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...ladder in the corner led to the unfinished loft where Harriet and the man she now lives with, an East Coast social worker turned hog farmer, sleep. Their three children have their own miniature house some 30 feet away. After dinner, we talked for several hours, attempting to sort out the four jumbled years since we had last met. Then I went down to the children's house, undressed in the chilly darkness and sank beneath a dozen blankets on a homemade goose feather mattress...
...lead vocalist of the group, Paul Rogers, late of the no-frills early-seventies British group, Free, which sort of fizzled out following their 1973 album, Heartbreaker, and drummer Simon Kirke, likewise of that gloomily-concluded musical venture, join guitarist Mick Ralphs and bassist Boz Burrell with sax and flute icing by Mel Collins. Together they produce yet another collection of tight riffs--some might call them predictable--with a steady bass company and a highly-amplified guitar sound, usually controlled just short of distortion. They are not virtuosos in the mold of Cream members with their constant technical competition...
East West Journal is, in short, a periodical re-vamped in this month's issue into averitable treasure chest of Handy Hints for the modern world-caretaker. All in all, this creation is somewhat akin to the union of People magazine and a macrobiotic mystic's handbook--a sort of Zen and the art of togetherness manual. The sort of reading-matter you pick up to read as they're charging up the groceries. Check-out-counter spiritualism...
...Fogg did become a sort of landmark for me, though. It was the halfway mark, the red line, the 50-yard stripe, the seventh-inning stretch. (Three out of four...
...sessions in various Viennese inns, the composer had almost no life at all apart from his music. "He needed to imagine what he could not experience," says Fischer-Dieskau. "That is why he loved poets above all others." The popular image of Schubert is of a genial, easy-going sort who hardly realized his own worth. In fact, "the texts of his songs hint at the bitterness within him ... Sorrow and happiness, humility and arrogance, modesty and pride, contemplation and passion speak to us out of the music...