Archival Buffalo News feature articles

  Buffalo State ’s music programmers score a coup and stage a night that still lives on in the annals of local rock history.   Oct. 13, 1977 Show Offers Rock And Role-Playing             Buffalo got its formal introduction to New Wave Wednesday night in a program appropriate to the academic setting – the poster-plastered Buffalo State College Student Center .           First there was a talk. Then a panel discussion. Finally, there was the music.           The talker was a music industry legend – Clive Davis, a lawyer who as president of Columbia Records built and merchandised the biggest rock acts of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Now president of Arista Records, he’s determined to do it again.           Davis , in blue blazer and tie, spent most of his hour skimming through the successes he recounts at greater length in his autobiography, “Clive.” Nevertheless, scattered within the endless references to groups and singers were a few pearls of philosophy.       

Certain comedians really speak to me and Robert Klein is one of them, probably because we were born in the same year – 1942 – and share a lot of touchpoints from our formative years, including Yankee fandom.   Oct, 10, 1977 Comic Klein Rambles Through Improvisations             Comedian Robert Klein steps on stage in a trenchcoat and cap in overheated Clark Gym on the State University of Buffalo’s Main Street Campus at 9:30 Sunday night, puts on his scarf and reassure the 1,900 folks in the student crowd.           “OK, the score is 2-1 Kansas City in the third inning,” he says. “Number one, the game will take care of itself. If they win, they win. If they lose (gulp), they lose.”           Klein is from New York City . Brooklyn to be exact. And his allegiance in this baseball playoff series is not exactly a secret. One of this recorded routines revolves around his boyhood idol, Mickey Mantle. The man is rooting for the Yankees. Passionately.           The Mickey Mantle b