Word: decibel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrine with all the fervor of the champagne cooled Boston Pops crowd. It's not that rock concerts aren't interesting anymore, there's something perversely fascinating in contemplating these ambulating escapes from Madame Tussaud's. The music, with few exception, fulfilled the audience's craving for a thousand decibel dry hump. And Howard Wales' sterile charade delivers: drum solos with all the pulse of a seconal addict; keyboard work with all the sensuousness and imagination of a computer print out; treacly singing; the stage presence of a sloth; and above it all in smug squalor...
...Establish decibel limits for industrial noise...
...that point, what had been good natured razzing turned into militant opposition. The boos increased in both decibel level and ferocity. Fans began throwing spitballs at the truck and its passengers. Perceiving the threat, the truck made a strategic retreat. The fans had shown their power...
...Despite Chicago's formidable levels of noise, the citywide crusade for quiet is off to a good start. Environmental officers have swarmed through business and residential areas, recording violations on sensitive decibel meters. Offenders are sent to face judges who can mete out penalties as high as $500 plus six months in jail. As a result of the crackdown, residents are already beginning to notice small but audible changes. Car-pool drivers, instead of impatiently honking their horns, now wait silently for tardy passengers. The once clangorous chimes of St. Peter's United Church of Christ...
...thoughtfulness or a tragic slide from activist rage into a mood of "enlightened apathy." There is also the desire for individual expression on the part of talented rock musicians too long cooped up in their communal palaces of sound. Many of them came to realize that the higher the decibel rate, the less creative subtlety possible for composers and performers alike. In any case, rock could hardly have gotten more frenzied. "After you set your guitar on fire," says Rock Musician Danny Kootch, "what do you have left? Set fire to yourself? It had to go the other...