Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wave of sound coming at the stage from the hall -the noise of thousands of kids in vicarious heat. Where these two walls of energy meet, above the stage and its blindly waving fringe of teeny-bopper arms, they precipitate a form. It is Mick Jagger, Jumpin' Jack Flash in person, laced into a white rhinestone-studded jumpsuit and painted like a Babylonian hooker, back-lighted by amber spots and front-lighted by a Mylar mirror the size of a movie screen slung from the roof trusses, belting into the chorus...
...Jumpin' Jack Flash...
...each of the pieces, "Meeting of the Spirits." "You Know You Know," and "Dreams," the structure is similar. The emphasis at all times is on spiralling speed, not speed as flash (that's best left to the Alvin Lees and Johnny Winters) but speed with taste, leading to a spiritual experience for the artist, and perhaps for the listener. The effect is that the intensity of the music sucks the listener skyward...
...McLaughlin had an idea, or made any sort of musical move, Cobham was there, waiting. He heard the idea, reacted, assimilated the idea, and was able to act on his own, with the correct lick, all instantly. His solo stressed changes in intensity, power, and tone, rather than mere flash. Throughout it, he built to peaks then retreated, all within the framework of the piece's tone. He is masterful...
...Jones to his son, dated November 8th, 1854, does a kind of understanding flash forth: "I wish to make the impression on you with the point of a diamond that you never can succeed and attain to any eminence in your profession if you have anything at all to do with the management of Negro property. No man within my knowledge ever has.. ∙Horace Judson