Word: pedalers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would leave, the Dead would do a few more songs and then introduce the New Riders: Dave Torbert on bass: Mickey Hart (also from the Dead) on drums: David Nelson (who looks like a refugee from the Band) on mandolin and acoustic guitar: Garcia on pedal steel guitar; and that little fellow. John "Marmaduke" Dawson, composer lyricist and "prime mover" for the New Riders, a prince of acoustic guitarists and lead vocalists...
...voice is especially fitted for the Riders' kind of wispy, mournful tunes. Dryden's percussion adds to the tone of the songs without obscuring the foreground. Garcia, as always, is Garcia: often out of tune, occasionally absent-minded, but nevertheless, undisciplinedly great. He shoots off long, sinuous strands of pedal steel, especially in "All I Ever Wanted": his guitar turns a semi-Paul McCartney lament into a really moving love song...
...allowed to join the fun when one of the riders becomes winded. Occasionally a pony-polo expert decides to give the game a try. He is usually disappointed. "It's easier on horseback," a high-ranking rider from Colombia discovered last week. "You don't have to pedal the horse...
VIENTIANE, during peacetime, would have little if anything to catch the eye. However, due to the huge American presence, Vientiane today smacks of the surreal. On the street passing the Morning Bazaar amid the traditionally sparse traffic of taxis, pedal-rickshaws, and jeeps, today there are American station wagons, driven by American housewives of USAID employees, often with American children jumping around on the back seat. Driving down the main Boulevard paved with U.S. concrete, in their air-conditioned Ford Country Squire, they seem oblivious to the heat, dust, and squalor surrounding them...
...whom, nickel by nickel, Parr spends his time. She plays the piano in her Manhattan apartment while Parr lies on the rug listening: "It is this foot that I see most clearly, a rather generous-sized foot in a heelless brocade slipper working up and down on the soft pedal while I lie there on the floor watching it at eye-level. In answering Bebb's ad, I am sure that I was, among other things, hungry for fortissimo...