Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST TIME AROUND (Atco). The Buffalo Springfield have scored again on the last album before they split up. Their transition from folk through folk rock and now to country-western has been smooth going, which is a tribute to their exceptional talents. Stephen Stills, who wrote five of the songs, sings Four Days Gone with down home grit. It is a story song about a boy on the run from "government madness" who can't tell his name because he's "got reason to live." A tinny piano tinkles in the background while a steel guitar twangs...
Equal Fire. Though Wallace had hitherto spent most of his time attacking Democratic liberals, last week he finally turned equal fire on the G.O.P. "If you vote the national Republican ticket," he told a Little Rock, Ark., audience, "you have thrown your vote away." In 1952, he reminded them, Republicans said "pretty things" to the South, but then appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court. "The national Republican Party, for the first time since Reconstruction, put the bayonet in the backs of the people of Arkansas." Richard Nixon's Southern strategy, he added, was an attempt...
Throughout most of a typical performance, the English rock quartet called The Who live up to their own modest billing: "A good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group." Their beat is tight and jabbing, their guitar backings crisp. Their songs (Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles) aim to divert listeners rather than convert them. Un like current groups performing along the protest-and-prophecy axis, they do not come on like four hoarse men of the Apocalypse. Not at first...
...instruments. "We started using it," says Townshend, "as a lever to get the audiences to come, and then, we hoped, dig the rest of the music." Now the audiences are coming. The Who rank close behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as one of England's leading rock groups, and they are rapidly winning frenzied admirers in America as well. Still, the music seems overshadowed by the violence...
...have been known more for their nonmusical put-ons than their musical output. They were formed in 1964 when Townshend, the son of a dance-band saxophonist in suburban London, met the other three in school. Their early local successes were based on imitations of U.S. blues and rock 'n' roll performers (John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley). Later, they pioneered in pop-art costumes, such as jackets made from Union Jacks. Then they began literally breaking things up-and probably inspired the guitar-burning antics of Singer Jimi Hendrix as well as the Yardbirds' memorable discotheque scene...