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entertainment Buff ett delh * Coliseum ei By STEVE COLEMAN and a grizzly Gamecock Staff Writer This numbe most applaus* It was showtime as Jimmy Buffett and the audience to ci Coral Reefer Band stepped onto the stage at Buffett folic Carolina Coliseum Sunday night, September song, "He We 25, to give an outstanding performance to a magic of a wi small, but enthusiastic crowd. Buffett, of c< The audience was not left wanting as "Margaritavil Buffett came on and sparked up the crowd of the Tequila witn nis opening number "If we Could He also perl Laugh," which he followed with his barber he will rec< shop rendition of "Wish I Had a Pencil-Thin Southeastern ( Mustache." Manana If Yo Buffett succeeded in keeping the audience The song wa on their feet and in continued applause "Margaritavil through his first three numbers. to Anita Brya He then changed the fast tempo to an The last lin easygoing laid back mood and played Anita Bryant i "Wonder Why We Ever G o Home" and Don't worry "Banana Republic." Buffett was uuiieu provided me audience with the cores as the variety of music that has brought him performed "T success. He ranged from his famed mellow Diner" for th? hit, "Come Monday," to his not-so-famed cellent, easyg country jeer, "Why Don't We Get Drunk and which he dedi Screw." The latter tune sent a jolt of ex- "This concerl citement through the crowd of Buffett en- thanks to you thusiasts. Buffett left Buffett's various tones and styles were and was quite explained as he told the crowd, "I was once best concerts asked how I could write such trashy songs time, sometimes and write such sensitive songs at others. I told 'em it was because sometimes Buffett wa I feel trashy and sometimes I feel sen- Winchester, w sitive." Feel Good" ar ^ album, "Noth monologue number, "Gods Own Drunk", a was typical story of his encounter with a sour mash still ? ' JUs*. ... thee j/^^pi|S/'^r.: 4' EZT and m jmjjggjgm 'm^ H 1 : Egyi " 'j%j vfjfe- -|^jy door ^^7Aon Pryc , ? ^ Tg- HHHBnra conn WL / "WJ j f|.W Rc ^: Anci left I Richard Prvor ea*' - g unn A II WHEN \AJE LAST LEFT I / 1 AQUAL0N6 AND HIS _5 Q BRAIN CONTROL EW6INECR, ] I Jf THEY WERE BOTH IN AW C-?, V INTOXICATED STATE... ?\ I AS WE RETURN TO THE w I hF&FMrr daid aaiiamima. v6 _ . , I lilt I I IV*VI IVV<?V ' *<? IS... ASLEEP... ANt> HIS )\ y MIND, WEU, HIS MIND IS > if gradually recovering ... JLjyj ^ ^ WfRY (jftAOUALLV... Y*jJ U 0 bear. r provided Buffett with the HHHHBP e and invoked some of the owd in front of the stage. " i y'JTU wed this tune by a mellow | nt to Paris" which told of the Vil "jki mrse, did his most recent hit, J rjmJ& le" which he dedicated to all drinkers. ^BH?9 f yjKj formed a new number which J 3rd in Miami after this ^ our called "Please Don't Say WMJ u Don't Mean It." s similar in tempo and style to le" and carried with it a jeer ACfc* * f? e of the song bade "I hope never does one my songs." ', Jimmy. sunuTionec^acKfor two encrowd cheered wildly. He pjBllilr ,. his Hotel Room" and "Dixie ||||p"r ; first encore and did an ex- |||gp oing song, "Lovely Cruise" cated to Carolina as he said, |||||;_ . has been a lovely cruise, Hip; the audience wanting more Rpy^ successful in giving one of the lti-i liiLC i.1 fM? :OTH9BS -'HiJWWt- r wiuiui/m uuo otvil dUHIC H is accompanied by Jesse ho opened the concert with "I HI id the title song from his new . ing But a Breeze". Hie song Jimmy Buffett ele< of Jesse Winchester's on 'or ' See BUFFETT. page 26 Sunday, unlike the fii the night, Jesse Win Vvor's hum i(ENRY GREEN this...They started lecock Staff Writer brain surgery in 3 His proper Britis sneak out, shuttii 8 p.m. one Tuesday, on Channel 10, them as poor poj laring archeologists, clad in khakis tinues to read pith helmets, cautiously enter the manuscript. He is ptian tomb through a heavy stone the other British j have tea. r Jove, a major discovery! Such a routine c< ie of these brave men, Sir Richard "The Richard Pry >r, exclaims to his proper British who helped make rades, "Hey, it's the Book of Life." marathon movie n wading from the leaves of a musty persistent theme ient Egyptian manuscript, he blackness. ..."And the dark-skinned people It is almost an ui their spaceship and populated the Pryor uses racia i...Dark-skinned people! Wait humor. He plays < I the brothers hear about centuries old blacl ' " ^M??/?1 c?'?- i ) JF &=J// ??] ' (\\HAV/EFOl ' | T ONE CURC r\l / a ftFTER ?ff >y ( % i' V, A0UALUN6 vv^ ^ ) Tn~V H: I , ? ?Or ? ? n I I I H II I III 11 llllM I Mil ! I II i||p^' VgjHP. A <iWMI ' 1 'i' 1 '' i I1, 1 | i| ' | . ... , ,, Mark Alexander- THE GAMECOCK ctrified a small lis concert last san8 many of his well known songs to st performer of Columbia, including his most popular Chester. Buffett hit- "Margaritaville." tor racial if all Th/v.. ?I ii ' " .... .v ?... nicy uv^uicvi uictcK experience, me sense oi DiacK i B.C.! They..." identity, the black cultural heritageh explorer comrades whatever one wishes to call it. ng the door behind It is no coincidence that Pryor's >-eyed Richard con- guests for one particular show were the from the musty O'Jays and an African dance group, sealed up forever as When Time Magazine ran a cover ircheologists go and story on "Roots," it was noted that the series might have heightened racial ould only come from tension, say, ten years ago. With its or Show." The man portrayal of the meaner aspects of t "Silver Streak" a slavery, "Roots" might have tossed OW hammers OUt the kinHlinO wnnH nntn an all litnt-al of his show: racial fire that was engulfing cities like Detroit. iderstatement to say Times have changed, however, and 1 overtones in his "Roots" provided nothing more harman the subject of the ful than an engaging conversation piece c-white struggle, the See PRYOR, page 26 JNt> 0NLY~~^ > | f ^ e CTS FROM ; fijtgKgfSggl 'SI 'S Biwoes^l ff^zll l|) '