Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of Richard Farina, already dead three and a half years, the cruel denuding of defects is beginning. In response to the recent publication of a very good posthumous book, Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, and a not so good posthumous record album, Memories, Cavalier magazine (the second runner to Playboy in the field that can only be honestly called tits-and-ass journalism) has done their best to dig up the dirties on Dick Farina. Why? Does he deserve discrediting? Do we deserve having him discredited...
Russ Gibb, disk jockey for Detroit radio station WKNR, had a startling announcement. Paul McCartney of the Beatles, he said, has been dead for several years, and is being impersonated by a double. Gibb figured it all out from two Beatles album covers. The new Abbey Road cover, he explained, shows Ringo Starr dressed as an undertaker, George Harrison as a gravedigger, and John Lennon as a religious personage. Paul is dressed hi a normal suit and is barefoot-the mark of a corpse laid out for burial in Italy. The license plate on a parked Volkswagen reads "281F," meaning...
...album. The Band is solidly good, if some what uninspired. It works as a cohesive unit to create a relaxed, essentially affirmative mood. By giving real value to the simpler things in life, the Band can look at an evil world and see potential for good...
Stylistically, The Band is Country and Western rock, with mandolin, jew's harp, and some very funky ragtime piano to hint at the down home atmosphere, while drums, organ, and electric guitar give the music a drive which CandW does not possess. The album is technically sound and it is the kind of music you can hum in your mind when you're falling asleep in lecture. Each cut is very professionally arranged and performed to project the atmosphere which the Lyrics describe. As a unit then, the Band works. But judged according to standards set by people like Cream...
Lyrically, the most satisfying cut on the album has the unlikely title of "Whispering Pines." Written by Richard Manuel and Robertson, it is a very sensitive treatment of the almost desperate sadness that disillusionment and loneliness produce...