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...took two years and AM radio before I found Argent for myself. I heard "Hold Your Head Up" on the radio and thought it was McCartney, until I heard its organ break. It's still one of the finer things on AM playlists. It's rare enough I buy an album for one cut; this is the first record I've ever bought on the basis of one song played on the radio...
Further technical problems included the exchange of McLaughlin's entire bank of amplifiers: problems with the organ's main amp, its Leslie tone cabinet, were confronted, and solved. Then, 30 seconds of silenced. Then, thunder, the massive chords of "Meeting of the Spirits," four of them, as though to alert the heavens that the show had begun. The piece's theme is finger-picked, on the 12 string neck of McLaughlin's double-necked Gibson. From there the group's soloists explored the theme's possibilities...
...classes will be counted against youths who want to enter Czechoslovakia's overcrowded universities. The Czechoslovak press has launched an all-out attack on religion in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular. In Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, the most heavily Catholic region, the Communist Party organ Pravda warned readers that religion causes schizophrenia, leads to mental imbalance and encourages crime. The national army paper Obrana Lidu denounced the Vatican as the world's "greatest center of ideological subversion...
...just one idea," says Roberta. "Whatever it was, I told myself, 'This is it.' " She took everything slow and steady, step by step. While she was growing up in Arlington, Va., her father worked as a draftsman and her mother as a public school cook who played organ at a local church. By the time she was nine, Roberta was playing for the Sunday school; at age eleven she was sitting in for Mom at the 11 o'clock service. She entered Howard University on a partial music scholarship at 15, and at 20 was teaching music...
...grins triumphantly, as if to explain that that's of course how it would come out. Around him the Mather House dining room is converting to its night-time role: a small forest of music stands has popped up; guitar amps, an organ, and drums are lugged in; the pianist is jamming with the two flutes; the crew checks the stage lighting, fading in and out on the three performers doing their warm-ups. Tom Johnson, the music director, stops by to check details, as do five others in the next fifteen minutes. The room is noisy and alive...