Word: fuzzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trapped wanderer song, this shares with "Witchy Woman" many of the same desert images, as well as the same sense of attack on the part of the lead guitarist, either Glenn Frey or Bernie Leadon. The slow single note solo is again reminiscent of Springfield, as well as the fuzz toned chord progression. The Indian music feel of both songs is somewhat exploitative...
...consistent use of fuzz second, and often third guitar betrays the influences of Moby Grape. Chug All Night" exhibits Eagles best use of guitars. The fuzz guitar was a Grape trademark, and the use of three guitars on the break solidifies the connection. (The use of rhythm guitars for percussive or rhythmic uses, rather than to achieve the effect of horns, is a purely West Coast rock phenomenon. Part of the Grape's appeal was their tendency to fill the sound with guitars.) The album's only real rocker, its strength is in the basic progression...
...kids threw rocks, and Chick Cassady, the Airplane's manager, allegedly encouraged the youngsters to do battle with the police. When the tear gas cleared, the cops had arrested Cassady, the Airplane's Paul Kantner and Kantner's "old lady" Grace Slick, who either attacked the fuzz or-depending on who was telling the story-was attacked by them. The three paid a $1,400 bond and promised to show up for a September trial "because we're not guilty and, besides, this could happen to any other group that comes into Akron...
...Lawrence Ferlinghetti, elder statesman among San Francisco hip poets, it seemed just another Establishment hassle that he had to get his car out of the pound, where it had been towed for illegal parking. But when the fuzz checked their files, Ferlinghetti suddenly found himself behind bars on a 1970 charge of selling pornography. As principal owner of the City Lights bookstore, he had been cited as a co-defendant after the clerk was busted for selling Zap Comics. Before the last hearing, though, the clerk was killed in a motorcycle accident. "So," said Ferlinghetti, "I thought the case...
...movie was Reynolds' own deliverance. Overnight he became the Frog Prince of Hollywood. He made two more pictures in breathless succession, Fuzz and the forthcoming Shamus. Last week he was on location in Little Rock, Ark., shooting McKlusky with Director Joe Sargent. Sargent admires Reynolds' "ballsiness and talent" and says, "He has the same kind of craft as McQueen and Newman...