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I - O/d, new Byrds-play solid-show THE PHILADELPHIA STRING QUARTET singles are made of. They weren't a been to South Carolina must even start Works by Kodaly, Alberto Ginastera, Beethoven , By Steve Grant match for the Who or the Yardbirds for to feel lonesome for the pine trees Sunday, March 2,-3:00 p.m. The Byrds took a big step Friday sheer energy, but Julie Driscoll's there when Parsons sings this song . their reputa- KRESGE AUDITORIUM night towards dispelling "Wheels on Fire" doesn't seem as (Another set, another night, had all the tion as an awful live band. While their untouchable as it once did. The Band's members of both groups playing to- Tickets: $2.00 M.I.T. students with I.D.. records Still overshawdow their perfor-' version can almost be forgotten. gether. Wouldn't it be something if this their two sets at'the mances in concert, (By the way, Jools and her group happened with some regularity!) Boston Tea Party were, for the most will be at the Tea Party in the near The Byrds and .their remnants have part, enjoyable, with plenty of excite- i future, and they're not to be missed. done a lot to introduce still another ment thrown in- a commodity seldom She is the chick singer of the day, and brand of music. Those who thought found on their records. the Trinity are no slouches either. If that the -Byrds couldn't do anything Thle show wasn't without faults, you haven't got Open by now, go stand worthwhile after having done "Eight though. Roger (nee Jin) McGuinn is in the corner.) Miles High" have. now been proven too infatuated with his new-found C & p The Byrds have come-a long way wrong. As the least distasteful group W style to make oldies like- "Mr. since those first albums, partly because around (have. they ever done a really Tambourine Man" and "Tum! Turn! they've changed personnel so many song or album?), they have given IM Basketball Finals Turn!" bearable. The third song in the bad times, and partly because McGuinn country another big push with the very medley, "Eight Miles High," typified doesn't sit still for long with one style. down-home records they've done late- drummer Gary Parsons' perchant for (Surely the two are related.) The head ly. You can watch the Beatles to see horsing around with the oldies, but who got McGuinn into country was what will happen next, but the Byrds managed to conjure up some excite- one Gram Parsons, a Boston boy who are at least as much on top of the vs. ment, anyway. Ther6e were others- the SAE DU went back to the roots. After leaving situation. Byrds' Greatest Hits as played by Buck the Byrds (he served apprenticeship on Owens- country riffs in "Goin' Back," Sweetheart of the Rodeo and appeared Relax and Divert 'Chimes of Freedom," "Bells of with the group here last Winter Week- I Rhymney,""My Back Pages," and the end), Parsons formed the Flying Bur- Saturday, the first of March two above-mentioned hatchet jobs that rito Brothers with Chris Hillman (the CAMPUS CUE just don't make it. original Byrd bassist, and now a 590 Commonweaith Ave. in Rockwell Cage But when the Byrds jump headlong rhythm guitarist in the new band), (Opposite B. U. Towers) into their country material, watch out. Sneaky Pete (also a formner Byrd), Chris They did some material from their two Ethridge (the pedal steel guitarist who latest albums Sweetheart of the Rodeo is on some Judy Collins songs), and Jon and Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde and, for Corneal (gad, still another Byrd). Pocket Billiards Admission free the most part, it was mean stuff. On the bill Friday night, along with McGuinn went through a second child- the Byrds, they sounded for all the "Greaf for a hood, with the swivel hips and graceful world like the Everly Brothers backed IDate" twang Style, proving once again that no up by the Byrds, what with Hillman bard can create audience level of rap- and Parsons singing their duets, and all I -. ,------I r------Is - IL id - L . - LI I - L LIL- port higher than their own concern for those former Byrds doing the instru- .the material. McGuinn and his group mentals. They even sang "Wake Up, were iriterested, and so was the audi- Little Susie." 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