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...it’s all about her; there isn’t much to be said of her backup vocalist, except that his howl-like yodels were a little ridiculous. LP’s most jarring contradiction lies in the fact that she doesn’t sound the way she looks. She opened the set with a blasting rock and roll number, “Love Somebody,” complete with a driving beat and a whole lot of attitude. The weird thing, though, was that despite the undeniable dynamism of her performance, LP didn?...
...things right by not bumming anybody out. Starting with the exuberant Steve McQueen, she launches into a relentless pursuit of good times and an echo of her first hit, singing, "I want to rock and roll this party/ I still wanna have some fun." When the chorus arrives, backup singers make a Hoo-hoo! train-whistle sound. Steve Miller is smiling somewhere...
...high school, I was a pretty good golfer and played number one on the team my senior year. I was the backup point guard on a competitive basketball team and though everyone but me grew six inches between ninth and tenth grade, I still held my own. In the spring, I played shortstop where I fancied myself a white Ozzie Smith: a lot of glove, can’t hit, but just might have a future in the game...
...adding his own ragged guitar solos and flower-child lyrics: call it all-natural gra-soul-a. It's nearly always a little too sweet, with Young's voice reaching high to deliver heartfelt avowals of love tinged with sadness at the state of the world. A tightly professional backup of organ, mid-tempo drums and precise rhythm guitar keeps him from getting too wild and loose. But most songs go on for too long, and the rare tracks where he lets a little anger creep in, like Let's Roll, his homage to the Sept. 11 passengers of Flight...
...Unlike batteries, fuel cells don't store electricity. They generate it, via a chemical reaction between a hydrogen-containing fuel and oxygen. Fuel cells have been around for decades in exotic applications, powering satellites and spacecraft. They are being developed for commercial use in electric cars and to provide backup electricity for buildings (a truly "green" technology: their only emissions are water vapor and heat). Strapping a power plant to a mobile phone once seemed a silly idea?early prototypes for portable fuel cells were as ungainly as a pair of clogs?but miniaturization has reached the stage where consumers...