Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Right now it's my guitar. A 1957 Fender Duo-sonic, black, with maple neck, Schaller heads, and original pickup...
Anything goes in this atmosphere of raw capitalism. Marley's rock guitars, the tribal chanting of a group like Burning Spear, even Toots and the Maytals' infatuation with U.S. country-and-western, are allowed inside the reggae big top. Organs, saxophones and flutes often accompany the basic guitar-drum-bass troika...
Producers also spike sales by making "dubs" of their hit releases. Designed for dancing, dubs consist solely of the five guitar-drum-bass rhythm tracks. Kingston's 70 discotheques crave "greatest hits" album dubs, but since they cost twice the normal amount, only the capital's top dozen discos can afford them...
...onto the floor. Jealous singles. myself included, anxiously waited to dance with that one person, who managed to be engaged all evening. Students who in their everyday miens betray no trace of libidinal expression were liberated in that dark room, exhibitionists beneath the sensual pommeling of a bass guitar. This is a wonder of the Harvard party--the trans-mogrifications that straight-laced students undergo on the dance floor; one of the only real pleasures of Harvard parties is finding yourself dancing ferociously with someone whose usually upright demeanor only prompts idle fantasy. The room was--except for the intervals...
...Harvard Square station, David Hershey-Webb ("pretentious name," he apologized) told me has cut short a planned evening of guitar-playing, singing and coin-collecting in front of the Coop to go to a party at the Commonwealth School, a progressive private school in a Back Bay townhouse. "I went to school there last year, and I'm going to go there again next year," Hershey-Webb said. "This year I'm taking a sabbatical at a Boston public high school so I won't be a private schoolie like her." He pointed to the girl sitting next...