August 9, 2006
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Two-Bar Hook
Wikipedia on Mel Gibson:“The arrest was supported by…
an open container… 75% full,
labeled ‘Cazador [sic] tequila‘
(a strong type of mezcal).”
Today’s New York Times:
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, 1962cunning, 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 2003Update of 3:57 PM:
Robin Williams in Rehab“It may be that Kylie is,
in her own way, an artist…
with a 357.”
