Word: bassists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second set included a sweet "Box of Rain," featuring some of the tightest four-part harmonies heard in recent memory as well as an excellent lead vocal by the seldom-heard bassist Phil Lesh. Another late gem was a soft, gentle version of "Black Peter...
Grunge: loud, crunching rock 'n' roll. Grunge is dead. Put away the flannels that dressed it up, because real innovators like nothing better than to tear off the labels stuck on them by critics. Producer Butch Vig, Nirvana singer- guitarist Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl helped originate the grunge sound. On In Utero, they enlist the help of producers Steve Albini (Breeders) and Scott Litt (R.E.M) to help dismantle it. The two producers make the album a satisfying whole...
...band's new CD, their fourth full-length album, will not shock old devotees or disappoint initiates. The musicians -- singer-guitarists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty -- don't stake out any new territory, but rather reassert claims to their favorite ideological and musical stomping grounds. The song Smallpox Champion is about invading whites purposely infecting Indians: "Give natives some blankets warm like the grave." 23 Beats Off addresses today's problems, comparing the private war of "a household name with HIV" to a military battle. The track stretches on for seven minutes, collapsing...
Close your eyes and listen to Tony Toni Tone's graceful new CD and you may think you're hearing one of those sidewalk sale records. The Tonyies are lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins, his guitarist brother D'wayne Wiggins, and their cousin, drummer Timothy Christian Riley. They're all in their mid-20s, and this CD is an R.-and-B. tribute to the music they grew up with. My Ex- Girlfriend borrows the bridge from Sly and the Family Stone's 1968 song M'Lady. As another cut fades, Raphael sings, "Last night a D.J. saved...
Another irony is that in the '30s, when the repertoire became codified, prominent conductors like Sergei Koussevitzky in Boston and Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia were far more adventurous than their contemporary counterparts. Koussevitzky, the Russian-born bassist turned maestro, commissioned and performed dozens of new works by American composers, and Stokowski routinely surprised his audience with major premieres of challenging works, such as Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck. As the recent history of opera in America has shown, there are large untapped audiences hungering for something new. But as long as symphonies insist on treating their customers to the same...