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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force for Led Zeppelin. His playing is rhythmically acute. especially across bar lines. sane in the use of distortion and intelligent rather than self-indulgent. His solos offer neither the bludgeoning egotism of Jeff Beck. nor the excellent yet ultimately tedious work of Eric Clapton; neither the excessively frenetic passagework of Alvin Lee, nor the elegant but limited solos of George Harrison. Page has a much better grasp of the organically developing long line than Eric Clapton, whose style of repetitious punctuation suggests a less sentient man. But Cream was organized around the drums while Led Zeppelin is organized around...
...insecurity occasionally reared its head during the Piston, it was certainly in full view throughout the Mahler. The orchestra's performance was rife with premature entrances, bad ensemble, sloppy (though assidious) passagework and poor intonation. On the whole, the woodwinds came off better than the strings, though everyone seemed to be working hard. Marilyn Malpass was a model concert-mistress, at all times attentive to the conductor and heroically attempting to bring the rest of the section along with her. Oboist Carl Schlaikjer was shaky in the second movement, but recovered by the sixth and spun out some...