Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrative jumps from one extraordinary incident to another, presenting each within its own relevant encasement. From the outset, we are clued to think that there are reasons not only for the lessons in each fable, but for the mode and source of the exposition. The entire film is a flash-back, catalyzed when two soldiers in an unexplained war stumble over a manuscript and read on in the midst of battle. The words are more important than their war. And the account of Captain van Worden, the manuscript's narrator, is itself purposely convoluted...
...overcrowded and overheated room. It was as it had been for ten years, but yet it wasn't. Many in the press had witnessed the whole decade and seen all of the actors in the drama. Though conditioned to deception, hardened to failure, they rushed to the phones to flash the news with a note of exuberance never heard before...
There's a niche for Beck. You file him under "flash." Flash (as a musical term) was created for him. The two have riaen and faded together. Hendrix was never flash because he had a certain lyrical as well as musical genius. His genius aside. Clapton was too humble to be flash. Alice Cooper and Ian Anderson? Theatrics. David Bowie and Rod Stewart? Rock star trips. Steve Marriott? Punk arrogance, and Peter Townshend, for all his onstage pyrotechnics, has been sneaky serious ever since perfect placement of that primal teenage stutter on "My Generation...
First time I ever saw the word flash in a musical context was on the back of Beck's first solo album. Truth. Flash has little to do with taste or technique or attack or anything like that. It's the hazy ability to appear with the musically unexpected. It's also a lot to do with ego, which Beck has, in abundance. He once shut down the whole band, onstage, so he could play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," solo. That's flash...
...Flash: "a healthy desire to have one's licks heard; the result of talent and massive ego." Beck, Bogart, and Appice played "Jeff's Boogie" for an encore last Tuesday at the Aquarius. In the middle, Jeff Beck played "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," Solo...