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...experimentation within the new paradigm of self-contained performing and songwriting units - a business model that the big labels hadn't yet figured out how to fully control and stifle with accountants. But at the same time the Brill Building-type songwriters for hire, which included some of the finest pop-music talent America ever produced, were still cranking out songs by the yard in a last-gasp bid for teen immortality. The time was ripe for a naïve and yet monstruously successful hybrid, and Bob Rafelson knew...
...continue to maintain the time-honored tradition of interrupting the afternoon session for 20 minutes at 4 p.m., to allow the players to enjoy a nice cup of tea. And yet to the British and those they colonized, it remains an almost mystical canonization of their culture?s finest achievements...
...Dave Navarro, and John Frusciante. Ok, I'm cheating, but it's still a fact that Frusciante has been the Chili Peppers' guitarist on two separate occasions; following founding member Slovak's death from 1988 to 1992, and once again from 1998 up to the present. Oft considered the finest of the Peppers' guitar players (or at least the best suited to the band's style), Frusciante brought an oblique, jazzy angle to funk in the same way Andy Summers reinterpreted reggae for The Police...
...quite different. If the bouncy, wistful melodies of Belle and Sebastian are good for a late morning walk, Arab Strap are a comedown band, music to keep you company after all the bars are closed. Their first few albums were steeped in alcohol and sadness; indeed, Arab Strap's finest release, a live album, is titled Mad for Sadness, and most of its songs are taken from a record named Philophobia. On their latest album, their first released simultaneously in the US and the UK, Arab Strap take a turn for the optimistic, alluding to a belief from ancient Easter...
...glimpse him in his latter years, he could have been any elderly man. He played golf, braved the shops sometimes, but mostly pottered about at home in suburban Adelaide. There was nothing to suggest this frail man was perhaps the finest sportsman who ever lived. His public life ended long ago. He would never comment on the latest trifle. He rarely graced social functions, even those that honored him. But few people felt deprived, much less slighted. Most knew that this was the right course for a great man: it ensured his spell would never be broken...