Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Paul Shaffer and Second City Top left: Paul Shaffer captures the audience ' s attention with an acoustic version of Eve of Destruction. Top right: Shaffer plays another great song on the keyboards. Middle: Second City Comedy Troupe welcomes Creighton with their opening act. Bottom far left: Hey, Bermuda. Bottom left: Second City comedians perform another of their im- promptu acts. Bottom right: Shaffer and Urban Surrender, a local band, go through a rehearsal. The most anticipated SBG event of the first semester was musician Paul Shaffer ' s appearance in Upper Brandeis Oct. 5. Expectations were high and Shaffer, the bandleader on NBC ' s Late Night with David Let- terman, didn ' t disappoint. An unusually receptive crowd began lining up 45 minutes before the show and had snaked around Swanson Hall by the time they were admitted. Within minutes, Upper Brandeis had filled to standing room only. The festive mood of the audience was magnified by the performance of Urban Surrender, a local jazz- rock f usion combo. Their 45-minute set of uptempo instrumentals, enhanced by tight playing and inten- sity, brought the crowd to its feet several times. Shaffer, appearing only the second time in front of a college audience, opened his portion of the show with a brief outline of his history in the music business. He also explained how he got involved with television-- A bunch of Canadian kids came down to New York to pro- duce a show called ' Saturday Night Live ' --and how his myriad talents have kept him in demand in both the television and music world. Following a lively question-and- answer session, Shaffer hooked up with Urban Surrender in a rehearsal similar to those he holds with the Late Nighf ' band. Shaffer is also known for his ap- pearances on Saturday Night Live and in the movies, The Blues Brothers, Gilda Live, and This Is Spinal Tap. 29