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Formed in 1994 and quickly signed to Desoto Records, the Dismemberment Plan employs the standard rock four-piece—singer, guitarist, bassist and drummer. The band quickly earned a strong following and critical applause for their frantic loud-soft, fast-slow, edgy-yet-happy aesthetic, a cross between Gang of Four’s harsh politics and XTC’s wispy romanticism...
...there to sing, of course, though he played a vigorous rhythm guitar, ceding the fancy solos to Scotty Moore. But on one 1957 session, when slap-bassist Bill Black walked out in frustration after being unable to master the rumbling electric-bass intro for the Leiber-Stoller "Baby, I Don't Care," Elvis picked up the instrument and played the line perfectly. He would also push for extra takes to get a song right. He insisted on 31 stabs at "Hound Dog," then listened pensively to the playbacks and said of the final take, "This...
DIED. ARVELL SHAW, 79, longtime bassist for Louis Armstrong who said his job was a mission ordained by God; of a heart attack; in Roosevelt, N.Y. Armstrong, on a stint in Shaw's native St. Louis, Mo., in 1945, needed someone to fill in for his regular bassist, whose wife had just given birth. Shaw took the gig, which lasted 25 years...
...LeBlanc’s drum set is prominent at the front and center of the stage, the microphones on either side of it help demonstrate that it’s not a one-man band. Indeed, the Mouths’ two guitarists, John Thomas Griffith and Paul Sanchez, and bassist Rob Savoy all write songs and take turns singing lead...
...early rehearsals, the Rage musicians--Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk--laid down what Cornell calls "riff-based, very heavy, no-brainer 'we can all do this' stuff." Then as a test, Cornell added a melodic four-chord bridge to the song Light My Way. "When nobody freaked out, I knew we were a band." Knowing you're a band and convincing listeners are two different things. It's odd hearing Cornell, one of the few rock singers who can belt it out high and clear, fight through Morello's machine-gun fuzz on Cochise. And when Cornell...