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Leaving the James Taylor concert last Wednesday night, I
couldn't help feeling that perhaps the near sell-out crowd at
Pershing Municipal Auditorium hadn't gotten a full evening of
entertainment.
It wasn't that the concert was that bad, it just wasn't that
good.
PERHAPS TAYLOR was beginning to tire of touring. Or
perhaps his voice was giving him some problems. He didn't seem
to excite the crpwd, except on one or two occasions.
Some friends said that I shouldn't expect an exciting "loud"
concert from Taylor it's not his style of music. Agreed.
But, that's really no excuse. I've been to "quiet" concerts
before where the performing artist excited the audience with this
same "quiet" material. Taylor didn't.
HE LIFTED THE audience halfway, but left them stranded in
limbo-neither taking them higher or letting them down.
Frequent tuning by Taylor and his back-up men didn't turn
me off. In factj was happy to see Taylor making an effort to give as
good a performance as possible. But I still had that feeling of
"ho-hum" mouth at the end of the show.
Opening the first set with "Sweet Baby James," Taylor then
moved on to Carol King's "Up on the Roof."
"GREENSLEEVES," "Fire and Rain," "Machine Gun Kelly"
and "Carolina In My Mind" were enjoyable. But 45 minutes into
the set, Taylor sat back, rolled up his sleeves and dug into a
bitching' blues number "Steamroller." It was definitely the best
song of the set, with the audience responding accordingly.
Overall the second set was better than the first with Taylor
doing several less-popular songs, "Soldiers," "One Man Parade"
and "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" along with the popular
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "Country Road., and
"You've Got a Friend."
But the two standouts in this set seems to be a strange little
song called "The Chili Dog Song" and "Knocking' Around the
Zoo " in which Taylor established more rapport with the
audience.
TAYLOR WAS GIVEN a standing ovation at the end of the
concert, but I wonder if this hasn't simply become an
unconscious standard response to every concert that comes to
town.
The Taylor concert was not a bad show. Taylor is not a bad
performer. I found myself enjoying the show BUT not enough.
Some quickie things to remember.
BLACK SABBATH, John Mayall, and Sweat Hog will be at
Pershing Auditorium Tuesday, at 8 p.m. Tickets are still available.
Lincoln Community Concerts is bringing in The Ramsey Lewis
Trio to Pershing Auditorium Wednesday. Season tickets (only
$5.15 for five great concerts) will still be on sale at the door.
At 10 a.m. Monday, poet Diane Wakoski will be in the English
department coffee lounge for an informal poetry
workshopdiscussion. She will present a public reading of her
poetry in the Nebraska Union small auditorium at 3:30 p.m.
Monday afternoon.
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