Word: argent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diane first told us about Argent. It was two years ago, and a friend and I used to go into the Coop record department just to hand out, because we never had any money. We'd just gotten to be regulars, the point at which people began to mistake us for employees, when we met Diane, who really did work there. We started to show up just to see her. And everytime we did, she'd slide over and say just one word, "Argent," in a very sultry voice. Seemed she sang with a band, which had played a weekend...
...took two years and AM radio before I found Argent for myself. I heard "Hold Your Head Up" on the radio and thought it was McCartney, until I heard its organ break. It's still one of the finer things on AM playlists. It's rare enough I buy an album for one cut; this is the first record I've ever bought on the basis of one song played on the radio...
...Argent was a Zombia. You must remember the Zombies, a third-stream-English-invasion band. They had two hits, "She's Not There," and "Tell Her No" then disappeared for four years. In 1968, they made a single, "Time of the Season," and an album for Columbia. They broke up soon after, and Argent formed Argent, named, according to the group, because "the others feel that the identity of the band stemmed from his original purpose...
World War I puts the "connoisseur of bad generalship," as Fair styles himself, to the same exquisite torture an oenophilist might face in the cellars of the Tour d'Argent. There were so many foolish commanders that it is hard to pick only one or two for special commendation. Sir Douglas Haig, however, can at least be called representative. The battle of Loos (September 1915) was typical of his style. He began the engagement with a gas attack that hurt the British more than the Germans. Next morning he mounted a massed assault by nearly 10,000 troops against...