Word: amps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...calculated to produce this image. In his neo-greaser outfit--baggy pants, a workshirt with cut-off sleeves, a leather jacket, and a floppy, oversized woolen ski cap that he periodically pulls over his eyes, throws in the air, or loses among the tangle of amp and guitar cords on stage--he looks like a kid who has some inborn style but doesn't have the time or money or desire to get properly duded up. The lighting for the act also helps to create this image: during some songs, the stage is hazily backlit, giving the impression that Springsteen...
George Wiltsee, administrative director of the Advanced Management Program, a 13 week senior executive program that costs $6.850, said yesterday "ooer the years the general interest in executive education programs, and certainly in AMP, has continually increased...
...succeeded primarily at proving that he's a punk at heart himself. He passes that adolescent arrogance on to his band, and they hand it on to us (and do you have any idea of the power behind "Won't Get Fooled Again?" I mean hostile, chair-throwing, amp-smashing Power?), which is something the Stones cannot do adequately, because there simply aren't enough punks in the band...
...Raitt is earthy, then Jackson Browne is slick. He is tall and lean, his hair falls perfectly parted, he sports just a taste of hillbilly in his voice. Friday night Browne did a 40-minute set of his own songs. Plagued by technical difficulties--the worst of them an amp which turned his acoustic guitar into a tinny electric--and uneasy over his place on the bill, Browne seemed uncomfortable on stage and unsatisfied with his band's performance...
Further technical problems included the exchange of McLaughlin's entire bank of amplifiers: problems with the organ's main amp, its Leslie tone cabinet, were confronted, and solved. Then, 30 seconds of silenced. Then, thunder, the massive chords of "Meeting of the Spirits," four of them, as though to alert the heavens that the show had begun. The piece's theme is finger-picked, on the 12 string neck of McLaughlin's double-necked Gibson. From there the group's soloists explored the theme's possibilities...