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DIED. DEE DEE RAMONE, 50, over-the-top punk-rock pioneer who co-founded the hypernoisy Ramones; of a suspected drug overdose; in Hollywood. Born Douglas Colvin, the volatile bassist and songwriter admitted to a long history of drug use in his autobiography, Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones (2000). His death came three months after the Ramones were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame...
...never deviate from the parts their conductor assigns, then today's successful corporation is more like a jazz ensemble: from the CEO down, everyone needs to learn to improvise and play off one another. That's the lesson of Jazz Impact, a business-improvement seminar created by Minneapolis, Minn., bassist Michael Gold for clients that include General Mills and Starbucks. "In jazz improv there is a specific tune that we use as the common ground, yet someone can present a unique version of the tune," says Gold. "This type of thinking has to be able to happen for companies...
...Breeders started out as a side project helmed by Kim Deal, bassist for the late-'80s college rock band the Pixies. If in 1992 you were a teenage girl who considered attending the Rhode Island School of Design as a less adventurous alternative to the expatriate life in Amsterdam, odds are pretty good that you were into their first album, "Pod." Nobody even pretended to establish a foothold on the lyrics (Example: "She's in a kitchen in Kentucky/ And she thinks she's Peter Pan") but the cover art made it reasonably clear the vegetable of the title referred...
...right, even as they uphold a group rhythm and harmony. There is an audible ongoing struggle between competition and collusion. "Title TK" represents an effort on the part of the Deal sisters to make something that captures the spirit of their long lost band, with a hired drummer and bassist taking orders. It's half a band and two employees impersonating a dead band. The songs are smart and pretty and delivered with feeling, especially on "Off You," in which Kim turns the line "I am the make-up on your eyes" into a tender break-up chorus. But they...
...misses, marring the first set’s first half, were as mystifying as they were distressing. Garret’s quartet suffered from amateurish balance problems as Dave’s percussion drowned out Brown and bassist Vincente Archer. This lack of tonal center vaulted the frontman into a series of frenzied solos. One of Garrett’s new tunes, as yet untitled, started with a longing, mysterious texture and then built in intensity as layers of complexity mounted. Then Garrett took his solo and turned the piece into a chaotic, screaming mess that had absolutely nothing...