yt J. By JEANNIE REYNOLDS These Executives don't wear suits and they don't worry much about corporate finance, but they do mean business. Tony Sharpe, Henry Hutton, Steve Worrell and Rudy Mul lins, all students at UNC or N.C. State, got to gether this past summer to form the rock band The Executives; and they have been busy ever since. "We always play for a full crowd," said Hutton, a junior materials engineer major at NCSU who handles bass guitar and vocals. "We play late nights a lot, 11-12:00 to 5:00. It's rough on us but we love it. We get along with the frats real well." The band has been together since last July. It has played at a number of fraternities and dorms at UNC and NCSU, as well as PC. Goodtimes in Raleigh and Great Hall on the UNC campus. Their first public performance was Tony Sharpe's birthday party. "I threw myself a birthday party and de cided that instead of playing tapes that we would play," said Sharpe, a junior RTVMP major at UNC, who takes care of rhythm gui tar and vocals for the band. "We started getting paid in August. Before that, everytime we'd play it was 'the last time we're going to play free," he said. They started out, said Sharpe, with rented amplifiers and a guitar and bass that cost thirty dollars apiece. Both Hutton and Sharpe said that Mullins and Worrell are the ladies' men of the group. "Some girl asked Steve for his drumsticks not long ago," Sharpe said. "But usually Rudy gets all the girls. He's quiet and they like that." Worrell, a junior accounting major at UNC, plays drums and sings for the group. Mullins, an electrical engineering major at NCSU, plays lead guitar. In spite of the female fans, Hutton said that they do not do many slow, romantic songs. He called what they play dancible rock, fun music. "We rock and roll the whole time," Sharpe said. "The audience keeps us going. Ifs a joint effort. We're not like most rock and roll bands. "Most bands try to be really cool. But a band is only as good as its fans, and we get a lot of people who come back every time to have fun with us." Hutton said that they liked to get personal with the crowd, to stop for breaks and talk with people. They also believe in keeping on good terms with the people who hire them to play. They manage themselves, because they pre fer being a hassle-free band. "We don't give people we play for a hassle and they don't give us a hassle," Sharpe said. "If we had a manager, he'd want us to play at the beach one night the mountains the next We can't travel like that. But we've never got ten a raw deal anywhere that we've played." Part of their secret to success is keeping a clear head while they are performing. "We don't drink before (playing) and not much during," Hutton said. "Only then ifs just to clear our throats and most of the time we drink water anyway." Sharpe stressed that none of the band members uses drugs or drink very much. He said that they were just an ail-American; clean-cut band. MERRY GO ROUND South Square Mall 493-9984 NOW IN STOCK! Many Mini skirts, supple spandex skins and sexy shorts! Mens pleated and cuffed GQ shorts. Luscious long and short dresses! Summer shirts for guys and gals. Ask for Crazy Chip or Kinky Jane and get $3 OFF! 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Sharpe said that the band was a great out let for his poetry and songs. Sharpe and Hut ton write songs together, while Mullins and Worrell make up the real musical talent of the group. "We (Sharpe and Hutton) write all of the amethyst . . . coral ... jade ... rose quartz ... blue lace ... pearls ... gold ... beads fashioned in our own shop from 35. BAUM JEWELRY CRAFTSMEN 106 W. FRANKLIN 9:30-5:30 929-0286 FOREIGN Saint Lucia Health Sciences University St. Lucia, West Indies 36 month accredited program leading to M.D. degree English language W.H.O. listed For more info write 1501 Sun Bowl Drive El Paso, TX 79902 (915)532-5848 original stuff," Sharpe said. "Henry writes the slow, love ballads and we write the rock and roll songs together." The big challenge, he said, is putting the original songs in front of an audience for the first time. "You find out what ifs really worth. It's like putting out your painting or your book," Sharpe said. "Ifs really scary to do your own stuff. "At first everyone sits there. Then their heads move, then feet, and if they like it they smile, you smile and everyone gets off. If they don't like it you are scared the whole time you are doing it, nobody claps and you goon to the next song really quick." They said that a lot of their songs reflected their own experiences, and that they write about life, in general. "Mostly girl stuff," Sharpe said. "Like Love is Just a Came, that I wrote during Christmas when I was between girls." (See executives on page 9.) mmmmr JJTI 2? 1 I THE CAROLINA THEATRE DOWNTOWN DUMfln fco&H939 CKE CF THE YEJUTS 10 IESTT I.Y.TJ&IS in i, m i J ii. in .. i i DAILY 7:10 9:10 Sunday ft Wtdnttday Mstinttt 1:23, 3:20, 5:15 Discount MatiitMS Wtdntsttay Spotlight, March 25, 1982

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