Word: bassists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Japanese musicians are aware of the critics' reservations and are striving to improve. Says Naoyuki Miura, a former bassist with the Japan Philharmonic now living in New York City: "I think their criticisms are valid, but at the same time we are trying very, very hard to develop. We are looking to the future, to the day when individuality will arrive...
...best sounds around Still somewhat paranoid hardening back to the punk the Heads cut their teeth on it's celebratory no doubt. Byrne didn't learn all about African music for nothing. And it's fun to boot, thanks to drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth's joray into rap in rhythm with Tom Tom Club The Heads what's more, steal a whole lotta licks from out of the past Do you want your funk served up hot and gooey, in the form of Delta Blues' Swamp" will please your musical palate How about a little down-home...
...they start to be more familiar with each other, they're going to sound real good." Noelani R. Rodriguez '83, bassist for The Girl Next Door, says of the younger groups. Rodriguez also played with Hand to Mouth and Rhythm Co., and organized dances with live bands under the pseudonym of the Performing Arts Committee...
...bassist also advises watching for a band called Final Cause in the fall, citing the group's "very peculiar technology." The places to look, she adds, tend to be Leverett. Adams and Quincy Houses...
...Harvard, she met Martha Hackett '83, lead vocalist for The Girl Next Door, and together they began working on rock acts. Hackett, a powerful and popular singer, already had a guitar player and was looking for a bassist, so Rodriguez promptly switched instruments...