HIPPIE HAPPINESS FROM SIR DOUG
What Year Did You Say This Was?
Last summer, after offering 15 seasons of pop mania at a fair price, the Central Park Music Festival came to a spectacular end. The 10,000 paid admissions and God-knows-how-many freebies on the grass and trees were there to see the Pretenders, but no one was disappointed when the familiar humpity organ strains of �She�s About A Mover� identified the opening act. The �New� Sir Douglas Quintet was in town to cut an album, and their still-perky 60�s flavor was especially heartwarming to those of us who remembered being at the Festival�s opening in 1966. Was it true that some good things didn�t have to change?
One might have asked that question again six months later, as the three-fifths original Sir Douglas Quintet filled the Lone Star Cafe to bursting, and for an hour and a half, played everything from the tunes on Border Wave, their newest album, to Mexican accordian music, to a sweaty encore of �Wooly Bully.� Oh, and of course, �She�s About A Mover,� �Mendocino,� �Rain, Rain� and the rest of their signature tunes. Doug was in a frenzy, galloping across the cramped stage with wobbly legs shaking to an inner fire, encouraging the sardine-tight crowd to shake their neighbors to incendiary level, giving the high-sign to a pack of Chinese guys who stood out among the flannel-shirted and jeaned minions. They were country, they were rock �n� roll, they were a lot of yester-
