Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each rehearsal Guy has prowled around, checking on the final details, encouraging the cast to keep it fresh and not to forget what they've perfected, concentrating on keeping his own voice in tune. Although ultimately confident, he continues to worry (Sore throats menace both Patty and him. She pops cough drops while he swigs from a bottle of honey.) When on Tuesday Guy stopped the opening chorus to change a lighting cue, Curt had turned to the girls and said. "Opening night we'll be up there and Guy'll go 'Wait!' and charge off to correct something." They...
...soliloquy into colloquy, as the operatic Byron croons to one of his lady loves, "You walk in beauty," etc. Chuckles even broke out in the audience when Byron's friend, Thomas Moore, stepped to the stage apron to sing, "Remember that genius that gleamed in his verse." The tune turned out to be that for Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms. True, the real Thomas Moore wrote that old favorite, but he might just have had a different, more intimate kind of apron in mind. -William Bender
...record? Well there's the time during "That's the Way God Planned It" that Billy Preston leaps from behind his organ and runs across the stage as though God has indeed given him the call, and we get to see, really see. Ringo Starr singing in tune on "It Don't Come Easy." And then we get to view the surprising calm with which Leon Russell goes through the entire show, a look of distance on his face, wondering perhaps why he is stuck in back of a bank of amplifiers instead of playing out front as he usually...
...Pushers" has a straightforward anger and a sharp blending of words and music which is missing on many other tracks of the album. "Pushers" would be a great thing to hear on a car radio, simply because it combines a fine Smokey Robinson tune with a more comprehensive political statement than any AM rock song you'll ever hear...
More formalized political language characterizes the other rewrites of hard rock songs on the PLP-LP. "High-Heel Sneakers" becomes "Get Out Your Red Flag Workers." "Governor Sargent's Racist Cutbacks Blues," sung to the tune of "Memphis," does feature some good lines...