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Audience participation plays a big part in the Sha Na Na performance. And Baker says that it is an important factor when the group is planning its shows: "You shift things around to see where they work best. If they don't work right, you lose your continuity in the show. Then you have to shift it back somewhere else. We have to have that continuity, we can't let that audience down, we've got to keep it going. Once you let an audience down you've got to get them back up again...
...Na Na makes a lot of whistle stops at colleges around the country. And Baker, who had a sporadic career at Northeastern and never did get his degree, feels that the campuses are radically changing. "Colleges seem to be back into having a good time," he says. "The fraternities are back. They were really big for a long time and then became unpopular when everybody became politically aware. It's gone back to a more happy atmosphere. It's fun to go to college again. For a while there everything was so serious that it wasn't fun--at least...
Ever since Sha Na Na burst upon the national rock-and-roll scene with its tour de force performance at Woodstock, I've been an infatuated follower of the group's fifties style and sound. In the wasteland of electric rock Sha Na Na provided a welcome retreat from the overblown basses and haranguing lead guitars that were pummelling listeners of contemporary rock music with monotonous uniformity. They captured me in that first performance, launching what has become an enduring and passionate romance...
...Na Na has come a long way since the group took its first faltering steps out of Columbia into the big leagues of commercial entertainment. And today, having struggled through years of raised eyebrows and quizzical looks, not to mention near anonymity, Sha Na Na has reached the summit of the popularity charts, commanding top billings and superstar payoffs. The days of three-in-a room road trips and one-night stands at the Boston Tea Party have been replaced by opulent concert tours and million-seller records...
...success and Sha Na Na's brand of music were not immediately compatible. The demands of the group's 170-concert-a-year schedule brought with them a kind of stagnation to the Sha Na Na product...