the EEOC states,
problems remain with a salary discrepancies
and in the hiring, promotion and tenure
practices at UNC.
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