Word: sonics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Right now it's my guitar. A 1957 Fender Duo-sonic, black, with maple neck, Schaller heads, and original pickup...
Smoke machines flood the stage with a primordial haze. Colored lights flash, and chain-mail costumes shine in the gloom. A guitar swoops through a sonic blizzard that might have been whipped up by Led Zeppelin. Whirling at the center of this musical maelstrom is a lanky, dark-haired lout. He shouts in a girlish tenor, drops his kimono, strips to hot pants and tosses roses to adoring teenyboppers...
Instead, he took his music anywhere they would listen. His bands changed names (the Rogues, the Steel Mill, Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom) as frequently as personnel. "I've gone through a million crazy bands with crazy people who did crazy things," Springsteen remembers. They played not only clubs and private parties but firemen's balls, a state mental hospital and Sing Sing prison, a couple of trailer parks, a rollerdrome, the parking lot of a Shop-Rite and under the screen during intermission at a drive-in. A favorite spot for making music, and for hanging...
...associates, working under the aegis of Ralph Nader's consumerist Center for Study of Responsive Law, overcame the academy's secrecy by conducting more than 500 interviews, many of them with academicians themselves, including an initially reluctant Academy President Philip Handler. In such controversial areas as the sonic booms and atmospheric damage caused by supersonic transports, the dangers of cyclamates and the effects of defoliants in Viet Nam, the study shows in case after case that the academy "allowed itself to be used as a shield by those intent on preserving business as usual...
...them in the country, 97,000 living in 16 refugee camps. Using the camps as training areas, fedayeen have frequently mounted forays across the border into Israel. The retaliatory raids that invariably follow have so far killed an estimated 130 Lebanese in border settlements and brought Israeli jets sonic-booming over Beirut itself...