Word: bassing
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...military officer what Columbus, Miss., is known for, and he will tell you it produces a lot of good Air Force pilots and a good lot of fiancés. The tiny town near the Alabama border feels authentically Southern: it's host to a regional bass-fishing tournament, and Tennessee Williams once called it home. So it is curious to discover that an ambitious global-defense contractor has established a beachhead here...
Three guys played beside and behind Gonzalez: one on the guitar, one on bass, and a drummer. They anticipated the music and kept up with the lead. They spoke French in between songs. I didn’t know their names and I didn’t care...
...songs like “Waterslide,” with the drums hitting hard on the one, or “The Boat Room,” with its fuzzed out bass effect, where the sound has some bite to it. By not being so goddamned low-key all the time, Pierce creates a balance on these tracks that downplays the soothing effects of the rolling xylophone ambience and techno-glitches. He finally provides a rock solid foundation for himself to sing/float over...
...trombones, searching for its pitches through a sliding microtonal minefield. A small Renaissance ensemble often accompanies the shadowy, faceless Ariel (Mezzo Susan Quittmeyer) on his spritely missions, and his unaccompanied Where the bee sucks becomes a mock-Elizabethan song. A trio of alto sax, electric guitar and electric bass represents the bestial Caliban (Mezzo Ann Howard), and his drunken revels with Trinculo and Stephano are celebrated with some exquisitely low-down jazzrock that closes the first act in a brilliant theatrical burst. (Eaton, 50, a professor of composition at Indiana University, was a successful jazz pianist in his younger days...
...people's ears have become accustomed to hearing every space filled up, and they're throwing everything in. More is there to make you think less. I'm trying to find a balance. You know the old Sun Records, the way they would sound with just the upright bass and guitar and snare drum? That's the sound I love the best. My sound is basically backbeat and Stratocaster guitar or an old Martin guitar. Playing with a synthesizer is not really as much fun as playing with an instrument. I guess those machines are for people who are more...