Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian Wilson can't hear well enough to sing, the whole band struggled with the Maharishi, there was even a time when Mike Love Had All the Answers. Not to mention those two South Africans. What they do is open to scrutiny. Nobody seems to like it. I haven't heard it. But the group's run the gamut...
...rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian. Wilson can't hear well enough to sing, the whole bank struggled with the Maharishi, there was even a time when Mike Love Had All the Answers. Not to mention those two South Africans. What they do is open to scrutiny. Nobody seems to like it. I haven't heard it. But the group's run the gamut...
...year or so. Never the easiest man to work for, Morrison's domestic life collapsed around him just after the release of St. Dominic's Preview, and his artistic life reflected those changes. He fired, in short order, his band, his manager and his wife. He would, it seemed, sing no more songs of easy domestic bliss. Preview echoed the troubled times masked by "Brown Eyed Girl," and more accurately described by "He Ain't Give You None" and "TB Sheets." Morrison's wife, Janet, was quite a stabilizing influence; his aquisition of fame (artistic) and comfort (financial) came during...
...conspired, which led them to the traditional backup jobs, with Taj Mahal among others. (Their harmony on his "Texas Woman Blues" is like to drive you wild.) They look like standard Harlem hookers, run through a time warp to about 1943, garish lipstick, thrift shop dresses, hats. They also sing. Ernie Santosuosso said in the Globe last week that he was playing their album incessantly, all this is on one album plus TV. This all may be true, if "Texas Woman Blues" is any indication, it is. Mott the Hoople. Saturday, August 4th. Orpheum Theater. Tickets...
IVAN ARRIVES in Kingston and is immediately ripped off when he finds that in the big city even getting directions cost money. "You think town is easy," cautions a relative Ivan finds in town. "I can sing," he replies, the young Elvis Presley waiting for his inevitable break. Ivan gets the name of a churchman who is to give him a job, and begins his move through a series of rackets...