Word: rods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAGE at the Boston Tea A local group called Quill has just finished its good-to-dreary slot with a bang-up African number. The Jeff Beck Group now quickly marches in, Mick Waller at the drums, Jeff Beck prophetically brandishing his guitar. The singer Rod Stewart in burnt sienna flush velours pants that fit tight, an ornate silver cross hanging from his neck, has slender features and a bouffant hair-do and an impish grin. Ron Wood, on bass guitar, stakes out his area and the music flares like a newly struck match. Stewart sings "Rock me baby/Keep-on-rocking-me-baby/ Rock...
...Rod Stewart lifts the mike, stand and all, the tripod legs slant in the air and his body is bent double over it, singing he glances happily over the stage. Jeff Beck in a black ruffled shirt knees slightly bent, perfectly balanced though, finishes his rifls with a triumphant index finger high over his head. He 'plays' a long beep and then a long deep wavering note. Stewart sings slow blues style, "My baby, she knows how to spread her wings." Subterrenean thoughts of rolling thighs float around. Jeff Beck and Ron Wood exchange looks and laugh. Mick Waller keeps...
...resumes the plucking with the drums still beating. Near the end of the number he finally completes the theme--it still sounds like 'Yankee Doodle' but it's brilliant, an improvisation worthy of the best jazz musicians. Into 'Silver Lining' now and Beck has a singing, singing guitar, Rod Stewart itching and arching with a tambourine. Beck does more--a rich screeching, waves of unearthly sound over and over, soulful wails. The fired crowd howls for more. Somebody shouts for 'Train' which is what the Yardbirds were doing in 'Blow-Up'. Beck looks at Waller taking up the challenge...
...neighborhood screens. Staircase, a play about two aging male lovers has been bought by 20th Century-Fox; The Killing of Sister George, a tragicomedy concerning a tweedy lesbian and her baby-doll companion, is now being filmed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) in London. Oscar Winner Rod Steiger's next big film, The Sergeant, is about a homosexual G.I. who re-enlists to get closer to the boys. CBS Films this month announced that it has bought the rights to The Boys in the Band, an off-Broadway hit in which all the characters are homosexuals. In March...
...motion to put traffic problems directly under the control of the City Council and the City Manager has lain on the table for over a month. Someday, the Council and the Manager may agree to fire Rudolph; but, even if they do, another man will probably fill his lightning-rod role...