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“Dead Man’s Party”
Oingo Boingo
Welcome to UF’s first president A.A. Murphree’s Nightmare. The Southern Baptist preacher warned of the peril of giving in to “low and insidious temptation.” In the ten years between 1971 and 1981, a most perilous night at the University of Florida was Halloween, filled with Sex, Drugs, and Rock N Roll, year after year, attendees ALWAYS HAD A BALL.
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photographs by stan badz
For UF’s Halloween Ball (1981), Alligator editor Robert McClure encouraged his (mostly student) readership to take one last, celebratory bite at the apple that always left a bad taste in Florida’s always White Nationalist Christian Administration. In the beginning (1912), UF’s first president, A.A. Murphree, preached to his new students (400 young, white men), that most important to succeed at the University of Florida was that should join the Y.M.C.A., attend church every Sunday, and “DO NOT GIVE IN TO LOW AND INSIDIOUS TEMPTATION.
LUNA(CY)
A NIGHT OF INSIDIOUS TEMPTATION
— Queen Of The Ball ’81
THE BALL TO END ALL BALLS
GATOR FROM ANOTHER PLANET
— Balls Of Old
YEAR BY YEAR HISTORY OF THE BALL
— Dead Man’s Party
HAVE A BALL (EDITORIAL)
— Frank Zappa ’79
A DIFFERENT STATE OF HALLOWEEN MIND
“Where’s The Party?”
Eddie Money
1981 — Every year, the Halloween Ball, Masquerade, Festival, or whatever it was called, pissed off Tigert Hall. They were always celebrations filled with sex, drugs, and Rock N Roll, and 1981 was no exception.
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“Temptation Eyes”
The Grass Roots
1970 — Every year, the Halloween Ball, Masquerade, Festival, or whatever it was called, pissed off Tigert Hall. They were always celebrations filled with sex, drugs, and Rock N Roll, and 1981 was no exception.
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tom petty (HOMECOMING ’81)
GAINESVILLE’S FAVORITE SON
FATHER KNOWS BEST (MEET EARL, TOM’S DAD)
MUDCRUTCH (1971) THE INTERVIEW
A LITTLE GIRL’S BLUES” (TOM’S LONG DISTANCE LOVER)
YOU GOT LUCKY (TWO TICKETS TO TOM PETTY PARADISE)
southbound
Songs of the North Florida South
ALLMAN BROTHERS (FLORIDA NATIVES)
@ THE BANDSHELL
SEA LEVEL (CHUCK LEAVELL)
THE DIXIE DREGS (SOUTHERN FUSION)
EAGLES w/ JIMMY BUFFETT
FRANK ZAPPA (HALLOWEEN 1979)
PAT BENATAR (@ THE FLORIDA GYM)
TALKING HEADS (POST PUNK AT THE BANDSHELL)
road trips
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (TICKET QUEST)
THE POLICE (ROADTRIP TO TOMMORROW)
DIRE STRAITS (VINNY’S NIGHT IN JACKSONVILLE)
ROLLING STONES (TANGERINE BOWL)
MOVIES (Rocky Horror Picture Show)