Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything any more," he says. "Our strongest roots are in British and Celtic traditional music. In terms of song structure, we come out of the Scottish ballad form more than anything else. But what we play is rock and roll." Thompson, son of a Scotland Yard detective who played guitar in police bands ("He wasn't good. I'm sure he won't mind my saying that"), spent his boyhood listening to early rock coming from his sister's bedroom and from the cafe down the street. He met Linda more than a decade ago, through...
...Player. Coe has solved the seeming redundancy of the dumb-show and play-within-a-play by conflating the two. While some of the brightly-garbed troupe of thespians mime the action, the First and Second Players forgo reciting their lines in favor of singing them with harp and guitar accompaniment (original music courtesy of Joe Griffiths...
...news and public affairs departments, to campaign for "free TV." At the National Cable Television Association convention in Las Vegas in May, Turner reminded cable-system owners of the Johnny-come-lately quality of his opposition with placards, buttons and a giant 3-D billboard of himself playing the guitar, all inscribed with a slogan paraphrased from a country music song title: I WAS CABLE WHEN CABLE WASN'T COOL...
...counterculture. Instead, the Gang members address weighty topics such as "social structure" and the "relations of production"--all on a purely theoretical level. The approach is slightly absurd. Not that a few committed radicals can't have some good ideas set to music, but the thought of these guitar dogmatists pounding out their Marxism so relentlessly, earnestly, and literally must have Karl rolling in his grave...
...usually retire until he is 40, Miguel might be the man to do it. But before that happens, he may leave the field, and the air, to other daring young men on flying trapezes. He says he has another ambition: to come down to earth and play drums and guitar in a rock band...