Middle Tennessee State University - Midlander Yearbook (Murfreesboro, TN)

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Surfs Up At Murphy Center! Student Life — 17

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Where could you go on a warm autumn night in Mid- dle Tennessee and watch America ' s answer to the Bea- tles, the MTSU cheerleading squad (complete with mascot) and a singer who claimed to play the meanest mikestand in the business ? More than 7,000 people saw this and more on October 12, when the Special Events Committee presented the Beach Boys and Three Dog Night in concert. The show marked the Beach Boys ' second appearance at Murphy Center, and Three Dog Night ' s first concert tour in 10 years. Three Dog Night played the first set. Chuck Negron leading off on One Man Band, with Cory Wells assist- ing on cowbell. Afterwards, Wells, as spokesman for the group, promised the crowd hit songs spanning a dec- ade. Danny Huttoh brought back the mood of the early ' 70s with Shambala. Negron ' s pleading Easy to Be Hard means more now than it did when it was originally released. In Old-Fashioned Love Song, the tightly in- terwoven lines of the echo-ending brought cheers from the fans, while Wells hammed it up by holding his nose and delivering his lines in the purest ' 30s radio style. After a false start on Back in the Saddle Again (does every rock act playing a Tennessee campus have to 18 — Student Life