Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothingness by throwing himself down on all fours "to pretend to be a hyena"--a cameo that culminates in Rabinowitz taking a chunk out of the leg of a fellow guest. Kudos to Fitch for giving Rabinowitz several chances throughout the play to reveal his amazing repertoire of vocal sound effects...
That's Why I'm Here marks James' debut as a full-fledged album producer. He does a fine job for the most part, and achieves a rich sound with few instruments. Exotic noises help make "Only a Dream in Rio"--a song about the return of Brazilian democracy--an exciting and colorful celebration. The jazzy trumpets, funky harmonica and upbeat tempo of "Limousine Driver" rival Kenny Loggins' "Footloose" sound...
With their splotched and mottled shirts, long hair and boots, the Australian quartet looked 15 years behind the times, but the music they turned out was the kind of straight-ahead sound that inspires adolescent guitarists of all ages. The hundreds of people packed into the Channel didn't know most of the songs the Gurus played--after all, the band was pushing Mars Needs Guitars! (Bigtime Records), its latest and largely unavailable album--but the audience didn't mind, content to bash heads and stomp on feet to the likably driving tunes...
...Dead have been known to drift into long jams mid-song which are sometimes electrifying and sometimes downright boring. Such is the nature of a band which experiments with its sound every night: taking musical risks is part of the Grateful Dead's style...
...duet on "The Beast," a huge set of percussion instruments originally created for the soundtrack of "Apocalypse Now." The cacophany created through "The Beast" is a showpiece of the Dead's kind of musical power. "It's magic when you can bring 5000 people down to just the sound of your fingertip on a drum and then build it back up again from a whisper to a scream," said Hart in "Playing in the Band," a book by David Gans and Peter Simon...