Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When vacuum tubes came along the popular approach was "the bigger the better." Portables were the "in thing" in the thirties, but since they were battery operated, they demanded a strong back. The batteries alone, and each portable needed three different types, weighed much more than about a dozen modern units. These portables were popular for beach use, but to prevent physical exhaustion had to be carried there...
...Record companies are still conditioned to the late Sixties style of breaking new bands," charges Greg Shaw; "their whole approach to underground music is completely out-dated." Shaw's independent Bomp label and distributorship was formed in 1969. "The most effective marketing strategy today is to go through import channels. Elvis Costello, to name but one, was broken in this country through imports...
...Police story is a blueprint for a successful alternative approach to making it in the record industry. Formed in the wake of the British punk uprising, the band released one single on its own Illegal label before signing with A&M. They shattered precedent by undertaking a short East Coast tour in late '77 without any record company support--flying Laker Airways and carrying drums as hand baggage to cut down on costs. When the Police concluded their first proper American tour in Los Angeles in May, 1979, they turned down a $12,000 offer to play a second night...
...Every time someone makes a public confession, his audience grows conscious of their own secret sins. The mere presence of the confessor is mortifying, implicitly incriminating. The audience cannot take it. The more direct his approach, the more they want to get rid of him. Carnage ensues...
...Phil, though he looks throughout as if he's auditioning for the Little League version of Fame. This little fellow has taken too many acting classes, and seen too many movies--he imitates everyone from James Coco to Jack Palance, Adames is the first victim of Cassavettes' improvisational approach; let off the leash, he begins to babble...