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...Russ Ballard is not only Argent's guitarist, he also writes nearly half the band's songs. Ballard's songs emphasize guitar as much as Argent's rely on organ and piano. "Tragedy", opens with a good soul band guitar lick, that becomes the basis of the tune. Rod Argent's role on this one is to build the total sound with his full-bodied chords, and to play a smoothly-phrased duet with Ballard during the break. The transitions between chorus bridge and break are smooth--repeated listening shows this to be one of the band's strong points...
...Dynamo" is the other Ballard rave-up. The shouted vocal owes a bit to Steve Miller's pioneer work in the field of white blues singing. Argent's piano playing here is strictly honky tonk: in total concept, the song faintly echoes some of Fleetwood Mac's later efforts. Ballard takes his only solo on this tune, and shows himself to be an adequate guitarist, even if he does sound like a cautious Jimmy Page...
...IONE BALLARD SCHURCH...
...film was more involving than Clock work; more understated, thus more intellectually palatable; and it was better-made. Kubrick used Lucien Ballard's hard-edged black-and-white photography in the rangy prose style of most good American narrative films. Since the caper gives events a trap-like structure, without closing out the growth of characterization, Ballard's lights make the settings eloquent without making them overbearing. When Cook is shot by his wife, he falls where his apartment's worn carpet catches streetlight. A parakeet screeches over the punk's fallen body, and the scene and the sound...
Lazarus and Ballard said that some students plan to protest the decision by boycotting their seminars next semester and others hope to take the course as an extra-curricular activity...