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Page 4 THE BATTALION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1981 Local / State L Murphey teaches audience how to ad By DANIEL PUCKETT PLATE LUNCH SPECIALS DAILY BLUE-NUN PARTY TUESDAY NOV. 24TH FROM 6:30-8:30 DOOR PRIZES & COMPLEMENTARY WINE at 701 S. Texas Ave., College Station, Texas phone 696-1439 BAKER STREET BAR AND RESTAURANT Opens at 11:00 A.M. Monday through Saturday, at 5:00 P.M. on Sunday Battalion Staff A winning combination of good material, easy-going charm and excellent musicianship brought Michael Murphey s audience to its feet several times during Wednesday night’s performance. He was that good. The quaint acoustics in G. Rol- lie White Coliseum didn’t destroy the MSC Basement and Town Hall committees’ concert, though at times (especially during the quieter moments of the concert) the sound was almost unbearably bad. But if anyone could over come the wash of reverberation that filled the hall, Murphey did. A good ol’ Texas boy, Murphey started his set on the electric guitar. Backed by the Great American Honky-Tonk Band — bass, drums, guitar, piano and steel guitar — he burned through two country-rock numbers that seemed temporarily to stun the talkative crowd; at least, the songs kept them quiet. He then shifted gears into straight country, strumming an acoustic guitar and taking off his jacket to expose his glittery, Por- ver-Waggoner-goes-to-the-disco vest. Despite the monotonous structure of the songs, with long instrumental breaks in predict able patterns, and despite an un pleasantly strained voice, the playing was good and the crowd began to rub the sleep from its eyes. When he dedicated a song to his uncle, a graduate of the Texas A&M College ofVeterinary Medi cine, the audience seemed to Review msc hospitality presents a HOLIDAY FASHION SHOW 7=00-9=00 DECEMBER 2, 1981 MSC BALLROOM RM 201 r J e ■ % / TICKETS-75C AVAILABLE AT DOOR wake up from its post-bonfire stu por and take notice that someone was onstage. Not until Murphey picked up his banjo and played a fierce call- and-response with the fiddler — who doubled on steel guitar — did the audience realize that hands are made for clapping and feet for standing. The concert was exciting from that point, with Murphey playing a medley of mountain banjo music and then his greatest hits. Murphey’s rousing finale erased the foul memory of the opening act, Michael Johnson, a whining singer-songwriter with an identity crisis: Should he imitate Jose Feliciano, Paul Williams or Martin Mull? He was justly ignored by most of the audience, who talked incessantly through his set. Today’s almanac United Press International Today is Monday, November 30, the 334th day of 1981 with 31 to follow. The moon is moving toward its first quarter. The evening star is Venus. Photo by MicMI Michael M,urphey perforins in G. Rollie White Coliseum Wednesday night On this date in history: In 1782, preliminary peace arti cles formally ending the Revolu tionary War were signed in Paris. In 1939, the Russo-Finnish War started after the Soviet Union failed to obtain territorial conces sions from Finland. In 1975, Israel pulled its forces out of a 93-mile-lt>ng corridor along the Gulf of Suez as part of the Sinai interim peace agreement with Egypt. 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