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Even the most laid-back easy rocker would find it tough to resist his live performance. Small, tightly muscled, the voice a chopped-and-channeled rasp, Springsteen has the wild onstage energy of a pinball rebounding off invisible flippers, caroming down the alley past traps and penalties, dead center for extra points and the top score...
...Riders of the Purple Sage and Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen start things off Friday in what is probably the best concert of the weekend. The New Riders, a Grateful Dead spinoff group named after a Zane Gray Western novel, play laid-back countrified rock with lots of pedal steel guitar...
...RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME, Doctor John. Nine in June. "I done hit the right vein, but it must have been the wrong arm." Great rhythm from this laid-back New Orleans musician. Album with same title also is a winner...
...Blue is a quirkish, laid-back, jolly film, rich in resonance, full of scrupulously affectionate detail for a West that changed too fast and too often ever to be called "Old." It is a wry paean to a life of crime, and displays a robust contempt for law, order and the encroachments of civilization. Bickford, as dexterously played by Hopper, shows signs occasionally of becoming a kind of surrogate James Dean, a prairie rebel without a cause. Hopper started working in films about the same time as Dean (they appeared together in Rebel Without a Cause), and in rather...
...worked with both John Cage and the rock group, Velvet Underground. Cale's orchestral writing (played by the Royal Philharmonic) often sounds like ersatz Charles Ives, Cale's piano parts (played by Cale himself) like sleepy Debussy. Yet within their pop context, they possess a kind of "laid-back" mood that may just appeal to the rock young...