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When she does delve into the figure of the she wolf, on the album’s title track, Shakira is at her most successful. It begins with a halting, funky bass line, builds with high-pitched tones like signals from a groovy erotic spaceship, and ends with strings, dramatic and glorious. All this as she sings, pants, and howls, making everyone happy. It attains something close to a pop symphony, and while the drop from “She Wolf” to the rest of the songs on the album is a perilously steep one, at least this...
...live shows on the floor of whatever venue is crazy enough to allow it, using only volume to push back the churning crowd of future tinnitus patients that surrounds them. Fueled by Gibson’s two refrigerator-sized speaker cabs pumping out over three thousand watts of distorted bass alongside Chippendale’s drumstick-shattering rhythms, Lightning Bolt’s elusive concerts—frequently announced only days or hours in advance—are an unforgettable experience...
Most people have heard, in some form or another, the famous “Stars and Stripes Forever” march by John Philip Sousa, with its crisp trumpet lines, sonorous bass undertones, and delicate flute ornamentation. The piece is rightly a classic of 20th-century wind band literature. Yet despite its popularity, mere mention of the word “wind ensemble” often elicits either blank indifference or vague recollection of a long-dropped middle- school activity. This is unfortunate—for though it tends to be overlooked, the wind ensemble offers an artistic experience...
...recorded and performed with hundreds of artists. Could you pick your ideal band from all the people in show business whom you've worked with? Well, that's kind of cool, can I pick from dead people too? For rock drums, Keith Moon. Bass guitar, Will Lee from my band. There is no one better. I love Jeff Beck on guitar. And Ronnie Laws on tenor saxophone...
...something you want to stick with? What are your upcoming ambitions? Certainly I'm going to stick with it for as long as we continue to do it. After that I think I can just lie down. I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions...