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...best composer to have his works played to death in the '70s: Scott Joplin (The Sting, The Red Back Book, piano rolls, E. Power Biggs' pedal-harpsichord arrangements, ad infinitum...
...Purple Sage and Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen start things off Friday in what is probably the best concert of the weekend. The New Riders, a Grateful Dead spinoff group named after a Zane Gray Western novel, play laid-back countrified rock with lots of pedal steel guitar...
...trip between Rocky Mount, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn., and somehow strayed up to Boston. They play exclusively country stuff, ranging from Hank Williams laments to Earl Scruggs bluegrass, and start the weekend shift at King's Thursday night. John Lincoln has almost perfected his twang and his fiddler and pedal steel guitarist are especially good. Hard to dance to, but good enough to bear close listening...
...mechanical devices, the flywheel works on a simple principle: a rapidly spinning weighted wheel serves as a highly useful reservoir of energy. It has been put to work in a wide variety of ways. As a potter's wheel, it smooths out motion between movements of the foot pedal. On the crankshaft of an auto engine, it prevents uneven rotation that would result from piston strokes. But it is only recently that engineers looking for less polluting means of transportation have begun to give serious thought to tapping the whirling flywheel's energy...
That reminded someone else of the times when they were kids that they'd hear the mosquito control truck coming into their neighborhood. They'd race out of bed and into the garage and hop on their bikes and a whole pack of buddies would pedal like runway fools into the thick white cloud of kerosene and DDT sprayed out of a nozzle at the back. "There wasn't any chemical high to it," said the son of a dairy farmer, "but it sure was cool looking into that cloud for a while." And about the time their lungs...