University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 2, 1980
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Sound system changes proposed in field house
BY BENJAMIN JONES Staff Reporter
The question of whether rock groups are allowed to hang their sound systems on the roofs of Field House for future concerts is up in the air, according to Allen Willett, a music director at Field House.
Weerchert said yesterday that facilities planning had not yet accepted an offer for a professor to work on the project, as well as for student affairs submitted, asking that facilities planning, look at what it would mean if the faculty were to accept the offer.
Wiechert said there were several huddles to insuring speakers from the back, and that the primary concern was the additional cost of bolstering the superstructure to be able to keep up.
Rodger Oroke, director of support services, said, "We're talking about a pretty sizable expense. It isn't just a matter of going up there and wrapping some cables around beams. We would have to come in from state regulations and the state fire code."
Oroke said that not only would the field use superstructure have to be built, but each of the three systems the trivial system would have to be set up in a system and light display equipment.
OROKE SAID the University had, in past years, been approached by rock climbers who were unfamiliar with facility out of it (the field house),<sup>11</sup> but that the University had always denied it.
Otke said that when a larger hourbook replaced the previous one, he noted all of the effort ago, the University hired a structural engineer to design a suspension structure.
He said that if the University should decide to test the structure's strength, it would need to go through the state administration and hire a consulting form to do the test.
Ooke said he had doubts of whether it would be feasible to strengthen the structure, considering the few times the
added strength would actually be needed.
He conceded that "the sound system in the field house now isn't all that good, even in terms of its major uses."
Chris Kahler, programmer adviser for Student Union Activities, said Allen Field House had been built before rock concerts came into being. The students who spoke in 1963 after the Sonny and Cher concert that year. Administration officials' concern for students' safety prompted the formation of a University policy against music systems, making the Sonny and Cher concert the last to have such a system.
KAHLER SAID Sony and Cher's speakers weighed much less than those of today's big rock acts, such as Cheap Bride, gave a concert at KU three weeks ago.
Kahler said SIA had requested last fall that the University look into the possibility of suspending sound systems from the field house superstructure.
She said SUA was told that the University would need some time to act on the proposal, but that the University "did not respond negatively."
Kahler said that SUA wanted to provide students with the best concerts possible, and that better rock groups were being allowed to listen to their speakers.
"A lot of groups consider us, and then when they find out that the facility will not support speaker systems hung from their chairs, they suspend negotiations." Kaher said.
HOWEVER, KAHLEI said that she considered the speaker policy a minor problem in attracting groups, compared with the rock industry and the rock industry had been experiencing for the last year. Kahlei said many groups were cutting back on tours because of lack of money and that many schools were having trouble booking
"KU has fared better than most big schools I can think of," she said.
Although the rock music industry has had to tighten its belt during the past year, local record store managers say their business has not slackened.
Album sales defy national trend
BY BENJAMIN JONES Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Steve Wilson, record manager for Kiel's Discount Records & Stereo Supply, said the group had been forced to last spring, but "our figures continued to keep pace or even increase during the past five months."
Wilson said $8.98 was rapidly becoming the standard price list for an album, but that he thought the price rises were justified.
Prices have remained about the same at Exile stores and Tapes, according to a study conducted by which until recently was called Love, deals in used records and tapes, and so it does not follow usual consumer trends. Phillips said. She said business had not dropped off during the pandemic.
BUT WILSON that lawrence was a healthier climate for record stores, and that he did not think other businesses across the country would fare as well.
Wilson said there had been “an awful bill of talk” about the slump, which has the industry spinning its wheels instead of more talking and said “it's nothing that 'been that striking.'"
"I think you'll see 15-20 percent of the distributors disappear this year," he said.
The slump, he said, was worsened by unrealistic predictions for record sales after
the Saturday Night Fever and Gretse
albums together grossed $35 million. He called these two albums, which shattered
album sales records, "finks."
FOR MOST of the 70s, Wilson said, major league baseball was one of the best. But because of a blaster overall economic picture, many groups, such as Wings and Jefferson Starship, are coming back down to the ground.
"Everybody thought there was a lot of easy money flowing from 72 to 79." Wilson said. "I just think people are getting more realistic."
He said that smaller groups, such as those from the British, Iran, and India, were modernizing very quickly, recording many of them were promising artists less in terms of promotion and advances in which to make changes.
Wilson also said he thought some of the smaller record labels would fold before the year was out. He said many of the medium-print labels would be swallowed up by major labels.
Because of this trend toward consolation, he said, new artists would be offered less to join a major label, and would have less musical freedom.
WILSON SAID smaller groups have suffered because major labels pay too much money for promoting and contracting the "super groups." He said the expenditures are "too great" from the moral and artistic viewpoint, they spend too much time pampering them
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"When there is a bidding war that allows Paul McCartney to get $20 million to do three albums, that's a absurd." he said.
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People wandering away from Art in the Park in South Park Sunday afternoon will have an opportunity to learn about the old buildings that trace the history of
Citizens for a Better Downtown will lead a walking tour of downtown beginning at 3:30 at the county courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts street.
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