Word: bassists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rock stars, it has been an all too popular way. The music industry has been rocked, in the past few years, by the drug-related deaths of Nirvana's Cobain and Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, and more recently Blind Melon's front man Shannon Hoon and Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin. As for Nowell, his bandmates say they tried to help him. Recalls Wilson: "If you tried to talk to him about it, he would get mad. He thought he was invincible. When someone would die, other artists, he'd just go, 'O.K., they're stupid, they shot too much...
...when you've watched invaders from outer space obliterate the White House, how exciting is it, really, to see some alternative rocker smash his guitar? If you've seen Tom Cruise hurled from an exploding helicopter onto a moving train, is it really that thrilling to see a bassist jump from the top of a three-foot amp? If you've just seen a twister tear apart a town, doesn't a mere mosh pit lose some of its anarchic...
While Weir and Hart tour, former Dead bassist Phil Lesh is mixing a three-CD album of concerts taped in 1990. Lesh also says there are 12 new Dead songs, available in either rehearsal or incomplete studio versions, which may be released soon. A reunion of the remaining members is always a possibility. Says Lesh: "We will play together in some form, but nobody knows when." Except, perhaps, for Jerry. --C.J.F. Reported by Greg Fulton/Atlanta and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...married and divorced twice. Her first husband was Benny Kornegay, a shipyard worker; her second, the jazz bassist Ray Brown. In the past decade, her many illnesses seemed incompatible with the bell-like clarity of her voice, one recognized by octogenarians and Generation Xers alike. She was performing as late as 1992, but the physical debilitation was crushing, aggravated mostly by diabetes that eventually led to the amputation of her legs below the knees in 1993. But Fitzgerald made no mythology of her personal life. Shy onstage, ill at ease in interviews, she let her songs do all the talking...
...musicians includes veteran players whose stylistic roots go back to Kansas City and beyond--alto saxophonist David ("Fathead") Newman Jr., drummer Victor Lewis--and younger stars who actually seem to enjoy paying their respects to tradition--tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman, guitarist Mark Whitfield, bassist Christian McBride. On track after track, soloists of different generations find a common groove. On Froggy Bottom, altoist Newman, 66, and guitarist Whitfield, 29, turn out to speak the same blues language, lyrical as well as funky. One of the CD's two versions of Solitude is a lovely duet for basses in which McBride...