Word: basses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poet, the verse has to come with the music floating about. We've got ten instruments instead of four. We'll have a trumpet, too, if they send the music. We wanted the band to change color with the pieces, as Brel does; with just piano, guitar, bass, and drums it would all be the same...
...style grows naturally from an Appalachian bluegrass tradition. He has mastered not only breathtaking exhibitions of flat-picking, but also a remarkable finger-picking technique, using his thumb to play a moving bass-a style he picked up from Merle Travis (after whom Merle Watson is named). His repertoire relies heavily on traditional ballads, country blues, and love songs, but his performance at Sanders Theater, like his new Elementary Doctor Watson!, included some more modern music which he interpreted just as effectively...
EVERYTIME I TURN on the radio, somebody tries to tell me something. I can try to get lost in the bass line, or to ignore certain passages, but that has been getting harder lately. Paul McCartney, for instance, tells me that if I want to be happy I should get rich and retire to the country with a beautiful wife. The Who think I should avoid political activity, and perhaps ride around in a mobile home. Everybody seems to agree that falling in love will solve my problems. Even if I don't think that "it's gonna be allright...
...versality of the group members, especially Chris Hunt (who plays mandolin, bass, electric lead, acoustic, and piano) reveals some of the latent talent of the group. Wayne Lipton's cello is a distinguishing factor in the group's overall sound and is employed with stunning effectiveness to counterpoint the guitar work. Particularly in Hunt's Desert Bones are both instruments combined in a tight-woven harmony with Lipton's cello providing an eerie backdrop for the song's haunting lyrics...
...their music present in songs like One More Question, Get Down on Your Knees, Keep the Crying From Me, and, as mentioned. You Can't Always Get. Though the group has no drummer, the percussion section made up of Connet's claves and tambourine and Lipton's punctuating bass patterns add the backbone necessary to carry the beat of these songs, building them into some real foot-stamping numbers. Get Down has real potential to become a Top 40 tune should the Falloon move in that direction...