Word: focals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within the framework of this unpredictability. Beck retains one or two stylistic focal points. He is one of the few well-known rock guitarists to rely consistently on the lower registers of his guitar. "Don't Want to be Alone" another original, opened with some lower register, bass string single picking, until he found a riff that pleased him. Beck also tends to work off one riff until he tires. A large, glissando chord took the band into Dylan's "Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You." Carmine Appice's vocal was strained a bit, but the guitar work...
...EDUCATE YOUNG VOTERS about Nixon, Reitz has decided not to use a hard-sell media campaign of advertising on campus radio and in college papers. He has opted instead to campaign on a person-to-person basis using the myriad Nixon youth offices as focal points...
...With "Losin' Hand," he finally got the band into a groove they could manage, and then raced them through "CC Rider," "Mystery Train," and an encore of "You've Got All the Money," that was nearly worth the whole set. His harp work was stunning, and very much the focal point over the band's easy chording. Butterfield learned to play harp from the Chicago masters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, and James Cotton especially. He's mastered their techniques, and added his own ideas and his strong sense of taste, that is, what sounds right. He plays only slightly...
...called Epicure, costing $1 a copy and pitched to those in the 25-to-45 age group who earn more than $15,000 a year. Publisher Michael J. O'Neill promises that the new Epicure will "not be just another food magazine. It will showcase dining as a focal point of living, with wit and warmth." Planned circulation...
...focal point of the Orchestra is the drumming of Billy Cobham. He plays loud, and hard, and joyously. He owns a special kit of clear fiberglass drums: they are louder than any set I've ever heard. Cobham plays full till throughout the set, nearly two hours in some cases. He plays under each soloist, so he must know their intricacies. He can fellow the complexities of tempo, and rhythm changes, as though he were telepathic. I, for one, am sure he is. His showcase was the finale. "The Noonward Race," Every time McLaughlin had an idea, or made...