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...vibrate closed "Tonight" and opened "People Get Ready." An old Vanilla Fudge standby, Beck, Bogart and Appice blended their voices beautifully one time for an exquisite gospel version of the song (at least for rock shows). Beck varied volume and intensity to alter mood. I heard the best single lick of the evening during "People." Beck moved into a transitional chord, picked two bars acoustically at very low volume, boosted the volume, and came out in a single note run. In the space of one chord, maybe seven seconds...
Vellucci also attacked the heads of public utilities who he said are getting richer and richer at the people's expense. And absentee landlords also came under fire: "The only way to lick the rent problem is to build housing for the people. Then the people will say. 'To hell with your worthless firetraps, because the City and state are building housing...
Then a second quirk of nature suggested another method. Like cats, vampires lick themselves to clean their reddish-brown fur, and they are as clubby as monkeys, eagerly grooming each other. One researcher reasoned that it would be effective to catch a few vampires, daub them with diphenadione, then release them to return home and bleed to death-and incidentally poison their grooming partners...
Russ Ballard is not only Argent's guitarist, he also writes nearly half the band's songs. Ballard's songs emphasize guitar as much as Argent's rely on organ and piano. "Tragedy", opens with a good soul band guitar lick, that becomes the basis of the tune. Rod Argent's role on this one is to build the total sound with his full-bodied chords, and to play a smoothly-phrased duet with Ballard during the break. The transitions between chorus bridge and break are smooth--repeated listening shows this to be one of the band's strong points...
...sure he is. His showcase was the finale. "The Noonward Race," Every time McLaughlin had an idea, or made any sort of musical move, Cobham was there, waiting. He heard the idea, reacted, assimilated the idea, and was able to act on his own, with the correct lick, all instantly. His solo stressed changes in intensity, power, and tone, rather than mere flash. Throughout it, he built to peaks then retreated, all within the framework of the piece's tone. He is masterful...