Word: keyboarding
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Despite a slight technical difficulty with his “circa 1982...Depeche Mode” keyboard (it died) during “Last Night’s Dream,” Trapper managed a near-perfect set. The keyboard he found in his attic was not the only surprise instrument that Trapper pulled out during his Passim stint—warning the audience that he was “about to prove how much of a white-trash hick I am,” Trapper risked “be[ing] kicked out of the band?...
...voice is at its best here in a way that has been absent from the new albums. The conspicuous failure on the album is “Everything In Its Right Place”: The song that heralded Radiohead’s shift from guitars into the keyboard realm as the eerie first song on Kid A sounded like a band gradually materializing out of the ether on a barren landscape. On Wrong, it sounds like a flat and somewhat aimless keyboard sample underlaying Yorke’s vocals. When deprived of the mystique of distortion, they start to sound...
...supple chord-building or cheekily paying homage to arena rock in the club’s small confines, Bartlett was the rhythm section rock on which Frankie was able to build great flights of fancy. Pianist Israel Tannenbaum played an almost ironic performance, leaping up and down the keyboard in vertical chords under the effigy of Lester Young, a soloist renowned for his horizontal and compressed playing. Tannenbaum also contributed one of the evening’s more poignant moments, a fractured version of “Happy Birthday” before the band gave it an abbreviated dirty funk...
...really want is a cell phone, pager and Palm-style PDA, look out for the Handspring Treo. This slim device is about the size and weight of a regular cell phone, with a protective flip-top and large screen. It comes in two flavors--with a keyboard or with a Graffiti writing pad. A switch at the top mercifully silences the whole thing instantly. Look for it in early...
...Spinning Gasing refuses to descend into art-house glumness. Whenever the plot shows signs of faltering, the campy keyboard player is summoned for another one-liner. (Such as: "It's so anal being straight!") There are enough inside jokes to keep Malaysian audiences happy without alienating international ones. It is Malaysia's first motion picture shot almost completely in English, and U.S. giant Columbia TriStar plans to distribute it in Singapore later this year and possibly throughout Asia...