Word: sha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe they weren't afraid of the crowd, but I was. The several thousand who crammed the Suffolk downs infield to see Sha-na-na and the warm-up group, Aerosmith, were ugly and fearsome. The Suffolk Downs people and the promoters had run the concert about as badly as it is possible to run one; and after such treatment the crowd's ill will was excusable, if not justifiable. Most had survived a crush through eight small turnstiles at which there was no separation between people who had tickets and people who didn't--fences were torn down; cops...
...SHA-NA-NA's appeal is based on the desire to recapture a time gone by, the germinal days of rock and roll when it was the song and not the singer that made the hit. Representing the fifties, they lay the camp trimmings on thick: the grease, the T-shirts, the rumbles, the lingo. Last year when Sha-na-na came to Boston, most of the crowd was dressed for occasion, resplendent in white sox, sweat shirts, saddle shoes, and Brylcreem. This year the leftovers of that crowd walked like ghosts among a younger crowd in halter tops, platform...
...NOVACAINE high of a situation like the Sha-na-na concert is an understandable escape. If there is little safety, at least there is a common bond in numbers. In this mob exists a different spirit from the vein of Sha-na-na nostalgia, but it is of the same genre. Commercialized consumerism can create instant nostalgia, market a product, and sell to those who crave it. There is a record collection that comes on with "Remember the sounds of the Summer '73." We're already nostalgic about the present, a time scale compressed to the point of absurdity...
...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...