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

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Songs attributed to her such as You ' re No Good, Love has No Pride, Long, Long Time, When Will I Be Loved, the old Eagles tune (her former backup group) Desperado, and Neil Young ' s Love Is A Rose were just as good on the Murphy Center Stage as in her albums and other live performances. All proving that thing which sums Ronstadt up is that she does rock with feavor and country with class. Though her backup vocals, including show opener Andrew Gold, were just about the tightest I have ever heard, Ron- stadt just didn ' t have enough rapport with her audience to really get them involved in what she was doing. Ronstadt has the type of voice that takes you down a long highway at night k hen you are in the middle of nowhere heading home. Her voice is well-honed sharp and mellow. The piece de resistance was her encore song Heart Like A Wheel , which in my opinion is her best, in which Andrew Gold did with the piano what I only thought possible with the cellt and violin, on the backup. Although she made references to show she didn ' t exactly know where she was, it didn ' t matter because she was at MTSU and made a dismal homecoming weekend bright anyway, Goodnight. Vanderbilt . ..smr '

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■ 0 . ow that lithe, petite body like hers can belt out a song like she does is totally beyond me. But belt is what she did when Linda Ronstadt appeared at Murphy Center home- coming weekend. Fronted by a fairly tight Barefoot Jerry, a d a fairly good Andrew Gold, Ronstadt didn ' t get on stage until after 10p.m. But when she did, it was magic. Ronstadt, known by many as the queen of country-rock, showed her receptive audience her total range and proved that she can just about handle anything that moves fairly fast or fairly slow. Doing such old standards as Buddy Holly ' s That ' ll Be the Day, Paul Anka ' s ' It Don ' t Matter Anymore, ' Hank William ' s I Can ' t Help It (If I ' m Still In Love With You ), ' she proved she could handle the old really- country and the old really-rock songs. Her renditions of ' Heat Wave, Hey, Mister, That ' s Me Up On The Jukebox and Silver Threads and Golden Needles, proved it even further. f s

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PINBALL A New York lawyer said it promoted idleness. One psychologist suggested it was an outlet for homosexual urges. In spite of this criticism, pinball addicts nationwide are enthusiastically gambling those hard-earned quarters and giving the slot machine industry a major sensation. Pointing to the number of teenage games rooms (archades?) appearing in the nation ' s shopping malls, one pinball distributor said that all coin machines are experiencing a rebirth. In fact, the University Center games room has four machines — the Bally Flicker, Air Aces, Boomerang and the Wizard which is based on the pinball player ' s national anthem, Pinball Wizard, by the Who. 16 A n n n