Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestion that civilize man has lost his primitive self-sufficiency. James Dickey has a chilling cameo as a small town sheriff; and yes, this is the movie that made "Dueling Banjos" a hit. (Though purists will note that the duel is actually between a banjo and a guitar...
...COLD Friday morning, and still pitch black as about 120 students sat waiting and shivering on the steps of University Hall. Two or three out-of-tune guitar players strummed out Woodie Guthrie songs, while several even more out-of-tune voices harmonized them as best they could. Cups of hot chocolate appeared out of somewhere, and people sipped at them, huddled together in the dark and feeling proud, even exuberant over what they had achieved the night before--and for what they would accomplish the following...
Growing up in Maplewood, New Jersey, he was something of an outcast, neither liking nor being particularly well-liked by his high school classmates. He enjoyed folk much more than rock, sang and played a little guitar--mostly at Unitarian church retreats--but never took music very seriously...
...with looks," says Reed. "If you're intelligent at all, I'm a lot of fun." Finding the fun, however, can present a problem. Despite rave reviews for Street Hassle and a seismic stage show with which Reed is currently touring the country, playing his transparent Lucite guitar, radio play-crucial to an album's success-has been very limited. Says Arista President Clive Davis: "Every artist of original talent is a commercial challenge. Quality eventually wins out." He has no intention of urging Reed to cool down or slick...
...spruced up considerably, put on some weight and diminished his waning-moon pallor. Now 36, he lives with at least a semblance of normality, sharing a Greenwich Village apartment with a male lover named Rachael, who chews him out in the manner of spouses everywhere whenever Lou plays his guitar at peak volume. "The most frightening thing anyone can find out about me is how sane I am," Reed insists, glowering out from behind his wrap around shades...