Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excellent start," said captain Kate Moynihan who clocked in at 18:46, 6th for Harvard and 63rd overall. "There was a band of Providence people up together, but we were right with them...
...lightning of hip-hop by collaborating with rappers. Today, though, something new is happening: more rock groups--from Limp Bizkit to Sugar Ray--are making deejays fully fledged members, on equal footing with the guitarist and drummer. A couple of years ago, being a deejay in a rock band was maybe the equivalent of being the backup vocalist-designated tambourine player: sure, you were with the band, but groupies weren't exactly asking you to sign their chests. Now deejays are core members...
When DJ Lethal joined Limp Bizkit a few months before the band recorded its debut album, he changed its sound. "It was more of a punk band--it had a punk edge," says Lethal, a Latvian emigre who had been a member of the Irish-American hip-hop band House of Pain. "What I brought in was more of a hip-hop side." He is working on a solo album...
...Homicide was working as a hip-hop radio deejay in Los Angeles before he joined the pop-rock band Sugar Ray in 1994. At first he was a mere sideman--on the band's 1995 album Lemonade and Brownies; he's not even in the group photo on the back cover. Then again, the picture is a supremely geeky shot of the band riding on a roller coaster, so maybe being left out was a blessing in disguise. In any case, Homicide says, today he's "cut in on publishing and merchandising, and I'm a full-fledged member...
...writes. He finds a good beat, a cool sample, and lyrics and melody are layered on from there. With his arsenal of records and drum machines, Homicide says he's able to reproduce a wide range of sounds, from guitar strumming to percussion. "I could be anyone in a band," says Homicide. "It helps out live and opens up doors creatively...