Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lamb tried to do both, but fell somewhat short. The exuberance of the band was undeniable, with the overlaying drums, bass and trumpet adding immediacy, but the live touches all seemed rather incidental. Davy, for example, sounded like he was playing samples--live, to be sure, but the same notes to be found on the album. A couple of Thorne's bass solos were nice touches, as was Barlow's delight in distorting Rhodes's voice, but most of the tracks were indistinguishable from their studio counterparts. Lamb make excellent pop songs, but, judging from Saturday's show, there really...
Buckcherry, who opened the show, was utterly horrible. I'm normally inclined to be more verbose, but I've never been so disappointed before. The band played a strong and entertaining set at Woodstock '99, but something went very wrong for College Rave. In between songs, lead singer Joshua Todd talked about little else other than doing lines. When Todd was not mumbling, he often sang way off key, and the guitar, bass and drums were rarely in time with one another. The crowd only responded mildly to the radio hits "Lit-Up" and "For the Movies" and spent...
Last but, thanks to Buckcherry, not least was 311. The band's name, police code for indecent exposure, becomes more relevant with each progressive year, as their rehashed material becomes increasingly distasteful. Far from their "grassroots" of energetic short sets in sweaty small venues, 311 performed in a large outdoor half-shell for almost two hours. At first, the crowd was psyched and ready to groove, but 311 lost their attention by reserving all of their radio hits for the final twenty minutes. Almost the entire set was devoted to tracks off their upcoming album, Soundsystem, and only the recently...
...important thing in life is necessity. By calculating what the most necessary thing is to each side in a conflict, one can predict an enemy's actions. While Saddam's troops are fighting rebels among their own people, he reasons, they are not going to bother about a small band of Americans pillaging. For the Iraqis, survival is the necessity; for Saddam his survival as a dictator and tyrant, and for the Iraqi people, simply their lives. For the American soldiers, necessity is riches, comfort, luxury, and it is with sugarplum visions that they embark on their secret mission...
...privileged enough to dance to this fall. Generating pieces in a small bedroom studio, Hardknox puts together an energetic album that entertains and moves with raging rhythms, raps, grooves and tunes whose careful and expert blending make them cutting-edge but still strangely familiar. While the band (Lindy Layton and Steve P.) is determined to market its album and image as bad-ass and in-your-face, one can't help but be amused by the nasal, child-like voices that punctuate tracks such as "Coz I Can," "Fire Like This" and "Attitude" with phrases like, "There's no school...