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Born. To Diana Ross, 28, former lead singer of Motown's Supremes, now starring in the Billie Holiday movie biography, Lady Sings the Blues, and Robert Ellis Silberstein, 28, Los Angeles public relations executive: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tracee...
...Beck Group," his latest release, contains a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Gotta Have a Song," and a brilliant instrumental of Valerie Simpson's "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You." Also, Beck journeyed to Detroit several years back to do some sessions with the Motown house band that've become an underground legend. Nothing from the seasions was ever released, but critical consensus is that the mating of slick Detroit soul and lower class English raunch was doomed from the start...
...notes to discover that lick. The vocals on "Plynth (Water Down the Drain)" were ordinary--the vocal harmonies much tastier than the vocal leads. Beck dropped a cello styled chord into the middle of a solo, and took the band into "Shotgun," his only in concert thank you to Motown. It was cursory, out of place and served primarily as an introduction to Tim Bogart's feedback-laden, extremely histrionic and essentially unnecessary bass solo...
...thing: A massive resurgence of energy laden hard rock, the three-chord style, led by the J. Geils Band, the finest-chord rock band playing music. The startingly reactionary nature of white rock in Detroit a genre whose foundation rests on a move away from both the slickness of Motown and the innovative qualities of late sixties progressive rock. (A complete assessment of white rock in Detroit is in order, one will appear in this space soon. In short, rock in holding fast, or retreating, or simply in limbo, on each of its fronts...
...first the bad news: Paul Butterfield's new band. Butter used to have the best big band in rock music, and at times, it was clear that what he was actually fronting was a very good soul band, nearly of the caliber of the Motown house band. But in the last six or eight months, he has disbanded it, in favor of the six man band he originally started in 1965. (I found his horn section, nearly intact, backing Stevie Wonder at the Rolling Stones Concerts.) In 1965, Paul Butterfield formed the first, and maybe the best, integrated Chicago-style...