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Jennings and country rockers did it right for Omaha
By Dill Graf
Red-hot country rock and memories from the past
supplied by Waylon Jennings and a host of other musi
cians at Omaha's Civic Auditorium made Saturday night's
show a country rock cooker.
The bill included Jennings and the Waylon, Hank
Williams Jr. and Buddy Holly's original Crickets.
Hank Williams' band kicked off the show with a tune
that exemplified the entire evening: Charlie Daniel's "The
South Is Gonna Do It Again."
Williams then joined his band to do a rockin' rendition
of his father's "Jambalaya."
Williams' act was tight and full of energy, but for the
entire 45-minute set. with exception of a few borrowed
rockers, his music seldom strayed from the subject of his
father, Hank Williams the late 40's country legend.
ALTHOUGH HANK Williams Jr. will never be as hot as
his father was, it would be better for him to do tunes
about something other than "the old Williams tradition."
Williams' last tune brought the crowd to it's feet. He
returned and did "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound," a tune
on his new album scheduled for release next month.
The Waylors without Waylon played the next set. Even
without Waylon, they had no trouble keeping the energy
level high.
With Ralph Mooney playing a screaming steel guitar,
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Carter Robertson belting out the vocals, Randy Wilson
singing and picking lead guitar, Jerry Bridges sinking and
playing bass, Barney Robertson singing and playing key
boards and Richie Albright playing on drums, Waylon
may have one of his best backup bands yet.
THE NEXT BAND, Buddy Holly's Crickets received
wild approval from the crowd when they opened with
Buddy Holly's "Oh Boy" and "Maybe Baby."
The three-piece band played a number of Holly's
rockers, which seemed especially entertaining to older
members of the crowd who remember the rock'n'roll star
of the early 50s.
Immediately after the Crickets brought the crowd to
its feet in a wild frenzy with a Holly tune recently revived
by Linda Ronstadt, "That'll Be The Day," Waylon, cus
tom Fender Telecaster in hand, made his way to center sta
stage.
Waylon and The Crickets did Buddy Holly's "Well All
Right," they joined by the Waylors, they did two more
Holly tunes "It's So Easy" and "Peggy Sue."
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Photo by Mary Ann Colon
A rowdy Waylon excited concert -goers Saturday night at the Omaha Civic Auditorium.
WAYLON HAD the crowd in the palm of his hand for
the rest of the evening. He got them clapping along with
rockers like Neil Young's "Are You Ready For the
Country?" and quietly held their interest with slower
tunes like "Amanda."
However, as soon as he slammed into "Good Hearted
Woman" all hell broke loose. Many people stormed up to
the stage and those still at their seats stomped their feet to
the beat. Waylon continued this frenzy with his last tune
"Luckenback Texas."
For his encore, Waylon brought Williams with him.
Backed up by the Waylors, Waylon and Hank did a tune
written by Waylon about Williams' father called "Are You
Sure Hank Done It This Way?"
tarter Robertson, the female singer with The Waylors,
was espcially impressive. She not only could sing the
sweet songs that some woman vocalists do, but when the
tune called for it she could sing from her gut, belting out
the lyrics like the best of them.
For all of the country-rock fans who weren't at the
Civic on Saturday night, you missed out.
Author takes dim view of 1970s university students
By Pete Schmitz
. . . Just don't let up or youll be dragged
beneath the wheel -Hermann Hesse
It seems trite to hear about how students today arc
compared to how they were in the 60s.
By now, most of us have been informed that, unlike
the young activists of yesteryear, we are politically apa
thetic, culturally inept, single-mindedly career oriented,
and representative of the distasteful "me" ideology.
This type of rhetoric runs throughout Lansing
Lamont's Campus Shock, which was published last
spring.
OXOXO
Although this author (who is also a prominent journal
ist) exposes many unflattering aspects of our school
generation, his revelations are written in a sympathetic
and lucid style, making the book worthwhile reading for
every student, administrator and teacher on all campuses
across the country.
From 675 Interviews of students, parents and faculty
members connected with 12 prestigous US. universities.
Lament has presented various scenarios explicating the
problems of those involved with these institutions.
THE FOCUS may be on elite schools, but many sta
4ents elsewhere, including those enrolled at UNL, are
probably painfully familiar with the conflicts that plague
those going to Harvard, Cornell, ct the University of
Chicago.
Commenting on the housing situation at most of the
universities he visited, die author states that they, 'like
airlines, preferred to overbook rather than risk having
space unused."
Students who have lived in the television lounges in
the dormitories here will find that remark applicable.
One of the saddest, yet most typical, comments made
in this book, was offered by a male when he talked about
relationships, saying: 'Taking on a girl is like talking on
a fifth subject.
Indeed Lamont describes in chilling terms how aspects
of student life are cynically calculated and quantified.
According to him there is little talk among students
about Marxism, sex, or even the next football game.
Instead, the topic of job opportunities prevails even in the
conversations of the youngest undergraduates.
And as this journalist sees it in his account, it is the
anxiety about getting a good job and accruing wealth and
status that has got students fitting each other and them
selves.
IT IS STATED that the hostility between blacks and
whites has increased this decade as blacks are being
snubbed by fraternities, sororities and other dubs, while
they form their own exclusive organizations and team
sports as a defense against the racism they encounter.
Making matter? worse is the fact that many whites are
resenttui or minorities, thinking that they have more
access to financial aid in this penny -pinched era.
Not only is there a battle between the races, but
Lamont comments that tensions between the sexes have
intensified over the past few years. Women resent the
sexist attitudes of men who feel that their intellectual
terrain is being invaded. And men are stunned that their
wives or girlfriends will not give up their futures in order
to put them through professional or graduate school.
Besides being beset by economic worries and trouble
some relationships, students are also disillusioned by an
education that does not give them a ticket to immediate
job success. And those more concerned with learning,
are frustrated by overcrowded classes, aloof professors
who are more concerned with publishing than teaching
and rushed teaching assistants who have work of their
own to do.
Considering the picture that Lamont presents to us
of what students are up against, it's no wonder that many
form more substantial relationships with psychiatrists and
counselors, then with professors and teachers.
Yes, this author does give us a bleak view of our situa
tion. And sometimes he does not delve deeply enough
into the topics explored in his book. Many may not be
impressed by the lack of sophisticated theorizing in these
pages. Also, the proposals offered in the last chapter are
predictable, and unlikely to change things much in the
long run.
But read Campus Shock anyway; the dilemmas broutt
forth should stimulate students to reassess their values,
priorities, and possibly their futures. Also, there is an
excellent bibliography that will direct motivated readers
to more in -depth books dealing with the paradoxes that
those of us in the 70s have inherited from our older sisters
and brothers of the 60s. -
