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...chance to be witty, and this is a chance to glibly toss off an entire album and entertain your readers at the same time. Trouble is, Traffic's newest, Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory isn't. Uninspired, that is. It's just a shade better than Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, and, while it's not real innovative, compared to, say, Mr. Fantasy in 1967-68, it certainly cements Steve Winwood's reconstruction of the form fusion that made Traffic's first a quantum jump away from the Spencer Davis Group...
...strengthen his percussion, along with new tambourine specialist Jim Capaldi and, just recently, added Muscle Shoals keyboard man Barry Beckett, freeing himself to concentrate on piano and guitar. He achieved his ultimate aims: expression and fuller exploration, longer pieces, more improvisation; more work of the caliber of Low Spark...
Harvard has yet to beat any strong team other than CCNY, but that was before vacation and since then the Crimson performance has been lax. In the three matches this month Harvard has yet to show any of the spark or polish that the Crimson displayed before Christmas...
...Clapton at nineteen, it goes on. Winwood may be the most talented person making music today, his virtuosity on keyboards, bass and guitar makes me think Stills has a lotta gall trying to play those three instruments. Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory is a shade better than Low Spark. It's one of the few albums I can listen to, in its entirety, at one sitting. And what never fails to impress me is how Winwood gets away with those "40,000 Headmen" acid image lyrics this long after flower power...
Despite the reasonably convincing win. Crimson coach Edo Marion was not particularly pleased with the performance of the Harvard squad. "We didn't fence that well," he said last night. "Their team was simply outclassed. We are still too slow. There is none of the spark that we'll have to have against the better teams we'll face later...