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...time or another it is hard not to pay particular attention to Garth Hudson's organ breaks as well as his fine horn playing, Richard Manuel's smooth piano and plaintive vocals, Levon Helm's drumming and his raunchy vocals, Rick Danko's intense bass guitar and Robbie's kinetic lead. Together they form a group that remains unique in a highly imitative field...
...throat of a 40-ton canary to the rumble of a stupendous Model T with a cracked muffler. As background the tapes carried the sound of ocean waves, which Hovhaness skillfully blended with cymbals and gongs. The whales were accompanied by whooping brass glissandi, glockenspiels, tam-tam and bass drum. When it was all over, the audience applauded enthusiastically, though it remained unclear whether their applause had been for Composer Hovhaness or the whales themselves. Backstage, the whale voices had already been nicknamed "Beverly," "Birgit" and "Cesare...
Some fisheries experts have also suggested that large numbers of young shad and striped bass would be sucked into the intake pipes and killed...
...other spectator strolling among the circles, always falling imperceptibly to his right; these thoughts passed through my mind. The circle and the line, female and male, continuity and transcendence, concussion and resilience, contiguity and interstice, the breaks and bridges of this life, comedy and parody.... But the large mouthed bass dispatched this comical revery. I had trouble leaving the large-mouthed bass, wanting to pluck him out and fry him. He judiciously kept to the back wall...
...salmon. By consulting records and fishery experts, Boyle has established that the Hudson never was a salmon-run river. Some sections of the river are clogged with effluence but not yet ruined, Boyle points out. The river still has more fish than most men dream of-particularly striped bass and sturgeon, once known as Albany beef and now widely (though erroneously) thought to be all but gone from the river...