Word: ets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many people 1971 was a year of decline. The Band continued to slide downhill with the release of Cahoots. Jethro Tull became self-indulgent with Aqualung. If anyone had ever questioned the death of the San Francisco sound, Grace Slick et-al. confirmed their suspicions with Bark, and a spate of pseudo-solo albums. With the release of Future Games, Fleetwood Mac proved conclusively that it will never make it without Peter Green. And Peter Green with the release of his solo album proved conclusively that he'll never make it without Fleetwood Mac. Ram and Wings helped Paul McCartney...
...Jackson"). Billy Preston brought along his own brand of soul, while Eric Clapton and Leon Russell, never to be left out of any meeting of the giants, were there hitting the note. Of course there was your assorted band of string-alongers including Klaus Voorman, Claudia Linnear, Carl Raddle, et al. The bad boys of rock, the Rolling Stones, still haven't developed a social conscience and didn't send a representative. However, they were there in spirit when the Benefit band performed "Jumpin Jack Flash...
...what about the men to whom Ellsberg gave service? What about the men who helped fashion the Vietman quagmire? What about the Kennedys, Bundy, and Kissinger, et al? Does their involvement in the war have something to indicate about Harvard...
...Hours of Et'ienne Chevalier, from the Musee Conde, Chantilly. Preface by Charles Sterling. 128 pages. Brazil ler. $17.50. Facsimile re-creation of a Book of Hours painted for an arriviste French nobleman about 1450. The artist, Jean Fouquet, was one of the 15th century's finest miniaturists, whose handling of celestial blues and golds as well as the soft pastels of spring landscape made him as much at home depicting heaven as earth. Fouquet's Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Faithful includes squadrons of foiled devils in flight and cloaked elders in prayer. Beyond...
...have no business on a stage with the Grateful Dead. They are a very neat group within the limitations of tight, well-rehearsed material. But I would be reticent about endeavoring to present any of my own compositions as back up at a Bob Dylan concert. Unfortunately for Marmaduke et al. (Garcia was sorely missed on pedal steel), when they put their musical cards on the table, they simply did not have the hand. Only once did they attempt to break out of the dreary cowboy framework that shackled their entire presentation, and then they found themselves unable to extend...