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...script of the second Beatles film, Help!, called for chase scenes involving cartoonish Hindu villains, and Indian sitar players were brought in to provide some zippy chase music. George started noodling on a sitar--if indeed one can noodle on a sitar--and asking questions. This led to exotic instrumentation on the Lennon ballad Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and later to an apprenticeship with master sitarist Ravi Shankar, who gave Harrison lessons on the instrument and in life itself. "He was a friend, a disciple and son to me," said Shankar, who visited Harrison for the last time...
...prep cook. “The worst part is cleaning up—It’s my job to clean the deep fryer at the end of the night.” He draws a diagram of the deep fryer and the “poker” instrument he uses to clean it. Cooking is actually not all that glamorous. But Danny’s not complaining. “I get to do fun stuff—using squeeze bottles to make squiggly lines to plate up stuff...
...those who were listening last winter when Alan Greenspan called Washington fiscal policy a "blunt instrument," for softening recessions - well, Washington fiscal policymaking doesn't get much blunter than this. Tuesday - twelve weeks to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks and nine since lawmakers promised to act on an economic stimulus package "deliberately but with dispatch" - three members from the House and three from the Senate finally got around a table to try and get something on George W. Bush's desk by, say, Christmas...
...National Anthem” makes up most of what it loses in the disappearance of a horn section. The grinding drums and bass are anchored in what is ultimately recognizable as good old-fashioned rock-sensibility, despite the otherworldly wailings of whatever that new-fangled spooky sounding instrument Jonny Greenwood is playing these days. The song could never be straight-up however, and Thom Yorke’s distorted wailings and pantings ensure that it will not be mistaken for such. In fact, it is Yorke’s manic, disconcerting energy that carries much of the album, and gives...
...love is the trumpet, but he’s parlayed his general largesse into a meaty flugelhorn sound that he alternates with its higher register cousin. Sometimes switching up horns mid-piece, Frankie maintained striking speed and agility with the flugelhorn, showing a dexterity not normally found on the instrument. While finger-crunching runs are usually the trumpet’s domain, Frankie managed to translate those abilities to the flugel while covering Stevie Wonder’s “Another Star” from Songs in the Key of Life. Without Wonder’s voice, the disco...