Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's five guitar players but one guitar Back in the garage...
...touched on how worthless this album is, how insipid and unprofessional. B-52s drop things, and cows drop things too, which because they are loose and watery become flat and circular and, in the winter, hard and very much like a record. Get yourself a wig and an electric guitar. In America anything is possible...
...escape from four walls is the street musicians' major incentive. "I just wanted to do music without any kind of reviews, sales pitches, verbiage or anything-just music," says John Thomas, who plays folk music and Bach on his six-string guitar for strolling office workers in Washington. Boston Cellist Paul Stouthamer senses that "people are revolting against mechanical power. They're looking for a cello, they're looking for a flute...
...Shanti Spaeth and her husband Karl regard street music as theater. They unashamedly cater to the tourists around Jackson Square, in New Orleans' French Quarter, by wearing ragtag getups and going barefoot. Karl, besides playing guitar, mandolin and trombone, laces their performances with his own political jokes and humorous songs (Ain 't No Sin to Take off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones). But all is seriousness when Shanti belts out blues or scats like Ella Fitzgerald on Satin Doll. The couple were married nine days after meeting at a crafts fair in Oregon a year...
...backaches rather than on Telemann partitas. With no investment in a ticket, they find it easiest to review a performance with their feet: they keep on walking. Hence a by-God spontaneous response is the street musicians' sweetest reward. A Seattle group called Brandywine (violin, hammer dulcimer, guitar, bass) will always cherish the moment during the Fat Tuesday celebration when its galloping rendition of the William Tell Overture so inflamed a woman bystander that she bounded up onto a horse behind a mounted policeman. Hi-ho, Rossini...