Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first reaction to this freedom was to push it to its furthest limits which they did in continuous experiment from "Strawberry Fields" to "I Am the Walrus." What we have been seeing ever since has been a retrenchment. The Beatles are back to being a standard rock band (drums, bass, guitar/piano) but the richness of their immediate background enables them to transform this seemingly limited form by magical proportions. The Beatles may be musical amateurs but they have more experience than anyone in the business...
...cover picture on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band focuses on a grave, with the flowers at its bottom shaped like a bass guitar-McCartney's instrument-and like the letter "P." On the inside photo McCartney wears on his left arm a patch reading "O.P.D." (Officially Pronounced Dead), the British equivalent of "D.O.A...
...Bass, who robbed trains of $60,000, $3,000, $50, and $160 until he was trapped and killed by Texas rangers...
...qualities, there could hardly be a better incarnation of Satan than Basso Norman Treigle, 42. Small, skinny, seemingly naked, Treigle flashed through the role like a black-voiced cobra. Plunging from profundo depths to baritonal heights, his voice remained huge and perfectly focused through one of the crudest bass roles ever written. "I can't say I really like this Mefisto," Treigle said afterward. "I think of myself as an actor, not a singer, and it isn't an interesting role. I just keep dashing out and gutting...
...physique of a working bantamweight. His voice is deep, with a tough accent curiously compounded of New Orleans (where he lives) and Brooklyn (where he has never lived). "I started out as a boy soprano," he says. "I could outSills Beverly Sills, but then I turned into a bass. I dunno what kind of voice I got now. Call it a dramatic bass...