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Word: rockingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earth Opera's music is patterned and sibilant, propelled by staccato bursts of notes--and saxophone duets, drum rallies etc. each in turn play this refresher role. The songs range from wistful reminiscences to socio-political challenges. Above all, though, Earth Opera has the Rock Presence...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Earth Opera | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...John, a fixture at Boston's rock gatherings, had, by now, clambered up on stage, with a glint sincerely in his eyes, and had begun as usual to make a fool of himself. The crowd booed. John shouted, over the Earth Opera's fading chords, "I'm not mad. You all are" Which wasn't true anyway but what the hell...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Earth Opera | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

Troy Fleming, however, moved into Cambridge and has been almost entirely responsible for the staging of free rock concerts on the Cambridge Common every rainless Sunday since early in the spring...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Sunday Afternoon on Cambridge Common With Troy Fleming and the Family Dog | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

These are old ideas and projects--the philosophy of the Family Dog. The Family Dog was first a rock group, then an organization ("family," Fleming calls it) to give free rock concerts and distribute free food in San Francisco...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Sunday Afternoon on Cambridge Common With Troy Fleming and the Family Dog | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...Family Dog first used the Filmore and Avalon auditoriums to put on rock shows. They set up free concerts on the Panhandle, a park near the Golden Gate Bridge. And they ran Monday morning clean-ins in Haight-Ashbury: the city gave them 50 brooms, and they would go down the whole street sweeping...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Sunday Afternoon on Cambridge Common With Troy Fleming and the Family Dog | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

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