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The Daily Tar HeelMonday, November 17, 19863
R.E.M.
R.E.M.'s concert at Duke Satur
day night in front of a sold-out crowd
of 5,300 disproved Rolling Stone's
suggestion that the band is becoming
unmotivated. Lead singer Michael
Stipe was out of control the entire
night, as his band, along with
longtime friend Mitch Easter's band,
celebrated a birthday and a return
to the South.
Easter and his band Let's Active
were warmly received when they
opened the show. The group played
numerous songs off Big Plans for
Everybody including "Talking to
Myself and "Writing the Book of
Last Pages." Towards the end of the
set, R.E.M.ers Peter Buck, with his
guitar, and Mike Mills, with a
tambourine, came on to play a
couple of songs. Let's Active, Buck
and Mills returned to play an encore,
but the crowd was disappointed they
did not appear for a second.
The Let's Active set was good, but
the shows at Cat's Cradle in early
October were more personal and
enjoyable.
When the black curtains were
pulled and R.E.M. appeared on
Travis takes magic back home
"It's great to be back!"
With those five words, Country
Music Association (CMA) Horizon
Award winner Randy Travis took
the stage in Charlotte Saturday for
the first time in five years.
Family, friends and fans packed
a sold-out Charlotte Coliseum, on
what Mayor Harvey Gantt officially
proclaimed to be "Randy Travis
Day," to hear their hometown hero
work his "traditional country"
magic. Even though he wasn't the
headline act, he was treated like it.
A Marshville native, Travis
returned to Charlotte as part of a
three-act concert including Kathy
Matea and George Jones.
Travis is the greatest new star in
a movement toward Nashville's
"back-to-basics" country music that
includes performers like George
Strait, Ricky Skaggs and Reba
McEntire.
While Travis had support from ?He
crowd the entire evening, his inex
perience on stage was apparent. This
is the first big tour for Travis, who
might have been nervous about
performing alongside Jones, one of
his heroes. Travis has spent his
previous touring time in small
honky-tonks and bars. Although his
Campus Calendar
Monday
10 a.m. N.C. Memorial Hospital
voluteers, AED, and APO
are sponsoring a bloodmo
bile in the Union until 3
p.m.
1 p.m. The Health Sciences
Library is offering BRS
Saunders Colleague Intro
ductory Training in a two
hour session to introduce
students to a menu-driven
system that allows students
to search national data
bases and use Medical
Subject Headlines. Pre
registration required.
3:30 p.m. Career Planning and
Placement Services will
have a program on inter
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stage and cranked into "These
Days," everyone knew the show
would be hot. Stipe, dressed in all
black garb, staggered all over the
stage clutching his microphone.
The band played most of the songs
on Life's Rich Pageant and tossed
in a healthy dose of songs from
Fables of the Reconstruction and
Reckoning.
Stipe was really revved for the
show. He stumbled about the stage,
shadow boxed and even got a little
patriotic. At the end of "Little
America," Stipe shouted out "One
nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for all."
Without a doubt, though, the best
song of the night was not even sung
by Stipe. When bass guitarist Mills
moved to the center of the stage,
everyone knew it was time for
"Superman." The crowd gladly
joined in to provide backing vocals.
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stage presence left something to be
desired, Travis's selection of songs
didn't disappoint anyone.
His debut album, Storms of Life,
is full of songs written for singing
in small places, the kind of spots
where Travis says he truly loves to
perform. His control of the crowd
was 100 percent better when he
played at Plato's Crash Landing in
Greensboro this summer. Involving
over 10,000 concert-goers in an act
is much more difficult than involving
150 fans, the size of crowd Travis
is used to. But, if he continues to
tour with big name performers like
Jones, his work should improve in
no time at all.
He did have the crowd completely
wrapped in his puiormance when he
sang his hit single, "On the Other
Hand," which was voted Song of the
Year by the CMA. Every female in
the house screamed during most of
the song, and Travis's boyish appear
ance and ever-present grin brought
only more approval.
210 Hanes.
4 p.m. The Women's Lacrosse
Club will practice at Finley
Field. All welcome.
5 p.m. Granville Towers Student
Congress will hold a man
datory meeting of candi
dates for the vacant seat in
the South Gallery of the
Union.
6 p.m. Career Planning and
Placement Services will
have a presentation by
Irving Trust Co. in North
Parlor of the Carolina Inn.
7 p.m. The Order of the Bell
Tower will meet. Check the
Union board for details.
Career Planning and
Placement Services will
host a presentation by
Lord and Taylor in the
Carolina Inn Ballroom.
Circle K will meet in 210
Union.
The Black Student Move
ment will have a freshman
forum with representatives
from student organizations
interested in the following graduate business
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Marketing
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Personnel and Industrial Relations
Procurement Management
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The momentum did not stop,
however, as the band kicked through
the first encore with three songs off
the new L.P.: "Fall on Me," "Cuya
hoga" and "Begin the Begin."
For the second encore, R.E.M.
brought Easter onstage to sing
"Happy Birthday" to him. Stipe,
obviously feeling the recent resur
gence of Boss mania, slung his guitar
over his shoulder and sang "Born to
Run."
The concert ended when Stipe
dove into a sea of people. Retrieved
by a couple of roadies, he broke free
and jumped once more headfirst into
the crowd. Finally surfacing with a
ripped T-shirt, he staggered offstage
with the help of a roadie.
The band has already received lots
of press for their unusual stage and
light show. Walls behind the band
had windows from which lights
shone. Images were projected on the
wall directly behind the band during
the concert. Most of time the images
were fuzzy and hard to distinguish
from the side balconies, but it was
still an innovative idea.
The Athens, Ga., band also played
All Travis has to do to make
anyone realize he's all country is sing.
A 27-year-old with the voice of a 50-year-old,
he is just the sort of deep
voiced crooner that pervades juke
boxes everywhere. Travis tunes like
"Reasons I Cheat" and recently
released single "No Place Like
Home" smack of classic Jones, Merle
Haggard and Hank Williams Sr. His
carefully controlled baritone voice
quietly reveals the emotions he sings
about without overdoing it.
With only one album out, his pool
of material is small, so Travis
departed from his own stuff and sang
a medley of Williams Sr. tunes along
with country concert standard "An
American Trilogy." They were
arguably the best songs of the
evening.
Like most up-and-coming enter
tainers, Travis had dreams, but they
weren't dreams f riches, fame and
fortune. No, 1 iilVlS Sui d he just
wanted an opportunity to play on
the Grand Ole Opry now that's
traditional country.
Just give him time on the road
to hone his act for large audiences,
and the accolades for "the kid from
Marshville" will pour in.
speaking about minority
involvement in their
' groups. It will be in the
South Campus Union.
8 p.m. The Current Issues Com
mittee is sponsoring a
lecture by Dr. Benjamin
Spock, M.D., on whether
we can "avoid nuclear
annihilation for ourselves
and our children" in
Memorial Hall.
830 p.m. The Fellowship of Chris
tian Athletes will meet in
Kenan Field House for
Fellowship Night.
liDms cf Interest
Yackety Yack yearbooks will be on
sale for $21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
through Nov. 21 in the Pit.
The Yackety Yack is offering free
portrait sittings through Nov. 19. Call
962-3912 or drop by 106 Union to
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some new material. MFirehousew was'
not very exciting, but "This Goes Out
to the One I Love" was a unique
twist, since Stipe has generally
avoided the love theme.
The environmental organization
Greenpeace, which R.E.M. has
supported for years, was at the
concert selling posters and member
ships at the light control console.
After the Duke concert, Buck,
Mills and drummer Bill Berry made
an appearance at Cat's Cradle to
hear another Athens band, Dreams
So Real. Buck produced the group's
album and came on stage to play
four songs with the band, said
Richard Fox, part owner of the
music club.
Even though R.E.M. has reached
new heights of success, it still remains
sincere in terms of loyalty to its fans
and to its music. Though some have
said these supermen have sold
themselves out, all they were really
doing was selling out college venues
across the country by reaching for
heights even gravity cannot ' pull
down.
Clefs weave fun
Friday night's Clef Hangers
concert in Memorial Hall was
silly, light-spirited and full of
fantasy everything that makes
you think of being a child again.
In front of the auditorium
packed with 1,700 people, the
dozen talented men sang old
favorites like "Somebody Steal
My Gal" and "When I Fall in
Love," rolled through '60s mel
odies "Blue Moon" and "I Get
Around" and bolted out some
Billy Joel tunes. A bit of rap, a
bit of solemnity and more than
a speck of humor added up to
a concert that no one could resist
loving.
The performance opened with
a blank white screen, three mic
rophones and a black curtain on
stage. As the lights dimmed, the
image of a closed elevator was
projected onto the screen. A sexy
woman's voice began singing
"What's New," and, slide by slide,
the elevator opened to add one
more Clef Hanger getting dressed
for the show. Then, amid a loud
crashing sound and red flashing
lights, dry ice poured over the
stage, the black curtain lifted and
out came the Clef Hangers in ,
tuxedos with devilishly red ties
and cumberbunds singing "Too
Darn Hot."
And that they were. Through
all 22 songs, the Clefs managed
to blend their 12 voices nicely,
barbershop style.
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Organized 10 years ago, the
Clefs are still doing their usual
thing clowning around and
putting out good music.
Ballads and serious songs are
their forte. "Time After Time"
(John Donne's words set to a tune
written by a friend of the Clefs)
and "Blue Moon" are perfect
examples.
Despite a few minor rhythm
and tuning problems, the Clefs
were thoroughly entertaining
during their fast-paced songs. It
was obvious that all 12 were
"Hooked on a Feeling," as they
clapped and grooved to the piece.
Some songs, like "Somebody
Steal My Gal," were funny in
themselves. Others that were not
intrinsically funny were made so
by the Clefs' slap-stick humor.
Jokes were so impromptu that
sometimes the members them
selves didn't know when humor
was coming.
The Clefs introduced each song
with a skit or joke, and, by the
second half of the program, had
the audience relaxed and ready
for, well . . .just about anything.
As the audience re-entered
after intermission, bass David
Venable stood in front of a
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fantasy
somewhat baffled audience as
two other Clefs pushed food carts
down the aisles and two more
showed the audience how to
properly exit the plane, don gas
masks and use their seat cushions
as flotation devices.
"Fasten your seat belts," Vena
ble said. "Extinguish all smoking
materials and crying babies,
because, ladies and gentlemen,
the time has come for 12 Clef
Hangers to get around."
The Clefs then roared into a
sparkling rendition of (guess
what?) "I Get Around."
Vic Spangler's introduction to
"Satin Doll" wasn't quite as
flawless. He stumbled through a
rap, as human beatbox Jeff
Sluder kept pulsing mercilessly.
With a few flaws and small
production problems, the Clefs
may not always come across as
professionals. They do, however,
seem to have so much fun at doing
what they do that the audience
can excuse problems and laugh.
As the concert closed with Clefs
and Clef alumni alike singing
traditional Tar Heel favorites,
including "Carolina Victory" and
the Alma Mater, they didn't have
to ask the audience for a standing
ovation; the crowd was on its feet
swaying.
What a tricky way to ask to
do "Rubber Ducky" for an
encore.
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