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The Red and Black • Tuesday, May 8, 1990 • 7
A&E
Hitchcock pleases his fans
REVIEW
By NOEL MURRAY
Contributing Writer
Robyn Hitchcock walked
onstage at the 40 Watt last
Thursday night wearing a shirt
with a print that looked like an
exploding Hawaiian.
He rambled about nothing sen
sible for two full minutes and
then he began his first song,
‘This Could Be the Day.”
From that moment until the
end of the gig, over an hour later,
Hitchcock pleased his fan-filled
audience by giving them what
they’ve come to expect from him
over the years — a genuinely in
teresting experience.
Hitchcock gave that and more,
telling stories and playing songs
from his entire career, including
a few from his Soft Boys days,
like ‘'Queen of Eyes” and Tley-
Hey-Wep-A-Hole.”
On stage alone, with only his
acoustic guitar (except for a brief
three-song piano interlude),
Hitchcock resembled nothing less
than a favorite uncle sitting on
the porch, picking and singing;
only this uncle is the one the
family is a little worried about.
Any family would worry about
Hitchcock’s lyrical obsessions,
mainly sex and death. He relates
the two often, as on his brilliant
1985 album “I Often Dream of
Trains,” where he used the
breakdown of the British Rail as
a metaphor for psychosexual
decay.
These strange relationships
are what Hitchcock does best. De
spite the tunefulness and often
comic surrealism of his songs,
Hitchcock’s finest moments on
record and during shows come
from his poignant comparisons.
“Glass,” for example, presents
the image of transparent and
fragile panes of glass as rep
resentative of the barriers people
put between each other.
Hitchcock played “Glass” for
his encore, after asking the audi
ence for requests. He then
launched into the song “Ye
Sleeping Knights of Jesus,” with
the crowd providing proper
backup vocals.
He finished with “Listening to
the Higsons.”
Pool wiz stumps challengers
Ordinarily, it would seem
strange to see a man playing pool
in the Tate Center Plaza, but trick
shot comedian Jack White has
been doing it every year for the last
20 years and about 100 people
came to see his noon show yes
terday.
White played, or more accu
rately, played with several Univer
sity students whom he teased,
insulted and basically made look
foolish.
Despite this abuse, each of
White’s opponents wanted another
opportunity to beat the old master.
Junior banking and finance
major David Jenkins has been
playing against White every year
for the past three years and this
year White announced that Jen
kins was his son.
The audience might have be
lieved it if it weren’t for the fact
that Jenkins is a tall black man
and White is just the opposite — a
short, chubby, white man.
White kept the audience
laughing with his hilarious and
often crude comments. More im
portantly, some of the shots he
made were simply unbelievable.
After one particularly incredible
shot he looked at his amazed oppo
nent and asked,“Why in the hell do
you think I’m here? It’s because I’m
bad!”
White began playing pool as a
child in Pittsburgh and played
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