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Although the riff follows the basic disco patterns, the lead vocalist's solo foreshadows early '80s pop and gospel music. "We are Family" carries you into a disco paradiso of warm, mellow lava lamps, hot incense, disco togetherness, and the aura of love...
...only other reason to see the film, besides Slater's acting, is, sadly enough, the soundtrack. The reason for the movie's title (and the reason you stay awake during the dialogue) is the mixture of music like the mellow Leonard Cohen, the Cowboy Junkies with Sound Garden and other grunge bands. The music, original and unusual in choice, keeps the movie at least sonically interesting. Yes, the director has inserted the (aren't we surprised?) love lyrics of "I want you, etc." during the hook-up scene but other than that, it is quality music...
Opening Friday's show with a sizzling "Feel Like a Stranger," immediately demonstrated why the band, after 28 years on the road, still sells out arenas wherever they go. A few songs later, an excellent rendition of the seldom-played "Stagger Lee" whipped the crowd into a (mellow) frenzy...
...highlight of last weekend was appropriately the closer of Sunday night's show, "Standing On The Moon." Starting off slow and mellow, it incrementally blossomed into a exhibition of how strong and healthy Jerry is. As Garcia's vocal coda of "with you" rose and rose in volume, the exhausted capacity crowd of 15,700 came to its feet with a roar, causing Garcia to become even more exuberant and finish the normal set of the last show of the weekend with the most animated vocal solo this writer has ever seen...
...best of them, and I actually do rebuild my desktop on a regular basis. As I was babbling happily away to my friend Rebecca last year about expansion cards versus junking her old SE, she looked at me and said: "You know, Lori, on the surface you're this mellow History concentrator who writes for the Crimson, but inside there's computer geek just dying...