Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keyboard and harmonica player, Ron McKernan, known as Pig Pen, died of hard living in the early '70s, and the present keyboardist, Brent Mydland, is the only relative newcomer. Otherwise the Dead are still Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman on drums, Phil Lesh on bass, Bobby Weir on rhythm guitar and, first among equals, Jerry Garcia on lead guitar...
Paquito brings ideas from gospel, funk (el funketeo in Paquito's (Cubanglish) Brazil, Cuba and the Dominican Republic into the album, while Tanenbaum a laidback, scholarly-appearing man whom D'Rivera ails a "Vallum", flavors the album with the exotic "Waltz for Sonny", which is based on guitar figures common to the Venezuelan joropo...
After a brief private interview with President Bok, the Secretary and a crowd of about 35 students heard a short performance by the Radcliffe Pitches and three Latin American classical guitar pieces played by Richard J. Chavez '87 in the large ballroom of 17 Quincy St., formerly the University president's house...
...several ways, including into his own heart. Missing Persons is a lovely piece of brooding melancholy that seems, almost nakedly, to be about the dissolution of his relationship with Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. The Kinks are still one of the most fearless, feckless bands in rock, and their guitar work, as ever, sounds like short circuits in an electric chair. Word of Mouth also tackles such subjects as gossip, unemployment, sudden death and the decline of the British Empire. The boys may reach a little wide and wild, but when they finally get hold of something, their grip...
...would need a breather. No way. This new record is heady evidence that the band has flourished during a career that began before the Sex Pistols and has survived what seems to be virtually mandatory punk burnout. They are as hot as ever, though, and still laying into those guitar chords like hardhats working rivet guns. They get occasional instrumental help-Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads turns a fine hand to synthesizers on one of the album's best cuts, Chasing the Night-but their songs are as funny and full of 360-degree mockery as ever. Endless Vacation...