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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN THE WORD got out that Sha Na Na was coming back to town, I rushed down to Woolworth's and got myself a 79-cent tube of Brylcreme. After all, if "a little dab will do ya" in every day life, Sha Na Na's return was certainly worth a whole tube...
Rock and roll has always been a special thing with me, and Sha Na Na is a special brand of rock and roll. Or so I'd been told. Nearly 5000 people packed the MIT Field House to see Sha Na Na and nearly every one of them was excited about the possibility of recapturing that oldies mania. The concert was, after all, a second coming. Well, it didn't quite work out that way. On Friday night, Sha Na Na was good, but nothing to break your date at the soda shop for. The group displayed a polished...
...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...
Fighting off a syncope, Rip flees to a bookstore. He is just in time for the revisionist historians. When Rip left the U.S. the faint afterglow of Kennedy magic was still warm to the touch. Then they called it charisma. Now they call it Sha-melot. Such books as Henry Fairlie's The Kennedy Years and David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest sound the knell for the '60s and its leaders. The returnee has missed the spate of Concerned Books: Soul On Ice, Deschooling Society, The Whole Earth Catalog-when Rip left, earth was only...