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...accordionist, a geek with glasses in a white dinner jacket and purple slacks who is also the minister of music at his church; Debbie the drummer, an ex- prom queen in a strapless gown who exchanges one pink pump for a running shoe, the better to thump her bass drum; Mary the violinist, of stern Scandinavian stock, uptight, humorless and "best remembered locally for her performance as Anita in West Side Story"; and Mike the gentle, wistful synthesizer player who found himself during the 1967 Summer of Love and once played with an acid- rock band called Thursday's Grief...
...winners selected had included Scott A. Bass, director of the university's Gerontology Institute, Stephen Coelen, director of the Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research, James E. Dalen, chairman of the Department of Medicine, Robert G. Light, associate director of the Massacusetts Cooperative Extension Service, and Joseph S. Slavet, director of the Boston Urban Observatory. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN...
...roots of Men of Clay extend back almost a decade, when brothers Thomas M. Hammond '90 (guitar and vocals) and Benjamin M. Hammond '89 (bass) used that name for their band in junior high school. Taking their name from a friend's home movie, Men of Clay was originally a heavy metal band...
Like Motown was at the time, the Minneapolis Sound (not to be mistaken with alternative rock's Minneapolis Sound of the Replacements and Husker Du, among others) was new and fresh. Powerful bass, a driving funk beat, suggestive lyrics and occasional guitar riffs propelled the Sound to the top with fans and critics both, a rare feat...
...hard-driving, meanspirited hit single, "Fake," makes reference to one of Janet's hits when it pointedly talks about "nasty bass." And as Alexander sings, "All you ever do is criticize," he seems to be directly responding to Janet's challenge, "What Have You Done For Me Lately...