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Mac Court is a gvm A gym is a place where sporting events such as
basketball, wrestling and gymnastics are held A gym is not a place
where concerts are held
The acoustics necessary for wild-eved animal-like cheering are
different from the acoustics needed for a piano concert
Halfwav into Fen-ante and Teicker’s opening number—a medley
from “The Sound of Music’ —at Monday night’s concert, my wife
leaned to me and said: “I can’t hear them."
She was right The two pianists sounded as though they were playing
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in the bottom of an empty gasoline refinery storage tank. Which was a
damn shame.
Ferrante and Teicher beautifully blended contemporary music with
old standby favorites—from “Old Man River” to soul music—and held
the audience in awe for more than two hours until the third encore
ended with a rousing rendition of the granddaddy of their gold
records: “Exodus.”
However the highlight of the evening was the duo’s rendition of the
score from “Fiddler on the Roof.”
An added attraction to the beautifully adapted Broadway score was
the kid behind me who kept munching on potato chips. 1116 kid had no
ear for music whatsoever Whoever is responsible for the selling of
potato chips at the Eugene and University Music Association concerts
should be severely beaten about the face with a bag of Ruffles.
Another practice that should cease immediately is the parents who
dress their kids up in their Sunday-best. bring them to a concert—“Ya
gotta give the kid culture”—and them promptly dump them two or
three rows away where the parents won’t be bothered by the kids’
inane chattering.
Back to the concert Despite the flaws of the physical limitations of
Mac Court and the other problems over which Ferrante and Teicher
had no control, the concert can only be reviewed with the strongest
superlatives that a sensationalistic writer can think of to describe it.
Sensational would be a fitting adjective.
So would fantastic.
And another word that should be used is unique. Because the
Ferrante and Teicher concert was unique. Their repertoire was
broad-based as they jumped from a selection from the opera
"Carmen” to a medley of Simon and Garfunkel hits.
Also intriguing was the medley of movie themes—movie themes
that did not win an oscar Included in this medley was the James Bond
theme and music from “The Good. Bad and the Ugly.”
It was a musical evening that was different and enjoyable And,
should Ferrante and Teicher ever return to Eugene, they are worth
hearing—even in Mac Court.
Dave Woodson
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Anita. Bonnie. Ruth and June spoke last December while in Eugene
to appear in concert at the EMU Ballroom, about themselves, their
music and the session work they’d been doing as of late.
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wanted to be a Pointer Sisters Roadie Consequently he ended up out
on stage setting up guitars. “The audience was saying to themselves,
‘Hey, that looks like Alice Cooper!' It was fun.”
Did he perform with the band or sing along”
“No, he just came to the show,” said Bonnie.
Coming from rags (Salvation Army rags) to riches, the sisters
began singing in their father’s church. “We hadda go to vacation Bible
school.” Ruth tells her audiences. “Everybody else got to go to
summer camp and stuff." They were always singing, in church and
out of church “We sang under the tables in the closets in
the dark anywhere we could hide We even used to sing in the
backyard There's a lot of things you can learn in the backyard that
you can’t learn in church ”
The sisters, ranging from a glistening 20 to 28 years of age. never
actually thought they were going to be as popular as they now are.
“The Troubador date was the turning point in our career When one of
the acts cancelled out, that was our chance,” said Ruth. “We’ve just
had it all stored up inside of us for years and finally we got a chance to
show it. So we showed it. We were waiting for our break ”
There's another interesting story they tell of the time when Bonnie,
June and Anita went to Houston because their manager at the time
thought Texas was where they were going to make it. The success
never materialized, at least as far as the three sisters were concerned,
and they sent a telegram to David Rubinson, who was producing
records in San Francisco (with people such as Cold Blood, and It's A
Beautiful Day) and asked him tofly them back to Oakland. Rubinson
had tickets for them the next day, and within weeks they were backing
up the Elvin Bishop Group, Dave Mason and Taj Mahal They
continued their session work with Rubinson and landed jobs behind
Boz Scaggs. Tower of Power, the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils and Cold
Blood. Soon they realized success was just around the corner. And
indeed it was.
They decided it was time for them to make a break from the session
scene and go it on their own. Ruth joined the trio and the last summer
the girls recorded an album, under the love and guidance of Rubinson
for Blue Thumb Records. A hit single. Allen Toussaint’s “Yes, We Can
Can was dynamite and exploted all over the country proclaiming the
girls, and their style the best yet of anything since the Andrews.
A new alburn recorded in December (to show you how busy they
were, one session was recorded in between a Portland and Eugene
concert) is due pretty quick, and so is their current tour which winds
its way back to the Northwest May 3 at the Civic Auditorium in
Portland.
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