![]() ![]() If someone looks startled, they look suddenly shocked or frightened by something: I wasn’t expecting to see a face at the window. The adjective imploring is stronger and shows that you urgently want someone to do something for you: It was her imploring face – I found I couldn’t refuse her. The little dog looked appealingly at its owner who was eating a burger. He frowned at her, quizzically.Īn appealing look is intended to get someone to help you or do something for you: She turned to him with an appealing expression. Quizzical, meanwhile, describes an expression that is both confused and questioning: He listened to what she was saying with a quizzical look on his face. She nodded thoughtfully.Ī puzzled look shows that you are confused because you don’t understand something: He was staring at the instructions with a puzzled look on his face. If someone looks thoughtful, their face shows they are thinking carefully about something: He looked thoughtful for a moment and then replied. Note that many of these adjectives are also used with – ly as adverbs.Īn inquiring/enquiring look shows that you want to know more about something: She looked at me with an enquiring expression and I tried to explain what I meant. There are lots of useful adjectives for describing these so this post will be in two parts. ![]() By now, you’ve probably guessed that this week’s post is about facial expressions. Almost.Have you ever given anyone a withering look (= a disapproving look intended to make them feel ashamed)? Of course you haven’t – you’re far too kind! But you may have shot someone a curious (= showing interest) look when they told you something you didn’t know. One can almost have too much of a Good Thing. Sorry to say I didn't return to my seat until after the end of the Weather Report set, good as it was I was beyond saturation, and couldn't soak up any more. Of these two choices, I believe that telepathy is the easier option.! Either they rehearsed for decades, aided by witchcraft, or they are telepathic. There are two possibilities for achieving this. I was near the (very high.) ceiling when the percussionists had their 'solo' spot, with one playing a complex measure with the tabla, replied to by t'other with the pot, back and forth, faster and faster, with their rhythms and phrases becoming ever shorter until after a few minutes, they were playing in perfect unison a complex, long, polyrhythmic composition at hectic speed. What that bloke did with just his two hands and that simple pot made Billy Cobham look like a kindergarten child, an amateur. I gradually floated up out of my seat, transported by the ambience generated. Then Shakti: John Mc Laughlin (guitar what else.?), Lakshminarayana Shankar (on violin.) and two percussionists, Zakir Hussain (on tabla.) and Vikku Vinayakram (on ghatam, an earthenware pot.). Billy Cobham, on fine pugilistic form an immense jazz fusion drummer, with musicians to match. Highly recommended.Ī triple-bill at the Hammersmith Odeon, '73, I think. A stunning trio wit only two recordings, one with Kai Eckhardt and the other with DiPiazza. I then went to see them again in Bristol and DiPiazza, who I had never heard of, blew me away again. Their respective mastery of rhythm made Berlin look like the new boy (he played great, but the other two? Wow!) McLaughlin's synth guitar and Gurtu's complete concept were absolutely unbelieveable. ![]() I had never heard anything like these two. The fact was, I was glued to McLaughlin and Gurtu throughout. He knew I liked Jeff Berlin so he got us tickets to see the RFH gig front and centre. He was also involved in some sort of music production agency work. The funny part of the story is that I was having bass lessons in London at the time with a guy called Dan Quinton (Otis Grand and the Dance Kings). I saw the John McLaughlin Trio with Trilock Gurtu twice, once at the Royal Festival Hall with Jeff Berlin and once at Bristol COlston Hall with Dominique DiPiazza. ![]()
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