Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rock beats are thrustingly phallic, and lyrics are often tauntingly and cruelly masculine. So are the crotch-wrenching, guitar-pumping stage moves of such founding fathers as Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. Rock seems so hostile that relatively few women master the guitar, its basic instrument...
...girls I grew up with were going into a convent or getting married," she says. "I never wanted either one. I just wanted to go on the road." When she was 18, she left home and headed for Los Angeles to crash in the same house as a guitar player named Bob Kimmel...
...song on the album is probably "Be My Wife," the plea of a Byronic wanderer exhausted and alienated by the world. The lyrics are simple and sincere; the search for security strikes a universal chord in a way that the instrumentals try in vain to do. The piano and guitar dominate the score, and a tighter structure gives the song more power and coherence than the others. However, the tune's energy is undercut by a lackluster guitar solo on the fade...
...neglects the compositional structure necessary to unite their disparate elements. The tunes lack definition and resolution; once the novelty wears off, they become tedious. Bowie's surrealism overwhelms you. You can sense important messages but only the dreamer can unscramble them. The few solos by traditional instruments, the guitar and sax, are flaccid and indefinite...
...ride. In one of the coach cars, Patsy Wells drawled to her friend Linda Moon, "Those Yankees will never believe simple names like ours. So for the Inauguration I'm going to be Dixie Belle Wells and you can be Magnolia Moon." Sam and Annie Taylor, a guitar-pickin' duo from Somerville, Ala., wandered from car to car as the train roared north toward Jimmy's new home. Sam had bought his first dark blue suit for the Inaugural Ball, and was singing his new composition, The Jimmy Carter Special ("When I was a young...