It ended with the frenetic, hard-riffing duo Lightning Bolt performing on the floor of the Stardust Ballroom, with Brian Chippendale (wearing noise-protector earphones) slamming away at the drums and gabbling through a distorting microphone while Brian Gibson sent his bass lines through wailing, rumbling octave-shifting effects.
Playing piano as well as the addicted victim of love ("Don't you never, never say we're through!" she wailed), she struck gold: "I Never Loved a Man" became her first No. 1 R&B hit, cracked the Top 10 of the crossover pop chart and put the world on notice that a major talent had at last been unleashed.
"I had the Philippine flag over my head and I went through this wailing and screaming, and then the audience gave me yellow daisies and chrysanthemums and I made rays of sun on the floor around the flag," she said.
Halfway through a wailing tune in a minor key, Jermaine Paul, a young soul singer, started to talk, over the vamp, about what Mr. Ashford, whose chair was empty, meant to him, and he voiced what many in the room were feeling.
Though the piece is steeped in blues, the music is run through with Bartokian wails, cluster chords and obsessive riffs.
Passages of traded fours sound like armies exchanging gun-fire, and Weckl wails through potentially pregnant pauses as if laying low simply isn't an option.
This weekend Cavestomp makes a surprise return with one of its biggest coups: the Sonics, the Seattle-area pioneers whose "Psycho" still wails through thousands of connoisseur record collections.
Bridging delays Across town, an ambulance donated by the Government of Japan for a European Commission and UNICEF joint project on sexual and reproductive health wails through the streets of Boroma.
His head lolls slackly on his shoulders and he wails constantly through the night.
"Me and my guitar play my way," he wails, midway through Back to Bedlam's follow-up, on a song called Give Me Some Love.
