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...first disc also contains two of the very best offerings in the set. The 2003 “Summer Sun” track “Little Eyes” is the Beach Boys staring at their shoes, with a teasing, understated guitar solo and the surprisingly maternal delivery from Kaplan as he compares the memory of a lost love to a “sound echoed everywhere like a buzzing amplifier burning through the air.” It’s worth noting that the liner notes sorely lack a lyric sheet; instead, we get two essays...
...longer science fiction—that model was never limited to albums. Leo Fender realized in the mid-fifties that, hey, he could take a block of wood and screw some hardware to it and kids in their garages in Peoria, Illinois could learn to play the guitar. And the effect? Today, so many people play the guitar, the bass, the keyboards, and so many people rightly call their instrument(s) their passion, it is a gross under-representation to say that there are too many talented people out there. It’s too easy to tell these poor...
...there were great moments in the music. Elvis Costello asking the Wembley audience to join him in "this old northern English folk song" and performing a peerless acoustic guitar version of All You Need Is Love. Bono of the Irish band U2 singing a mesmeric Bad. Sting duetting with Phil Collins on Every Breath You Take. Bob Dylan, singing a set of early songs and suggesting that a small portion of the Live Aid donations be used to help American farmers pay off mortgages. But the video superstructure constructed to beam the event across the world became an open...
Commodore officials insist that the Amiga is a technological marvel, rivaling in quality professional graphics systems (see COMPUTERS). The machine has a color palette of 4,096 hues, animation abilities that make soccer balls bounce, and a keyboard that sounds like a banjo one minute and an electric guitar the next. Computer buffs are impressed, but the general public seems skeptical about all home machines. WINE Guaranteed Not to Freeze...
Whether you're facing a midlife crisis or you just got permission from Mom to quit the piano, now you can live your dream of wailing on a six string. The fret board on Optek's PC-connected Fretlight guitar optekmusic.com $600) lights up to show you where to put your fingers for chords and melodies. Ready for your world tour? Plug into any amplifier, crank up the volume, and pray that those desktop lessons paid off. --By Wilson Rothman