Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flow from composer to listener. Buswell's head and body gestures did not keep the orchestra together or effect good ritardandi, and the reduced orchestra sounded best in the parts of the slow movement that Buswell actually conducted. Here he created a clearer pulse, sensitive phrasing of the bass line, and even, mysteriously, better intonation...
...organ, dimly at first, begins to play a soft, floating melody. Then the drums pick up, and the bass quickly joins in with a muffled, steady beat. Finally, a fellow in a red-striped T-shirt, smiling but otherwise motionless, steps to the microphone, and, about as pleasantly as a human being can make a sound, begins to follow the organ with his voice. The lyrics are simple: "lalalalalalalala." But the meaning is clear...
...Fish are as proficient musically as Joe is lyrically. Barry Nelson, the lead guitar player, who sings most of the group's boisterous songs, David Cohen, the organist, Bruce Barthol on bass, and Chicken Hirsch on the drums are all freaked out to various degrees, all, as Barry put it, "avoiding the draft" (presumably through mental or psychological deferments) and all superb musicians...
Drugs have played a part in the development of the group. There is little doubt that many of the group's songs concern experiences with pot and LSD. From "Bass Strings...
Alexander Scourby, 54, is a television anomaly - a performer who is often heard, but seldom seen. The rich, resonant bass that frets, in the name of Johnson & Johnson Band-Aids, "It's a dirty world," is Scourby's. The voice that expresses Eastern Air Lines' sentiment, "We want everyone to fly," is his. He is also the fellow on the tele phone commercial who explains warmly that "We may be the only phone company in town, but we try not to act like...