Word: funk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roll to shame. If, on the other hand, you relate to the current version of the youth culture, if your idea of a rocking good time is digging on Seymour Martin Lipset's greatest hits, if you think that Marty Peretz is the last word in warm and soulful funk, if you would rather listen to "War" by Stanley Hoffman than "War" by Edwin Starr, if they have squeezed that much of the life and spirit out of you, then a half-decent, half-lousy Stones album is better than you deserve...
Quartered in a Tudor-style stone mansion rising improbably above surrounding frame houses and tree-lined streets, the foundation was established by the late Mabel Wagnalls Jones in honor of her parents, Adam W. Wagnalls, a Lithopolis boy who co-founded the Funk & Wagnalls publishing firm in 1877, and his wife Anna. When Mabel Jones died in 1946, she bequeathed $2.5 million to provide scholarships for any and all Bloom Township youths who could complete four years at one of the two high schools in the area and wanted to go on to higher education. Today the fund...
...Although I enjoyed your categorization of audiences at rock concerts, I cannot agree with the comparison of Led Zeppelin to the likes of Grand Funk and Black Sabbath. Led Zeppelin was one of the very first Heavy Metal groups. They have progressed and changed with the times. Their music now is a bit apart, and deserves a little more distinction...
...more fastidious of movie stars, so perhaps he saw this as his symbolic initiation into the realms of folk comedy. He did not, in any case, summon a double for the scene, but carried straight through with it himself, sparing no sacrifice to get into a little funk...
...audience can be trouble for concert-hall managers. Says Cleveland Promoter Jules Belkin, "They are up on the seats boogieing and running around the hall." Dress ranges from scruffy jeans to $200 velveteen jackets. The girls may come in couples to ogle, say, a topless Mark Farner of Grand Funk. Then there are the brassy groupies with their stevedore vocabularies who haughtily flaunt their backstage passes. The boys come in gangs and do what gangs do -fling lighted matches, fight the bouncers, sometimes toss empty wine bottles. Vomiting from too much beer or wine is a status symbol. If these...