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When playing or performing, the band switches around not only people but instruments—they all play one or more of the following: keyboard harmonica, megaphone, Reason 2.5 (beat synthesizer), keyboard, analog flute, mandolin, guitar, bass and assorted electronic sounds. Somewhere in there, the band members fit in largely improvised lyrics. The Elegant Touch claims that their main goal is to show everyone else how easy it is to start a band; as Ellingson says, “Even people with no talent can rock a crowd...
...YOUNG MAN, I WAS NEVER ANY GOOD AT WAITING FOR THE future. Back in 1970, I composed and synthesized a film sound track using a device few people could then have imagined: a mouse-driven computer attached to a piano-like keyboard. The computer (the size of about nine refrigerators lined up side by side) even displayed the musical notes on a color screen, and when I altered a note, I could replay it instantly...
While it is entirely possible to send text messages using your cell phone, many Americans balk at typing them out on a tiny numeric keypad. AT&T Wireless's Ogo ($99, plus $17.99 a month) offers a solution. It has a wide keyboard, sharp screen and slim profile. You can send not only SMS text messages but also email and instant messages using AOL, MSN or Yahoo...
...easily for the course of a song. The often danceable bass lines add satisfying counterpoint to the darker, choppier guitar licks layered on top. Guitarists Daniel Kessler and Paul Banks let their sound intertwine, ringing out with Clash flavor, flirting with Carlos D’s tasteful keyboard additions (he plays keyboard too) and pushing against each other, always rooted by the bass...
...unwavering dedication, each demographic in the crowd could sing along to almost every lyric. It was truly inspiring to watch Wilco so gracefully unify generations of rock-and-roll listeners. The new fans’ heads nodded with approval at every pulse from Pat Sansone’s keyboard in the largely electronic-based “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.” Later, early loyalists’ eyes lit up when Nels Cline dusted off his classic lap steel for a couple of standards in the first of two encores...