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...then the rest of the players crash in with a few bars of straight percussion. Silence again, and Beck repeats the phrase. Each time, however, he does it a little differently and uses different elements of the guitar. Once he plays it entirely on the frets, once using wah-wah pedal, once slapping the strings with his open palm. The improvisation gets more and more complex and yet the melody is still recognizable, though made up of different timbres and tones each time around...
...marvelously with the underlying relentless fast-paced beat. The lyrics are startlingly effective and form a muscular tense poetry. A recent song by a major West Coast group complaining about a faithless girl went something like "I was such a fool, I should have known better, She was untrue, wah wah wah etc." Here...
This year Singleton has reached out to acquire such firms as Pennsylvania-based American Safety Table Co. (industrial sewing equipment), New York's Wah Chang Corp. (rare metals) and Denver's Aqua Tec Corp. (oral-hygiene appliances). That kind of diversification means that Teledyne has thereby reduced its reliance on Government contracts, which now account for only 45% of its business v. 82% in 1964. With profits increasing by an average 190% annually (to probably $20 million in 1967) Singleton's Teledyne holdings have grown from his original stake of $225,000 to about $32 million...
...loudly as he wishes. He can also duplicate his notes over as many as four octaves, add reverberation or tremolo, and lighten or darken his tone quality. Vox has a similar device called an "ampliphonic stereo multi-voice" unit, to which a pedal may be attached to produce a "wah-wah" effect...
...Indians have last year's all-Ivy netminder, Wah Wah Walsh in the nets. In the first quarter of the Cornell game he was credited with ton saves...