Word: jammed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movie's importance goes beyond merely presenting us with the visual side of the concert. Just as the concert departed from the conventional rock format of seemingly endless jam sessions to present essentially note for note renditions of the original songs, so too the movie ignores the trends of its two important predecessors. Woodstock and Gimme Shelter. Woodstock and Gimme Shelter employed slick camera techniques, clever editing, split screens, and concentrated as much on the events surrounding the concerts as the music itself. The Concert for Bangladesh, on the other hand, uses the most pedestrian of camera techniques, choosing...
...bigger than a grain of sand. It is turning holography (three-dimensional photography) into an exciting new adjunct of diagnostic medicine, civil engineering and computer technology. It has yielded light-detection devices that can virtually see in the dark, and it offers a promising way to help relieve the jam in cable and radio communications by transmitting messages on beams of light. Yet in terms of everyday impact, optoelectronics has had its greatest visibility in the rapidly proliferating consumer devices that use electronics to display numbers, letters and other changing signals...
...this internal question be settled "by the Chinese themselves on a bilateral basis. The Chinese were generous in their return concessions. Nothing at all was mentioned about America's defense commitments to Taiwan of 1955. That China allows the old treaty to stand bails Nixon out of a jam with the far-Right at home already up in arms over what William F. Buckley has charged in his syndicated column "a staggering capitulation" on the Taiwan question...
Half of the album is a 35-minute jam built around the theme from "First There is a Mountain". Recorded at the same Fillmore East concert series from which their third album was taken, the number fails to reach the near-perfection which characterized the long jams of the previous album. The beginning and end of the song are brilliant expositions of dual guitar work, but the intervening bass, drum, and organ solos cannot sustain the musical intensity of Allman and Betts's guitars...
...which also includes color photographs of nine contented young men clad in sports attire ranging from a fencing suit to boxing trunks. Altogether, it is an alluring ad, the sort of thing that might well tempt a young jock to join up. But if the Army really wants to jam its recruiting offices, it might do better to focus its advertising on an actual case history: specifically, that of Tennis Player First Class (and Specialist Fourth Class) Stanley Roger Smith...