Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While other rock groups got lost in a technological doldrums which enervated their music, the Who--masterminded by Peter Townshend--stuck to the basic rock style of the sixties. Today, the financially strapped old-timers and the lobotomized New Wavers backtrack towards their roots, only to find the Who have been there all along, not stagnating but maturing, gaining depth, growing subtle...
Subtle hard rock? Most groups that sought it, like Yes and Genesis, vnthesized the rock right out of their music. Townshend's use of the synthesizer has always been comparatively restrained; if he never explored new frontiers, neither did he emasculate his group's music. This approach pays off on Who Are You, in songs like "The Music Must Change," a thriller in which the sound swells like an electronic tide rising and falling behind the rhythym section...
...depth and density of the music insures against mindlessness; we can be certain the Who will never produce mechanical monotonies like the Stones' "Hot Stuff" and "Miss You." Indeed, "Sister Disco," a Townshend song on the album, lets us know exactly where the who stand...
Eliot House Music Society--Works of Purcell, Bach, Domel and others performed by the New England Baroque Ensemble. At Eliot House Library...
Before I go to the actual concert listings, let me fill you in on what has been happening in the music world over the summer, or as we in the biz say, what has been happening, like you know, in the music, diggit, world over the summer, man. The Cars merged with the Doors to produce the Windows. Bet you thought I was going to say the Car Doors, didn't you? Too obvious. Hot Tuna got together with Canned Heat, but the marriage didn't take so they divided up the musicians and formed two new groups, Canned Tuna...