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A-xl 1 . wuuaws on toTownsl By Skot Garrick g Q?m?cock Staff Wrtt?r y h Do white people boogie? Do they a move with the music, roll with the s vibes and get down to the sound? h You bet they do. Tuesday night the Outlaws had a rocking, a stomping crowd partying to an c almost frenzied state. The show, as ft can be expected by the Outlaws, a was a solid barrage of good honest S rock ^n roll. s For those who think that getting up and shaking to the beat started s with disco, look again. The essence r of rock has always been centered s around becoming bodily involved f !AL il 1 ? fl. I? A -# Al wiui me music, n is a pari. 01 me c rock culture and has been around t long before disco was even a gleam t in Robert Stigwood's eye. <] The Township is the perfect c medium for a band like the a Outlaws. Smaller than the u Coliseum, the place provides a close atmosphere with the band on tl stage and the audience. When s people get stomping and the music c Bee Gees amid ext By Bill Douglas C Gamecock Staff Writer ^ The businessman was sitting tl nexi to tne teeny-bopper, and the middle-teen with the middle-aged at the Carolina Coliseum Wed nesday evening to see the much- s awaited performance of the Bee I Gees. u The concert, rumored to be part h of the group's last tour, was casually announced in early August and resulted in a mail p order drive strong enough and a ti ticket line long enough to sell the B show out in four hours. E h All the hype surrounding the ft show was apparently justified, as w the Bee Gees turned in a visually stunning two-hour show, complete wun a nuge aisco-noor siage, ti mirror balls and lasers. The 44 brothers looked a little tired, as vs they have been touring since the n end of August, but they still gave fi the primarily teenage female f< crowd exactly what they wanted. o u The Gibbs opened with b "Tragedy," utilizing their complement of 17 backup musicians. The number was highlighted by t< two gigantic explosions that made si the crowd squeal with delight. The fl following tune, "End of the a Universe," was performed tl fC^) Pl i ^ : I GAMECOCK FANS: j fl|l We Prepare Box $ I Lunches To Go. ? i * | Located Across II Hampton Dorrr I Ph. 765 | Offer Good Mori. ing karma ! I hin shnuj 1- WV ets loud, the whole arena pulses | rith life. The Township may not | avc me immense size mai omer | renas have; but they've got & omething better. The Township | as karma. i The show opened with Stillwater, | band well-suited for warming a 1 rowd up to the Outlaws. With a 9 antastic lead guitarist who looked lot like the late Gary Thain, tillwater rolled out a healthy upply of strong rock. When the Outlaws took to the tage, the crowd was more than AD/lv (a norfi! TKmr Ananiu1 tkair VMV*J VV pUA VJ , * *IVJ VpVttVU UIV/ll how with "Hurry Sundown", a I amiliar song that the crowd ac- ^ epted with loud appreciation. The J and and crowd seemed to exist on f) he same high level of energy and 1 Irive. The Outlaws knew what the 11 xowd wanted to hear, and the c< udience knew what the Outlaws ai ranted to see. si As the outrageous night wore on, cl le air oecame a tmck naze of u tage lights, doobie-smoke and ai owboy hats. Rebel yells and nr create discc ravagantse omplete with mirror-ball and $ tser patterns flashing throughout c< le coliseum. c< t\ Despite the lights and flashy n< equipment, the mainstay of the how was obviously Maurice, tarry and Robin Gibb with their SI mique choir-boy falsettos which th lave become their trademark. pr T1 Adults in the audience were pi leased by a medley of old mellow th mes like "How Do You Mend a B< iroken Heart" and "Lonely lave ' ' Tho motion ??'?" 'uj u. i iiv iai j was ighlighted by the clowning of G laurice, who feigned impatience v ith his brothers' lengthy solos. Ii a The teeny-boppers were par- a icularly pleased with the ballad n Love So Right," the first line of foich may have caused the largest lass orgasm in history, judging *om the screams of the young ;males. But to be fair, the males f the audience seemed to be every it as enthralled with the disco eat of the fast numbers. The Gibbs displayed their ability 3 work a crowd by unzipping their runs, acknowledging git is 01 lowers thrown on stage and giving good amount of attention to the , lousands of people who paid drky's] nJDENT! PECIRL J -n M TN Draft with coupon jj >n Purchase of j an. m_L_ ft ron? rwiH lc; 3S0 with coupon or J 'hkkon Plate | 135 with coupon 1 I ? from Wade g 1 on Main St. I -0410 1 . ?Fri. 3-9 p.m. | -. _ . ';T? "X.- aaiSv ., >wboy hoots continually filled the ir. The sound system held up iperbly ; the music sounded as ear and sharp as if it was coming irough a good home stereo. The dvantage, of course, was that the lusic was being performed live ) heaven t, lights 12.50 to sit behind the stage. The oliseum was packed in every arner, with people wedged around le huge stage which took up early a third of the floor area. TU- n r* me nee uees encorea wun "You lould Be Dancing," pulling out all e stops and establishing a stage esence of true disco proportions, le visual elements of disco were ayed to the hilt in this show, from e wild flashing of the lights to the ee Gees' sparkling suits. Opening the show were the Bee rees oacKgrouna singers, a three/oman group called the Sweet nspirations. They were a decent ct, singing various hits by other rtists as well as some of their own laterial. IBSs for the audience. < ShnrHv aftor tha Hntl Otirc f/\y\lr v.j ma%va viiv v/uviano iia/a the stage, they ripped into a I unending stream of music that I carried through at least six songs, i Beginning with "You Are The ] Show", they played for at least a < solid hour of one song leading into i the rest. The audience joined in on ' the chorus of "You Are The Show", which is what the band hoped for. < As they said, the song was written < for the crowd and about the crowd. I After leaving the stage, the i Outlaws made the crowd earn their I GHBK^b x M ij ^KKbwEfr^ Ji*" ^BlMRiii ETswsjaTtm "ii^i"*i ^^ msels f 1 f: ' m' ^Tf mi i?fiPii^rniiiff!niiraHwB?TgBriwi^MnM i encore. Gone for what seemed an unusually long time, the band must have exalted in the long continuous hail of human voices clamoring for their return. Nor did they disappoint when they returned. The encore was a solid forty-five minutes of "Green Grass and High Tides Forever". The audience left more than content with the show they had seen. Yessir, there was good karma at the Township Tuesdaynight. The Outlaws rocked the house down WsflBSffl H/.X