Word: basse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Public Image Ltd. is also the name of Lydon's new band, composed of ex-Clash guitarist Keith Levine, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Donut. Wobble only learned the bass last year; Donut is as leadfooted as most rock drummers. But Levine really understands his topped-up guitar--his ingenious and adventurous departures from twelve-bar rock and roll demonstrate that here--and his partnership with Lydon promised much more than what...
...place is human now for a while at least, clearly Jimmy Carter's home. Anyone with the time to wander the county, to wait for the strong old rhythms of its life to sound their bass beneath the cashbox jingle, will see how the place has added to the man large measures of its own calm, its silent demonstration (at field's edge, in shacks, on more fortunate porches) of the few but urgent needs of human continuance, of-more urgent still -the needs of the earth. You may even come away with something like my own sense...
Vicious rose to fame in 1977 as a bass guitarist with the now-defunct Sex Pistols rock band...
DIED. Charles Mingus, 56, virtuoso bassist and composer whose emotional, free-floating music helped shape modern jazz; of a heart attack after suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease); in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Raised in the Watts district of Los Angeles, Mingus began studying bass in high school, later played with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker before forming his own combo in New York in the mid-'50s. Influenced strongly by blues and gospel, he began writing music that highlighted the bass as a solo instrument and featured contorted harmonies and quick-changing rhythms with...
...unlikely that the business would have taken great interest in Bok, anyhow. His voice is a warm bass baritone. His songs-some original, some traditional -are sober, a little lofty on occasion, and limited in appeal by theme as well as sound. Among Bok's prime efforts are Seal Djiril's Hymn and Peter Kagan and the Wind, a 15-minute narrative ballad about a fisherman who is, one might say, married to a fishwife: "She was a seal, you know/ Everyone knew that .../ But nobody would...