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Layin' down licks is what it's all about. Here, the Stillwater mighty front four
fire their music at some hip shakin' women, while lead singer. Sobie Lacey, had
to take a breather. | Photo: David Edwards).
A REV lEW
By HAL PARTRIDGE
Very entertaining yes; extremely
exciting no.
This fact was in part due to a slack
audience turnout. It is difficult to get
into a rockin’ mood, when all the au
dience consists of is twenty-five
monkeys screaming discordant re
quests, and a bald old man who bobs
his head trying not to fall asleep. No,
seriously, there was only one monkey
hurling nonsensical comments and
the old man was rockin’ as much as
his wife would let him.
At any rate, one can respect the ef
forts of Sobie Lacey, lead singer for
Stillwater; he didn’t back away from
the ominous problem of a trifling tur
nout. At times he donned the per
sonality of a gospel-style evangelist
trying to resurrect the spirit from his
assembly. He succeeded too; half of
the audience ended the concert down
front, rockin’ with the beat. Praise the
Lord! He also established a joking
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rapport with his assembly. In
response to an entreaty to hear rock
’n’ roll from two little groupees. press
ing themselves as close to the stage as
they could get, shakin’ their spherical
little bottoms round and round like
volleyballs in a dryer, he glanced
their way with his fox-like eyes and
pondered, "like we been playin' coun
try all night.”’
No. No country ballads wailed
through ear drums Friday night; but
at times, one would have preferred
the Mandrel] Sisters bouncing across
the stage.
To start the show (which began 45
minutes late because the sound
system took a 45 minute detour on the
way to the concert), the warm-up.
High Risk, took a chance at musician
ship with potential talent, but incon
sistent deliver). For instance, in a
rendition of The Producers’ "What
She Does; ” the lead singer, Mike Bur
chfield, lacked Kyle Henderson’s
range and pitch. The back-up har
Savannah, the Maggie Ree Duo, will
appear in West Georgia's own (Tub Z
-6.
The duo’s soulful jazz and blues ren
ditions have led to appearances on
mony missed the depth of The Pro
ducers' overall harmony. When play
ing someone else’s original tune, the
band must achieve either exact copy,
or some innovation of their own in
order to pull it off properly. Again in
“Honky Tonk Woman,” the back
ground vocals suffered from dishar
mony, and Burchfield strained too
muchto imitate Mick Jagger. It was
all in vain.
Nevertheless, High Risk does show
talent. Perhaps they just haven’t
developed a proper style or mastery
of technical instrumentation. How
ever, in "Borne Maronie” and their
original, "Ixist Little Girl,” The lead
guitarists picked out some nice lead
licks. Most impressive, though, was
the bassist who twanged his four
string with the best overall consisten
cy of his cohorts.
With perseverance and practice,
High Risk may lie able to conquer
their talent —but not yet.
Nonetheless, a salute goes out to them
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Band. Perhaps the most surprising
feature of the group is its vocalist, 13
year old Maggie (Meg) Ree. She
possesses the piano and vocal ability
of someone twice her age. Her
musical repertoire consists of
revivals of Gershwin, Mercer, and
Duke Ellington. She is even beginning
to write some of her own material.
From the sound of her first cords on
piano, it is evident that she has a true
understanding of jazz and blues.
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especially one as successful as Mag
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“I want you to rock TT roll alt night, and sing Hallelu
jah” preaches Sobie Lacey in concert. (Photo: David
Edwards).
for struming out our ‘national an
them,’ ‘‘Dixie.’’
Down south rock’n’rollers,
Stillwater, tennis shoed and blue-jean
clad, poppi'd on stage ready to put on
a show, and demonstrated a cleaner,
clearer, crisper sound than did their
warm-up group. They came equipped
with slide guitar, two voice boxes
(remember the raspy sounding
gadget made novel by Peter Framp
ton, and rendered obsolete by Joe
Walsh?) and three lead/rhythm
guitarist who, at times, lined up
downstage, triggering their 6-strings
like a firing squad. They sang with
complimentary vocal harmony and
offered long, drifting, sometimes airy
guitar work as the three traded off
honors on lead.
Bassist A1 Scarborough’s voice on
“I Reserve The Right (to get crazy)”
rivaled that of Sobie I *icey in clear
tonal quality. The song nearly over
powered the listener with hard rockin’
energy. Another original, “The Big
gie Ree, sounds amazing, perhaps
some credit must go to her father,
coach, and co-musician. Bob Hughey.
He had been a professional jazz
trumpet player for over 25 years, but
after realizing his daughter’s im
mense talent, he quit work to coach
and perform exclusively with Her.
Hughey now accompanies his
daughter on bass for the Maggie Ree
Duo.
The group promises to be one of the
musical highlights of the quarter. Ad
mission is free with a student I D., $2
without.
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High Risk took a gamble that their guitar riffs would
get them dealt a good hand. For their sake, I hope their
gambling doesn't become habitual.
Pay Back,” by Rob Walker, came on
strong as Walker took center stage on
lead, black vested, eyes rolled back in
his closed, deep shadowed sockets.
The quick pace was slowed a bit with
"April Ixive," a sad song of saying
goodbye to a faded love. This, the
band’s most beautiful tune, led with
guitarist Walker, Michael Causey and
Bobby Golden playing three separate
lead progressions, then combining in
to a melodic rhythm; a lyrical chant
by duo Lacey and Scarborough follow
ed in perfect harmony. But everyone
was waiting for “Mindbender,”
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Stillwater’s top 40 single from a tew
years ago. The band surfeited the au
dience’s anticipation playing true to
their recording; really, they sounded
just like themselves.
However, in general, the concert
was disappointing. This, the major
musical event of winter quarter was
poorly promoted by the College Pro
gram Board, which was, in part, the
blame for the slack audience turnout.
Also, Stillwater, as entertaining as
they were, should have been the lead
in group for a better known, bigger
draw band try harder next time
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