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...disc album Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985 is a singularly surreal experience. When the legendary electric blues guitarist took the stage at the Swiss jazz festival on July 17, 1982, he was a relative unknown, receiving third billing under drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon. Throughout that night, Stevie Ray unleashed a torrent of blistering, fiery blues, but in a bizarre historical turn, the audience’s reaction mixed applause and jeers in equal parts. The story goes that Vaughan left the stage in tears, but his performance went down in musical...
...unexamined life isn't worth living--even if that life has entailed becoming incomprehensibly rich on a roller-coaster ride of sex, tongue wriggling and rock 'n' roll. No wonder then that GENE SIMMONS, the bassist for Kiss, has laid down his life story--from his birth in Israel as Chaim Witz to his band's farewell tour--in a new autobiography, Kiss and Make-Up. Along with dirt on drug-crazed bandmates ("No different than your dad, who, when he comes home, gets drunk and becomes a moron," he tells TIME) and his relationships with Cher and Diana Ross...
...Malaysia after many years abroad. Dreaming of recording contracts, Harry pulls together a band that just happens to include a representative of each of the country's three major races, plus a Eurasian lead singer and a flamboyantly gay keyboardist, played by Edwin R. Sumun. The band's bassist, Yati, is a young Malay woman torn between her love for Harry and his Western ways and her conservative, highly religious family. Yati, played with glowing conviction by Ellie Suriaty Omar, carries much of the film...
...stage like a child with a heavy backpack, letting words push their way forth from his poor twisted mouth. When he dances, he jerks his body back and forth with near-alarming abruptness, as if smacking his head between two invisible brick walls. All this is oddly charismatic. Bassist Tye Zamora and guitarist Terry Corso also provide some nice sight gags; Zamora’s overworked eyebrows and large-toothed triangular grin give him the look of a mischievous gnome, and Corso can go mighty quickly from looking Big and Dumb to spinning like a dervish around the little stage...
...traditional four or five piece band, Slipknot are a nine-man unit comprised of two guitarists, one drummer, two “custom percussionists” (who bash kegs, tin drums and each other at various points), a bassist, a DJ, a sampler and a vocalist. The result of this strange amalgamation of participants is that one moment the guitars are muted and pulsing, vocals slickly rapped over with a mild hip-hop scratching, and the next a double bass drum is rumbling, the guitars are screeching, and the lead vocalist is screaming as if his lungs were on fire...