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Stradlin and his session musicians let loose on "Time Gone By," a hand-clappin', thigh-slappin' bluesy guitar jam that shows the band at its best. A simple tale of love and loss and the effects of time and distance, "Time Gone By" has little to offer in the way of lyrical artistry but the groove is good and the sound satisfying...
Actually, this combination isn't all that strange; hand-clappin' and foot-stompin' differ from slam dancing only by degree. Nor is the synthesis new or unique; such bands as the Long Ryders and Los Lobos play music that is a hybrid of these same styles--but not with the ferocity of Dash Rip Rock. It is as if Hank Williams, Sr. and Duane Eddy were the front men for Black Flag...
...whoop it up for Johannes Brahms. After hearing the blazing final chords of the Symphony No. 2 in D, townspeople jumped to their feet in a shouting five-minute ovation. As the applause started to slacken, a rancher in a sheepskin coat shouted from the balcony: "Keep on clappin' and they'll keep on play-in'!" So they did. When Conductor Maurice Abravanel, 73, and the 85 members of the Utah Symphony Orchestra responded with an encore from Handel's Water Music, the crowd in the renovated movie theater burst into cheers...
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