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8The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, Cy JO FLDSCIIZn . Assistant University Editor - , , ft began as an idea born out of a conscientious sense of civic respon sibility a way to serve the more unfortunate members of the com munity. And a way to have a bit of fun.. , . ' Early Sunday, afternoon. Billy - Warden brought together four area bands 'and their .friends for the first basketball, Sweatfest. The bands spent the afternoon playing basket '7? .' ,.n, ' ' "r i tf '. s" ' it 'Z'''? ' f ' ' XttCztrtlnflUhdtWzfQt heaving-his .trdu$8re:onto tha.dsnco floor. April 16, 1987 m V ball for the coveted Roc' Rollin' King of Hoops Crown and for the right to play the last set at a benefit show that night at the. Cat's Cradle for UNC's Handtcappr4 Student Fund. V '.-It seemed a trifle incongruous: , rock 'n rollers sweating in the hot sun. But in Chapel Hill, hoop lever t i meets even the most ajooi rockers. ; At the invitation of Billy Warden and the Floating Children, The Bad Checks, UV Prom and. Light in ' - A' '-hip'. 4 ' U -. p '? ? )-? -v4t' f V'A Y '7 SI, J ',. .. 1 August competed for the title of Rock V Rollin' King of Hoops at the Chi Psi fraternity house. The , bands, along with about 40 support ' ters. milled around before the 1:30 ' p. m, tip-off With the familiarity of -, employees of the same firm getting. together for an annual .company - picnic, they talked about local bands, basketball and the previous night's exploits. - ' - Warden had managed, to bring the group together by hook and by crook w 4 Mm for the benefit. They looked like any other group getting together' on a warm spring day, except for the obligatory trappings of rock V roll: long hair, pale late-night skin, dark sunglasses and the, bleary-eyed expressions of people not used to seeing the low side jof noon on a weekend, ' The Bad Checks and UV Prom;' stood with the referee on the concrete half-court, which' had , been newly spray-painted with an electricgreen three-point line, waiting for the first . of three contests to begin: Meanwhile ' Warden. , mustering up-, all of his organizational skills, searched Chi Psi's trash dumpster looking for a suitable trophy for,the,Rock 'n' Roll. Final Four, .winner. .After "re discarding a damaged oscillating fan, he, emerged with a suitable trophy Hi issf a Budweiser longneck bottle topped off .with a torn kaleidoscope cylinder and ornamented with a red. white and blue basketball net. Joe Wolf, of Tar Heel basketball fame, arrived at Warden's invitation to serve as the official ref. The game plan Wolf presided over was simple. Three men on a team . substitutions .allowed with the game ending . when the first team racked up 30 ' points. All other rules were deter mined, by the referee, the crowd's reaction and the "rules committee,'' a panel composed of only one member - Andrew McMillan of the local band Snatches of Pink. Someone asked if participants were required to take drug tests as athletes do in NCAA championship play. "Yeah," someone yelled, MBut, they have to fail 'em to play." , UV Prom drummer "Gordon? A- ' y "Z' ' t K ft "' - ' - ' - , V - K 0' ' . ',"' tr y- - sy j The first game pitted the Bad - Checks (skins) against . UV Prom shirts). The Checks were helped out ;immensely by-, their last-minute ; recruit, . big man Billy Johnson, a former UNC fullback who used his '.advantage in, height and bulk to, .intimidate opponents when he i grabbed defensive rebounds and -'drove his "huge frame toward, the '..'basket, ' . , , ' But Johnson's' efforts were mit- igated by UV Prom's ace-in-the-hole, 'jJoe Romweber, who stayed around he perimeter and put up uncontested -'Ihree-pointersV UV Prom, took the' iontest by three points while , the " bleacher section cheered them on. i Throughout the action, the referee ;fhiade only sporadic calls of "Hack! Me hacked 'em. to denote fouls ivhich were punished, , not by, foul shots, but by an automatic turnover. sSssps while his band wins thtoumeyv vt , ;vru AXIF; .V Dad Check recruit Billy Johnson guards Frank Heath of UV Prom Wolf seemed so amused by the amateur competition that he didn't have the heart to make the few rules ' really stick. mm r4 V ' 7 Then the Floating Children took, the court against Light in August for -the day's most contrpversial contest. Halfway into the five-minute game, ' shauts ' of "Ringer, they've got a ringer," erupted from the, crowd. Light in August recruit John Paul "the Pope" Zahner exhibited an inordinate , amount of basketball ability by pouring in more than half of the band's points. . , McMillan, carrying -out his first duty as the rules committee, bounded across the court ordering "the Pope" out of the game. But Warden, who was having fun delighting the crowd with Chapel Hill Globetrotter, antics told the committee that an ejection was unnecessary. Light in August, the winner of that . game went on to meet UV Prom in the close championship contest, which was unmarred by controversy. Joe Romweber was named Most Valuable Player and accepted the coveted Bud trophy and the right to headline that night's show. The U V Prom band members, who found out they would be playing Sunday's benefit by reading the Sweatiest announcements in local ' newspapers, got their revenge b winning the contest outright, 30-27. Warden had included the partici pants in press releases without consulting anyone in UV Prom, Most people staved and watched a - consolation game between - the V. I ' " X'' -if , 'jj'i'i'i'l'i I ulii il.i jlu 1 1' i i'I i I i Ti i yiall(firt'iV;riVi"l' iri I 1 1 'i i ii Hi l ' , The Daily y.,w..,B,.l.,w,,i II Mm,mmmmmm . V-ttf : 1 1 ..,,,,.,.,.,,..I11.. r.. . Hunter Landon sings up close losing teams, which the Floating Children also lost? Then they watched a pick-up game between a loosely assembled rock 'n'roll all-star team against a Chi Psi pick-up-crew. But ' no . Dne kept score in either' contest. Light in August members headed back to Raleigh, saying they would miss thai night's show, . After-going home to wait out the early evening rain, the .Floating Children set up a stage composed of their own equipment and the Checks amplifiers and P. A. system.'. Warden kicked off his band's show by summing up the day's events. "We're here tonight to forget all the conflicts which have arisen. Well erase the memory of all those bad calls with the power of the rock "n' roll sensation." The band played an energetic hour-long set, highlighted by Warden smashing, a borrowed acoustic four string guitar onstage. But Warden seemed to forget his proclaimed purpose of the concert when he performed a new song called "Once Retarded" in the stle of Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond. The Bad Checks were more suc cessful in getting the crowd to dance. Tar Heel Thursday, April 16. 19879 during the Bad Checks set but less successful in getting them to f laugh; The highlight of theirset, aside . from an excellent rendition of wLoo kee There,; She's Somethin' Else came later, when the band was joined on guitar by the day's MVP (Rom-, weber) and UV Prom's drummer. .The two UV. Prom members ' played together with the four Checks ' because the rest of the U V's could nt s make the show they won the right to headline Together the players ' performed their own songs-and -covers, including an extended version ; of Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll." . The Floating Children plan to play another benefit., this time for the South African Scholarship Fund, with the Pressure Boys and the Smokin Phones this weekend. The, Cat's Cradle is also planning ati afternoon benefit for Nicaragua featuring five area bands. And local groups are . already talking about makine Sweatfest an annual event. Photos by Tony Deif ell
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