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STILL SUCCESSCrowd FindsSong ShowRealBy JACK SHERIDANAvalanchc-Journal Staff |The Lubbock Municipal Audi-j torium was jam-packed to itsj 3,000 - person capacity F r i d a y night with a solid Texas Tech student audience all primed at8 p.m. for the first appearance of the urban” folk-duo, Simon and Grafunkel, first attraction offered by t h e Special Events Committee on the Student Union on its 1966-67 slate.At 8:55 p.m. the audience, minus a few defectors into the night, still was waiting the arrival of the tardy New Yorkers who, according to their explanation when the curtain finally parted to reveal them moments later, had been asleep at theother end of town since 4 p.m. following a late recording session in New York the night before.The two makes up a relatively new act in show business and iftheir regard for a paid audience and the following of their fans is so slightly taken, it is safe to assume that their career, however unique and unusual or even talented, wall be a brief one. Stars, true stars, have perform* ied under much heavier odds on 'the Lubbock Municipal Auditor* jium stage -and on time, i The lateness of their beginning ! restricts the critical comment. The material they offer essenti-■ ally is a kind of free verse com* jmentary of modern times set to uitar accompaniment. Their in-| between song comments are bas-;ed mainly on the suggestion ofthe functional and arc timc-hon-Ijorod and somewhat, embarrassing in today's sophisticated ap-v proa eh to humor,Of the half dozen or so nunv v!bers comprising the first half of the program two were excellently. ly written and sung, the home-coming song of the one-night-I ** - ; ^ ' O •,rbstander, and the Most Peculiar Man. relating ihe observations following an unknown's suicide.It must be reported that the i audience is due the award of thePjyear for sheer patience and un-j swerving devotion to the recording performers.*'j The performers owe a vote of *jthanks to the audience for the * I privilege of being allowed 10. | preview the album now in the•'i works.5t jviIid
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Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Sat, Oct 01, 1966
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