Word: sitars
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...could I would have the radio on all day." He was bitter about gimmickry (the Jeff Beck Group's first album just out on Epic, is called 'Truth' because the Group feels that it is an honest album with no tricks.) He ridiculed the Beatles' experiments with sitar music "You know how long it takes to learn that instrument? 7 years. and there's the master who's 50 and still learning...
...jewels, incidentally, were genuine: about $2,000,000 worth used in the course of the picture-most of them came from Bulgari in Rome. Genuine, too, was the Goforth villa, built for the occasion in Sardinia and fitted out with a real monkey, a real myna bird and real sitar-strumming Indians. But not real acting. And certainly not much real camp. About the only amusing scene in the film is the entrance of Noel Coward, a minor character known as the Witch of Capri, clad in a brown dinner jacket and riding pig-a-back on a servant...
...without much glory. In an industry devoted to the visual, his contribution is almost academic. Most major programs employ legions of assistant directors and cameramen, but Cole labors alone in the isolation of the sound booth, grappling with problems such as how to ceep the sympathetic strings of a sitar Tom vibrating to the twangs of a nearby banjo. What makes many talented audio engineers defect to the technical haven of the recording companies is the frustrating acoustical conditions of the TV studios. Aswarm with crewmen, performers, musicians, cameras, cables, dollies, cranes, lights and scenery, the studios are about...
...Incredible String Band is Robin Williamson and Mike Heron. They can play almost anything on almost almost anything--ranging from oriental to semi-calypso to blues, rock, classical guitar things and children's songs, blending all into their unclassifiable style using guitar, bowed gimbri, sitar, mandolin, flute, harmonica and an exotic percussion arsenal...
...women in blue jeans and work shirts began walking slowly, slowly onto the curtainless stage of Paris' Theatre National Populaire. There they stood or sat, meditatively waiting. At 8:30, Indian Musician Nageswara Rao appeared, carrying his vina - a long, gourd-based stringed instrument, much like the sitar popularized by Ravi Shankar and Beatle George Harrison. For a quarter of an hour, the vina mewed and whinnied while no one moved. Then things began to come to life...