Word: riff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lover" is similarly structured. It begins with a full organ opening leading to an excellent basic riff from the rhythm section. (Ballard's chording is exceptional here, as it is on his own songs, and throughout.) Argent's gradual entry into the song for the break emphasizes his tendency to build a solo. There's a certain unpredictability in his explorations, both here and on "Hold Your Head Up," that results in an increased interest on the part of the listener. Argent's influences are subtle, and echo so well the texture of his solo that the finished whole...
...other tracks worth mentioning are a tremendously powerful version of Howlin' Wolf's "Evil" and "Mean Night in Cleveland", a number based on an old blues riff. Given the strength of these two cuts, both of which are excellent. Cactus might well consider changing directions (or is it assume a direction) and try to bring blues rock back into popularity...
Unlike "Dirty Business", "Henry" comes off as well on the album as it does live. The song jumps and moves as "fast, fast, fast" as its hero does. The most characteristic part is the guitar riff just before the end of the song. "All I Ever Wanted", as noted above, is another of those Dead songs, like "Cold Rain and Snow", which effortlessly expresses heartache and disappointment in love without being sentimental...
...foreign correspondents. He reported the early years of the war from behind French and German lines and hired other dashing young reporters for the News, including his brother Edgar and Raymond Gram Swing, later radio's calm oracle. Mowrer covered the Versailles Treaty talks and the Riff war in Spanish Morocco, became adviser and go-between for diplomats and statesmen. He won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1928, returned home to become editor of the News for nine years...
...myself up for a rip-off if I ever got into any kind of hassle with the dude. Because if I got into a hassle, I'd still be a person, but he'd have to be a pig. It'd happened to me so many times, that whole riff...