Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Complementing Griffin in the backcourt is Arnie Needleman. Needleman is not the ballhandler Griffin is, but he can shoot with anyone on the team. Against MIT last Monday. Needleman hit for 41 points...
...every seven job holders to one in only 25 just since World War II-U.S. farmers are still able to produce a harvest out of all proportion to the nation's food needs. Whenever such surpluses hit the market, they obviously caused prices to shoot downward, often to the point of cruel losses to the men who grew the food. To this almost unique problem of enormous overproductivity on the farms, the Government eventually was forced to find a solution. Exactly 40 years ago from this year's spring planting season, Washington began paying many...
...paradox is simple: Why would a man with jazz in his head pick an African and three soul band session men as his rhythm section? The answer's someplace in Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory. The album isn't a noticeable improvement over Low Spark: the immediate impression is hypnosis, which is why so many have called it "soporic," Shoot Out is gripping, but on the subtlest levels...
...that it immediately suggests a drug-induced euphoria or hypnosis. The conga opening is catchy, and the entrance of saxophone and piano on the first verse is subtle. The rest of the band sneaks in toward the end of the verse, with the same drive they displayed on "Shoot Out," here geared down only enough to keep the tune's direction and pace. The song is based on simple descending and ascending progressions, with an uneven, yet impassioned vocal--listen to Winwood's delivery of the line "I don't know who's losing,/And I don't know...
...there is a problem, it's in the mix. Shoot Out is irregularly mixed, rarely emphasizing Winwood's guitar, and regularly muddying up the percussion. Often, as at the end of the title song, there are simply too many separate tracks, and too much activity. And yet Shoot Out at The Fantasy Factory is successful. Traffic has always been Steve Winwood's band, his sheer virtuosity virtually overshadows all else. The addition of a soul band rhythm section is schizophrenic. But schizophrenia must run in this man's mind. After all, what else but schizophrenic is "the best white rhythm...