By JIM F R E D E R IC K Texan Staff Writer

U s a given that Michael Murphev writes good songs and has a powerful, variable and unique voice. He also is better live than on record.

The reasonHe acknowledges the audience and he gets

them involved He gets high on stage — high on his music ii you can stomach that corny phrase But there he is. closing his eyes for a little bit more feeling, jumping up and down with the end of a song, mesmerized by his music and mesmerizing the audience but not forgetting them.

SATURDAY NIGHT at Armadillo World Headquarters he played "old favorites” from

Michael Murphey Leaves 'em Singing-RIC K his first two a I hums and snnas from hid nmr . ...-..-.ti,,,,., i.l . i ... . ,r ut,, i ..j .. .1. . „ ...» __ ».. . .his first two albums and songs from his new

album which ought to be out this week Though he started late — nearly l l p.m. — he played till nearly 1:30 a m.

Murphey has said that much of his music comes from gospel roots, and it showed quite a bit during the third and final part of the show

After an electric and then a solo acoustic set Murphey and band took a short break, then returned for a iinal electric set of three or four songs The second song "Cosmic Cow­boy had everyone who had been sitting on the tloor standing, dancing and singing along.

MI RPHEY CAUGHT on. grinned and offered the audience a part The feeling caught on even more during the last song of the set. which had a repeated chorus

something like "for the rest of my life I 'm go­ing to be a holy roller "

Obviously the gospel roots were showing through, but it made one realize just how close blues, rock and roll and gospel actually are to each other Hie music his music is a natural, swaying, sing-along type music. He encouraged participation bv stopping the play of the band and letting the voices take over first his, with an audience chorus, then the audience alone

T H E R E HE was, grinning and literally glowing like he was radiating pure infectuous sincerity and happiness Yeah. yeah." he yelled to the audience. When the song was over the lights cut and the band left the stage It didn t take too much to bring them back on

Murphey said of the next song that it was an old one. one that "we d gotten a little tired of playing. But we’ve kind of come through to the other side of it now it applies to a cer­tain kind of rip-off that's been going on in America for a long time and still is Geronimo's Cadillac.’

"Governor Dolph Briscoe isn t it strange. y ou never see a gas shortage on the Indian range’ ’ he sang

“ CADILLAC" eventually broke into an ex tended " ja m " with "licks" being traded between piano, pedal steel and Craig Hillis’ lead guitar and Murpey's rhy thm

The "jam " could have gone on forever When it ended the band paused, the crowd cheered without waiting, and Murphey finish­ed the song humming the simple background

tune that runs through the song.THE LIGHTS went off and again the stage

was cleared. The crowd was clapping in time, but people were leaving and the back floor lights were coming on Up on stage, though, someone with Murphey’s blond hair was sliding behind the piano

We're already running a little late, but

It was after I a.rn when he started the most gospel song of all "The Lights of the ( with a strong blues feel and beat aswell

Again he had the crowd singing Into the last refrain he had the stages lights cut

lins time real soft One more verse, then no more Murphey and band slipped off as soft In as they had just sung.

'Lumpazi' Satirical FarceBy

J I E R G E N I U E N H O S T E L

Gods begin and end " Lum­pazi vagabundus" i Lumpazi i. but its message is down to earth cosmic catastrophes may destroy the world, but mortals are bound to ruin everything.

The depiction of the human condition through the adven­tures of three likable tramps is the main theme of Johann N e s tro ys m usical farce presented Saturday night in Batts Hall Auditorium by the German Department

"Lum paz i" is typical of Viennese comedy of the early 1800s: men get their wishes granted by a god or spirit, but they cannot manage their new luck and are finally converted to ho-hum b o u rg e o i s e d o rn est i c i l y . H o w e v e r . N es troy s characters are not so easy to change, for they re­main tramps.

Nestroy s play is a satirical comment upon the newly rich of the early 19th Century w ho equated money with hap­piness.

DR. WOLFGANG Michael director of the plav. ran a great risk in performing this c o m e d y w i t h s tuden t amateurs. Actors have to dance and sing without ap­parent effort to parody the

music of Mozart, Rossini and others. Dr Hanns-BertoldDietz and William Heber of the music department did a great job in guiding the ac­tors.

A trio with chorus (Sra Taubman. Martha Medford and Stephen Pitts) were good even by professional stan­dards. The songs of theshoemaker-imbiber i Michael Barker» were as expressive as songs from dramas by Bertolt Brecht Barker did superbjustice to his part.

S T E P H E N P I T T S (the tailor) captured the audience with his charming Viennese accent. Stuart Collins (Hie carpenter i let the audience feel his lover's grief when he fell asleep with the name of his love of his lips. Elizabeth Bove, (Fortuna) spiced her short parts with mimic ex­pressions and gestures.

True Robert Kaplan as Stellaris and Karlyn Mitchell as Amorosa had some dif­ficulties with the dignified.

USE D A ILY T E X A N C L A S S I F I E D S T H E Y W O R K !

godl ike vo i ce But the audience forgave them with pleasure Roaring applause applied to all when the curtain tell

With standardized German, Michael unavoidably loses some of the special Viennese nuances of the work. But many gags made up tor flus loss witness Fortuna and Amorosa entering the stage

on scooters An or ig ina l song was

rewritten to include thrusts on the Kohoutek comet disap pointment. the unisex fashion. the energy crisis and I niver- sitv spending

This reminded the departing audience that the more un settling disorder is among us rather than among the stars and comets.

"The Selfish Giant," the television adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic, airs at 7 p rn. Monday on channel 7. The fairy tale concerns a giant who learns something about human understanding

Another animated special also will be shown, at 7:30 p rn on channel 7. "D r Seuss’ The Lo r a x ” deals with ecology and the destruction of

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