Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Wallace got to the Holiday Inn at Harrisburg, a $25 dollar-a-plate fund-raising dinner was just getting underway. The diners here, like the crowd which had welcomed him at Hershey a few hours before, were a very different group from the people who had turned out to see Wallace shortly before in New York and Trenton. Those people were predominantly blue-collar workers and their children. But in Harrisburg Wallace's supporters were of the older right-wing breed--used-car salesmen, small businessmen and farmers who used to be Republicans, not Democrats...
...Harvard in 1963," Wallace said. "I went out under the steam pipes, y'know. But the students there gave me a real good reception--it was some outside group that made trouble." I started to say something when he continued, "I filled the hall with thundrous applause, dija know that? That's what all the newspapers said, you go and look at them. I 'quickly converted an overwhelmingly hostile audience,' that's what they all said. You go look at them...
Hopkins and Beck work marvellously together in concert, especially on the long and extended blues solos that will never find their way onto a record in entirety. Not to mention the special thing that Beck and Mick Waller have going. (It is the virtue of the Jeff Beck Group that even within the together sound there is room for special partnerships.) Waller, drumming, is anguished in expression and his hands fly at Jeff's beckoning. Beck stands right by his shoulder watching the drum rallies shake the notes out of his guitar so they slip into the crevices...
...swing of Sam Cooke, and some of the fervor of B. B. King -- all of which add up to make him a worthy performer in his own right. He is supple and responsive on stage and contributes just by his presence to the infectious gaiety of the group...
...Jeff Beck Group doing their great staples "Rock My Plimsoul," "Shapes of Things." Hopkins begins with a solo burst. Beck leads into the vibrant theme lines and then starts screeching from his guitar with his finger slashing. Hopkins' shimmering piano, Waller's hammering beat, Wood on throbbing whipping bass. Music stops and Stewart sings a line...