Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perspective born of a decade's distance from the Stooges finds expression in "Dum Dum Boys," Iggy's tribute to his old band. The song begins with a short finger-popping catalogue of the whereabouts of the boys since the band split up. A raspy but bell-like guitar melody launches a well-structured ballad of alienation. "What happened to James?" "He's gone straight." states the prologue. But Iggy (a.k.a. James Osterberg) has lost his voice with the demise of the band...
...Sixties' drug culture. Jerry Garcia, the focal personality of the group, presides as a hip, trollish figure who was there and remembers it when it all happened. Garcia generates the energy of the concert, not with sudden dramatic movement, but with a sparkling liquidity, both in his guitar rills and his cool, mirror-shaded appearance. Dead Heads know his subtlety well. There is still an engagingly underground appeal about the Dead...
Once inside, however, the crowd was treated to better concert sounds than the Dead has produced in years. The show began with a slow rendition of "Sugaree." Despite its domination by Garcia's guitar and whiny voice, the song serves well as an introduction because of its rousing and familiar refrain. Having warmed the audience, the band used a faster tempo to create unusual versions of "Cassidy" and "Me and My Uncle." The first set roamed through Dead history from the early "Too Too Minglewood Blues" and "It's All Over Now," to a new song that must be called...
...smooth transition to Richard Johnson's carefree folk tune "I Ain't Got the Blues No More." Johnson, a folksinger and slide guitarist who is well-traveled in the local club scene, made his first public appearance in nearly a year, made and produced many pleasant echo-cascading electric guitar sounds. Jeannie ended the concert alone, playing a pretty dulcimer piece and the intimate "Listen With Your Own Mind...
...School of Contemporary Music, Kushnik will accompany singer Jeannie Lieberman in four of his songs set to the words of poets Daniel Dern, Gary Mankin, Lewis MacNeice and Sir Walter Raliegh. Lieberman will also sing both her own compositions and those of Rich Johnson, who will accompany her on guitar...