Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the invention of the Hammond organ in 1935, hardly an instrument exists that has not been electrified. Piano, flute, violin, trumpet, drums -each has its own plugged-in cousin. Most conspicuous is pop-rock's king of instruments, the electric guitar. Ten years ago, from Engineering Physicist Robert Moog, came the Moog synthesizer, which first produced music through electricity alone. A nuclear-age superorgan, it looks like the offspring of a piano and a telephone switchboard...
Never mind the occasional barks. The infectious beat of Dixie Spider Man and some fancy guitar acrobatics on The Driver's Engine - an electrified country breakdown - are well worth plugging into...
Music for guitar and voice from Bach to Britten; Frank Wallace, guitar, Marty McCall, tenor; Mather Dining Hall; 2:00; free...
Journey Through the Past contains much documentary footage-of Young on tour, performing with Crosby, Stills and Nash and the Buffalo Springfield-intercut with stillborn fictional parables about a scholar who tromps through picturesque locations, searching for himself, or perhaps just for a guitar. There are intellectual asides (Stephen Stills ruminates that "some day words, and the reassurance of words, won't be necessary-soon"), social speculations (a discussion of concert ticket prices segues into a rendition of Find the Cost of Freedom), and heavy images (a needle stashed inside a Bible) of terror and salvation. There is also...
...article concerning a Houston department store offering a wide variety of unique Christmas gifts, e.g., a day's guitar lessons with José Feliciano for a mere $14,500 [Nov. 25]. Were there any takers...