Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paint Schlesinger as unrelievedly difficult is too harsh. His intimates say that to see him cross-legged on the floor, guitar in hand, singing his own self-mocking lyrics, is to know a different person. And there is no doubt about his capacity to analyze and understand the complex issues of energy; he is the match of any expert in the field. It is his ability to lead that is questioned...
...that they seem to want to. The rest of the first side of the album with songs like "Bad Brain" and "It's a Long Way Back" fit well into standard punk molds: perfect 4/4 time, straight drum beat and guitar lines with the subtlety of a jack hammer, or a seal-clubbing expedition...
...months to feed brands of ignorance and malice still ravenous now as then-or spend a long evening in a house on the edge of town with friends and kin joining other local boys (Mac Lee and "Amos" Austin) in songs new and old to first-class guitar: mainly A Satisfied Mind...
...great tradition of music on the water in Maine," Bok points out. "If I wanted a song for a particular thing, I'd have to make it up if I couldn't find it." Although Bok can now play a lively fiddler's reel on the guitar, craft did not come easy. "All you really need to start with is love," Bok says. "I don't have a natural voice. I've worked hard at it." Bok picked up guitar at nine, and though he could work out the notes, timing escaped him entirely...
...Doors, with Manzarek on his distinctly hip organ, Robbie Krieger on a brash lead and rhythm guitar and John Densmore on drums began playing at dives around Venice and L.A., the city which shaped and twisted Jim Morrison into the deathly, mystical figure he became...