Word: offramp
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...impossible to doze off, however, when the band launched into a horn showcase that riffed on Metheny’s composition “Offramp.” Vu crafted a searing, unsettling sonic landscape by half-blowing, half-buzzing into his horn. He simultaneously filtered and looped the sound with a mixer at his side and proceeded to solo over the resulting vamp. Initially captivating for its ingenuity, it decayed into a druggy, hellish stream of screaming guitars, strobing lights and tumult of menacing drums. It was an unsettling, visual and auditory apocalypse that left the audience puzzling...
After about 15 minutes in the downtown intersection, the crowd marched past Fanueil Hall onto North St., Where they blocked a key offramp to the Central Artery. MDC police, clad in riot gear, closed in on the group quickly. Dozens of officers, who had been waiting at the nearby entrance to the Callahan Tunnel, lifted about 40 protesters from the street, handcuffed them with plastic strips and transferred them to waiting police wagons...
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