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euui ZntefUaiHmoKt September 22, 1994 Elon’s most wanted comedian: Carrot Top Shannon Prater Staff Reporter Carrot Top will make his sec ond appearance at Elon College Sept. 29 in the Koury Center Alumni Gym at 8 p.m. The comedian’s appearance at Elon results from a survey that the Student Union Board sent to 1,000 students in the spring. “We wanted to give students more of what they want,” said Stan Zeigler, stage performer chairman for SUB. “Students asked for bigger names. Because of the expense involved, we’ll have biggershows, just less often,” Zeigler said. Six hundred students returned the survey and Carrot Top was one ofthe most requested acts. Zeigler contacted the comedian’s manager in June and booked him for the September date. Carrot Top, bom Scott Th ompson, first appeared at Elon in the spring of ‘91. Senior Rob Hann said, “That show was great. Carrot Top was hysterical. It’ll be cool to see him in person again.” Carrot Top, whose comedy is a unique blend of homemade in ventions and observational humor, has come a long way since that first visit to Elon. The first evidence of this is his performance price. Barb H. Carlton, directorof Student Activi ties, said, “Last time he cost $ 1,300. This lime he’s costing $10,000.” Of course, last time he had only been on the college circuit for a couple of years. Since then, he has earned national fame as the most booked act ever on the col lege market. Carrot Top’s fame is not lim ited to the college scene, though. He performs in comedy clubs and has made several television ap pearances, including spots on MTV, Showtime and the Tonight Show. His unmistakable humor and packed audiences most recently earned Carrot Top the 1994 Ameri can Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-Up. Last year was also a big year for the red-head, who has homes in both Charlotte, N.C., and Los An- W-''- m Carrot Top geles, Calif. He was voted Na tional Campus Entertainer of the Year, National Campus Comedian of the Year and Comedian of the Year for the American Comedy Awards. His resume is full of kudos for someone who never had serious intentions of entering show busi ness. As Scott Thompson, a mar keting student at Florida Atlantic University in the mid-’80s, he has said he was alwaysjust having fun. When dared to enter a comedy contest in college, the Cocoa Beach, Fla., native apparently found his Press Release Ph calling. He paired his knack for hun with his marketing knowledge; became Carrot Top, the comi whose clothes, which are as bng as his hair, and creative props ke audiences laughing. What's New in Music: CD Review Eric Clapton's got the blues on his new album From the Cradle Chris Adams Staff Reporter Chris’ CaU: **** After the immense sales of his Unplugged album, many Eric Clapton fans may have felt that he had reached the pinnacle of his musical talents with his 1992 effort, a disc which included a remake of the Derek and the Dominos smash hit “Layla.” Although Unplugged was his best selling album to date, Clapton had more than a few tracks left up his sleeve and many of them were released last week when From the Cradle hit the stores. From the Cradle is Clapton’s escape back to his deeply rooted blues background. His 29th album perhaps best captures the musical imagery that may have been lost in some of his mid '80’s recordings such as Behind the Sun and August. While both of these works were solid ones for Clapton, they each drove the artist away from his past greatness in the blues scene. It is in this musical realm that Clapton is the most comfortable. ^ “Blues Before Sunrise” opens the disc with a bullet; a long, hard, trip of a tune with a horde of background vocalists. Personally, my favorite cut on this album is “Bad Love," a smooth, bass-filled song that is a great tune to “come down” to. This track gives the listener several biting lyrics and reminds the audiencejust how legendary Clapton’s status as a blues musician was and still is today. “Motherless Child," the 11th track on the albu offers a new sound to the listener, with various percussio and an up-tempo beat throughout the song. “Drifting meanwhile has a .sound that reminds the listener of closing portion of “Malted Milk” from Unplugged. Fhis but one of many tracks on the disc that will remind ih listener of a song from an earlier Clapton album. With this, his latest work, Clapton has once agai given life to a career that was perhaps slipping after breakup of Cream. He fought his way back to the mus scene as a soloist, made millions of new fans and broug back the longtime believers. EC TV Guide September 22-28 6PM I 6:30 | TPM | 7:30 | 8PM 8:30 9PM 9:30 10PM 10:30 111PM 111:30 Watch Visii m Thing, And Other Student Programming Preiidency & the Constitution OestiDos pts 9 & 10 Moyer's Worid of Ideas The Power Game Civil War pt 5 QvilWar p* 6 French In Action pts 10 & 11 Western Tradition pts 10 & 11 The Implant: Hip Replacement Vision Thing The Astronomers Pacific Century Destinos pts 10 & 11 French In Action pis 10 & 11 The Implant: Knee Replacement Anatomy pt 7 The Africans pt 3 The Long Search LFm Anatomy Review pt 7 Destinos pts 10 & 11 French In Action 10 & 11 The Secret of Life pt 3 Worid of Psych Shoulder to Shoulder
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