Word: falloon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regular scheduling of dramatic performances last weekend to present Granfalloon in concert at Currier House. The group smoothly opened the show with Chicago, one of their better efforts, marked by changing rhythms and the country comfort tone of Chris Hunt's mandolin. As in this case, most of the Falloon's material is original. Only three of the eighteen songs performed during the two sets were borrowed from other professional artists. Their musical range can produce the lyrical intensity of a dramatic poetry reading or the funky folk sound of a group like The Band. Though it's very difficult...
...Friday night, it took almost half of the first set before the group overcame their initial nervousness and engaged the audience in their music. The Falloon's stage presence between songs is not one of their strong points, hindered by a lot of self-conscious joking and the technical problems of shifting from instrument to instrument. Any unity in a set is broken up by this letdown between songs...
Though the lyrics sung are usually clear and refined, some of the Falloon's songs do deteriorate into obscurity and triteness. Baron's Daughter, the faltering encore performed Friday night, has lines like. "Casting about the locker rooms-Hoping for baby eagles in the doom. All the time you're on fire-knowing what you desire," whose meaning is barely perceptible. The groups new, untitled number also had some ridiculously superfluous lyrics like. "I was kneeling on my knees." Many times, however, the music does hold one's attention in spite of the cryptic phrasing...
...percussion section made up of Connet's claves and tambourine and Lipton's punctuating bass patterns add the backbone necessary to carry the beat of these songs, building them into some real foot-stamping numbers. Get Down has real potential to become a Top 40 tune should the Falloon move in that direction...