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...loud roommates, and general academic difficulties, you notice a trend. People are in love with TFs who are contractually obligated to rebuff their advances; people can’t hook up; people hook up too often; messages are mixed, wires are crossed, and over it all emerges the mournful wail of a generation unable to find anyone to date...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Who Sank The Courtship? | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...with nearly 40 seconds of silence, the track begins with slow, calm, and collected vocals. This is quickly joined by powerful half-note guitar chords and a guitar lick that leads into a faster tempo and repeat of the verse. With lead singer Stockdale’s passionate wail and the grandeur and straightforwardness of the melody, it sounds something like Led Zeppelin with a more metallic edge...

Author: By Alex C. Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wolfmother | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...vision. Simultaneously exacting and nurturing, he pushes his colleagues to the full extent of their abilities. Unable to signal to his young guitarist the intensity with which he would like her to approach her guitar solo, he finally sings a high note, instructing her to allow her guitar to wail accordingly, noting, “This is your time to shine...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...help develop this skill, Warrior Mind, relies upon music. The idea is to listen, really listen, to the wail of the guitar or the staccato tap of the drums instead of letting your mind wander. In athletics, this concept is called being in "the zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors | 9/6/2009 | See Source »

...softening also leads smartly into Paul's solo. He feeds out of Ford's vocal with a wah-guitar wail that seems to hunch the shoulders of a note, then relax into some fleet picking in Paul's trademark bubbly style as if he's somehow playing underwater and the notes have quickly risen to the surface to pop in the clear air. That's the first chorus. The second features a lot of the power chords that later rock guitarists would borrow. It climaxes in an ascending "aaaah" from the Ford voices that transports us into the third instrumental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

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