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Finishing the concert, the BSO showed a stamina rarely seen in amateur orchestra with Ginastera's "Variaciones concertantes in 12 Movements." Variations ranged from plaintive cello and bass solos with harp accompaniment to sudden Stravinsky-like explosions of cacophony that contained both smooth and abrasive wind solos. Violin passages reminiscent of Saint-Saens offered calms in the auditory storm...
With Daryl Johnson on bass and Ronald Jones on drums, Lanois has the benefit of the kind of rich rhythm section that can be both goad and guide. When a musical phrase or lyric passage threatens to send Lanois off into deep space, Johnson and Jones can pull him back; when he's revising tradition, as on Indian Red, a kind of New Orleans gumbo classic, they help him explore musical byways that can bring him home again along a brand new route. If Highway 61 ran past Cape Canaveral, Lanois would be singing at the crossroads...
...cherished for 11 years. Every Sunday, Gunn's one day off, he and Watson would head to Alabama's Lake Eufaula and spend anywhere from two to six hours in a boat, sometimes swapping stories, sometimes in companionable silence. Six years ago, Gunn and Watson entered a local bass tournament and, thanks to the eight bass they caught, beat a field of 333 other anglers for the $10,200 prize. Watson, 72, recalls with delight how he and Gunn "got right down on my living room floor, counted the cash and split it fifty-fifty." The pair was looking forward...
...Magazine, for example, sung in an arid yet passionate rasp, Edwards muses on how literary works have been replaced on people's bookshelves by visually slick magazines featuring everything "from the absurd to the obscene." The haunting, slow-tempo Yellow Brown recalls the cyberpunk film Blade Runner; synthesizer bass notes drip like fat raindrops, and the sounds of droning machinery resonate. Edwards laments ecological destruction caused by technology: "In the city air, in all our seas, you can see every other color bleed into/ Yellow brown. There's nothing to save us from ourselves...
...very early stages of freshman week and I decided that I could play as well as these guys," he says. "So I picked up a bass guitar and started to play with them...