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Come halftime, 50 instrument-wielding band members stumble onto the field, while some guy in the press box mumbles something unintelligible about either Larry Summers or the opposing school’s nickname. In fact, I’ve heard rumors that the person speaking is in fact giving a whole narrative that explains what the band is supposed to be doing...
Some band’s musical identities are entirely bound up in a single, sometimes peripheral, instrument, sound or refrain. This is, in parlance, the gimmick. The gimmick defines the band, makes it unique, is its lifeblood—without the gimmick, the band cannot musically subsist in any recognizable form. Familiar gimmicks include (or, better, should include) Jethro Tull’s flute, Jimi Hendrix’s Arbiter Fuzz Face, The Police’s delay pedal and Peter Frampton’s Talkbox—all part and parcel with their performers’ legacy...
...chewing slide guitar on “A Treasure @ Silver Bank”) and the indie sound that made him famous. Stairs has a voice that is half American Damon Albarn and half John Frusciante—often lazy, never overbearing, which means that his voice becomes just another instrument. The lyrics are either so nonsensical or sufficiently obscure that it’s tricky to tell the difference between the two: “Driving the whalebones home / 18 hours ago / Lots of water in tow.” But it is difficult not to fall for lines like...
...will direct every resource at our command—every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war—to the disruption and defeat of the global terror network,” he said...
...will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence and every necessary weapon of war - to the destruction and to the defeat of the global terror network...