Word: rockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desk and John stayed home with the little boy. Julian, Lennon's other, older son, was now a teen-ager who lived in Britain with his mother, but wore leather jackets and jeans, like his Dad back in the days of the Quarrymen, and talked of becoming a rocker. John did not see Julian often, and said recently, "I don't remember seeing him as a child." But Lennon suggested that he had lately wanted to know Julian better, and one of the most haunted faces in last week's gallery of grief was Julian...
...dusty Wyoming prairies, where Buffalo Bill Cody ended his pursuit of bison, the black rocker arms of oil wells thump to and fro through the night. In southern Montana, where the proud Sioux won their great victory, bulldozers scrape away the topsoil of cliffs to reveal vast seams of coal below. In western New Mexico, where legends tell of the Spanish explorer Coronado searching for the Seven Cities of Cibola, drills sink into the earth in search of uranium. The Mountain States hold vast deposits of the nation's coal, oil and uranium; they are at the heart...
...FIRST two albums made this one possible. A group could not start out this tight or knowledgeable, and the power pop background enabled the band to delve into the new syncopations and melodies. Jackson now tries to write off his days as a "Spiv" rocker, but they remain at the core of the layered sound and cynical vision he now emotes...
...have turned fancier, slicker and more synthetic. They were a good singles band that was tuned up and turned into a commercial phenomenon. Producer Ted Templeman did the tuning. When he produced the first Doobies album in 1971, the band was led by Founder Tom Johnston, a hang-tough rocker who wrote many of the group's first hits. Templeman gave the early records an uncluttered, unaffected sound. But as the group started to change, its producer changed with it, and if he did not initiate these changes and new directions, he certainly encouraged them. The Doobies, who over...
Hutton's camera catches all the nuances and real-life minutiae of his characters and settings, from Delaney's pursing of lips and slight cocking of head to the "Wet Paint" sign in the precinct house, to the pink-jacked, clothespin-nosed punk rocker being busted for solicitation. Similarly, the dialogue lends a certain sardonic grittiness to The First Deadly...