The rudimentary bass lines played by Marshall Grant, who has died of a brain aneurysm aged 83, formed a major part of the distinctive "boom-chicka-boom" rhythm that became Johnny Cash's trademark sound.
Draped in his trademark, multi-coloured long woolly scarf, the Fourth Doctor boasted a marvellously distinctive, booming voice, recently voted the fourth most recognisable in Britain.
It's that "X" bracing behind its flat top, rather than the traditional ladder bracing, that gives the Martin its distinctive, booming sound favored by aficionados worldwide.
The distinctive Paisley boom had gone.
When the shuttle passed over the space center, it produced its distinctive double sonic boom, as if sounding a brief fanfare for landing.
Even in the midst of an 80s revival that now appears to have been going on for considerably longer than the actual 80s did, there's still something very striking about once more hearing what appear to be drums treated with gated reverb, the effect that gave a distinctive stadium-ready boom to the beat of everything from Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA to Duran Duran's Wild Boys.
With his twinkling eyes, distinctive bushy beard and booming voice, Mr. Mays energetically scrubbed away stains on his way to becoming an infomercial star.
It could be seen passing high above the landing site as a speedy white dot, its distinctive double sonic ba-BOOM sounding moments after it passed overhead, having traveled more than 6.2 million miles since it roared off the launching pad on Oct. 23.
There, he went on to global stardom playing the loin-clothed ruler of the apes and booming out his distinctive ululating yell.
Securitisation may have given this boom and bust its own distinctive flavour, but the core ingredients are drearily familiar: over-eager lending, careless investing and a widespread failure of risk management.
The boom is led by small operations making distinctive ales in and around London, Leeds and other major cities.
