Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GEES: ODESSA (2 LPs; Atco). There is a nostalgic quality to these inventive, richly melodious ballads, which are sung earnestly, sometimes with a trifle too much vibrato. Sounding occasionally like a wholesome choir of Beatles, this Anglo-Australian quintet is sufficiently international to handle soft rock, country and Western, and songs that sound like folk even if they are not. But while this is their best album, the Bee Gees are sometimes swallowed alive by the lush harmonies of the singing strings in the background...
...principals, Gass on organ and Sheldon on guitar, are remarkable musicians. Bobby Gass, a Harvard senior, was classically trained and brings all the precision and subtlety of refined technique to the brash vitality of the rock-world which he seems also to have absorbed. He composed a fugue for "Lady," which goes so well with the traditions of rock&roll that it leaves one's faith in the future of contemporary music gloriously reaffirmed...
...realizes occasionally quite how unmusical a sound is produced by electric lead guitar--it consists of no more than a raw electronic note. A little mystifying to think that this particular sound is the supreme voice of rock-music. But suddenly, when Sheldon is playing, pulling out an insistent sizzling line of pure sound, polished and gleaming at the edges, like a stream of oozing silver liquid, everything begins to make sense and rock is redeemed as one of the most important artistic movements of out time...
...Bead Game's sudden emergence as a full-grown rock group of overwhelming intensity and power is like seeing a super-group grow up in your backyard. It would seem to be near-criminal to pass them...