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Music stores prepare for new Garth release By Mike Kluck Staff Reporter T If past sales are any indication, Garth Brooks’ newest album “Fresh Horses” will be sold out by lunchtime. His last compact disc, “The Hits,” sold out at Best Buy, 400 N. 48th St., in just over three hours, said Scott Hoffman, media manager at the store. And Brooks’ second compact disc “Ropin’ the Wind” sold out in Lincoln in under four hours. Because of Brooks’ past success, Lincoln-area record stores have been ordering extra copies of “Fresh Horses” and planning promotions for the start of the sale today. Hoffman said Best Buy closed its doors at 9 Monday night to prepare for the sale of Brooks’ album, along with new releases from the Beatles, Don Henley, Tom Petty and and Bruce Springsteen. Best Buy planned to open from midnight to 1 a.m. this morning for early sales of the albums. Amy Lueth, product manager for Homer’s, 6105 0 St., said she ordered 150 compact discs and 40 cassettes of the new Brooks’ release. Lueth said the normal ordering of a new release was 50 compact discs. Homer’s, which usually opens at 10 a.m., planned to open at 6 this morning for the sale of Brooks’ album. Lueth said because her store has a strong coun try crowd, she hoped to sell 100 “Fresh Brooks searching for new musicians NASHVILLE, Term.—Mu sicians, prepare your resumes. Garth Brooks is looking for two band members who aren’t ob sessed with job security. Brooks, whose new album comes out today and who is booked for a U.S. tour, lost two musicians to solo careers—gui tarist Ty England and the coun try star’sown sister,bassist Betsy Brooks. “The two faces that are prob ably most known to people, Ty and Betsy, are lost,” Brooks sai d. “So it’ll be tough.” Brooks said he told both they could rejoin the band any time. — Associated Press Horses” compact discs today. Advertisements shown during ABC’s “The Beatles Anthology,” Brooks’ performances Monday night on “The Late Show” and on Fox’s Thanksgiving NFL pre-game show, combined with a big shopping day Friday, have Lueth predicting huge sales for the album. ‘Muppet Show’ spirit lives on Elton John, George Burns, Dizzie Gillepsie, the Star Wars cast and Carol Burnett. All celebrities of yesteryear. All performed on different stages. But sometime during the late 1970s, each journeyed to ATV stu dios in Borehamwood, England (near London), to guest star on “The Muppet Show.”The starsconnected the show’s all-puppet cast of the show with its worldwide audience. I suppose having real people in the weekly cast helped bridge the expanse between that magical pup pet world and mine, but I remember thinking the Muppets were doing those big-named entertainers a fa vor by booking them on the show. And Miss Piggy, in my estima tion, was too taken with the stars. They were, after all, ordinary people ... nothing like the extraordinary puppet cast surrounding her. Of course, as a youngster tuning in from the Great Plains of America, I was quite unaware of the techni calities of puppetry or television production. I knew that Kermit was green, and propelled and squashed eas'' . That I could see. e monsters were the fuzziest of the beastly cast. To a chi Id, fuzzy was good. But there were many things I didn’t know about the show. As a 5 year old immersed in the energy and lunacy of the Muppets, I had no idea who Jim Henson was. And I did not realize how much I Kelly Johnson knew of him. The Muppets pro jected and amplified his spirit. And until recently, when I heard mention of Frank Oz, I thought people were referring to the Wiz ard. I supposed people close to him called him Frank. Now I know that Frank Oz, indeed a wizard, was Henson’s creative sidekick. When the Swedish Chef ap peared on the show, he tossed chick ens with human hands. One hand was Henson’s and the other, Oz’s. They coordinated the puppet’s movements together, which makes the idea ofjugglingmeat cleavers a bit more impressive. I didn’t know that the environ ment I saw on the screen was a set constructed on stilts. So, there were no trapdoors or tunnels for the hu mans under the puppets, as I’d imag ined. I did know the Muppets. They were uncannily familiar. The sense I had about those gonzo, googly eyed puppets was that they were much like myself. They were like me because we weren’t adults. They were fabric covered humans, animals and mon sters with spunk and zeal. And I was a kid with a curiosity about their peculiarities. The Muppets helped me recog nize who I was. They combined a tinge of the absurd with emotions, warmth and compassion. Kermit was small, 1 ike I was, but he ran the show. Also, he was green, and that was cool. Fozzie Bear’s insecurities and general lack of comedic talent were offset by his stick-to-it-iveness. In spiration for a small child. I imagined Sam the Eagle would be president of the Muppet uni verse, if one were ever elected. He reminded me of certain adults I knew, serious and removed from the wonders of childhood. Now that I’m a bigger kid, I know that the Muppets were more than they appeared to be. They were the merging of the humans who gave them life and my attentive imagination. Things have changed. The show ended. Henson died. And as I age, the danger of becoming stiffly seri ous — like Sam the Eagle — in creases. But the Muppets created a one ness amongall who understood their entertainment as children. Through this, Henson’s vision perseveres. And the show goes on, in this spirit. Look into our store for tke unusual! ^ ^ ^ ^ -Candles -Jewelry ^ /M-i TQTf/^ ^ -Incense -AdultGifts i Wg |J\_ ^ J T'Shirfs -PewterCastles/Wizards Enamors sr SL- sncM.TYam -* * _ 201 Capital Beack Blvd. (on West "O" St.) _ 438-3344 A ” £%? 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