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  • PAGE 8/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1977 Concert Review Loggins and Mason electrify crowd Enough! Enough! What immense fortune hath befallen Cullowhee? Nay; more, more! Let us partake of our good fortune for as long as our hearts can stand Whatever good fate has befallen us, it is aparent after the Mason Loggins show last Monday night that Cullowhee is receiving her fair share of outstanding concerts this semester. Mason stole the audience only to have it recaptured by Loggins. Who did the better show? The answer is Obvious: Neither. They were both incomparable in their own style. The bulk of Mason's set can best be described as cloud nine, plugged-in acoustic. Beautiful. He had the audience floating out of their seats, promising to never drop them. And he never did. He gently set them back in their seats and then stood them on their feet with a very powerful encore of "All Along the Watchtower" as a grand finale. Did we think for a minute that he would leave without proving what a brilliant electric- guitarist he was? But actually he wasn't proving a thing. He was merely confirming a legend. Mason's acoustic work Monday night was heartwarming. No one could come across any stronger with an acoustic concert. Songs like "We Just Disagree" and "Will You Still Love Me" reached out and caressed the audience. Both Jerry Williams (on guitar) and Mark Stein (on keyboards) showed a lot of energy and enthusiasm in their solos. (Remember Mark Stein, the lead singer for Vanilla Fudge?) Loggins set got off to a slow start, but that is certainly not any reflection on the rest of the show. His first three songs were for the most part ignored, but that didn't bother Kenny. He then did his famous "Pooh Corner" and "Danny's Song" non stop. On the latter he had the audience singing along and then told them "you sing beautiful." The audience loved him. Why didn't the audience respond to the first few songs Loggins played? Actually, they were really good, with instrumentation just as good as his other songs. People seem to respond more to songs they recognize, and they didn't recognize those. The last three songs, "Angry Eyes," and in his encores "1 Believe In Love" and "Vahevala" climaxed the evening. Instrument leads and solos in these songs lifted the audience to an excited peak. Let us hope that this streak of fortune stays with us for the rest of the year. Jesse Winchester, Jimmy Buffett. Dave Mason, and Kenny Loggins are all hard acts to follow. Carolinian staff writer Chip Hammond inter Carolinian Exclusive Loggins The concert last Monday night showed that if one perserveres enough he will get his reward. The following is an exclusive interview with Kenny Loggins taken between the time the concert was over and the time he left. The questions printed here may be edited somewhat to avoid superflousness. but the words attributed to Loggins are "unretouched." Loggins: Why is that an important question? Carolinian:This school needs to know what the performers think of us. because there is sort of a dual performance at a concert. Loggins: Well, rating an audience is a "duel" of a sort. This audience may have felt they were real good, and then if I come off and say they suck, then I've defeated everything I've tried to do out there. So you're not gonna get an honest answer from anybody, really. Unless you ask somebody who is so stoned or so drunk that he'll give you whatever he happens to be thinking. And that is determined by the mood he is in because he's been on the road for three months and he hates the Carolinian: You're saying that you are a performer and you're there to please the audience. Loggins: If I work my butt off for an hour and a half to please the audience then turn around in your interview and say they were fucked. I've defeated everything I've worked my ass off for. Carolinian: The reasor we had a Stills concet and the audience was at the audience and i hell. Since then I'v I asked that is because last y o ask a performer. cry rowdy. Stills wa essence told them ; considered it an very mad II to go to important Loggins: First off. I don't think you can educate an audience. I don't think it's possible. An audience is what they are. How they're feeling at the moment. what the pressures are, whether they won the football game or not, whether there are tests coming up, whether they feel good because finals are over or whether they're just beginning. You just can't say in your article "you people just really got to get together
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