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Lenny Baker, the personable rotundity who plays sax and sings tenor for Sha Na Na has been greasing up for pay for almost four years. Yet other than the little dab of Brylcreme before each show, he hasn't had to alter his character to fill his role as the jolly good humor man of the group...
Baker has been playing sax since he was 12 years old (he's now 27), and he concedes that music is his life. When he isn't playing for Sha Na Na, he's playing in jam sessions down on Cape Cod. Yet as much as music means to him, he doesn't see the Sha Na Na act as strictly musical...
...SHA NA NA--Sha Na Na is more than a group; it's our heritage. They preserve for us, alive and well, the music that nurtured our older sisters and brothers through adolescence. The flash, the underlying reservoir of violence, the macho-tenderness, the urban toughness--for better or worse, these are part of what we are. The miracle is that Sha Na Na transforms its music into a part of the present; any Sunday school choir would blush to hear the meticulous harmonizing they contribute to classics of the fifties and early sixties. Teen angels and leaders...
...SHA NA NA--Fri. Nov. 2 at Boston Music Hall...
Remember the Sha-na-na concert back...