Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pseudo-exotic atmosphere that teetered on thebrink between ritualistic splendour and purekitsch. Unfortunately, that line was irrevocablycrossed on the tune that ended the set. PianistWilliam Henderson moved over to a Casio keyboardand punched out a bubble-gum pop vamp whileSanders danced around the stage. Sanders thenpicked up a huge metal hemisphere, banged it witha mallet and let the reverberations from the belllinger until they faded to the infinite. Withthis, complete Karmic transcendence of the soulwas reached, although a curiously cheesy smellremained in the air for a long time after...
Greg C. Clayman '95 is wearing a shirt with a picture of Barbie and her name below in swirling pink letters. She comes complete with a real metal hoop earning. "This is my favorite t-shirt," Clayman says. "I guess it's not that cool a shirt, but Traci Lords gave it to me and that's why I wear it. It reminds me of her." Okay. I encounter Clayman a second time and inquire about another shirt which he is wearing. "Please don't describe this t-shirt. It belongs to an ex-girlfriend of mine...
...patients but to calm them down, sometimes using antipsychotic drugs, so that they can return home and be treated in a more familiar environment. There have been a few escapes from the facility, notably that of "Samson," a burly Canadian who demonstrated his Old Testament credentials by ripping the metal grille off a ward window. A hospital staff member spotted him at a bus station and retrieved him without incident...
...emphasize his liminal state, Ward's grandfather harangues form atop ladder and then hops with the ladder across the stage. Later he descends a metal grid by sliding his body in between the bars with half his body outside of the grid, half in. He exists partially in reality and partially in another world. In addition to creating striking images, these tactics are intelligent displays of how a madman might view movement...
...high camp of Parliament-Funkadelic an other funkers. "Who Knows" is a song about confusion, with Hendrix' ever-changing guitar sound feverishly groping through chaotic fields of sound, as Miles and Cox groove along sympathetically. Hendrix opens his last solo of the ten-minute track with an eerie, apocalyptic, metal-on-metal sound-like a restless spirit trapped in a grotesquely funky prison. Twenty-five years after the fact, it is clear that Hendrix is still the master of pure sound on the electric guitar. His solo improvisations are not based so much on notes as they...