See also Asimov + Tequila in this journal.
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Wednesday August 9, 2006
Two-Bar Hook
Wikipedia on Mel Gibson:
Wikipedia on Mel Gibson:
"The arrest was supported by…
an open container… 75% full,
labeled 'Cazador [sic] tequila'
(a strong type of mezcal)."
Refined Tequilas,
Meant to be Savored:
Photo by Lars Klove for
The New York Times
— Essay by Eric Asimov,
"Spirits of the Times"
"Remember that we deal with
Herb Alpert–
First album, 1962
cunning, baffling, and powerful."
(Adapted from Chapter 5
of Alcoholics Anonymous)
Related Material:
"Tequila,"
by The Champs
(1958)
The Spirituality of
Addiction and Recovery
"Turns out she's a party girl
who loves Tequila:
'Time disappears with Tequila.
It goes elastic, then vanishes.'"
Yvonne returns to the Bella Vista
in Under the Volcano:
"… a glass partition
that divided the room
(from yet another bar,
she remembered now,
giving on a side street)"
David Sanborn
(a reply to Alpert's
Lonely Bull ):
"Just listen to how he attacks the two-bar hook of 'Tequila.' After planting it firmly in our brains, he finds new ending notes for each measure; then he drops half a bar by an octave; then he substitutes a new melodic detour for the first bar, retaining the second; then he inverts that approach. He keeps twisting the phrase into new melodic shapes, but he never obscures the original motif and he never loses the beat."
— Review of Sanborn's album "Timeagain"
by Geoffrey Himes in Jazz Times,
June 2003
Update of 3:57 PM:
Robin Williams in Rehab
Robin Williams in Rehab
"It may be that Kylie is,
in her own way, an artist…
with a 357."
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