Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threads that just may revolutionize the look of a rock concert. Let the Doobie Brothers attire their drummer in stars and stripes that blink on and off in tune to the big beat. Let Elton John wear trousers that explode. Hartman tops them all with the Guitar Suit, a $5,000, one-piece, silverized affair that makes possible a Flash Gordonesque union of man, music and instrument. Says Hartman: "I feel completely different as a performer...
That he is. Decked out in the Guitar Suit, which he designed with Los Angeles Couturier Bill Witten out of a rubbery fabric called stretch laurex, Hartman simply inserts the bottom of his electric guitar into a pelvic pocket, much the way a mother kangaroo snuggles her baby into her pouch. From electrodes in the pocket, the signal is fed through wires sewed into the linings to a cigarette-pack-sized transmitter housed in a thigh pocket. Via an aerial laced down the right leg, the impulse is broadcast to the main amplifier backstage and then blasted into the auditorium...
...right and who was wrong, it is not the social background we tend to remember--and Malle may be reproaching us for this forgetfulness in his opening and closing quotes--but images: Lucien riding his bicycle down the hill at breakneck speed while Django Reinhardt plays guitar at breakneck speed on the soundtrack; France playing Beethoven or rising from bathing in a stream, like a figure out of myth; the grandmother opening herself up to nature at last, as she bends down with the eye of benevolent intelligence to watch a cricket on a leaf at sunset; the innate elegance...
...recent Overnite Sensation an even greater effort to reach the larger record-buying public. In the process Zappa forsakes musical complexity for standard four-beat rhythms, heavymetal guitar runs and scatalogical excesses not unlike Harvard Lampoon humor. Apostrophe' offers more of the same, including "Don't Eat Yellow Snow." Perhaps the only redeeming feature of these two albums is the tight ensemble playing that is typical of the Mothers...
JAMES HASN'T YET found a way to circumvent a Cambridge law which forbids brass or percussion instruments in his cafe, but the piano and guitar and woodwind instruments are enough to draw out for hours even the smallest item on the menu...