Word: hops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runway there was the hungry rumble of a mufflerless stocker in racing trim. Just at the end of the runway, they turned the corner, then saw us, and zoomed off. Will Perdy and his boy jumped in the pickup and were on the chase. Kenny yelled at me to hop on, and said, "I'll try and head 'em off the other way, Will! I'll tell 'em to clear out for you." And gripping the eggs tight, I held on as Kenny charged off into the blazing Florida afternoon, down the runway, chasing after the would-be dragsters...
That reminded someone else of the times when they were kids that they'd hear the mosquito control truck coming into their neighborhood. They'd race out of bed and into the garage and hop on their bikes and a whole pack of buddies would pedal like runway fools into the thick white cloud of kerosene and DDT sprayed out of a nozzle at the back. "There wasn't any chemical high to it," said the son of a dairy farmer, "but it sure was cool looking into that cloud for a while." And about the time their lungs...
...Diana Ross did for Billie Holiday--remaking rather than trying to emulate. He's even versatile enough to pull off country yodeling. Good voices are almost impossible to find in bands that haven't made it yet, as are intelligent ways of mixing, letting each instrument step out and hop over the wall of sound. The Sour Mash Boys have no such problem, which is why they record so well--when their tapes play Saturdays on WHRB, they sound more at home in studio conditions than most of the slick Nashville people who have been playing and selling for years...
...your mind is of slightly more questioning nature, and you need a name and an explanation, you could say they were like the baby twisters that hop over the Kansas highways in the summer. The kind that come with droughts, when the soil is too dry to grip the earth. There's a name for them in the encyclopaedia, but more can be divined...
...real, only to find expression later in the decade. Here in '62, though, before the assassination, the experience of the civil rights movement, the Beatles and the war consciousness, the energy was bottled. The inhibitions of the fifties were so constraining that there wasn't much to do but hop into your drag racer and drive around, going nowhere, burning energy. When the film focuses on the hot rods, the rock and roll and the cheeseburgers, then it is getting at forces operating behind a generation teetering on the brink of a changing world...