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By CAROLE FERGUSON
Staff Writer
A man camouflaged in army
fatigues and green face paint care
fully crawls through leaves and
underbrush.
The enemy is sure to be lurking
nearby, so he remains quiet and alert
as he guards his team's flag. An
enemy soldier leaps out from behind
a tree and takes aim. "Pop!" The man
on the ground is splattered with red,
and the enemy captures his flag.
The soldiers are from a group of
friendly UNC graduate students of
business administration who battled
each other in a wooded field outside
of Durham. The scene may have
resembled warfare, but actually the
students were playing TAG, an adult
version of capture the flag, complete
with toy CO.-powered guns that
shoot paint pellets. And they were
not on a battleground, but on 60
acres of land owned by Ed Fadel
of Triangle Adventure Games.
FadeC a 1 984 Duke graduate,
started TAG last April on his land
off U.S. Highway 70 near Durham.
"I try to get people away from the
EoDeaes
BoDeans manager Mark McCraw
explained it best when he said the
BoDeans like to give 100 percent at
each show.
Well, maybe that explains why the
band's sound check Wednesday
night lasted two hours and delayed
their first show at Rhythm Alley tw o
hours.
The crowd waiting in the alley for
the club's doors to open grew
impatient as they could hear the
BoDean hit "Fadeaway" being
evaluated by the band's technicians.
Some people waited as long as three
hours for the 8 p.m. show to start
at 9:45 p.m.
The BoDeans. from Wisconsin,
were scheduled to do two shows with
the last one at 1 1 p.m. Everyone
Pnrdy's innovates with progressive music
By ALEXANDRA MANN
Staff Writer
For as many times as Purdy's has
changed its name in the past few
years, it has never really changed its
image. Until now.
It started as an idea, became a
possibility, was then recognized as
something of a necessity and is now
a reality. We're talking about the fact
that progressive music (for lack of
a better or more specific term) has
come to Purdy's, and the establish
ment's days as a completely funk
dance club may be numbered.
"Over the past few months we've
noticed that Chapel Hill itself has
changed a great deal." said Alan
Mason, head DJ and main propo
nent of the idea. "People seem to
be more into '60s and progressive'
rock 'n' roll, and I think they're tired
of the same old dance floor stuff
because a lot of it sounds the same.
They're looking for an alternative,
and we're ready to provide that."
But the change is by no means
complete. Currently, Purdy's is
reserving only Wednesday and
Friday nights for the new playlists.
Thursdays and Saturdays are still
largely what people have learned to
expect from Purdy's, but even on
those nights, the old format is mixed
with a little of w hat Wednesdays and
Fridays offer.
The question, of course, is w hether
or not Chapel Hill, so accustomed
to the Purdy's format, will accept the
change. But according to Mason and
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Fadel said. "It's just a great way to
have fun and blow off steam."
Since the game originated several
years ago in New Hampshire, it has
been gaining popularity all over the
country. Fadel first played in
Washington, D.C., where there are
at least four different companies, he
said. The game is more widespread
in the North and West, but it is now
becoming more popular in the
South, Fadel said.
The graduate students put in a
hard day of fighting Sept. 18, and
by the end of their games, they had
all "dyed" at least once.
Each team's object was to capture
the opponent's flag and return it to
their base while protecting their own
flag.
"We're not worried about the
flags," one enthusiastic member of
the red team said. "It's body count
we're worried about."
But according to group member
John McCurdy, the students were
really just out to have a good time.
"We're just a bunch of MBA students
sharpening our competitive edge," he
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I knew the band would have to cut
some songs out of their set to fit both
of the shows into the night.
To make up for the long delay the
band put 100 percent into their show.
The BoDeans played almost non
stop for an hour, stopping only three
or four times to catch their breath.
They stuffed songs off their crit
ically acclaimed Slash Warner
Brothers album "Love & Hope &
Sex & Dreams" along with some new
material that will be on their next
manager Jeff Pierce, who gave the
idea its trial run on Sept. 19, it
already has. They both agree there
has been little or no negative feed
back, and that everyone who is there
on those nights loves it, and very few
people are turned off by it.
"There was always a certain
amount of discontent with the funk
set-up," said Pierce, who has man
aged the place for about a year. "I'm
happy it's worked out the way it has
because I was afraid for a while that
we would cut our own throats with
this thing. I just don't feel like we're
taking a chance anymore."
An itemized list of what people
are likely to hear on Wednesdays and
Fridays would take all day, but a
starting sample would include the
Beatles, the Smiths, Elvis Costello,
INXS, the Bo Deans, English Beat,
Steve Winwood, Talking Heads, the
Clash, the B-52's, Simple Minds,
R.E.M., Adam Ant, Beat Rodeo, the
Romantics, and the list goes on and
on. If you don't like any of those
groups and you want to hear some
thing else? Request it. That's what
they want.
"We want to expand people's taste
in music a little," said Mason, "but
w e mainly want to play what's good."
Pierce added that the music they
play is not quite as "alternative" as
it once was, that it's come to be more
mainstream than in the past and that
increasingly large numbers of people
are ready not just to sit around and
listen to it, but to dance to it. And
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said. "We'll take on Harvard
anytime."
The teams tried to develop strate
gies, but eventually they had to
"forget teams, groups, strategies and
just go for it," as one player put it.
The fighters enjoyed the excite
ment and suspense of combat, but
they agreed they were glad they did
not have to fight in a real war.
Emmett Daily realized just how glad
he was when he was shot over his
heart. "It is a weird feeling," he said.
". . . I'm thankful to be alive."
Hal Fletcher was the only casualty
of the day. A pellet hit him in the
mouth during the last game, so he
had to sit out to attend to his
wounded lip. "Wear a helmet,"
Fletcher suggested. "If you don't get
hit in the head, you don't get hurt."
Protective goggles are provided
and required for safety, and Fadel
said he is looking into getting some
with face protection. He said the
pellets are virtually harmless, but
they may sting a little when shot at
close range.
Most of the participants at TAG,
LP into the shortened time slot.
Normally the sets last an hour and
a half, said drummer Guy BoDean
after the show.
After the show, Guy said it usually
takes them four hours to set up the
equipment, and Rhythm Alley did
not start setting up the PA equip
ment and sound board until 7:20
p.m.
Though the set was plagued with
a variety of sound problems, the
distinctive BoDean sound, accentu
ated in lead singer Sammy Bo Dean's
midwestern twang, still managed to
break through.
This week's issue of Triangle Live
compared Sammy to early Dylan on
helium. Sammy must have taken an
because Purdy's is the only estab
lishment in Chapel Hill with a dance
floor, accommodating as many
people as possible is becoming more
important.
The rock 'n' roll section at Purdy's
now amounts to a grand total of
about 500 albums and Mason, who
is solely responsible for buying the
records, has been buying almost
every new release, as well as essential
and popular albums of the past few
years. That's where the variety comes
in.
"I read Rolling Stone, The Spec
tator and keep up with the Billboard
charts," Mason said, "and what IVe
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said. Groups of 20 people or more,
like the graduate students, can come
play any day of the week for an
overdose before the show, then. A
great example of his unique accent
occurred during "Misery" as he drew
out the pronunication of the word
to "mizz-o-ree."
The band was able to get through
"Fadeaway" without any sound
problems, and it was one of the best
songs performed that night with
guitarist Beau BoDean providing a
short solo introduction to the song.
Unfortunately the band's luck did
not extend to every song. "She's A
Runaway" suffered all sorts of sound
problems from guitar feedback to
distorted and high voice levels.
The band apologized throughout
the night for the wait and the sound
troubles.
The band's three-song encore was
found is that there are very few
barriers now. Everybody is influ
enced by everybody else, and that
gives us flexibility on Wednesdays
and Fridays. We can please a lot
more people."
While a complete changeover to
the new format will not occur
anytime in the near future, and
Thursdays and Saturdays should
accommodate the old Purdy's reg
ulars. Pierce and Mason are well on
their way to developing a whole new
clientele, or at least adding to the
old one. What happens after that
seems to be pretty much in the hands
of the Chapel Hill dancing public.
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Fadel said he is counting on plenty
of future business from UNC, Duke
and N.C. State. "It's a great activity
the best segment of the concert. The
band played "Be My Girl," a song
they played in Milwaukee before
their record contract.
"Sometimes we do stuff we have
not done in a long time to keep out
spirit alive on stage," Guy said.
Some of the fans seemed content
with the performance while others
could not forget the long wait.
"We waited longer than you
played," yelled a guy from the back
of the club.
"But it was worth it," answered
another fan.
The band's album has sold 80,000
copies, Guy said. "At this point we
play to a cult of people," he said.
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0110. "You have to have a certain aspect
in your music to go from a cult
following to a mass following with
out turning your little cult off."
"I think this band has that because
we have a sound that a lot of people
are going to embrace. It's just a
matter of getting it out there," said
Guy.
One way the BoDeans are doing
this is by appearing on American
Bandstand Oct. 25.
Incidentally, the guys in the band
are not brothers. Sammy got the
band's name from Jethro Bodine of
"The Beverly Hillbillies," and they
decided to also use it as the last part
in their own names.
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