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Concert review—-Eric and the Harumby Jim BrennanSpectrum Stall Report**Erie is back Eric’s returned to entertain the troops of his hometown.Opening with Close the Door Lightly When You Go, the young native of Amherst was in fine folk form His soft vibrato voice with its light baritone qualities cracked a hometown smile as hedid “Rollin' Home,In doing this tune of his own writing, he started with a few flat notes but after a few minutes singing was hitting with that familiar smooth, melodic style,Andersen wrote just about all the material he performed. With an excellent poetic vision and feel for content, he approached the theme of physical love and the joyous fantasy of ideal emotional love in Come To My Bedside and Violets of Dawn.His message is conveyed on two levels. The value and sensitivity of his words leave the mind with beautiful imagery and thought. While the harmonic impressions of his guitar voice and harmonica involve the physical senses,Eric's moodsErie’s feeling sad and his harmonica bawls, as felt in Miss Lonely are You Blue; Eric’s lonely and his voice splashes tears on The Dock of the Bay; and Eric’s a happy hillbilly lover and his guitar wailed Hey Babe, Have You Been Cheatin’.During his intra-song chatter, he posed a rhetorical question to the audience on who has more bread—General Electric or the Catholic Church? To which one young lady replied; Yea but who’s got more washing machines!A man of strong opinions, Mr. Andersen is indignant at war’s inequitable loss in For What Was Gained demanding for civil rights in Thirsty Boots, and an imaginative dreamer in A Dream to Rimbaud.With a beautiful bag of songs, Eric is gone again. On the road to a new concert, but before leaving, he echoed a mutual feeling shared with the audience—it was Good To Be With You,Harum enhancementComing on, side two, ’neath an exploding purple liver light showminus dancing girls, came the Procol Harum. First impressions: Whoopee another electric English rock group!But upon further sitting, then lapping, then swaying, you hegan to get into the Harum enhancement. It all started for me with a goodie called Wishing Well. To describe the sound let’s say it was baroque rock. B. J., the Har-um’s drummer, set the pace with a regimental march doing a phenomenal one handed drum roll which his free hand scratched his nose.Hobby Tower, lead guitarist guru, executed some superb rifts with his lightning slides up and down the guitar neck in this number. His guitar work was one of the main features of the Harum. This was due to an abundance of talent on Hobby's part and an overbalance of his amplifier in relation to the rest of the group. Light flandangoI dislike restating old songs and retelling old tales, so we'll skip the light flandango and say the Harum did A Whiter Shade of Pale, and also did their other hit single Old Hombourg.”Getting on to newer numbers, the Harum hit new Highland highs with a Scottish song called Sandy MacGregor. It was Tal-Lman rock with kiltered drums and funky electric bagpipes.Puffing his guitar and biting his lip, Robby Tower again led the pack in a deep sea diver bluesditty. With fast-finger-fretting onhis geetar (sic), he ground out a fine set of blues.To verbalize the musical efforts of the Procol Harum, I’d like to describe Slip Softly My Moonbeams in a choppy phrased style. Open softly, Intensify with a hard industrial beat. Descend the chord scales. Hold in adrone. Baroque in classical dabblings. Buid beat. Guitars trumpet a blast. Conchoidal soundfracture. Pause. Then rip into electronic rock again with pounding ending.This was the Harum scare ’em style. And it left the audience with another top pop night of entertainment. Folk and baroque rock, an interesting combination, something to please everybody physically and not mind the cramped chairs.%;riFestivalOn two levels, Eric Andersen (left) enchanted listen*ers with poetic imagery and harmonic stylings, The lead guitarist for f?/ood, Sweat Tears stands at the right.Concert reviewBloodA mini-skirted mama bounced onto the stage and presented to the audience a three-course meal for the mind. The first course was the pulsating brilliance of Energy Incorporated, a light show troupe From Toronto. The second course was a local group of high flying musicians called The Raven.This group was popular with the audience and it took very little time for the majority of the audience to get into the musical fantasies being presented. The lead singer had a deep crusty voice that perfectly suited the group’s blues style. The lead guitarist was absolutely phenomenal.The versatility of the organist and piano player, who at times played both piano and organ simultaneously, was amazing. He was so caught up in the beautiful music he was playing that heWhile all this was going on the drummer was in a world of his own, beating on the drums with such fury, that it seemed that he had a personal grudge against them.On the far end of the stage was the shifty-looking bass player who laid down a bottom that really permeated one to the marrow of his bones.During the course of this set almost everyone irt the audience became a part of the group up on stage. They just didn’t listen to their musk — they actually experienced it.'A phenomenon'Then came the third course. Blood, Sweat Tears. In their first, college performance anywhere they really walloped the audience with their musical versatility.Coming out of the concert, just about everyone was as emotionally drained as the group must have been. This was undoubtedly the greatest thing to ever happen on this or any other campus in the world, ft was a phenomenon that is hard to put into words..After starting somewhat slowly they really got together and wailed. After a brief pause they came back by popular demand (a standing ovation) and did a 75-minute jam.was taikinP tn ninnn and nr.PLAZA SHOE REPAIRONE STOP SERVICE CENTERShoes Repaired While-U-WaitLaundry DrycleaningONE DAY SERVICEUniversity Plaza
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Buffalo Spectrum
Buffalo, New York, US
Tue, Oct 08, 1968
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