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SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1989" -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- B-5 Clean, sober, Stevie Ray Vaughan now more 'In Step' iti i uiinnru with his music Didn't do anything to cause rampage, 'Dallas' star says Indiana man reportedly upset by ouster from popcorn firm By JILL WARREN STAR STAFF WRITER Stevie Ray Vaughan's eyes often are tightly shut when he plays his guitar, but years ago. his band members learned to watch him closely. They had to. They never knew what would happen when Vaughan's creative spirit would mix with the alcohol and drugs that coursed through his system. "I'd literally take off.

and no one would know where I'd go." recalled Vaughan, who has reportedly been clean and sober lor nearly two years. "Today," he added with a laugh, "I try to play the same song as everybody else." Vaughan and his band. Double Trouble, never have sounded more in sync than they do on the group's new album, In Step (Epic). An incredible mix of raw emotions and technical fireworks, it marked the end of a four-year hiatus from the recording studip. While eager to set down a scries of new songs, several of which reflect his triumph over drugs and alcohol, Vaughan admitted he was "kind of nervous" to start recording.

"It's the first sober record I've ever made," said Vaughan, who will appear In concert tonight at Deer Creek Music Center. "There's different things to do when you work sober." Things like performing knockout versions of most tunes on the first try. Vaughan's concentration was such that, when recording the beautiful album-closing instrumental Riviera Paradise, he had no idea the take was almost destroyed by a tech- MUSIC PREVIEW Band Stevie Ray Vaughan Opening bands Stray Cats, Duke Tuma- toe and the Power Trio Where Deer Creek Music Center Price $25 per carload When 7 p.m. today Tickets Deer Creek box office and all TicketMaster locations nicality: just eight seconds after the song ended, the reel of tape ran out. The album's lead track, the wild The House is Rockin', also grabs you by the ear, albeit it for a different reason.

But it's Crossfire, the record's first single release, that Is bringing Vaughan an unexpected bonus: Not only is that tune climbing the charts, but it's helping to attract a record number of sales. In Step already has passed the 300,000 mark and shows signs of becoming his best-selling album. The significance of this is not lost on Vaughan, who gratefully credits his rehabilitation and support of friends for his growing success. "It's not all my doing that I'm sober. It's a miracle, really.

"I figure I'm on borrowed time. My best thinking got me to collapse (during a European tour) and have a breakdown. It was the only way I could figure out to handle this thing." Vaughan wasn't the only member of the entourage who sought treatment. "There are five of us in recovery," he said, noting the close, supportive relationship between band and crew helped make the transition bearable. "I'm really grateful that we've got that." vH i Itf" ASSOCIATED PRESS Culver City, Calif.

Dallas co-star Ken Kercheval says he isn't the ruthless oil baron he portrays on the television series and did nothing to inspire an Indiana man's rampage at the filming studio Tuesday, i- "I'm no more that character than a fly," Kercheval said of Dallas oil baron Cliff Barnes. "I can't help it If Cliff Barnes has the same voice that I do or might have some of the same physical gestures that I do. I assure you, Cliff Barnes did not deal with a popcorn company and its trials and tribulations," Kercheval said in an interview published in Friday's editions of the Los Angeles Times. Edward P. Phillips of Cory-don.

whom Kercheval helped oust from the board of directors of the Old Capitol Popcorn crashed a rented pickup truck through the studio gates, set the truck ablaze, shot up the sound stage where Dallas is filmed, then killed himself with a shotgun blast to the chest. Police say Phillips, 43, may have plotted to kidnap the actor, who was born in Wolcottville, and grew up in Clinton, Ind. Phillips left behind an envelope with a birthday card addressed to "Mr. Mucky Mucks Kercheval," police Sgt. Hank Da-vies said Thursday.

"Yes, the sick policies taught us on Dallas do work. But there are repercussions." it read in part. "You are truly mentally the sickest human being alive." Davies said police also found a makeshift straitjacket and plastic handcuffs near the truck. "We found a yellow shirt, the sleeves of which were bound together with duct tape sort of like a straitjacket: a piece of rope tied to a black canvas belt, a few plastic flexi-ties and a wooden ax handle," Davies said. "Maybe he was planning on taking a hostage." But Kercheval said he doubted Phillips would have carried out any kidnapping.

Montoya's performance rich, While he does not want to be regarded as preaching the gospel of clean living, Vaughan said that dealing with his addiction in music was an important part of the healing process. A few of those songs were written with longtime collaborator Doyle Bramhall. "We're both recovered." Vaughan said. "We'd sit and talk and suddenly realize something, and we'd write it down." Those brainstorming sessions, and others, resulted in Crossfire, Tightrope and Wall of Denial, all of which cast a cold eye at his past problems. "There's a lot of what's in the songs I've gone through and, at any moment, could go through again.

Some of those lyrics were written when I just realized some things. Now I'm learning them." Also featured on In Step are fire-brewed blues covers like Willie Dixon 's Let Me Love You Baby and Buddy Guy's Leave My Girl Alone. Throughout, Vaughan's guitar work is fresh and inventive. There are several moments where even the most jaded guitar enthusiast will be pleasantly shocked. They might be also be stunned to discover that Vaughan was equally surprised by the sounds he pulled from his guitar.

"That's what I play for. That's the greatest high for me now. "It what kept me playing for a long time at those times when I was really down. It's those moments where you don't have to think, you don't have to do anything, and it just works. for which Montoya himself set the standard in turning the flamenco tradition of song, dance and guitar-playing into a solo outlet for the guitar.

But these inevitable losses paled beside the expressive richness and nuanced tone and rhythm that pervaded his performance. The origins of flamenco among the gypsies of Andalusia are obscure. Both the word "flamenco" and the musical tributaries that feed the music's John Candy Harry Of mi wms WHO'S HARRY CRUMB? John Candy is bigger, better and more bumbling than ever as America's premiere defective detective in this hilarious comedy. Available for rental or sale. Sugg.

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today Tickets At the box office, (317) 898- 9722 to communicate with audiences was enhanced by her charming explanations of the pieces the guitarist had chosen to play. The years have taken some of the gloss off the technical brilliance 0 PRE-0RDER "Bambi" "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" TODAY A $10 deposit (ea.) reserves your copy of this season's hottest titles. Pre-order customers receive special discounts offers! See your store for details. FILE PHOTO Ken Kercheval may have been kidnapping target. He also denied charges that he stole Phillips' popcorn business, saying the former Indiana businessman's mismanagement brought about his loss of the company.

The actor said he paid nearly $1 million in 1985 for a third of the company then owned by Phillips and Phillips' wife, Linda. Kercheval later agreed to pay the couple $309,000 for the remaining two-thirds. At the time he took over the company, debts were in excess of $2 million, Kercheval said. The firm now is virtually debt-free and earning a profit, he said, declining to disclose revenues or earnings. The birthday card to Kercheval also said: "We all suffer from your deviant greed and behavior on April 15, 1988." That apparently refers to the day when Kercheval and Linda Phillips ousted Phillips from the board of directors.

Linda Phillips filed for divorce a short time later, and Phillips fell into a deepening depression, acquaintances have said. "He cried for help in a million different ways." Kercheval said. "His erratic actions were cries for help." been described as among the most flagrant examples of the abuses that have afflicted the vocational school industry in recent years providing poor instruction and leaving students uneducated and in debt. In Indiana. Adelphi operated one school in Gary.

It closed in July 1987, leaving about 90 students without teachers or classes. Attempts to hire another school to complete the training did not work out, said Phillip H. Roush, commissioner for proprietary education in Indiana. The school has a $25,000 bond filed with the Indiana Commission on Proprietary Education. The amount due Indiana students is several hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Roush said. Because there is little chance of recouping that amount, the commission may have to divide the $25,000 bond among the students. community correction facility at his own expense and 17 months probation. Kumar and Syed were indicted in December on 18 counts of mail fraud after forming a Chicago-area shell corporation to contract with Delco for computer software development. Kumar was in charge of sending out company contracts with software vendors and worked with Syed shipping contracts to ATE Consultants the shell corporation in Melrose Park.

111. ATE Consultants billed Delco for development work that was. sub-contracted to another vendor for a lower price. Kumar and Syed then divided the remaining contract moiiey paid by Llco to ATE. according to authorities.

Stevie Ray Vaughan "Sometimes, I'll look down and I don't know how to play what I'm playing," he added. "To not lose it then is the hard part." Vaughan laughed heartily when told his clenched-eyed stage appearance relays an image of unflappable concentration. "Oh, no," he chuckled. "Believe me, sometimes I'm just along for the ride." spirited mainstream are the subject of scholarly disagreement and conjecture. What stands out is the elevation of one part of this tradition to a world scale by Montoya, who has embodied the treasury of flamenco as a solo concert artist since shortly after World War II.

Largely improvised in nature, flamenco demands of the performer a familiarity with countless melodies and rhythms from which inventiveness may take off. As filtered through a single instrumentalist, the tradition is missing only the characteristic singing in the genre. And to a degree. Montoya supplies that as well in his inspired snatches of melody. Mainly he offers a blend of guitar and simulated dancing, the latter accomplished through finger taps on the guitar body near the bridge.

This mimicked well some of the complexity of the Zapateao and other traditional dances. He departed rarely from the Andalusian roots of flamenco, a notable exception being the Jota of Aragon, with its heavy first beat relieved in this performance by a reflective middle section supplied by the guitarist. Even further afield was an instructive look at the effect on Iberian music of Spanish colonization of the New World. This was a piece in the Guajiras rhythm from Cuba, in which a somewhat languid melody and syncopation characterized a melody in the bass. Closer to home, Montoya lent his special insights to some of the brooding aspects of the flamenco tradition, such as the Tarantas.

with its fascinating range of tone colors, and the Seguiriya. with Its nearly obsessive dwelling on short melodic figures giving vent to a propulsive, flashy ending. Perhaps the most cinematic of the 17 pieces Montoya played was Sacta. which depicts the traditional Holy Week procession in Seville, complete with military band and the climactic focus on the devout, emotional outburst of a solo singer. But even when no narrative or descriptive line could be attached to the music, it remained vivid and provocative to the willing imagination.

Among the outstanding examples were a Mala-guena and a Pctenera. with their juxtapositions of soulfulness and reckless fury. This is understandably billed as Montoya's farewell American tour, and the sight of his arms slowly raised in a firm salute to his applauding audience was a gesture compounded of joy and solemnity in equal proportions. To place your result-producing Classified ad, call 633-1212 By JAY HARVEY STAR STAFF WRITER All the frailty of age seems to vanish from Carlos Montoya once he is seated with his guitar before an audience. In the first of two performances at the Warren Performing Arts Center, the 85-year-old flamenco guitarist demonstrated Friday night the youthful spirit that the music sustains in him.

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52, failed to pay as much as $4 million that should have been returned to students. Terranova operated 20 schools in Indiana. California, Illinois, Michigan, New York and Arizona, where he has been living in an exclusive Phoenix suburb. He declared bankruptcy in 1987, shortly after a civil racketeering case was filed against him on behalf of several New York students who claim he defrauded them. That case is still pending.

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