Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military band started to play "Hail to the Chief," I realized I had discovered the key to impressing people in Washington. Among professionals here, where you work conveys the same level of prestige as Ivy League status does among college students...
...musical group decides to go solo: 1) the performer demonstrates that he is, like Sting, a brilliant individual talent; 2) he turns out, like David Byrne, to be good but not great on his own and is constantly asked when he's going to get back with his old band; or 3) he is revealed to be so profoundly inept that his fans wonder just what they saw in this clown to begin with. Think David Lee Roth...
Summer 1997 seems like a good moment for Blues Traveler. Grunge is gone, alternative is stale, and so the band's harmonica-happy pop-blues may be just what audiences want. The group's last studio album, Four, featured two terrific hits, Run-around and Hook, and sold 6 million copies. With its follow-up CD, Blues Traveler had the chance to extend its success and prove that it really deserves to be touted as the next Grateful Dead...
...famous name didn't help sell records, at least not at first. The Wallflowers' debut on Virgin Records was a bust, and the group and its front man were written off as a genetic curiosity. But then Interscope, the hottest label going, signed the band, and its fortunes turned around. "There were a lot of people coming around and looking at me as Bob's son. They were, like, going to a circus to peek," says Dylan. "They stopped coming. They all disappeared." Not quite. Now the crowds are coming to hear...
MARBLEHEAD, Mass.: The Blue Angels flew overhead and a Navy band played "Anchors Aweigh" as the U.S.S. Constitution cast off her tow ropes, fired off a 21-gun salute and set her sails to the wind today for the first time in 116 years, briefly patrolling the open seas much as she had during the War of 1812. She sailed for about an hour at a stately 4 knots, flanked by her modern counterparts, the guided missile destroyer USS Ramage and guided missile frigate USS Halyburton. An estimated 100,000 people turned out on land and sea for the ceremonial...