Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blew $8000 on redubbing the West Virginia Creeper's pedal steel on that album. That dude was always out of tune...
...Tichy are just hippies from Berkeley trying to make a living. Now Bobby Black, the new pedal steel player is a pro. He gives the group a lot of class...
...Grateful Dead. They are a very neat group within the limitations of tight, well-rehearsed material. But I would be reticent about endeavoring to present any of my own compositions as back up at a Bob Dylan concert. Unfortunately for Marmaduke et al. (Garcia was sorely missed on pedal steel), when they put their musical cards on the table, they simply did not have the hand. Only once did they attempt to break out of the dreary cowboy framework that shackled their entire presentation, and then they found themselves unable to extend their creative instrumentation beyond the solitary musical idea...
...classic "You Keep Me Hanging On", a hit so big that they were never able to duplicate it. The new arrangements were made long and drawn out by the liberal use of a screaming, powerful Hammond organ and a perhaps too heavy use of fuzz box and wah-wah pedal. The songs were full of three part vocal harmonies and surprising changes in rhythm. But most of all they were psychedelic...
...unusual pattern of complaints about some products made by his old antagonist, G.M.'s Chevrolet Motor Division. Scores of engines on Chevies made from 1965 to 1969, the letters indicated, were twisting loose from car frames, sometimes with the frightening result that the auto's accelerator pedal was pulled all the way down to the floor and the brakes failed. At roughly the same time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was looking into similar complaints. Last week that combined scrutiny led G.M. to announce the largest auto recall ever: in the next few months, its dealers will...