Word: keyboarding
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...including Sean Lennon on electric bass), almost everything is played by himself, from flute to nylon guitar. The album might have benefited from the presence of some words (perhaps even delivered by a Beastie?) but that would have detracted from the monolithic simplicity of the groove, in which the keyboard (or Korg Triton, or arp odyssey synth, or whatever) is king...
Imagine the scene: A vastly overweight, mentally disabled, middle-aged man howls unintelligibly into a microphone while playing the same few notes again and again on a keyboard; a crowd of young college students drunkenly catcall and jeer at the performer. Willis, of course, seems entirely unaware that he is being jeered at, and mistakes the sarcastic applause for genuine adulation...
Brian R. Lowdermilk ‘05 surrounds himself with words and music. The walls of his room are papered with quotes, a keyboard stands in one corner and a poster advertising a musical hangs upon the closet door. Upon closer examination, Lowdermilk’s name appears on the poster under the words “music and lyrics by.” The poster advertises Lowdermilk’s original musical, Transient Days. While exploring a love triangle between three teenagers, the show deals with adolescent sexuality and the constant struggle that teenagers undergo to find themselves during...
...biggest change from the original, or at least the most obvious, is in Slayer’s “Raining Blood.” The bloodthirsty guitars of the unrepentant metal monsters are transmuted into pulsing, lowering keyboard wash, while the inarticulately angry lyrics are intoned in almost religious fashion. Again, the link to portrayals of women, or anything very much beyond sinister apocalyptic omens, is vague at best; the song is perhaps more a tribute from Tori’s days in her early metal band Y Kant Tori Read. The album’s closing track...
Truck Volume, a track for The Wash, began with a Dre beat and an eerie keyboard riff played on an old Vox V-305 organ. ("I was watching VH1--The Doors: Behind the Music," he says, by way of explanation.) Dre then added layers of strings. Everyone from Eminem to Madonna has been known to beg Dre for tracks, but the Doctor decides who gets his music based entirely on feel. Truck Volume, with its exaggerated haunted-house vibe, seemed like a good fit for the exuberantly hoarse rapper Busta Rhymes. "Busta just sounds crazy to me," Dre says...