Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the Band's most successful halftime show came at last year's Dartmouth game. The final skit of the show began with the formation of a stick figure with a pentagonal head. As the Band played Alice's Restaurant in the background, a narrator said that the Band thought the Pentagon was losing its head over the war in Vietnam, and the stick figure's head fell off. As the narrator called for defeat by the enemy and general disarmament, the figure's arms came off. The skit ended with the figure's arms forming a peace sign inside...
...close-up of Jurieu driving in a car, the barest amount of background road visible in the window behind him, pans across the front seat to the close-up face of his friend Octave, grimacing nervously. Renoir cuts to a distant high-angle; the car drives off the road into a ditch. Renoir cuts to a frame three-quarters filled by waving grass: it's impossible to say whether it's a low-angle shot and the characters are about to appear over its edge, or whether he's shooting a hill, or indeed where...
...went up some steps and from a raised spot watched the names pile up. And in the background, the Capitol shining as brightly as ever. I looked to my left, and I saw people who just kept coming, one after another every few yards. Here it was 3:30 a. m., and it seemed a certainty that there would be a lag. But these people just kept coming, and they were to march into view there for another 28 hours without a letup. Each one with a name...
...sidecar. That picture is almost a visual description of the music on the inside, a very gentle blend of C and W and rock. Generally the term Country and Western calls up images of excruciatingly sentimental lyrics with a fiddle and banjo contest going on in the background. But the arrangements on Expedition (songs written mostly by the musicians Gene Clark and Doug Dillard) combine the more subtle components of each genre, ending up with a very relaxed, tension-free sound...
DILLARD AND CLARK have also picked up some other songs written by other groups and reworked them to fit their own style. "So Sad," and Everly Brothers tune which was soggily sentimental in the original, becomes much more alive with a rock background. Lennon and McCartney's "Don't Let Me Down" also comes off with considerably more personality than the original, with some very effective slide guitar and piano work...