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Blake needed no assisting rhythm section. The highly audible rat-tat-tat of his heels filled that bill. His technique is in the percussive, pedal-heavy ragtime tradition-bouncing, thump-pah bass and ornate, syncopated melody-but it is nonetheless astounding in its flawlessly striding left hand and daringly acrobatic right. Blake still practices two hours a day; he works so much on the eve of a concert that "I get sick of hearing myself." Midway through a delirious rendition of his brand-new Classical Rag, Blake cried out, "Aha, it sounds good...
...WHICH is not to say that the Airmen are not skilled at their trade. Cody's piano riff, are great if you notice them frolicking around in the background. And the pedal-steel player is also proficient, he is just asked to do too much. "Semi-Truck" and "Windshield" actually turn out as pleasant little ditties, well suited for bouncing along through the countryside. "Cravin' Your Love," a slow number, is perhaps the best cut on the album, simply because it abandons the café atmosphere for a fuller sound closer to rock and roll. "Tutti Frutti...
...encircling the entire congregation. The registrations are those of a baroque organ with many mixtures available over a presumably powerful fundamental. The reed stops tone is too often a nasal shriek. This was not helped by some faulty voicing of the individual pipes. But the biggest disappointment is the pedal division. Even the thirty-two-foot Untersatz the loudest stopped-pipe normally employed is inadequate, it does not support the loud mixtures played from the manuals...
...songs on side two more nearly typify Eagles music. "Train Leaves Here This Morning," originally a Dillard & Clark Expedition song, aims at a country sound, particularly through a slide guitar solo, so soft and laden with vibrato, that it seems to be pedal steel. But its words are western. The same can be said for "Earlybird" whose "The eagle flies alone. He is free," is par for Eagles's songwriting. Musically, the simplicity of the bass line, the thin sound of drums, and in "Earlybird: the banjo and the faraway slide guitar, lend to a total sound that is remarkably...
...just that program, Harpsichordist-Organist Newman not only sold out Manhattan's 2,836-seat Philharmonic Hall to a mostly young, blue-jeaned audience, but after nearly three hours, had them cheering for more. After Newman played Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor on the pedal harpsichord, he trotted onstage for a curtain call, shoulders hunched in a simian crouch, folded his hands in a Zen gesture of thanks. Grabbing his score from the harpsichord, he waved it over his head, signaled for quiet and asked, "How'd you like to hear the same piece...