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Entent Dylla I I llVIc.OinI By James Rokosny Staff Writer Dressed in a black Quarter Moon T-shirt, Delbert McClinton painted blues over the souls of a few lucky Columbians Thursday night at the Quarter Moon. An article in the Gamecock last Thursday quoted Quarter Moon coowner Rivers Scarborough as saying, "We want to Kmarlnn rvi w* r\r\r\nn 1 ?/t v/uu^n uui appeal. iyc want to show everyone what a good band sounds like on a good sound system." And they accomplished just that. Breaking from its t radition of bringing Columbia high-quality 'coffee house' acts, the Quarter Moon hosted one of the greatest bluesmen of all time. And the crowd loved it, calling him back for five encores. Before attending the show, Y ar\ M rM^AOo f KM i iuau u cao i cicaau tiiai quoted Judson Klinger of 'Playboy' magazine as saying, "Simply put, McClinton may be the greatest white R&B/rock 'n' roller in the world..." I won't argue. Running through some great blues compositions, Delbert would often stop between songs and introduce the next number by saying r? e opurjeai Tinen th By James Rokosny Staff Writer After giving two crowd pleasing performances last fall, Dan Tinen will return to i I \ ? r? . * ? * me uoiuen ^pur lonigm ano Tuesday night with his unique solo act. Tinen plays piano, synthesizer and a harpsichord he built himself, and sings songs both original and borrowed. His performance is not aimed at rowdy rock V roll crowds, but is geared ainmerrt?M n is 'superb' AB- jj^EggT < ?* v k ^ *? i^^^^BBMHMMBBML : 'T:M7A * !? .> h _'v ~ "V"- , *:r. ? ' -" - -_ ] -"-J - | ' ' . .? . ?' Jfl i .W JB? ton a hit Daniels By Lynn something humorous in a >, staff v who-gives-a-damn tone. All the urban cowboys in Coll A n A. A. 1? A. I 1 A.- ? - - mier ireaung me crowu u? heaven Saturday night wher songs like "Just a Little Bit" delivered one of the best countr and "Under Suspicion," Southeast. About 10,000 rowdy McClinton left the stage and hats and cowboy boots, responc let his band have the whoops and hollers, while some spotlight. With Larry Lang singing, they tore through a Before the Charlie Daniels B hot rendition of Ray Charles' Nantucket belted out their hea "It Should've Been Me." of REO Speedwagon. Althou Before leaving, McClinton contrast to Charlie Daniels, N n rtrl l/\f o nAiir Vin iifailt Anltr nnmrv CI 11VI V/U. ici a new uieeiuwu wiin ur u umjr vuum number, "Sweet Baby Ruth," featuring a mean When the Charlie Daniels Bai slide-guitar lead, and a broke out into mild hysteria a version of Malone and instrumental which sounded li Scott's classic "Turn On proceeded to play one of their Your Love Light" that would everybody foot-stomping and cl even make a dead head spin. ; Charlie Daniels gave an impr McClinton is actually an ability to mix jazz and their cc old name in the music world, their five-man backup of hoi His first record was Dirty," a sax solo complimen recorded in 1%0, when he did 8ave another dimension to their Sonny Boy Williamson's "Wake Up Baby," and A haunting backdrop of a ful twenty years later he has the mood for their current I anoiner siaiemeni 011 vinyi :>wamp. likc me omers, mis called "The Jealous Kind." reaction. That's twenty years of paying his dues singing the After a string of country boc blues. shifted gears and channeled th< If he returns, which is very tribute to late rockers with "1 likely, don't miss him. He is gave an emotional performam the definition of rock 'n' roll, his memories of Elvis, Janis Ji He is what it is all about - Marshall Tucker Band and 1 living history of the barroom Skynard. To emphasize an er bluesman's life on the road presented portraits of the late i and on the stage. j guitar style accented the sadnei Songs from their current a introdiifpH tn thp anHionrr* for ur cd Song" is a Jamaican-type ] anything the band has ever dc ? a-* ?* anyone, probably because thi 2%^ ?Charlie Daniel's Tennessee dra toward people with a real After this sequence of low I appreciation for acoustic broke into a fast pace and beltc music. "Don't Cha Know I'm Just a I One of his best originals is fantastic piano solo was execi "The Lushier," which was never failed to bang out a not( influenced by his making of captivated crowd, the harpsichord. He sings. "Give me time and I will Other cuts from their currenl make the wood sing, there is in your beer" mood with songs, voice deep within these "Birmingham Blues." timbers." Contemporary Sounds To add fuel to the fire, Charlie Committee of the University almost beyond control when he Union is sponsoring the out "The Devil Went Down to event in the Golden Spur. between Daniels and Tom Crt as Sil By Carl Babcock Staff Writer To signal the beginning of "Silkwood," a series of slides projected onto a screen on sidestage depicts the life of Karen Silkwood. As she matures in pictures from a child in Texas to an adult, a slow and melancholy After a few minutes, Jehanne Dyllan walks on stage ? and the play explodes. Not an anti-nuclear diatribe, not rabidly feminist and certainly not stridently pro-union, it mixes all of these elements to form a part, and only a part, of the woman that was Karen Silkwood. That is what the play is auuui ? an ordinary worker who desperately needs a job begins to look around and see what has happened to her, to her friends because of that job, and how she decided to do something about it. The play is a powerhouse of emotions because of that basic humanity. Karen Silkwood grows and embraces certain issues, but utvci 10 Liici c a milt one 10 anything less than a human excites Massey Vriter imbia found themselves in hog i the Charlie Daniels Band y rock performances to hit the fans, some wearing ten gallon led to the Tennessee band with > waved rebel flags. land made its grand entrance, vy-metal style, characteristic igh their music was a harsh antucket managed to perk up lercial hit, "Heartbreaker." nd finally appeared, the crowd s the band opened up with an ike an old ZZ Top tune. They older hits, "Trudy," that sent lapping. essive demonstration 01 meir juntry twang with the help of *ns. In the song, "Down n' ted the blues number, which country rock style. II moon in a forest setting set hit, "The Legend of Woody song received a raving crowd gie tunes, the Memphis band 3ir energies into a sentimental Reflections." Charlie Daniels in hie CAnrt tirhinh innlnrln/^ ~v- iai mo ov;n^ vviuv.il uiLiuut:u I oplin, Tommy Caldwell of the Ronnie Van Zant of Lynard notional impact, a backdrop irtists. Tom Crain's mandolin ss of the song. lbum, "Summer Eve," were the first time. The "South Sea ove ballad which is unlike >ne. It didn't seem to impress s style just did not quite fit iwl. > 1zn\7 mnlnHioc f'hnrli*? TVininl d out some country blues with ,onesome Boy from Dixie." A Lited by Taz DiGregorio, who ? without an ovation from the t album added to this "crying "No potion for the Pain" and ; Daniels excited the audience picked up his fiddle to punch i Georgia." This fiddlin' duel < tin will defeinitely become a kwoo< being, or that the play isn't ? first and foremost the tragic I story of her life. ? For that, Jehane Dyllan as author and actress is to be praised. She is superb. She < controls the audience from < the moment she takes the 1 stage and never lets go. With 1 a grace and ease that is a joy < to watch, she shows us the I 'Karen Si/kwoocf braces certain issL there a hint she is at human hnirtn ' Karen that was to become a working class heroine, and she shows us the Karen that was a vulnerable woman, a bitch, a union organizer, a mother... The one-woman play never lags. The versatile Ms. Dyllan accomplishes the numerous shifts of mood with a k Ru^pll Hhikp Correction "The Fearless Vampire Kil and 9:30 p.m. "Night Of The L with shows at 2:30, 7 and 9:30 will play Oct. 30 at 2:30, 7 an( Nov. 1 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Ul CU LU country classic. For their grand finale, spiriti Glory filled the background for One thing that Charlie knows ho audience and hold them for as 1 know exactly what good ol' cour During the first encore, a gr the Grand Ole Opry joined the "urange blossom Special." Al Daniels terminated the concert Do It Again." Of course this : southern boys and Dixie darlir concert feeling as if Charlie ha: rock. I'jt* Vrf ?^\SJ M am ml % W/fm Charlie Daniels thrilled his Ws band's biggest hits Sat Chip Lowell) d splendid sense of timing and ler transitions arc as smooth as glass. But "Silkwood" is still an extremely political play. She Aras a real woman who did Aork for the Kerr-McGee luclear power company in Jklahoma. She was irate at :he lack of health care at the grows and em tes, but never is ly thing /ess than a power plant, and eventually had to steal documents r\*?Al rj Mf* 1 ? r? pi uv illg I licit lclllll\ ^WUUS) were being shipped out to other nuclear facilities. Karen Silkwood was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver those documents to a New York Times reporter. The documents disappeared films ...111 ? 1 rw% - * ? icis win piay uci. zn ai / living Dead" begins Oct. 29 p.m. "Dawn Of The Dead" J 9:45 p.m. and Oct. 31 and w boys ; were again raised when Ole "God Bless America Again." w to do well is grab the ong as he wants. He seems to itry boys want to hear. oup of cloggers^tn ^ht from nana tor me country classic ter this fiddle duel, Charlie with "The South s (Join' To struck a soft spot tor many fs who went away from the s already done it for country Mpi?^ I vHHHWp. > coliseum audience with urday night. (Photo by