Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...material was for the greater part taken off his latest release, Sally Can't Dance, though he also included such standards as "I'm Waiting for the Man," "Heroin," and "Rock and Roll" from his days with The Velvet Underground. Reed's vocals, which were even more Dylanesque than usual, were accompanied by queenly dancing, spasmodic convulsions, and hesitant twirlings of the microphone. Highlighting his stage show was the random interjection of obscenities often followed by the violent felling of the microphone stand, which actually constituted one of the lighter sides of the concert. Whenever the mike stand came crashing...
...present-day rock culture. It is almost as impossible to penetrate the opaque image that Reed has projected for about a decade as it is to generalize about the classic Reed freak. There are people who have been staunch followers of Reed since his days with the Velvet Underground. Then there are those who discovered Reed with the debut of his solo career. The latter, embarrassed to admit the fact that they were seven years late, quickly bought up all the Velvets previously released albums, added a few scratches to the grooves to increase the disc's apparent...
...underscore the informal tone that he has set for his presidency, Ford dispensed with Nixon's trappings-a stagey backdrop of blue velvet draperies and a massive, bulletproof lectern. Instead, Ford stood before a door that was symbolically left open and used a narrow, hourglass-shaped stand. He wore no makeup; despite the bright lights for the television cameras, he did not perspire. He seemed relaxed and self-assured-in part perhaps because he had carefully gone over the issues with five key aides for two hours on Tuesday and for another hour the morning of the press conference...
What Mick Jagger and other doyens of the mid-1960s rock era had merely hinted at, Jimi Hendrix delivered right onstage. His hair frizzled as though by electricity, his scarves and sashes bobbing over sequined vests and velvet jackets in foppish disarray, he looked like a tripped-out savage impersonating a Carnaby Street dandy. His guitar was a throbbing phallic extension that he would caress, thrust at the audience, then set on fire at evening's end. The music was raw blues blasted out at maximum volume. Bursting on the rock scene in 1967 at the height...
...still intrude, and earphones are provided to assure the highest quality listening. When Nixon is in the Lincoln Sitting Room, the Sony is placed on the small desk that is in front of the south window. Nixon puts the earphones on, settles himself into the armchair covered in brown velvet, a favorite brought from the New York apartment. The President puts his feet up on the ottoman and uses one of his yellow legal pads to make notes as the tape unwinds. The hours slip by as he relives history in this melancholy loneliness...