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What seems so strange about the Beautiful South to American listeners is the overriding lack of interest in aural shock. There's no shouting, no distorted guitar noise and rarely an unexpected chord change. Instead, the group's songwriter Paul Heaton rolls out slow, beautiful pop songs backed by melodic tunes that never pretend to be anything but accompaniment. This is not to imply that something is lacking in the music. It is rich, profound and mood-setting-qualities which have made the band's albums bestsellers in their native Britain...
...play comfortably in a wide range of keys, it was necessary to add more necks with different tunings, which had its limits as well. The first pedals were an attempt to eliminate the need for multiple necks by changing the pitch of all the strings to a different chord, a solution that was undermined by the unreliability of the mechanisms...
...quite a piece of work it is: As I sit at my pedal steel, my left foot controls three pedals that each raise different pairings of strings, making new chords out of the various open chords available. On either side of my knees are levers that either raise or lower the pitch of other strings; by picking different clusters of strings and using various combinations of pedals and levers, one can play a virtually unlimited number of chord variations. My guitar has one neck, in the E ninth tuning that is the standard for country-style playing. Some...
...hand count could still save the day. There was also the outside chance that the overseas ballots would include enough from Israel to tip the balance to Gore. The second was the public relations war: stoke the anger of African Americans and Jews, for whom disfranchisement strikes a deep chord, throw Austin off balance, keep that transition from getting organized. All this had useful downstream benefits for the Democrats, even if they don't ultimately prevail. The third track was to figure out the legal strategy while the first two tracks bought them time to mull it over...
...that the reason Christina Aguilera canceled all her concerts was because she was smoking too much bud? Well, a friend on the inside wrote in: "Actually, she got a new manager, and he decided to cancel appearances that were planned by his predecessor. She's not really having vocal chord problems."... I'm interviewing for my Disney dream job tomorrow. If you see me this weekend and I look happy, ask me how it went. If I look unhappy, offer to buy me a stiff drink... Since I am supposed to be cutting-edge, I flouted a green sports vest...