Word: backups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a high school team or anything-and he hadn't gone out for the Harvard freshman team. His goaltending experience had been mostly pickup games, and a little for a league in East Boston. But he had worked his way up from the JV team and was now backup man to Durno. He seemed to be an excellent example of the self made hockey player, and since that was where I was starting out, basically. I felt I could learn quite a lot from him. And LoPresti, who's always one to help the underdog, really took my situation...
...first song on. This Side is named, appropriately enough, "Remember Then." originally done by the Earls. Like most of the songs, it is about love, teenage love and it is representative of many of the pre-1960 songs in another way-the great backup voices. What today's rock songs lack more than anything else is catchy backup, and "Remember Then" makes that failing obvious. There's a surging "Re-mem-mem. re-mem-mem-member" in a pleasing bass voice at the outset. Later, the repetitions of "oop shoop, shang a lang a ding dong" nicely complement that basic...
...another outstanding selection. Sha Na Na's musicians work extremely well together on this great song, and when they tell about each chapter of this very special book, you could swear it's the Monotones themselves. At the end is a rasping "yea," the second best bit of backup in the album. The top backup anywhere is in "Little Girl of Mine," where again one hears a terrifically deep "yea" reneatem throughout the song. It couldn't be better...
...Beat and backup are two areas which old rock excels, and the third is lyrics. Consider this unique poetry from "Heartbreak Hotel...
...shouldn't have tried to update it; Leadbelly's version has the unity, the weight, the intractability of bedrock. Whereas Taj's version of "Good Mornning, Little School Girl" is more assured, more aware of the song's traditional bases, than the Grateful Dead's. He and his backup men are subtler, funnier, and stronger because they don't try so hard every instant. Taj has taken the song back to country blues, where it belongs...