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...anonymity only a year ago, they now slipped one by one into a central seat facing seven U.S. Senators ranged along a green-felt-covered table. They braced as the red signal lights of the television cameras blinked on - and then they be came instant principals in a fateful na tional drama in which the political survival of the President is at stake...
...pizzazz, Sha Na Na's return was a disappointment. Four years ago at Rindge Tech, the group gyrated through 32 nostalgia-filled numbers in a greasy tour de force of The Coasters, Danny and the Juniors, et. al. Of course, that was when the group was still reaching for the big time, when it was still groveling for a few scraps of attention. Last Friday the old vitality was gone. Sha Na Na performed about half as many numbers as four years ago, and most of those were short, flat, systemized, and impersonal. The band played for an hour...
There was no "oomph" to Sha Na Na Friday night. And Sha Na Na without oomph is like a ducktail without grease. Maybe they were tired, or just bored with it all, or preoccupied with endorsing their paychecks. But whatever it was, Sha Na Na's concert wasn't anything to make you paste the ticket stubs in your scrapbook. It seemed like the group was just going through the motions, rather than giving a performance...
...give them credit, Sha Na Na did come back for three encores, but there was some confusion whether the crowd yelled for more because it wanted more or because it thought it was being gypped. For $2.50 you can't expect too much, but any way you look at it, Friday's Sha Na Na concert was a chintzy deal...
...When Sha Na Na first appeared in 1966, they were a fresh breath in the wasteland of the teeny-bopper-gee-I'm-heavy rock of the Sixties. If Friday's performance is any indication, Sha Na Na has come a long way since then, and most of it is downhill. Sad to say, Sha Na Na seems to have made the grab for the big buck, and kissed the Magic Sound goodbye...