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TEXAS A&M
ISOOKSTOR E
By J. WAGNER TYNES
OK, OK, we’ve all seen him in
“Smokey and the Bandit as a lov
able rebellious truck driver.
Some of us even remember the
same type of image from Gator
and “W.W. and the Dixie Dance-
kings.” And everybody’s heard
“When You’re Hot, You’re Hot.
But the question to ask at Jerry
Reed’s concert at Texas A&M Uni
versity was: Is he really the good ole
country boy that he seems or is the
whole Jerry Reed image just
another Nashville-Hollywood put-
5 on?
The answer is: It’s true. He s for
real, thank God.
Reed arrived about 45 minutes
before he went onstage and strolled
calmly into his dressing room, act
ing like he was anticipatring little
more than a few hands of poker with
the boys in his band.
“Talk?” he asked. “Sure. What do
you wanta talk about?”
There followed a 30-minute in-
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terview that was lots of fun but to
tally useless for journalistic pur
poses. It seems that the interviewee
did as much interviewing as the in
terviewer.
Reed leaned back in his chair and
propped his feet on a table, shoving
his hands in the pockets of his
army-style khaki pants. He then
proceeded to take control of the
situation without anyone realizing
that he was doing it.
He told jokes and stories about
everything from his favorite football
team (not Texas A&M) to the dog
that he shared billing with (Fred the
basset hound from “Smokey and the
Bandit ”):
He asked questions of everyone
and now probably knows more
about them than they do of him. He
charmed one Town Hall worker by
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telling her that she was about the
prettiest woman that he’d ever
seen.
He neatly slid around questions
that sought serious answers. Asked
if he was moving more into movies,
he brushed it off with, “I don’t
know. I don’t know. I take it one day
at a time. When the sun comes up, I
grab it and run.”
He did talk about a movie which
he is working on now. It’s called
“Hot Stuff” and co-stars Dom De-
Luise. Reed said he considers De-
Luise one of the funniest men in the
world. He also mentioned a sequel
to “Smokey” that will be made in
Europe with all the original cast, in
cluding Fred.
The Friday night audience didn’t
quite fill G. Rollie White Coliseum
but it was enthusiastic enough to
make things a little crowded. Thev
were up for some get-down, thigh-
slappin’, bench-stompin’ MUSIC,
by God, and when Reed took the
stage they got a pretty good dose.
He only played six or seven songs
during his whole show, but the
crowd seemed willing to accept his
method of doing more talking than
singing.
After all, there aren’t that many
performers who can stand up in
front of a big crowd and just talk
without soon finding themselves
talking to an empty room. But Reed
not only did it, he got away with it.
Of course, it was the kind of talk
that the crowd wanted to hear:
fast-moving, silver-tongued, with
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just more than enough country
twang. And there was always that
famous Jerry Reed laugh, sort of a
cross between a witch’s cackle and a
hacking cough.
He talked about music, he talked
about himself, and he talked about
his songs. He made fun of every
thing from other country' music stars
to his hand, which, almost inciden
tally, performed superbly despite all
the verbal abuse they received.
But Reed’s best moments came
when he was forced by the tortuous
windings of his monologues into a
song. He played a good variety of
songs, few though they were, rang
ing from the buckin-brone rhythm
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Hot, You're Hot to a pretty
repsectable version of "Stars
Stripes Forever.”
The audience responded
to every song, hut they seem , s
identify most with "Eastbound j a
Down,” the hit that Reed wrote
performed for “Smokey and
Bandit.”
The crowd was ready fora|
time when Reed came onstage L 0
there was hardly a frowning fasT
terward. Just for the sake of!
critic, it can be argued that I
talked a little hit too much undo
have performed a little more ol
rollicking, snappy guitar-pic
that he has become famous for.
Rut overall, he put on one]
a show. I mean, who can knock
a lovable musician like Jerry
just because he forgot to play a
more music?
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