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Heesen and four other veterans visited TIME last month for a talk that served as an epilogue to the Internet era and a prologue to innovation to come. Brenda Gavin, managing partner of Quaker BioVentures; John Preston, associate director of the M.I.T. Entrepreneurship Center; Gary Rieschel, managing partner of Mobius Venture Capital; and Susan Woodward, founder of Sand Hill Econometrics, joined Heesen on our Board of Technologists...
First mandolins--H. S. Clark, R. H. Eggleston, F. A. Hardling, A. H. Metcalf, N. W. Niles, F. L. Preston, S. J. Smith, J. R. Suydam, H. G. Tomlin, H. M. Wilder...
Departing from the painstaking economy of Johnson’s guitar-and-voice arrangements, Clapton gives the erstwhile-skeletal pieces the full rock and roll treatment: his veteran band (which includes luminaries like keyboardist Billy Preston) adorns Johnson’s work with bass, drums, keyboard and harmonica. The extra sonic dimension feels more like revelation than heresy; the ease with which Clapton and his band introduce these new layers testifies to the oceanic depth of the songs. From the slow and dirty grind of “Milkcow’s Calf Blues?...
...length to some of Johnson's songs (all of which were under three minutes to fit the recording limit of 78s). The group creates some smooth grooves, and the guitar playing is predictably spectacular, but in the process of stretching the songs Clapton strips them of their intensity. Billy Preston's bouncy keyboards make 32-20 Blues sound like a Country Bear Jamboree performance of Chopin's Funeral March, while the snare hits and harmonica clichés on Traveling Riverside Blues sound like Johnson channeled through a Michelob ad. Clapton's vocals don't help matters. You can tell...
...Preston School of Industry