Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baerwald is assured and savvy enough to mock his own obsessions (notably in AIDS & Armageddon: "I dream assassination/ I hallucinate cash") and to give even his most dour lyric excursions a solid foundation of rhythm throughout. You might not be able to party down to Triage, but you sure can dance to it -- right over the edge...
With Daryl Johnson on bass and Ronald Jones on drums, Lanois has the benefit of the kind of rich rhythm section that can be both goad and guide. When a musical phrase or lyric passage threatens to send Lanois off into deep space, Johnson and Jones can pull him back; when he's revising tradition, as on Indian Red, a kind of New Orleans gumbo classic, they help him explore musical byways that can bring him home again along a brand new route. If Highway 61 ran past Cape Canaveral, Lanois would be singing at the crossroads...
Tomassoni forged the line sometimes around Christmas and since then, the three players have been working on developing a rhythm together, getting a sense for how each other play...
...never as close as the score might say," Martin said. "But we took ourselves out of our rhythm. We've got to establish a consistent level in practice. Right now we hit high points and low points, and we suffer for that...
...first period was a laugh, offensively, with penalties and icing goals marring any kind of rhythm from developing for both teams. Not even 1:17 of 4-on-3 power-action could rouse the Crimson forwards from their prolonged slumber...