Word: basse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is kind of a quiet weekend for rock music in Beantown and environs. But if you really need your dose of spine-crunching bass and screaming, indecipherable lyrics, you'd do well to catch the Ramones at the Paradise (967 Comm Ave, Boston), Friday through Sunday at 9. New wave and all that, y'know? Actually, the Ramones, authors of that disgusting hit single "Rockaway Beach," are the kind of group that gives some of the more serious New Wave artists a bad name. Avoid, unless you want to see teenagers no more talented than...
...Music for Money, I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass and the Lowe-Edmunds Little Hitler have a jagged cutting edge, but the melodies slip them straight into the mainstream, where they are anchored by Edmunds' fire-wheel lead guitar, Lowe's bemused vocals and fast-breaking bass ("I'm never gonna win any awards for my playing"). The sound-straight, uncomplicated, meant to give you a quick hit of euphoria-has its roots in the defunct British group Brinsley Schwarz. Lowe put in a five-year stint with the Brinsleys, while Edmunds produced some of their...
...named Sugar Blue plays as classy a harp as you've ever heard), but "Miss You" is not much like the rest of the album at all. This is not to downgrade "Miss You" beyond reason. It is technically an excellent song led by Bill Wyman's trendy bass work and Charlie Watt's as ever tight drumming. It just doesn't hit the heart the way some of the other stuff does...
Giovanni Amati, bass, wealthy grand duke of Rome's motion picture emporiums...
...South who has played one roadhouse too many. He is one of rock's most successful and respected figures, Robbie Robertson of The Band, explaining in his own slightly hackneyed way the group's decision last year to stop touring. The Band--Robertson (lead guitar and covals), Rich Danko (bass and vocals), Levon Helm (drums and vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboards) and Richard Manuel (piano and vocals)--did what few groups, successful or struggling, have ever managed to do: they quit while they were still ahead...